Swingin' Into The Postseason

The baseball post season is on, so I figured why not show off some of my latest baseball cards thanks to a trade with long time buddy @90sNicheFBCard.

But first....some coffee....

*brew is ready, pours cup, pours creamer, stirs....takes sip....gets back to post*

*takes another sip*

I am sure many Yankee fans will agree, this guy needs to retire. But, I will still welcome a shiny card of him.

This is THE MAN. Despite the Yankees smelling it up against the Rays so far, Ben Rice has still been the bright spot.

I always wonder what if Aaron Judge actually stayed healthy in his career and how many records he may have broken? Same feeling for Mike Trout and Ken Griffey Jr.

Just in case you didn't know this was a Topps card....

Who is this guy? That's what most Yankee fans are wondering now. It wasn't too long ago he was the most wanted prospect, now he has fallen.

 

Wavy....

 

It looks like to me that Aaron was planning on playing all season but he counted his chickens before they could hatch on that.

Besides Jeter and Judge, I will welcome all Ben Rice cards to my PC. I don't collect as much baseball as I used to, but these three Yanks I will take all day.

I know I have said this before but I will say it again for those who didn't read it the first time, Roger was one of my favorite pitchers of the 90's who I used to try and imitate, then he got messed up with the 'roids crew and I lost all respect.

Now onto the greatest player with the greatest swing ever to hit a baseball diamond.

 

I have been staring at one of these for months, was so excited to see this pop up in the package. Though I prefer 90's for my Griffeys, when one looks cool like this I will obvious take it.

Another one I have been needing.

This one here was a wonderful surprise! Shiny, /199, and throwback. Couldn't ask for more.

The cards featured above wasn't all he sent either. There were more baseball cards but there were also more football cards. The only way you can see those is if you are following my football card blog, Big Blue Cardboard. I will be posting those there at some point. Some really fun stuff mixed in that group as well.

Thanks again for the trade and mail day Bryan!

*takes another sip before finishing up today's post*

Bryan always sends a lot of fun and variety in his mail days. I had a feeling when it magically appeared in my mail box that it was going to be spectacular and it was. I hope to send you some stuff soon in the Christmas mailings I need to get out this month.

If the Yankees fail to come back from down two games, I will at least have this cards to look at that got me swingin' into the postseason.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

It's Not Always About Sports

It's not always about sports. 

I also collect a ton of non-sports and probably this year alone, I would say I have almost acquired more non-sports than sports.

One of my latest trades came on X from @CalvinThomas88. He and I pulled off a trade already earlier this year and just like that one, I sent him stuff he wanted (Cubs inserts) and I got exactly what I wanted, these,

Pieces Of The Past dual relic featuring Picasso and Rockwell.

Looks like a newspaper swatch featuring MLK.

Civil War penny relic from Pieces Of The Past

 

My favorite relic of the group, Nelson Mandela. I cannot tell what this swatch is, but I just really liked it.

And finally, 1962 Topps Death To The Enemy vintage card.

Some great pickups, thanks again for the trade @CalvinThomas88.

My collection of non-sports will only continue to grow over time. I am actually working on a big trade right now for a key card for my PC. One I have wanted for awhile and hopefully have enough remaining trade bait to pull it off...because it's not always about sports.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

BBA:We Had It All The 1990's

Back in the 90's, we had it all in the hobby.

We had the most innovative cards. We had lots of legends and Hall Of Fame players to collect, some of which we will never see the likes of again...yes I am talking especially about you Michael Jordan. We had price guides to price our cards. We had checklists inserted in packs to help us set collectors, some of those checklists were even apart of the set. We had coaches, cheerleaders, and even refs in our sets.

We had it all.

Today's cards will have nothing on what I enjoyed then. That's why I am focusing a lot of adding cards from that era. Maybe even finish some long time sets that have been sitting around.

So, I created this Blog Bat Around to see what era of cards you liked, why, and some new additions you may have added from that era.

I have many to show and will let the cards themselves do the talking. Good luck making a case against these. Maybe some of you will even agree and I will get to see even more awesomeness from this era.

Here are my latest additions,

 

 

And I ended this with a Highlight Reel. See what I did there.

These cards I will treasure, despite the players, more than any others. I don't care about the player. It's more about the card, memory and what it means to me.

Now let me see you beat the 90's. Good luck.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The MATTen Curse

If you have any knowledge of video games at all or have heard of the Madden NFL game, you have heard there is something called the "Madden Curse." This is when a cover athlete on the game will get hurt the season they are on the cover of the game.

I have come to realize I have my own version of this curse when it comes to buying cards.

This summer after looking how crazy card values have gone, I told myself, why not grab some cheap parallels of good quarterbacks while they are affordable that way if they go up I can "flip" them by trading them for something of higher value. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Then the season started.

CAM WARD:

I thought to myself, well, here's a guy that is with a quarterback guru in Brian Daboll. He may not be a good head coach, but he can coach a quarterback.

So far the Titans are 0-3, he lost to my Giants yesterday by throwing a terrible interception (I celebrated) and hasn't thrown for more than 200 yards at all this year. Really rough start.

JAYDEN DANIELS:

I thought to myself, Washington has some good weapons around him now for him to throw to. He might get his rookie year self back.

He had an okay start, then he went and disloated his elbow and his out again with that injury.

Oooof.

DRAKE MAYE:

He had a superb sophomore year leading the Patriots to the Super Bowl and was MVP runner up. You then give him a still dominant AJ Brown and it's looking like another great year.

Maye has been nothing but disappointing so far and that AJ Brown connection, well, that hasn't been there since he has been hurt. Maye continues to just turn the ball over and the Patriots right now are far from the team they were last year.

BO NIX:

Bo was looking to play well off from his injury last year that kept him out of the AFC Championship. He still has the brilliant Sean Payton as head coach and an up and coming offensive coordinator in Davis Webb. They also added Jaylen Waddle. Things were looking up.

 

The Broncos did pull out a big win last night and the offense seemed to had come to life in that second half, but, it's been a tough start I think for Nix up to that point. Maybe last night's big win over the Super Bowl favorite Rams will lead to bigger things.

And finally....

JAXSON DART:

This one makes me the most sad. I picked up a ton of his cards for my Giants season, not for any other purpose other than PC, but I was hoping he would be the man especially with a new coaching staff and new weapons.

 

He played amazing in Week 1 protecting himself from concussion, then Week 2 came and he got nailed by the Rams and tore his meniscus for season ending surgery. 

The pain. The heartbreak.

If you don't call this a curse from all of these guys, I don't know what you call it.

I need coffee.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

1.5 Million

It's been awhile since Cards Over Coffee celebrated it's last view milestone, one million happened back in May, but I am happy to report that sometime during my extended break this blog hit the 1.5 million view threshold.

I just wanted to make sure to shout out this great moment as this blog has continued to grow this year. It may not be close to the seven million plus that Sport Card Collectors has, but this blog also never had daily posts and was around during the peak times of blogging so I feel this is still quite the accomplishment.

I also wanted to tip my very hot mug towards all of you who continue to read my gibberish even when I take extended breaks from posting. Especially since blogger is continuing to be broken so you may not be seeing these newer posts.

Today's post isn't a long one, but just wanted to thank all of you again for your support. I have a busy day ahead with watching two soccer games, a football game and homework.

I will now leave you with my favorite Caitlin Clark card that I added during my long break.

 

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Ps: I chose a basketball card for this post since next week I will be holding open gym for girls grades 5th-8th grade. I was invited to do so and was the only coach to grab it. I did afterwards ask my assistant from last year to join which she was happy to. So add coaching back into the mix along with my already packed schedule.

Feeling Nostalgic Recently

I have been feeling so nostalgic recently.

I don't know what's causing it but I have bene picking up a lot of cards recently that focus on that.

Cards such as 90's inserts/parallels, favorite players growing up and even some flashback cartoons for me that I enjoyed.

One set that I felt I had to complete was the 1989 Topps Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stickers. I was a HUGE TMNT fan in the 80's and 90's between the cartoon series and the two movies. We will ditch the third one, that was bad.

I found the stickers to be really cool mostly because of the yellow, despite how much I can't stand it on 1991 Fleer, its what brings these to life.

It took me a few weeks and a few trades, but I pulled it off. One sticker that was tough to land was Sticker #10 which is the one I am starting off with.

 

This one was actually the last one I needed to complete the set and thanks to @TheRealOmegaDad I was able to complete it. He RAK'd me this one.

Here are the rest,

 

If you flip the cards over, altogether they create a cool puzzle:

 

The back of Splinter helps show us what the puzzle looks like for those of us who can't do puzzles. Raise your hand if you can't because I have both of my arms up high.

Now I am hoping to do the base set as well and I am miles away from it. Just another set goal I can add to my list. I really need to just make a list of sets I want and see if any of you have them available.

In comments today, let me know your favorite turtle. Mine is and always has been Leo. I grew up as Leo. I also like Shredder and Baxter Stockmon for my villains. We all have a favorite villain.

Hope everyone has a fantastic Friday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*