Unbelievable Winnings From Cheap Card Collecting Contest!

I left Friday to go back to Charlotte for my mom's birthday. Before I pulled out of the complex, I decided to check my mail. When I did, the only thing I found was a card letting me know I had a package in the office. Usually, all my bubble mailers with cards in them fit inside my mailbox, so I had no clue what could be waiting for me. As soon as I got my package, I took it to the truck and opened it. This is what I found:

HOLY CRAP! I knew that my contest winnings from Cheap Card Collecting were going to be 28 hits or 20 hits and some packs of cards, but I don't think I could even imagine what 28 hits all in one place looked like! See, I have only maybe seven in my entire collection. Five of which I pulled and the other two I bought off eBay. This is probably the best thing I have ever won in my life, no really. 


I'm going to break them down by sport:

First up, tennis. (Obviously, they're not different sizes. Something to do with the way I scanned them.)

I had never even thought about tennis cards before. I always see baseball, football, hockey, basketball, but never tennis. I actually watch tennis. Well, I watch Andy Roddick. For me, to watch a sport on TV - baseball, football, whatever - I have to be interested in who's playing. Either one of the teams or specific players. The same with tennis. The first match I ever watched was Roddick. He played with intensity, but didn't put on a show after he won. He would argue with the chair umpire when he believed a call was unfair, but would not yell or cuss. And it didn't hurt that he was ranked #2 at the time. I was hooked. With that said, if anyone has any Roddick cards out there, I'm interested.

Next up, basketball. Blech. If anyone wants any of these, I'll trade for some baseball hits. The Walker is numbered 0534/1999.

Now for some football. I watch football, but I'm not a football collector. So I'm unsure of whether or not I want to keep any of these. If you're interested in any and you have a baseball hit you're willing to trade, I'll probably accept. I'll list the ones that are numbered since most of them are written on the backs: Doucet 147/250, Powell 51/75, Okung 14/50, Dillon 34/55, Ward 030/250, and Gates 038/100.

And now for the best part of all, BASEBALL! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm so excited that these each get their own scan.

2011 Topps 60 Series 2 Brett Gardner

2010 Upper Deck Game Jersey Adrian Gonzalez

2011 Goodwin Champions Memorabilia Kyle Skipworth

2008 SPx Winning Materials Adam LaRoche #4/99

Love getting cards of former Braves!

2005 Bowman Draft Picks Paul Maholm

2008 Upper Deck X Troy Tulowitzki

2005 Donruss Classics Dress Code Hank Blalock

My first dual jersey/bat relic!

And I saved the best for last:

2011 Topps Lineage '75 Mini Brian McCann

Reading the backs of these hits, the relics specifically, helped me learn a lot of new things. But as a reward for making it this long, I won't make you read anything else. Except that I want to say thank you so much to Anthony for this awesome contest! I feel like I owe you something grand in return.

Soon I will have a page up with all of my basketball and football cards for trade, so be looking for that. It will have all of the ones you see here plus a couple others I have acquired through the years.

Edit: Gates, Jackson, and Hill have been claimed.