Package from ScottyBrew13

Fellow YouTuber and D-Backs fan, ScottyBrew13, contacted me recently to see if I'd be interested in purchasing some D-Backs cards. He showed me the cards and gave me a fair price. A few days later a package arrived.

My favorite card of the bunch is this 2000 Skybox Dominion Hats Off Randy Johnson Game-Used Hat card. 

Next up are a couple of Trevor Cahill Gypsy Queen cards. 

This is my least favorite card of the group for obvious reasons. 

Here's a Miguel Montero Gypsy Queen jersey card. 

For some reason I've wanted this card for a while, so it was nice to have it be part of the group. It's from 2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom and is numbered out of 499. 

The final two cards are of Ian Patrick Kennedy.

eBay Pick-Up: 6 card lot

I picked up this 6 card lot of eBay for $8 shipped BIN. If my math is correct, that puts each card at roughly $1.33 apiece. Here's what I got.

2013 Bowman Chrome Black Refractor of Aaron Hill numbered 02/15. Hill's jersey number is 2.

2011 Hope Diamond parallel of Miguel Montero numbered 29/60. 

2014 Topps Trajectory Wade Miley Auto

2011 Topps Throwback Manufactured Patch card of Martin Prado. 

2003 Topps Pristine Luis Gonzalez Bomb Squad jersey.

2002 Flair Luis Gonzalez Power Tools Bat card. 

D-Backs vs. Marlins 7/7/14 Recap: Hall of Fame Auto

My oldest son, Kolby, and I went to the D-Backs game last night. The D-Backs beat the Marlins 9-1. Here is a link for a video recap of the game. At 0:15 you can see my son stick his glove out over the fence. At 0:17 you can see me pounding on the top of the outfield wall, excited that Ozuna lost track of the ball.

Before the game we went to watch the D-Backs take batting practice and try to get some autographs. We were able to get Martin Prado, Tony LaRussa, and Luis Gonzalez.

After the D-Backs finished batting we went over to a spot near the D-Backs dugout to wait for players to come out. This was when the Marlins were taking batting practice. While there I looked over and a ball was rolling right towards us. It wasn't hit though. it was thrown. I didn't see who had thrown it, but my son said it was Giancarlo Stanton. I reached over the railing and grabbed it. 

Miguel Montero came out and signed autographs before heading over to the out the outfield to warm up with the pitcher. While he was signing our cards, my son asked him if he could have the ball when he and Chase Anderson were done warming up. He told us to go over by the bullpen. So we did and after waiting for them to finish warming up he tossed the ball to Kolby.

After the game, we went over to the D-Backs dugout and Kolby got another baseball. So it was a great night!

D-Backs Fan Fest Recap: Part 3 (Wow, I am blown away!)

So here is a video of me opening the package that the Diamondbacks sent me after my experience at Fan Fest this past Saturday. I was blown away with what they sent. I want to thank Eric George (Guest Services Manager) for taking the time to listen to our concerns and for going above and beyond in making it up to me!

eBay Pick-Up: 2011 Topps Update Miguel Montero All-Star Workout Jersey Card

I used some of my ebucks to get this 2011 Topps Update Miguel Montero All-Star Workout Jersey Card off eBay recently. I had been wanting this card since I already have the Upton card and he and Miguel Montero were the D-Backs representatives in the 2011 MLB All-Star game which was held in Phoenix and that I got to attend. Now I need the parallel version numbered to 60. If you have one and are willing to trade it, let me know. Thanks!

Diamond Die Cut - Miguel Montero

I haven't posted much recently as we are in the process of moving. We started looking during the first part of this month and we will get the keys to our new house tomorrow, so while it's nice to be moving, things have been hectic getting everything done in a short time period. We're going to be renting out our current home, so there is a lot to do to make that happen as well. I haven't had much time (or money) for cards lately. I know I'm behind on a couple of trades, but I haven't forgotten and will get them taken care of once we get into the new house. I did stop at the card shop on Friday, but only to get some 5000 count box and a super shoe box to help with packing. In the new house I'll have a den (a.k.a. man cave) and the plan is to thin out my collection one box/binder at a time. One thing I did do yesterday was propose a few trades on the Topps Diamond Giveaway site. Within a few minutes I was able to get the card below for 10 random cards that I had. There was one card from 1960 and three from 1974 and then everything else was from the 80's, 90's, and 2000's, nothing that I would have paid to have shipped so I was really happy to get this Diamond Die Cut Miguel Montero card!

Happy Father's Day and Happy Anniversary

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there, and Happy Anniversay to my blog! Today is my blog's 2nd anniversary.

My wife doesn't like to get me baseball cards as gifts because she thinks I have too many already, but she and my boys did get me this for Father's Day.

As you can see, it contained 3 packs and one memorabilia card. The packs were 2008 Topps Series 1, 2009 Topps Opening Day, and 2007 Upper Deck Series 2. The 2008 Topps Series 1 pack didn't contain anything special. But I think I did pretty good with the other two packs.

2008 Topps Opening Day KEN GRIFFEY JR. Flapper Card - Griffey has always been my favorite player.

2007 Upper Deck MIGUEL MONTERO Ticket to Stardom - Always nice to get an insert of a player on my favorite team.

And here's my memorabilia card.

2002 Upper Deck KAZUHISA ISHIII Star Tributes Jersey Card - Nightowl, let me know if you need this and it's yours.

My first look at 2011 Topps

I know, I know. I'm a little late. Oh well. On Thursday I stopped at Target to see if they had any 2011 Topps, but they didn't. So I went to another Target and they had rack packs and regular packs. I picked up a rack pack and here are the highlights. All cards, except the two D-Backs, are up for trade. leave me a comment if you are interested. Thanks!

Arizona Diamondbacks Team Card - great shot of (l to r) La Roche, Young, Upton, Reynolds and Drew.

Miguel Montero - I like the design of the base set. It's clean and features all relevant information (name, team, position) and I like the baseball's 3-D effect.

*Claimed* Diamond Anniversary Parallel Kevin Gregg - I don't know what to think about these yet. Really it's just another parallel.

60 Years of Topps Roy Campanella - Love the concept, but when are they going to run out of cards to do this for.

60 Years of Topps The Lost Cards Stan Musial - Great idea for a set!

Diamond Duos Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera - Don't like these unless the two players are esily conected.

* Claimed* Kimball Champions Victor Martinez - Like these, but don't have the patience to put together a 150 card insert set.

Target Red Diamond Jimmie Foxx - I like the idea of this insert set, but can't stand this particular card.

Topps 60 Troy Tuluwitzki - Not sure how they came up with each category. For instance this card features Slugging from Clean-Up Spot 2005 -2010, seems pretty random to me.

Welcome Back and Thanks!

The ladies over at Dinged Corners celebrated their return to the blogging world by opening up a 2010 Allen & Ginter blaster and offering up the contents to the rest of the blogoshere. They asked for nothing in return, but I am going to keep an eye out for some David Wright cards to send there way as a thank you. Here are the two cards that I requested. Thanks ladies!

2010 Allen & Ginter TONY HAWK - Awesome card of an amazing athlete and a cool human being.

2010 Allen & Ginter MIGUEL MONTERO A&G Mini - The only D-Backs card that they pulled, but a sweet card of one of the few D-Backs players having a decent year, after returning from the DL.

Back to Back to Back to Back

In the fourth inning of todays game vs. the Milwakee Brewers, the Arizona Diamondbacks tied a Major League record when Adam LaRoche, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds, and Stephen Drew hit back to back to back to back home runs off pitcher Dave Bush. The D-Backs won 8-2.

2007 UD SP Rookie Edition Diamondbacks

On a recent trip to my local card shop, I had decided to spend $10 or less. After spending about a half hour browsing, I made my purchases. I picked up the following 6 Diamondback cards, all from the 2007 UD SP Rookie Edition set and a package of penny sleves. The Diamondback cards were 6 for $1 and the package of penny sleves was $1, so I spent a grand total of $2 bucks. Who says card collecting has to be an expensive hobby?

2007 UD SP Rookie Edition MICAH OWINGS Rookie Cards 

2007 UD SP Rookie Edition MIGUEL MONTERO Rookie Card 

2007 UD SP Rookie Edition and Bowman Heritage MARK REYNOLDS Rookie Cards

 2007 UD SP Rookie Edition BRANDON WEBB

I hit the jackpot! D-Backs Autographs

I listen to KTAR Sports 620 on the way to and from work everyday. Earlier this week they mentioned that several D-Backs would be at the Wild Horse Pass Casino on Friday, February 12th, signing autographs from 6 pm - 7pm. The lineup included Manager A.J. Hinch, catcher Miguel Montero, newly aquired pitcher Ian Kennedy, and star third baseman Mark Reynolds. I spent about an hour in traffic, but arrived at the casino a little after 5 pm. I was probably about the 15th person in line. Every person could get 1 item per player signed. If you didn't have an item, then they had 5x7 cards of each player. They started promptly at 6 pm and I was able to get cards signed by Hinch, Montero, and Kennedy. I got a ball signed by Reynolds on the sweet spot (I'm still trying to get a good picture of the ball). I got through the line, left the room and noticed that the line wasn't very long, so I got back in line and went through again and got a photo of each player signed. I was at my car by 6:20 pm. I had a great time!

A.J. Hinch

Miguel Montero

Ian Kennedy

Mark Reynolds