National Baseball Card Day is One of the best days of year when it comes to our beloved hobby.
This year I gathered up my two kids and headed to the card shop. And moments later my sister showed up with her kids, including her son who has gotten into baseball cards thanks in part to my son and I.
We went to South Bay Sports Cards in Sunnyvale, Calif. and while there I ran into one of my Twitter followers who recognized me from pictures I had posted of my kids. (Nick, we should have taken a group photo.)
We made a few small purchases and the kids got a few free packs and the Special Bryce Harper Card.
The purchased packs yielded nothing of real interest. Chrome had a “short” printed Eloy Jimenez.
And so had hoped to personally pull my first Mike Oz Card from a Ginter pack, both of my packs turned out to be less than spectacular.
But, that’s not really what the day was about. It was about the cards that Topps and South Bay Sports Cards put into the hands of the kids
The highlights of my son’s packs included Ronald Acuna, Javier Baez and Justin Verlander. 
And my daughter’s packs yielded two of MY PC guys in a single pack and Pete Alonso.
My packs were highlighted by Mike Trout and Matt Chapman, also guys whom I have put aside for my son.
The family posed for a photo in front of the store before we set off on our separate ways.
Then after the photo I asked my daughter where she put her cards since I did not see them in her hand.
Her answer: “I put them in my pocket…”
I shook my head, told her to show me and then took a photo before telling her to take them out. The cards are hers, and I LOVED that she put them in her pocket since most of us have done the same at some point during our collecting careers. But I advised her to take them out and put them in her binder later, which she agreed was a better course of action.
I may not be able to take the kids back next week for the Vlad Guerrero Jr special card, but I’ll find someone to take the kids for me. I love these promotions, it’s especially fun for the kids now that they also collect.
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“I put them in my pocket …” (National Baseball Card Day 2019)
National Baseball Card Day is One of the best days of year when it comes to our beloved hobby.
This year I gathered up my two kids and headed to the card shop. And moments later my sister showed up with her kids, including her son who has gotten into baseball cards thanks in part to my son and I.
We went to South Bay Sports Cards in Sunnyvale, Calif. and while there I ran into one of my Twitter followers who recognized me from pictures I had posted of my kids. (Nick, we should have taken a group photo.)
We made a few small purchases and the kids got a few free packs and the Special Bryce Harper Card.
The purchased packs yielded nothing of real interest. Chrome had a “short” printed Eloy Jimenez.
And so had hoped to personally pull my first Mike Oz Card from a Ginter pack, both of my packs turned out to be less than spectacular.
But, that’s not really what the day was about. It was about the cards that Topps and South Bay Sports Cards put into the hands of the kids
The highlights of my son’s packs included Ronald Acuna, Javier Baez and Justin Verlander.
And my daughter’s packs yielded two of MY PC guys in a single pack and Pete Alonso.
My packs were highlighted by Mike Trout and Matt Chapman, also guys whom I have put aside for my son.
The family posed for a photo in front of the store before we set off on our separate ways.
Then after the photo I asked my daughter where she put her cards since I did not see them in her hand.
Her answer: “I put them in my pocket…”
I shook my head, told her to show me and then took a photo before telling her to take them out. The cards are hers, and I LOVED that she put them in her pocket since most of us have done the same at some point during our collecting careers. But I advised her to take them out and put them in her binder later, which she agreed was a better course of action.
I may not be able to take the kids back next week for the Vlad Guerrero Jr special card, but I’ll find someone to take the kids for me. I love these promotions, it’s especially fun for the kids now that they also collect.
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This entry was posted on August 10, 2019 at 1:47 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags baseball, baseball cards, Clayton Kershaw, National Baseball Card Day, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna, rookie cards, Topps. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.