I played a little bit with making a sort of personal avatar/sig type grapic lets see if I can get this puppy up here..

When I saw this package I couldn't figure out what it would be. I knew it had to be a redemption card but thought I had received all my outstanding redemptions. I guess I had one left.

Anyway I got this Upper Deck 2008 SPX Rookie Signatures on sticker auto (blue sharpie) of Collin Balester. Cool.

Got some 2005 Topps Heritage from a sales transaction with bcoleman123 there were "a bunch" of them totaling 63 cards. These are some nice looking cards. The only downside a couple of them at one time had been water damaged, so those few are slightly warped and have a light musty/damp smell to them, not too bad though. They don't look damaged they just have strange warps. A little disappointment but what can you expect for only $5.00 for 63 common cards?

Anyway here are the numbers:
11, 15, 32, 35, 40, 50, 51, 56, 62, 72, 98, 100, 115, 118, 128, 131, 136, 147, 148, 150, 153, 159, 163, 165, 176, 177, 180, 185, 187, 214, 220, 222, 231, 235, 240, 251, 262, 269, 276, 280, 284, 287, 298, 303, 306, 311, 322, 324, 332, 333, 345, 349, 350, 352, 354, 371, 378, 380, 382, 387, 392, 394, 395

I posted some of this already in the Time to give something back thread in the Contests and Giveaways section of the boards. Here is the complete load that I got.

Got my package from Chris (crpalmi). Lots of nice stuff, mostly Football but a few baseball and a little basketball (of some guy named Garnet, must be some loser rookie )

I thought I already had a ton of Marshal Faulk cards, but dang this is an easy 20 or so more as a Ram as a Colt in his College Uni. It's Faulk Cult Madness! Some of these I think I already have, but at this time I'm not 100% sure because all my Faulks are in a couple of different boxes and I haven't really sorted them properly.

Marshall Faulk
IN College UNI (All in his College Uni are for trade
1994 Classic Games inc* NFL Draft '94 - in his San Diego State Uni (2) FT
1994 Classic Games Inc Four Sport - again in his College Uni (5)FT

in COLTS Uniform
1995 Pinnacle Action Packed card #16
1995 Pinnacle Action Packed Rookie Stars card #6 (2)
1995 Fleer "Flair" card #91
1995 Fleer Ultra #133
1997 Fleer Ultra Play of the Game Insert card #5 of 10 (10 cards in the sub-set insert series not serial # to 10)
1997 Fleer Ultra Rising Stars (9 of 10 RS)
1999 Upper Deck SPx #72 - Pictured in Colts Marked as Rams

in RAMS Uniform
2000 Topps Chrome CP15 FT
2000 Upper Deck Gold Reserve 134
2000 Pacific Revolution 77
2000 Fleer Mystique Canton Calling 9 of 10 CC
2001 Upper Deck Game Gear 71
2001 Fleer EX 26
2001 Fleer Authority Football 62
2001 Upper Deck 135
2001 Playoff Honors 90
2001 Donruss Leaf Certified Materials 62
2002 Fleer Golden Memories 12 of 15 GM
2002 Upper Deck Piece of History 91
2002 Fleer Maximum 83
2002 Fleer Focus Jersey Edition 30
2003 Playoff Prestige 133
2003 Playoff Absolute Memorbilia 93
2003 Fleer Focus 50
2003 Fleer Genuine Insider Genuine Article Insider GU Blue Mesh GA-MF
2003 Fleer Snapshot 69
2003 Fleer Genuine Insider Genuine Reflection 67 (#/99)
2004 Fleer Ultra Ultra Performers 4 of 15 UP
2004 Fleer Ultra Ultra Performers 4 of 15 UP (Rounded corners and Ultra Performers text on gold bar background)

TORRY HOLT Rams
1999 Press Pass 10 (in College Uni - duh Press Pass No mention of Rams) FT
1999 Press Pass 10 Blue Parallel (in Colleg Uni) FT (Nice to trade both together)
1999 Upper Deck Ionix Electric Forces EF9 (Pictured in College Uni) FT
2002 Fleer Flair 93

1975 John Riggins Jets 313 (off centered)
2006 Topps Chris Cooley Redskins 209 Gold #/2006

BASEBALL
1999 Topps Gold Label Rookie Card Nick Johnson Yankees 33 class 1
2004 Bowman Sterling Nick Johnson Expos GU Bat BS-NJ
2004 Topps Traded Gold Milton Bradley Dodgers T10 #/2004

BASKETBALL (not a big fan of this sport)
1995 Classic Marketing Inc (was Classic Games) Kevin Garnett 5 (3) FT

and my first ever "Graded" card. blink.gif I've been avoiding these mostly because:

*I thought they are a pain to store, you have to keep them in separate areas from your ungraded cards due to the case they are in.
*The cost of sending your cards to a company to get graded vs. the grade they will come back as. etc..
*The confusion of which company to use. There are about a dozen companies and only 3 or 4 are worth using, depending on who you talk to.
*The distance between you and the card through the plastic tomb. It's like looking at your new born kid through the glass window at the hospital.

Anyway the graded card is a 1997 Topps Basketball Kevin Garnett Graded by FGS (Finest Grading Service) Gem Mint 10. Yowzers. Like I said some loser rookie guy. Probably FT for something really good (not necessarily graded, not sure if I'll get into that)

A thousand and one thanks at least Chris. YOU ROCK! TCC ROCKS!

*Classics Games is a card company from the late 1980s early 90s that was part of the overproduction of sports cards and as a result many of these cards are barely worth collecting your favorite player of.

Got a lone card today from an Ebay Auction.
2009 Topps Baseball Heritage Jay Bruce (Reds) Misprinted "Youth Outfield America" instead of "Youth Of America"

Mailday 28 May

Got an Ebay auction of 15 cards from 1970 Fleer World Series set with drawings by Robert Laughlin. These are the "blue backs". In '71 they released a second set with black backs and some minor changes to the fronts.

I got cards #11, 17-19, 21, 24-25, 30-32, 37, 39, 43, 46, & 63 I have some others from this series (and I think one or two of the ones I got are now dupes).

Here is a link to a blog that gives an excellent explanation of the whole thing. The Fleer Sticker Project Blog: 1970 & 1971 World Series Cards

I also got my booty from the FB group break hosted by Webbgems (Joel) My picked teams were Redskins & Rams, Draft/Random teams were Colts and Seahawks.
Hightlights include:
2007 Leaf Limited
Material Monikers GU Redskins Charlie Taylor #/42 all white "42" on sticker black sharpie auto
Rams Jonathan Wade black sharpie on sticker auto #/299

2008 Leaf Limited
Banner Season Colts Reggie Wayne GU all blue #/100 FT
Legend GU Rams Tom Fears all yellow #/100
Legend Spotlight Rams Rosey Grier #/125
Legend Redskins Sammy Baugh #/499
Team Trademarks Redskins Sonny Jurgensen #/999

lets see got my take from the Official TCC FB Box Breakers May Group Break My paid team was Rams and draft team Browns.

I'll list the interesting stuff first (sort of reversed from normal)
2009 Panini Playoff Prstige
BASE:
BROWNS FT: Braylon Edwards, Jamal Lewis, Brady Quinn
RAMS: NFT Torry Holt, Steven Jackson, Marc Bulger
XTRA POINTS ROOKIES: James Laurinaitis #/250(Rams) (Possibly FT
James Davis (Browns) #/100

2009 Press Pass SE (All FT
James Laurinaitis (Rams)
Graham Harrell, James Davis (both Browns)
Double Feature Josh Freeman/Graham Harrell
Double Feature Aaron Curry/James Davis

2008 Donruss Classics
BROWNS: Jamal Lewis, Braylon Edwards, Brady Quinn
RAMS: Torry Holt, Steven Jackson, Marc Bulger
Bunch of extra base from Classics by request.

Classic Combos Browns Leroy Kelly/Jim Brown #/1000
Classic Singles Rams Bob Waterfield #/100

From and Ebay Auction I got some Baseball:
2009 Topps Heritage
Washington Nationals: Team Card, Lastings Millage (dupe), Tim Redding (another dupe?), Ryan Zimmerman (dupe), Manny Acta Mgr, John Lannan All-Star Rookie, Jesus Flores, Chad Cordero (dupe)

Then from a Sportlots Auction I got a Repro.
The seller claimed he didn't know if it was a reprint or an original, I paid $12.75 Dlvd for a reprint (unknown year of printing) of the 1951 Rookie Card of Willie Mays. That is the most I am willing to pay (well $15 dlvd really) for a reprint.

Got some more of my 2009 Topps Baseball Heritage needs from sportlots.com

They were: Baseball Flashback 2, Baseball Flashback 10, and Then & Now 10

My subsets of
Baseball Flashback
News Flashback
Then & Now
Are all complete.

I still need some of the New Age Performers and a lot of the regular base cards.

Got my big bag of booty from the Low Budget group breaks that Dwight (Urbanmonk) hosts.

To tired to update will do later.

HOCKEY

FOOTBALL


Also got some Topps Heritage from an Ebay Auction. 2008 & 2009 Topps Heritage Aramis Ramirez (2009 just has Aramis on front)

Got a couple of Cubs cards from bajmurray in today's (Tuesday 19 May) Mail

2001 Leaf Limited Rookie Game Worn Pants Corey Patterson #/650 Mostly white but there is a tiny piece of blue in the left corner. Pretty nice.

Next:
2003 Donruss Studio Sammy Sosa GU interesting it has a 2003 MLB All-Star Game logo on the front, then has a "John Hancock All-Star Fanfest" Logo on the back but the Game Used material is from the Cubs/Reds game from 1 April, 2002 a white... wait for it....



Base.

A Game Used piece of base. So wait Sammy didn't steal any bases that night, Donruss did. So they could put them on cards, the thieves!

Anyway the score was Reds 5 Cubs 4.