Ike's First 2011 Relic

Isaac pulled this out of the last of five packs I bought for him at the hobby shop yesterday. Too bad its a Cub. Any Cub fans out there want to trade this for a 2011 Cardinals relic?

Sorry for the bad pic. Our home copier / scanner isn’t doing so hot lately so we resorted to a phone pic for this post.

What some kids will do to get 2011 packs...

So I got a call this morning from Isaac's school. Turns out he took a spill while skating and had a bloody lip. At least that's what I heard... what actually happened was that his tooth when through the area just under his lower lip and punctured through the other side! Yikes.

So what does he ask when I pick him up at the nurse's office? "Can we go to the hobby shop?" I took one look at his lip and said yes... figured we'd need something to do at the doctor and dentist offices.

2011 packs at our hobby shop are the same price as those in Target - $1.99 and have 10 cards. I bought him 5 packs to open today and a jumbo box for later - probably for his birthday but I may get soft and let him open a few packs early.

Scans to come - I can tell you he got a relic in those five packs!

1968 Springfield Cardinals

I bought a 2010 Springfield Cardinals team set for Isaac at the Winter Warm Up in case he wanted to get autos of some of the AA prospects. As you can see, the team set is a nice interpretation of the 1968 Topps design. The team circle has been appropriated with a dedication to Stan the Man… you really have to look for the “Springfield Cardinals” in that logo.
While you’ve already seen a few of the AA Cardinal Prospects in our Winter Warm Up posts, I thought I’d post a card of a non-prospect featured in this set… El Presidente!

While we’re at it, here are a few of the ‘68 Cardinals we have. In this case, few = almost all. Have other 68’s for trade if anyone has spare Cardinals of that vintage though.

Thorzul’s February Group Break

Get thee to Thorzul’s for the February Group Break. He’s got a great format that let’s you pick one team and are assigned another random team. Here’s our loot from last month:

2007 Topps Chrome White Refractor 528 / 660

2005 Topps Pristine Personal Pieces 264 / 425

2005 Topps Pristine Common Jersey 216 / 500

Special request for this month’s break: New Glarus Fat Squirrel.

Stadium Used: Rebel Oakes

Thought I’d share the birthday gift my family gave me for my 40th last October. The Redbird Club is an excellent place to watch the Redbirds at Busch. The Club provides an air conditioned break from the summer heat and a variety of made to order food items that are not available elsewhere in the stadium. Its walls are adorned with large scale images of vintage baseball cards, primarily from the tobacco era.
I saw this Rebel Oakes artwork in the Cardinals Authentics store while walking around the stadium with Isaac. It’s the wall art of the Rebel Oakes T205 card from the Redbird Club in the stadium. I’ve seen posters of this card on the internet, usually side by side with the back of the card, but they can’t compare with “stadium used” art peeled off the wall. Its too bad portions of the image were cut off but they contribute to the "stadium used" aspect. This Mr. Oakes may been replaced with a newer, cleaner copy in the Redbird Club but I’m happy to have him at our house.
Check out the view to get a better idea of the size and scale of the club and the images on the wall.
 

Topps 2010 Want List

Ugh... Typos by Dad!

Series One & Two

134, 342, 358, 432, 479, 500, 515, 518, 526, 549, 575, 661

Updates - Done!

We have plenty of 2010 base to trade. Just let us know what you need!

Winter Warm Up 2011–Name Plates!

I bought these on the last day of Winter Warm Up. They are player name plates for lockers, batting helmet shelves, bat racks and other stuff. These were five for one dollar. I liked the Ankiel and got the others to make five.

Dad – The name plates are on my nook Color. Aside from the baseball card packs and Isaac’s Nintendo DSi, the nook color was a godsend as we waited through all of the lines.