Category Archives: November 2018

So in my haste to post a blog update Sunday night regarding my large flat rate mailday from Rick in Dover, New Hampshire…I forgot something. A small box that was inside that featured HITS! How could I leave these out?!? Inside the box was a stack of Sammy’s, as in Sosa. A total of 51Continue reading “…But Wait, There's More”

Rick in Dover, New Hampshire is at it again. We are trading large flat rate boxes for the third time. On Saturday, Rick’s box arrived with 3,457 Cubs cards. This time I’m sending Rick a box back that is heavily football including Patriots, Texans, Titans, and Oilers. I’m also shipping over 300 Tim Wallace cards.Continue reading “Large Flat Rate Box Saturday with 350 Ryne Sandberg's”

I was expecting all five packages that arrived on Thursday, but I was surprised by the contents of two of them. Last week I posted on Twitter the 2018 Allen & Ginter card of Theo Epstein. It was on the anniversary of the Cubs hiring him as the President of Baseball Operations. Stephanie in SouthContinue reading “Cubs Surprises in Thursday's Mail And I'm not a Cheesehead”

Two packages totaling just under 200 Cubs cards came in the mail Tuesday. Bob in Schaumburg, Illinois and Bob from Indiana sent some Cubs in exchange for some set needs in a deal made in a Facebook group. Schaumburg Bob sent 117 Cubs cards that are all apart of my collection, but in my pursuitContinue reading “Two for Tuesday: Filling Some Set Needs for Collectors”

Monday was a mixed mail bag with three packages in total. In total, 608 cards were added to the Cubs collection, although the Mailday consisted of 612 cards. That’s because four were part of my collection that I sent off to Alfonso Soriano in a through the mail (TTM) autograph effort. After reading some AutographContinue reading “Bowman Chrome Master Set, an Awesome TTM Return, and a Box of Junk Era”