Ginter Solution is Ready!

Hi everybody,

After lots of blood, sweat and tears, Nick and I have completed the Ginter Solution blog. Hopefully it makes sense to everybody, its hard to do step by steps! Just contact us if you have more questions! The 2009 Ginter Code Solution blog will be uploaded at 5pm eastern time today!

National Pride Available!

Here are my dubs for National Pride...

NP ,2,,4,,5,,,,8,8,,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,67,67,69,70,71,72,73,74,75

Also here are two Baseball Highlights sketch cards available...

Chipper Jones
CC Sabathia (Milwaukie).

Ginter Availables!

Here are the Available For Trades for 2009 A&G!

4,4,6,6,8,8,,10,14,,18,21,23,23,24,26,27,28,31,33,,44,,,55,,62,62,63,63,67,67,,73,
,79,79,,90,91,,105,,106,,,,118,122,122,123,123, 127, 133,141,141,,148,,
151,,154,158,,161,163,163,166,,168,169,172,176,,,,186,,,189,190,,191,197,197,198,198,,,206,209,214,217,217,,,237,,241
242,242,243,244,,246,247,249,,251,255,256,257,261,261,,,268,,,277,,,281,
,289,,,296,,298,,, 322,,332,

Ginter Needs!

Alright! 3rd and final (sniff) box of Ginter is complete. Thank you for your patience. Here are the needs:

Blue is needed
Red is pending
,110,165
,223,148,168,176

Thank you for your help on finishing up my set (after all, set-collecting is my middle name!)

A Six-Stamp Post!

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of opening my mailbox and discovering a new first for JDs Wildcardz...the legendary 6-stamp post! This package comes from Joe at Priceless Pursuit.
Joe and I have the perfect trading relationship because he hates the Red Sox and I hate the Yankees, so it is match made in Heaven. Recently Joe responded to my offer of Mark Mulders Pants! "Pants!" he exclaimed..."I gotta get me those some Mulder pants"! And so it went. Of course have I sent the pants out yet...of course not because I ran of of stamps for pants. How can you have any pants without stamps? Going out TOMORROW. Lets take a look and see what a pair of Mulder's pants is worth these days...
Lovin my scanner by the way...Joe has taken kindly to my request for phenom pitchers and sent me a Volquez, Kershaw, Grienke and Grienke Grienke.
Here is Dan "the man" Haren who is absolutely keeping my fantasy team afloat, a Kuroda (who has NOT kept my team afloat) and a fascinating hologram depicting the 1918 Boston championship. JD and I were so enthralled by the image that it took my wife to point out the 1918. Pretty colors will do that to you.
This was an extremely generous card by Joe, a King Felix Bowman First Year. He also sent a bunch of other prospects that I have never heard of, but that is the point, you never know when the next Felix might come along, so thanks Joe, I will keep them Cryogenics frozen until the day they become priceless!

So thanks again, and make sure to check out the latest at Priceless Pursuit!

ps, that Yankee prospect might just find his way back down to So Cal!

Found My Ginter Happy Spot!

Last night I cracked open my 3rd and final?? box of Ginter. I have gone through them a bit quicker because normally I will rip until I find a relic, collate my cards and call it an evening. As mentioned before, that 2nd box did not give me my hits until the absolute last packs, so that box was cashed in a hurry! The Clayton Kershaw auto was worth the wait though. This is my Matt Damon auto card.
I pulled this one last night. Not too attached to it, but don't seem to have a lot of Rocky fans visit my blog, so he may have to keep Kershaw company for awhile. If you want to swap for him, let me know!

This was something else that I noticed last night. It is very Upper Deck, but I am assuming that this same image is due to the fact that he is a rookie. I dont know if dup images is common in this set.

Now the happy spot. I am only luke-warm with the close-up vertical player shots, though there are a few zoomed out, action shots like the Brandon Phillips card. But where I think Ginter really shines is with their horizontal shots. It just seems that the "widescreen" appearance really opens up the creative possibilities for the designers. For example...

I don't actually have this mini, but rather the regular card. Still very unique.

This is a nice example of a rookie card. Again I think this just pops out a bit more than the vertical shots. This would be a perfect card for a TTM.
This card is pretty ambitious as a lot of background is incorporated into this card. This is one of the few Lincecum cards I have seen where he doesnt have his crazy leg flying around in the air.

My parting though of this post my vote for goofiest card of the set. Sure you have the Donkey Kong Master, the Electron, and Brigham Young staredown (get that boy a diet coke)...but my vote hands down...even before finishing the set goes to...

Mr Ervin "Johan" Santana. I really have no idea what is going on in this card. Mr Santana appears to be flexing his non-existant guns while daintily posing the ball. Mr. Santana, the razzy award goes to you, felicidades!

APB- Pat Neshek

Hi everybody. I am seeking a Pat Neshek Ginter Code card for my collection. Did any of you happen to pull this card during your box opening and would be willing to mail it to me? Let me know! Thanks!

Have you seen this man?