Throughout 2019 I have been tracking the states that have contributed to the One Million Cubs Project. Up until a couple months ago Vermont was a state that eluded me this year. Then Beth in South Burlington came through with a few packages and they were filled with some awesome Cubs baseball cards. My latestContinue reading “Vermont Sends Some Panini Chronicles and Kris Bryant”
Category Archives: October 2019
Cubs Cards Mailday from L.A.
Thursday brought in a package from Brian in Los Angeles. Some Cubs goodies were inside and I’ll be compiling a package of Dodgers to send back to California. Some 2019 Stadium Club Cubs with parallels. Albert Almora base with a blue foil parallel. Anthony Rizzo base and a sepia parallel. Bryzzo checks in. A pairContinue reading “Cubs Cards Mailday from L.A.”
More Than 4,500 Cubs Cards From Howard the Rockies Collector
A trade months in the making was finally completed this week. My bulk trade partner for Colorado Rockies baseball cards acquired a collection over the summer and pulled over 4,500 Cubs cards for a trade. It’s tough sorting out that many Rockies cards (or other recent expansion clubs), so it was going to take someContinue reading “More Than 4,500 Cubs Cards From Howard the Rockies Collector”
Eddie Vedder Fleer Cubs Custom and North Dakota Checks In
Another full mailbox welcomed me on Saturday. It elicited a comment from a postal clerk on Monday: “Did you get all your packages?” The postal employees at my post office are all aware of the project, and I am regularly asked how many cards I’m at. Four packages were in Saturday’s mail, including a boxContinue reading “Eddie Vedder Fleer Cubs Custom and North Dakota Checks In”
Mike is El Mago With Flat Rate Boxes
You all probably know by now that Javier Baez is my favorite Cubs player of all time. Baez is also known as “El Mago,” which is Spanish for The Magician. My buddy Mike from Bloomington, Illinois and Wax Pack Hero online and I have conducted a few trades over the past year. We were evenContinue reading “Mike is El Mago With Flat Rate Boxes”
Shipping Baseball Cards and Learning Something New
I’ve been selling on eBay for 21 years, and sending and receiving boxes of baseball cards through the USPS since the mid-1990’s beginning with bulk team trades as a teenager from classified ads in the back of Tuff Stuff magazines. Still today I learn things all the time about shipping. Of course, technology has rapidlyContinue reading “Shipping Baseball Cards and Learning Something New”
Beers and Baseball Cards
One of my favorite blogs is Waiting Til Next Year by P-Town Tom. Tom and I have a lot in common: Cubs fans, baseball card collectors, bloggers, craft beer drinkers, and we both hail from central Illinois. We could be brothers. Over the past 18 months we have completed a few baseball card (and beer)Continue reading “Beers and Baseball Cards”
The Unknown Bond With an Unknown Brother
Maybe it was the red, white, and blue color scheme. Maybe it was the cool logo that I liked as a youngster. Maybe it was the cool name…Expos. Youppi? Whatever it was, the Montreal Expos were my second favorite Major League Baseball team growing up. Of course, the Chicago Cubs are my number one andContinue reading “The Unknown Bond With an Unknown Brother”
Cubs Oddballs And Closing In on a Milestone
Three packages with nearly 1,200 Cubs baseball cards were delivered on Saturday. The Mailday put me to almost 349,000 Cubs cards as I close in on a milestone and reach 35% of my goal of one million Cubs cards. Glen sent another NAFTA trade package. I’ve lost count at how many trades we’ve conducted, asContinue reading “Cubs Oddballs And Closing In on a Milestone”
Tommy Likey. Tommy Sends Cubbies
Weak attempt at Tommy Boy humor with this headline. In my defense, the trade partner for today’s package of Cubs baseball cards goes by Tommy on Twitter and he lives just 90 miles from Sandusky, Ohio…setting for the movie Tommy Boy. Now it’s time to get serious. Cubs baseball card serious, which sounds like anContinue reading “Tommy Likey. Tommy Sends Cubbies”