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es brand but there are a million of these on ebay it is now my earliest linecum card i suspect any of the others from 2006 will be a little more difficult to come by the other one is a 2007 topps moments and milestones card numbered 02 25 again way cheaper than it should have been in this case not complaining i have quite a ways to go before i feel like i m truly getting there w a world class linecum collection but these two get me that much closer posted by jay at 7 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 6 2022 still all in on 1975 topps baseball i suppose i mentioned this once before but when i first became acquainted with 1975 topps baseball the only ones that we could buy at my local sacramento 7 11 where i bought all my first cards were the mini versions consequently these minis which were only available in limited parts of the country were what i thought 1975 topps baseball were a one year aberration where they decided to experiment with smaller cards it was only in my non collecting adulthood that i found out the truth that those minis were relatively rare and that 75 topps was mostly made in your normal 2 5x3 5 version the only 75 packs i grabbed back then in 1977 when i first started buying cards were leftovers that were sitting unbought of course i gave them all away to a neighbor probably around 1980 or so now here i am trying to collect the regular 1975 set and yeah it s costing me more than the 25 cents a pack i paid back then thankfully there s ken in missouri who recently sent me a nice handful of 75s that i didn t have including this beautiful if a little chewed up in the corner rollie fingers i m all in on the 1975s seriously one of the great sets of all time here are a few more that came over in the batch from ken posted by jay at 8 27 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 16 2022 totally loving these colors and contours if i m going to make my bed with any sort of hockey card insert series right about now it s those colors and contours that come out as a part of upper deck s mvp series they mostly feature stars they re numbered to 250 and they looks fantastic they have been doing these for a few years now what you re seeing here are the 3 that i ve procured from the 2020 21 set and one that i recently picked up from 2021 22 honestly those 2020 21 cards are as good as it gets there are 100 in that particular set so i m 3 of the way there there are also green and purple versions of course if you have some of these and absolutely hate them and want them out of your collection please get in touch posted by jay at 8 38 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 13 2022 the 2021 pablo sandoval rainbow you may or may not know that pablo sandoval my all time favorite baseball player and the guy whom i have the largest pc of played for the atlanta braves during the 2020 season he did i remember seeing him pop up in the playoffs that october as a pinch runner and i was totally delighted thinking him as being pretty much done with major league baseball once the giants cut him free 4 plate appearances with 2 walks for an ops of 500 he returned in 2021 for 78 at bats at a 178 average he now plays in the mexican league if the mexican league makes baseball cards i have not checked yet i will absolutely be buying the pablo sandoval card topps update put together a rainbow of numbered pablo sandoval cards in his atlanta uniform in 2021 i m not entirely sure why believe it or not there are 27 different versions of this card to collect including printing plates and whatnot i don t understand that at all someday i shall have those as well in any case these are the six that i do have 3 of these are stamped and numbered three are not posted by jay at 7 35 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 11 2022 a tentative mika zibanejad collection as i write this the tampa bay lightning are a game away from heading to the stanley cup finals by beating mika zibanejad s new york rangers who until two days ago were the most exciting and inspirational thing about this year s playoff season who i am rooting for unequivocally normally i wouldn t care much about an original six team but this is a team that s 28 years removed from their last cup victory which came something like 50 some odd years after their previous one now they have an average age of 27 with guys who fly down the ice crash corners and pop up out of nowhere center mika zibanejad is my favorite of the bunch he s a fast skating high scoring swede of persian descent i ll admit i was only marginally familiar with the guy until these playoffs he s a first liner for the rangers and he s been a total revelation during these playoffs so much so that i bought a bunch of his cards he was drafted by the ottawa senators played there a bunch to build his game and came over to new york for the 2016 2017 season if he and his team get stomped in game 6 later today well thanks for the memories mika if not well the story of the rangers the kid line adam fox zibanejad igor etc etc will go on for at least another couple of days posted by jay at 7 04 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 7 2022 the curse of wanting it all as mentioned in yesterday s welcome myself back to blogging post i m currently dabbling in all sorts of hockey card manias to figure out what i actually like what s relatively easy to procure what ll always be too expensive to chase and so on i pretty much mastered the baseball card market the past few years understanding more or less what the yearly releases were and where i wanted to spend my time the problem i found is that i wanted to spend my time with all of it or at least most of it i accumulated more san francisco giants cards than i knew what to do with opened up player collections for at least 15 20 guys started trying to complete a dozen or more vintage sets started spending on promising prospects like joey bart and jo adell who haven t done jack in the big leagues with their god given talents and so forth it was fun no question but then i had to clean a ton of it out to keep my sanity with hockey i think i m just going to actively go for one player collection patrick marleau more about that guy in a future post i can see small pcs assembling for guys like joe thornton peter forsberg brent burns and maybe even mika zibanejad as you can see from some of these scans here i m also just buying stuff to see what sticks all of these are interesting cards that came from 2020 21 and 2021 22 upper deck series one and extended now i m probably going to have to collect all those dazzlers damn it they re just too great i was listening to a new hockey card podcast called hockey cards gongshow it s a good one and the fellas behind it were talking about 3 types of card accumulators collectors investors and flippers while i suppose there s always a part of me that would like to have a buy and hold investment in a card i got lucky enough to pull from a pack that market based way of thinking about the hobby does nothing for me and never has to say nothing of flipping the whole breaks 1 1 what is the market for this card mentality rubs me the wrong way the hockey card gongshow guys are a little too wall street week esque at times for my tastes but their love of the sport and of the players they re collecting overrides all and hey i wouldn t be lying if i told you i wish this ilya sorokin insert right here was stamped 1 1 on it or that i d have loved to get a trevor zegras young guns out of the packs i bought yesterday anyway such is the curse of wanting it all i ll bumble along with hockey cards for a while trying to complete the stuff on my want list and experimenting with the rest posted by jay at 3 06 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hockey cards monday june 6 2022 hey card hemorrhage is back and better than ever hey everyone well that was a nice little break from the hobby now wasn t it i haven t posted anything since valentine s day and listen it s not because i stopped collecting or anything nah as i said in earlier posts i had something of a reckoning given that my baseball card collection was starting to overtake my ability to appreciate it and care for it it was time to reassess and figure out what it was that i truly wanted to collect where i ended up was something of a surprise even to me so regarding baseball my wants and needs were basically whittled down to a few vintage sets 1965 1971 1972 1975 and 1976 topps to two players pablo sandoval and tim lincecum and to various odds and ends that ll let me complete a few things i ve started all of it is on my want list here if you can help i ve still got plenty to trade the only other sport i ve really done much with over the years is hockey i collected every oakland seals california golden seal s card from the 60s and 70s i manually assembled and completed the o pee chee 1974 75 wha set maybe my proudest moment in collecting and i m nearly complete with the 2001 02 topps heritage hockey set a few expensive high numbers notwithstanding for a while i reckoned that was just enough when it came to hockey then came my layoff and reevaluation now i m actually over indexing on the hockey cards buying stuff at will and relatively randomly in an attempt to figure out what s out there and what i really like you can see here that one i m dabbling in is 2021 2022 o pee chee retro which unfortunately has 600 cards to chase but damn it i m chasing them i ve got a few other sets that are really intriguing as well and just like any other dork i m been ripping upper deck packs to try and find some of those young guns maybe a kirill kaprizov or a trevor zegras i started buying some mika zibanejad cards because i ve been digging that guy new york rangers during the playoffs this year despite his hockey hair but mostly with the hockey i m just buying it all to try and get a sense of it it s all new and exciting i mean i m going to stay away from virtually all 1980s and 1990s hockey but aside from that it s all systems go i m glad to be back and hopefully you re okay with this blog bouncing between baseball and hockey our two finest sports right posted by jay at 10 04 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hockey cards monday february 14 2022 here s where card hemorrhage currently sits hey everyone certainly been a while since i made much of an appearance in this space i m still collecting the cards you know but i had a bit of a reckoning in late 2021 that s sort of shaped how i m collecting going forward this hobby as i m sure many of you ve figured out can be a bit addicting one set that needs to be completed begets another set that needs to be completed one admired player turns into a need to collect that player s entire history of cards one favored team means that any card from that team needs to be collected and so on thus i took stock of it all and pretty much decided to jettison that way of thinking here s what i don t collect and accumulate any longer player collections from guys not named pablo sandoval or tim lincecum any old vintage card not from the years 1965 1971 1972 1975 and 1976 sspc cards cards from the san francisco giants baseball team random prospect cards modern cards from dudes i like but that don t serve any greater collecting aim the focus for me is on those topps baseball sets from 1965 1971 1972 1975 and 1976 yes 1976 i actually added that one to help make up for all the stuff i subtracted and i ve got a long way to go for all of them as mentioned in previous posts i ve been inexpensively selling off most everything else in these 5 each packs on ebay you re welcome to order one or ten here the mania hasn t gone away though and i m okay with that i recently went to average joe s sports cards in buena park ca on a trip to southern california and burned a deep hole in my wallet filling in some 1972 and 1965 wants so so fun i then dialed them up and had them make me a paid care package of 1975 and 1976 commons to get those collections up and running and i ve been sniping pablo sandoval rarities off of ebay comc and sportlots at will so i m still very much in the proverbial game it s just a different game than it used to be sort of like baseball itself posted by jay at 7 41 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 9 2022 25 card vintage packs for the people i reckon that every collector needs to make some adjustments and recalibration to their collecting strategy in order to keep their homes from being overrun and their wallets depleted for me that s meant backing off from collecting every card from the 60s and 70s that i could get my hands on stopping the unending push for prospect cards and to quit collecting the cards of 25 different players in order to truly focus on one or two as mentioned before this has me unloading some cards in 25 card packs i think it s a hell of a deal to be honest here s what my 25 card vintage packs for the people include for a mere 5 plus shipping at least 5 vintage pre 1978 cards usually more 1 autographed card prospect minor league cards including guys who went on to the majors sspc cards from 1975 76 modern cards from gypsy queen topps bowman topps heritage allen ginter and so on and more surprise parallels small run food issues etc it s a great way to get 25 surprise cards spanning the 1950s to today at a low price including stuff that s pretty tough to find i collected many cards over the years and am pruning back my collection this way and making sure they get to a good home and hey who doesn t like surprises check out my ebay listing here posted by jay at 8 15 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 1 2022 pruning the collection 25 card packs available hey folks my break from the blog allowed me to figure how i want to proceed with collecting in the new year and i think i ve figured it out my want list has been chopped back quite a bit and i m unloading a bunch of cards in 25 card packs full of vintage autographs modern and more each is only 5 and it s a great way for me to start fresh and focus on 1965 1972 and a few other things while making sure that some of the cards i ve accumulated over the years go to great homes take a look check out my ebay listing here posted by jay at 8 32 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 11 2021 not playing baseball scratch off i ve had a pretty fun time pulling together the 2020 topps heritage minor league set i completed the base set even the short prints late last year i reckon it was...