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Great Trade!

2012-01-01T17:04:00.000-08:00

73Toppsmann at Sports card Forum sent me a six-for-one deal. For every 1975 card, I sent him,he sent me six 2011 cards. I had not trade at Sports Card Forum in a long time.Great Trade!!!! I got a Albert Pujols and Josh Beckett cards, in total I got a 150 topps 2011 cards

2011 Topps Baseball Series 1 History of Topps Inserts Complete Set (10)

2011-12-29T15:48:00.000-08:00

I won these cards on ebay from klively331j ( 1606)

Great seller

Christmas card

2011-12-04T11:54:00.000-08:00

My oldest card collecting friend sent a Christmas card and a baseball card

Random Packs of Kindness

2011-08-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

I got some great cards from Tribe Cards and his Random Packs of Kindness

August 21 ,2011 Royals Game

2011-08-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

The kid had his good stuff Sunday, Ned Yost noticed, and his good command, too.

Despite yielding a leadoff walk — in which he kept trying to make the perfect pitch — Danny Duffy escaped the first inning of the Royals’ 6-1 loss to Boston unscathed. But Yost, the Royals’ manager, still wasn’t going to let his rookie left-hander overthink this. Not when he was matched up against one of the best pitchers on one of the best teams in the American League.

“Danny,” Yost told Duffy in the dugout, “let everybody play. You don’t have to strike everybody out.”

Duffy had heard the whole “pitch to contact, trust your defense” mantra from managers before, but never from Yost, so he figured he’d better listen. And while the Royals still fell to the Red Sox 6-1 on Sunday, it’s hard to imagine Duffy — who rebounded from a rough start in his last outing to allow only two runs on five hits in six innings — could have pitched much better.

“This is the best I’ve seen Duffy look in a while,” Royals infielder Mike Moustakas said. “He was in the zone, making pitches when he had to, keeping guys off balance. He gave us a chance to win.”

The Royals didn’t, of course. But a lot of that can be attributed to the performance of Boston’s own left-hander with top-notch stuff, Jon Lester. Lester, 13-6, carried a no-hitter into the fourth and allowed only one run and three hits in six innings as Boston , 77-49, took the finale of a four-game series at Kauffman Stadium.

“Jon Lester, he’s just bona fide,” Yost said. “He’s a premier pitcher in the American League, and he showed why today.”

Yet on this day, the difference between the 27-year-old Lester, a Cy Young candidate a year ago, and the 22-year old Duffy, who dropped to 3-8, wasn’t that wide.

When Duffy departed after the sixth inning, the Royals only trailed 2-0 — an encouraging sign for a rookie who is still feeling his way around the big leagues after he was pounded to the tune of eight runs in three innings in his previous start against the New York Yankees.

“The mistakes (Lester) made were way up out of the zone or way down out of the zone,” Duffy said, “while the mistakes I made were right over the middle of the plate.”

Two mistakes in particular cost Duffy. The first came in the fifth inning, when he hung a curve to Boston catcher Jason Varitek, who drove the pitch to right for a triple — his first in almost four years — that gave Boston a 1-0 lead.

The second (and more frustrating) mistake came in the sixth inning, when he wasted a 0-2 count to Darnell McDonald by throwing a 94-mph fastball that caught too much of the plate. McDonald, who entered the game with a .175 batting average and four home runs, muscled the ball to left for a homer that made the score 2-0.

Lester, meanwhile, was cruising. Through six innings, he’d allowed only one hit, a single to catcher Salvador Perez. But after the Red Sox tacked on another run in the seventh against reliever Aaron Crow, the Royals hoped to mount a comeback when rookie Johnny Giavotella led off the bottom of the inning with a triple. Perez followed with a walk, and Lester — who was well over 100 pitches at this point — allowed a RBI single to Moustakas.

With Boston’s lead trimmed to 3-1 and runners on first and second and no outs, Red Sox manager Terry Francona decided to call on his top setup man, hard-throwing right-hander Daniel Bard. And the combination of Bard, who retired the next three batters in order, plus a three-run eighth that made the score 6-1, immediately ended any hopes the Royals had of a comeback.

The defeat was another bitter one for the Royals, who dropped to 52-76 and ended a seven-game homestand against the Yankees and Red Sox with a 2-5 record.

But Duffy, who called the performance “a step forward,” says he will take it as a learning experience. It’s likely he will continue to battle himself, at least until he figures out how to control his aggression on the mound.

But Yost’s message in the first inning Sunday, and the results Duffy found after he listened, showed what can happen when he trusts his defense and doesn’t try to strike out everybody.

“Sometimes less is more,” Duffy said. “I’m going to come at you every start, but I’ve got to learn to ease up a little bit.”

My very own Baseball Card

2010-09-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

I got this last week at the Royals and Indians Game

Link Exchange with The Dugout Cards and Collectibles

2010-01-31T16:34:00.000-08:00

Wow!! I haven't did a link exchange in a year. But today we have one with The Dugout Cards and Collectibles
This is a great site and the manger of this site told me that

My name is John and I have started a new website that I thought would interest you. I have created the second largest website selling individual/common/single sports cards. I currently have over 200,000 cards for sale from 1974 to 2009. I had got back into collecting a couple of years ago and I went to go buy a couple of cards from a Local Card shop to finish some sets and they charged me an arm and a leg. When I looked on the net, there really wasn't one place for me to buy cards from. EBay and others are just multiple users that you can never trust. I have a 100% guarantee on my cards because I send all of them out personally. All the cards I send out are NrMint to Mint unless other wise noted. I was hoping that you could maybe do an article on your blog about my site or maybe post a link on your page. If you have any comments or suggestions to make it better, please let me know!!!!!

1966 Bazooka Baseball Cards COMPLETE SET 1-48!!

2010-01-30T18:51:00.000-08:00

My friend has these cards for sale on E bay

I was with him when he bought them at a auction.This is the only complete set of 1966 Bazooka I have ever seen

COMPLETE SET of 1966 Bazooka handcut baseball cards!!!!!!!

(1) Sandy Koufax L.A. Dodgers P - Has crease running 3/4 across the bill of his hat
(2) Willie Horten Detroit Tigers OF - Nice Card
(3) Frank Howard Wash Senators OF - Nice Card
(4) Richie Allen Phil. Phillies 3B - Nice Card
(5) Mel Stottlemyre N.Y. Yankees P - Nice Card
(6) Tony Conigliaro Boston Red Sox OF - Nice Card
(7) Mickey Mantle N.Y. Yankees OF - Nice Card
(8) Leon Wagner Clev. Indians OF - Light crease 1/2 inch long bottom right from bottom up to wagner name
(9) Ed Kranepool New York Mets 1B Nice Card
(10) Juan Marichal S.F. Giants P - Nice Card
(11) Harmon Killebrew Minn. Twins OF - Nice Card
(12) Johnny Callison Phila. Phillies OF - Nice Card
(13) Roy McMillan New York Mets SS - Nice Card
(14) Willie McCovey S.F. Giants 1B - Nice Card
(15) Rocky Colavito Cleve.Indians OF - Nice Card
(16) Willie Mays S.F. Giants OF - Nice Card
(17) Sammy McDowell Cleve. Indians P - Nice Card
(18) Vern Law Pitts. Pirates P - Nice Card
(19) Jim Fregosi Calif Angels SS - Nice Card
(20) Ron Fairly L.A. Dodgers OF - Nice Card
(21) Bob Gibson St. L. Cardinals P - Nice Card
(22) Carl Yastrzemski Boston Red Sox OF - card has small dimple on his right shoulder
(23) Bill White Phila Phillies 1B - Nice Card
(24) Bob Aspromonte Houston Astros 3B - has small scratch under his right arm
(25) Dean Chance Calif. Angels P - Has line indention side to side across under his neck
(26) Bob Clemente Pitts. Pirates OF - Light line indention side to side across chest barely noticable
(27) Tony Cloninger Atlanta Braves P - line indention across side to side at chin
(28) Curt Blefary Balt. Orioles OF - light line indention across side to side through elbow
(29) Milt Pappas Cincinnati Reds P - Nice Card
(30) Hank Aaron Alanta Braves OF - Light line indention side to side across neck
(31) Jim Bunning Phila. Phillies P - Nice Card
(32) Frank Robinson Balt. Orioles OF - Nice Card
(33) Bill Skowron Chi. White Sox 1B - Nice Card
(34) Brooks Robinson Balt. Orioles 3B - Nice Card
(35) Jim Wynn Houston Astros OF - Nice Card
(36) Joe Torre Atlanta Braves C - Nice Card
(37) Jim Grant Minn. Twins Pitcher - Nice Card
(38) Pete Rose Cincinnati Reds 2B - Nice Card
(39) Ron Santo Chicago Cubs 3B - Nice Card
(40) Tom Tresh N.Y Yankees OF - Nice Card
(41) Tony Oliva Minn. Twins OF - Has brown spot /stain right side border towards bottom
(42) Don Drysdale L.A. Dodgers P - Nice Card
(43) Pete Richert Wash Senators P - Nice Card
(44) Bert Campaneris K.C. Athletics SS - Nice Card
(45) Jim Maloney Cincinnati Reds P - Small Dimple on chin
(46) Al Kaline Detroit Tigers OF - light line indention side to side through arms
(47) Eddie Fisher Chi. White Sox P - Light line indention side to side above chicago
(48) Billy Williams Chicago Cubs OF - Light line indention across neck & upper right corner is creased

Cards for Christmas 2009

2009-12-25T20:38:00.000-08:00

I am now doing a history bog for the town I live in, so I haven't time to do the baseball card blog.But here is some of the cards I got for Christmas!!!

Baseballcardman does Trade With ArodYanksFan:

2009-04-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

Yeah!!!!!!! I am back to trading

baseballcardman receives from ArodYanksFan:
2007 Topps Generation Now Vintage GNV14 Matt Cain
2007 Topps Opening Day Team vs. Team
OD9 ArizonaDiamondbacks/Colorado Rockies
OD14 Texas Rangers/Los Angeles Angels
OD15 San Diego Padres/San Francisco Giants
Diamond Stars #DS5 Raul Ibanez
2007 Topps Own the Game 21 Johan Santana
2007 Topps Trading Places TP7 Ted Lilly , TP15 Aubrey Huff

baseballcardman gaveup to ArodYanksFan
2007 Topps: 52,62,64,101,105,114,180,183,209,222,224,227,232,2 42,244,286,333,346,359,366,393,453,487,453,509,523 ,576,584,590,596,598

Bart went to a Sports Collector's show

2009-04-05T15:23:00.000-07:00

GT Sports Marketing hosted a sports collector's show at Kansas City Friday through Sunday, April 3-5 at the Overland Park International Trade Center.

I went to a collector's show Saturday.

Here is just a few of the cards I bought:

George Brett HOF card

1952 Topps Wally Post card

1949 Bowmen -George "Red" Munger #40

1972 Topps Lou Piniella Card

Anybody have Royals cards?

2009-03-07T19:48:00.000-08:00

I have bought a Jumbo pack and 10 regular packs of 2009 Topps. I have only pulled two Royals cards. If anybody can help a poor Royals collector please contat me at bartm@ckt.net

A day at Coach's Corner

2009-02-22T18:06:00.000-08:00

It has been a long drought, first we had high gas prices then the economy crashed. However, I did work a little over-time this week so I had a little extra cash on hand. So I decided to take an adventure to "Coaches Corner" a card shop in Belton, Missouri. I found that it had been 14 months since my last visit. Well anyway, nothing had changed, you couldn't even tell the economy was bad by looking at this cardshop. The owner's nickname is "Coaches", he was taling baseball and the chances that the KC Royals have this coming season, it reminded me of the old days when there was a cardshop on every corner.

Coaches Carshop

I bought a jumbo pack of 2009 Topps, and got this George Sisler along with many other good cards.

I also picked up another Carlton Fisk for my collection, YEAH!

Link Exchange with The Golden Age of Baseball Cards

2009-01-25T11:17:00.000-08:00

Wow!! I haven't did a link exchange in a long time. But today we have one with The Golden Age of Baseball Cards
This is a great site I like the The Greatest Baseball Card Ever part of this site. The manger of this site says: "How can anyone classify a baseball card as the greatest ever? I don’t know, but I’d like to try. Who is the greatest player? Babe Ruth? Mickey Mantle? Ted Williams? Hank Aaron? Barry Bonds? Many others come to mind. However, in trying to determine the “Greatest Baseball Card Ever”, we will examine more than the particular player’s ability, the scarcity of the card or its worth today. Certain criteria will constrain the choices to a reasonable number of cards. The cards eligible for this honor will be limited to those that were most popular with boys growing up, when cards were purchased throughout the summer as each series became available, before factory sets could be obtained, and when collecting cards was something that kids did for fun, not for investment purposes. Other considerations are listed in the “Greatest Baseball Card Ever” section of this website."
Right now the 1956 Mickey Mantle is listed on his sight. It is also one of my favorite cards eventhough I do not own one. The Mantle card definitely is one to see. click on the above link and view it for yourself!
Baseballcardman

Times are Hard

2009-01-15T16:48:00.000-08:00

Times are hard as everybody already knows. Thankfully my wife and I still have our jobs. It is always good to let people know that you are a baseball card collector. You never know what may happen. This is my blog for tonight. A friend of mine came upon a whole binder of baseball, football, & basketball cards. Well, he just gave it to me because he new I loved the cards!
Below are some of the cards that were added to my collection from this find and my friend.
I am really happy with this Ken Griffey All- Star card that I didn't have. I remember in 1990 this card was really a "hot" item.

This 1991 Nolan Ryan Golden Arm card was my next great find in the album. I had several of these Pacific Trading Cards of Nolan Ryan but this is baby picture card is a happy edition to my collection!

This Willie Mays Baseball Heroes is another card I didn't have, I am really happy with this card. I always liked to say "Hey Kid!"

This Ken Griffey Sportflics yet, another great find for me. I have only purchased 2 packs of Sportflics in my whole life. However, I have traded for quite a few and this card really helps my Sportflics collection.

Last but not least this 1993 Topps Gold Card of Dave Winfield is my favorite of the five cards posted from my lucky friend find.

More Topps Updates&Highlights Cards

2008-12-14T06:36:00.000-08:00

I had so much fun I bought three more packs of 2008 Topps Updates & Highlights.
List of Cards
Chipper Jones#UH5
Matt Holliday#UH11
Andy Phillips #UH18
Johnny Estrada#UH19
Darrell Rasner#UH21
Lance Berkman#UH25
Jason Bartlett#UH43
Jim Edmonds#UH60
Matt Albers#UH62
Willie Harris #UH79
Ervin Santane#UH77
Classic Combos#UH99(Hanley Combos&David Ortiz)
Classic Combos#UH124(Alex Rodriguez&Even Longoria)
Nick Adenhart#UH129
Jose Arredondo#UH135
Jon Lieber#UH139
Justin Morneau#UH167
Emmanuel Burriss#UH177
Sidney Ponson#UH182
Chase Utley#UH184

Dan Ugglla#UH196

Russell Branyan#UH206

Angel Pagan #UH224
Carlos Quentin#UH227
Milton Bradley#UH239
Clayton Kershaw#UH240
Brandon Webb #UH244
Pedro Feliz#UH250
Jose Castillo#UH254
Rich Harden#UH275
Adam Dunn #UH293
Dan Haren#UH298
Edinson Volquez#UH322
Jorge Velandia#UH323

I'm Back!

2008-12-11T18:13:00.000-08:00

When gas was up to $4 a gallon every penny counted. I couldn't go anywhere or do anything extra. I almost felt like I was hibernating. I didn't feel like doing any Baseball card blogging because I couldn't afford to buy any baseball cards. Today I gased up for $1.32 a gallon and this particular store happened to sell cards. So, I bought a pack. I know the National Economy is terrible but right now at least mine is a little better.

2008 Topps Updates & Highlights

Sean Casey#UH2

Ryan Ludwick#UH49

Chad Moeller#UH69

Armando Galarraga#UD153

Chase Utley#UD184

Guillermo Mota#UD212

Chris Davis#UD231

Gregorio Petit#UD267

Ruben Gotay#UD319

Ken Griffey Jr. #UD324

Yeah!!!!!!

That was Fun!

Sorry, I have been gone!

2008-09-25T14:37:00.000-07:00

I know this is not a baseball card but this is in memory of my father in-law James Skocy that passed away Tuesday.He is on the Right.
For the first time in almost three years, the Skocy brothers. Pfc. Richard L. Skocy 22, and Corp. James A. Skocy both of the marines, met recent on Okinawa. The sons of Mr., and Mrs. Antone Skocy, Route 1, Joliet they had promised their mother, a picture of themselves together the first time their paths crossed, so they enlisted the aid of a marine corps combat photographer to record the occasion. .'James is shown trying a.Jap soldier's cap on his brother. Although both participated in the Okinawa fight, it was- not until hostilities had ceased that they met. James, with the headquarters battalion, first marine division, fought at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu, while Richard participated in the landings on New Georgia and Tulagi. He is with the sixth marine division. Both enlisted in the marines in September, 1942, with the Joliet unit. James has been overseas two years and Richard, two and a half years. (Official U. S. Marine Corps photo)

Joliet Illinois Newspaper 1945

Obituary James Anton Skocy SR.

James Skocy, departed naturally from this earth, on September 23, 2008, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mount Vernon, Missouri.
He is pre-ceded in death by his parents Anton & Juliette Skocy, one sister Juliette Homan, two brothers George & Robert Skocy, the beloved mother of his children Anna Mae (Williamson) Skocy and one son Allen Skocy.

James Anton Skocy Sr. was born January 30, 1922 at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet Illinois. James served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the United Stated Marine Corps during WWII and the Korean War. He took the oath to serve his country in the Joliet Township High School with 164 other men from the Joliet community. He served in the 1st Marine Division 9th battalion in New Guiness, Peleliu, Okinawa and Rukyu Islands. After completing his military service James married Anna Mae Williamson and raised twelve children. He worked as a Lead Man at Seneca Petroleum Corporation in Lemont, Illinois until he retired in 1987. James was a life-long member of the Illinois VFW.

He is survived by his brother Richard Skocy of Rich Hill, Missouri, 11 Children: Mary (Andrew) Helgeson, Pittsburgh, PA. James (Ronna) Skocy, Rich Hill, MO, Chris (Kathy) Skocy, Marine City, MI. Dan Skocy, Channahon, IL. Diane (Kenneth) Kassner, Rich Hill, MO. Nancy Skocy, Tucson, AZ. Robert Skocy, Rich Hill, MO. Greg (Rachel) Skocy, Rich Hill, MO, Kenneth Skocy, Rich Hill, MO; Lynn (Bart) McClaughry, Rich Hill, MO, Amy (Neal) Mitchell, Rich Hill, MO; Twenty-eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services for James Anton Skocy Sr. will be held at 10:30 A. M. on Saturday September 27, 2008 at the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home in Joliet with an Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions to Missouri Veterans Home or the Illinois VFW c/o Heuser Funeral Home, PO Box 42, Rich Hill, MO 64779.

Cards For Eric

2008-08-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

Eric I will be sending your cards out tomorrow! I sure appreciate the contribution you made towards my Royals collection. I only hope I can contribute to your Yankees Collection with the same effort.
Baseballcardman

Allen & Ginter's 2008

2008-08-11T19:45:00.000-07:00

It is amazing how sometimes it is so easy to blog and other times it is so hard. Right now, I am in the hard stage. Tonight I am posting another one of Eric's cards. This is Allen Ginters just like Upper Deck I haven't bought any Allen Ginters card this year. So, I really appreciate this card from Eric too.

I have reached the half way point on my most memorable trades of all times. But don't think I have forgotten I still have 5 more to go! I want to thank all of you who do read my blog.

Baseballcardman

Trade with Eric

2008-08-10T19:54:00.000-07:00

About two weeks ago I got an e-mail from a guy named Eric stating he wanted to make a trade. Eric wanted to trade Yankees for Royals. He told me he had a Gil Meche Jersey card. I e-mailed him back and told him to keep it because I didn't have anything to trade him for it. He said he was thinning his collection and he would rather a Royals fan have it that would appreciate it. I definitely appreciate it! I am still going through the cards he sent me over 100 cards. I will probably do some more post on his cards later on. Another thing I enjoy in the cards he sent me are the 2007 & 2008 Upper Deck card. I haven't broke open any 2007 or 2008 Upper Deck packs trying to get Royals cards as I was hoping to trade for them and he sent me some. Thanks Eric! I am trying to gather Yankee cards to send to you.
Also, I haven't blogged lately as I have been on vacation. So, it is back to work tomorrow!
baseballcardman

1991 Topps Cracker Jack II - 2 Carlton Fisk

2008-08-04T13:14:00.000-07:00

What a rare collectable of BASEBALL GREAT CARLTON FISK!!! I got this card on a ebay auction! This is a tiny 1991 CARLTON FISK TOPPS CRACKER JACK CARD. It only measures 1 1/4 inches by 1 3/4 inches. AWESOME!! I have to get it in my collection fast before I lose it.

Checklist of TOPPS CRACKER JACK 1991 Series 2

1 Eddie Murray
2 Carlton Fisk
3 Eric Anthony
4 Kelly Gruber
5 Von Hayes
6 Ben McDonald
7 Andre Dawson
8 Ellis Burks
9 Matt Williams
10 Dave Stewart
11 Barry Larkin
12 Chuck Finley
13 Shane Andrews
14 Bret Saberhagen
15 Bobby Bonilla
16 Roberto Kelly
17 Orel Hershiser
18 Ruben Sierra
19 Ron Gant
20 Frank Thomas
21 Tim Wallach
22 Gregg Olson
23 Shawon Dunston
24 Kent Hrbek
25 Ramon Martinez
26 Alan Trammell
27 Ozzie Smith
28Bob Welch
29 Chris Sabo
30 Steve Sax
31 Bip Roberts
32 Dave Stieb
33 Howard Johnson
34 Mike Greenwell
35 Delino DeShields
36 Alex Fernandez

My 5th Most Memorable Trade of all Times

2008-08-03T21:16:00.000-07:00

This trade happened when I was actually a dealer. A friend of mine whom I a have known for a long time, said that Preacher Roe was going to be at card show in Joplin Mo. He asked me If I would go along to help him because he was going to have his own table at the show. At first we were worried because the weather was really bad as it was icing outside. So, there was a chance the Preacher might not even show up. The Preacher was a little late but eventually he showed up. My friend ended up spending most of his time over at Preachers table getting signatures. Anyway I sold a lot of baseball cards for my friend. This one guy showed up at his table, and he had a lot of good cards that were on my want list. Several of them I have already listed on this blog and on previous blogs that I have done. He had a 1966 Catfish Hunter, an 1989 Fleer Ripken F Face,

and some other cards i traded him out of which I can't remember right now. I had also been wanting the 1989 Jim Abbott Topps Traded another guy walked up to the table with it and we made that trade. I left that particular show really happy because I had never made so many trades on cards that I really wanted before.

I Can't Quit!

2008-08-02T16:16:00.000-07:00

I am taking a break from my blogs on my top 10 Trades to comment on Houston Card Collector article "I Quit!" As for me personally, I can't quit. I love collecting baseball cards. I have tried to quit several times throughout my life. However, collecting baseball cards just keeps coming back to me as a hobby. I get real joy when I read blogs or e-mails where guys say I quit collecting but I have started back up again. For the hobby to remain healthy we have to have collectors returning back to the hobby. I think we have to learn to adjust to what the hobby is doing. I would love to ride my bicycle to the local quick stop and buy cards for 15 cents a pack as I did when I was a kid. But the times have changed, you can see that clearly when you go to any gas pump or grocery store. Houston card Collector talks about in his article that the card companies are charging 100 dollars a pack on some products. Apparently people are buying them at 100 dollars a pack or the card companies wouldn't keep charging that much. I know that the major card companies have tried to market a cheaper pack of cards in the past but they just don't sell! One thing I do agree about with Houston cards collectors article is I wish cards were in the local stores more.

I would like to see as many baseball card collectors come back to the hobby that I love. Because unlike those collectors that have quit collecting I can't quit!

My 4th Most Memorable Trade of all Times

2008-08-01T19:18:00.000-07:00

I am changing this blog from best trade to most memorable trade of all time because some people wouldn't consider these good trades but they are the most memorable to me. In 1989 my wife and I had just moved back to our home town and the baseball card boom was on. I couldn't hardly believe it but the little town that we grew up in now had a card shop. Anyway I packed up several of my cards from the 1970's and headed to the card shop to do some trading. It is funny but I still remember looking around the ladies shop and it was like my dream of being a collector and having a card shop to go to trade at. I told they shop owner that I would trade her several cards from the 1970's for a complete set of 1988 Topps. I remember her picking out a 1977 Johnny Bench and a Pete Rose and a 1976 Dave Winfield. I remember walking to my car thinking what a good deal. I traded just a few cards for a complete set what a good deal. But now as I look back on it I would have rather have kept my old cards. The ladies husband passed away so she closed the shop down after just a year. The building she had her card shop in is now condemned and has a fence around it. Sometimes when I drive buy the old building I think to myself that there used to be a sports card shop in this town.

My 3rd Best Trade of all Times

2008-07-31T21:32:00.000-07:00

My third best trade is all of the trades I have made on the Internet building up my KC Royals collection. I actually wasn't trying to build my Royals collection until I started my Baseballcardman Blog. Steve at White sox cards and David at Indian baseball cards always looked liked they were having great fun collecting their team players so I decided to start building mine too. Once again, thanks for inspiring me guys! Since I have started trading on-line I have built my Royals up to about 1500 of course not all of my Royals came through trading but quite a few of them did. It has been great fun to come home and see what is in the packages! I really enjoy being surprised by the cards people have surprised me with. So, if you happen to be one that I have traded with THANK YOU and may we have many more trades in the future! Baseballcardman

My 2nd Trade of all times

2008-07-30T20:33:00.000-07:00

During the summer of 1990 I was in between jobs and kind of hurting for cash and I wanted a Catfish Hunter Rookie Card really bad. So, I took my 1977 Steve Largent Rookie and headed to Kansas City to a Tri-Star Show. It was a lot of fun taking the Largent card around to the dealers and seeing what they would give for it. Then I would go around to all the dealers to find out who had a Catfish Hunter Rookie. This one dealer had a Catfish Hunter and he wanted me to give him some cash to boot along with my Largent Card. So, I went to another dealer and sold him the Largent card and I ended up with the $10 to boot and my Catfish Hunter Rookie card. I miss the big card shows/ sports memorabilia of the past. I sure do wish that I could have went to the national show this weekend, I always really enjoy bartering with the dealers.
Baseballcardman

Top Ten trades

2008-07-29T21:14:00.000-07:00

I was watching the NFL channel tonight and they had the top 10 draft trades of all time. This made me think, what are my top 10 trades of all times? I am going to list my top ten although not in order. Tonight I am going to talk about one of my best trades the "Official 1966 Kansas City Athletics Score Book." A guy I work with came by the scorebook by accident. Since the guy I work with didn't care about baseball he decided he would trade it for some football magazines I had. I tried not to act to anxious. However, it was very difficult for me not to get anxious as not only was it an Official Scorebook with 6 signatures on it, the best one being Billy Martin, Al Worthington, Cesar Tovar, and Ted Uhlaender and a Minnesota Twins pin attached to its cover. I now keep my prize trade locked away, and protected in a black case. More of my top ten trades in future posts as I think of them.
Baseballcardman

Another card from Whitesoxcards

2008-07-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

I waited then I almost forgot to post this card! Steve and I are alike we both collect Carlton Fisk cards. Upper Deck 2001 The National Pastime Card
The Back of the cards Says: Fisk was one of the Game Premier Catchers for nearly two decades and set the standard for durability among backstops.
He Owens the records for catchers in games(2,229) and home runs (351). Fisk is perhaps best known for his 12th-inning Home Run in game six of the 1975 World Series between the Red Sox and the Reds. The game-winning Homer capped one of the most remarkable World Series contests in history. Fisk was the Al Rookie of the year in 1972 and was an 11-time All-Star.He was elected to Hall of Fame in 2000.

Thanks to the baseballcardblog

2008-07-27T21:02:00.000-07:00

Now that the dust is settled on Ben Henry, the writer of the baseballcardblogg who had a button that bloggers could make a donation thru their pay-pal accounts. I thought I needed to just tell him Thank you, because he is the one who got me started on baseball card blogging. You see, about a year ago, I kept looking into building a web-site so that I could share my experiences with collecting baseball cards. I even tried building a site on free webs. I didn't like trying to build the site, it was too difficult, and I didn't know how anyone would possibly ever find my site to read it. Then one day I was typing in google and it took me into Ben Henry's baseball card blogg. I thought to myself, alright! this is what I have been looking for! Baseball collectors sharing their experiences. So, I just wanted to take a moment to tell Ben Henry, Thank You.

The Beckett on-line

2008-07-27T16:23:00.000-07:00

I have been looking through my old Beckett's again. This time I picked out the August 1995, issue 125, with Frank Thomas on the cover. I sold several Beckett's at garage sales through the years. Apparently this one never sold as it looks like I had a price tag on it. In 1995 I was going through a stage if the baseball card wasn't a 1979 or older, I didn't even consider it a baseball card. I would usually buy one Beckett a year to keep track of baseball card prices. This issue of the Beckett had good stories about the careers, of Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Carlton Fisk, Robin Yount & Dale Murphy. The story that caught my eye the most was on page 4, where Dr. Beckett announces that they now have "The Beckett" on-line now. I had almost forgotten the day when "The Beckett" first came on-line! We didn't have a home computer in 1995 so, I would have to go to other places that had a computer. I would go to friends houses, and the library to see what all Beckett had on-line. Just the other day, I bought the new Baseball Card Plus Beckett, as I still like to keep track of the prices. Now, they don't even have the "Baseball Card Monthly anymore. But I still enjoy reading the Beckett on-line at http://www.beckett.com/. It still amazes in order to keep up with my card collecting I have had to evolve with the times and new resources. Baseballcardman

Abner Doubleday 1989 Baseball wit Card

2008-07-24T20:58:00.000-07:00

Did he or did he not?

The Abner Doubleday legend/myth
Abner Doubleday
The story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 was once widely promoted and widely believed. There was and is no evidence for this claim, except for the testimony of one man decades after the fact, and there is more persuasive counter-evidence. Doubleday left many letters and papers, but they contain no description of baseball or even a suggestion that he considered himself a prominent person in the history of the game. His New York Times obituary makes no mention of baseball at all, nor does an encyclopedia article about Doubleday published in 1911. Contrary to popular belief, Doubleday has never been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, although a large oil portrait of him was on display at the Hall of Fame building for many years.
The legend of Doubleday’s invention of baseball was itself baseball's invention, in a sense that of Al Spalding, a former star pitcher, then club executive, who had become the leading American sporting goods entrepreneur and sports publisher. Debate on baseball origins had raged for decades, heating up in the first years of the 20th century. To end argument, speculation and innuendo, Spalding organized a panel in 1905. The panelists were his friend Abraham G. Mills, a former National League president; two United States Senators, ex-NL president Morgan Bulkeley and ex-Washington club president Arthur Gorman; ex-NL president and lifelong secretary-treasurer Nick Young; two other star players turned sporting goods entrepreneurs (George Wright and Alfred Reach); and AAU president James E. Sullivan. The final report published in 1908 included three sections: a summary of the panel’s findings written by Mills, a letter by John Montgomery Ward supporting the panel, and a dissenting opinion by Henry Chadwick. The research methods were, at best, dubious. The Mills Commission probably looked for and found the perfect story: baseball was invented in a quaint rural town without foreigners or industry, by a young man who later graduated from West Point and served heroically in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and U.S. wars against Indians.
The Mills Commission concluded that baseball had been invented by Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839; that Doubleday had invented the word "baseball", designed the diamond, indicated fielder positions, written down the rules and the field regulations. However, no written records from 1839 or the 1840s have ever been found to corroborate these claims; nor could Doubleday be interviewed for he had died in 1893. The principal source for the story was a letter from elderly Abner Graves, a five-year-old resident of Cooperstown in 1839. But Graves never mentioned a diamond, positions or the writing of rules. Graves' reliability as a witness has also been questioned because he was later convicted of murdering his wife and spent his final days in an asylum for the criminally insane. Further, Doubleday was not in Cooperstown in 1839. Doubleday may never have even visited Cooperstown. He was enrolled at West Point and there is no record of any leave time. Mills, a lifelong friend of Doubleday, had never heard him mention inventing baseball.
As noted previously, versions of baseball rules have since been found in publications that significantly predate the alleged invention in 1839.
Jeff Idelson of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York has stated, "Baseball wasn't really born anywhere," meaning that the evolution of the game was long and continuous and has no clear, identifiable single origin.

Trade with stlcardtrader

2008-07-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

Trade With stlcardtrader at the Bench sports card trading.
I gave up 1989 Upper Deck: 332,603,722,717,704,351,314,88,391,456and I got 10 2007 Turkey Red Cards 86,129,72,181, 17, 6, 38, 99, 112, & 133. Very Good Trade I believe. I reallly like the Turkey Red cards! I never thought when I was opening up the 1989 Upper Deck that 19 years later I would be trading them for some other cards. I think we may do some more trading later on with stlcardtrader he has some Carlton fisk cards I would like to have. Thanks again for the trade!
Baseballcardman

Little People

2008-07-17T20:45:00.000-07:00

I couldn't think of much to write about tonight, so I decided to dedicate this blog to my wife! I know wives and baseball card collecting don't mix but I am out of thoughts for a blog. Anyway Sean Casey as most of us know, is really a nice guy. Both he and my wife are happy to say that little people are the most valuable and important resource of our society!
Baseballcardman

Clint Hurdle

2008-07-16T19:58:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed the All-Star game last night even though I couldn't stay awake until the end. Through all of the good and bad plays in the game what caught my eye and attention the most was when the camera kept flashing over to Clint Hurdle the National League manager and former KC Royal. I thought to myself it seemed like only yesterday that he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I remember thinking when I was young ,that I wanted to wear my like his hair, so that I could look like him because all of the girls thought he was a hunk! Oh well, I am having a little bit of mid-life crisis here. Like I said, I really enjoyed the game to bad I couldn't stay up to the end.

Justin Morneau Wins Home Run Derby

2008-07-15T17:15:00.000-07:00

Home Run Derby last night was a fantastic contest, and if I'm honest, had a climax and finish that I did not expect. Morneau finished the night with 22 home runs, six fewer than Hamilton hit in just the first round, but it was enough to win him the trophy. Hamilton simply defeated himself! Anyway my wife and I had a really good time watching the homerun derby last night and tonight we are planning on watching the 2008 All-Star game. I really like Justin Morneau and I consider myself fortunate to have his Topps Traded rookie card.

Link Exchange

2008-07-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

Yeah! I am finally getting to do a Link Exchange again. It has been a long time! This one is with Poor Old Baseball Cards, this blogg I really like! The blogg is about those baseball cards that have been "Put through the ringer" It is not about all tose "Gem Mint Ten" cards. This blogg has taught me that I shouldn't be embarrassed about posting some of my older cards that aren't in the greatest shape. So tonight I am posting my 1966 Topps Bob Uecker card. I have had this card for over 32 years it is one of my first cards that I got in a trade during my "early trading days."

How I Voted on the Topps Baseball All-Star Rookie Teams

2008-07-13T21:01:00.000-07:00

Here is how I voted on the Topps Rookie All-Star. I only voted for the cards that I owen.

1st Baseman Mark Grace 1988
2nd Baseman Willie Randolph 1976
Shortstop Nomar Garciaparra 1997
3rd Baseman Chipper Jones 1995
Catcher Carlton Fisk 1972
Outfielder Buddy Bell 1972
Outfieler Ken Griffey 1989
Outfielder Jim Rice 1975
Pitcher Jim Abbott 1989
Pitcher Mark Fidrych1976

Baseball Card DT's

2008-07-12T19:21:00.000-07:00

Baseball card "DT's" things have slowed for me since the fourth of July is over. So, I have been doing a lot more baseball card blogging. Anyway about 6:00 PM I had a the "URGE" to buy some cards. The problem is I live way out in the country. So, the best I can ever do is Wal-Mart. I was in no mood for E-baying as I couldn't wait for the cards because of the DT's from not buying any! So, my wife and I loaded up and headed some 30 miles to Wal-Mart. In my 35 years of collecting baseball cards I have learned to adjust to different situations. You see, I went from riding my bicycle to the local dime stores and quick stops, into the late 1980's when card shops were everywhere, to now when I either buy my cards on E-bay, trade over the web or travel to the local Wal-Mart 30 miles away. When you finally make it to Wal-Mart, the isle where the sports cards are located is right in the way of the ckeck out lines, so people are backed up into the sports card section waiting to be checked out. I would like to think that people are thinking to themselves when they see me standing in the midst of the sports card section thart they are saying to themselves "Oh there is the great Baseballcardman, I think I will get out of his way" But to my dismay the people just stand in line and stare at me while they are waiting to be checked out. Anyway this one couple comes through the check out line , and apparently one of their kids is having a birthday, I assumed this because they have a birthday cake in their cart. The couple buys the kid a Baseball Card Plus Magazine and several Blaster Boxes of cards (the lucky kid) So, when everyone clears out you would think that my mind is now made up as to what baseball card items I wanted to buy this trip to Wal-Mart. I decided to buy only a couple of 25 card value packs each pack supposedly has a $15 value and and a single 3 pack Baseball cards with the 2007 Goudey being the top pack. I will share more later on, as to what cards I got in my new packs. Surprisingly, in the Goudey pack I did draw an Alex Rodrigues Head Up card. Whew! Thank Goodness, my "DT's" are over with! (For now anyway.)

Old Beckett's Part 2

2008-07-11T20:28:00.000-07:00

Ever had an idea? And then had an idea off of that idea? Then, you find out that someone already did your idea? Well, I was going through some of my old Beckett's the other night in theJune issue of 1989 Beckett one of the writers Tom Wheatley did a story on the 1987 Topps Set. I thought this is really interesting. I wonder** what ever happpened to this guy and his card collecting? Then I remembered that his son Tommy used to write the "Kids Korner in the Beckett. I wondered** what every happened to him? I am going to write a story about them. I was excited! Then I found out through Google that some other Bloggers already beat me to it. BUMMER! Oh well, nice idea. So, as I read through the interview the guy asked Tommy Wheatley why he quit collecting cards? He basically stated that he quit because the adults had taken it over. There is now too many cards, packs became to expensive, too many insert cards. After reading his article and talking to other used to be collectors that live near me, their story is the same as Tommy's. This makes me wonder just what am I still doing collecting cards? Was I just to stupid to get out or did my boyhood passion for collecting strive through times? Anyway if you are wondering what I am up to now, I am re-reading all my old Beckett's. I would come closer to paying $6.00 for an old Beckett rather than paying $6.00 for a new one. Here is the Blogg about Tommy

Old Beckett's

2008-07-10T20:44:00.000-07:00

I got this Pic. out of the June 1989 Beckett.

I remember the 1991 Score

2008-07-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

I don't know why but I have always liked the 1991 Score. Like I have probably said before, I used to work construction in the early 1990's. I was working in a town in western Kansas, the town had a card shop. Every night after work I would go to this card shop. Not every night just the nights I got off early enough to get there before they closed. Anyway, I bought several boxes of the 1991 Score. I transferred to another company, and over a year later I was at a card show. The dealer that ran the card shop out in Kansas seen me and remembered me. He said, "I remember you! What happened to you?" I replied., " I transferred to another company." He remembered and said, "You still collect Score?" I always thought this story was funny, as I never thought of myself as a Score collector.

Baseballcardman

More Cards from Whitesox Cards

2008-07-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

I thought I would post some more of the cards that I got from Steve. Just posting one of Steve's cards didn't do our trade justice!

Baseballcardman

Trade with Whitesox Cards

2008-07-05T12:41:00.000-07:00

The cards that Steve sent me on the trade came in the mail Saturday. Steve is better known as whitesoxcards. It was really hard to pick what I wanted the lead card to be but I ended up picking the 2007 Topps Turkey Red #45 Billy Butler (RC). I just love the looks of the Turkey Red cards.! Steve also sent me a Carlton Fisk Card that I didn't have. I enjoy reading Steve's Bloggs I have told him more than once that he ought to be a sports writer or something along those lines that he could make a living at it. Anyway thanks for all the cards Steve! The cards were a great surprise!

BaseballCardman

A List of Cards from Whitesoxcards

1. 2007 Topps Turkey Red #45 Billy Butler (RC)

2. 1991 Classic Blue George Brett. Card #T46

3. 1991 Classic Blue Brent Mayne #T50

4. 1991 Classic Blue Brian McRae #T49

5. 1991 Classic Blue Jeff Conine #T47

6. 1991 Classic Blue Bo Jackson #T48

7. 1991 RED Classic GEORGE BRETT # T 70

8. 1989 Topps Jamie Quirk #702

9. 2006 Topps Odalis Perez#UH48

10. 1990 Topps Bob Boone #671

11. 1987 Topps Steve Balboni#240

12. 2008 Topps Opening Day Luke Hochevar #208

13. 1993 Score George Brett #517

14 1993 Topps Chris Haney #581

15. 1985 Fleer Mark Huisman #203

16. 1985 Fleer Hal McRae#207

17. 1985 Fleer Pat Sheridan #213

18. 2007 Bowman David DeJesus#87

19. 2005 Donruss Mike MacDougal #130

20. 2005 Donruss Shawn Camp #156

21. 2005 Upperdeck Ambiorix Burgos #110

22. 1994 Score Gary Gaetti #300

23. 1994 Score Greg Gagne

24. 1995 Upperdeck SP Greg Gagne

25. 2008 Upperdeck Shawn Costa #524

26.2006 Upperdeck Justin Huber #1091

27. 2008 Bowmen Chrome Danny Duffy BcP25

28. 2001 Upperdeck Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk #78

1991 Score American Flag/Peace

2008-07-05T11:20:00.000-07:00

I know I am a day late with my patriotism but, the city I work for has a huge Fourth of July Celebration that I have to help with so I am a little late with my blogg. I am sure all collectors have cards that are their favorites even if the cards aren't worth anything. The 1991 Score Flag Card is one of them cards for me. I hope everyone had a nice and safe holiday.

BaseballCardman

Catfish Hunter

2008-07-02T20:44:00.000-07:00

A lot of people don't know that I used to collect Catfish cards. Every card show I used to go to I would ask the dealers "What do you have for Catfish Hunter Cards?" I don't know why I ever quit collecting him, I guess I just moved on to other players. Still, I always liked the " Catfish" he was one of my favorite players. This 1967 Topps card of Jim Hunter alias "Catfish" on the back says, "the righthander had one heck of a year as a sophomore in 1966. Jim was named the opening day pitcher for the Athletics and although he hurled a brilliant four-hitter he was defeated by the Minnesota Twins,2-1. One of the K.C. kiddie corps, twenty-year old Jim hunter was named to the 1966 All-Star squad. Appearing in thirty ballgames, the hurler was the second most active man on the pitching staff. Jim topped the Athletics' squad with 103 strikeouts and finished second on the staff in complete ballgames.

2007 UD GOUDEY 54 CARD LOT on E-bay

2008-06-29T15:08:00.000-07:00

I bought these 2007 Upper Deck Goudey 54 Card Lot on E-bay
I got 30 Green-backs including Goudey heads up short print of CARLTON FISK. Yeah!!!!!!
I also got ROOKIES OF DELMON YOUNG AND BILL PERKINS.

Cards from Tribecards

2008-06-27T18:33:00.000-07:00

I received some great cards from Tribe Cards. I picked David up something at a garage sale a while back so now, I guess I will have to send it to him now. At first I had a hard time trying to figure out which card to make the feature card out of the selection from Tribe cards. But when I seen this Storm Davis 1990 Classic card I picked it. This past Wednesday Evening I was going through my Royals Cards when I noticed my 1990 Storm Davis card had a crease in it. Then low and behold I get one in the mail. Thanks David for the great cards!

1974 topps Ed Kirkpatrick #262
1979 Topps Joe Zdeb #389
2008 Topps Miguel Olivo#441
2008 Topps Matt Tupman #534
2007 Topps Opening Day David DeJesus #162
2007 Topps Opening Day Ryan Braun #169
2002 Topps Raul Ibanez #458
2008 Upper Deck Spectrum Alex Gordon
2007 Fleer Mark Teahen #24
1992 O pee chiee George Brett
2004 Donruss Team Heroes Amos Otis
2004 Donruss Impact Jermaine Dye
1996 Topps Finest Prodigies Sal Fasano
2007 Fleer Joey Gathright
1989 Fleer Baseballs Exciting Stars Kevin Seitzer
1982 Fleer Rance Mulliniks
2005 Donruss Mike MacDougal
1989 Donruus Diamond Kings Kevin Seitzer
2008 Upper Deck Joel Peralta#255
2002 Fleer Angel Berroa #206
1995 Pinacle Bob Hamelin #4
1983 topps Runs Batted in Leaders Hal McRae #703
1991 Collectabooks George Brett #28
1992 The Baseball Enquirer George Brett
1996 Classic Kevin Appier
1995 Upper Deck Collectors Choice Jim Pittsley
1994 Upper Deck Sp Kevin Appier
2005 Donruss Signature George Brett
2007 Topps 52 Ryan Braun#96
1990 Classic Storm Davis #T15
Willie Wilson Pin
1993 BAT Card Upper Deck Dennis Leonard
1993 Bat Card Upper Deck Buddy Biancalana

26 years today

2008-06-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

Where most women have closet full of shoes and clothing my wife has a closet full of baseball cards. The kitchen table is always full of baseball cards so full you can't even clear the table for food. However, my wife solved that problem she simply got a second table for the kitchen! I appreciate my wife and the 26 years of cards cluttering our house.

My 96 topps lot buy

2008-06-24T18:21:00.000-07:00

In the mid 1990's I decided that I didn't like where the hobby of ball card collecting was headed. I decided that I was only going to buy and collect cards from the 1970's or later. But having the true collectors blood and enjoying the hobby, I decided to start buying some of the new cards in the late 1990's. Well, I missed out on some years, one of the years I missed out on was 1996. So, I decided I wanted to buy a large lot of cards. I always liked opening vending boxes more than I did opening a wax box. I finally found a guy that was selling 466 , 1996 Topps cards on e-bay. The dealer said,"They would have a book value of $110." So, I thought this is too good to turn down. I got a lot of doubles of star players that I can use as trade bait with other traders. In my opinion, I missed out on a good looking card in 1996. Topps had good photography, and the picture takes up most of the card space without a lot of border, unlike the 2008 Topps. Anyway if you are wondering what the baseball cardman is doing, he is looking at and sorting his new 1996 Topps!

My first packs of 2008 Topps Series 2

2008-06-21T18:58:00.000-07:00

I bought 4 Value packs from Wal-Mart today of Series 2

I pulled this 2008 Topps GOLD Twins CRAIG MONROE Card!

The back of the card says: The Twins are confident Craig can return to his power-hitting form of 2006, when he led the Tigers in Home runs, then swatted five more in postseason. He is capable at all three outfield positions.

I like to read the back of cards, then see how real life turned. In real life when the Twins acquired outfielder Craig Monroe in the offseason, they asked the former starter for the Tigers to adjust to life on the bench as a pinch-hitter and occasional bat against left-handers. As of June the 19th Monroe is only hitting .208 in 120 at-bats.

In the 144 cards I pulled ,I also found 4 Royals cards. Yeah!!!!!!!!!

I must also add this is my "100th POST"

Free Cards from fyretiger

2008-06-17T17:41:00.000-07:00

fyretiger at Sports Card Forum posted this thread

"I've got a whole bunch of base that I don't really need and they're taking up a good amount of space. I'd be willing to give some away since I'm sure someone else could use them more than me. I can either fill set needs, or if there's a player/team you collect, I can just give an assortment. I am only giving away base cards! Most of them are from 2005 to 2008. I have cards from the following sets:08 Co-Signers08 Bowman08 Topps (Series 1)08 Spectrum08 Topps Opening Day08 Finest07 Bowman07 Bowman Draft 07 SP Rookie Edition 07 Spectrum07 SP Authentic 07 Topps (Series 1,2,UH)07 Future Stars07 Topps Opening Day07 Topps 52 Rookies06 Bowman06 Future Stars06 Special F/X05 Donruss Champions and a few singles from the 80s-90s.Since these are going to be free, I'm going to ask that you be fair in the number of cards you ask for. Also, please don't request Jeter, Pujols, Griffey, A-Rod, Bonds, or other huge stars, since they tend to book considerably higher. I don't mind giving you one of their cards, but I will not fill an envelope of them. If you would like to make a request, I will require that you send me a SASE (PWE or bubble, it's up to you) with a note of what you'd like or what set needs we had agreed upon, and if you'd like, a toploader (note that this adds to the weight, and so I won't be able to give you as many cards for the same postage). I will fill the envelope to the amount of postage that you've added. If there is not enough postage on the envelope, I will NOT send it back!If you're looking for set needs, please post them here and I'll check what I have. If you just want a certain player/team, send me a PM and I'll tell you where to send the SASE.Please, one request per person. Thanks!"
Well this sounded so good and times are rough with gas being $4.00 plus a gallon so I took her up on her offer. I am pleased to say that she really gave me some great cards and it was a fantastic offer! This Mark Teahen is just one of the many cards she sent.
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Reggie Sanders 2006 Upper Deck#32

Mike Sweeney 2007 Upper Deck Sp #71

Mark Teahen 2007 Upper Deck SP#72

Elmer Dessens 2006 Upper Deck #642

Mark Teahen 2006 Topps Opening Day #71

Mark Redman 2006 Topps Opening Day #155

David DeJesus 2006 Topps Opening Day #162

Mike Sweeney 2007 SP Authentic #71

Gil Meche 2007 SP Authentic #70

Mark Teahen SP Authentic #72

Mark Teahen 2007 Bowman Chrome #116

Gil Meche 2008 Topps Co Signers#073

Mark Grudzielanek 2008 Topps #222

David DeJesus 2008 Topps #208

Zack Greinke 2008 Topps #46

Alex Gordon 2008 Topps Opening Day#147

David DeJesus 2008 Topps Opening Day # 92

Brain Bannister 2008 Topps Opening Day #166

Zack Greinke 2008 Topps Opening Day #21

Elmer Dessens 2006 Upper Deck #642

David De Jesus 2008 Co Signers#084

Thank you fyretiger

I remember "Bo Knows... "

2008-06-11T20:23:00.000-07:00

I never thought there would be a time that I would find this card in the commons bin. Living around Kansas City in the late 1980's and early 1990's Bo Jackson cards were a "Hot Item!" Now, you find them in the commons bin pretty regularly. My favorite memory of Bo with the Royals

is the play they call the "Wall Walk." Jackson performed his famous "wall run", when he caught a ball approximately 2-3 strides away from the wall. As he caught the ball at full tilt, Jackson looked up and noticed the wall and began to run up the wall, one leg reaching higher as he ascended. He ran along the wall almost parallel to the ground, and came down with the catch, to avoid impact and the risk of injury from the fence. What other people don't remember about that play is right before that he dropped an easy fly ball, I was so mad at him. In all my years of watching baseball and football I have never been so mad at a guy at one moment and at the next moment go Wow! I really enjoyed openeing a pack and getting a Bo Jackson card, because in the old days I could have traded them for something really good.

Jr. 600th

2008-06-09T19:07:00.001-07:00

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
Ken Griffey hit his 600th homer today! I remember when Upper Deck

came out and made his card the #1 card. Everybody was crazy about Upper Deck and they were even more crazy about the Ken Griffey Jr. card. I really thought he would get to the 600th homerun long before now. But when he went to Cincinnati he just couldn't stay healthy.

Royals I have traded for in the 25 Royals for your team

2008-06-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of Royals cards I got in trades.This is the first group I will post.They are from the 70's
Galen Cisco 1968 Topps #211
Dave Morehead 1969 Topps #29
Pat Kelly 1970 Topps #57,Al Fitzmorris & Scott Northey 1970 Topps #241 ,
Dick Drago 1971 Topps #37,Strikout Leaders Bob Johnson 1971 Topps #71,Aurelio Monteagudo 1971 Topps #129,Jackie Hernandez 1971 Topps #144,Tom Burgmeier 1971 Topps #431,Joe Keough 1971 Topps #451
Bob Oliver 1972 Topps #57,Paul Schaal in action 1972 Topps #178,Paul Splittorff 1972 Topps #315,Al Fitzmorris 1972 Topps #349,John Mayberry 1972 Topps #373,
,Cookie Rojas 1973 Topps #188,Freddie Joe Patek 1973 Topps #334,Dal Canton 1973 Topps #487
Kansas City Royals Team Checklist Topps 1974,Robert Floyd 1974 Topps #41,Amos Otis 1974 Topps #65,Freddie Patek 1974 Topps #88,John Mayberry 1974 Topps #150Jack McKeon 1974 Topps #166 Managers card,Al Fitzmorris 1974 Topps #191,Fran Healy 1974 Topps #238,Steve Busby 1974 Topps #365Royals Team Cards 1974 Topps #343,Marty Pattin 1974 Topps #583
Nelson Briles 1974 Topps Traded #123T,Fernando Gonzalez 1974 Topps Traded #649T
Steve Busby 1975 Topps MINI #120
Alan Fitzmorris 1975 Topps #24 ,Freddy Patek 1975 Topps # 48James Wohlford 1975 Topps #144 Octavio Rojas 1975 Topps # 169Francis Healy 1975 Topps # 251Harold McRae 1975 Topps # 268Vada Pison 1975 Topps # 295John Martinez 1975 Topps #314 Paul Splittorff 1975 Topps # 340James Bird 1975 Topps #364 Martin Pattin 1975 Topps #413 Al Cowens 1975 Topps #437 John Bruce 1975 Topps # 472Nelson Briles 1975 Topps # 495Stephan Mingori 1975 Topps # 544Frank White 1975 Topps #569 Joseph Hoerner 1975 Topps # 629Lyndall McDaniel 1975 Topps # 652
Paul Splittorff 1976 Topps #43,Tony Solaita 1976 Topps #121,Al Fitzmorris 1976 Topps #144,Freddy Patek 1976 Topps #167,Steve Busby 1976 Topps #260,Jim Wohlford 1976 Topps #286,Cookie Rojas 1976 Topps #311,Dennis Leonard 1976 Topps #334,Frank White 1976 Topps #369,Vada Pinson 1976 Topps #415,John Mayberry 1976 Topps #440,Marty Pattin 1976 Topps #492,Amos Otis 1976 Topps #510,Dave Nelson 1976 Topps #535,Steve Mingori 1976 Topps #541,Steve Grilli, Craig Mitchell, Jose Sosa, George Throop 1976 Topps #591,Buck Martinez 1976 Topps #616,Al Cowens 1976 Topps #648
Mark Littell 1977 Topps #141Andy Hassler 1977 Topps #602Marty Pattin 1977 Topps #658
Darrell Porter 1978 Topps #19Pete Lacock 1978 Topps #157Marty Pattin 1978 Topps #218Frank White 1978 Topps #248John Wathan 1978 Topps #343Joe Lahoud 1978 Topps #382Joe Zdeb 1978 Topps #408Amos Otis 1978 Topps #490Paul Splittorff 1978 Topps #638Dennis Leonard 1978 Topps #665
Larry Gura 1979 Topps #19,Jamie Quirk 1979 Topps #26,Steve Mingori 1979 Topps #72,John Wathan 1979 Topps #99 ,Marty Pattin 1979 Topps #129,Paul Splittorff 1979 Topps #183 ,Jerry Terrell 1979 Topps #273,Willie Nelson 1979 Topps #409,Al Cowens 1979 Topps #490,Clint Hurdle 1979 Topps #547,Darrell Porter 1979 Topps #571,Doug Bird 1979 Topps #664

1976 Topps All-time All-Stars

2008-06-06T17:06:00.000-07:00

In 1976 I was real happy when I opened a pack of topps and got an all-time great card! At the time Walter Johnson, was the all-time strike out king. He is now 9th on the list. The all-time great cards after 32 years are still on the top of my list of best cards to have. They helped me to learn about the "Old Great Ball Players" and their statistics, which is why I like them the best. 1976 was also the first time I ever opened a cello pack.

In Defense of The Big Unit

2008-06-04T19:48:00.000-07:00

Wax Heaven wrote a story about Randy Johnson not being much of an upgrade. I realize that Randy Johnson is no Nolan Ryan. When I was a young boy, Nolan Ryan was my hero with his blazing fast ball and his ability to strike out batters! But baseball in the 1990's and into the new mellinium would have been very boring without the "Big Unit" in a time when baseball was all about the hitter and not about the pitcher, he made the game fun to watch.

2008 Topps Opening Day Cards

2008-06-01T19:58:00.001-07:00

Kevin Kouzmanoff is the only person in history to hit a grand slam on the very first pitch in his MLB career, which he did on September 2, 2006

Links Exchange

2008-05-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since I have had a link exchange but now I have two good ones. The first is Babe Ruth Cards, the writer is Andrew, he e-mailed and said that "Since I can't afford many of his old cards I thought I'd at least try to build a site that profiles them. " I can relate to Andrew and his affordability.

The second link exchange is baseballcardref its writer is Cliff. Cliff has been one of my biggest supporters/ commenter's since I have begun posting. Cliff states,"My collecting goal is to own as many different cards as I can find. Base cards, inserts, subsets, auto cards, relic cards and odd-ball cards. I love them all. I have an extensive database of cards with scans and as much set information as I can find. So this blog will present my baseball card collection from 1980 to present." thanks Andrew and Cliff!

1990 topps

2008-05-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

I haven't had much of a chance to do much blogging! I haven't had much time, with poltics, work and my sixteen year old daughter wrecking my car. I thought I would use my namesake Bart Giamatti as much as I like Pete Rose, I thought Bart was a great commissioner. The reason I always liked him is that he was tough and he thought more of the fans then he thought of the players and the owners.
Born in Boston, MA on April 4, 1938, Giamatti attended Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in English in 1960. Giamatti went on to receive a Ph.D. from Yale in Comparative Literature in 1964
The Back of the card say's
"It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer ,filling the afternoons and evenings and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it, buffer the pasesage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high shies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most it goes...... And summer {is}gone"
A. Bartlett Giamatti
The Green Fields of the Mind

Steve Carlton

2008-05-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

Cliff at http://www.capewood.blogspot.com/ said he was interested in post career Steve Carlton cards (as a Phillie). Cliff, I found this Playoff Portraits 2003 #119 of Steve Carlton.

Back of Card says:"Lefty" paved his path to the Hall of Fame by staying in top condition and staying on top of hitters with laser-guided control of his lethel slider. The four-time Cy Young winner collected 329 wins, 4,136 Ks and two Worlds Series rings in a career that spanned three decades.

Cliff, I am also still looking for other cards too.

Trade with Arnelo

2008-05-04T06:41:00.000-07:00

Trade with Arnelo at Sportcardforum.

Giveup-
1999 Topps Kobe Bryant
2004 Upper Deck SP Spectaculars Allen Iverson #99
2000 Topps Topps Finest Jason Kidd #None
2001 Upper Deck Upper Realm Kobe Bryant #UR4
2001 Upper Deck Pure Basketball Kobe Bryant #pb4

What I got-

1989 Capn Crunch George Brett #9

1990 Post Jim Abbott #13

1990 Post Robin Yount #26

1990 Topps Bernie Williams RC #701

1909 Upper Deck TY Cobb Reprint

My Carlton Fisk Collections

2008-04-27T19:45:00.000-07:00

This is a list of all my Carlton fisk cards if you can help out my collection with a card I do not have please let me know.

1972 Topps Carlton Fisk #79
1973 Topps Carlton Fisk #193
1974 Topps Carlton Fisk #105
1975 Topps Carlton Fisk #80
1976 Hostess Carlton Fisk
1976 Topps Carlton Fisk #365
1977 Hostess Carlton Fisk #104
1977 Topps Carlton Fisk #640
1978 Topps Carlton Fisk #270
1979 Topps Carlton Fisk #680
1980 Topps Carlton Fisk #40
1981 Donruss Carlton Fisk #335
1981 Fleer Carlton Fisk #224
1981 Topps Carlton Fisk #480
1982 Donruss Carlton Fisk #495
1982 Donruss Donruss Diamond Kings Carlton Fisk #20
1982 Fleer Carlton Fisk #334
1982 Topps Carlton Fisk #110
1982 Topps Carlton Fisk #111
1982 Topps Carlton Fisk #554
1982 Topps Drake's Big Hitters Carlton Fisk #12
1982 Visual Panographics INC. Kelloggs 3-D Cards Carlton Fisk #25
1983 Donruss Carlton Fisk #104
1983 Fleer Carlton Fisk #20
1983 Fleer Carlton Fisk #638
1983 Topps Carlton Fisk #20
1983 Topps Carlton Fisk #393
1984 Donruss Carlton Fisk #302
1984 Donruss Donruss Champions Carlton Fisk #52
1984 Fleer Carlton Fisk #58
1984 Fleer Fleer Star Sticker Carlton Fisk #39
1984 Topps Carlton Fisk #216
1984 Topps Carlton Fisk #560
1984 Topps Ralston Puina Company Carlton Fisk #33
1985 Donruss Carlton Fisk #208
1985 Fleer Carlton Fisk #513
1985 Leaf Carlton Fisk #155
1985 O-pee-cee Carlton Fisk #49
1985 Topps Carlton Fisk #1
1985 Topps Carlton Fisk #170
1986 Donruss Carlton Fisk #396
1986 Fleer Carlton Fisk #204
1986 Fleer Fleer Mini Carlton Fisk #43
1986 Fleer Fleer Sticker Cards Carlton Fisk #38
1986 Sportflics Carlton Fisk #125
1986 Topps Carlton Fisk #290
1986 Topps Carlton Fisk #719
1986 Topps Carlton Fisk #E
1986 Topps Min-Leaders Carlton Fisk #11
1986 Topps Topps Tiffany Al Leaders Carlton Fisk #719
1986 Topps Topps Tiffany Carlton Fisk #290
1986 Topps Topps All-star Carlton Fisk #9
1986 Topps Topps All-star Set Carlton Fisk #28
1987 Classic Carlton Fisk #41
1987 Donruss Carlton Fisk #247
1987 Donruss Donruss Open Day Carlton Fisk #232
1987 Fleer Carlton Fisk #496
1987 Fleer Fleer Limted Edtion Carlton Fisk #8
1987 Leaf Carlton Fisk #199
1987 Topps Carlton Fisk #756
1987 Topps Topps Tiffany Carlton Fisk #756
1988 Donruss Carlton Fisk #260
1988 Donruss Donruss Baseball Best Carlton Fisk #67
1988 Fleer Carlton Fisk #397
1988 Score Carlton Fisk #592
1988 Sportflics Carlton Fisk #43
1988 Topps Carlton Fisk #385
1988 Topps Big Topps Carlton Fisk
1989 Baseball Cards Magazine Carlton Fisk #56
1989 Bowman Carlton Fisk #62
1989 Donruss Carlton Fisk#101
1989 Fleer Carlton Fisk #495
1989 Score Carlton Fisk #449
1989 Topps Carlton Fisk #695
1989 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #609
1990 Baseball Cards Magazine Carlton Fisk #46
1990 Bowman Carlton Fisk#314
1990 Donruss Carlton Fisk #58
1990 Donruss Carlton Fisk #BC-19
1990 Donruss Donruss Baseball Best Carlton Fisk #5
1990 Donruss Donruss Highlights Carlton Fisk #BC-6
1990 Fleer Carlton Fisk #530
1990 Leaf Carlton Fisk #10
1990 Score Carlton Fisk #290
1990 Score Pinnacle The Idols Carlton Fisk #301
1990 Score Score Master Carlton Fisk #9
1990 Score Super Star Carlton Fisk
1990 Topps Carlton Fisk #170
1990 Topps Carlton Fisk #392
1990 Topps Big Topps Carlton Fisk #176
1990 Topps Hills Hit Man Carlton Fisk #29
1990 Topps Kaybee Kings Carlton Fisk #12
1990 Topps Min-SuperStars Carlton Fisk #55
1990 Topps Topps All-star Set Carlton Fisk #46
1990 Topps Woolworth Carlton Fisk #39
1990 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #367
1990 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #677
1991 Ballstreet Carlton Fisk #47
1991 Baseball Cards Magazine Carlton Fisk #53
1991 Donruss Carlton Fisk #108
1991 Fleer Carlton Fisk #118
1991 Fleer Fleer Ultra Carlton Fisk #72
1991 King B Carlton Fisk #22
1991 Leaf Carlton Fisk #384
1991 Leaf Leaf 1991 Preview Card Carlton Fisk #16
1991 Leaf Studio Carlton Fisk #32
1991 O-pee-cee Premier Carlton Fisk #45
1991 Score Carlton Fisk #265
1991 Score Carlton Fisk #421
1991 Score Super Star Carlton Fisk #41
1991 Topps Carlton Fisk #170
1991 Topps Carlton Fisk #3
1991 Topps Carlton Fisk #393
1991 Topps Box Carlton Fisk #F
1991 Topps Stadium Club Members Carlton Fisk #None
1991 Topps Stadium Club 1991 Allstar Game Carlton Fisk #49
1991 Topps Stadium Club Carlton Fisk #180
1991 Topps Stadium Club Charter Members Carlton Fisk #None
1991 Topps Topps Magazine Carlton Fisk #41
1991 Topps Woolworth Collectors Series Carlton Fisk #12
1991 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #29
1991 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #643
1992 BB Card Monthly Carlton Fisk #7
1992 Bowman Carlton Fisk#585
1992 Donruss Carlton Fisk #543
1992 Donruss Donruss Triple Play Carlton Fisk #149
1992 Fleer Carlton Fisk #79
1992 Fleer Fleer Ultra Carlton Fisk #33
1992 Fleer Team Leaders Carlton Fisk #4
1992 Leaf Carlton Fisk #303
1992 Leaf Heritage Series Carlton Fisk #BC-2
1992 Pinnacle Carlton Fisk #361
1992 Score Carlton Fisk #72
1992 Score Super Star Carlton Fisk #72
1992 Topps Carlton Fisk #630
1992 Topps Stadium Club Carlton Fisk #480
1992 Topps Topps Gold Carlton Fisk #630
1992 Topps Topps Gold Winner Carlton Fisk #692
1992 Upper Deck Carlton Fisk #571
1993 Score Carlton Fisk #579
1993 Score Score Select Carlton Fisk #76
1993 Topps Stadium Club Carlton Fisk #221
2001 Topps Topps Chrome Carlton Fisk #661
2005 Upper Deck Uppper Deck Classic Materials Carlton Fisk #MA-FI

Chipper Jones

2008-04-19T18:53:00.001-07:00

Score 1997

Fleer Ultra 1999 RBI Kings

Private Stock 1999 #9

Upper Deck 1998 #300

Upper Deck Predictor (Never been scratched) 1997

Bowman Chrome 1997

Upper Deck All Star collectors Choice 1997

Pinnacle New Generation 1994

Fleer Ultra Raw Power 1996

Trade with matt_curren

2008-04-19T14:32:00.000-07:00

I made a Great Trade with matt_curren at Sports Card Forum !!!!!!Matt trade me Royals for Red Sox/Tigers/Yankees. All years, 80's up he give me 2-1 on the cards - meaning I got 186 Royals for 96 Tigers,Red Sox,Yankees .
It was Great Fun going though 186 Royals Cards!!! Thanks Matt

Hockey for Baseball

2008-04-14T18:02:00.000-07:00

I am Trading these Hockey cards for Baseball Cards. Make a offer!
Patrick Roy Topps Gold label 1999 #77
Joe Thornton 2004 in the Game#35
Rynn Miller 2004 in the Game #80
Teemu Selanne 2004 in the Game #13
Alexander Frolov 2004 in the Game #3

Golf for Baseball Trade

2008-04-12T14:33:00.000-07:00

My blogging has been a little slim here lately! I just made a trade on Sportscardforum for this Carlton Fisk Card. I had bought a whole bunch of cards at a sale a few years back there was everything in them. The cards were mixed there were Football, Baseball, Basketball and there were even some Golf cards. Now, being a baseball card collector I know not a thing about golf cards! So, I put them up on Sportscardforum, "Golf cards for Baseball cards." I finally made a trade for this 2003 Carlton Fisk Diamond King. I think it is a GREAT TRADE! Thank You, huckler731 for making this trade!
Baseballcardman

Darrell Porter

2008-04-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

Darrell Porter Obit

Monday afternoon, August 5th, 2002 Darrell was taken from this world and delivered to our loving God and his son Jesus Christ. Darrell's faith saved many of us.Darrell was very easy to sit down and talk to. His knack of making you feel as if you had been a friend of his for years was a talent many of us wish we had. Darrell will always be remembered for his clutch performances with the Cardinals and Royals. But we will miss Darrell more for his impact on our lives after the game.We will also remember Darrell for the many charities he helped. His time at those events will be remembered by his laughter, stories and the many people that were assisted by his involvement. Darrell will definitely be missed. Why?? To paraphrase Darrell, "Because he was that darn Good!"
Darrell began his career when he signed a professional baseball contract with the Milwaukee Brewers after they made him their number one draft choice in the 1970 June free agent draft. Darrell played for the Brewers for six years and then was traded to the Kansas City Royals during the winter of 1976. Although he was selected as an All-Star in 1974 as a Brewer, it was in Kansas City that he began to come into his own. Darrell immediately became a leader on the great Royals teams of the 70's era. His fierce intensity, and hustle became his trademark, and made him a fan favorite. He was selected to the All-Star team three of the four years he was a Royal. In 1979, he joined Mickey Cochran as the only other catcher in history to have 100 Walks, 100 Runs, and 100 RBI's in a single season. In 1981, Darrell signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Cardinals. His experience and leadership were key ingredients in the Cardinals resurgence as factors in the National League Championship Series, and the 1982 World Series

Ken Griffey Jr. for trade

2008-04-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

I have this Ken Griffey Jr. for Trade.

Back of the cards say's:One of the smoothest players ever to grace the Game, Griffey has 10 Gold Glove awards and 4 home run titles to his credit. His 593 career HRs are sixth highest in ML History.

National Baseball Card Day Giveway

2008-04-06T09:41:00.000-07:00

My Son ,Trevor had a nice surprise for Me!!

He must have went to a hobby store .

The story below came from here

If you've ever spent hours gazing at the baseball cards in a store display window or dealt with your mom screaming because your collection was taking up too much room, then take note: National Baseball Card Day will be held on March 29.
Each pack will contain five base cards from Topps, five base cards from Upper Deck, one chase card from Topps, one chase card from Upper Deck, and one informational card.

Participating hobby stores will also hand out free packs on National Baseball Card Day, as will stadiums that are hosting some of the final exhibition games before the regular season gets under way.
"We're very excited about National Baseball Card Day," said Evan Kaplan, category director, trading cards and memorabilia for the Major League Baseball Players Association. "Building a baseball card collection is a great way to kick off the 2008 season."
Observing the tradition of card collecting with an official day makes sense. Baseball cards have been part of the American culture for a long time. They were around before the Star Spangled Banner became the National Anthem. They were around before the car was invented. They were even around before the formation of Major League Baseball.

Sports Card Forum Trade

2008-04-05T18:50:00.000-07:00

I have these base Twins cards that I will trade for 25 base Royals cards. All cards are Nmt

Sports Card Forum Trade

1.2006 Topps Lew Ford#334 2.2006 Topps Rondell White#576 3. 2007 topps Joe Nathan#179 4. 2002 Topps Minnesota Twins Team Card#657 5.1999 Topps Stadium club-Todd Walker#235 6. 2004 Donruss Studio -Jason Kubel#115 7. 2004 Donruss Studio- Johan Santana#116 8. 2004 Donruss Studio- J.D. Durbin#113 9. 2004 Donruss Studio- Shannon Stewart#117 10.2002 Upperdeck Victory-Doug Mientkiewicz#185 11.2002 Upperdeck Victory-Matt LeRoy#188 12.2002 Upperdeck Victory-LeRoy Hawkins#199 13.2004 Donruss Studio-Jacque Jones#114 14.2001 Topps Traded-Jason Richardson #t245 15.2001 Topps Traded-Jeff Randazzo #t245 16.1998 Bowman-Mark Redman #210 17.1998 Bowman -Brad Radke #13 18.2001 Upperdeck SPX- Eric Milton #31 19. 2002 fleer- Criston Guzmen #42 20. 2001 Topps Heritage -Adam Johnson#150 21.1999 Stadium Club-Eric Milton #182 22. 2001 Bowman Heritage-Jeff Randazzo #204 23. 2001 Fleer Premium- Brad Radke #187 24.1997 Bowman-Mark Redman#126 25. 1997 Bowman-TorII Hunter#176

Robin Yount Collect a Book Series A 1990

2008-03-25T21:05:00.000-07:00

Robin Says:
" Managers sometimes try to change the styles of hitters. That's OK as long as they don't make the hitters so uncomfortable that they end up hurting the team more than helping it"

Alex Fernandez 1991 TM40 Card

2008-03-24T19:42:00.001-07:00

Back of the card say's
The route Alex Fernandez took to the majors is a unusual one. The son of Cuban immigrants, he grew up in Miami,starred at Pace High and was a member of the 1987 USA junior national team that finished second to Cuba at the World Junior Tournament. In 88 he was a first- round draft pick of the Brewers but opted to attend the University of Miami, where he had a tremendous 89 season - 15 W, 2 L, 2.01 ERA- and was named Baseball America's freshmen of the Year.Alex then transferred to a junior college, Miami-Dade Communtity College South, so he could be eligible for the 1990 draft.(ML rules don'tallow college players to be drafted until after their junior year.) After a super 12-2, 1.19juco season, he was the #1 pick of the White Sox. He had a brief stint in the minors, made his ML debut August 2 and went 5-5 3.80 in the heat of Chicago's pennant race. The first-year pro ended 1990 on an ironic note as the winner of the Gold Spikes Award ,given to the nation's top amateur player.

Trade with Brain

2008-03-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

Just complete a trade with Brain who lives in Canada.We trade Royals for Mets.Thanks Brain

I got 1985 Topps Collectors Series Willie Wilson& Dan Quisenberry

91Fleer Ultra Jim Eisenreich,Tom Gordon,Mark Gubicza,Kevin Appier,Jeff Conine,Brian McRae,Brent Mayne,Terry Shumpert,Kevin Seitzer,Jeff Montgomery,Bret Saberhagen

2007 Topps Heritage Neifi Perez

2001 Topps Heritage Mark Quinn

1991 Score Gerald Perry,Bret Saberhagen,Mark Davis,JIm Eisienreich, Jeff Schulz,Mel Stottlemyre, JR.,Brent Mayme,Tom Gordon, Steve Jeltz, Bo Jaskson ,George Brett

1988 Topps Bo Jaskson

1988 Fleer George Brett

1990 Upper Deck George Brett,Bo Jaskson,Bo Jaskson Team Card,Steve Farr

1989 Fleer George Brett

Nlolan Ryan Lithograph

2008-03-06T18:44:00.000-08:00

This a lithograph by local Rich Hill, Missouri Artist Bob Schlyer. He used Baseball Cards for the original painting. Can you tell what cards he used?

Trade with RonG

2008-03-04T21:14:00.000-08:00

I got a lot of neat cards today in a package from Ron G. I am going to post moreof them later. The card i thought was the neatest was this Tombstone Pizza card of Jeff Montgomery. I never had seen these cards before. Thanks Ron!

Royals

2008-03-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

Here is another card from Stats on the back.
I am up to 1027 Royals Cards. But I am out of Braves and Mets Cards.

I bought a bonus box of 2008 Topps series 1 at Wal-Mart

2008-03-02T15:32:00.000-08:00

I bought a bonus box of 2008 Topps series 1 at Wal-Mart this weekend. Most of you already know you get 5 packs and a bonus 3 card pack. Along with this Ichiro I got 2 other Dick Perez cards. I have been reading a lot of baseball card bloggs where everyone is talking about the insert cards. I go through moods sometimes I like insert cards sometimes I don't. It is just hard for me to pay $2 for a pack of 10 cards which averages out to .20 a card. I am from the old school, I like the regular base set cards but when you go to these web-sites to do trading and stuff they will always want to know what you have for insert cards to trade. Now, this is when I like to get insert cards, when I can trade them. As I debate what I am trying to say in this blogg is I guess I dream of the day when I used to buy a whole pack of cards for a dime. I guess those days are long gone! The Perez cards are nice looking!

Trade with Stats on the back

2008-03-01T17:53:00.000-08:00

Wow another GREAT TRADE!!! I am getting spoiled! Never in all my years of trading with dealers have I ever made so many good trades as I have with all the traders on-line bloggers. My most recent trade was with Mark partner on Stats on the back blogger. Mark is one of the first ones to make a comment on my blogg. He says he reads my blogg everyday and I appreciate that greatly! Thanks Mark. Blogg story, In 1976 I made a trade with a guy he took all my 1974 Topps checklists which had the name of the team & players like the card pictured here in this blogg. Through-out all my years of trading they never got replaced then a couple of weeks ago I decided I would find a replacement for it on e-bay and for some strange reason I decided Na and then Mark sent me one. The following cards are what I recieved from Mark in my trade:
1974 Topps Traded Nelson Briles
!974 Topps Traded Fernando Gonzalez
1974 Topps Fran Healy
1969 Topps Dave Morehead
1972 topps Paul Schaal in Action
1971 Topps Strikeout Leaders has Bob Johnson
2008 Topps Mark Grudzielanek
1970 Topps Dick Drago
1973 Topps Paul Splittorff
2006 Bazooka Justin Huber
2004 Fleer Angel Berroa
2007 Bowman Heritage Nick Van Stratten
2003 Donruss Michael Tucker
2006 Fleer Steve Stemle
2006 Fleer Angel Berroa
2005 Upperdeck Jimmy Serro
1992 Leaf Studio Wally Joyner
1992 Panani Brett Saberhagen
1990 Score rising superstar Danny Tartabull
1987 Fleer Lonnie Smith
1995 Upperdeck Collector's Choice Jose Lind
2005 Topps Total Terrance Long
2004 Upperdeck Rated Rookie Stephan Andrade
2004 Stadium access Angel Berroa
2006 Bowman David DeJesus
2007 Topps Turkey Red Mark Teahen
2004 Upperdeck star Rookies Jorge Vasquez
1988 Kmart Memorable Moments George Brett
1982 Fleer All-Star Infielders Frank White & Bucky Dent
1988 Topps Mini Brett Saberhagen
1988 Topps Mini Super-Star George Brett
2007 Bowman Chrome Luke Hochevar
1988 Coin Jim Rooker
1985 Donruss Post Card size George Brett
1985 Donruss Post Card size Dan Quisenberry
1988 Topps Mini Frank White
Big Post Card Size Sticker card Tom Gordon Luis De Los Santos
1 un-opened Topps Wax Pack 1986

When I started my baseball card blogg there were 2 things I wasn't going to discuss on it, they were my faith and politics. Well just a few days ago when I received a Truman card I broke my rule and discussed politics. Well now I am going to discuss my faith. It seems like there is some kind of higher power making sure I don't get to many doubles. It seems like a would be missing a few different Royals from different to complete my royals sets and those are the cards I have been getting in my trades. Wow! Amazing ......

2008 Topps

2008-02-28T19:46:00.000-08:00

Yeah! I finally opened my first pack of 2008 Topps! What am I two three weeks behind everybody else? I was actually trying to hold out until I could make it to a card shop to buy a hobby box. But they are such a long way away I decided to go by Wal-Mart and buy some packs. Pretty sad they don't even sell packs of ball cards in the town where I live. I guess the 2008 Topps base set is okay but, definitely not on my all time favorite list. I did like this Jimmy Rollins card I posted, the 50th anniversy of the All-Star rookies. Hopefully, I will buy a hobby box soon then I may have something to really talk about. Baseballcardman

Cards from Topps Trader

2008-02-27T17:10:00.000-08:00

I want to thank Topps Trader for sending me 19 - 1975 Royals cards. I was really happy to receive them! First of all the 1975 Topps is my favorite year of cards. I have a complete set of 1975 Topps but I did not want to break into them to get my Royals. I want to really thank Jeramiah because he just gave me these cards for posting his site on my blogg. In 1975 I was really into collecting cards this brings back a lot of good memories. I remember Busby was a great pitcher until he had arm trouble. Thanks again, Jeramiah who is the Topps Trader.

Harry Truman

2008-02-26T20:00:00.000-08:00

I want to thank cardboardjunkie for giving me this Harry Truman card in our trade. Eventhough, I don't think he every played for the Royals (LOL). Nevertheless, he was a President from Missouri and he was born about 30 minutes from where I live. I am also a big fan of Truman! I try to keep my political views seperate from this blogg. But this is an exception to my rule. I really like the card! I try to be a card collector in the same way Harry was president. I am constantly trying to build my collection to my perfection. Thanks again Dave, I loved all the cards!

Beckett February 1992

2008-02-25T18:11:00.000-08:00

Since Beckett is changing the way they do things and I have an attic full of old Becketts. I thought I would pick one out every now and then and write about it. When I look at the old magazines I wonder where it ever went wrong? As you can see on this cover there is a picture of Ozzie Smith. There is a story in the front of this Beckett about how the readers of the Beckett donated 2,000,000 cards for a Cards For Kids Program. A couple of pages over there is a story about Rookie Jeff Bagwell and how he won National Laegue Rookie of the Year. The pictures are so big and the stories are so well written. The main reason I picked this magazine out is for the story named,"In the Defense of Defense." This story talks about how collectors snub Defensive Players and fans don't always appreciate them. The story goes on to tell about how important good defensive players are in a game and it has a lot of pictures of great defensive players and their cards. I always liked the price guides in the Old Becketts. I almost don't need my bi-focals to read the prices! Each make and year has a picture of one of the cards so you can tell what the cards look like. Then you get to the section called "The Readers Write!. " You guessed it, this is where readers write questions or comments and the Writers for the Beckett make comments on the stories/ comments from the readers. On the back cover there is a big picture of Jeff Bagwell. I still enjoy looking at these old magazines like I said, the stories are well written, the pictures are great! I am still wondering where it went wrong?

Eric Bryan Lindros

2008-02-24T18:50:00.000-08:00

This is a Score "Traded/Update" Baseball Card from 1990. However, Eric Lindros was a professional Ice Hockey player who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League. The hype around his career led to an exclusive deal with Score. Lindros took batting practice with the Toronto Blue Jays upon an invitation from the manager Cito Gaston. Attempting to leverage this arrangement with Score as much as possible, he was even featured on this baseball card. The card showes him as a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays although he never actually played baseball. He was only there taking batting practice one day. The reason I am posting this card is that this is another one of those cards that had a lot of "Hype" around it when it came out. The asking price from most dealers at card shows was $5.00 - $10.00. I came by this card when I bought a whole bunch of cards from a card dealer who was going out of business. While I was digging through the cards and found this one it reminded me, that I need to be patient when it comes to card collecting and wait until the "Hype" goes away before purchasing the card.

Trading with Indian Baseball Cards Always

2008-02-23T19:25:00.000-08:00

I am having great fun trading! I am now up to 961 Royals cards in my collection. What I am doing is a trade like this; You send me 25 Royals cards and I will send you 25 cards of the team you collect. If you would like to make a trade contact me bartm@ckt.net. Tonights trade is from Indian Baseball Cards Always. These are the cards I received in my trade from Indian Baseball Cards Always along with the 1986 Topps tattoos I never had seen them before was a nice surprise!
Thanks David, if it wasn't for you and Steve, I never would have started team collecting!
2005 Fleer Ken Harvey, 2002 Upperdeck Runelvys Hernandez, 2006 Fleer Tradition Steve Stemle, 2003 Upperdeck Mike Sweeney, 2003 Fleer Tradition Neifi Perez, 2003 Fleer Tradition Joe Randa, 1998 Pinnacle Inside Glendon Rush, 2003 Upperdeck Chuck Knoblauch, 2003 Fleer Double Header Jeff Suppan, 2004 Upperdeck Mike Sweeney, 2004 Vintage Upperdeck Jose Lima, 2003 Fleer Tradition Wes Obermueller, 2005 Donruss Angel Berroa, 2000 Upperdeck Jermaine Dye, 2000 Upperdeck Ultimate Victory Jermaine Dye, 2003 Topps Royals Team Picture, 2005 Topps Total Brian Andreson, 1997 Pinnacle Tom Goodwin, 2003 Topps Future Stars Angel Berroa & Alexis Gomez, 2004 Fleer Ultra Angel Berroa, 2002 Fleer Focus Mark Quinn, 2002 Upperdeck Chuck Noblauch, 1997 Score Pinnacle Rod Myors, 2005 Upperdeck Ken Harvey, 2002 Donruss Fan Club Mark Quinn,1986 Topps Tattoos. Just e-mail me, If you have any questions or to get a trade started. Thanks again, Baseballcardman

Trade with Drew

2008-02-23T00:09:00.000-08:00

This trade was with Drew. His e-mail said he had found my blogg and found it quite interesting. He told me how his collecting history was similar to mine. When I read his story I was surprised to see how close it was to mine. Drew is a collector of the Oakland A's and I collect Royals. I will be sending Drew's cards out tomorrow as I just got his address on the package today. Thanks Drew! The cards he sent to me in this trade are:1981 Fleer Darrell Porter, 1981 Fleer Clint Hurdle, 1981 Fleer Amos Otis, 1984 Topps Cesar Geronimo, 1984 Topps Manager Dick Howser, 1984 Mike Armstrong, 1984 Topps Paul Splittorff, 1983 Topps Dennis Leonard, 1983 Topps willie Wilson, 1983 Topps U.L. Washington, 1983 Topps Jerry Martin, 1983 Topps Frank White, 1983 Topps Batting Leader Willie Wilson & Pitching Leader Vida Blue, 1983 Topps Dan Quisenberry All Star Card, 1983 Topps Lee May, 1983 Topps Larry Gura, 1983 Topps Jamie Quirk, 1983 Topps Super Veteran Lee May, 1987 Donruss Frank White, 1987 Donruss Charlie Leibrandt. 1987 Donruss Mike Kingery, 1987 Donruss Greg Pryor, 1987 Topps Hal McRae, 1987 Topps Buddy Biancalana, 2002 Donruss Mike Sweeney. This was another good trade! Thanks, Drew!

Cardboard Junkie Cards

2008-02-22T17:13:00.000-08:00

Wow! When it rains it pours! I got four packages of cards today in the mail. I am going to list all four trades in four seperate posts. I am going to start off with Daivd at Cardboard Junkie. He has been like my mentor on this blogging. He is the first baseball card blogger I found. The blogg sight I found David was when he was endorsing Trade Mania. The first card I will start off with is the one I have posted here the 1972 Bob Oliver, his other he sent me were: 1968 Galen Cisco, 1979 Al Cowens, 1981 Donruss Dan Quisenberry, 1970 Topps Pat Kelly, 1974 Topps Freddy Patek, 1973 Topps Cookie Rojas, 1991 UpperDeck Gerald Perry, 1993 Fleer Kieth Miller, 1992 Topps Kevin Seitzer, 1971 Topps Jackie Hernandez, 1989 Topps All Star BO Jackson, 1994 Pinnacle Mike Macfarlane, 2008 UpperDeck Brian Bannister, 1994 Donruss Bob Hamelin, 1998 Fleer Jeff King, 1992 Fleer Ultra Kevin Appier, 2007 Topps Classic Combo Angel Berroa & Andres Blanco, 2003 Topps Heritage Rual Javier Ibanez, 2007 Bowman Heritage Alex Gordon, 2006 Bowman Heritage Alex Gordon, 2007 UpperDeck Angel Sanchez, 2006 Topps Kauffman Stadium, 2000 UpperDeck Jermaine Dye, 2007 Fleer Jose Diaz and an unopened- Major League George Brett All Stars Pop-Up Puzzle& Cards with a puzzle. 2007 Topps Distinguished Service Harry Truman I never pulled one last year! And the final card Kansas City Athletics Yeah! I love them. 1959 Bob Martyn! What a deal! This was an exceptionally GREAT Trade! Thanks to the Cardboard Junkie!

Jim Abbott

2008-02-21T18:38:00.000-08:00

Tonights card is the 1989 Topps Jim Abbott card. Like I have said before on this blogg, I do not like doubles as soon as I get a double I trade it off to get something I don't have. In 1989 I decided that I would try to see how many Jim Abbott cards I could get in my possession. I really have great admiration on how he has worked through his handicap. In 1989 I was doing construction work I got a job in East Lansing Michigan. I noticed they were having a card show on the weekend in Flint Michigan. So, I went to the show and started looking for Jim Abbott cards. I couldn't find any of his card anywhere at the show. I didn't ask but I couldn't find them. When I got home and started looking at this card I noticed that he was born and raised in Flint MI. I guess I should have noticed the Big M on his hat or Michigan on his Jersey. Anyway I never was the most observant dog in the woods. To this day in my collection Jim Abbott's 1989 Topps card is the only card I have numerous copies of side by side in my collection. I feel keeping the numerous copies is a tribute to Jim Abbott and his handicap.

Daniel Ray Ainge 1981 Donruss

2008-02-20T19:49:00.000-08:00

Before there was Bo there was Danny Ainge. Danny Ainge was a professional basketball and baseball player who played in the NBA for the Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and Phoenix Suns, and also in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays. He was really talented. He wasn't that good of a professional baseball player, but he was very young when he came up in the majors. The Celtics ended up buying out his baseball contract with the Blue Jays. Even when Danny got with the Celtics they claimed he wasn't that good. But he had so much talent and with hard work he ended up being a fairly decent player. It makes me wonder what would have happened if he would have stayed with baseball?

In 1981 Donruss lauched itself into the Baseball Market. The cards are printed on thin stock and more than one pose exists for several popular players.

Normally the baseballcardman

2008-02-19T18:56:00.000-08:00

I know this is a baseball card blogg so please forgive me for posting a football card tonight. However, I have a problem and maybe you can help my friend and I solve it. A friend of mine that I work with collects vintage football cards. he came to work one day and said that he had bought a Bronko Nagurski 1935 National Chicle on E-bay. I said, yeah right, knowing that this card brings several thousand dollars. He says, "No I payed $100 for it. The Ebay seller sold it as a reprint." I said, good grief, you payed $100 for a reprint?" He replied, "But I don't think it is a reprint" I replied, "Well whatever, I will have to see it to believe it." So, when he received the card, he brought it to work and showed it to me. I said, "This is an old card." "But it has a green back like a reprint. Instead of a blue back like the originals." Anyway he is going to have it graded. But I am just asking for your opinion to see what all of you think?" I wonder if just maybe the back has been in the sun and faded? I just don't know, give me your guess or thoughts on this."

I am very anxiously waiting to see what all of you have to say.

Thank you from,

Normally the baseballcardman

Interleague Play

2008-02-18T18:48:00.000-08:00

I would like to invite all of you to check out Capewood's Collections he has been blogging for a few weeks now. He has been a collector of baseball cards since 1985 and he talks about other things on his bloggs besides baseball cards. I became a member of the Bench it is one of the largest sports card trading communities online. Some of you may already be familiar with it but I just came across it yesterday. For tonights post of the Interleague Playing card, it is hard to believe it has been ten years since Topps brought them out. My son was playing pee-wee basketball I remember sitting in the stands while he was playing opening packs of cards and hoping one of them would be an Interleague card. I really like the 1998 Topps gold borders.
I want to thank everyone that posts on my blogg your posts are appreciated!

Bringing Collectors Back to the Hobby

2008-02-17T11:51:00.000-08:00

The main thing I remember about Minnie Minoso coming back to play in 1976 & 1980 was the enthusiasism he brought to the players and fans. That is what I am hoping this blogging will do is bring back the enthusiasim to the hobby!
During the late 1980's & early 1990's there were a lot of collectors, many of these people were into it more as a lottery then they were for the fun of collecting. I had a lot of concerns when I seen people paying $4-5 for a Greg Jefferies Rookie Card. I was taught by my mentor, (I will call him Larry) that it was always more important to try and collect a player that could possibly be in the "Hall of Fame" someday, rather than a "Hot" rookie. My fears came true, many people started leaving the hobby and the bottom fell out of collecting. However, there were a lot of collectors out there that really enjoyed the hobby of collecting cards. I see blogging helping to stir the interest in bringing "Old Collectors" back to the hobby. When I post my bloggs I try to explain what collecting used to be like. (Not that I actually want it to be that again.) I am sharing my in-sight on how I see the hobby has changed in the last 35 years. Even though the hobby is changing we must mantain high enthusiasim levels to keep it going! I hope bloggs can bring the enthusisaism that Minnie did, I know it has for me!

Royals Trading

2008-02-16T19:50:00.000-08:00

I want to thank everybody who has participated so far in the 25 for 25 trading for Royals. It is Great Fun! I am up to 800 Royals cards in my count. If anybody else would like to participate just e-mail me at bartm@ckt.net. To participate the rules are just send me 25 Royals and I will send you 25 of your team. Don't worry about sending me doubles.
Thanks again, Baseballcardman

Bo Knows!

2008-02-15T19:52:00.000-08:00

In all my years of collecting baseball cards, I have never subscribed to Beckett. For some reason I would always go to the card shop and buy them when I wanted them. So, one month I went into buy my normal Beckett, I couldn't find one and so I asked the cardstore owner, where's the Beckett? He replied, "You haven't seen who's on the cover?" I said, "No?" He held up a Beckett with a picture of Bo Jackson on the cover in black and white. He says," I only have two left and I will sell you this one for $10. I said, "I like Bo but I don't care he is on the cover. I like the Beckett!" He said, "Sorry, no $10 no Beckett." Oh my gosh! What am I going to do? I just left the cardshop, and no Beckett!" Back in those days there where cardshops everywhere. Every cardshop I went into no Beckett. So, I went to this other little town where this guy had a small transmission shop and baseball card shop together. I walk in, He has the Beckett! I asked him how much for the Beckett? Oh, that would be the cover price, $2.5o I quickly reached into my pocket to give him the $2.50 after he handed me the Beckett, I told him what was going on. He acted I like I had ripped him off ! Anyway, I left the store being really happy as I had my Beckett. Now days they get almost $10. for a Becket anyway, and the closest cardshop is 75 miles away. Man, how times have changed! But, I still have my Bo Jackson Beckett!

Cards from Andrew

2008-02-14T16:17:00.000-08:00

I got cards from Andrew at 88 topps . Getting cards in the mail is great! Andrew said, "I hope it's your birthday, because I am sending you a special package of Royals cards!" Andy said, he hoped some of these cards are ones I don't already have. No Andrew its not my birthday. But it felt like it! I don't think there were any doubles in the cards you sent me. I really loved the George Brett and the Dick Howser cards. Thanks

Griping and Complaining

2008-02-13T16:11:00.000-08:00

I came into possession of this "Hammering Hank" in the mid-1970's. I made a trade for it. I remember thinking that someday the homerun record would probably be broken by somebody else just like Hankl AAron broke the Babes and of course we all know that last season it was broken. However, I don't think I ever dreamed it would ever happen like it did. People go on and on about the steroids probably with good reason. But, for me it is what baseball itself did. First of all they pulled the walls in, shrunk the strike zone, then when you compare an old major league baseball to a baseball made today you can tell that todays ball is made to fly and go farther. I remember when Hank was working on breaking Babes record pitchers would try to take his head off and Hank had this way of bending his legs to get out of the way. Now when you check these guys out (home run hitters) they hardly ever get pushed back off the plate. In the late 1960's when the pitchers got the upperhand they lowered the pitchers mound. When everybody was pounding homeruns over the fence and Major League Baseball didn't seem to care. Now, we have congress sticking their noses into baseball and congress can't solve any problems right now! Oh well, I am just griping and complaining. Hats Off to the "Hammering Hank!"

Great Trades on Monday

2008-02-12T15:48:00.000-08:00

What a Monday! I recieved two packages yesterday in the mail. One Package from Jeff and one package from Blake. I recieved a big package of cards from Jeff at On Base Autos. What caught my eye about Jeff's group of cards was his 2005 Cracker jack cards. There were two in my pack, there were also several George Brett cards that I didn't have. Jeff's little boy snatched onto the "Chipper Jones" card I sent to Jeff. Jeef's son is now a "Chipper Jones" collector. It does my heart good to know that I have created another collector.
The other package I recieved was from Blake at Twin Cards. Blake and I did our trade a little differently through e-mail. I traded Jeff these cards
1997 Bowman Mark Redman
1997 Bowman Marty Cordova #269
1997 Bowman Mark Redman#126
1997 Bowman Javier Valentin#116
1997 Bowman Torii Hunter#176
1997 Bowman Kevin Brown #124
1997 Bowman J.J. Johnson #89
Alan Lee Mahaffey 2001 Topps Heritage #306
Kyle Lohse 2001 Topps Heritage #250
Brad Radke Topps Heritage #267
Jacque Jones Topps Heritage #113 2005 ESPN Upper Deck Torii Hunter and Jeff sent me1994 Topps Stadium Club - Felix Jose
1994 Topps Stadium Club - Wally Joyner
1991 Bowman - Bret Saberhagen
1993 Bowman - Kevin Appier
1986 Topps - Dick Howser
1994 Topps Stadium Club - George Brett
1987 Fleer - George Brett
1997 UD Collectors Choice - Tim Belcher
2005 Topps Gallery - Ken Harvey
1985 Donruss - Bret Saberhagen
2005 Bowman Heritage - Billy Butler
The main card I liked in this trade was the 2005 Bowman Heritage Billy Butler. The only thing that was missing from these trades was the bubble Gum that was in the packages when I was a kid! Like I said, what a week! Good Trade Guys.

Link Exchange with Topps Trader

2008-02-11T16:23:00.000-08:00

Tonight we are having link exchange with Topps Trader. This is a great site I don't know how I missed this site.
Jeremiah is a big Cardinals fan. He has been collecting Topps baseball cards since he was a kid. Jeremiah has full sets of 1974 through 2007 Topps base sets, he continue's to collect pre-1974 Topps baseball cards. He has about 200,000 baseball cards that he eventually wants to trade off. As far as players, he collects Stan Musial and Bobby Doerr.
Jeremiah also told me that he is creating the ability for collectors to trade any Topps baseball cards on my site. Sounds great to Me. Jeremiah you have a great site keep up the good work!

Mike Moustakas

2008-02-10T21:01:00.000-08:00

Bowman Card of Michael Moustakas

The Royals #1 prospect at this point in time, is 19-year-old shortstop Michael Moustakas. Drafted as the #2 overall selection in the 2007 first-year player draft, Moustakas offers one of the best high school bats to come out in quite a while. There was some uncertainty to whether he would sign or not (Boras is his agent), but he ultimately signed with the Royals 11 minutes before the deadline. He had some success in his debut with the Idaho Falls Chukars, batting .293 with five extra-base hits in 41 at-bats, and made only one error at shortstop in 10 games at the position.

Pros: Obviously, the bat. Moustakas offers a great feel for hitting, and projects as a .300 or better type hitter in the major leagues. He also offers what some scouts call "light tower power", a product of hitting 52 home runs in his high school career, tops all time in the state of California. Mike has a power arm that has hit 97 MPH off the mound. The Royals brass has also commended him for his leadership abilities on the field.

Cons: Ultimately, the only real problem at this point is his range at the shortstop position. They are working with him at instructs with that, and supposedly he has made a bit of progress. The Royals are confident he can stay at shortstop, but that obviously remains to be seen.MLB Comparison: An infielder in the mold of Chase Utley.

Story is from the The Royal Tower Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fisking

2008-02-09T14:41:00.000-08:00

This Is my perception of "Fisking"

A couple of weeks ago one of the Big Bloggers had a title story called "Fisking". I thought alright! Being a Carlton Fisk fan, this has to be a story about Carloton Fisk. I was disappointed to find out that "Fisking" was a blogg term most often is used to implicate a line-by-line critisisim.
Oh "PUDGE" has been known to do a little criticizing by it was never line-by-line. The rivalry between Fisk and Munsen I don't believe was ever line-by-line. I would generate towards using the term bloggers call flamming to best describe the relationship between them. The story goes that when "PUDGE " got news that "Munsen had died in a plane crash" he cried right out in front of everybody. My favorite story about Carlton is, when he jumped Dion Sanders for not running out a pop-up. Carlton told him that he wasn't fit to wear a Yankees uniform. So as you can plainly see I have my own definition of what "Fisking" is.
This whole idea of this blogg happened when I called Steve the "Tom Seaver" of bloggers. He replied, If I am Tom Seaver, You are,"Carlton Fisk"! I found great honor in his reply.