Hockey Contest

There seem to be a few hockey fans who trip across this blog on the internet, so I thought I would give everyone the heads up on a contest I am running over at my hockey blog where I am giving away the hits from a box of ITG 1972:  The Year in Hockey.  Check it out here. One of the ways you can get entered is to throw a few hits my way by linking to it, so feel free.

Best Card Picture Ever?

Got this post from a thread on FreedomCardBoard.com. Is this Lance Berkman minor league card the best picture ever?

I think its darn close…..

2009 Ballpark Collection Base

A quick post about a new pickup this evening.  I am torn between liking and hating numbered base cards.  Often, it comes down to whether it is a nice card or not.  2009 Ballpark Collection?  Nice base cards.  I picked this one up in a flawless transaction on FreedomCardboard.com.  I also snagged a PSA 9 copy of Hamilton’s 1999 Topps Traded Rookie Card.

I Want You!

Referring to this card:

When I first heard about this insert, I really hoped hamilton would be the Rangers player featured.  And here he is.  As soon as I find a seller shipping to Canada, or a willing trade partner, this card is going to be mine.  It looks beautiful.

New Additions

I have been a little bit busy with some various projects these days.  I have been working on some trades, and those are starting to roll in.  I haven’t been picking up a lot of Hamilton cards these days.  I am in one of those periodic lulls.  There just isn’t anything I want to spend my money on right now, so I am socking it away.  These things happen.  I can’t be ‘on’ all the time.

I’ve been keeping myself busy with the start of the NHL season, MLB playoffs, and my new hockey blog.  Check it out – Cards on Ice.  Its going to be strictly hockey.  This blog will likely move back to focusing exclusively on Josh Hamilton and baseball.

On to some recent pickups – one of the Stu Barnes (oops, there goes the baseball exclusive thing) Draw Your Own Cards I picked up for a contest over at Wax Heaven showed up. Help out a collector, by finding hockey cards and get a few for yourself.  Cool deal, and it was fun to go on a little bit of a scavenger hunt for someone else.

I also had time to make some pickups for myself.  Any time you can get a card that has less than 100 copies available, it is a good day.  I picked up this Upper Deck Heroes Sea Green parallel /99 in a trade on The Bench.  This colour works disturbingly well for the card.

Ballpark Pack Break

I like this stuff probably more than I should.  I cracked another pack.  I don’t know how I did value-wise (probably not great), but it certainly is fun.

Base Cards – Albert Pujols, Joba Chamberlain

Dual Jersey – Kerry Wood, Chad Billingsley / 400

Jersey / Autograph – Brian McCann

Quad Jersey – Beckett / Halladay / Wagner / Papelbon

Trading with the Troll

Today’s mail brought a nice little stack of Allen & Ginter cards that I needed for my set.  They came from a trade with everyone’s favorite troll – the Collective Troll!  I saw his post about the last sketch card he needed for his A& G set, and we quickly worked out a trade that helped us both out.  My side of the trade was A&G base cards, SPs and black bordered minis for the sets I am working on.

There was lots to choose from – but I scanned this Aaron Hill base card in honour of the epic season he is just wrapping up.

This is the first of a few blogger trades that I have hacked out in the past few days.  Including an epic trade that I am just getting ready to send out.  You’ll just have to wait for the details of that one, though.

Also, if any of you out there are hockey fans, or hockey card fans – check out my new hockey card blog, working in conjunction with Freedom Card Board – its called Cards on Ice. 

2008 Upper Deck Heroes Purple /25

I picked this card up in a trade on The Bench.  I freely admit – purple is not my favorite colour.  Hamilton cards /25 are among my favorites though, so I will make an exception.  Heroes was one of those sets that just seemed to keep going.  Hamilton had a ridiculous number of cards in this set – he had a base card and all the parallels, as well as an autograph card and all the parallels.

This is one of the lower numbered Hamilton parallels that I have.  As cards get lower in numbering, and rarer – they are much more difficult to trade for.  I picked this one up in a very fair trade, as I contributed some Yankee Stadium Legacy cards towards The Bench’s project to collect the entire set and auction it off for charity.

Two Packs: Ballpark Collection

I showed off the Hamilton quad jersey I pulled out of my Ballpark break yesterday.  Today, I’ll show you the rest of the goodies.  You are supposed to get either one autograph and two memorabilia cards per pack, or three memorabilia cards.  I got one of each variety.  All things being equal, in this product I would rather have the memorabilia cards.

Base Cards (1 per pack, these might be a pain to come by if you are looking for someone specific)

Autograph – like I said, I’d rather have the jersey, although I must admit I love the look of the cards.  As an aside – I am a Phil Coke magnet.

Dual Jerseys – I like the design.  I am no longer trying to decipher the meaning behind some of these pairings, but I like the design.

Quad Jersey - in addition to the quad jersey featuring Hamilton, I ended up with a Red Sox quad jersey.

Six Swatch Jersey – looks like a collection of pitchers. 

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Break Results: The Hamiltons

In addition to the (awesome) box of Goodwin I broke today, the shop had Ballpark Collection in.  I am a sucker to pull relics.  There is no better place to pull relics than Ballpark Collection.  I will give everyone a complete breakdown of Ballpark probably tomorrow, but I decided to show off the Hamilton cards that I ended up with out of today’s breaks.

First up, a Goodwin base card, and one of those awesome Upper Deck 20th Anniversary Collection cards.  This one actually is awesome, because it features Josh Hamilton.   All other hits aside – this is probably one of the most impressive Hamilton cards I could pull.  Sure – he has 10 different cards in the 20th Anniversary set, but there are 2500 total cards, spread out over how many different products this year?

I also hit a pretty cool Hamilton out of Ballpark.  Yes, relics are incredibly easy to pull from this product, but the checklist is incredibly varied, and it is awesome anytime you pull your guy.  Hamilton headlines (yes, headlines) this quad jersey card with Holliday, Markakis (these two get paired up a lot), and Chris Young.

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