First Cards

I finally had to do some shopping on my way home from work yesterday, and as luck would have it, I had to drive right past a place that I knew had some baseball cards. Since I started this blog last month, I've mentioned a few times that I was going to start on my card collection, I finally did.

I bought two packs of 2008 Allen & Ginter's, and a handful of Topps Opening Day 2010. I haven't opened the Opening Day cards yet, but wow those Allen & Ginter's cards are gorgeous! The look, the feel, just the sheer enjoyment of opening those packs was great. I have a terrible feeling that my "Want List" is going to continue to grow and I may have a hard time just collecting Royals and fantasy team cards. Being a completist, I'm already positive that I'm gonna have to chase down more of these Allen & Ginter's cards, they are beautiful little pieces of cardboard art. I only wish they were a little less expensive.

Without further adieu, here are the cards I opened last night:

Pack #1
56 - Nick Johnson
253 - Nick Blackburn
US15 - State of Iowa - Casey Blake
326 - Mini Adam Kennedy
199 - Daric Barton
269 - Gary Sheffield
265 - Brian Roberts
179 - Hideki Matsui

Pack #2
108 - Alex Romero
158 - Mary Shelley
US42 - State of Tennessee - Todd Helton
83 - Mini Masahide Kobayashi
88 - Troy Glaus
61 - Adam Dunn
251 - Matt Cain
7 - Mickey Mantle

Calling all cards Pt. 2

Since I'm posting everything else that crosses my mind baseball-wise here, I may as well post this as well. I've finally had to accept the realities of what can be found for Royals (and my Fantasy team) players as it pertains to baseball cards. So, with that in mind, I've decided to just get what I can find, as the desire to add the cards I can get outweighs my disappointment in the cards I can't.

These are the players and years I intend to start collecting. I will mainly be shooting for base cards, as I don't plan, nor want, to spend alot of money. This isn't something I'm wanting to do as an investment, but mainly as another way for me to enjoy my favorite team, and my fantasy players.

Kansas City Royals - all players 2005 to present
The Whippets (my fantasy team listed below) - cards from 2010 where possible, older if not available

Thats it. :) Not an enormous list by any means, but I'm sure it'll keep me occupied and entertained trying to track them down. Since I'm just going for base cards, I can't imagine it'll be too difficult (why do I tempt fate by even saying that?) to get what I'm looking for. I am sure I'll end up buying packs here and there of whatever product happens to catch my eye when I've got a couple dollars in my pocket, so hopefully I'll end up with some stuff to trade away for what I'm looking for. Otherwise I'll probably just pick cards up as singles.

Now, you may be asking yourself, Why only Royals from 2005 to present? Well, I only started following baseball, and the Royals, in 2005 so I figured I'd collect cards of players I've watched. Once I get caught up on the players I've seen here for the past 5 seasons, then I might work my way backwards. If I stumble across some of those cards now, I'll be happy about it, but I'm not concentrating on them.

If anyone has base cards of the players above that they have no desire to keep, let me know, I can find a good home for them. :) Hopefully I can return the favor at some point. With that said, I'm off to try and find a list of these cards so I can get a figure on how many I've just committed myself to trying to find lol.

The Whippets - Fantasy Team

I decided with the amount of travel I will be doing for work this year, not to join a Fantasy League. Obviously that decision didn't last too long as I joined a free public league at http://www.espn.com/ a couple days ago. The draft was last night, and here is what I ended up with:


Round: 1 - Hanley Ramirez SS
Round: 2 - Felix Hernandez SP
Round: 3 - Ian Kinsler 2B
Round: 4 - Kevin Youkilis 3B
Round: 5 - Jon Lester SP
Round: 6 - Kendry Morales 1B
Round: 7 - Bobby Abreu RF
Round: 8 - Torii Hunter CF
Round: 9 - Brandon Webb SP
Round: 10 - Cole Hamels SP
Round: 11 - Raul Ibanez LF
Round: 12 - John Lackey SP
Round: 13 - Jose Valverde RP
Round: 14 - Brad Hawpe RF
Round: 15 - Jair Jurrjens SP
Round: 16 - Erick Aybar SS
Round: 17 - Todd Helton 1B
Round: 18 - Jorge Posada C
Round: 19 - Lastings Milledge LF
Round: 20 - Cody Ross CF
Round: 21 - Leo Nunez RP
Round: 22 - Matt Capps RP
Round: 23 - Kelly Johnson 2B
Round: 24 - Kurt Suzuki C
Round: 25 - Jon Rauch RP


Not a single Royal on my team, I'll have to rectify that at some point this season. I'm not planning to take this league too seriously, but just have some fun with it. It's a great way for me to have an excuse to watch more than just the Royals games if my wife ever asks lol.