Trade with the Junior Junkie!

I recently completed a trade with The Junior Junkie! Shockingly, he is a big Ken Griffey Jr fan and collects his cards. I sent him some Griffey's and a couple cards from my trade bait post. He sent me back a stack of cards that I'm not really quite sure how he fit them in the envelope. It was quite thick. I didn't scan them all but got a nice representation!

First comes the 'bipping' via Sarge aka Gary Mathews

Appreciate the 1984 goodness!

A couple of nice Big Hurts! The hottest guy in baseball in May Dominic Brown! One of the Phillies few bright spots! I really like the Mike Grace card. I know he didn't make it because of arm trouble but when he was on the Reading Phillies he signed a bat for me that I still have to this day!

I like the diecutness of the Pure Heat insert of Cole Hamels. The Wayne Gomes is the ever popular electric diamond subset. This might be the last card that Roy Halladay is considered a Star. I like the Phillies logo card very centric for lack of a better word.

Thanks for the trade! I'll keep you in mind if I come across any nice Griffey's!

Not sure what to post so.. hey Books!

Sticking with the current theme.. check out this mini National Treasures set I was able to compile (without buying a single really expensive box)! I would be thrilled at the book card.. but I wouldn't be thrilled if I paid 500 dollars for a box and this card sold for about 10 dollars.. But I am thrilled as a buyer! Quite a conundrum!

They look nice all together! The plain wood one and the patch are numbered out of 25 and all the others are numbered out of 99. I have to get proper one touch cases to display them all. The other books I have look good in those type of cases. I wish I had jumped on the bandwagon when national treasures was 300 box, I would've taken a shot. 500 is too much though for 8 cards in my opinion. Some of the one of ones are pretty crazy though.

One day soon I will have to get a list of my Ryan Howard's together. I'm sure it rivals my Frank Thomas collection! He has way more patch cards so I've been able to obtain a few nice ones.

Thanks for reading! (Question, is anyone collecting Topps Archives this year? I didn't get one single response about the blaster I opened)

Who loves books!

I like books. Book Cards! See what I did there! (but seriously regular books are good too) I recently picked up TWO Ryan Howard book cards! Didn't spend a fortune on either but they both look really nice in my opinion.

The first one commemorates his achievement of hitting 45 plus Home Runs for four seasons in a row! I hope to see him smack another 30-40 this year. Between Howard and Dom Brown maybe the offense will start getting good again!

This multi book card is pretty cool. It shows guys that hit a lot of long balls in a very clever saying 'Four Baggers'. From left to right, Howard, Pujols, Fielder, Vlad, A-Roid and Ortiz! Pretty solid lineup. I hope Pujols starts to hit again I'm hoping no steriod issues never pop up with him and he breaks Bond's record. He's nipping on the heels of 500(should get it this year) and he has a large and long contract to try and keep going.

Thanks for reading!

Another Awesome Monster Hit!

I picked this card up because I really like the look of it and its a One of One!

It's a sweet 2 color patch with an auto to boot! Only thing to make it better would be an on card auto. I'll have to check but I think thats 5 or 6 autos now of Mr Howard that I have! Pretty good.. I had 0 at the start of the year! I'm watching a few more one of ones that I hope to snag in the next few days! I love how much cheaper it is to snag singles then it is to buy cases and cases (although I would have fun opening cases and cases) On a completely unrelated note when I hit the Powerball I am going to quit my job and open a card store just for fun! The prices will be at cost cause I'd be able to afford that and everyone would have fun hanging out at my awesome store! Can't Wait!

Also, this card is cool, thanks for checking it out!

If you want to trade let me know always up for a good trade! (although I won't be trading the card above)

A Quick Trade and Wanna Trade?

I recently completed a quick and easy swap with The Lost Card Files! He is collecting the Topps 206 mini booklet set. I had one so I figured why not I'll start him off with a trade. Even though the one I owned has a Phillies player on it I was willing to let it go for other Phillies cards I did not have! I was quite pleased with these 2 relics!

 

The Tribute card is really sharp. I love these cards in person, never bought a pack but I always debate it. It doesn't seem like people can get the return and its so much easier to pick up singles or trade for them.

 

A nice white swatch of Mr Lee. There's talk on Philly sports talk that the Phillies should trade Lee. Yes he is our most tradeable commodity.. but hes also a lights out ace.. can't replace a guy like that. I don't like the idea of trading him but if you get Middlebrooks and some other prospects maybe its worth it. We shall see what happens if the Phils don't do well in June. 

I opened a blaster of Archives to see if I would like this years set.. I don't. I collected last years and the inserts (Loved the deckle edges and 3d inserts) This year I'm not sold on it. I will only be keeping the Phillies I pulled. If you want any of the above short prints or inserts please claim and any type of Phillies back and we got a deal!

Also I have the following base cards available if someone is collecting the set:

3, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 33, 39, 45, 46, 52, 53, 56, 66, 72, 81, 82, 88, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 111, 113, 119, 124, 125, 128, 132, 136, 137, 140, 150, 159, 162, 165, 168, 169, 177, 181, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 199

Thanks for reading and thanks for the trade and potential trades!

A quick .. ooo shiny

Look shiny!

Trade with a Red Sox Fan!

I recently completed a trade with a blog from Nebraska! If you click that link you can see what I sent him.. a whole mess of Red Sox cards and he sent me back a whole mess of Phillies cards.

Check it out!

 

My favorite card of the whole package is the Pat the Bat diecut. I like everything about the card, the shininess, the rookie card ness, and that its one of the players I really liked when he was here in Philadelphia! Bastardo almost blew the game today, what a nail biter! Seven run lead almost gone.. thankfully they pulled it out. Need to get back to .500 and then go from there! 

I hope JA Happ is doing alright... he took quite a liner to the head not too long ago. That has to be scary. Always appeciate the random blue parallels ( I don't buy much from Wal Mart blaster wise) so the only way I'd get these is from you great traders out there! Love the Jimmy Eisenriech press proof insert! I had forgotten about those inserts but they're awesome!

Thanks for the trade and thanks for reading!