Mailbag: Trade w/ The Cardboard Mistress

Or someone that has a cardboard mistress. Either way.

It began with a request over there for a small # of Ginter cards needed to complete the sets. Just my luck, one of the few cards I had from last year's set was the Don Mattingly Across The Years card. So, I parlayed that into a Lucas Duda relic. I also threw in a pile of set building football cards, and the bubble envelopes were off!

Here's the Duda, but there were far more goodies in the bubble envelope.

Like die-cut David Wright!

A Wilmer Flores insert!

And a nice, shiny, prismy, refractory, whatever they call it of Matt Harvey, numbered to a perfectly logical, but still odd 227 copies. They call it a stat line parallel, or something, but I'll call it a Jackée Harry parallel.

Cripes, I'm old enough to drop a reference to 227. And to have a sitcom immediately pop into my mind whenever I see that number.

And aside from the hit, probably my favourite item in the package - my first Chipz chip. Chip is the appropriate singular, right? The zed throws me.

There were a nice number of Blue Jays card. Easily, the highlight of them was this beautifully gaudy Jake Marisnick green refractory card.

And speaking of green, there were even a handful of Raptors cards in this package.

And the best sees me add a card featuring their St. Patrick's Day uniforms to my team collection.

Thanks for the goodies! And head over to MCM to see if you can turn your inserts into a relic as well!

Blame it on The Raz

Seriously. Blame The Raz. Of the Raz Card Blog.

All the fault has to be placed right there.

Raz is one of the bloggers to chase down their very own version of the Jim Moore 1985 TCMA Ft. Myers Royals card after it was first posted here. As should everybody. It is the most surreal piece of cardboard I own.

In his post after acquiring the card, these two sentences appeared:

The card is in pretty good shape. Is it crazy to think about sending it in to be graded?

Uh oh.

And then I remembered there was a Beckett booth at the Expo last month. Where people submit their cards for grading in person.

Yup.

I went for it.

In the area, where people will submitting all their Young Guns cards of Nathan MacKinnon, Seth Jones and Tomas Hertl, I proudly handed over my Jim Moore.

And in the area, the booth workers were passing the card around and showing it off to everyone who would look. It produced usually laughter or amazement or some combination of both. I mean, it had to be by far the absolute strangest card they received that day weekend. I'm guessing the same thing happened at Beckett HQ.

I was supposed to put the value of the card down on the sheet submitted. Damned if I know the financial value of the card, so I put the value as "Priceless".

I finally got this cardboard gem back.

If any card were worthy of being encased, this is the one.