Cynical Buddha over at Collector's Crack is hosting his second annual Super Bowl contest. It's really simple - just pick the winner! (and a few other details for tiebreakers) He has some nice vintage football cards and a couple recent patch cards available as prizes. Hit the link below and check it out!:
http://www.collectorscrack.blogspot.com/2012/01/2nd-annual-almost-easiest-super-bowl.html
Go Pack Go~!
Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Contest Winner Announcement
Time to announce the first ever contest winner at the blog. But first we'll reveal the player on the card:
He's a Hall of Fame inductee.....
He holds the record for most career 3-Home Run games with 6.....
He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and New York Yankees, winning 5 World Series titles while with the Yankees from 1949-1953.......
He's Johnny Mize!
No one guessed Mr. Mize, so I had to randomize the winner:
Congrats to The Lost Collector! I will contact you shortly sbout sending out your prize. Thanks to all who entered the contest, and thanks again for reading! I look forward to another fun year here at the blog. :)
He's a Hall of Fame inductee.....
He holds the record for most career 3-Home Run games with 6.....
He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and New York Yankees, winning 5 World Series titles while with the Yankees from 1949-1953.......
He's Johnny Mize!
No one guessed Mr. Mize, so I had to randomize the winner:
Congrats to The Lost Collector! I will contact you shortly sbout sending out your prize. Thanks to all who entered the contest, and thanks again for reading! I look forward to another fun year here at the blog. :)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Blog Anniversary and CONTEST~!
Today marks the 1-Year Anniversary of my first blog post! Definitely one of my better decisions, as it has been a lot of fun being part of the blogosphere.
I decided to mark the occasion by doing my first ever contest. I'm taking a cue from Play at the Plate and keeping things nice and simple: I recently pulled one of the Black Glove Leather parallels (#ed to 99) from a jumbo pack of Topps Update. All you have to do is guess the player I pulled and you win the card, plus some cards from your favorite team/player, whatever I can pull together.
The contest will remain open to guesses until Noon on Saturday, with the winner announced Saturday afternoon. If no one guesses correctly I'll pick a winner at random. No, I haven't talked about this card in a previous post, so don't bother looking. Cheaters. :)
If you post the contest on your blog you can have a second guess, just include the link to your post in your comment.
Here is the checklist for the Update series:
MGL-JD Joe DiMaggio
MGL-RJ Reggie Jackson
MGL-MC Miguel Cabrera
MGL-JW Jayson Werth
MGL-RH Rogers Hornsby
MGL-MS Max Scherzer
MGL-KY Kevin Youkilis
MGL-JM Johnny Mize
MGL-BW Brian Wilson
MGL-RHE Rickey Henderson
MGL-MP Michael Pineda
MGL-BB Brandon Belt
MGL-TN Tsuyoshi Nishioka
MGL-DD Danny Duffy
MGL-JMO Joe Morgan
MGL-NR Nolan Ryan
MGL-CF Carlton Fisk
MGL-AD Andre Dawson
MGL-TS Tom Seaver
MGL-BR Babe Ruth
MGL-TH Travis Hafner
MGL-EH Eric Hosmer
MGL-JS James Shields
MGL-ZB Zach Britton
MGL-PWR Pee Wee Reese
MGL-OS Ozzie Smith
MGL-NRY Nolan Ryan
MGL-ADU Adam Dunn
MGL-HA Hank Aaron
MGL-JWE Jered Weaver
MGL-JF Jimmie Foxx
MGL-FT Frank Thomas
MGL-RJA Reggie Jackson
MGL-JB Jose Bautista
MGL-NOR Nolan Ryan
MGL-WM Willie McCovey
MGL-BZ Ben Zobrist
MGL-LA Luis Aparicio
MGL-CH Cole Hamels
MGL-FJ Fergie Jenkins
MGL-FR Frank Robinson
MGL-AR Alex Rodriguez
MGL-PM Paul Molitor
MGL-JSA Jerry Sands
MGL-MK Matt Kemp
MGL-ARO Alex Rodriguez
MGL-JT Julio Teheran
MGL-DS Duke Snider
MGL-LB Lance Berkman
MGL-RA Roberto Alomar
Good luck, and thanks for reading!!
I decided to mark the occasion by doing my first ever contest. I'm taking a cue from Play at the Plate and keeping things nice and simple: I recently pulled one of the Black Glove Leather parallels (#ed to 99) from a jumbo pack of Topps Update. All you have to do is guess the player I pulled and you win the card, plus some cards from your favorite team/player, whatever I can pull together.
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| Pictured: NOT the correct guess. |
If you post the contest on your blog you can have a second guess, just include the link to your post in your comment.
Here is the checklist for the Update series:
MGL-JD Joe DiMaggio
MGL-RJ Reggie Jackson
MGL-MC Miguel Cabrera
MGL-JW Jayson Werth
MGL-RH Rogers Hornsby
MGL-MS Max Scherzer
MGL-KY Kevin Youkilis
MGL-JM Johnny Mize
MGL-BW Brian Wilson
MGL-RHE Rickey Henderson
MGL-MP Michael Pineda
MGL-BB Brandon Belt
MGL-TN Tsuyoshi Nishioka
MGL-DD Danny Duffy
MGL-JMO Joe Morgan
MGL-NR Nolan Ryan
MGL-CF Carlton Fisk
MGL-AD Andre Dawson
MGL-TS Tom Seaver
MGL-BR Babe Ruth
MGL-TH Travis Hafner
MGL-EH Eric Hosmer
MGL-JS James Shields
MGL-ZB Zach Britton
MGL-PWR Pee Wee Reese
MGL-OS Ozzie Smith
MGL-NRY Nolan Ryan
MGL-ADU Adam Dunn
MGL-HA Hank Aaron
MGL-JWE Jered Weaver
MGL-JF Jimmie Foxx
MGL-FT Frank Thomas
MGL-RJA Reggie Jackson
MGL-JB Jose Bautista
MGL-NOR Nolan Ryan
MGL-WM Willie McCovey
MGL-BZ Ben Zobrist
MGL-LA Luis Aparicio
MGL-CH Cole Hamels
MGL-FJ Fergie Jenkins
MGL-FR Frank Robinson
MGL-AR Alex Rodriguez
MGL-PM Paul Molitor
MGL-JSA Jerry Sands
MGL-MK Matt Kemp
MGL-ARO Alex Rodriguez
MGL-JT Julio Teheran
MGL-DS Duke Snider
MGL-LB Lance Berkman
MGL-RA Roberto Alomar
Good luck, and thanks for reading!!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Card Love Contest - My Happiest Hobby Memory
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, Dan over at The Other World is running a contest called "Card Love" where people create a post about a card or cards that you love (how you interpret that is up to you). He is going to compile a list of all the posts and the winners will be voted on by readers. The top 2 vote getters will receive a Strat-o-Matic Computer game and a free spot in a future group break.
Little did I know that I was preparing for his contest weeks ago! The following is a repeat of one of my posts from December that fits this contest nicely. If you didn't catch it the first time (and since it was one of my first few posts, chances are you didn't), enjoy!
The year was 1993. I was 11 years old and a rabid baseball card collector. I had started my Ken Griffey Jr. collection a year or two before, and I remember seeing a commercial for Upper Deck cards on TV talking about heroes....
....incredibly, I found the ad on youtube (isn't it an amazing age we live in?)
From the moment I saw that ad, my only thought was "I HAVE to get that Griffey card~!"
And so I started collecting 1993 Upper Deck Baseball Series 1. I bought pack after pack, but the Griffey Triple Crown Contender was nowhere to be found. In fact, despite the fact that they were inserted 1:15 packs (so 2-3 per box) I had only pulled one card from the set (Juan Gonzalez if memory serves). I made regular trips to my favorite card store (R.I.P. MVP Sportscards) but that Griffey never showed up in the singles display case. I went to several local card shows - still no dice.
Then one day my friend and I took a walk over to Ball Four Sportscards. Being 11 I obviously didn't have a lot of money, but what I did have was going to go straight into busting some packs. I also happened to have a few other cards on me that I had brought to show my friend - a small 6-card set I had gotten from my brother-in-law Jay that included cards of Robin Yount, George Brett, and Nolan Ryan.
I immediately spent ALL my money on 4-5 packs of Upper Deck, only to grow more and more disappointed as each pack was found to not have one of the elusive Triple Crown inserts. The box was mostly full, so I just knew there had to be some in there. I reluctantly decided to trade 5 of the cards I had gotten as a gift for 2 more packs. I held on to the Nolan Ryan card because that was Jay's favorite player, and I would have felt bad trading it away since he had been nice enough to give it to me. I opened the two packs, AND......
Nothing.
I was so disappointed. I had no money, and no other cards to trade, except the Nolan Ryan. But I just coudn't trade that one, that was Jay's favorite!...but, somehow I just couldn't walk away. I doubt the store owner was actually interested in trading, but I think he felt bad for this little kid that wanted to get just one more pack so bad that he agreed to give me a pack for the Ryan card. I took it and we walked out of the store.
Walking down the street I opened the pack, and immediately I saw there was a purple insert card in the middle of the base cards! "Oh my God it's a Triple Crown card!!!" I thought. I wanted to dive right to the middle to see what it was, but afraid of jinxing myself I stuck to my usual pattern of flipping through all the other cards first and leaving the reveal of the insert to be a surprise at the end of the pack. I lifted the last card and saw........
I've rarely had another moment of such pure joy. I remember jumping up and down screaming, apparently making a scene to the point that my friend joked "OK, I don't know you" and started to walk away from me lest any other passersby think he was associated with this lunatic kid.
My Griffey collection has since grown to over 600 cards. I certainly have many cards that are much more rare and/or valuable than this one. But even 17 years later, this remains my favorite card of my entire baseball card collection.
Little did I know that I was preparing for his contest weeks ago! The following is a repeat of one of my posts from December that fits this contest nicely. If you didn't catch it the first time (and since it was one of my first few posts, chances are you didn't), enjoy!
The year was 1993. I was 11 years old and a rabid baseball card collector. I had started my Ken Griffey Jr. collection a year or two before, and I remember seeing a commercial for Upper Deck cards on TV talking about heroes....
....incredibly, I found the ad on youtube (isn't it an amazing age we live in?)
From the moment I saw that ad, my only thought was "I HAVE to get that Griffey card~!"
And so I started collecting 1993 Upper Deck Baseball Series 1. I bought pack after pack, but the Griffey Triple Crown Contender was nowhere to be found. In fact, despite the fact that they were inserted 1:15 packs (so 2-3 per box) I had only pulled one card from the set (Juan Gonzalez if memory serves). I made regular trips to my favorite card store (R.I.P. MVP Sportscards) but that Griffey never showed up in the singles display case. I went to several local card shows - still no dice.
Then one day my friend and I took a walk over to Ball Four Sportscards. Being 11 I obviously didn't have a lot of money, but what I did have was going to go straight into busting some packs. I also happened to have a few other cards on me that I had brought to show my friend - a small 6-card set I had gotten from my brother-in-law Jay that included cards of Robin Yount, George Brett, and Nolan Ryan.
I immediately spent ALL my money on 4-5 packs of Upper Deck, only to grow more and more disappointed as each pack was found to not have one of the elusive Triple Crown inserts. The box was mostly full, so I just knew there had to be some in there. I reluctantly decided to trade 5 of the cards I had gotten as a gift for 2 more packs. I held on to the Nolan Ryan card because that was Jay's favorite player, and I would have felt bad trading it away since he had been nice enough to give it to me. I opened the two packs, AND......
Nothing.
I was so disappointed. I had no money, and no other cards to trade, except the Nolan Ryan. But I just coudn't trade that one, that was Jay's favorite!...but, somehow I just couldn't walk away. I doubt the store owner was actually interested in trading, but I think he felt bad for this little kid that wanted to get just one more pack so bad that he agreed to give me a pack for the Ryan card. I took it and we walked out of the store.
Walking down the street I opened the pack, and immediately I saw there was a purple insert card in the middle of the base cards! "Oh my God it's a Triple Crown card!!!" I thought. I wanted to dive right to the middle to see what it was, but afraid of jinxing myself I stuck to my usual pattern of flipping through all the other cards first and leaving the reveal of the insert to be a surprise at the end of the pack. I lifted the last card and saw........
I've rarely had another moment of such pure joy. I remember jumping up and down screaming, apparently making a scene to the point that my friend joked "OK, I don't know you" and started to walk away from me lest any other passersby think he was associated with this lunatic kid.
My Griffey collection has since grown to over 600 cards. I certainly have many cards that are much more rare and/or valuable than this one. But even 17 years later, this remains my favorite card of my entire baseball card collection.
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