The Grady Chronicles:Optical Color

This new short-term segment is based on my mail day from SCC reader, Grady M.

If you enjoy shiny cards especially, tune in as I take you on this journey.

Today, I will take a look at some Optic baseball shinyness.

Pink Optic parallels. Nice Pujols.

Silver Optic Paralells.

Neon Green Optic parallels

 

And Red Wave Optic parallels. The Soto looks really sharp.

This is just the first part of many in this series of showing off the shiny goods. 

More Eli's Arrived!

You never know how much you appreciate something until it is gone. I have realized that more and more everyday with Covid changing what once was and now the Giants looking worst than the Lions since Coach Coughlin was fired and Eli retired.

This is probably the most embarrassed I have ever been as a fan with the way things have come undone this season. There were moments this season I wanted to not admit I was one and actually gave up watching or caring about them at points this season. That has never-ever once happened to me. High hopes will do that.

Collecting Eli cards has kept me going in a season of loss. I remember what the Giants were like in the times after Phil Simms until the time Eli arrived. So, I know some time, somewhere there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It's just how far away that is and how much more suffering us fans have to go through. 

I recently made a trade for some new Eli's thanks to @clrshonuff on Twitter.

Some shiny ones including a rare White Sparkle from Optic.

And then came a

 

Eli Manning /10. I think this is the second lowest numbered Eli I have. Still don't have an Eli 1/1.

Thanks again to my buddy Chris for the trade and hope we can do it again real soon.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Holy RAKMacatoney!

Each Monday on Twitter, I run a RAK thread, where you list off what you collect and hope that someone responds to you that they have something for you. If you do get that reply, you must find someone to give to. It's a pretty solid system, though sometimes I see it only as a one-sided RAK. Which I try to correct those who take advantage of it being just that.

I was happy to see a new person join in on the fun and was lucky to be one of the chosen ones by @yefnob1326.

At first was really busy and forgot to mail out, but then, he wanted to make sure it was worth the wait when he did and it certainly was.

I was searching for some Mac Jones cards to add to my rookie PC and he surprised me with a nice relic card of him.

The relic is from 2021 Elements.

Then on top of that, he hit me up with some Kadarius Toney!

A Supercharged Toney relic

 

And then a huge surprise with a Toney autograph. This is my first Toney Giants uniform autograph.

Big thanks goes out to @yefnob1326 for this spectacular mail day.

Anyone on here ever join in on my RAK Mondays on Twitter?

Dinosaurs And Dino Roars

I was fortunate enough before Christmas to receive a couple of RAK's from a couple of Twitter hobby members. The first I will show off today followed by the next that I will show off tomorrow.

Today's RAK was from my long time Twitter friend @JGfan24ever.

 

Lenticular Dinosaur cards. Both a 90's feel and dinosaurs which I have always enjoyed.

Canvas feeling Dinosaur minis.

TTM or In-Person autos? I really like all three of them.

90's insert in Marino, need to see if it's a need for my set chase and a Gleyber Torres for my player collection.

An assortment of non sport cards.

Jasson Dominguez!!!! What a shiny, fun, new PC piece! I didn't have this one for my Dominguez PC.

 

And to finish it up, an Aaron Judge Ornament from the 2021 Topps Holiday. I really liked the look of these this year. Put last years to shame with the foil. This may be a set chase down the road.

Thanks again to Michael for the mail day. I really need to send you a return thank you at some point.

Thoughts on my mail day and the cards are welcomed below!

Breakin' Wax:2021 Prizm Draft Football Hanger Box

2021 was much better for me when it came to opening up wax. I was able to find some, trade for some, etc when I had that itch. It may not have always something I was dying to open, but it was something and I will take that over the nothing that was 2020.

I don't have the picture of the box I opened today, but I do have the most important parts, the contents.

 

Some of the rookies I found.

And two surprise rookies as well. I must have opened up a few of these hangers/blaster/packs and never once pulled either of these guys. Then I find both right in this break. I won't complain.

I think these are called Green Waves. Pretty cool looking regardless of name.

 

And my break ends with some green parallels.

Nothing overly exciting to brag about. I do like the Fields and Lawrence adds to the rookie PC, but other than that, not much here for me.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday and I welcome your thoughts on this break below!!

Breakin' Wax:2021 Prizm WNBA

As I expected, cards at Christmas time were not plentiful. I actually wouldn't have had much to open at all in that aspect if it wasn't for hobby friends, I did many trades within December.

However, my Christmas wasn't completely empty handed on cardboard. I had to make a list for my mother-in-law of things I was interested in for Christmas. I had a feeling finding cards wouldn't be easy so I tried to not only focus on what I wanted the most.

So, on Christmas morning other than getting together for breakfast, she also brought out a gift bag full of stuff. It had the usual candy (which I am taking it very slow on with my recent diabetes news), a couple of kitchen items she felt I needed, 20 stamps (pwe time!) and then a blaster box of cards. I must say before showing off what I got that I didn't specify what sports I collected and just put down any sport in hopes some would be found.

And to my luck there was. It was in the form of a 2021 WNBA Prizm blaster box that came with 5 packs of 4 cards along with 5 inserts or parallels.

I was just happy to see cards to open, though not a big WNBA fan like I was in the 90's with Rebecca Lobo and the NY Liberty. I had actually stared at these blasters and almost pulled the trigger a few times since I like Prizm, but the price point scared me away at $35 a pop.

Regardless of how this break turned out, at least I didn't shell out the money to buy it lol.

Here were a couple of rookies I found. One of you will have to tell me if I landed anything special.

Green parallels.

I see A'JA Wilson is on the box front so that's gotta be good right?

 

And my silver Prizm. Always like the silvers.

Overall, not sure how I did, but it was fun to open something a little different.

Let me know your thoughts on this break in comments!

Tradin' With Tim

As I posted awhile back, I am buried in mail days and needing to take about a million pictures. Someday I will get there, if it's only a few pictures at a time.

Today's is one of the oldest mail days I have been sitting on to show off and it's from my buddy Tim, aka, @CardpocalypseNC.

We recently pulled off a trade, well, somewhat (more on that soon) and he sent his end to me first. As for his end, I have no idea what he wants quiet yet but being the great guy he is, he is patient on his return.

For now, I will show off my end of the trade. 

Obi Toppin Rookie from Hoops.

Quickley yellow parallel from Absolute Memorabilia

Some Gmen!

Outstanding Giants sticker.

Metal Universe!! I will take all I can get.....

Especially when they are this cool!

Tim has always been great about set help chasing for me and once again helped this time with my 1995 Ultra Gold Medallion chase,

This was help for the second series. I am also chasing the first series.

A couple new Griffeys, of course I chase Griffeys with eye appeal first.

Anna K cards. Can't complain about these.

Megan Rapinoe. I didn't land her in my box break, so Tim passed one of his dupes along.

I have another card to show off, but that will wait for another day, another....blog?

Thanks again Tim for the trade and I am looking forward to the next one.

2 Million

This has been a long-awaited post since this happened on December 27th, but I am happy to announce that Sport Card Collectors hit the 2 million view mark.

 

I didn't quite capture the exact moment it hit, but I kept track that day because I knew it was close and this was as close as I got to capturing it.

Thank you to everyone who comes on here to check out my gibberish, especially the ones who stayed on board with the rollercoaster of a blog I have put up the last few years. I hope to continue to only post good content.

Have a wonderful Monday.

Rodney's Cardboard:1997 Pinnacle Inside Gridiron Gold

The first Rodney of the New Year comes thanks to my friend Tim @CardpocalypseNC.

Today's card is not an easy one to find. In my almost five years of collecting Rodney, I have only seen this one twice. Once I missed, a second time I wasn't going to. Which is where Tim came in with the save.

These silver foil cards are die cut, with a gold foil touch and fall 1:63 packs or in Pinnacle Inside terms, cans.

 

The back is the same other than the parallel name.

Thanks again to Tim for the help.

Have a great Sunday!

New Year, New List Of Things To Do

Happy New Year!

It's another year and another year to make a list of things I hope to accomplish. Key words, I hope.

With most of my extra time being soaked up into blogging last year, I hope this year I can take a step back and spend some time with my actual hobby instead of just typing about it.

Here are some of the things I need, NEED, to accomplish in my collection,

1. Sort out ALL of the cards I got in 2021 by what they are. My collection is sorted by teams for each sport for base, top players are pulled for each sport and sorted by player, non sports, NY Giants, NY Yankees, Rookies for each sport by team, Inserts by team for each sport, and then hits are sorted by team, by sport. This will be a VERY long project.
2. After completing number one, I will need to put all of that away.
3. After completing number one step, I will need to update my NY Giants collection and player collections.
4. My need to add up my Ken Griffey Jr collection PC numbers and find all of my Ken Griffey Jr stuff I added to totes. UGH!!
5. Clean up some of my boxes by moving players into binders
6. I am forgetting something....

As you can see, this will at least take the year to complete. I have a feeling the blog will prevent me from finishing most of this up again, I just need to focus and get it done.

But, I also have some things for blogging to accomplish as well. Hoping to get the hobby ones done with first, however, there are many things on here to do as well,

1. Cut back so I can accomplish my collection
2. Try to once again figure out my blogging three-some and what I need to do with each blog. 
3. Clean up all three blogs
4. Take A LOT of pictures to show off what my Christmas hauls were.
5. Get creative again and stop rushing posts to get a post done
6. Redo the look of the blog, layout, etc.

When it comes to life, my biggest goal in 2022 is to lose weight. I have to do it with being pre-diabetic so I don't become fully diabetic.

In comments, let me hear what some of your goals are for 2022. Hope everyone has a safe, healthy, Happy New Year!