The Search for the 1 of 3!

I recently was able to pick up a Sapphire Relic of Ryan Howard numbered 2 out of 3.

Pretty sweet patch and nice looking card! But check this out.. I also have the 3 of 3!

 

The cards look really good together! I am on the lookout for the 1 of 3! If any of you happen to find it for sale or trade or whatever let me know I'm more then willing to deal! Tired today so just a quick post. 

As always Thanks for reading!

 

A Triple Phillies Auto!

Just a quick show and tell this morning (wish I had such cool stuff when I was younger!) I picked up this card with some paypal money after selling some of my old magic cards. I've sold a few of my high dollar ones and honestly its gone really well. I've made way more money I think then if I had sold them in one large lot. I haven't had any issues either which is always a plus.

Anyway back to this card, check out the Phillies coolness!

It came graded so I didn't pay for that part of it. Considering the thickness and all that of these cards getting a 9 is pretty solid. I like the patch on the Schmidt and its pretty cool to have Ryan Howard, Mike Schmidt and Bobby Abreu on the same card. Definitely a nice addition to my Phillies PC!

I've never bought a pack of Triple Threads not sure if it's worth it considering I know how much I paid for the ones I have. Never really broke the bank going after these cards and these I would consider to be "big" hits! Gotta love the singles market.

Gypsy Queen is out, I've yet to get my first taste but I have my eye on a couple cards, we will see what happens!

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Trade with Arpsmith!!

I recently completed a trade with Adam from the great blog ARPsmith's Sportscard Obsession. He is a Giants guy and is probably quite enjoying the run that his team is on. Two out of Three ain't bad. Almost a dynasty. If they do it again this year they enter that arena.

 

First he sent me this sweet Barry Larkin rookie card. I didn't have his rookie and it fits right into my mini hall of fame rookie card collection!  I didn't care that its graded or not but at least I know its quite protected!

 

Here is the Phillies portion of our trade. I didn't buy any Heritage this year so getting most of the Phillies in one shot is greatly appreciated! I didn't have the Rollins purple, but now I do (who knew I opened like 70 of those blister packs and didn't get all the Phillies!) Even though they lost Game 1, Utley looked really good and I hope that bodes well for the rest of the season!

Next up is this sweet Nomo Relic. I know of a couple places I can easily trade this too and probably will in the not too distant future!

And I bring to you a corny joke to finish off my post.

April Showers bring Mayflowers. What do May flowers bring?

A. Pilgrims.

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Triple the Booklet Triple the Fun!

This is my second look at National Treasures. I showed off 2 cards that I got not too expensively on the first look. I recently received 3 different Ryan Howard booklets in the mail! I'm a big fan of the booklet cards, I think they display really well.

I received one in a trade with Arno from Im Ballsy! That was the card that started off our great trade!

I purchased the other 2 at not crazy prices! Just the way high end products should be!

Check em out all together! Hopefully Howard hits 3 Home Runs in Atlanta to start the season tomorrow! I would be perfectly happy with that!

The top 2 are the non patch numbered out of 99. (I'm still missing the bat one but the jerseys are nice) The middle one was from the trade! The bottom one is the patch numbered out of 25. They all look quite nice. I need to buy a couple more one touch cases to properly display them! Not a bad problem to have!

Hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend! Mine went very well!

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Trade with foulbunt!!

Just want to say I am real happy I started this blog. After some prodding from my brother Dan at The Other World and some support from my girlfriend the blog was born. Not the most creative name in the world but I hope people have enjoyed seeing parts of my collection. I really do enjoy reading other peoples posts and seeing what else is out there! I've only been a part of the community since August but I've completed quite a few large trades and my Phillies and other cards have grown considerably! Some stuff I had no idea it was out there and next thing I know its in my mailbox!

Enough waxing poetic onto the goodies! I completed another awesome trade with William from Foul Bunt. He is a great guy and really easy to trade with! He def went out of his way to make sure I got more then I bargained for.

First he sent me this amazing Virgil Trucks auto. I wish I had the opportunity to meet him. It seems like he was truely one of the good guys.

 

This card is a keeper and one of the nicer and easier to read autos I own!

I got a nice smorgasboard of inserts above. A little of everything. I literally have a pile of about 2-3 thousand ish Phillies cards I need to sort and catalog. I envy the blogs out there that actually know which cards they are missing from each issue. One day I aspire to that.

Now these last 6 cards.. came 2 days after the initial trade package to my surprise! A welcome surprise of course! The Rollins is numbered the Thomas is a short print. Some vintage and 2 Ryan Howards I did not own!

Thanks for the trade William!

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Trade with OldfoulCardboard!

I recently completed a quick and easy trade with Chris and Kyle over at Old Foul Cardboard. They posted a sweet card that I wanted for my PC. I reached out and we quickly agreed to a swap!

The Howard Relic is  a new one to add to the collection! The other 3 cards were all new Phillies that I didnt have before. Especially love the vintage. I don't have my 70s lists up yet but when I do I know thanks to you guys I have a bunch of good ones already!

Hope to trade with you guys again soon!

Also on a semi related note. I picked up a lot from ebay of about 40-50 'hits'. Almost all of them I'm willing to trade (some decent stuff some not so great stuff). I will hopefully have time in the near future to scan them all and have a little trade bait blowout fun! I'm always interested in Phillies Hits so hopefully we can work out some deals!

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Trade with Arno!!

I recently completed a decently large trade with Arno from Im Ballsy! He writes an entertaining blog so if you've never seen it before go check it out! He contacted me about a card he thought I would have interest in (editor's note: I did). After a few back and forth we ended up with quite a great trade.

Check out the wares!

These 4 hits are awesome! No other way to describe it. The Hoffman patch is sick and numbered out of 35! The Chapman is a sweet Ginter mini auto thing! The Pete Incaviglia instantly goes into my Phillies PC! The Gary Redus is just a cool card and probably has Wes's name on it if he wants it!

These base cards were cool too. Fleer greats of the game. I didn't have any of them so definitely happy to add them to the collection.

He actually sent me one other big card but I am not going to show it right this moment. It have a different post planned for that one! Thanks for the great first trade Arno!

Thanks for reading!