The Wright Stuff

I can probably count on one hand the number of cards I have that are numbered to 10 or less.  Oddly enough, two of the cards I do have are from the same player - Mets favorite David Wright.  Even odder, both are #8 out of 10!

2013 Allen & Ginter Silk

2008 UD Masterpieces Gold Frame

A lifetime .298 hitter with 231 HRs, 910 Runs and 943 RBIs, Wright has been among the better players of the last decade. Not a bad guy to pull a rare card of!

I absolutely LOVE those gold framed-Masterpieces.  I've been trying to add one of each color frame to my Griffey set, but unfortunately they don't seem to come up very often on eBay.  Worse, Griffey has TWO cards in that set!!

For the record for any Mets fans out there, I could be persuaded to part with these....

This Is A Call

Hello from my blog's new home base - the center of the sun!!

(Seriously, this year we didn't even have a Spring in Milwaukee.  We just went right from 40 and 50 degree days straight to a heat index of 100....)

Anyway, on to the business at hand.  This post's title is not merely meant to be a nod to a great song by a great band - side note: if you like rock music you should absolutely go buy the Foo Fighters' new album "Wasting Light".  You won't be disappointed - this is also a call to help me finish off a couple of 2010 base sets! For a while now I've had to see the last remnants of my want list sitting there, mocking me, everytime I open that page.  So let's put 2010 Topps and Topps Chrome to rest, shall we?  If anyone can come up with the following cards I'm sure I can find something to trade that you'll like:

Topps: #417-Dallas Braden, #488-Delwyn Young, #568-Jarrod Saltalamacchia, #US-72- Milton Bradley

Topps Chrome: #194-Cesar Valdez, #205-Ian Desmond, #211-Sergio Santos, #219-Drew Stubbs, #220-Wade Davis

Also, I'd love to set up a trade for some 2011 Topps Heritage.  My needs list was recently added to my "Help Me Complete a Set" page and I have a good number of doubles, so if you're looking to finish your set hit me up!

Previous Trivia Question:

 

What was Jerry Dior's big contribution to Major League Baseball?

 

Answer:  He is the creator of the MLB logo we all know and love:

 

It was once rumored that Harmon Killibrew served as the model for the logo, but Dior says that is completely not true, claiming the logo sprung from a composite of several photos of players. (And really, couldn't that logo look like virtually any player?  Hell, you can visualize the batter as being right OR left-handed!)

 

Today's Trivia Question:

 

What city hosted the hottest game ever played in recorded history, which happened just last season?

For Trade - Kimball Champions

I'm trying to collect the Platinum Diamond parallels from the new Topps set, and I have a handful of Kimballs available for anyone that wants to trade.

I already have the following Platinum Diamond cards:
9, 17, 23, 31, 44, 64, 68, 81, 100, 103, 106, 140, 148, 153, 154, 170, 176, 201, 209, 217, 235, 241, 248, 264, 281, 289, 291, 296, 302, 330

And these are the Kimballs I have for trade:
13-Cobb, 15-Price, 19-Morrow, 20-Halladay, 24-Johnson, 28-Stanton, 34-Votto, 35-Lester, 37 (x2) - Strasburg, 44-Pence

I'm not looking for any specific Diamond cards, I'll take any that I don't already have. Hit me up if you're interested!