Ballsy Trade Bait

I finally uploaded some photos of cards I have up for trade.  I will add more soon.  You can now find my trade bait here.

Hopefully my photos are not too difficult to navigate and browse.  I've found Photobucket to be a bit slow in the past too.  I decided to take pictures of my trade bait in bulk, instead of scanning or photographing individual cards.  I do this because I have a high turnaround rate for the cards I do not keep in my collection - either from trading them away or selling them off.  So, please keep in mind that some of my displayed trade bait cards may suddenly become unavailable if I decide to sell them.  I will do my best to keep up-to-date and note what cards are not available in the photo descriptions.  Also keep in mind that, as I am currently unemployed and sometimes need to sell off cards quickly, I can not reserve or save certain trade bait cards for long periods of time.

Looking forward to maybe trading with some of you fine blogging fellows!  If you see a card you want to trade for or want more information about, please feel free to email or ping me (contact info in Blogger profile).

Go!: I'm Ballsy's trade bait

Patches, Patches for Me

I hope everyone is having a nice new year!  It feels about the same 'ol for me, unfortunately.  Anyway, I went up north to visit my sister during Christmas.  I had some free time during the holiday festivities to visit my old stomping grounds in the Peninsula, specifically my favorite card shop - What's On Second in San Mateo, CA - owned by my good friend Jordan.  I picked up some football cards while I was there.  Here is my favorite one:

From 2012 Panini Prestige Football: Team Foundations, Jeremy Maclin and LeSean McCoy dual prime patch card, #d 15/49.

Back.  Though I do not like the Philadelphia Eagles as a team themselves, I do enjoy watching some of their individual players perform.  Not Michael Vick though.  Vick is a piece of shit.

I know the legitimacy of card relics has been called into question lately, but I still do enjoy the aesthetics of patch cards - more so than plain old jersey swatch cards.  NFL Wildcard playoffs are starting soon!

A trade with The Dimwit 2

You can see what Sam of The Daily Dimwit got from me at his blog.  This is what I received in return:

Front.  2012 Leaf Ultimate Draft Football, yellow printing plate rookie autograph of Bernard Pierce (Baltimore Ravens running back), #'d 1 of 1.  Awesome!  Pierce is a great young player.  He got 89 yards rushing and 4 yard receiving today in a loss to the Bengals.

Back.  Thank you, Leaf!  These plates were used to print the "TD Countdown" inserts, which are serial numbered to the player's final college year touchdown total.

And, most of all... thank you for the trade, Sam!

Merry Christmas!

Y'all.  Lakers won!

Cardboard Conundrum group break haul

I recently participated in a hockey group break over at Cardboard Conundrum.  We busted one box each of 2010-11 Panini Luxury Suite, 2011-12 In The Game Enforcers, and 2011-12 Panini Rookie Anthology.  I picked the Los Angeles Kings and got the Carolina Hurricanes as my randomized second team.  I actually did pretty poorly on the group break, as I only received two base cards - one of Jeff Carter and one of Jeff Skinner, both from Rookie Anthology.  However, Matt was kind enough to throw in a hit for me!

2012-13 UD Artifacts, Autofacts autograph of the captain, Dustin Brown!  Very nice.

It is my first signature card of Brown, and it is a very nice one at that.  Thanks Matt!

Winners of the card giveaway!

No more entries for the card giveaway will be accepted, found at my previous post.  The secret number between 1 and 100 is:

Congratulations to Spiegel for winning Set #1.  He was the closest for guessing the number 21.  Also, congratulations to Spankee for winning Set #2.  He guessed 33, which was the next closest.  They both got their first choices of card sets.  Gentlemen, please email me your mailing addresses so that I may send you your prizes (check my Blogger profile page for my email).

Card Giveaway and Part 3 of Dan's Other World Crazy Group Break Haul

Well, that was an unreasonably long pause between group break posts!  I have been in San Diego the past two weeks.  Here's a selection of various cards I received in Dan's The Other World group break (mostly Dodgers):

That Finest Orel Hershiser card is super cool.

Since this is the last post about Dan's group break, I will do a card giveaway!  There are five of them in total, but I will give them away in two sets.  It is easy to enter this game of chance.  I will think of a number from 1 to 100... now!  I have now written that number on a dummy card with my new surf colored Sharpie marker (yes, I am proud of it) and taken a photo of it next to the date and time - 12:40 AM on December 6, 2012 to be exact.  Simply guess the secret number that I wrote down in a comment on this post and also mention your first choice of the two sets that you would prefer to receive if you win the giveaway.  (It would also be nice, were you to follow me on Google - left side of my blog.)  Here are the cards you can win:

Set #1.  Three prospect autos from 2007 Tristar Prospects Plus!  From top left, clockwise: Eddie Kunz (heh), James Simmons, and James Adkins.  I have no idea who these dudes are, but maybe you do!

Set #2.  Two game-used jersey cards from 2008 UD Goudey.  Russell Martin and Josh Beckett.  Dan was awesome enough to throw in these two extra hits, but unfortunately I am trying to minimize my collection of relics.

So there you have it!  Have fun guessing the number between 1 and 100.  Naturally, closest number gets first pick of the card sets and next closest gets the set that is left.  I will leave entries open for a few days to a week at most.