A Nice Weeks Worth of Mail!

Hey guys, Drew back here. I recently got 2 nice packages from the blogosphere, the first being from Mr. Scott of "Mr. Scott's Baseball Cards". He has been one of the most generous traders I've ever dealt with, parting with cards from his PC to improve my Yankees PC! He never wants anything in return, so I got a ton of great cards for free! Check out some of them:

We begin with a few nicer late 90's-early 2000's Yankees. A great David Cone card based on his perfect game, a cool sliding Wade Boggs, and a Don Larsen World Series highlight. I'm pretty sure I had none of the cards in the scan above, so that's always good!

Outside of the Kennedy Masterpieces, I needed the rest of these cards as well. I love the 2009 Sweet Spot design with the seams that stick out of the card, and the card of Torre signing autographs was pretty sweet too. And you can't go wrong with some Diamond Kings!

Also, I'm not sure if this is the entire 2010 Bowman Yankees team set (yes, Vazquez was in there too but didn't fit on the scan), but if not it's still awesome anyway. I'm not the biggest Bowman fan by any means, but this past year the base looked pretty good.

Scott also decided to help me out with some Topps inserts. Here are 8 of 9 History of the World Series inserts (the other is in the next scan), my favorite being the Yogi Berra for sure! I only need 4 more inserts from this set to complete the 25 card set (#'s 8, 16, 21, 25), and when it's pieced together its actually a pretty cool set!

Here were also have 3 Legendary Lineage's (love the Mantle/Tex one), 2 Topps 2020 inserts, 1 Turkey Red of Denard Span, and 1 more History of the World Series. I really like the 2020 inserts, needing 6 more to complete the set now (1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 19). Legendary Lineage is almost wrapped up too, at least for Series 1 + 2, needing only card #45 to finish that off.

He included 2 more cards, along with 2 enormous stacks of base that were only briefly covered above. The first of these 2 was a 2003 Bowman Charlie Manning Rookie Refractor of some sort numbered to 170. Manning was given up by the Yankees shortly after this card was produced to land Aaron Boone in a trade with the Cardinals, and we all know how that one worked out. Soon after the Yankees got him right back, but since he has been on multiple teams and hasn't done close to anything with his career. Oh well, cool looking card though!

The final card to show off from this package was this 2005 Bowman Sterling Steven White autograph! White was nothing special at all, bouncing up and down through the Yankees minor league system up until 2008. He totaled 32 wins and 30 losses in the minors with a career ERA of 4.06. He never made the majors and appears to be a free agent as of now. This card looks really awesome nonetheless!

Thanks SO much Mr. Scott, you really did not have to do all that! The second and final package this week was from Samuel of "The Daily Dimwit". Him and I made a trade recently, and this was his part of it:

Four 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces cards that I needed! And 4 sweet ones at that. The Posada card is a surprising need, but now I'm only down to 3 base cards that I need (#8, 29, and 86) as well as 19 out of 30 short prints that follow the standard base set.

Next were 17 2010 Topps Update cards I needed for my set, and with 2011 Topps already out, I am beginning to be in a rush to get this done and overwith. I did have the Cervelli and Nick Johnson cards prior to the trade but they were caught up with the other Yankees cards and I forgot about them. Still, it's good to have 2 of them, one for the Yankee binder and one for the set binder!

And last but never least, a 2006 Upper Deck Artifacts Nick Swisher relic numbered to 150! I haven't picked up much of anything Swisher and Cano related right now, but I've found myself to be saving money for the card show, plus I've also been really picky lately. This however, is an awesome card to add to the collection, becoming my 125th unique card of his. I love different colored relics outside of the typical gray or white, and that's a cool thing about Swisher playing for the A's. Cool relics.

Thanks so much Samuel! Your part of the trade will go out very soon!

See Ya!

Ketchup Mailday

Hey guys, Drew back here. Well, since I'm kinda back, I might as well get caught up in trades. But first, I am going to the card show on Saturday as usual, and I will probably meet Billy Williams and Scott McGregor (free). I'll probably make a custom for Williams to sign so he can be in the Hall of Fame Heroes set. One other thing. R.I.P. Robin Roberts and Ernie Harwell, sorry I couldn't get to it I've again been very busy. Winning 20 games 6 straight years is ridiculously incredible, I didn't know how good he was until he died.

Ok, on that note, here are the 3 maildays that I hadn't posted yet, 2 being from bloggers and 1 from eBay. Let's start with Scott of Mr. Scott's Baseball Cards. Scott has been VERY generous in sending me cards, and this was a huge set helper. His side of the trade should be going out in the mail soon. Here's my part:

Well, thanks to Mr. Scott I completed the Legendary Lineage set. One less set to chase at the show, and it looks very nice next to each other. The Ford and Sabathia is really nice and I also really like the Rickey Henderson/Carl Crawford.

Here are 6 Tales of the Game. I really like the unique cards in this set, not often you find a card of the Pesky Pole, the Yankees digging up an Ortiz jersey and Topps dumping 52 Topps in the Hudson river. I only need 2 more of these now, 10 and 23, if you have them let me know before Saturday, as well as the rest of the stuff I'm posting here.

With these 4 When They Were Young inserts, I now only need Justin Verlander. Shoot me an email if you have one. As for as Cards Your Mom Threw Out, check my wantlist, I need about 20 of them still so help is much needed. And for History of the Game I need only Card #19, which is Johnny Bench.

Also, Mr. Scott sent me 14 Peak Performances, including Babe, Lou, and Roger Maris, a pretty good group of players. This leads me to need only 10 more of these to complete the first 50. I do want all these sets mostly complete by Series 2's arrival, which is very soon.

The last 6 cards he sent were all needed Cano's. He owns 145 of Cano's cards, and I now have 122 so I'm slowly catching up. I'm not a fan of 2008 UDX or First Edition or 2006 Upper Deck, but the 08 Chrome is nice, the Unique is pretty nice, and the Finest is incredible looking. Can't wait to get some of those refractors.

Thanks Mr. Scott! Now on to Wicked Ortega of My Past Time... I Love It. Wicked and I had a small little fight back in 09 but we quickly resolved and are great buddies now. We made a trade a few weeks ago and he sent more my way for nothin just a few days ago. Here are the cards:

First are just some TTS and Heroes. There is a Pettitte perforated parallel too so that's cool, don't have many of those, although I do think that those should have been the base cards since it IS a ticket set.

The Tex Icons completes that Icons team set, and as I receive loads of doubles of the same players, I finally get the Tex. Nice Joba parallel too. I didn't have either of the Burnetts and they are both awesome looking, and I always appreciate Jesus Montero!

I love those Murderer's Row cards, that makes 5 total for me and I no doubt want to complete that insert set. It's part of that 2000 Yankees Legends set I think, and they have a really cool look to them.

Again, I can't stand 06 Upper Deck but I did need it. A lot of Mantle as usual, Topps really used a pointless idea on the home run cards, yet I still want some of them. I would like at least number 536, his last homer, and maybe the tape measure shot too.

Some Jets were included too and they are really nice, especially the Keyshawn on the bottom row and all 4 of the top row cards have a sweet design.

2007 Artifacts is nice, but some of the cards can get boring. The Jeter is really nice though. I also needed the top Swisher, very nice. The Rudy Giuliani card is hilarious too, part of the 2008 Presidential Predictors set.

The last picture from Wicked, has some cool cards. First, the Tino is really cool, a Topps Gallery card, and the Thurman is a book, which is really cool. He also threw in a Vernon Gholston auto, which makes the 3rd auto of his that he has sent me. Gholston certainly isn't anything special, but as the Jets are making him a defensive end again like he was in college, he may be better than before. I needed the Cano card, I don't get why his name isn't on the front of the card though. The best card in this package though has to be the Ron Guidry refractor from Topps Archives Reserve 2002. My mom gave me the original 1978 card a long time ago since her brother collected some cards and must've given it to her or something, so it's cool to have a reprint of it.

Thanks Wicked! Lastly, I got a card off eBay recently for like $4, from the new National Chicle product.

Nick Swisher relic /199. Swisher has been lighting it up lately, so far with 5 home runs in MAY! Go Swish! The only problem on this card other than Swisher being stuck with the manly colors pink and purple is that the C over the game used and the border too is really dirty. I think I've seen more like this. Have you? Here's a pic of the back:

Well that's all for now, I hope you enjoyed that long post of trades (Thorzul in particular). See Ya!

Tons of new cards

Yeah, I'm behind, but I'll be ahead after today, enjoy the video!

MR SCOTT HAS 9 POINTS (2nd place) IN THE CONTEST!!!

I love that Torre triple and the Swisher jersey, plus all those Cano's, awesome! See Ya!

Mailday

Hey guys, a lot of good news in the last few days. First, the Yankees are going to the World Series, Second, the Jets won, third, my fever is almost gone, and I only have a sore throat now, and I should be back in school tomorrow. Also, the Card Awards were confirmed, and I got 3 awesome packages in the mail! One from Mr. Scott, a contributor on Wax Heaven, who earned 5 points in the contest and is in the Top 5 now for all the new Cano and Swisher cards. One was a 50 card lot of Swisher, tons of stuff I needed, got it off eBay for like 8 bucks. Lastly, I picked up my 1st 1/1 off eBay, from Ticket to Stardom, the red base parallel of Robinson Cano! So, check out the video to see scans of the cards, and I'll see ya later!