Free cards part 2 - Nolan Ryan the Cowboy

 

Is everyone ready for round two ?

 

Right off the bat last night, the very first two comments claimed the same card.

The bad part, the date and time stamps were EXACTLY  the same.

Night Owl, The Dimwit and I had a very heated conferance call.

Actually, it was just a few emails back and forth and everyone was very calm and collected.

A deal was worked out and both Night Owl and The Dimwit still have a free choice card.

 

See, we are just big happy family !!

 

Here comes the next selection of cards for my free card, blog birthday give-a-way !

 

If you are just joining us tonight, you can find the complete rules and details right here.

 

If you have been following along you know what to do !!

 

UPDATE !

 

All cards with RED description have been claimed !! 

 

 

 

 1992 Pinnacle Sidelines Nolan Ryan

 

1995 Score Hitter's Inc. Ken Griffey Jr.

1997 SPx Sammy Sosa

1995 Pacific Collection David Cone

1989 Bowman Fernando Valenzuela

1995 Score Hitter's Inc. Mike Piazza

2004 Upper Deck Etchings  Scott Rolen

2012 Topps Sparkly Jon Jay

I apologize for this terrible rendering !
2001 Bowman Heritage Chrome  Brandon Inge

2000 Topps Stars All-Star Authority  Sammy Sosa

1992 Upper Deck Shawn Green  ROOKIE

2007 Topps '52 Rookie Card Phil Hughes ROOKIE

 2000 Team Best   Hudson Renegades  Josh Hamilton  Promo

I should have shown the back of this card.There are no stats. It has the Team Best logo and web site.
Below it says " 2000 Team Best corporation. All right reserved.For promotional purposes only."

1988 Donruss David Cone

2005 Upper Deck Past Time Pennants Frank Howard.

1982 Fleer Rick Burleson

1990 Shanks Collection Jose Canseco

1981 Donruss Alan Trammell

2001 Fleer Greats Lefty Grove

2001 Topps Chrome  Baltimore Orioles Gold Retrofractor.

1991 Bowman Jim Thome  ROOKIE

2006 Fleer Francisco Liriano ROOKIE

1997 SPx Eddie Murray

2009 Enterplay an Pack Standee  Ryan Zimmerman
Player image and team logo is perforated, the card folds and the player portion "stands up"

2009 Enterplay an Pack Standee  Jim Thome
Player image and team logo is perforated, the card folds and the player portion "stands up"

2009 Enterplay an Pack Standee  Josh Beckett
Player image and team logo is perforated, the card folds and the player portion "stands up"

1982 Squirt unpunched give-a-way  Alan Trammell / Dave Concepcion

 

 

Last but not least

 

2000 Royal Rookies

Carlos Silva auto

4071/4950

 

Philadelphia Phillies



And now it's decision time again !!   There will be one more batch of cards posted tomorrow. Hopefully about this same time. My wife and I are going out of town tomorrow but we should be back early.  If for some reason we are delayed I will wait until Saturday night to post the last selection. Ohhh.....that would just kill you guys !  The extra time waiting !! Hmmmm........

Free cards ! Make sure you read the rules !!

 

Hi guys and gals !

 

Sorry I'm a little late tonight !

 

The show is about to begin, and let me tell you, picking out cards to give a way is not as easy as it sounds! Plus I got home a little late tonight so I was trying to hurry so I wouldn't be too far past 9:00 PM. If you didn't read my last post, please do. All the rules for getting a free card are in that post and there are some things you need to know.

 

If there are any more questions or comments feel free to leave them here at any time. Your comments will not count as a free card choice unless you specifically say you want a certain card.

 

When free card choices start coming in, they will be addressed by the date stamp, in case two people choose the same card. Obviously, the earliest comment will get the card. This is a very small selection tonight. The next two will be larger and, hopefully, much more exciting !

 

I really have no idea as to how many cards to post, hopefully there will be enough. I normally get 40 -50 page views but that may increase. When this is all over, if you didn't get a card, email me and we will figure something out !

 

 

 

UPDATE !

All cards with RED description have been claimed !!

 



 

1997 Finest common Chuck Finley
2006 Ultra "Ultra Stars" Jeff Kent

 1964 Topps All -Star insert Ron Fairly

2009 Enterplay Ken Griffey Jr.

These four minis count as one choice ! All the other individual, regular sized cards are separate choices. One per customer!

2012 Topps Purple Border Jordan Pacheco  (slightly dinged lower right corner)
2012 Topps Golden Greats  Cal Ripken

1990 Collect-a Book Jim Abbott
2005  Zenith Dale Murphy

1998 Pacific Jose Canseco
1996 Studio Gold Dion Sanders

1998 Pacific Paramount Red Alan Benes
2012 Allen & Ginter  What's in a Name  Justin Upton

2006 Fleer Tradition Sepia Carl Crawford
1995 Score Dugout Collection Jason Isringhausen
Baseball's All-Time Greats  Duke Snider

 

2012 Gypsy Queen  Miguel Cabrerra

1989 Pro Cards Jose Mesa

2012 Allen & Ginter Lefty Kreh

 

 

Good Luck and thanks for reading !!

 





A blog birthday contest you're guaranteed to win....but you might lose !!

 

Friday, November 16, 2012

 

 

All-Tribe Baseball will be four years old !

 

18 days later, Baseball Dad will be 62 !

 

Yep, the age of social security.

 

Will I retire ?

 

Don't know yet.

 

Certainly not from collecting cards or blogging.

 

The title mentioned contest. Confused ? I sure am. Tomorrow night, Thursday night and Friday night, I'm going to be posting cards. All you have to do to win, is pick a card you would like to have and leave a comment on that post. The first person to comment about a card, wins that card. It's that simple !  Oh, wait. You can only claim one card per person. ( of course, a few others may fall into the package before I ship it to you ! )  So if you claim a card tomorrow night you win ! But if a card comes up on Thursday or Friday that you would rather have, you lose !!  You still get the first card you claimed, but you may wish that you had waited and got something you like more !

 

So what if you see a card tomorrow you like, but wait to see if something better shows up ? Then nothing else shows up, that interests you, so you go back to Wednesday's post to claim the first card, only to find that someone else has claimed it !!  Yeah, could be some tough decisions. Also, I don't want to see any deleted comments !! No changing your mind ! Once you claim a card, the decision is final. I'll be checking regularly. No cheating boys and girls, keep it fun and friendly !!

 

I will try to have cards posted by 9:00 PM  EST on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Possibly a little later on Friday.

 

My wife and I are taking Friday off for a little R&R to Amish country to visit a Christmas store and a few other places and we may be late getting home.

 

I'm not sure just how many there will be, but I will try to have a good mix of teams, players and cards.

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions, leave a comment on this post or send me an email.

randj531 at yahoodotcom

 

Good Luck !!

 

 

 

 

Don't mess with my baseball cards !!

 

Or my family or my country !!

 

 

Go ahead, make my day !!

 

 

 

My home for 1971

Fire base 411 Duc Pho, Viet Nam

 

 

Proud to be an American !



Indians for Orioles Trade with foul bunt

A month or so ago I got an email from William over at foul bunt . He said he had a small stack of Indian cards he would send  if he could be in line for few Orioles. Well, most of my Orioles trades have been with another popular "bird site",  but I have plenty to go around ! If you don't believe me just ask my wife !

She'd love to see me send a lot of cards out to everyone and not get anything back.

Of course, that's not  happening !

Actually, I keep all my cards in my little room and she keeps all her crafty and scrapbooking stuff in her little room and we get along just fine !! For almost 33 years now.

Anyway, back to the trade.  This is part of what I received from William.

 

 

 

Jason Kipnis

Jason is the only Indian since Jim Thome that I have considered starting a separate binder for.

 

Now we go back in time to 1974.

Frank Duffy was like of lot Tribe players.Pretty decent in the field but couldn't hit.

He came to the Indians from the S.F. Giants with Gaylord Perry for Sam McDowell in late 1971. 

 

Asdrubal Cabrerra, our current shortstop (as of this writing !) And my old friend Jim Thome.

Kenny Lofton and Albert Belle. These two guys created a lot of memories in Cleveland.

Choo. Will we be able to retain him ? Probably not with Scott Boras involved.
I do like these Bowman cards though.

 

 Hopefully these two young guns will come through in 2013. We can use their bats.

Casey Blake gold !  These 2008 Topps gold versions seem to be hard to find.



 

 And finally, look at that smile !
All those great years in Baltimore but he waited until he came to Cleveland to get his 3000 th hit !



William, thanks for the trade and the great Indian cards !

You should be getting a package from me next week.



 

 



Night Owl, I'm not living quite as "right" this year !

 

Last year, just about this time, I picked up a single pack of retail A&G and pulled my second ever redemption card .

 

I stopped at the same Meijers store and bought a single pack of 2012  a couple days ago.

 

 

 

A&G  back Carlos Lee mini.

 

 

Johnny (I'm glad you didn't win after leaving Cleveland) Peralta.

 

 

Nelson (Betcha' can't read what's written on my bat knob) Cruz 

 

 

And who ??

 

Oh, a "Superstar" electronic gamer. I'm going to have to check out his website.

 

Pardon the delay....

 

Holy Crap !!!

He's won $500,000.00 and a new car for playing games !!??

 

I need to practice up.

 

 

Maybe I can get 500k for this :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well.....maybe not !

 

I do like that Meijers store though. 

 

I pulled another hit there once.

 

I don't think I've ever shown this before and I didn't think about it after I pulled Cheryl.(my mind must have been somewhere else)

 

Back in 1999-2000 I bought a pack of Upper Deck "A Piece of History"

 

and

 

 

pulled

 

 

this...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not necessarily my favorite, but probably the best card in my collection. 

 

That would explain one thing. One time when I took some packs to the checkout, the clerk, a gentleman about my age, said he had seen a fellow going through the card boxes feeling each pack.

 

Oh, crap !!

 

Now everyone will go there!

 

Attention !!!

 

This whole post was a hoax.

 

Do not go to the Sandusky Meijers store to buy sports cards.

Especially the racks right by the check outs.