The Best Part Of This Post Is The End

In the seemingly never-ending string of packages that Wes/Jaybarkerfan has been sending to my door, he hit me with another mailer.  It was full of Royals, of course, and I finally got it all entered into Zistle and scanned here.


I liked the oddballs that were part of it, and wanted to show those off here.

Baby Billy Butler.

Bubble-Blowing Brett.

Unscannable Hal.

Jimmy Dean, the Sausage King of Kansas City.

"Tetrad?"  Never heard of this.  Lucky for me, there were ONLY 45,000 of these made, so good luck ever tracking down another.  Suckers.

Finally, it's not a JBFJ package without a little intrigue.  This internal envelope was awaiting me...

Oh man!  It's probably a George Brett Rookie - GEM MINT 10 - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT I'VE WAITED SO LONG WES IS THE BEST WES IS THE BEST WELL EVEN IF IT ISN'T THAT IT'S GONNA BE A BILLY BUTLER AUTOGRAPH OR JOAKIM SORIA OR DAVID DEJESUS OR SOMETHING TRULY GREAT!!!!!!

AND THE RESULT IS.....

I just got "Grimace"-Bipped.  There was no photoshopping involved in the above picture -- I just threw them all on the scanner.  Well played, sir.  :-)


Ken Harvey was an outstanding 1B for the Royals.  See his fielding prowess below.

Yep.  He was our All-Star.  Thanks, Wes!

Orel Hershiser and George Brett got in a fight...

...but not with each other.  George Brett gets into fights with Jack Morris.  Orel Hershiser gets into fights with Darryl Strawberry.  Apparently, they have each been in /2499 fights...or so the numbering on the back appears to say.

Donruss Leather and Lumber - #10 and #37

These all came from "Rhubarb Runner" at "e rayhahn, rayhahn."  He had the right answer in my "Awesome Card" contest, and I sent him some Twins from his wantlist.  He mistakenly (awesomely) thought this was a trade and sent me all these Royals inserts back. 

2003 Fleer Genuine Longball Threats - Mike Sweeney

2004 Playoff Prestige Achievements - George Brett

2004 Awesome Honors - Angel Berroa

2005 Leaf Alternate Threads - Ken Harvey

I wish everyone I came into contact with made such awesome mistakes.  Thanks, RR!

My Late Obsession

I'm only 3 months late on this one....so sue me!

Back in February, I made a trade with Jeff over at My Sports Obsession.  You can see lots of the stuff I traded him here.  It was mostly a good-sized stack of 1973 Topps and 1981 Topps.  He sent me a smaller envelope back, but it was a GREAT envelope.  He clearly looked through my want-lists and picked out some good stuff.  Here's a few of the highlights...

He started it off with 4 different Kurt Warners.

Football Heroes - Kurt Warner

 Then a Diamond King with a diecut Topps Laser card.

Brian McRae DK, and Johnny Damon Topps Laser

 As I neared the end of the stack, the cards started feeling THICKER.  Here was the first one.

2008 Upper Deck Jersey card - Gil Meche

 Considering how I didn't send him any hits.  That was awesome.

Then I flipped to the last card and found this one. 

2005 Absolute Memorabilia - Ken Harvey

WHAT!  That is a relic auto of Ken Harvey.  It's #/25.  It's sweet.  There is an embossing in the lower left over the auto.  This is my first relic auto, and it is cool.

Thanks so much, Jeff.