Check out this sweet autograph at Autos and Relics

Michael Bourn has a great autograph on this 2007 Topps Chrome card.

Check out this great card at The Great 1965 Topps Project

Kevin pulled a sweet Hideki Okajima card from the 2008 Topps Trading Card History insert set.

Trade - with Dinged Corners - gift from Patricia and Lucy

It made my day the other day when I got a thick stack of Cardinals cards from Patricia and Lucy.  Here are some of the cards:

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Trade - with Card Collector Universe - gift cards

I am sending off some Mets cards to Scott to thank him for including me in his blogroll.

2007 Topps Generation Now - David Wright

2007 Topps Finest - Jose Reyes

2007 Topps Own the Game - David Wright

2007 Topps Allen & Ginter - Jose Reyes

1987 Topps - Will Clark

1975 Topps - 43 90 111 134 158 182 214 239 264 290 324 395 406 421 445 565 575 637 659

News - too many relic cards?

Beckett reported in an article that since 1997 - 416, 739 relic cards have been produced.  That is ridiculous to me.  Don’t get me wrong I really like the concept of relic cards.  Card companies giving regular guys like me the chance of owning a piece of memorabilia from one of our heroes is awesome.  But making relics so common that they become worthless isn’t a great idea, it’s a greedy one.  Occassionally I get on ebay and buy relic cards for $2.50, which includes shipping.  Obviously the genie is out of the bottle so I don’t know the solution to the problem, but it is still frustrating pulling a great relic card out of an expensive pack and knowing it is worth only a dollar.

Trade with - Orioles Cards - who won my contest on 02/28/2008

Kevin at Orioles Cards answered some Bobby Doerr trivia questions and won the following cards (from his want list):

• 1961 - 395
• 1980 - 91 119 211 262 367 404 490 517
• 1985 - 521 
• 1986 - 117 233 263 264 279 371 390 396 404 426 442 443 474 558 577 600 617 701 714 717 758
• 1988 - 6 57 152 300 447 661 664
• 1990 - 108 121 396 398 690 700
• 2006 - 337 341 366 370 374

I will put them in the mail today, and once again congratulations.

Check out - Bad Hits

The writer of Bad Wax has now started a new blog Bad Hits.  I am really looking forward to seeing all of his game used and autograph cards that are bad.  I share his curse of pulling pathetic hits of guys nobody has heard of.  Out of all the wax I ripped last year I only had about 10 good hits.  So go check out Mike’s new site, it’s going to be a home run.

Trade - Gift to Busting Wax

I sent off some 1975 Indians to Busting Wax to thank him for including me in his blogroll:

14 62 86 135 159 181 191 213 238 263 288 331 354 377 403 424 482 506 552 605 639 619 655

Check out - the Baseball Card Blog’s top 10 sets from the 80’s

Ben finished this countdown of must have sets on June 29, 2006:

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• #2
• #3
• #4
• #5
• #6
• #7
• #8
• #9
• #10

Trade - with Baseball Card Man

I mailed off a short stack of 1975 Royals cards to Bart to thank him for adding me to his blogroll:

24 48 120 144 169 251 268 295 314 340 364 413 437 437 472 495 544 569 629 652