Better Late than Never: Random Packs of Kindness!

Went back to about 150 posts to see if I posted these yet, and it looks like no, which is just sad.  There were some cool cards in my 8 packs from David, who is currently in India* meditating and doing yoga to help realign his blogging focus back to Indians baseball cards (though I hope there will be occasional updates on his writing adventures) and preparing for the big return.  Here be a (very) small sampling that you may ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ at so I don’t have to say much.  Consider it a warmup for March 1st and refresher on his coolness.

*He’s probably not in India.  Not sure about the meditating or yoga either…

Kool Moe Dee!

Heathcliff is a keeper!

'83 topps! The most perfectly designed set ever! Oh yeah, I said it.

The best stuff (that I remembered to bring with me to scan those many moons ago).

Frank, Willie, Griffey & the Phillies dude, and Bell are keepers.

Backe is numbered /100.

And I forgot to scan the presumably TTM or IP auto of I think it was Pat Mahomes and a gold version of Griffey & Dykstra.

I still have almost all of these (the Marlins are with Wicked I think, but otherwise yeah, they’re probably around here somewheres), including the hits, and everything but the keepers can be had if anyone wants them.  Click on my blogger profile link on the sidebar and shoot me an email.

David and Jay Leno both redebut on March 1st.  What are the odds David’s first post gets more hits than Leno’s first show back in his old timeslot? 😛

The Great Cardening of 2009 #1: Philadelphia Phillies

It’s time for the first team in The Great Cardening of 2009.  Can you feel the excitement?  The losingest team in professional sports history, but the defending World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies!!!!!

We’ll divide ’em up by superstars first.  So Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, and legends like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton will be in their own categories.  Then we’ll do hits and numbered cards.  Then inserts and finally base, by year on each I guess.  To make it easier to tell where one card ends and another begins, I’ll alternate between regular and italic as well.  Sound good?  We’ll see how it turns out. I’m pretty much doing this on the fly tonight since I forgot to set it up last night, so if you have any suggestions to improve things for later teams, please do leave a comment.

Onward!

Cole Hamels

2008 SP Authentic #49, 2007 Topps Chrome #28, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #136, 2008 Upper Deck Goudey #144(x2), 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum #73

Ryan Howard

2008 Allen & Ginter #300, 2005 Donruss Team Heroes #246, 2008 SP Authentic #39, 2007 Topps (NL MVP) #322, 2007 Topps Generation Now #GN32, #GN38, #GN46, 2006 Upper Deck (Team Checklist) #890, 2008 Upper Deck #604, 2009 Upper Deck #290, 2005 All-Star Classics (All-Star Futures) #74, 2007 Upper Deck Future Stars #71, 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum #72, Upper Deck X #76

Jimmy Rollins

2005 Bowman Heritage #144, 2007 Fleer #98, 2006 Sweet Spot #65, 2007 Topps Co-Signers #42, 2008 Upper Deck (Season Highlights) #392(x2), Upper Deck Heroes Black Parallel #134(x2), Upper Deck Goudey #141, 2007 Upper Deck Spectrum #84 (Front is noticeably scratched up), 2008 Upper Deck X #75, 2008 Upper Deck X Die-Cut Parallel #75, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X #X-JI, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X3 #X3-JR

Chase Utley

2008 SP Authentic #27, 2007 Topps #350, 2007 Topps Generation Now #GN68, 2008 Upper Deck First Edition StarQuest Common SQ-27, 2009 Upper Deck Superstar Scrapbooks #SS-3, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #135, 2008 Upper Deck Timeline #10, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X2 #X2-CU (miscut a little bit)

Legends

Steve Carlton

1985 Topps #360, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #139 and #183 (w/ Johan Santana)

Mike Schmidt

2002 Donruss Donruss ’83 insert #6 of 20, 1986 Topps Major League Leaders #55, 1989 Topps #100

Hits/#’ed

2005 Topps Updates & Highlights #UH287 Kelvin Pichardo First Year Gold Parallel #’ed 1706/2005

2006 Upper Deck Special F/X #414 Ryan Franklin Green Parallel #’ed 40/99 & #743 Green Parallel #’ed 77/99, #745 Sal Fasano Green Parallel #’ed 80/99

Inserts/Parallels

2008 SP Authentic Brad Harman Rookie Exclusives #RE-BH

2007 Topps Chrome Zack Segovia Refractor #323

2006 Upper Deck Special F/X Tom Gordon Blue Parallel #746

I’ve read the blues had a print run of only 25 and I did get the same number of them as red parallels that are #’ed /50 (2 of each) in the box I bought last year while getting way more of the higher numbered greens and purples.  I don’t know for sure though.  Not that it matters much, just thought it was worth mentioning.

Base

1983 Topps Greg Krukow #331, Ozzie Virgil #383, Ivan DeJesus #587

1986 Topps Major League Leaders Juan Samuel #54

1989 Donruss Chris James #312, 1989 Topps Keith Miller #268, Bruce Ruffin #518

1992 Confex The Baseball Enquirer (pretty sure it’s Lenny Dykstra) #37

1993 Leaf Milt Thompson #417

1996 Donruss Darren Daulton #395, 1996 Score Lenny Dykstra #67(x3)

2003 Flair (Woooooooooooo!!!!!) Bobby Abreu #49, 2003 Topps Opening Day Brett Myers #22, Mike Lieberthal #107, 2003 Upper Deck First Pitch Mike Lieberthal #236

2005 Topps Updates & Highlights Greg Golson (Prospect) #UH100

2006 Topps Opening Day Aaron Rowand #24(x2), 2006 Topps Updates & Highlights Scott Mathieson (RC) #UH139, 2006 Topps ’52 Scott Mathieson (RC) #179

2007 Bowman Zack Segovia (RC) #BDP16, 2007 Bowman Chrome Derek Griffith (1st Year) #BC34, 2007 Topps Pat Burrell #441, 2007 Topps Zack Segovia (RC) #323, 2007 Upper Deck Goudey Redback Aaron Rowand #3

2008 Allen & Ginter Pat Burrell #286, 2008 Bowman Chrome Chance Chapman (1st Year) #BCP21, Brad Harman (1st Year) #BCP99, 2008 Topps JD Durbin #18, 2008 Upper Deck Kyle Lohse #193, Brad Lidge #608, Brett Myers #609, Geoff Jenkins #612(x2), Tom Gordon #613, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes Pat Burrell #137(x3), 2008 Upper Deck Goudey Shane Victorino #143

2009 Upper Deck Brett Myers #297(x2)

And we are done!  Hit me up in the comments section if you want some Phillies.

Once the Phils are whittled down by half or more, the Yankee Stadium Legacy cards will be up for the taking, followed by a very ridiculous number of Yankees themselves.