October in January

My second vintage card on the block is a 1970 Reggie Jackson. This is Mr. October's second year card and it can be had for your Red Sox. So leave me some trade offers in comments or e-mail.

New Years Resolution - Vintage Trades

Dinged Corners questionnaire the other day made me think about what Thoughts and Sox's New Years resolution should be. I answered that it was to focus my collection. So with that in mind I am going to try to make a few vintage trades. Now I don't have much vintage left that isn't Red Sox but I'm going to try to trade off the ones that I do have. This doesn't mean that I am not going to do any modern or blind trades just that I am going to focus on my vintage stuff a little more. So first up is a 64 Topps Ernie Banks.

Ernie isn't in perfect shape and is seriously miscut but he is still a Hall of Famer and the best Cubbie ever. Leave me a comment or drop me an e-mail if you would like to trade some Vintage Red Sox for him.

Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Ding, Ding Round 2

Lucy at Dinged Corners also posted some questions to answer.

1-What is your favorite kind of dog?Great Dane.

I have never owned one yet but one day I'll become brave enough to invite a horse to live in my home.

2-Who is your favorite baseball player?Kevin Youkilis

No other player, plays with as much passion as Youk. He plays like the guy who wrote #5.

3-What is your favorite team? Red Sox

4-What is your favorite baseball movie?

There have been a ton of great baseball movies. Some notable ones that I can remember are Major League (I, II, and III), The Natural, Bull Duram, Field of Dreams, The Rookie, Sandlot, The Babe, Cobb and Eight Men Out along with a ton of others. But the absolute best baseball movie ever is For Love of the Game. Hands Down with none of the others even coming close. He throws a perfecto against the Yankees, how could anything beat that. Cobb would be my second favorite.

5-What is your favorite baseball book? Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars

This book made me like Pete Rose even more.

6-What is your favorite card? My 55 Ted Williams

Ding, Ding, Round 1

The girls at Dinged Corners posted a list of questions for the blog world to answer.

I'm a little late in responding but here goes.

1-If I didn't collect baseball cards, I'd collect _________.

Comic Books

Actually I already collect comic books. I started out with a Captain America collection but then I had to get all of the Avengers also because Cap was in them. But then I had also get Iron Man because he was in Tales of Suspense with Cap and also in the Avengers. I know, I have a problem it is called an addictive personality. I think that all of us card collectors have it to some degree.

2-My baseball heroes include one you probably wouldn't know from my blog or comments, and that person is __________.

Cal Ripken

I actually used to collect his cards years ago. At the time I had a neighbor that also collected cards. He lost his collection when his house burned down and I gave him all of my Ripken cards.

3-Every New Years I resolve to __________ my collection.

Focus

I tend to branch out. It is that addictive personality thing again. When I got back into collecting I was only going to collect Vintage Topps Red Sox. Then I added Vintage Bowman Red Sox , then Modern Topps Red Sox and now any and all Red Sox.

4-If I could spend a day with one person from baseball history, it would be ________.

I am going to cheat here and change it to sports history.

Muhammad Ali

He was the greatest of all time; King of the World. The most famous man in the world. Even more famous then the President or the Pope. Not only was he the greatest athlete that ever lived he had more charisma than anyone in sports history.

I went to a Roy Jones fight years ago. I was standing in the crowd waiting for the undercard to start amongst 10-15 thousand people with all of the noise that a group of people that large makes. When suddenly, an erie silence settled across the crowd. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, I could feel the electricity in the room. The silence broke into historic yelling when everyone realized that Ali had entered the arena to watch see the fight. it was the most awesome thing I ever witnessed at a sporting event. And he was just there to watch.

I'll get to Round 2 Lucy's questions in a later post.

2008 Topps Chrome and Refractors Want List

I know, another begging post. But it is all I could come up with to post while I was away.

I'm not a chrome fan at all. To me it is a wast of product. It should just be a parallel. I have received so many in trade this year though that I almost have a team set. Even though they are Chrome they are still Sox.


2008 Topps Chrome
20 Mike Lowell
146 Curt Schilling
180 Hideki Okajima
235 Clay Buchholz

I even received a ton of Refractors in trade. So many that I had to post my want list.

2008 Topps Chrome Refractors
6 Daisuke Matsuzaka
20 Mike Lowell
30 Kevin Youkilis
60 Manny Ramirez
66 Dustin Pedroia
90 David Ortiz
235 Clay Buchholz

08 Topps + U&H Want List

I didn't buy any regular Topps this year so I need a whole bunch of them. This is the 08 Topps I need:

2008 Topps
20 Daisuke Matsuzaka
64 Mike Lowell
99 David Ortiz / Manny Ramirez
104 Kevin Youkilis
122 Jason Varitek
123 Terry Francona MG
174 Julian Tavarez200 Manny Ramirez
217 Josh Beckett229 Dustin Pedroia
232 Clay Buchholz (RC)
250 Jonathan Papelbon
258 Manny Ramirez / Kevin Youkilis
295 Tim Wakefield
360 David Ortiz
379 Hideki Okajima
386 Julio Lugo
550 Curt Schilling
555 Josh Beckett

This is the U&H I need:
2008 Topps Update U&H
47 Dustin PedroiaUH
86 David AardsmaUH
99 Ramirez/OrtizUH
150 Jon LesterUH
195 Chris CarterUH
216 Jason Bay

2008 A&G and Mini Want List

Next want list is 08 A&G. I only need 3 more for of th eregular ones.

2008 Topps A&G

I got them all now thanks to a trade that I will be posting shortly.

2008 Topps A&G Mini

55 Josh Beckett
105 Jonathan Papelbon
134 Jason Varitek
171 J.D. Drew
333 Coco Crisp
348 Justin Masterson
350 Kevin Youkilis Thank You Houston Astros Blog