GREASEd Up My Non Sports PC

Today is the finale of my Twitch Collects Cards blog mail day. 

We will be tackling the non sport adds from my mail day. If you don't know by now, I have been really building up a non sport PC this summer. My best additions to it have yet to be shown. Wait til Christmas on that one. They have a theme...

But for today, let's check out what I got in my Twitch mail day.

Fans Of The Game Al Pacino.I think we all know his biggest role was in The Godfather saga. Still a saga I have yet to watch. I know, I know. He also had many other big roles as well including a movie I did see in Any Given Sunday.

Common is both a rapper and an actor. I don't listen to rap anymore and never heard any of his.  He has been in many movies as well but the only one I have seen is Just Wright. The love story between a physical therapist and an All Star basketball player. I actually enjoyed it more than it sounds mainly for the funny parts in the movie.

William Holden I never watched any movies of, but he was one of the biggest box office stars and draws in the 50s and 60s. I love adding classic Hollywood Legends such as Holden.

Reece is known for many things. Actress, professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model and even was in ESPN's body issue. This card features a nice two color swatch of this all around gal.

Swimsuit Issues anyone? Here she is! Molly sims with a small swatch of clothing. My first relic of hers. I always wanted some of these PopCardz relic cards but never actually pulled the trigger on any. My biggest want from the set is Mandy Moore and I have my reasons for that and will explain if I ever get it. If you have one or see the card and wanna trade it to me, let me know!

and finally the biggest name of the group and one I was stoked about, John Travolta. This guy has been in hundreds of movies and lots of them I have seen. From Grease to Pulp Fiction to Face/Off, Look Who's Talking to Phenomenon, to so many others. I really liked Face/Off with Nicolas Cage.

Huge thanks to Twitch Cards again for the trade. I am hoping we can do this again!

As for the rest of you, let's hear your favorite or favorites for John Travolta in comments!

Big Blue Sunday's:A 2nd Win

What a game on Monday Night!!!!

Giants trailed by ten at one point vs the 49ers and somehow came together as a team and scored 17 unanswered points and held on at the very end with the 49ers driving 27-23.  It had me on the edge of my seat.

Eli Manning had one of his best games of the season along with the offensive line. Odell Beckham Jr looked like his old self catching 2 touchdowns and it could have easily been three or four with a couple near misses.

Speaking of Odell, his card was included in my Twitch Collects Cards blog mail day. Yesterday I showcased the baseball part of my mail day, today I tackle the Giants. See what I did there?

This may be one of the coolest Odells in my collection. it's acetate and is reminiscent of the Skylines insert of the 90's. I wouldn't mind more of these.

 

Very cool patch card of Fran Gifford. My first relic of his.

I have always wanted the Topps Chrome rookie autograph of Hakeem Nicks and now I own one. I was a huge fan of Nicks. That guy could take over a game.

Speaking of taking over a game, Sterling Shepard caught the game winner vs the 49ers. It was a pretty nice catch. He also did a reverse play earlier in the game that netted him 27 yards. This Shepard autograph is what started up the trade conversation between Twitch Cards and myself. I dig the color rush uni on the card and it's also a tough find being numbered 4/10. I believe this is the lowest numbered Shepard card in my collection.

A big thanks goes out to Twitch for the cards!! These Giants were big time winners.

Winners you say? One of my Player Of The Day winners kept their promise if they pulled a Saquon Barkley card they would mail it to me. And they did!

Thanks @GundersonNathan! Much appreciated my friend!

Two mail days. Two much excitement. Two wins.

Today we face the Bucs. Let's make it a third win shall we?

Twitch Sent Yanks!

What was a Panini card break tweet by Twitch Collects Cards blog turned very quickly into a trade and that one card trade escalated to a multi card trade.

So with a multi card post, this usually means a multi-post series and that's what you will find with this trade.

There were lots of cards sent from Twitch you won't see to help me shorten up this post series. But, I loved every bit of my first trade with him.

Today we focus on baseball addition. All new ones at that which isn't always an easy taks. Most of these are from older Topps Allen and Ginter which I really didn't get into until the last few years.

CC and Damon,

Jeter and Tex. Love the sketch renditions on these. The Tex celebrating around the bases is probably my favorite of the group.

 

UD Masterpieces was also a great looking card line by Upper Deck. I would have liked to seen more. The older players look incredible. The Gehrig and especially the Babe Ruth are very eye appealing. It captures what the game is truly all about.

Another new Tex, a Cano from a Bowman's Best brand I haven't seen and Austin Romine rookie from my favorite baseball card product.

My first WBC materials card and from one of my favorite products. I liked having Johnny Damon as a Yankee but when he was wearing that awful red he was one of my least favorite players.

 

I will also note that I have never once watched a WBC game. I don't care much for those kind of off-beat don't count for much things. No more than I watch any All Star games for any sport. It doesn't appeal to me.

My unique swatch PC got a couple of nice additions. One with this base swatch of Jason Giambi.

 

Giambit had some great seasons in NY. I just wished he hadn't been apart of the PED search in which another player I liked I had to turn on.

And a non Yankee one in Dewon Brazelton in which I get my first Fielding Glove card. I had no idea they made cards with those swatches and now I have one. Awesome!

 

Brazelton on the other hand not so great.  He had a 8-25 record in the majors with a 6.38 ERA playing for the Rays and Padres.

This is just part one of this terrific mail day.

Tomorrow we will tackle Part 2 in which I will show off the card that began the trade talk as we also discuss another Big Blue Sunday. Make sure you don't miss that one!