This one was directly inspired by The Card of the Moment #2. 1966 Topps #285 Luis Tiant I believe at some point I mentioned about the card shop I used to go to as a kid. Earth One, I think it was called. They used to have a few boxes of older cards that were [...]
Another contribution to dayf’s Pirate Card Set. I know that’s not necessarily a super short print, but I’ll be damned if I can track down a copy. Also, here’s a pretty interesting article about a Honus Wagner T206 that was owned by Honus Wagner. Wild.
So the second envelope came to me courtesy of everyone’s favorite Orioles fan, Beardy. A while back, Beardy had slapped a post up on his blog saying that since he wasn’t collecting the set, he waould be giving away base cards from the box of 2009 Tristar Obak that he busted. So I left a [...]
…I got me some new cards. Two manilla envelopes, to be precise. First up, a couple of weeks ago, The Great Sports Name Hall of Fame was having a little give-away. Of course I signed up, and very much to my surprise, won. I ended up picking Prize #3, 50 baseball cards. For brevity’s sake, [...]
1982 Topps #160 Luis Tiant This card is by no means my favorite card. I like it, but do not love it. Why did I choose it for The Card of the Moment, then? Because at the particular time when I was paging through my binders looking for a card to write about, I looked [...]
About a week and a half ago, I had finally gotten around to sending out my very first through the mail autograph request to the gentleman pictured in the card below. Yesterday, as I was sifting through the bills and junk mail, I stopped at an envelope addressed to me, written in my own hand [...]
So it would seem that my acquisition of new cards has slowed to a trickle for reasons beyond my control (i.e. cut backs at work). In honor of that, I’ve decided to start highlighting some of the more interesting cards in my collection. After all, isn’t that what we as collectors really want to do? [...]
Another submission to dayf’s Pirate Project:
Ever since I’ve gotten back into collecting, I’ve always wanted to own a few cards from the big, old sets. I’ve gotten a handful of cards from some of the big sets of the ’30′s and ’40′s, but I’ve been stymied so far in my quest to own a T205 and a T206. I like [...]
I make a few trades every now and again on a website called Sports Card Fun, which is basically a forum where people post cards that they’re looking to trade or get, and you work out whatever deals. I never really work out anything ground breaking, mostly just set building. Because of this, a lot [...]
