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The Sale…. The Story

robbiez — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:45:48 +0000

So I sold the Clay Buchholz Superfractor. Here is the link. I put it up slightly for publicity, slightly to see how deep some pockets were. What happened still shocks me, but when you reach that moment you have to make some life choices. I made mine.

Yu Darvish and more in 2009 Bowman

robbiez — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:24:25 +0000

We got a press release from Topps on a story that we broke months ago about the WBC being in 2009 Bowman including Yu Darvish, but we recieved the first images today of the card plus some other names that will be in 2009 Bowman which ships in May!

PITCHING PHENOM & WBC STAR YU DARVISH TO HEADLINE 2009 BOWMAN

The much-anticipated 2009 Bowman Baseball, which ships the first week of May, will feature 20 Exclusive World Baseball Classic Rising Stars (BCW1-BCW20) including the very first card of highly-touted Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish.

“If you think Daisuke Matsuzaka was special, wait until you see the upgrade.”
- Los Angeles Times

All 20 cards can be found on Base, Chrome, Refractor, X-Fractor, Blue Refractor, Gold Refractor, Orange Refractor, Red Refractor and SuperFractor technologies.

The Exclusive 20-card subject list is as follows.

Yu Darvish	Japan	P
Phillippe Aumont	Canada	P
Concepcion Rodriguez	Panama	OF
Michel Enriquez	Cuba	3B
Yulieski Gurriel	Cuba	3B
Shinnosuke Abe	Japan	C
Gift Ngoepe	S. Africa	OF
Dylan Lindsay	S. Africa	P
Nick Weglarz	Canada	OF
Mitch Dening	Australia	OF
Justin Erasmus	S. Africa	P
Aroldis Chapman	Cuba	P
Alex Liddi	Italy	3B
Alexander Smit	Netherlands	P
Juan Carlos Sulbaran	Netherlands	P
Cheng-Min Peng	Taipei	OF
Chenhao Li	China	P
Tao Bu	China	P
Gregory Halman	Netherlands	OF
Fu-Te Ni	Taipei	P

In addition to the WBC Rising Stars, there are 105 Prospects featured in Bowman including five of the most talented futures stars…

Neftali Feliz, Rangers
Logan Morrison, Marlins (AUTOGRAPH)
Greg Halman, Mariners (AUTOGRAPH)
Julio Teheran, Braves
Tyler Flowers, White Sox

2009 Bowman carries a $3.00 SRP and includes 5 Base cards, 2 Prospect cards, 2 Prospect Chrome cards and 1 Parallel card in every pack. And every box guarantees 1 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autograph.

Blog Bat Around – My Centerpiece

robbiez — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:20:15 +0000

The centerpiece of my collection? It’s an easy one for me to answer. Last year my then girlfriend and I would discuss the possibility of getting married. Sometimes I just spout off and say things jokingly not expecting her to take me serious or anything, this was one of those times.

“I have to go out spend like a grand or something on a ring, but you don’t have to get me a thing?? I should get like one of the cards I want the most or something.” She looked at me, laughed, and then something crazy happened, she agreed to it. This moment began a few month effort to find the right card. The cards bantered about, and then bid on, then lost were some of the following, Tom Brady SP Authentic Rookie, and Tom Brady 2000 Fleer Masterpiece 1 of 1. Those were the two big ones we went after, but there was one other card I had in mind as it was the number one card of my favorite baseball player with out any question. The Brady rookies were great, but there were other Brady cards that could be debated as his best rookie and since I already owned his 2000 Contenders autographed rookie they didn’t completely stand out from the rest.

So we waited for a bit, I had the money for a ring, she had the money for the card. Then in the summer we found the right card. Now we just had to win it. It was a PSA 10 Graded David Ortiz Donruss Signature Rookies Century Marks. David Ortiz is my all time favorite Baseball player. Growing up it was always Roger Clemens, but rift between him and the Red Sox, him going to the Yankees, plus the fact that David Ortiz hit the ball twice in 2004 on occasions that account for two of my top 10 happiest moments in life put Clemens down a few pegs.

The day the card was ending was when my fiancée was actually away visiting friends in upstate New York. I didn’t know about Snipe programs at the time, so we sat there on the phone as I put in my bid on the card at the last possible minute, and watched hoping that no one came in at the last second and blew me away. But on this occasion I didn’t lose, we had our card. It came in a few days later, and she would proceed to taunt me with it for quite some time.

Then one day she went away again for a few days, and left the card and the envelope it came in on my bed with a little note. We knew we would be getting engaged sometime soon, but I did not expect at all for her to do this. So I tore it open as fast as I could. I reveled in the sight of the card that truly was the top card that I could get. I couldn’t believe she would just leave it for me to have at that time. So I instantly called her to talk about it.

Well turns out she didn’t mean for me to have the card yet, and said she had taped it shut so I didn’t open. I didn’t notice any tape….. But I had my card, and on September 30th of last year she had her ring.

The card turns out to be her favorite I have as well, soon after I got that card I took her to her first Red Sox game. During that game David Ortiz hit a grand slam off the Angels, and became her favorite player as well. We have bought a good number of Ortiz cards since then, but to this day the Century Marks still is, and always will remain my favorite card.

Also as a side note to end this, at the time of our purchase of this card the PSA Population Report on it was one. There has been one other graded a 10 but it came out of Mooresville, North Carolina so I still feel good about mine being the only legit PSA 10.