No-Hitter: Tim Lincecum

I know I'm a bit behind, but I wanted to show off some, okay, pretty much all of my, Tim Lincecum cards in light of his recent no-hitter.

Pack Break: 2011 Topps Chrome

For my Secret Santa gift exchange at work I got a rack pack of 2011 Topps Chrome. It was the package that has 3 packs of 2011 Topps Chrome and then a pack with 3 orange border parallels. Here are the contents. Everything is for trade except for the Crow and Hellickson. I am looking for 2011 Topps Chrome Diamondbacks in return. Let me know if you are interested. Crow was one of only two All-Stars this year that actually signed for me at the game and Helllickson won A.L. Rookie of the Year so his RC fits my Pookie Cards of Player who won Rookie of the Year collection.

Pack #1

Mike Morse #108, Buster Posey Vintage Chrome #VC1, Ivan DeJesus Jr. RC #190, Pedro Beato RC #199

 Pack #2

Andrew McCutchen #8, Tim Lincecum #15, Josh Johnson Refractor #43, Aaron Crown #220 RC

 Pack #3

Chipper Jones #2, John Buck XFractor #142, Jeremy Hellickson RC #200, Jordan Walden RC #183

Drew Stubbs #86, Clayton Kershaw #107, Eric Sogard #184

2011 Topps All-Star Set

It's been almost a month since my last post and we're still not completly settled into the new house, but I wanted to try and catch up on some posts. I was able to attend the Home Run Derby and All-Star game that was here in Phoenix recently. I also attended FanFest on Saturday and Tuesday. I had an amazing time and loved every second of it!

Topps had a booth at FanFest and had a promotion going where if you bought 3 pack of any of their 2011 products at one of the other participating vendors and brought them back to their booth to open then you got to pick a card from a special 7-card 2011 MLB All-Star set. Because of the promotion, the packs were overpriced. Three packs of 2011 Topps Series 2 for $12. I bought three packs on Saturday and got the Justin upton card. On Tuesday I decided to buy three more Series 2 packs and three packs of Opening Day (3/$5) and get Ichiro and Jeter. When I got to the booth I opened my first pack of Series 2 and pulled out a couple of damaged cards. I asked the guy at the booth if he could do anything about the damaged cards and he took them and looked at them for a little bit and then asked me, "What do you want?  Do you want the whole set?" I agreed and he gave me all 7 cards in the set. I guess every once in a while factory damaged cards are a good thing!

I know there was a lot of discussion about Jeter opting out of the All-Star game and I don't know exactly how I feel about it. I think that some of the frustration though came from the fact that there just was not a lot of star power at the game in the first place and so to have him opt out just added more fuel to the fire. Look at the seven card set below which feature some of the games biggest names. Ichiro - not at the All-Star game, Pujols - not at the All-Star game, Tim Lincecum - there, but did not pitch, Jeter - not at the All-Star game, Ryan Howard - not at the All-Star game, and then you have Justin Upton and Jose Bautista who were at the All-Star game, but let's be honest, they are stars, not super stars.

Lincecum - Peavy - Webb

I picked this up today at the card shop. It's a 2009 Topps Triple Threads card featuring jerseys of the 2008 NL Cy Young Award Winner - Tim Lincecum, 2007 NL Cy Young Award Winner - Jake Peavy, and 2006 NL Cy Young Award Winner - Brandon Webb. It's serial numbered on the front 27/27. I, of course, wanted it because of Webb, but I like that it also features two other Cy Young Award Winners. I had been looking at a similar card on eBay a while back and so when I saw this at the card shop, I decided to get it. I got it for $20, which is more than I usually spend on a single card, but I thought that it was a good deal.

Pack Break - 2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom

This was the other pack that I got at K Mart in California. I will post about the blaster tomorrow. 2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom. All cards are up for trade, except for Scherzer, if anyone is interested. Here we go!

Travis Hafner, Jermaine Dye and David Ortiz

This is the perforated card that you can't tell is perforated because it dosen't scan well.

Big Ticket insert of Tim Lincecum - "Big Ticket" how appropriate.

Max Scherzer (D-Back!), Magglio Ordonez and Jon Lester