Awesome Gift From P. A. - Jimmie Foxx Piece of Yankee Stadium

My good friend, P. A. is in Greenville for the evening, so we met up for some showing off of cards and good old-fashioned baseball talk.  P. A. had a huge box of stuff he brought for me that I took delivery of that will help in a lot of facets of my collection.  There were a bunch of cards that he gave me but there was one card in particular that he was really excited about sending my way.

This 2008 Topps Stadium Club card of Jimmie Foxx is really awesome because it contains a piece of bunting from the old Yankee Stadium.  I remember when 2008 Stadium Club came out, P. A. was a huge fan of it right away and came into the old Winston-Salem card shop that I was "working" at and bought a box.  He busted the box with me at one of the tables and pulled this card.  I remember both of us being really excited that he pulled it, not knowing at the time that I would begin a PC of Foxx a few years later.

This card is really amazing.  I was so surprised that P. A. was willing to part with this card, and even more surprised that he gifted it to me.  Thank you so much for the card, P. A.  I appreciate it so much.

Card Shop Pickup - 2008 Topps Stadium Club Johnny Podres

I got this awesome Stadium Club Johnny Podres auto from P.A. when he busted a box at the shop on Saturday. This was given to me as a Christmas present from P.A., so it will not be made available for trade. I'm excited that I hvae this card, now, because I have been learning more and more about the history of the Dodgers. It sure is too bad that Podres died in 2008. I definitely would have liked to have tried TTM with him. Oh well, I have his auto now. Thanks P.A.!!! Merry Christmas!

Some nice autos...

I consolidated some stuff today and scanned these two cards. I love the Markakis/ Roberts dual Auto. What would be even nicer, would be if the Orioles would get off of their butts and sign both these guys to extensions... I can only hope. The Pujols is just awesome. It is one of my favorite autos (I still love my Johnny Cueto where he signed it 'Johnny.' I'll scan that one for you guys later on. Check these out first...