TTM Success: Wade Boggs

There are certain cards that I feel are just made to be signed. This Fleer Greats of the Game card is one of them. In fact almost all of the Fleer Greats of the Game cards look awesome signed. I'm not sure when I sent this card out, but I got it back this past Friday.

I know. I'm obsessed.

On Friday my wife and I went to the Diamondbacks game. The Arizona Lottery had a promotion a week before where if you bought a $10 scratchers ticket you got two free tickets to the game and a meet and greet with D-Back alumni. After buying the scratchers ticket (paid $10 and won $15) and getting my D-Backs tickets I saw fellow blogger, Moe of the blog My 2008 Topps Set Blog, in line. He told me that he had emailed and asked which D-Backs alumni would be there. He said that it would be Augie Ojeda and Doug Davis. A big thank you to Moe for that and also for pointing out at the event that our tickets were each loaded with $10 in D-Bucks that could be used for food or merchandise at the ballpark! I'll show off what I got with the D-Bucks on a different post.

It was great knowing who was going to be there so I could find some stuff. Augie Ojeda doesn't have a lot of cards in the first place and I had met him last month at a different promotion, so I didn't have anything else for him to sign, but I was able to find some Doug Davis cards, 23 Doug Davis cards to be exact.

Now I know what you're thinking.....there are only 22 cards below. Well I didn't want to have one card all by itself and it was another of the O-Pee-Chee cards, so I felt like it was okay not to include it.

You might also be thinking that having someone sign 23 cards all at once is a bit much. I know. I'm obsessed. I can't deny it. I just love getting autographs. I don't sell any autographs that I get. I don't really even like to trade autographs that I get in person. For me it is about the experience.

When I met Doug Davis I told him that I had brought a bunch of cards, but told him I would be fine with however many he wanted to sign. He was super nice and said he would sign all of them.

Here are the pictures that were provided at the event, which are very similar to the other photos that the D-Backs have been using this year but are yellow and have the Arizona Lottery logo one corner.

There's no crying in baseball!

I guess there's no crying in baseball.... unless you break a record that has stood for over 50 years.

TTM Success: Goose Goosage for my First Night Game at Wrigley Field Project

I got this ttm success back from Goose Goosage just over a month after I sent it out. It is my first Hall of Fame player for my First Night Game at Wrigley Field Project. It looks like it was signed with a fine tip marker and his first name either bubbled or part of it came off a little bit. I might send another card to him with hopes of a better looking signature, but I'm happy with this one in the meantime.

The Chicken

So I picked this card up out of a dime box recently at my LCS. I don't remember ever seeing it before and I thought it was cool.

After reading the back I had to google "The Baseball Bunch". I had no idea that the tv show ever existed as I was too young when it aired, but it sounds awesome! Anyone remember watching it?

Also, I thought about sending the card off to the address provided for an autograph just to see what would happen, but after doing a little research I found a current address, so I might send it there.

eBay Pick-Ups: 2013 Topps Tribute Wade Miley Jersey Cards

I picked up these two 2013 Topps Tribute Wade Miley jersey cards from the same seller recently off eBay. The base card is numbered out of 99 and the blue parallel is numbered out of 50. With combined shipping it was less than $5 shipped for the pair.

Miley had a great rookie season in 2012, but calmed down a bit this season. To me he seems to struggle first couple innings and then calm down before struggling again in the 6th.

eBay Pick-Up: 1999 Fleer Travis Lee Damage Inc.

I picked up this 1999 Fleer Damage Inc. card of Travis Lee recently off eBay. I paid just under $4 for it.

I've always liked, although never owned any of the Damage Inc. insert cards. They are made to look and feel like a business card.