Howdy y’all, just wanted to show off a quick mailday before I leave for vacation tomorrow. We’re going up to New York to visit the relatives, like we always do at the end of December since God knows when. Due to the normal holiday snail’s pace the mail runs at, I got picked up these cards a while ago and now they finally arrived in my mailbox.
2010 Topps Tribute Blue #53: Alex Rodriguez (Numbered to 399)
You know what I hate? When people bust expensive products like Topps Tribute and just throw the base cards and colored parallels aside like they’re nothing. Well screw you high-end box buster! Thanks to you, I can snag these beautiful cards (that look better than the hits, by the way) for 90% less of what the average cost of a box. Ha.
Along with that sweet eBay pickup, I scored a nice $5 lot off the Blowout cards forums. Included in that 8 player lot was some trade bait and these Yanks.
2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Refractors #5: Melky Cabrera
Oh, Melky, what are you doing now? The Royals? Oh my, your teams just keep getting progressively worse and worse.
2010 Topps Chrome Wal Mart Exclusive Refractors WME1: Babe Ruth
I honestly can’t recall the last time I’ve stepped into a Wal Mart. That place kinda gives me nightmares.
All in all, not a bad mailday to most likely end the year. I should have a package or two waiting for me when I get back home. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of 2010 and the New Year’s festivities that go along with it, and I look forward to seeing you all in 2011. However, if you can’t survive a whole five days without me, I’ll be posting some more stuff over at My Past Time.
By the way, January 3rd will be the official one-year birthday of For Card’s Sake! Woo! Expect some big stuff, and it will be fun. I’ll remind everyone again when it gets closer to the date. Thanks!
2010 Topps Tribute Blue #53: Alex Rodriguez (Numbered to 399)
You know what I hate? When people bust expensive products like Topps Tribute and just throw the base cards and colored parallels aside like they’re nothing. Well screw you high-end box buster! Thanks to you, I can snag these beautiful cards (that look better than the hits, by the way) for 90% less of what the average cost of a box. Ha.Along with that sweet eBay pickup, I scored a nice $5 lot off the Blowout cards forums. Included in that 8 player lot was some trade bait and these Yanks.
2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Refractors #5: Melky Cabrera
Oh, Melky, what are you doing now? The Royals? Oh my, your teams just keep getting progressively worse and worse.2010 Topps Chrome Wal Mart Exclusive Refractors WME1: Babe Ruth
I honestly can’t recall the last time I’ve stepped into a Wal Mart. That place kinda gives me nightmares.All in all, not a bad mailday to most likely end the year. I should have a package or two waiting for me when I get back home. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of 2010 and the New Year’s festivities that go along with it, and I look forward to seeing you all in 2011. However, if you can’t survive a whole five days without me, I’ll be posting some more stuff over at My Past Time.
By the way, January 3rd will be the official one-year birthday of For Card’s Sake! Woo! Expect some big stuff, and it will be fun. I’ll remind everyone again when it gets closer to the date. Thanks!
Ryan Howard ornament to add to the “At the Ballpark” ornament series. This is the 15th and last ornament their making, so it adds an end to an era. It sure was fun collecting most of them, and now I gotta go find the rest to complete the set.
Nice A-Rod standup.
Thick book on one of my favorite pitchers of all-time, Mike Mussina, and Tom Glavine and their adventures in the 2007 season. Should make for a good read
A beautiful custom-made plaque my sister got for me from one of the school’s craft shows. It fits in quite nicely with the A-Rod corner in my baseball room (future post warning, future post warning)
Yup, a Yogi Berra signed ball. He signed this a few years ago on a nice 2003 100th-Year Anniversary ball. A very nice addition to the collection of autographed balls I own (which will be a post for tomorrow on 
Boy Meets World Season One and a Betty White calendar. Somebody pinch me.
Mrs. Claus, meow.
Godzilla! He signed with the A’s for one year at 4.25 million dollars. He will serve mostly as a DH and actually might play the outfield.
You didn’t think I’d go a trade post without mentioning A-Rod did you?
I haven’t seen a saturation of inserts this bad in my years of collecting. Why in God’s name would people want 120 cards of an insert? If that’s the case, maybe you should have kept the Turkey Red set you morons.
A nice card of the recently-deceased McDougald, who was a 5-time World Series winner and a one-time Rookie of the Year.
Good start, although I’m not a big fan of Howard. Living in the Philadelphia area, I’m subjected to hearing how Howard is one of the best players in the league at least twice a week. But hey Philly, only 7 more years of backwards Ks to go!
We seem to be progressing worse and worse as we move along. This year, Carlos batted .246 with an awful .291 OBP.
What do Johan Santana and Barry Zito have in common? They’re both lefties! And both have ridiculous contracts neither of them have lived up to. Zito is a joke, period. Santana has put up good numbers when pitching, and that’s a big when. He’s been hit with the injury bug the past two years with the Mets, the biggest being surgery on his shoulder at the end of the 2010 season.
A dupe already? Crap. Well, at least we have some breathing room with about 31 more packs to go.
Another year of 30 homers. I’m not sure how he pulled it out of his butt like that, but hey, I’ll take it.
I hate this guy.
I hate this guy, too.
Had a little comeback year with the Twins, batting .283 while popping 25 homers and getting on base at a nice .412 clip. With those 25 bombs, he moved up to eighth place all-time on the homerun list.
Here’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Apparently the D-Backs didn’t pick up his option and now he’ll hit the free agent market. There are rumors going around that the Yanks have an interest in signing him to a “low risk-high reward” deal that worked oh-so-well for the Red Sox in 2009.
I respect Wright not for just his baseball skills, but for being the only white infielder on the Mets for about four years, maybe longer. Mets fans should be thanking the baseball gods for firing Omar Minaya.
We should do a study to see how many people collect Junior. I think he may be the most collected player in the past two decades.
I’ve always liked Michael Young and was glad that he made the postseason this year. Although his numbers were subpar (only 5 hits with no homers or RBIs), it’s good that he finally got on a big stage.
Ordonez has been another player hit with the injury bug the past few years. He re-signed with the Tigers for one year at 10 million buckaroos.
This doesn’t look right… something about it… what the hell is that A on his cap?
I’ve already insulted Travis Hafner once on this blog, so the poor man gets a pass.
Narrowly missed playing in 162 games for two seasons in a row. His numbers were down across the board in 2010, coming nowhere close to his 2009 production in homers, RBIs, SLG, or OPS.
No one should be subjected to seeing Prince Fielder twice in a row.
Another great season from Ichiro. We’re probably looking at the first Asian player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Oh wait, I forgot the immortal Kei Igawa.
Holliday produced another solid season this year, posting his usually numbers in all the major offensive categories.
I’ve already ranted about Jeter being a little jerk in the whole contract issue. Let’s just marvel at the cover boy’s grace and poise on this card.
You can never OD on A-Rod.
Although I’m not a big fan of Soriano, I do like the photo they used on here. He had a very mediocre season with none of his numbers really standing out. However, his stolen base total does. Remember when he was stealing 40 bases a year with the Yankees? Yeah, he only stole 5 this year.
Boss. ’Nuff said.
Was hotter than Wendy Peffercorn before he went down with a concussion that sidelined him for the remainder of the season. He and Mauer bring their A-game every year it seems like and Twins fans should be very lucky to watch these two play every day.
Are there any Sizemore super collectors out there? I know he has a massive following with the ladies and he’s essentially the face of the franchise, but I don’t think I’ve seen any major Grady Sizemore collections. Maybe because he’s been one of the most injured players in the league? He only played in 33 games this year due to microfracture surgery on his left knee.
All hail the king! Now, would he move to outfield when he plays for the Yanks in 2011, or will Teixeira have to give up his position?
It doesn’t hurt to see Al again.
So Chipper is coming back, right? He didn't exactly set the world on fire before he got hurt last year, matching his woeful '09 stats with a .265 BA and a .426 SLG. He did maintain a nice .381 on base percentage and walked more times than he struck out for the 11th season in 17 years.
While the Phils have one of the most dominate rotations in baseball in the past decade, their offense still needs another bat. If they do fail to sign someone to replace Werth, then Utley needs to have a hell of a season to make up for it.
At first glance, I thought this was Own the Game, Topp’s famed insert. It’s nice to see UD putting some shine into their inserts too. More shiny inserts for Nick! Hoorah!
Oh… muy bueno.
This is the creepiest card I’ve ever seen. A-Rod laser beam activate!
Some cards just look fantastic, plain and simple.
UD3… what the hell is this? Apparently Upper Deck released an exclusive retail set called UD3. The set consisted of 60 cards, which were broken up into three 20-card subsets: Homerun Heroes, Pro-Motion, and Future Impact. Future Impact features Cel Chrome technology. Neat huh?!
