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So, as I prepare to participate in my first "Mini Card Show" next month, I've been going on eBay occassionally, and checking out cards of some local players that might be of interest to younger collectors and nostalgic adults who bring their kids in that I can get decent deals on.
One recent search led me to a seller who had recently opened a case of 2006 Bowman Chrome, and had several individual rookies, rookie autos, uncirculated rookies, etc that were of interest to me, and all at reasonable prices. So I ended up bidding on a whole slew of them.
A few weeks back, as I started combing through my list of card related blogs again, I came across a post at Joey's SqueezePlayCards.com (one of the first card blogs I found, and still a favorite) discussing his getting into collecting 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Football. I saw the scans on his site, and by the time I saw the Snow Plow Game card, I knew I would be getting some.
Well, after more than 3 months, I'm finally going to post again. No promises this time about regularity, but I'm hoping that I will be back with some regularity.
So where have I been, that has prevented me from posting on my football card blog during the football season?
I wanted to open the second box I bought a few weeks back during the week up to the season kicking off--then I remembered that I would be in Las Vegas leading up to kick-off, since my brother had a draft out here.
So I actually opened the whole box the night before I left, thinking I would pre-write some posts for publishing while here.
But then the inevitable happened--the box pretty much sucked. Which meant writing about it wouldn't be all that fun.
Still, here are the hits:
Hey everyone, I think I've mentioned a few times in the past that my brother and I write for another football blog, which focuses on more of the business side of the sport, the fantasy football world, and even a little bit of sports betting.
Well, a few months back, since we also participate in some fantasy baseball leagues, we decided to launch something similar for baseball--this BrushBackPitch.com was born. And, since I do actually occasionally buy some baseball cards too, I thought I'd include baseball cards as a topic for that blog.
Unfortunately, I haven't written about any baseball card topics--until today, as I wanted to put my two cents out there about the Kosuke Fukudome Bowman Chrome Autograph fiasco. Actually, Chris at StaleGum wrote about the same thing that I was planning on writing--but I've always felt that this "error" card trend is ridiculous, given today's technologies, and I think something needs to be done to put a stop to it, for the good of the hobby AND the good of MLB's name.
Meanwhile, Donruss (who I think makes some of the better football cards out there) can't even get their MLB license back...
Anyway, I hope you'll check out the site, and consider adding it to your bookmarks or RSS subscription list.
A few months back, Gellman over at Sports Cards Uncensored set up a fantasy football league and invited other card hobby bloggers to join--being a huge football fan, fantasy football fan, and football card blogger, I figured I'd better be amongst those joining. Hopefully I'll be able to keep some baseball card blogger from winning it all. Also in the league are Chris from StaleGum.com, Geo (who I think also writes at Sports Card Uncensored), and a handful of other card bloggers who I probably know but don't recognize team names or email addresses (note to anyone in the league--drop me a note with your team name and site, and I'll add a link).
The draft was Saturday afternoon, and unfortunately I couldn't make it--so I set up my draft list on Yahoo, and kept my fingers crossed. When I got home Saturday night, I was quite pleased with the results:
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