Big Contest

No, not Here.  Over at Hey That's Mine...  Blog better known as Big D.  He is a wiz at making custom cards any you could win one.  So check it out.

Have You Offered a Trade to Me Lately??

I was cleaning out my junk mail file and right as I hit delete I noticed an e-mail that said Cards... then it dissapeared forever.  I'm not sure who sent it to me.  It looked like someone named June March sent it but like I said I saw it for a fraction of  second before it was gone.  So if you someone out there offered me cards in the last few days and I haven't responded please send me another e-mail.

Cards from reader Howard

A while back I saw a trade post by Cards on Cards about a trade he made with a reader named Howard.  I got hold of him and worked out my own trade for some great cards, here is that post.  Then out of the blue I received a suprise mailer in from Howard.  ***I got this package long long ago***I scanned cards and saved but for got publish***Sorry Howard***

2010 Turkey Reds:  I am so close to every single 2010 Topps Red Sox. (hot counting hats, patches and stuff like that) I only know of one card that I do not have yet but I can't verify that untill I see the checklist from Topps that has the team name listed.  I can't beleive how fast this has wrapped up.  I only have 2 Trukey Reds from 09 and here I am one month in with all the 2010s

HE also sent some eyeball Dick Perez cards.  I call them eyeball Perez cards because every one of them I have seen has crazy eyes.  Just look at the expression on Manny's face.

A Ultra Gold Papelbon.  The like this one are really hard to even tell they are gold not like the awesome gold cards in '95.

Howard also sent some Relics.  First up is a Lugo Heritage Relic.  He seems way happier in St Louis and Red Sox Nation is glad he is there.

This last card Howard sent is a reall odditity.  I'm not sure what it is.  I'm guessing some kind of repack relic.  Hard to tell from the sacn but it is really big with an actual '87 Topps card placed in it along with a piece of jersey.  What appears to be a Yankee jersy by the pinstripe.

Evidently the swatch came from Upper Deck.  At least that is what the back of the cared says.  Now if I can only figure out how to store the thing.

Thanks for the surprise Howard.  I'll be starting another Cubs stack for you.

Card Show Passes and Wishes

I saw some stuff at the show I wish I could have bought. 

The guy I bought my 52 Bowman from has more Post cards than I have ever seen in one place.  He litterly had thousands.  He didnt' however have the 61 Virdon I needed.  But he did have the 63 Virdon.  The problem is he wanted to much.  Now it was in great shape.  Whoever cut it out did a really good job because you could still see the little black border all the way around the card.  The guy said he had to have $25 for it.  I was shocked and told him so, said I was thinking more like $5.  He told me there was no way he could do it because it was a SP.  From his explination some of the Post cards were only put on certain products like Exlax.  Since they were not used as much as cerial they were shorter printed.  Can anyone verify this?  Hopefully it is correct and really is rare because I got one on ebay Monday for $5.

While I was going through boxes this man came up with a binder and asked the dealer if he was buying any cards.  They dealer said he would take a look at whatever he had.  The guy handed him a binder that soon had half the dealers at the show gathered around.  I just so happened to be in a perfect spot to watch him flip through the binder.  It was full of B18s.  If you don't know what a B18 is look here amd here.  When I say full, I mean it was a 3" binder stuffed with single card pages of them.  Had to be over 100 of them and mostly HOFers too.  I didn't get to see hear what the guy wanted because right when they started talking money my kid had to go to the bathroom.  When we got done in the bathroom the guy was walking away with binder in hand.  But they were pretty cool to see.

The guy had at least 6 of this Johnson alone.

The other things I wish I could have bought were a bunch of Boxing cards.  Some people probably just shut their browsers but I don't care.  One guy had a case of old boxing stuff that I would have loved to have.  He has a few A&G, a Jim Jefferies American Caramel, and another oddball Jeffries that I ddnt' know.  It was from some European set.

Another Free Comic Book Day

I picked this card up at the card show for a buck.  It wasn't exactly frr but close enough.  But it is a free read for you.

We have a winner!!

Doc from Baseball Card Recollections correctly guessed 1961 Post Roberto Clemente.  He also correctly guessed that Bob will soon have a new home in Flordia.  It is kinda funny he won because I came across his blog for the first time last week.  I'll will be packaging up some stuff for him this weekend.

Congratulations Doc

Card Show Loot Contest

This will be my first contest here at Thoughts & Sox.  The way it is gonna work is easy.  When I go to a card show I like to pick up something for someone else.  Last time I got a card for dayf.  This time I got one for someone else.  Here is how the contest is going to work.  I want you readers to guess the player on the card and the blogger that will  be on the receiving it.  I'll give the winner something that fits their collection.  And if I do have anything that fits I'll go get it*. First one that guesses both correct wins. 

You're clues are the card design and a few stats. 

-Good Luck

* If the winner collects vintage Mantle, Original T206, or something along those lines they will be SOL.