Blinded by Project 62

Project '62 posted a 09 Topps Update Gold Crawford and naturally I inquired about a trade for some Rynos. He said he was putting together a package and would send it out and we would do a blind trade. I thought cool, can't wait. Well yesterday it showed up and it blew me away.

First he gave me some amazing set help, 11 cards for my 09 Topps Chrome. Taking me from less than twenty to less than 10. Thank you so very very much. It was very unexpected surprise.

Some Red Sox love with Lowell, Ortiz, Pedroia, and Beckett
Great collection of players with Wright, Upton, McCann, and Billingsly
and two promising rookies with Bailey and Snider

He then added two cards for my 08 Heritage set - one a Ray and one a good pitcher with the potential to become a great pitcher over his career. I'm definitely a fan of both Edwin and Verlander. Thanks again.

Then he added some incredible cards for player collections

First up, Lonogoria - a chrome refractor - WOW! shiny :)
and then my first 09 T-206 card of the year and boy what a start

a bronze card - Super WOW 8)
the back of the card talks about golf - strange
but I love it and hadn't seen it before
THANK YOU!

Then the card that prompted this encounter
09 Crawford Gold highlight - so pretty
he even added a CC Turkey i needed - great card
an 03 Ichiro 205 card - sweet
a Ryan insert - very sweet photo
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!

then he sent me some Rynos
the Masterpiece is awesome
and two other needed Rynos

such an amazing Package
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!

Mail Day Wicked Style!

I have been pulling a few cards over the past few weeks for the Wicked one who runs My Past Time....... I Love It!!. Then I pulled a Marlin auto and he mentioned he liked, followed by the fact he shipped out some much needed set help along with a numbered Longoria. Today I got his package, here are some of the highlights:

Longoria, Ticket to Stardom numbered 28/99

21 Heritage

24 Shiny

Great cards, Thank you so much, Wicked

TROLL DAY!!!

My day got really exciting when a little box from The Collective Troll came in the mail. Troll sent 132 cards from my 2008 Topps Heritage need list. WOW!!! 132!!! Amazing, thanks so much for taking a huge chunk of list out. Here are some of the cards:

Some really nice cards

Three Rays, Sweeet!

An Ichiro - WOWee ZOWee

THANK YOU!, THANK YOU!!, THANK YOU!!!
TROLL
I will try and get together something nice to send your way :)

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week I will be finishing off the 2008 Heritage hobby box. This week I will be on the far right side going top to bottom. Here is what I got:

Pack 17

Lincecum looks so young in this photo - like freshman in high school young
stetter, pedro, bailey, salty set need
and a fidel castro card, oh joy (sarcasm)

Pack 18

i really like the all star cards and it really goes with the phillies uni
teahan, aurilla, hamels, howard set need

Pack 19

crosby, krod, nats, combo set need

Pack 20

pat the bat, logan, alou, owens set help
arod new age performers

Pack 21

owings and matsui set need
nice pack with cain, pence and buchholz

Pack 22

capuano and valverde set help
what happen to capuano? he won 18 games two years ago (really helped me in fantasy)
now and then insert
and BJ's bro - who had his break out season at 22 years old, WOW! .300 26HR 20SB
just remember BJ at 23 had .300 24HR 22SB

Pack 23

miller and wilson set help
joba chrome
its so wrong if grienke doesn't win the cy young award

Pack 24

willingham, lopez, overbay set help

Over all I am happy with my hobby box. I wish the auto was of someone I could get behind on some aspect, but I got a good chunk of set help and had fun opening twenty four packs. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week I will be continuing with the 2008 Heritage hobby box. This week I will be going down the middle row of packs, top to bottom. Here is what I got:

Pack9

wandy, galarraga, wiggington set help
matthews insert

Pack 10

hunter, pena jones, garza set help
insert - i am not a fan of non baseball inserts in baseball products

Pack 11

giants and gordon set help

Pack 12

kemp chrome
braun, combo, rowand set help

Pack 13

combo, hudson, carpenter, white sox set help

Pack 14

ichiro - yeah! now i have one for my pc and set
fuld, mora, sanchez, gagne set help

Pack 15

mike baxes auto - i dont get this, he only played two mlb seasons, why is he a hit card
morneau, marquis, drew, jennings set help

Pack 16

kendrick, lucy, gutierrez, banks set help

Well eight more packs down and some much needed set help. A really weak hit card if you can call it that. No offense meant toward Mr. Baxes, he got to play in the majors. Which is more than I have ever done in baseball. I looked him up and he didn't do anything worthy of including him in product 50 years after he played. Maybe I missed something but I didn't find anything on him that made me say wow I learned something or that was neat or I'm glad I got this card. If I'm wrong on Mr. Baxes, please let me know.

Also included in hobby boxes are panels - another thing I don't understand.

The Panel

Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

More Mail Day Catch Up

Still playing catch up. Thanks to JD's Wild Cardz I got to knock off 23 more cards off the 2008 Heritage Topps. Here are some of the favs

reynolds put up otherworld numbers this season
upton and ethier both put up some pretty numbers
pedroia was a bit of shock form JD's Daddy
I must say thanks hope it wasn't to hard letting it go



JD's Daddy even included two Rays

Thanks so much JD's Wild Cardz for helping me towards completion of my set.

Mail Day from the weekend

Playing catch up from the weekend. Nachos Grande sent some much needed help with my 2008 Topps Heritage set. A total of 46 cards to knock a huge dent in my need list. Here are some of my favs

smoltz future Hall of Famer
young will still be on my fantasy radar next year
love these team cards - got the rays and red sox on my desk at work


johnson first ballot hall of famer
dempster still amazes me
bruce and scherzer two potential studs

Thanks so much Nachos and look forward to future trades.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week I went with a hobby box of 2008 Heritage. The 1959 set design, is my favorite that Topps has ever made. I do like a lot of years but this is just my personal fav. The main aspects I like of the design is the circle inside the rectangle card, which gives the feeling that the players are in a spotlight and I love that the type is all lower case. I needed a lot for my set and wanted a little change from chrome. Of course, this was way over budget. So this will be broken up into three weeks to cover my budget. I was a little lucky that there were 24 packs, so dividing the box up works out perfect. My first week of the box will be the left side packs from top to bottom. Here's what I got:


Pack 1

My first All Star card with Beckett and I like
wolf, rios, stewart, and beckett set help

Pack 2

WOW two packs in and I scored a Hanley Refractor
very nice combo card with diceK and beckett also set help with gwynn

Pack 3

A Ray, YEAH!! and New Age insert
crawford,lee,schilling,combo set help

Pack 4

Nice collection of guys
everyone but mccann and sizemore were set help

Pack 5

Then and Now insert
lackey,vizquel,rollins,murphy,estrada set help

Pack 6

30-30 Man Kinsler and Zimmerman finally doing what everyone expected
Maine Chrome - Any Mets fans want this?
zim,mags,carlyle,edmonds,duhram set help

Pack 7

Lind and Bartlett both had an insane year
contreras,bannister set help

Pack 8

Nice collection of guys on the bottom row
manny,edgar,lo duca set help

Well just buying a box for set building definitely gave me a much more relaxed feel while opening packs. When opening the chrome I am hoping for McCutchen or Longoria Xfactor the whole time but this was nice. Looking at cards, seeing which ones I need and just going slowly pack by pack. Very pleasant experience. Scored two chrome cards Hanley and Maine and just three inserts, I think the blasters I bought last year had more inserts in them. So far so good with what I got in this box. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

2008 Topps Heritage Needs

I love this set and looked forward to it for two years when I first bought some heritage and realized the 1959 set was just two years from being released. The 59 Topps style is my favorite Topps design ever.

My needs list is a dozy, I need a lot, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am not concerned with a normal or black variant just so I get one of each card in the set. There is no difference to me that the back of the card has black ink instead of green ink. Right now I have my black backs mixed together and I am still missing a bunch. I'm trying for the whole set 1-720 so I do need SPs. Thanks chris OK

BASE
5,7,11,14,60,71,82,84,
116,122,146,
211,220,253,283,284,
315,325,349,381,
409,426,427,428,429,430,431,432,433,434,435,437
441,442,443,444,445,446,448,450,451,454,456,457,459,
461,462,463,464,465,467,469,471,472,473,474,477,
479,480,481,484,485,486,487,488,489,490,491,492,493,494,
495,496,497

HIGH
525,526,529,530,535,536,538,539,540,549,
560,564,581,582,584,589,592,594,597,
602,607,614,616,618,625,643,648,
689,653,655,656,657,662,665,666,668,672,677,
685,686,688,689,691,692,693,694,696,697,698,699,
700,702,703,706,707,708,709,
711,712,713,714,715,716,717,718,719

SUPER SPECIAL THANKS!!!

The Collective Troll

Nachos Grande
JD's Wild Cardz
My Past Time ....... I Love It!
sruchris.com
Project '62
The Other World

for helping me get closer
to a complete set