Venturing into Enemy Territory

Well, its official. We have tickets to see the Cardinals and Cubs at Wrigley Field later this month. I don't have the tickets in hand yet, but I'm told they're infield field boxes directly below the Cubs broadcast booth. Isaac's aunt is working on pre-game field passes and entry into something called the Stadium MVP Club. Details to follow...

Crazy Eight

Isaac turns eight today! In honor of this momentous occasion, Isaac opened eight random packs of UD Signature, Topps 2009 U&H, and 2009 T206 during breakfast this morning. Out of those packs, he pulled these… in addition to a few Cardinals. Chicle packs to come later.

How’s that to start the Birthday!

2011 Topps David Freese

We went to the game today. Isaac kept score for the first time, he and his sister collected Albert Pujols MVP bats, and David Freese locked up the ROY award. Ok, just kidding... maybe just a pic for next year's Topps Set. For all the talk of Heyward, who is a *beast* everywhere else, Freese is hitting over .350 with 3 HR's (admitedly all this week), 16 RBI's, and manning third base on a serious playoff contender. Heyward is definitely the favorite for ROY but if you're looking for a dark horse it may just be Mr. Freese... or maybe Jaime Garcia.

Anyway, here's a nice pic of Freese's home run swing today courtesy of stltoday.com.

Cardboard Junkie 2010 Heritage Fantasy League: Ante Up!!!

Isaac looked through his boxes and decided these were worthy Heritage League prizes. Per dayf’s rules: Relic, Numbered, Shiny… check, check, check. The other two were in his trade box and were deemed cool enough to be prize-worthy.

2008 David Ortiz A&G Jersey Relic


2008 Matt Cain Topps Co-Signers #’d 179/200


2008 Upper Deck X Evan Longoria Die Cut


2009 Topps Heritage Vladimir Guerrero Chrome #’d 944/1960


2009 Topps Target Throwback Greg Maddux
 

Topps Attax Prizes

I took Isaac to the local Toys ‘R’ Us last month for a Topps Attax game day. The turn out was sparse but it gave Isaac had a chance to play the game with other kids and they even gave a way free starter packs. Kids had their choice of the Ruth pack or the Mantle pack.

We left after 45 minutes but not before checking out the small card island. After much deliberation, Isaac decided on a rack pack of 2010 Heritage. After even more consideration, he finally picked which pack we were going to buy.

The kid has a gift. He opened the pack on the drive home and pulled this:

Nothing major… but he has a knack of usually getting something cool from his packs. Now, if only that could somehow transfer to the box breaks we’ve been signing up for lately…

Oddball Alert

I was in Prescott, Arizona a few weeks ago and picked up a bunch of Cards in an antique mall for Isaac. These cards were part of a 2001 series released by the Arizona Department of Health Services to encourage kids to stay away from chewing tobacco. I have no idea how large this set is or even who is in it. I just thought it was cool that a set from Arizona included at least two Cardinals and has classic newpaper cartoons on the back... love the Family Circle cartoon with the boy wearing a D-backs shirt.

1968 Topps Game Cards

I was brain dead when I hit the BIN button and forgot about the McCarver from a trade with Carl Crawford Cards. This was a surprisingly cheap ($5 shipped IIRC) BIN considering it has a HOF player, a HOF manager, and, dare I say it – I don’t think it will happen but wouldn’t be surprised if it did – HOF broadcaster.