Red Hot Beckham

Saints of the Cheap Seats was offering it up for trade and we were able to work a trade out for this beauty. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the trade, it is so choice.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. I happen to get a 09 Heritage blaster for Christmas, yep a first series Heritage blaster. I am not sure where they found such a thing, but who am I to question, I want to rip.

Pack 1

Drew insert
a Miggy
Nyjer Morgan very curios from a fantasy angle
Will he repeat his numbers and stay healthy?

Pack 2

Lincecum Insert
Cardinal Coaches - SP

Pack 3

Lidge Chrome C18
cool card with Wright Arod - havent seen it before

Pack 4

David Wright - Will his power return?

Pack 5

CC - SP

Pack 6

Ichiro and Lester nice cards

Pack 7

Soto - SP
This is definitely the "they should be better pack"
Gordon, Francoeur, Young and Millege all super promising prospects

Pack 8

Reynolds what an incredible year
Both pitchers from the Giants - nice

3 SPs, two Inserts and a chrome. Nothing to exciting but I loved opeing a blaster not on shelves anymore. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

Gordon Beckham Collection

Here is a picture list of all the Gordon Beckham cards I have. Why pictures? I just like to see cards more than a list of words. If you have something not shown and want to trade it, please contact me so we can work something out, thanks.

Check out his MLB debut, June 5, 2009, or his first hit on YouTube


On to the gallery:

2009

2010

Thank you for checking out my Gordon Beckham Collection

Credits/Checklist (haves)

• 09 Topps Chrome #214
• 09 Topps #UH20 - Pictures Of Men
• 09 Topps Turkey #TR145
• 09 Topps Heritage #699
• 09 Topps Heritage Chrome #CHR154 0023/1960 - Pictures..
• 09 Topps Red Hot Rookie #RHR2 - Saints of the Cheap Seats
• 09 Topps 206 #174 - sruchris
• 09 Topps 206 (no number) - Pictures Of Men
• 09 Topps 206 mini #174 - Pictures Of Men
• 09 Upper Deck Update #U36
  
• 09 Bowman Chrome #185 - It's like having my own Card Shop
• 10 Topps #115 - sruchris
• 10 Topps Heritage #35
  

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week was is a tad late because I didn't get out of the house until late Sunday. So I didn't get to open it until late Sunday night. I went with another blaster of Heritage Hi from Target. Here is what I got:


Pack 1

the first card was dinged - which seemed to happen quite a bit

Pack 2

Tommy Hanson - cardboard back
Zavada fact from the back
Zavada did not allow an ER in his 1st 18 IP

Pack 3

an insert that makes no sense to me,
one hitter and one a pitcher,
one won the WS and one lost a WS
very odd to me

Pack 4

EVAN LONGORIA RELIC!!!!!!!
WOWee!! ZOWee!!!
Great Design and a relic of the main player i collect
Super Happy :)

Pack 5

Beckham another player I collect
Cahill Chrome
Future HOF John Smoltz
and a Reimold card (wish i still lived in Sarasota for the Orioles spring training)
Reimold help my fantasy teams
Sweet pack

Pack 6

a Ray
Rzepczynski a promising Blue Jay pitcher

Pack 7

Trevor Crowe Chrome
Cliff Lee in a Phillies Uni
Hampton a damaged card
Cecil another promising Blue Jay pitcher

Pack 8

David Hernandez Chrome
Qualls was the most damaged card

Not really sure what happened with the first card in five of the packs, the bottom right corner of each got snagged on something in production. I am really glad that no other cards got damaged.

The blaster was Awesomely Amazing and it was a blast to open. At first I was little sad that I wasn't pulling the chrome as easy as the last blaster but then in pack four when I got the relic and I immediately saw that it was Longoria, I was over the moon. To bad the wife just isn't as enthusiastic as I am about such things. But she does play along, as I kept informing her for the rest of the night, that I got a Longoria Relic and Beckham. Same thing happened when I started my chrome kick and got a Beckham and Hanson Auto. I love her, she lets me be silly and doesn't get annoyed with my excitement. I never expect autos or relic in blasters and to get one of a player I collect was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I did end up with three Chrome so that was a plus too.

Well this will be last blaster I will actually buy, until I gain employment again. What a great one to end with. I will try to think of things to post til than to keep the blog live and hopefully requests of baseball cards for Christmas from family will turn up and extend things into January. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

sruchris knocking some set need out

Chris at sruchris.com contacted me by saying he had a bunch of 08 Heritage I needed. It took about a week to check out his site and I must say, I was very impressed with his organization. I highly recommend checking his site out.

22 Heritage and a chrome for my sets

a bj and zobrist enabling me to have a PC and set copy - THANKS!!!
baker is a great pose
santana's smile just makes me laugh

another Ray with sonnanstine
rivera really helped me in fantasy this past year
love those all star cards with verlander
some sweet rookies with davis and romero

Thanks so much

My first redemption card :)

Today in the mail, I got a strange little envelope - I ripped it open not having a clue what was inside and out came this beauty - I believe when I last looked it was slated for March 2010. Definitely a pleasant surprise. Thanks Topps!!

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week was late and probably not going to happen for a couple of reasons. The main reason I'll address in my closing and one reason was I was holding out for Heritage high, but all I found while out and about was a single pack of Heritage high, no blasters, just a lone pack, so I picked it up.

two rookies and an O dog chrome
not a bad single pack

Okay, so my plan for this blog was going to spend twenty a week and trade as much possible, but for the last month you may have noticed I didn't always spend twenty dollars. I always wanted this blog to be about baseball cards and didn't want to bring up other things. But there is no way around the subject anymore, I have lost my job. Things are going to get tight following the New Year. So I asked Santa and his helpers (family) for blasters and I hope to spread whatever I get as long as I can. Until I find a job, this blog will be stopping some time in the near future. I thank everyone for reading my little blog and really thank all my trading partners and the friends I have made over the last several months. Blogging has definitely been a great experience.

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Then I watched Julie and Julia on DVD with the wife last night, and got inspired to try to keep blogging until the end of the year. Its really only two more weeks, so I can definitely do it. I happen to be in a Target today and wouldn't you know they got blasters in of heritage high. Knowing I will get some Christmas money, I decided to take an advance out of future gifts and buy a blaster of heritage update. Here is what I got:

Pack 1

Sweet, a Tillman Rookie and its back is different

Pack 2

Zimmerman chrome - nice

Pack 3

another chrome rookie :)

Pack 4

Mazzaro rookie and a Ray - me like

Pack 5

Fowler insert

Pack 6

another chrome and three rookies (two Bsox :)

Pack 7

Banks, this is a guy I am definitely targeting in fantasy in 2010
Penny chrome refractor - :)

Pack 8

an insert and another Zimmerman

It was fun blaster and very nice to get four chrome (one refractor) in a single blaster. I definitely imagine I beat the odds with those. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week I went with a blaster of Topps Update from Wally World, so I get two packs of the black variants along with a manufactured patch. Well I tried scanning but the names on the cards weren't visible so I went back to the photo style for these uncooperative little buggers. Here is what I got:

Pack 1

Carlton dup insert but still nice
LaPorta rookie :)

Pack 2

Crawford toppstown player collector help

Pack 3

cy young winner Grienke

Pack 4

two Rays and a turkey insert - nice pack
another CC for player collection :)

Pack 5

Wade Boggs insert

Pack 6

haren gold

Pack 7

nice pair of pitchers with johan and tim

Pack 8

hill gold - will he repeat or won't he?
i think he will

Pack 9

pujols propaganda dup
love these cards just wish it wasn't the only one i had
anyone want my dup pujols?

Pack 10

The pack of the blaster for me
thanks to a Price turkey

Pack 11

Who wants it? Not my cup of tea

Overall a fun blaster, definitely got a Rays fix. Some nice gold inserts, two turkey cards and some nice Wal-mart exclusive cards. I am glad they went to a two pack format, instead of a whole blaster, but if your a completest set collector, I am sure your not. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

Trading with the CCC

Another trade completed with Carl Crawford Cards and another bonus from him. He is definitely a very generous trader. He posted the two Longorias for trade bait and I bit like the player collector I am.

The Longoria propaganda card :)
(this is the card that hooked me, a card i have been craving)
and a mini with the black border
both cards i needed - happy happy, joy joy

then he went and added the other four
two 2001 Ichiro insert cards, WOW!!
THANK YOU!!!!

Great cards, I really enjoyed the extras. Thanks so much Carl Crawford Cards!!