This week in my mailbox episode 4

Hello collectors from all over the world!

This post should have been titled "last two weeks in my mailbox", because I accumulated so many packages in the last two weeks, I think this post will be veeery long and rich in pictures....

First up is a card of a player that has recently been on the rise, on the field and on the bay of E as well, I'm talking about Yoenis Cespedes, and the card I received last week is a Topps Tribute WBC (no,really?) with an autograph of the cuban player, and here it is...

It is the red/pink/fuchsia (who knows?) version of the card, numbered to a nice 40, and you would probably be surprised knowing that I paid a very (very) low price for this card...very...

Next up, and from the same set, are the three cards I'm going to show you

And now let's move on to some fabric into some cardboard....I'm talkin 'bout jersey cards!

 

First, a quad-relic card of three (and soon four) former yankees, a very nice card, even though it's not numbered (it'd deserve it, am I right?). And most importantly, this card came from a fellow european collector...and no, it's not from the dutch card guy, but from a french collector..and yes, there's plenty of baseball cards collecting going on here in Europe, we are five I think, but we may be six or seven!
The second is a jersey card of A-rod, I player that I like, no matter what's been going on recently...
And the third one, well, the reasons I got it are:
- it was on ebay for a price so low that was too sad not to buy it, and
- this card probably features the biggest piece of jersey I have in my collection, and not the usual plain white anonymous piece of jersey..ok ,it's a plain black anonymous piece of jersey...

And staying in the jersey and former yankees mood, here's a pretty nice and pretty rare (it's numbered to just 3) Robinson  Cano Jersey card, nice isn't it?

We're almost at the end of this post, but before I end it, let me show some more stuff the postman (no, not Karl Malone) left in the mailbox recently....

             

                        

                                           

 

                                                 

 

Ok, now this post is complete...just a couple details on the above cards, the weird-shaped Conway is numbered to 50, the Blanks is numbered to 250, the Coghlan to 99, and the Prizms are very hard to scan!

Best regards from Italy and keep collecting!

P.S. contact me if you're looking for trades, I've tons of base cards from 80's to present if you're looking for specific cards to complete your sets!

This week in my mailbox episode 3

Hello everyone!

I'm back for the third time in just 10 days because today back from work I found six nice and thin packages waiting for me in the mail box...and so it's time for episode 3!

This time, together with the (literally) classic set of topps i'm building, you'll notice another main focus of the cards I'm about to show...

It is the White Sox brazilian-born pitcher Andre Rienzo, and these are the cards I've recently picked up on the bay of E!

Once again I'm presenting you some Topps Tribute WBC-themed cards, together with the first 2014 Turkey red card in my collection, and all the three are from the above mentioned pitcher.
Also, two cards out of three are serially numbered. Despite it's not visible (in fact it's on the back of it), the Turkey red is numbered to 499, not exactly ultra rare, but nonetheless a cool looking card.
The 3-color patch is numbered to a decently low 35, while the autograph is unnumbered.
I wish Topps used different pictures for different cards, but it seems that (at least for Rienzo) this is not the case....

Let's move on to the next (and last, I promise) Topps Tribute card, a card that I'm pretty proud of own, because it depicts an Italian player, and one that I really like, Jason Grilli of team Italy (and Pittsburgh Pirates as well)

Two more autographed cards to conclude this post, one from 2012 Golden Moments and the second from this year's Museum Collection, welcoming in my collection Brad Peacock and Felix Doubront!

As you can (I hope) see, only the Doubront is numbered, in this case to 399

Now that I see them all together I realized that this has been a very pitcher-oriented post!!

What do you think about this additions?

Best regards ane keep collecting!

This week in my mailbox episode 2

Hi everybody!

Here's the second episode of "this week in my mailbox", featuring some new additions to my growing autographs (expecially Topps Tribute and Retired autographs) collection!

Here's the first pair of cards, adding two new features to the World Baseball Classic Set from 2013 Topps Tribute, these are Nelson Cruz (not numbered) and a numbered to 35 Adam Jones Bronze version

Next up another pair of cards from a set that I'm slowly trying to put together, the 2005 Topps Retired Autographs set, this time I received Grady Little and Charlie Hayes!

Is there anybody that likes these two sets and is trying to complete them?

And to conclude this post I'll show a nice patch I received this week, this time is a numbered, non autographed card of Mr Rod Carew! I really like it and I also got it for a cheap price, thanks eBay!

The card is from the 2013 Topps Prime Patches set, vert cool 3 color piece of fabric!

What do you think of my recent pick-ups?

Best regards from Italy and keep collecting!





This week in my mailbox episode 1

Hello everybody!

In this first episode (of hopefully many to come) of "this week in my mailbox", I'll show you some cards recently received.
In the month of March I've been on a bidding spree, so I've been able to win some nice auctions on Ebay,and here are the pictures!

First is a B.J. Upton dual jersey - dual patch - auto (I guess this is how you'd call it) card from the 2007 Upper Deck Black set, numbered to 75.

Next up is a pair of 2007 Turkey red Chromograph of former Yankees, Melky Cabrera and Eric Chavez

A set that I really like and I'm slowly trying to put together is the 2013Topps Tribute WBC Edition, in the same auction I was able to get Wandy Rodriguez and John Axford,and here they are!

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First card taken from a 2014 set is the David Freese auto from Tribute Traditions, numbered to 99

Together with the Freese came this nice and low numbered Martin Prado signature card from 2014 Panini America's Pastime set. I really like the idea of an italian brand, like Panini, is producing so many sets with interesting cards like this one, I'll be on the hunt for more in the future!

Last but not least, two cards from Topps Retired Autographs, 2003 and 2004 respectively, Mr Bill Skowron and Mr. Tony Armas. Not numbered, but absolutely good looking...

I hope you liked this first post showing my recent adds to the collection, I hope to receive new cards in the next week...

Best regards from Italy and keep collecting!

Brief presentation

Hello everybody friends collectors!

Or in my mother tongue, Ciao a tutti amici collezionisti!

This is my absolute first post in my first ever blog, and I'm happy to use it for a brief presentation of myself and my passion for baseball card collecting.

I started collecting about six years ago, and since then I kept collecting every day, trying to put together as many sets as possible, and more important looking for other collectors in the old Europe...because, as the title of my blog states, I'm an italian collector!

I decided to start this blog after many months since I started trading with Jeroen, The dutch card guy, hoping to find other collectors that might become new traders in this international and great community of collectors I'm joining.

In my collection every player, team, set, subset and brand will have its own spot, since I collect basically everything about baseball and in the form of a card!

In the last years I've built my collection through ebay purchases, but I had the luck to spend my last 5 summer holidays in NYC, and the chance to pay visit to the wonderful White Plains sportcards show, that allowed me to pick up as many cards as my luggage could possibly carry...

Hopefully in the next weeks I'll receive my latest ebay pick-ups, the majority of which being autographs, and I will post pictures of them to share with you guys

I'm currently going through my entire collection in order to update the exact number of cards I own, and to keep track of the content of every box (I can approximate the total number of cards to 40 thousand, but they might be more!)..

Well, time to finish my not-so-brief introduction so

Best regards to all of you from Italy and keep collecting!