A "Giant" Mail Day From Hidden Gem Sports

This came in the mail yesterday. A package from Hidden Gem Sports in because I had helped them reach their 2,000 Twitter Follower goal. It was a mystery pack giveaway so it caught my attention immediately when I saw Eli Manning Prizm sitting on top. I just had to know what else was in there!

Well here was the results from the "mystery pack" which seems a little Giant heavy, but it's exactly what I was hoping for and right up my alley :)

 

 

Thanks again goes out to Hidden Gem Sports for this awesome prize pack and if you are not following them yet on Twitter, do so, I think they have more future giveaways ahead!

Cardsmith Breaks: 2012 Panini National Treasures Football Case Hit Recap

Starting new here on Sport Card Collectors, we want to share some of Cardsmiths breaks. Now, we don't want to give away all of the goods so you will have to watch the video break but we will share a couple of the hits.

     

Here is the video to the rest of the hits including a sick Michael Floyd booklet auto/patch!

Enjoy the video and give us your thoughts!

Reuben Randle PC pickups

I don't usually put a focus on a certain player because usually what I have is called an open PC. Meaning I don't collect one thing or another. I just collect whatever falls into my hands. But after getting a small eBay gift card for Christmas I thought to myself...is it time to dig back into collecting a player like I used to in my earlier collecting years? If you don't know by now, I hugely collected Ken Griffey Jr and even made it into Super Collectors portion of Beckett Baseball a few years ago. But I gave up on Griffey after he got injured and I lost out on values and have just collected everything. My fear would be investing into a player and losing out in the long run. Thats why I like an open PC, you always have everything. So some will jump, some will fall but you will always win when it comes to values.

However, I did sit down thinking to myself, boy I really think it would be fun to maybe find a player to collect and maybe give my collection another project (not that it needs one). And since I collect mainly football and my love of Giants I put the best of two together. However my rules were, only a young rookie offensive player this year or last and they had to be reasonably priced because I didn't know how long I would do this for and didn't want to invest into a guy too much.

Than I thought of one. I at first wanted to do David Wilson who I think will be the Giants starting running back next season, but prices are way too high. Then I thought to myself...what about the other young talented Giants rookie...yes! Thats it. I will start to collect Reuben Randle!

Here is my $20...thats right...$20 pickup from eBay to start off my collection:

Hard to see but the Chrome is an auto. The Strata is numbered to 99

I would say for $20 I got a great deal. The card below this I got for $7 alone!

As I continue to pick up more Randles I will do more updates right here on the blog. That way you guys can keep track of me to make sure I am adding to it and this wasn't just it. Like I said, I don't know how long my Randle PC will run for, but for now I can say I am collecting him. However, I am keeping my main emphasis on my open PC. This will just be a side burner project for now. But you never know.

Thanks for viewing and your thoughts are always welcomed! And if you have a PC you would like to share with us, please email us to sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com and give us a small writeup and pictures with it. You yourself can also pose with it.