Monday Mailday - A Trade and 2 eBays

Before we get to the mailday cards, let's post the winners from the randomized drawing for my other blog followers. The new blog has ten followers, good enough for two sets to giveaway.

Daniel from It's Like Having My Own Card Shop was removed from the list as I am giving him a set already for being the first follower. I am the 10th follower myself as I like to make sure my blog posts right. If it shows up in my reading list, I'm sure it works for you guys too.

So we had eight other official followers on the list. Randomized a standard three times, the first and last place names are the winners:

Congrats to Ryan H of the dormant "O" No!!! Another Orioles Blog and to gcrl of several blogs, most recently cards as i see them.

I will be reaching out later today to get addresses for all of the participants for team sets as well. Thanks again guys, I appreciate the support!

I had a bit of a light mail week as I've been enjoying ripping through my case of Opening Day and not mindlessly searching through eBay. The first package was a pair of team bags from a reader named Jeremy. I don't think he has a blog, but if I'm wrong Jeremy, please correct me.

Jeremy managed to hit a couple of weak spots in the Cubs collection. This non- team logo, plain clothes Bowman card is indeed a "Cubs" card, as noted on the back. Ah, the early 90's.

My first hobby break was from around 1997- 2008ish and is the biggest gap in my collection. I completely missed the Forty Man set from Upper Deck and think I would have really liked it. I wonder how many other sets just missed out on sticking around longer because of timing. 

Sammy Sosa is undoubtedly the Cubs player with the worst ratio of existing cards to cards in my collection. He falls into that time frame where I wasn't adding cards but the manufacturers were.

The Shawon Dunston is the only one of the two listed officially as a Fan Favorite, but Greg Maddux definitely was too!

Jeremy also hit me with some Topps Gallery base from last year. I'm not typically a fan of art cards, but I'll happily add these to the collection.

Rounding out this mailer are a pair of Amethyst (?) parallels out of Topps Triples Threads. Each are numbered out of 340. Thanks a bunch, Jeremy! Much appreciated!

On to the eBay portion of the mailweek which certainly qualifies as quality over quantity.

Last week's mailday brought a Jason Heyward Stadium Club short print parallel. This week he gets a teammate in Kyle Schwarber. Two down, eight to go for this "I Was There" mini collection. I was hoping to add one a month and knock the set out by the end of the year, but the supply seems to be drying up. There hasn't been a whole lot to choose from.

Last but not least, I finally got a hit on my "Jose Quintana Clear" search I've had saved for a few months on eBay. It's hard to tell from the scan, but the card is indeed clear and numbered out of ten. The starting bid was a little higher than I wanted to finish at but when this is the only one that has showed in the 5-6 months the set has been out, I pulled the trigger. I'm think it was a few dollars more than the 1/1 printing plates I picked up. But no matter, it's mine and I don't have to worry about finding it anymore! A few bucks is worth the piece of mind, no?