eBay Fun

So after a long absence from eBay, I discovered I had 7 or 8 bucks still sitting in my paypal account. So I had to spend it! It’s like free money not tied to the family budget! I searched for cheap singles which fell into my price range.. anything that caught my eye. I ended up with this nice Freddy Garcia auto from Topps’ trading places set, which I always liked. One player on two different teams on one card! And the autograph.. well since I’ve only opened cheap packs all year and haven’t bought any singles til now.. I have nearly zero autos in my collection. Hopefully Freddy can pull himself together and continue his great career and get signed after screwing the Phillies. This one cost me about $5.

After that I had a couple bucks left and I found this beauty. The Red Sox have possibly become my favorite team right now.. so Clemens and Dice-K on one card is cool. Flags on cards always get me too. But to top it off, anything having to do with the World Baseball Classic is fine with me! (I’m really excited about the 2009 tournement, even though I probably wont get a chance to see any of it.) (Go Puerto Rico!)

2007 Topps ’52 Rookies

Couple of dynamite cards in this one!

Here’s what I got:

#20 Ryan Braun [rookie]
#24 Jamie Burke [rookie]
#29 Mike Fontenot [rookie]
#147 Cesar Jiminez [rookie]
#182 Shelley Duncan [rookie]
#DD6 Hideki Okajima, Daisuke Matsuzaka [dynamic duo]

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 2.99
Beckett NM/MT worth: N/A
Insert odds I beat: 1:4 packs [dynamic duo]
Most valuable card: N/A

Hoping for Monday

I was hoping this would come in the mail today. I bought one of these on eBay last week and I’m just waiting for it to show up. I like odd and unusual packs that aren’t your run of the mill cards. This is a 2006 Japanese BBM Seibu Lions foil pack which contains cards from that team only. There are 6 cards in the pack and 7 of the 100 cards in this set are of Dice’K! So.. hopefully Monday I’ll get this sucker.