Lots Of Autographs!

Recently with what started off as a small trade for a card I really wanted, turned into so much more with Dion's Autograph Collection blog.

I won't show the card I originally I was spying on in our trade as that's being saved for a Origins post, but, I will show off the rest.

Let's take a gander at this big sized trade:

Some Giants in tossed in as a surprise, which I love the Jumbo Elliot monsters card, along with some Griffeys that I needed. Well, just the start of the Griffeys that I needed.

and needed

and needed

and needed (well at least some)

and needed. That's a lot of new needs. I will need to update my Junior numbers on here again with all of the sorting and sleeving I have been doing with him.

Up next, here comes the autographs. Dion gave me a list of players he had available FT and I took ones that I wanted.

Trent Dilfer 90's guy for me. I just like to forget he beat my Giants in the Super Bowl

RG3. I wanted it and can't explain why.

Gary Kubiak. I grabbed this more for the coaching aspect. I do like the throwback Broncos jersey but still like the new one more.

Jamal Lewis. I liked watching him run.

Ozzie!

Spags! I really wanted this one the most out of them all. Dude was the reason why the Giants won Super Bowl 42. Most memorable game of my life. Too bad it didn't feature him in his Giants T, but I will take it regardless.

Brian Billick who I had wanted to coach the Giants after they fired a few other coaches and he left Baltimore. Didn't work out though.

And my boy Amani Toomer Signature Rookies auto. Look under his armpit if you can't see it. This is the same size as a 8x10 photo.

Thanks goes out to Dion for the trade and for being patient with my slightly delayed mailing. I look forward to our next one!

Generosity Aplenty

What a great way to end May is to show off my latest, greatest mail day from @JGfan24ever whose generosity is far beyond what I can sometimes comprehend.

This time he sent a box of goods with a variety of different PC landings.

Some Ken Griffey Jr. That Studio card is one of my favorite base card Griffeys and that American Hero is a new one for that dreaded set. They made so, so many of those and I have so, so far to go still.

NY Yankees including Jeter and Rivera. Really enjoy looking back at the old Collectors Choice cards. Brings back warm memories.

Gleyber! Off to a decent start this year but not quite the home run total I hoped he would be at.

Gleyber x2. Really dig this Optic.

Hakeem Nicks Contenders ROY

Ramses Barden relic.

The next few cards Michael was looking for good homes for because they were damaged in a fire. They aren't in mint condition, but, they are Giants relic cards and I wasn't going to turn those away at all.

Jeremy Shockey. I really like this design.

Plaxico Burress relic. He wins my vote for the best Free Agent pickup ever for the Giants. He changed that teams offense and helped Eli's career.

Speaking of Eli's career. Here's an Eli!

Ron Dayne! I always liked this design.

Hilliard. They may be my first relic card of his.

Greg Jones. Decent autograph but not so much on the field.

Kerry Collins. We all know my feelings on him.

Another Dayne relic!

Ron Dayne MVP Souvenirs. I like football swatches so much more than the plain relics.

And to finish it off, a graded Leather and Laces, though I don't see any Laces on it, of Tiki Barber. Great looking team color themed card.

A big thanks goes out to Michael for his generosity once again. I need to do some undigging and hit you back. i know you don't ever expect anything in return, but I can't just take this without doing something. Thanks again!

By the way, have any of you ever seen a graded card in such a big case? Holy moly going to have to find some place special to store that.

Cratty Takes Me Back

@CrattyPatty25 and myself have been sending each other mailings over the past couple of years. It started out as trades, but have turned more into surprise arrivals now. Which is a whole lot more fun. Save the trades for the bigger valued cards.

He contacted me recently with a card lot he had bought on Twitter containing some 90's cards and wanted to see if I was interested in any of them knowing that 90's is what it's all about to me right now.

Shortly after, a bubbler arrived with the cards I chose along with a few surprises. Let's check it out,

Great mixture here. Barry Sanders and Fred Taylor (still looking for a Taylor auto for my PC). Brian Urlacher rookie card which you can never go wrong with. Steve Young with the Hot Numbers and an amazing in person card of Gale Sayers at the bottom. It's very shiny despite the dull appear here.

Some Jerry Rice additions. And no, I won't be peeling the the peeling off from the certified. That's a big no-no to me.

 Numbered Terrell Owens. I wasn't ever a fan, but I do like the older numbered cards.

 Randy Moss who is second best WR I have ever seen play. Jerry Rice will always be the GOAT.

Dan Marino with two inserts and a Topps Chrome base help. Not to mention a Hot Numbers. Will this be added to my 1995 set chase....

Here are just a few of the NY Giants base and inserts he passed along as well. I didn't want to fill this whole post a blog long. He packs a ton in a small package.

 Shiny Paul Perkins relic. There seemed to have been a Perkins theme here.

Great looking on card autograph of Perkins here with Flawless. It may be the first Flawless card in my collection. I still would like to chase down a piece of jewel card of a NY Giant.

And to finish it up, a /25 Gold autograph of Paul Perkins. Beautiful card!

Seems my Paul Perkins collection recently has been having a nice facelift recently. Which may not be a bad thing as he is on the Giants roster and possibly rumored to be Saquon's backup.

A big thanks to Cratty for thinking of me again. I have some more soccer cards set aside for your nephew if he is interested and a few small things for you as well. Thanks again!

With a mail day like this, I have a lot of work to put in here with writing down updated NY Giants numbers and sorting out the rest of the players. I try to do it immediately so I won't have all of the work to do at once.

Is this how you guys sort as well? Do it when you get it in or do you wait til it's stacked?

Pieces Of My Future #3: Finally!

Two Pieces Of My Future in the same week? Is he slowly starting to go back to Sport Card Collectors? Nope.

This past weekend my nephew came up from Tennessee and we spent the time playing Mario Brothers, eating food and watching movies. Something we have done for years. I didn't really have a lot of time to do some typing so I decided to choose a few quickie posts this week that sat in my drafts.

For my birthday this year, I was surprised with a few eBay gift cards so I put them to use the best I could and got the most I could out of them.

Today's Pieces Of My Future features more of a Part Of My Past.

This Kerry Collins was a set need from 1995 Summit Ground Zero and also served as a Kerry Collins card I needed for that PC. I really like these parallels and I am currently working really hard on achieving this set. Any help from you guys would be great!

And today's post was named Finally as I was finally able to land this Kerry Collins autograph I have wanted. It's from 2000 Fleer and their autographics set. The year 2000 was the set that had the QB that everyone else is chasing in Brady's autograph, while I put in a small bid on this Kerry and nobody battled me for it. I got a steal and the card I wanted.

These are just a couple things I snagged with my gift card. Defintely more to come that will take you back in time including more Ground Zeros I will be sharing as a separate segment of it's own.

Stay tuned!

Pieces Of My Future #2:Eli'd By Brent

One of my great buddies on Twitter, @Brent3323, continues to dish out his kindness to me and many others through his mail days. This time though I dished one back to him that he really enjoyed and I like hearing it.

Today's Pieces Of My Future takes us deep in Eli which is the second highest PC I have for my NY Giants other than Rodney Hampton. However, my Rodney PC far surpasses my Eli with it's overall rareness.

Here are the first six Eli's. I hadn't seen that Certified one before.

Some great action shots here and some younger shots of Eli mixed in.

It's so shiny! Haven't ever seen one of these but I really enjoy Pro Bowl cards to begin with. I am not really a fan of watching that game now that it's turned into flag football, but I still vote for my players to get in. Eli despite so many critics has made it four times.

Watch out Eli!

Acetate, Eli, Captain. All I want.

QB Vision was one of Eli's strengths, not so much now. His vision is to dump it off to Saquon or fall flat before the sack comes.

Wowzers! Look at this Donruss design with some shine.

Eli will hopefully be a Air Marshal with his new weapons this season.

Optic parallel

Press Pass rookie insert Big Numbers. I think these came one per pack. Look amazing and i almost had the set at one point. I was a big Press Pass fan.

Hogg Heaven definitely doesn't look like the one I grew up hoping to pull, but Panini has done a decent job with it.

Numbered Eli from Topps Triple Threads. I miss Topps football days.

Didn't pull an Eli in my 2018 Select break but now I have a maroon parallel one.

Another Press Pass insert from Eli's rookie year. It's a sad world how far Eli's cards, especially his rookie ones have fallen over time.

Elite Teams and I would call it that. Eli was at his best when he had Plaxico. I am hopeful they won't need Odell as much as I think they will. Maybe Golden Tate will be more than I think he will be.

This isn't an Eli, but it's pops Archie.

The next few cards we take a break from the Eli's and we will finish strong with Eli. I mentioned to Brent, who is a huge Pippen collector, about my lack of a Pippen rookie. Well, not only did he send one, but he threw in a Pippen relic as well.

The relic doesn't look right to me as its one when he played for the Trailblazers. He is a Bull to me.

And here is the Pippen rookie. Now I need to talk my father into the Rodman and the Stockton he has. Still need a Malone as well.

Livin' the Saquon life. This Matthew Berry fantasy insert was one of my favorite looking cards of Saquons when it came to inserts.

And a Donruss rookie I didn't have.

And here is the strong finish on the Eli's,

TTM or In-Person autograph of him. Pretty cool.

Then a dual patch relic. I like the Nicks swatch. He was another great Giant WR I liked to watch.

Another incredible mail day from my buddy Brent. Thanks man. I look forward to more trades down the road.

That does it for today's Pieces Of My Future.