The Baseball (and other sports) Card Thread

[the singularity]

Bird's an all-time favorite of mine so I was pretty pleased!

red stitching is from that year's ASG jersey

[unpredictable landlord]

Marigold, Amblin, Other SoCal Sports Card Bros, anyone familiar w/ frank & son? i've been a couple of times w/ a dude from work on saturdays to pick up macfarlanes and think it's pretty dope.

[Amblin]

yeah i read about them from time to time but never really checked it out in person. right now there are two things on the front page that seem really cool, the RAIDERFEST and Dee Gordon in person. Might have to take a field trip to city of Industry for that.

[unpredictable landlord]

i'm due for another trip, so if folks wanna meet up gimme a holler.

[Amblin]

i'm down for a hipinion group photo with the million dollar man ted dibiase

[unpredictable landlord]

haha... yes.

[keykey]

spent $30 on a bunch of random 90's nba cards. got some cool jordans and a kobe rookie. also bought a binder off a dude who apparently has a thing for corey maggette. each 9 pocket page has the most random assortment of players. got a sick brevin knight card though

[Amblin]

ATTN POOTIS:

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/blowoutcards-product-information-pages-baseball/243015-2012-topps-allen-ginter-baseball.html#post2103235

[the genius king]

What's grosser, the Pujols in Halos uni card or the strand of Charles Dickens hair card?

[Amblin]

sea monkeys might be more gag worthy

[a-10 warthog champion]

ATTN POOTIS:

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/blowoutcards-product-information-pages-baseball/243015-2012-topps-allen-ginter-baseball.html#post2103235

sweeeet

wasn't planning on doing this again but i like the design on this set a lot more than last years

ill try to get my 2011 dupe/need list set this week

[keykey]

I went to a local show this weekend and bought a bunch more of the 1986 Fleer NBA set. Only need about 70 for completion....including Jordan

Apparently John Gruden was there, and I walked past him thinking how much he looked like Gruden lol

[Amblin]

i saw someone on a message board once that had that whole Fleer set with each card slabbed in grades 9 or 10. Pretty awesome.

[Marigold]

Sniped some dude at the last second on eBay to nab this baby for only $10

[keykey]

i saw someone on a message board once that had that whole Fleer set with each card slabbed in grades 9 or 10. Pretty awesome.

Yeah, that was Blowout I think. Dude had them on Ebay for like $30,000 or something ridic.

[Amblin]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-YU-DARVISH-BBM-3-SET-CARDS-fighters-japan-/170765072892?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item27c26439fc#ht_500wt_949
MY NEW FAVORITE SET OF CARDS ^_^

[Marigold]

If I didn't just drop $20 on some Belt AUs I'd be all over that.

[Marigold]

A few of my favorites currently on eBay:




SKILL: SECRET
SPECIAL SKILL: SECRET


YU-YU SPECIAL

[gambra]

Lol, Leaf were so hasty in getting the first 2012 certified card for Andrew Luck out there that they ended up selling cards that were for "ANDERW LUCK" and listed his "HIGHT". They pulled them after 30 or so had been sold but they'll honor those sales and the misprint will be numbered to however many were sold. Which just pumps up their resale value really.

[unpredictable landlord]

mcfarlane college football series 4 images are up:

[Amblin]

So Skip Schumaker is legit pissed Topps made a rare, super short print version of his 2012 card with the squirrel on it. He actually has a normal card in the set, this is just sort of a gimmick card that is tough to find and is pretty hot (600+ on ebay already). These cards just came out this week so its a bit of an inflated price, but still there's a lot of buzz about the squirrel.



Schumaker calls squirrel card 'ridiculous'
http://www.foxsportsmidwest.com/01/30/12/Cards-outfielder-calls-Rally-Squirrel-ca/msn_landing.html?blockID=656214&feedID=3794

"It's not disappointing, it's just ridiculous," Schumaker said. "I don't know how else to explain it other than that. You expect to have some sort of action shot or something but it's like a mascot card to me.

[the singularity]

hahahah

settle down, Skip, you just won a ring!

[the genius king]

$600? wtf. I was hoping I could get one for $5, better let this shit settle down. .

Also Marigold, I have a 2011 Brandon Belt first year Bowman Chrome and a 2010 Bowman Chrome Buster Posey purple refractor "rookie card" if you wanna trade for any Cardinals cards.

[the singularity]

I feel ilke we could have a kind of awesome "trading session" via tinychat or something, post cards in here that are available for trade/post what we're interested in trading for, then set up a time a few days later where everyone goes at it like a pack of wolves

maybe that's kinda retarded but maybe it would be kinda fun, i dunno

[Marigold]

o fuck thread is getting HOT

I think the tinychat thing might be a bit much but yes we absolutely need to post our tradelists in here.

[gambra]

Ahahahaha, for fuck sake dude relax, it's just a trading card.

[gambra]

I have a bunch of GU and AU cards for trade (almost all football) I'll get listed up later tonight if people are gonna start posting lists.

[Amblin]

we could post our players/teams here, then go from there. then also i think some of us could post decent "hits" that we don't want to keep? also for set builders we could post the holes and dupes.

[Amblin]

genius king are you going to rip 2012 Series 1 this week?

[the genius king]

Yeah, Chicago has, like, one hobby shop in the whole city and it's nowhere near me, so I'll probably just end up buying a bunch of packs on my next trip to Target.

Which brings me to another question, can people really do that thing where they "feel" unopened packs and can tell which ones have hits? And if so, should I just avoid the loose packs at Target since they've been searched and just go for the $20 10-pack box?