Cards That Should Be

Topps Allen and Ginter Pascual Perez Driven On Piece of I-285

The Waiting Game

I didn't have a post yesterday as it seems that I'm waiting on a lot of stuff right now. My laptop is somewhere being fixed and thus I'll have use of my scanner again. I've got a couple of things I want to write, but I'm holding off on until I can really clear pictures of the cards and not photos that look like a still of a quick cut from the Bourne Ultimatum. I've got a few things in the mail I'm waiting to come in that are pretty exciting that I can't wait get up on here. So it's frustrating for me because all of this is pretty much out of my hands. All this on top of law school starting back (yes, your friendly neighborhood card blogger is in law school. I somehow find time to do this) among other things has limited my posting. Well in the one day I haven't posted this week. So fair warning, I'll miss a day or two here and there.

Another Day, Another Trade

More of my Allen and Ginter cards came in today from Kris who completed his own A&G set with a trade with dayf over at Cardboard Junkie. I tried to help Kris with his mini set. I sent him the following minis:

#4 Josh Hamilton
#14 Ken Igawa
#24 Susan B. Anthony

#31 Kenji Johjima

#61 Justin Morneau
#74 Ervin Santana

#89 John Lackey
#95 Hanley Ramirez
#104 Jeff Kent

#123 Tadahito Iguchi

#130 Jason Schmidt
#154 Paul Lo Duca

#159 Michael Barrett

#252 Bud Black
#253 Michael Cuddyer

#283 Chris Capuano
#288 Ted Lilly

#303 Tyler Clippard
#326 Alex Rios

Australia
Brazil
Roman Emperor Hadrian
2006 Topp 52 Rookies signed Ryan Spillborghs

In return I received:
2007 Allen and Ginter

#4 - Hamilton

#25 - Payton

#59 - Snell

#74 - Santana

#109 - Mora

#238 - Young

#241 - Mientkiewicz

#246 - Damon

#251 - Pettitte

#289 - Leyland

#322 - Walsh
Jones Cleon 05 Topps Fan Favorites FFA-CJ

Langerhans Ryan 07 Topps gold 0781/2007 508

Cox Bobby 1978 Topps 93

Braves Prospects Benedict, Hubbard, Whisenton 1979 Topps 715
Abercrombie Reggie 2006 Topps 52 Rookies Signed
Braves Leaders 1989 Topps 171
Jazz Age Comics Card of Clifton M. Jennings



Really happy with this trade. Glad could do this for Kris and glad he could do it for me.

First Trade of the New Year

A few weeks ago, I won a contest ran by Thorzul over at A Pack A Day with my prize being a choice of the cards from the pack of Allen and Ginter he opened. I chose the Greg Louganis as I did not have that card yet for my set. So after talking with Thorzul a bit, we made a little trade. So he got:
2007 Distinguished service #5 Monte Irvin and #17 Curtis LeMay
2007 Topps Heritage Chrome Ray Durham #16 (numbered 1944/1958)
2007 Topps UD&H #102 Adam Eaton

and I got
2007 Topps Allen and Ginter 325 Sizemore, 236 Hernandez, 224 Bard, 168 Smith, 128
Bradley, 72 Bruce Lee, 54 Rivera, 33 Dukes and the Louganis.

So this puts me a few cards closer to my complete set and a good trade all around.

Card of the Week 1/06/08: 2002 Donruss Super Estrellas CP-12 Barry Bonds Poder de Cuadrangular

Sorry about the bad pictures lately. My laptop that I connect to my scanner is in for repairs and hopefully I'll have it back by Tuesday and will give you more high quality scans. This card comes from one of Donruss' Spanish language sets. The easy joke here is "I think that translates to cheater in English!" but the truth is actually pretty funny in itself. If my remedial Spanish is correct, this translates literally to "Being able of the home run". I would say that Bonds is most definately able of the home run and is probably the most able out of every player. The blurb on the back says something about him hitting 57 home runs in Pac Bell and 36 in 16 different parks in 2001. But this is an interesting card and good to see that our friends south of the border have the joy of baseball cards and are able to collect players who are able of the home run.

One Down....

Remember how I was saying that I didn't get an autograph hit last year? Well in the past 2 days I've gotten 2 of them.

The Sergio Mitre came out of a pack of Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects and the Adam LInd (numbered 002/275) out of a pack of co-signers. So I'm off to a good start so far this year.

Box Break: Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects

I've gotten a few single packs of Draft Picks and Prospects and thought it was a really good set, so I got a blaster of them. Let's see if this box is a bust or not.

Pack #1

BDP 48 Angel Sanchez

BDP 12 Cameron Maybin

BDPP 94 Freddy Sandoval Chrome

BDP 4 Phil Hughes Chrome

BDP Yunel Escobar Gold

BDPP 86 Elvis Andrus

BDPP 29 Corey Kluber

Really good first pack. The Phil Hughes Chrome would have been the highlight, but I got the Escobar Gold along with former Brave Elvis Andrus and how can you not like someone named Elvis?

Pack #2

BDP 40 Andy LaRoche

BDP 52 Brendan Ryan

BDPP 64 Matt LaPorta Chrome

BDPP 27 Brant Rustich Refractor

BDP 52 Brendan Ryan Gold

BDPP 67 Collin Balester

BDPP 20 Sam Runion

Not a bad pack. A refractor and Adam LaRoche's little brother who is on the rise

Pack #3
BDP 22 Sean Gallagher

BDP 43 Yunel Escobar

BDPP 36 Craig Heyer Chrome

BDP 48 Angel Sanchez Chrome

BDP 28 Doug Slaten Gold

BDPP 3 Corey Brown

BDPP 7 Cory Luebke

I seem to be getting a lot of base cards and their variants, but I'll always take any Yunel's that i can.

Pack #4
BDP 17 Jon Knott

BDP 18 Joba Chamberlin

BDPP 11 Kyle Lotzkar Chrome

BDP 12 Cameron Maybin Chrome

BDP 31 Jesse Litsch Gold

BDPP 30 Justin Jackson

BDPP 88 German Duran

I hate the Yankees, but I think I like Joba as a player. He seems much more playful than the rest of the Yankees. Also, I can't wait for the first time German Duran gets a call up and makes a big hit or play and Chris Berman calls him German "Duran" Duran.

Pack #5

BDP 28 Doug Slaten

BDP 36 Carlos Gomez

BDPP 80 Rich Vandenhurk Chrome

BDPP 40 Andy LaRoche Chrome

BDP 45 Felix Pie Gold

Checklist

BDPP 4 Tyler Mach

BDPP 12 Freddie Freeman

Got another base and variant that had the opposite of already from this box. Freddie Freeman is now my 2nd favorite Brave with the last name "Freeman" right behind Marvin.

Pack#6

BDP 34 Matt Brown

BDP 51 Kevin Slowey

BDPP 19 Lars Davis Chrome

BDP 46 Homer Bailey Chrome

BDPP 68 Carlos Carrasco Game Worn Futures All-Star Game Jersey

BDPP 2 Karl Bolt

BDPP 99 Evan Longoria

WOW. What a pack. Not only did I get Homer Bailey in a chrome card (Homer played for the Chattanooga Lookouts near my hometown for what seemed like forever. Glad to see him in the bigs.) and a former #1 pick in Evan Longoria, but I got a game used Futures jersey card. Looks like this is the pack of the box.

Pack #7

237 Barry Bonds

BDP 14 Mike Rabelo Blue Variant numbered 256/399

BDPP 1 Cody Crowell Chrome

BDP 39 Mark McLemore Gold Refractor numbered 25/50

BDP 27 Ben Francisco Gold

BDPP 16 John Ely

BDPP 100 Wladimir Balentin

Wait, this might be the pack of the box.

How in the world did I get 2 numbered inserts in the same pack? According to the back of the pack wrapper, the blue variants are 1:84 while the gold refractors are 1:659. Who's the mathemagician who wants to tell me what the odds of getting both in one pack are? Incredible pack.

Pack #8

BDP 24 Dennis Dove

BDP 27 Ben Francisco

BDPP 109 Colby Rasmus Chrome

BDPP 9 Ryan Zink Chrome

BDP 11 Tim Lincecum Gold

BDPP 60 Gary Gattis

BDPP 8 Darin Mastroianni

A meh pack, but the Lincecum Gold is good stuff.

Overall, this was GREAT box. A game used card, good rookies, 2 numbered cards and just a lot of fun.