Ending 2018 with a very 2018 repack

I have so many fun things to show off on my blog - great blogger mailings, my awesome online marketplace find, and a gift from one of my favorite pro players. And I'll get to those soon!

Instead, I bought one last Walgreen's Fairfield repack yesterday. As noted, we had been traveling for a week. So I stepped out to Walgreen's for milk, and decided to treat myself to a repack. When I checked out the toy aisle, there were four baseball repacks, but one stood out:

New packaging! To most of us, usually these are a dark green, like this one:

Figuring these have new packaging and thus, possibly more recent cards, I took a chance. I was right. This was full of some interesting 2018 cards.

Most of the 2018s were from Bowman, including a Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw. The Harper is 2016 Topps, of course.

There was also some 2018 Finest.

I was most pleased with the amount of 2018 rookie cards, including a sweet Miguel Andujar I didn't have, and a few other decent prospects.

There were also a lot of prospect cards from 2017, including Mickey Moniak and Tanner Houck.

The Young and Lee are from 2018.

There were even some 2018 Topps team set cards!

Of course, what is a repack without Barry Bonds?

Some of my more recent repacks had some newer Topps packs, but we're back to junk wax here with a pack of 1992 Donruss. No, I didn't pull a Ripken auto.

While I didn't get a 1:4 hit, hard to complain about this repack. The new Andujar RC almost makes it worth it on it's own, plus it had a lot of star power with Harper, Trout, Kershaw, and some top tier prospects.

Not a bad way to end 2018! Happy New Year to you all. If you're going out, have a fun and safe evening!

TTM Success: Clayton Kershaw

By now you may have seen a few of these posts. It seems that Clayton Kershaw did his yearly fan mail binge. I sent to him last spring training, and was happy to get a response back. I do keep TTMs mostly to Yanks, but Kershaw certainly fits the bill for stepping outside of players in pinstripes. I had the fortune of spending a bit of time with Kershaw back in 2013, and he made a very good impression on me.

I will say I'm 99% sure this isn't the card I sent. I believe I sent a 2012 Archives. Not sure what happened. Perhaps my card got mixed up with someone else. It happens every once in a while with TTMs. It's all part of the gamble.

Regardless, it's a cool success from a megastar!

New Autos - Two Cy Young Award Winners

I had the chance to add three new autographs this week. Two are from Cy Young Award winners, and one is from a Pro Bowl Wide Receiver. I wish they were on cardboard, but still pretty cool.


Here are the two baseball players - Clayton Kershaw and CC Sabathia.

And here is Megatron!