Stealing Home Every Night

I've been away for awhile, but had to jump in and post two gift packages that recently landed in my mailbox.

First, Peter at "Baseball Every Night" was giving away team slots from his recent Series 2 purchase, so I snatched up the Royals from that. 

My fave pickups here were the Alex Gordon gold parallel, along with a Matt Strahm insert.

There were lots of new cards to me here -- good to see a card of Cheslor Cuthbert -- but can't help but wonder why Peter O'Brien got a card when he never made the 25-man roster for us and was waived by us in May (then waived by the Reds....then waived by the Rangers...).

Thank you so much, Peter!  Everyone remember to send him your Kruk and Strawberry cards!

Right after that one came, I got one from Stealing Home at "All Trade Bait" -- He was running a Big Fun Game of his own and my selection of Lot #6 netted me a big pile of rookies.  Here were my favorites from that stack.

Everybody was so young in these pictures!  Mostly I remember Charlie Hough as the first pitcher ever for the Marlins.  He was 45 when he did that (in 1993), so I would say he had a little longevity in the game of baseball.

These are great!  Thank you, sir!!!

I may be vanishing again soon...baby #3 is due in two weeks, so who knows how that will change everything.

A bientot!

Stealing Home, Stealing Hearts

At the beginning of April, I was trying to wrap up some other trades, when Oscar -- Mr. "Stealing Home" -- from All Trade Bait contacted me out of the blue for another trade.  A few emails later, and boom - a little yellow envelope was showing up at my door.

Now, before I go any farther...my wife is cool.  She's not a card collector, but she likes looking at what comes through the mail before I put it in the boxes/pages.  She also likes the Royals, which means she knows quite a few of the players. 

However, when she saw this come out of the package...she was ELATED.

2010 Upper Deck - UDGJ-ZG - Zack Greinke

The blue in the jersey pops a lot more than it does in the scan.  We all thought this card was very "pretty" and liked that it had our (former) player and Cy Young winner.  Greinke, how we miss thee.

But Oscar wasn't done.  He included this auto:

1996 Leaf Signature Series - #171 - Jon Nunnally

This card is not serial-numbered...but COMC tells me that this was limited to 3500, while there was also a silver version limited to 1000, and a gold version limited to 500.  That means ol' Jon Nunnally had to sit around and sign 5000 of these.  Poor guy's hand is probably still cramping.  Although that's nothing like what Marshall Faulk endured when he autographed 125k cards for the Madden games.

I also have the Keith Lockhart signature from this set.

1987 Donruss Opening Day - Bo Jackson - #205

There were a bunch of cool base cards, and the best one was this Donruss Opening Day Bo Jackson.  I had never seen one of these before, so had to do a little research to figure out what it was.

Here's all the goodies I sent him. 

Thanks again for the trade!