Happy 4th of July!

This year is flying by! So much stuff happening! I'm not able to make it to the all star game this year but I am able to carve out a day to head down to fan fest! Pretty psyched about that. I went to the Phillies fan fest in the 90s but I was pretty young then. Remember waiting in lines and not a ton else. Also, went to the fan fest in Phoenix a few years ago (and every other all star event which was awesome!) and had a blast. I learned I can no longer throw a ball without throwing out my shoulder if I give max effort. May skip that throwing hard thing. On the flip side I learned I can still hit a pitching machine. Feels nice to actually make contact considering I gave up playing baseball in about 6th grade or so.

I have gotten a bunch of new cards this past few weeks just need to scan them. Always good stuff in my opinion.

Hope everyone has a nice 4th. Should be pretty low key for us. We were planning on going to a minor league game and see some fireworks but it was 90+ with 100% humidity so we skipped it. Thankfully good choice cause the thunderstorms started rolling in right around when the game was supposed to start. Also, we lost power until about 5 AM. Always fun to play some cards by candlelight.

All was not lost on the fireworks front though. I did go to the Phillies fireworks game on the 29th with my Mom and Wife. We try and go every year, always fun and the show is always good. That was the one game the Phillies lost to the Nationals 17-7. Never seen so many runs in person before. It was practically a home run derby.

Obligatory patriotic card!

My Mark McGwire USA rookie card! Thankfully I did not buy this card at the peak of the home run craze. If I remember correctly it was going in the 500ish range? Could be wrong. I grabbed it for 10 dollars last year at a show. Figured that was a fair price for a card I had wanted.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the holiday and hopefully time off!

Cards from Cutch!

I not so recently received these cards from my friend Collecting Cutch! He writes a Andrew McCutchen centric blog and actually posts quite a bit of good content. I like to think I post content, good is debatable. I finally pulled a Cutch card he didn't have and after enjoying it in my collection a while I decided to send it over to him.. he responded by beefing up my Ryan Howard collection.

Check out the goodness!

 

A couple of Honus Bonus 1/1's

 

A really nice Topps Sterling White Parallel. These cards are really nice in person.

 

Topps Tribute Topps Blank back 1/1! 

Very much appreciate for the cards. Sorry I took so long to post them up. 

Short Ryan Howard bidding story. My friend Collecting Cutch pointed me in the direction of the Ryan Howard signed Topps contract that the topps vault puts out on ebay every now and then. I bid 175 dollars on a snipe and lost.. no joke someone had a higher max. I was like ok if I ever see another one I am not messing around. Another one popped up about a month ago.. I figured I'd bid a little earlier then the last 3 seconds so that didn't happen again. I bid it up to 300 dollars and lost.. Is Ryan Howard buying back his own Topps Contracts?!

Thanks for reading!

Longest Give-away ever

I have officially mailed the 5th package today. There was no rhyme or reason to the order. They were kinda heavy so I did 2 at a time and then mailed the last one this morning. My local post office has decent hours so that's nice. They open at 7 AM so I can typically get there before work if I have too. I hope the cards survive. I tried my best to package them pretty tight. Also, they are not in any semblance of order.. so have fun sorting and going through them!

This Ryan Howard card is supposedely out of 25 since its the red version. I grabbed it off of ebay since I didn't have one. Don't care that its graded but thats ok because I didn't pay the outrageous fees these days.

I had a thought to grade my entire 2012 Topps Sepia Chrome set. And then I looked at the cost. It would probably cost more to grade then it took my acquire all of the cards. I'll be happy looking at in a binder for the near future. Although would I get a PSA award for best modern set ( or something) if i went that route. Is that worth over a grand? Can you put a price on semi meaningless awards?!

Thanks for reading!

Give-away has been Randomized!

All the cards are officially packaged up. My wife picked a random number to randomize. I have 5 large flat rate boxes to address and send. The top 5 are from random.org

List Randomizer

There were 8 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Stealing Home
2. JWilden
3. Jafronius
4. Brett
5. Chris
6. Julie
7. John
8. Matt 

Congratulations Stealing Home, JWilden, Jafronius, Brett and Chris! Please email me your address (even if I already have it just want to make sure I don't mess these up) to brauer144@gmail.com

And since this is a baseball card blog.. look a card!

 A rare Gavin Floyd Ryan Howard dual autograph!

Thanks for reading!

I didn't forget still working on it!

Cards have been sorted out. My dining room table is currently a small mess. So far I have packaged up 2 large flat rates. I have to go by the post office and pick up a couple more. I have no idea whats in each. They will be random along with the 8 people that said they'd be cool with getting cards.

Wanted to show off this card..

Not sure if you can tell great by the scan this is a refractor. Apparently one of the short print refractors from 1994. I pulled it myself in a box a couple years ago. Pretty nice card.

Thanks for reading!

Super quick update

I am almost done sorting out the cards then I am going to box them up and do the give-away. Have enough responses that I can give it all away. Not sure how many boxes they are going to fill though.

The Meadows card I posted a few posts ago is now SOLD! It's gone left positive feedback quite happy with the return but it was a fair deal overall.

Obligatory card:

One of my favorite Vintage cards. Still on the hunt for a Robin Roberts to pair with it!

Thanks for reading!

A Mega Box card and a give-away!

Hi Everyone in blog world. Brad is here again posting at your leisure. I recently acquired this pretty cool Bowman mega box card of Rhys Hoskins. There has been lots of talk on local radio about his May slump but I think he will be fine and start hitting the long ball again.

Super shiny..

I do like these cards. I've searched several targets this year and have yet to find any 2018 Bowman mega boxes. Worth a shot though. At least that's what I tell myself after wasting 5 minutes walking around target and not buying anything.

Ok.. onto the thing that most of you actually wanted to see. The potential giveaway. I've spent several days/hours this weekend going through my trade boxes (non hits) (my hits box is only one 800 count box that isn't full) I weeded out all the cards I don't want anymore to create space. It's a mixture of 80's 90s some early 2000's. I'm guesstimating around 10-15k cards. I am willing to give it away and pay the shipping costs. I did not pull hall of famers so plenty of good players in there. There is no Phillies cards cause the next project is to sort those and figure out what sort of doubles etc I have. If you are interested in receiving multiple flat rates from me for free please leave a comment. I'm asking nothing in return except enjoy the cards. If *no one* wants them then you will force me to go through and pull the hall of famers out and then I'll be recycling the rest.

Thanks for reading and I hope someone wants the enjoyment of a lot of cards! If multiple people want them I will random. I'm almost done sorting so you guys have a few days to comment and then I want to try and start boxing them up.