Last year, Kerry (from the wonderful Cards on Cards blog) sent me a "spring cleaning" box of baseball cards that was chock full of Reds. Kerry is a big Cardinals fan so I'm sure he didn't mind ridding his house of Reds cards - and I didn't mind being the recipient of those same Reds cards!
I usually save the "hits" in a trade package for the end of the post but I'm feeling like switching things up today, so we'll start with the two autographs that Kerry sent my way.
I don't know a darn thing about Keury Mella but that Tyler Stephenson autograph is an instant keeper for my collection! Even better, it's a rookie autograph!
The rest of the box was full of base cards plus some assorted parallels and inserts. There was a ton of good stuff inside but I tried to pick out a few of my favorite to scan and show off on the blog. Since I've already shown one Tyler Stephenson card, let's get the cool one on the blog:
Love Stadium Club, love that rookie card of Stephenson!
Another card that I love is this Billy Hamilton.
It sure looks like Hamilton is playing baseball in a snow storm! I've never bought a single pack of the Topps Holiday edition cards but I have to admit that I usually like the looks of the cards whenever I receive them in a trade.
Next up, sticking with Topps parallel set is this UK edition of a Shogo Akiyama rookie card.
Now, I have to admit that I know nothing about these UK cards. Is there a specific point (or gimmick) to them other than the British flag? Honestly, I have no idea but at least the card looks cool!
Another cool looking card is this Topps 206 mini:
The Reds have high hopes for Nick Lodolo, perhaps even as soon as this upcoming season you'll see Nick on the mound for the Reds. I ought to try and get myself one of those sweet Dayton Dragons hats, too bad I don't live anywhere near Dayton!
And finally, we end with this sparkly green parallel of Joey Votto:
That card is serially numbered out of 499 on the back, not often I receive a numbered Votto card these days!
As I said at the outset of this post, there were TONS of cool cards in the box from Kerry - I had a hard time even narrowing down what it was that I wanted to scan and show off.
Finally, I suppose I should apologize to Kerry for taking so long to show off what he sent me - after all, this was a spring cleaning that Kerry did last year! That's my bad, but at least the cards have shown up the blog now...better late than never, right?!
Just a side note... Jonathan India has a card in this month's SI for Kids issue.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad, I only got around to showing off Kerry's Spring Cleaning cards for me last month.
ReplyDeleteI don't get a lot of people sending me stuff anymore (thankfully), but when I do, it always takes me forever and a day to give public thanks for whatever it is. I think most bloggers understand that this may be the case with a lot of us, and don't get overly perturbed if someone takes their time posting about a sent package.
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