Hall of Fame Day (Mail Day IV)

Woo Hoo! The hits keep on coming, I got 2 more 1955's in the mail today. Yogi Berra and Eddie Mathews. Not too bad, a little paper loss on the Yogi, but not too bad considering. Please leave me some comments. If you guys haven't noticed, when a comment is left for me, I usually try to respond in the same comment, so if you sent me one, odds are you have a response afterward. Thought I'd make sure that was out there!! Royal Rumble sunday, come and watch it!!!!

My wife may not be the devil afterall...

No, I didn't accidentally spill holy water on her and she didn't fizz up... she told me to bid on (and I won) an AWESOME Brooks Robinson/ Brian Roberts/ Nick Markakis Topps Triple Threads. She said 'You should bid $100.00 on it... All I had to do was bid $40.00. Got it for $36.00. Of course, when it comes in the mail, she'll grill me about how much I spent on it and conveniently forget she gave me permission to buy it... Its a vicious circle in my life. Seriously, though, I'm pretty lucky I have her, although, she did cost me that sweet Roberto Clemente RC I could have gotten for $225.00 on Ebay... that's the lowest I have seen for that one... Oh well, you can't win em all.

one of the big 3 rookies out of the way...

That's right, I knocked one of the big 3 rookie cards from my 1955 set ut of the way. I got the Harmon Killebrew RC off of ebay a few days ago and it came in the mail today... Its a pretty sweet looking card. I doubt I'll be filing any entries in the near future about getting my hands on the other 2 big RC's (Clemente and Koufax).

Favor for a friend

One of my trading buddies from the shop asked that I post a link to his ebay store, so here it is. Now if only we could get him to join the blogging community....

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/shannansguy_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

Finally my Upper Deck Redemption Replacement came...

When i got home tonight from the card shop, I had a nice little package awaiting me... it was my replacement card for the Daniel Alfredsson Hockey redemption I sent off for however long ago I sent it off.. I didnt even care too much about it, but when i opened the package, I was pleasantly surprised... I got a sweet Red Wing card for my wife. Check it out... and she was annoyed when I turned the bedroom light on and showed her 'the cool card Upper Deck sent me.' She was very happy when she realized the card was for her...

My Card Room

As you all may or may not know, I am in the process of moving to Greenville, NC. I have been immersed in cardboard boxes and packing tape... not fun. I transfer to the Greenville office beginning February 2. Good times. I wanted to post a few pictures of my card room before i began packing it all away into boxes, etc. I am almost done packing everything up from that room.

The drawn picture on the wall is of Pudge Rodriguez, I drew it in high school art class. The two painted race cars were done 20+ years ago by my mom (they were paint by number, but they still look awesome). I got the Triple H Summerslam ad in 1999 from the GNC that used to be in the back of the Mallard Creek Harris-Teeter I worked at in Charlotte. The yellow helmet in the china cabinet was the one my dad wore when he won the 1992 and 1993 Quick 8 championships. I counted 18 autographed baseballs (including 2 Cal Ripken, Brian Roberts, Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer...). What do you guys think?

A post for P.A.

P.A. I promised you, and I finally have delivered: my 2008 SP Authentic Johnny Cueto Auto....


I love this one because he signed it 'Johnny.' Kinda makes you feel a little special that he thinks you are on a first name basis with him.