Group Break and Card show relics

First up is a Group break that Spankee  had months ago. I took the Padres and Pirates hoping for the best. My " HIT " card happened to be this

A  Dave Winfield jersey card from the 2004 Celebrity All - Star game.

The Sunday card show allowed us to pick up these

A UD Manny and a Topps Ryan Howard game used Bat card.

UD Masterpieces Roy Halladay jersey relic along with a Dick Trickle auto.

ALL THE ABOVE ARE UP FOR TRADE

Other card show pick ups

The Kemp can be up for trade. My son will have to give the OK on that.

Thanks for reading and keep up with all the good reading for me on your blogs as well..

Super Bowl contest

There is a contest going on over here . Pretty simple , pick the winner , who they will beat and total points. Oh yeah , how many turnovers as well.. All the intructions are there to read.But you only have untill 4pm today..

Housecleaning and Christmas Loot

I may be biting off a little more than I can chew with this but here goes. Kyle and I have gone through some of our stacks and boxes and have a lot of commons and stars available for trade. I'm not sure how to do this other than to throw it out there. My thought was to go through the existing sites that I frequent and come across ,  and look at want lists and individual PC's then send an email to said blogger for interest in trading.
But for those who I may miss , I am going to throw some names and teams out there of who we have.If you have any interest by all means please comment with who you are looking for or team for that matter.
We have some Chipper Jones , Sammy Sosas , Mark McGwire , Randy Johnson , Tony Gwynns , Astros , Padres , Cardinals , A-Rods , A's , Kerry Woods , Expos , Yeah  I may have gone overboard here , Maybe best if you leave a comment and i can get back to you with what I have. I did come across a lot of  yu gi go
cards that were given to me. I had a friend look through them and was told some are of value.How much , well I guess I wont know till I speak to someone who wants to trade for them.
Kyle is looking for baseball cards. Specifically Yankees or Doc Gooden. Kyle is actively pursuing his cards. His latest is this auto.

Santa was pretty good to Kyle this year. Knowing his love for Star Wars , he gave Kyle this Awesome card

Justin " Jedi " Masterson.

.Being a Dolphins fan I never imagined buying anything Buffalo Bills related but to see the smile on his face when opening these , I came out ahead.

Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment if you wish a player or team.( or a better idea )

MasterPieces Update

As stated back in this post I have an appreciation for the Masterpieces cards. So much so that I am attempting to collect as many cards as I can. Maybe one day I will end up with a set or two. But what may surprise you , the reader , is that some I actually mail away to different people. WHAT ?? This card you hold so close to you , you actually send it off , all alone ? Yes I do and this is why.

 I wrote Mr Sims Back in August and It was in my mailbox on December 20th. "Kung Fu Billy Sims" played college football for the University of Oklahoma, where he was a two-time consensus All-American, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1978. He was the first overall pick in the 1980 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the NFL's Detroit Lions. His career came to an end after what is described as a catastrophic knee injury.

My next card went to Mr. Frank Reich ,  whom i sent in August and received in November.

Mr Reich who was a back up most of his career to Jim Kelly , Has the honor of having led the Bills to the largest comeback in NFL history ( and if you notice , this card is depicted from that game ). He managed to recover from a 32 point deficit to lead the Bills to a win.
In 1995 , Reich was picked from the Bill in the expansion draft where he played for the Panthers and then moved on to the Jets and Lions.

Thanks for reading and I hope to be more involved in my blog than recent weeks.( months )

Giving it another go..

I'm giving it another go , to post a little more that is. I have neglected this project enough . What I thought was going to be an easy thing had turned into something that I should have left to the Professionals. But my thought now is to try to stick with it. So here we go....

I went to the LCS on Sunday with a December budget of $5 ( $10 actually My son and I $5 apiece ) ,

And I think we made out pretty good. Kyle like to jump the gun so to say and forks over the cash as soon as he gets there.But I have to admit , he can haggle and he is of prime age where dealers would be stiff  at my offer , but a kid ?

This past show , he took his time and shook out the dealers and came away real good. I'll post his cards another time.

My money was going to go towards Wilmer Flores cards I needed. They are pretty hard to come by but I did manage to get some I needed.

And what made this show better was the 50% off that a majority of dealers were having. These were actually in the dime boxes so it was nice to get these 2.

Next up was Starling Marte. I think I have 1 of these already but for the price it was worth it. Erasmo Ramirez , I honestly dont have a clue , I like picking these Gold ones up just for the looks.

Who can turn down the Immortal Hulk Hogan..I'm banking on his new found fame in bedroom porn to raise the roof on this cards worth.. ( ok , i will not hold my breath )

The last card was one that well , put me over my limit.I was about to leave and stopped at this last table before walking out.I saw this card and not being a fan or anything of this person , thought it was a cool card.
Right after I asked for his price , I put a number in my head as a max. Lets say the moon and stars aligned and his price was the same as my price so i figured it was meant to be.

  It's a 119 of 199..Ariel Pena , I don't know who you are but this card is nice..

Thanks for reading if you made it this far , and i hope to be more vigilant to this project of mine..

Virgil Trucks update

First off I apologize for the lack of ( none ) posts , there has been a lot going on , which seems to be a bug of sorts with other great bloggers having issues of their own. I hope those of you who are having problems find the light at the end soon and the ones who are bringing in new life to this world , I say congrats..

Now onto the update , A fellow blogger has been able to get some inside scoop on Mr. Trucks and was able to share this on his blog

http://baseballbytheletters.blogspot.com/2012/11/happy-veterans-day-virgil-trucks.html

I hope we all can get the word out on this and continue to have this special guy in our thoughts and prayers..

Thanks for reading , And Thanks again to Tom for the update..

TTM received from a Dolphin

The Miami Dolphins , my team since I can remember. The pain and heartache of being a Dolphin fan.I'm sure that their are others with me either by themselves being a Dolphin fan or that their team had given them the same treatment.

As a father , I thought it was my right to pass my team along to him. He was going to be a " Dolphan " with me. No longer alone in this part of western New York known as Bills Country. think about it , All those years with Jim Kelly and Co. mopping the floors with us , having to live within the walls of all these fans. Mostly " fair weather " fans ( who were the worst ) but i knew someday i would have back-up..

Well , unfortunately , his godfather  got a hold of him and laid the foundation of another Bills fan and my sense of someday having a partner was quashed. He is a Bills fan.

I have come to terms with Benedict Arnold , I mean Kyle , and we coexist as best we can. He may only be 10 years old but it can get crazy. Crazy enough to where a dad would take him to training camp to see his beloved Bills. To buy him tickets to meet his Bills. I never would have thought I would do anything "Pro" Buffalo but the smile I get to see on his face just kinda makes me forget they are the enemy.

So I rambled for a minute , i apologize , but to set this up i thought that needed to be out there. Kyle and I TTM players on occasion and for as many Bills he has written , Jim Kelly and Steve Tasker has been his only returns. My Dolphins are very well at TTM and I think Kyle figured that out. He wrote Daniel Thomas a letter and enclosed a card. It is going to be difficult to read but hopefully you can see the gist of his letter to him.

Well , I am not even sure I mailed this for him , but the return really put a smile on the entire family's face.

He was so proud to show this off ( as well as his dad ) I laminated it to hopefully keep this in shape so that 1 day he can show his kids who hopefully become Dolphin fans like their Grandpa..But that is WAAAAAYY , down the road..