Back to Blogger in Pursuit of Some Horses

Back in January, I moved my blog over to WordPress after spending most of the last 5 years blogging from Blogger. I had heard a ton of great things about WordPress and figured I'd give it a go. Shortly after joining and transferring all of my content over, however, WordPress released a new editor which is absolutely horrid. A ton of other problems ended up popping up with WordPress, so I'm back to my roots here. Sorry for the the URL changes, folks.

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I've spent considerable time over the past few months organizing my collection and determining where to focus my collecting habits moving forward. I've already decided to take a more aggressive approach with my Clayton Kershaw PC, and I recently added Justin Turner to my PC as well. 

I've also decided to start collecting horse cards. 

Yep. Horse cards.

My girlfriend is a longtime equestrian, so collecting horse cards seemed like a fun and unique way to loop her into the hobby. 

I'm starting this mini-collection with a focus on the Horse in the Race mini set in 2017 Allen & Ginter. I happened to come across some insider information about the production of the subset a few years back, and I knew I had to collect it. I managed to pull a couple from packs--the Shire and Marwari horses pictured--but they aren't easy to come by. 

It's a 25-card subset, and I've knocked two off the list, but I'd like to grab the rest. You can find my needs here or by navigating to my Want List page. 

In addition to this brief set, I'm also interested in collecting cards that have horses on them even if they aren't the focus point of the card. I'm not quite sure where to begin, but I'm sure there has gotta be some great horse cardboard out there somewhere, and I'm hoping you'll all help me find it. 

Have any horse cards? Let's make a swap. 

Ty Blach Auto Contest Winner

We have a winner for the Ty Blach Auto!

Bret Alan is the winner. I’ll be reaching out to Bret shortly for their contact info. Stay tuned for more contests in the near future.

Ty Blach Auto Contest

Happy Valentines Day!! In Cupid’s honor, I think we should have a contest.

This contest is for a 2017 Topps Stadium Club Ty Blach Auto. The winner will receive the card pictured, as well as a stack of cards from their favorite team. Contest ends 2/21/19 at 9:00pm EST. The rules will be explained below. Good luck!

To enter this contest, perform one of the two things below. You may perform both for a maximum of two entries per day.

• Comment on this post
• Follow me on Twitter and retweet one of my contest tweets

You can comment on the post once a day, and everyday you comment will add an additional entry into the contest. I will occasionally tweet about the contest, and you can retweet those to enter as well. However, only one retweet per day will count towards the contest. The winner will be selected using Random.org, and will be notified via email and/or twitter. The winner will have one week to send me their mailing address. I will ship the card to the winner for free!

Adding to my Clayton Kershaw PC

With the official end of my Matt Kemp PC earlier this year, I’ve decided to turn my attention to a few other interests, namely my Clayton Kershaw PC.

I’ve been collecting Kershaw ever since I came back into the hobby about six years ago. In fact, one of my first posts highlighted a recent Kerhsaw relic I had picked up. But because so much of my attention was on building out my Kemp PC, I never truly got going on my Kershaw PC…at least not as much as I’d have liked.

I’ve really got to get a printer/scanner…phone pics don’t do these cards justice.

I’m currently sitting at 131 Kershaw cards, in large part due to a couple of mail days from both my dad and best friend over the past two weeks.

I’ve recently looped my dad back into the hobby after a long hiatus, and we’ve been opening up boxes over video calls for the past month. I initially got into the hobby after inheriting all of his junk wax after he stepped away years and years ago, so it’s cool to share the hobby with him now.

He shipped over a large chunk of my collection I was storing in his basement, including all of the Kershaw cards above. Gotta love that Stadium Club shot.

My friend Dikran was holding onto the rest of my collection and shipped nearly ten blaster boxes worth of cards to me early this week. Needless to say, I’ve spent most nights this week sorting through all of that fun cardboard.

Though I’ve largely been out of the hobby for the past couple of years, only picking up packs here or there when I can find them, Dikran has been picking up blaster boxes of new products when he sees them. He doesn’t care about the base cards, as he only chases hits, so he shipped me everything he’s picked up over the past couple of years. While I disagree with his collecting philosophy, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take all of these “worthless” base cards off his hands.

Now that I’m fully back in the hobby, I’m excited to push forward with my Kershaw PC, and I’m actively searching for cards I don’t have. I know there are approximately eleventy hundred active Dodger-bloggers out there, but reach out if you want to swing a trade. You can send me an email on my Contact page above or reach out to me on Twitter (@markle05).

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