Baseball Cards and Opening Day

 
I love Opening Day and one of these days I am going to actually be in the ballpark on an Opening Day. My sister and a bunch of her firefighter and EMS worker friends were in attendance at the ballpark today. They were treated to a big Rangers win over the Indians and last years [...]

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Finally, my Topps Red Hot Rookies Chris Davis card has arrived. I purchased the redemption card way back in November on Ebay along with the Taylor Teagarden card. They set me back a whole two bucks. I am still waiting on the Teagarden, maybe it will come in the mail today.
 
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This morning started much like the rest of the work day mornings in my life. It began with a bowl of oatmeal followed by email both personal and work, packaging some cards for mailing, shower, shave, packing a lunch and heading for the door.
 
Not far down the road I felt a vibration in my [...]

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Today I returned home from a long hard day at work and I saw the mail sitting on the cabinet. Right on top was an envelope and I immediately recognized the return address, it was from Mario from Wax Heaven. I felt the envelope and deduced that there was a top loader inside.
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Today was a wonderful day, the rain stopped the sky was blue, the birds were chirping and Pudge Rodriguez signed with the Astros. I had given up hope that Pudge would be an Astro and I had resigned myself to the possibility of him being a Marlin again. Or even worse, still looking for a [...]

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The economy has really effected my ability to feed my addiction for opening wax packs. So, I took matters into my own hands a bit this weekend. I remembered a box I had that just might contain a pack or two of cards that I could open. I decided to get a quick pack fix [...]

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I know its a weird title up there but my mind works in strange ways sometimes. I was driving home from work this evening wishing I could run in somewhere and pick up some baseball cards. The problems began when I couldn’t make up my mind what I would buy if I did stop. Then [...]

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I was browsing Ebay this afternoon not really looking for anything in particular when I landed on the Cut Autograph card of Thurman Munson. “Thurm” is one of my All-Time favorite players so I had to check out this auction. The first thing I noticed about the card wasn’t the price which was at $500 [...]

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I was sitting at my computer waiting on a large file download and getting a bit bored with that I turned around to face my book cases on the opposite wall. I probably shouldn’t call them bookcases because they only have three books on them. But they do hold nearly a hundred sports cards, a [...]

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There are still no blasters of 2009 Topps Baseball in Tyler Texas, but there are some jumbo packs. So I grabbed one this weekend while shopping for sustenance at the local big box store. They had a dozen or so 2009 Upper Deck blasters but I’m just not that excited about Upper Deck.
 
I can’t help [...]

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This is the second of the buy one get one 2008 UD Masterpieces Baseball blasters from Kmart. The first box did not yield any of the cards I was really hoping for and overall the box was pretty average. I decided to count the first box as the free one and this box the one [...]

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Finishing out the purchases of the bargain priced blasters I found at the Kmart in Lufkin Texas we have a buy one get one deal on 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Baseball. The two boxes were glued together and then shrink wrapped. Each box contains eight packs with four cards in each pack. I am going [...]

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You may remember from a previous post of mine about Masterpieces Football that I really enjoyed it and was planning on building the set. I haven’t done much to complete the Touch’em All quest of building the set but today I have a blaster box to help in that endeavor. The blaster contains 6 packs [...]

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Continuing with the bargain blasters I found at Kmart we have the box of 2008 Upper Deck Heroes Football. Here we go again with the ‘bonus’ packs again as this box has 7 packs plus 2 bonus packs. I call Bullshit on this, its really a 9 pack blaster for originally $14.99 that I got [...]

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I was wrapped up in some paperwork and card sorting this weekend and completely forgot about the mail. Tucked between some bills and advertisements was an envelope from Chris in Pennsylvania. Enclosed were Ivan Rodriguez, Ian Kinsler and Michael Young.
 
As most of you know I am trying to get every Ivan Rodriguez and Ian Kinsler [...]

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I am finally getting around to opening one of the Bargain Blasters I found the other day at Kmart. Baseball is so close I can smell it so I decided to start with the 2008 Goudey Box. The box was originally priced at $19.99 but I got it for $10.99. Yea for me. The configuration [...]

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Its late and I am tired but I can’t wait any longer to open the two 2009 Topps Baseball packs I picked up a few days ago. I was really hoping to open a blaster of Topps before I bought any packs but I have yet to see a Topps Blaster. So, here we go.
 
The [...]

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I have been offline for the past few days almost as much as when I am vacationing in Mexico. My job has been pretty demanding the last few days and new processes, meetings and technicals issues have met me at every turn of late. But on the positive side of things I had to make [...]

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Much to the chagrine of my fellow bloggers and collectors I did not open this blaster last night. Even though I haven’t found a 2009 Topps Blaster yet I am going to go ahead and open this UD Blaster now. I have waited long enough to open some 2009 Baseball Cards.
 
Alright, here we go with [...]

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Today I managed to find a blaster of brand spanking new 2009 baseball cards. Sweet Relief. However, it wasn’t the Topps blasters but a shiny Upper Deck Blaster that was staring back at me from the shelf. I had to move a pack searcher out of the way to get it but its mine now. [...]

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Okay, where in the H E double Hockey Sticks are the 2009 Topps Blasters? I keep reading about people getting their hands on them since last Friday. Has anybody in Texas seen any yet? Did they all go to the East Coast first? Some people might toss around the term East Coast Bias at this [...]

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I was shocked to say the least that Panini was able to seal the deal with the NBA and become the only licensed distributor of NBA Basketball cards beginning with the 2009/2010 season. Then I wondered does it really matter to me? I don’t really collect basketball cards much except for former Texas Longhorns so [...]

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I have been itching to open some 2009 Baseball cards but of course they are not on the shelves yet. I went to Target yesterday and looked at the cards on the shelves and resisted the urge to buy something. I could only be satisfied with some 2009 Baseball so I left the 2008’s undisturbed [...]

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I received an email a couple of weeks ago from blog reader Grant asking me if I wanted his 2008 TriStar Taylor Teagarden. I told him I did even though I usually didn’t buy unlicensed products so he sent it my way along with a few more cards. I didn’t realize the TriStar card was [...]

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Have you ever just been trolling around Ebay and just decided you had to have something? That happened to me awhile back when I stumbled upon some 2008 Stadium Club Beam Team Autographs. The cathedral style backgrounds intrigued me I guess so I kept bidding on some trying to get a deal.
 
I was focusing [...]

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I ran across a blog that I hadn’t seen before a few weeks ago called A Cardboard Problem. I subscribed to the feed and have enjoyed reading the exploits there of a couple of baseball fans that still collect baseball cards. I felt right at home. Anyway, Sooz had some of the horrendous 2008 Upper [...]

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I got this package in the mail several days ago but I am just now getting around to sharing it with you. A big ‘ol chest bump goes out to Dayf of Cardboard Junkie for sending me a total of 40 Ivan Rodriguez cards and a Turkey Red Ian Kinsler card for my player collections. [...]

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I imagine that most of us have been the beneficiary of or have been the briber in the time honored tradition of getting our kids something while we are at the store if they are good scenario. Well, I am not a kid anymore but I kind of used that old time tested method to [...]

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Just a quick update on a little progress I made in my quest to acquire all 110 cards from the 2008 Topps 50th Anniversary All-Star Rookies insert set. I have slowly been working on this since they came out. I would have normally put a big dent in it by now but I didn’t really [...]

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The first post on SqueezePlayCards went live on February 17th of 2007 so in a little over a month this blog will be two years old. It seems like I have been blogging much longer than that. I get questions from time to time about things like visits, page views, most viewed post and where [...]

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Closing out the cards that I found in my Christmas stocking we have three packs of 2008 Topps Football. Each pack has twelve cards and of course feature the annoying Topps logo invading the player photos right where most of their heads are. Is it supposed to be one of those subliminal messages with the [...]

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Tucked away in one of my Christmas gifts were a couple of packs of 2008 SP Rookie Edition Football. I hadn’t seen any of these in my local big box stores so finding these two were a surprise. I went over to the Upper Deck website to check out the possibilities in this issue. I [...]

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Happy New Year to all of the Collectors out there in cyberspace. I hope you all complete more sets and pull just what you want from your packs in 2009. With the turning of another year I paused to reflect on my experience from the last twelve months of collecting.
 
2008 had a little of [...]

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Last night I opened the pack of 2008 Upper Deck Series 2 Baseball that Santa left in my stocking. This fabulous looking Andruw Jones card was leaping out at me from the pack. If you look closely in the glove you will see the baseball is making like Prego, it’s in there. Just in case [...]

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I had let just about anyone that asked me the question, what did I want for Christmas know that I would really enjoy some 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Football for Christmas. My youngest daughter tried to get me a couple of blasters but all of the big box stores near us were out. Not to [...]

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