What a week!

 It's been a tough week! As some of you know, I'm a special education teacher and a baseball coach in high school. With school winding down and end of year paperwork, a tough loss to knock us out of the playoffs and just life in general, it's been a long week. 

A long week means there's not a lot of time for blog writing. To be honest, this week I kind of hit a wall on what to write about. I've got a couple of ideas, but nothing wants to come out when I sit down at the keyboard. What do you do when it's been a long week, you've got nothing to say and you really want to keep your goal of writing at least one post a week? You stop, take a deep breath and think about something good. Something good is checking the mailbox and finding a package with some cards in it. 

I picked up some cards on Ebay, claim sales on Facebook and some trades on TCDB. Isn't cool how baseball cards can make your week a little better!

Here are the Ebay pick-ups that came in this week.

The Bobby Witt Jr. cards were additions for my Witt Jr. PC and one of those is a dupe for my grandson. The Mike Trout is a short print for '24 Heritage set. 

Here's my pick-ups from Facebook claim sales

These cards were all 50 cents each plus shipping. All but the Witt Jr. Home Field Advantage. That one I actually pulled this week. My wife and I have this understanding. She sends me to Walmart for something and I come home with cards too. I was lucky enough to come home with Witt Jr. Home Field Advantage. Here's a few more that I pulled this week.

All of these will go in the player collections except the Lawler. I haven't decided if I'm going to collect his cards yet. He's from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area which is home for me so there is a little interest, but I don't know. 

Almost all of these will go in player collections. 

Here's a few cards that came in on trades from TCDB.

I'm really trying to finish the '23 Stadium Club set. I'm still missing almost 100 cards. These three get me a little closer.

I've completed my '24 Topps Series 1, but I've still got some to get for my grandsons' sets. These are for those sets. 

This little trade gets me a little closer to finally finishing my '81 Topps set. 

The Pudge Rodriguez card comes with a little story. 

I made a trade with someone who didn't have all of the cards that he thought he had. Instead of contacting me and telling me that there was a problem, he found other cards from my want list and sent them instead. When I opened the package, there was note describing the situation with an apology. It caught me off-guard and I wasn't too thrilled with it for a couple of days. After I came to grips with it and looked at the cards he sent, it was still a fair trade. I sent a message telling him that it took a bit, but it was a fair trade and I was okay with it. A couple of weeks later this Pudge card arrives from the same guy. Again, apologizing for the mix up and hoped that this gift would help. I was good with the trade. He didn't have to send the extra card. I guess now I have my first (and probably only!) graded card in my collection. 

You hear so many stories of people getting scammed, cards not showing up, counterfeit cards, etc... I thought it was important to hear a good story too. I have met so many great people in this hobby at shows, through this blog, on Facebook and at card shops. As much as I love baseball and card collecting, its really the people that make this hobby great.

Peace, 

Michael

Isaiah 40:31