Too Many Goodies from Dennis

Bloggers are a different breed. Seems lately I have my Tweeps I trade with on Twitter that are okay, my favorite Trading Card Database swappers I exchange cards and pleasantries with, and then there are the handful of Bloggers I call my friends. Bloggers share that passionate generosity where we feel  thrilling excitement for other people's reactions of what we send to them almost more than when we open cards for ourselves. Dennis from Too Many Verlanders is my closest blogger friend and the most generous person I swap cards with. This dude is always looking out for me in every box of cards he peeks through. He gets me JaCoby Jones and Nolan cards often. Very often. But, even more incredible is the deep cuts he hits into my PC. I can barely remember who I collect. I swear Dennis knows what I collect better than me. Check out this package I got from him pre-Xmas that my lazy ass is just now getting into posting.

JJ and Nolan Scribbles. 

Might have to ask Gibby to start taking my pics for me, jeesh.

How would he even think of me for that Salty? I love it!

Vizquel Blue Jays....mind blown.

Hockey too!

God, these pics are terrible. That Tony Phillips is a work of art. 

He even dipped into some hoops for me!

I couldn't even list and show all the cards he gave me. Last week I forced him to drive to me to meet up with Chuck (C2Cigars) from Trading Card Database. It was a good time but the show was crazy busy for the first time ever. Its always fun to catch up with people in person that you've only interacted with online. Chuck was great and even gave us some cards. I was at least able to give Dennis my less than stellar box of cards I am always building for him. Not being a college sports guy at all, I really owe him something big for his PC very soon. Dennis is the man. I would recommend becoming his friend. He sent out like two dozen packages just like this right before Christmas. Like a Blogger Santa. Santa Blogs? I donno. Thank you Dennis!

Like a Cracked Bat Over the Head: Buried in Want List Cardboard

Please forgive me Julie for taking so long with this post, 'tis Tee-ball season.

A Cracked Bat

Julie runs the blog: A Cracked Bat: Baseball Cards and a Hot Dog. She chases the old English D along with John, Dennis and me. Recently, she gave me a heads up that a "small" box was headed my way. Her idea of a "small" box was a huge chunk of my wantlist from TCDB which we are both members of. I took some pictures but there was way too much goodness in this box for the few pics I took to do it any justice. This box had everything!

I have had the backer that these pins go on since 2007 and I think I have a Brandon Inge and Jim Leyland pin floating around here somewhere. These three are a wonderful addition and motivation to get this pin collection completed. 

Stick 'Ums and ProVisions. Be still my heart. 

Sweet Nolan Ryan from the year before I was born. 

Some thick cardstock of a couple former Tiger aces.

This is just some of the Ty Cobbs in the box. I needed the Masterpieces for the set I am working on. 

The Cecil Fielder gold signature is one of my favorite cards now. 

Two things I love; unscratched game cards and Jim Thome!

I saw Edmonds was going to be at the National but thought $60 was a little steep for me to give up box digging time for him. Especially when I can probably buy an Edmonds auto for less. BUT, then I saw the 1990 All Star card. I need some ink on that thing! And yes, that is a relic card.

Vintage Tigers!

Relics and Ink! I've needed a Tanana auto for a long time.

Omar Vizquel relic with the Indians. Amazing card!

Thank you so much for thinking of me and dropping these awesome cards on my Julie! Make sure everybody checks out her blog, tracks her down on Twitter, and friends her on Trading Card Database. You just might find yourself buried in wantlist cardboard.

High Quality TCDB Trade!

Check out this 7 card trade package I received in a recent Trading Card Database trade:

I apparently have an affinity towards highly skilled 3rd basemen i.e. Arenado, Chapman, B. Anderson...

I am usually not a fan of manufactured relics but this card is awesome in person.

Here are some other recent pickups:

Finally found Walgreens cards. (Now that nobody wants them). The two cards above made their way into my PC and I have  a stuck loaded onto TCDB for trade. 4 hanger boxes opened and not one yellow RC. 

The Paredes is from a TCDB trader who originally sent me a PWE that showed up owing $3.11. It made up for it!

I pulled the weirdest messed up Stadium Club card the other day. For ripples across the front. Never seen that before. #ebay1/1

Picked up some basketball on a whim looking for Pistons or Doncic cards. Got one.

Also pulled the lowest numbered card of the year so far for me. /10!

TTM Return!

This year has been one of the worst for TTM returns. It seems MLB players have given up on it. Matt Davidson did hook me up though. I saw this sweet looking card and thought it could use a scribble. 

Topps Home Run Challenge

It looks like the Home Run Challenge winners for April are about to roll out. Notice however, my May winner Ohtani says April...hmmm; he didn't play in April. We shall see what shows up.

Secret Santa '18: I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday!

The Collector aka Chris was my secret santa this year and CRUSHED IT! I received two packages in one. He sent along a stack of great Tigers and Nolan Ryan cards as well as 3 HUGE hits for my PC.

Vintage barely describes the age of this sweet fish card from 1900. 

A gorgeous Vizquel auot. Love the crisp blue ink!

A new JJ out of /125! 

Nolan Ryan playing Arthur Morgan. 

Check out this fat stack of Nolans with a Arenado GOLD!

Some Tiger greats and color variations I needed!

I say it a lot but can't say it enough; our blog community rocks! A very Merry Christmas to Chris from The Collector blog. Also, a huge shoutout and thank you to Jon at A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts blog for making sure this happened again this year! I am absolutely thrilled and hope everybody gets what they want this year.

One Million Cubs?! & LOTS of Recent Additions

 I Am Alive

Well, its my turn to have the "Blogging Yips" where I can't get myself to sit down and post or find the time to. Unfortunately, my hobby activity is probably at an all time high right now and I have too much to post about and can't; or won't. I am not sure which. This post will be blog-vomit but enjoy the pics.
I have succumb to twitter trading. It seems I am always one step behind. As soon as I got this blog back up and running and found and friended other bloggers for trades it seemed they all started trading via twitter and trading via blogger went stale. I finally have made the jump to posting and looking for cards on twitter and that is one reason this blog has been a ghost town. The other reason is that I have a good grasp on how The Trading Card Database works now and have completed 2 trades and have 5 processing right now. I love it. I will have a post coming up soon on tips for getting more trade offers on there.

 

 

WARNING: @onemillioncubs Is Hoarding Shawon Dunston Cards

@onemillioncubs is owned/operated by Beau Thompson and has a website (www.onemillioncubs.net) and I am sure you can guess his collecting goal by the name. I had been watching his twitter from the shadows for a long time and finally reached out to him for a trade. We swapped 650 Cubs for 650 Tigers. It was a great trade for both of us. I recommend trading with Beau if you have a bunch of team sorted junk wax sitting around. Its for a good cause and I got a lot of great cards not just team set fillers.

Beau threw in a /299 Verlander and the Kaline variation from 2018 Donruss.

EBAY BUCKS Y'ALL!

I had enough Ebay bucks to get this sweet Omar Vizquel Detroit card for half price. See it in all it's glory below:

Speaking of Vizquel

I paid my favorite Ebay breaker a visit and bought into a 4 case player break of 2018 Topps Tribute for Omar Vizquel and Michael Fulmer and then a 4 case player break of 2018 Diamond Kings for Jacoby Jones. I have come a long way from a junk wax collector in a very short time. Never dreamed I would be holding cards like this. Here is the haul:

TRADES!

The Trading Card Database has been my best friend lately. pjdionne12 is my profile if you want to browse my stuff or be friends.

Courtesy user name:  alanschwarz

Via NACHOS GRANDE

 

Via Kenneth Kizzer on Facebook:

Via Collin J Rae on Facebook:

Via @connorkelly4222 twitter:

 VIA Wallgreens and Rite Aid $5 boxes"

Pretty sweet "game used" relic /150 shows Angels, says Red Sox

Via Ebay:

Via TTM:

Via Target box: