Baseball Card Mail Week in Review (11/30/19)

Going through my collection, I have noticed that some of my "regular" singles haven't survived in the best shape through the years. 

So I have been looking around for certain PSA graded cards that I thought would be good additions.

This was my coup de grace this week. I had never even seen a 1993 Finest Jumbo of Boggs before, so when I saw this one I was able to haggle the price down to about $24. And this thing is massive in its case.

Baseball Card Mail Week in Review (11/23/19)

Going through my collection, I have noticed that some of my "regular" singles haven't survived in the best shape through the years. 

So I have been looking around for certain PSA graded cards that I thought would be good additions.

Once again, these weren't really on my radar but got them cheap.

Baseball Card Mail This Week (04/20/19)

Another week, another relic!

2005 Leaf Century Collection Position relic (#'d 042/100).
I also have #96/100.

Baseball Card Mail Day (02/16/2019)

Okay things are starting to slow down a bit through the mail. I got the Colgan's Chips and Topps Fire from eBay. The rest I got from visiting one of my local card shops for the first time in forever.

Base/Inserts

2013 Panini Cooperstown Colgan's Chips

Baseball Card Mail Day (02/09/2019)

More cards keep rolling in, especially with the release of 2019 Topps. Got these inserts from the set.

Base/Inserts

First up, continuing with the reprints that were started last year (1983 Topps), this is a reprint of his 1984 Topps card. Guess this is going to be a thing from here on out.

Next up is an insert from the Grapefruit League Greats set. Nothing real limited as far as I can tell, but these are the first cards I have gotten from a brand new product in over a decade!

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Baseball Card Mail Day (02/05/2019)

Rookies

I was able to snag some more Braves rookies. The first two are Ozzie Albies who you've probably heard of already. This is his 2018 Topps Update RC and his 2018 Bowman Chrome RC. The next guy is a first year player out of Wichita State who basically just kept hitting. This is the 2018 Bowman Draft and Bowman Draft Chrome of Greyson Jenista. Just by buying these I have probably jinxed him for life.

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Limited (Serial Numbered)

Baseball Card Mail Day (01/31/2019)

Just one card today, but it is a sweet low numbered card of Wade Boggs.

This is a 2014 Panini Hall of Fame Red Frame, serial numbered on the front 14/75. I got this for a whopping total of $3.49, postage included.

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Baseball Card Mail Day (01/28/19)

First card up is (gasp!) not a Wade Boggs card. I am a huge Braves fan so I have been looking for rookie cards of some of the prospects down in the farm system. I am not a big speculator because I'm afraid as soon as I'll start collecting someone they will get traded away. It would be my fault. However, I am very high on Mike Soroka so when I was able to get his 2018 Bowman Chrome RC refractor pretty cheap I jumped on it. Numbered 244/499.

Rookie

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Limited (Serial Numbered)

Baseball Card Mail Day (01/26/2019)

Big shoutout to Cardbarrel.com (free advertising). I was able to get caught up on a lot of Boggs singles. Most cost me from from $0.15-$0.75! Gotta get them documented before they start piling up.

Base

2005 Topps Turkey Red #309

2008 Donruss Threads #8

2010 Topps Tales of the Game #17

Baseball Cards Mail Day (01/10/19)

And the cards keep rolling in. I ordered a lot of cards using holiday gift cards and they all seem to be arriving at once. Gotta get them documented before they start piling up.

Base

 This is from 2018 Topps Update. It is an SP (short print) Legend Variation of the base card #23 (JD Martinez). I'm not really sure how rare these short prints are. I see the odds per pack ranging from 1:9 to 1:273 so I have no idea how many of these things are out there.

Limited (Serial Numbered)

Baseball Cards Mail Day (01/08/19)

And the cards keep rolling in. I ordered a lot of cards using holiday gift cards and they all seem to be arriving at once. Gotta get them documented before they start piling up.

Base

 Okay so on the left is a 2018 Topps Fire #57. Just a base card from the set. It's meh in my opinion. On the right is a 2018 Topps Silver Pack 1983 Refractor #48. It's not numbered like the blue version I got recently so I'm not sure how "common" they are. I got it for $1.95.

Limited (Serial Numbered)

Baseball Cards Mail Day (01/05/19)

Lots in the mail today. Like I've said in my previous posts, I have some catching up to do with my Wade Boggs collection. I started looking for simple base cards that I needed, before looking for cards I would consider bargains (at least to me).

Base

 Okay so left to right is a 2018 Donruss #73, 2018 Topps Archives #248, and a 2018 Topps Salute #76. I got them all for $0.99 each which is about what I would expect for a newer single.

Limited (Serial Numbered)

Baseball Cards Mail Day (01/04/19)

In my last post I talked about scanning/documenting all the cards in my Boggs collection at some point. Well I figured I should do that as soon as I get anything new, like today.

I picked this up off Ebay for $1.58 which isn't too bad since it's a Press Proof. I love anything Boggs that is serial numbered because I know that the card is somewhat limited in nature. This one is 087/199. So I paid less than $2 for a card I know there is less than 200 of.

2015 Donruss #190

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Surprises in My Collection

I have been thinking about baseball cards a lot lately. I used to collect them big time and have a huge Wade Boggs collection. I have it in mind to go through and scan/document them at some point this year. I have even started picking up newer Boggs cards on Ebay recently (which I will start documenting immediately), but for now I was just poking through some boxes I haven't even looked inside in years and found a few interesting cards.

On the left is a 2001 Donruss The Rookies Ichiro, in the middle a 2000 Bowman Albert Pujols RC, and on the right an 89 Donruss Ken Griffey, Jr. RC (which probably everybody has). Okay, maybe the first two were more exciting. Cards I didn't even know I had. I will be posting more as I find them, and can hopefully trade them out for Boggs I need eventually.

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