Pat from Hot Corner Cards and I did a little PWE exchange last week. He sent a couple cards I needed for my Gypsy Queen set and I sent a couple Tigers his way. Here’s my half.
The three GQ cards I needed. Kevin Milwood for the “No-Hitters” insert set, CarGo and Austin Jackson for the “Sliding Stars” set. Check and check.
That wasn’t all. Pat also snuck in a nice Iglesias emerald sparkly.
Thanks for the quick trade Pat!
That’s the name of my new band. I kid, I kid.
I picked up a couple cheap, last minute items on ebay and then, as I’m sure most of you do, took a look at what else the seller had in hopes of getting a good deal with combined shipping. Oh, and this wasn’t the “combined shipping disaster” I mentioned before. That’s still working itself out (evil grin). This was a different seller. So, these two beauties were what I was after…
For someone who gets a huge kick out of Team USA cards, you’d have figured I’d be camped out in front of Walmart waiting for them to arrive. It was nearly a month ago that they were released and only this week did they finally show up at my local brick and mortar. If you’d like to know why I end up ebay/COMC’ing 99% of my collect, there you have it. No LCS, laggy distribution at my local stores. I digress. This isn’t a rant about Excell’s handywork in my area, it’s a post about baseball cards.
Pat from Hot Corner Cards surprised me with a PWE this week. He saw my Brock Holt collection post and chipped in two I didn’t have. I hadn’t bought any Archives and very little Heritage this year, and each product had a Holt I was missing.
Archives is a love it or hate it sort of product and I can’t really claim to be on the “loving it” side of the fence. I don’t have any problem with the concept of re-using older designs, but it seems like this year they just picked them completely randomly. I’ve very happy that Brock here isn’t on one of the designs from the 90’s.
A nice split-card with Kyle McPherson from the Pirates, which I can only assume is intentional since Holt was traded from the Pirates. Heritage is a set I could totally “get behind” if the set wasn’t so insanely large and if they’d stop friggin’ putting Ortiz as a short print. That’s just mean. That said, another awesome Holt RC off my checklist.
A big thank you to Pat, these are completely awesome and go directly into the collection! Thank you sir!
I just got a mystery package, an awesome “B Strong” car decale. I have no idea which one of you to thank, but “thank you!”
Anyone recognize “Diamond Graphics” in Rhinebeck NY?
I have roughly (and this is a completely imaginary number) 400 Clay Buchholz rookie cards. Or so it seems. 2008 was the year of a million products and he was a hot rookie. There’s a Buchholz rookie in nearly every product from that year. Sometimes, as I’m about to show, multiple rookies cards at that.
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