LFB2B is a whole year older today

Last week sometime I noticed two things about 'Long Fly Ball To Because......'.

Firstly, I was approaching my 100th post, which is a milestone I guess, we all like nice round numbers to chronicle things by. So, I decided to celebrate it with a Box Break of 2009-10 Upper Deck Champ's Hockey.

Secondly, today will mark exactly one year since I decided to start sharing what I enjoy about card collecting with a growing community of people whose interests coincide with mine.


The people I have encountered throughout, some with whom I have had the great fortune to trade with, have helped re instill the passion to collect cards and have served to remind me of the whole reason why I got into this in the first place.

So, to the many, many, many collectors and bloggers out there who have shared in this with me, Thank-you. I look forward to another year with you and I look forward to another year of meeting new collectors and hopefully helping them to enjoy the hobby.

Cheers,


P.S. - What the heck, I kicked the blog off with this a year ago, might as well dust it off for the day.

Mail Day (aka Cleveland Rocks!!)

While working on the long overdue post about some generous mailers yesterday my wife came into the office with another packed envelope courtesy of Canada Post. When I finally got around to opening it this morning I was extremely excited.

A while ago I had been in contact with BaseballDad who is the proprietor of the blog 'All Tribe Baseball'. In one of our email exchanges he told me he would be sending a pile of the 2009 Topps Baseball needs I had listed on my want lists along with some 2002 Topps, if he could locate those. He had also mentioned that there would be some extra goodies to go along with the cards. Having done my due diligence (and some extensive reading of his blog) I had a sense of what the "extra" might be. When I opened the envelope I was pleased to see I was fortunate enough to be right.

I got this ;


I am currently on my third consecutive playing of track 8. I also will have to go through my old time radio archives but this CD may contain a variation of "Who's on first?" that I do not have. I definitely did not recognize it right away.

As luck would have it BaseballDad was able to find me some of the 2002 Topps "mustard" set that I needed and sent them along.




I can remember the time in Blue Jays history when Cruz Jr. had the expectations and potential to rival another Junior. Funny how things change, eh?
Along with these cards BaseballDad got me twelve cards closer to completion of my 2009 Topps Baseball set. I never get tired of looking at the photography on these cards, especially when I notice something I had not before.

This card of David Wright seemed familiar somehow,


Then after some thinking it hit me.....of course,photo recycling brought to you by Topps.


Some of the other nicer cards sent to me included these additions to my personal subset collection. Awesome bunting goodness,


and, like I said before I like to pour over these cards and sometimes discover something I never noticed before. This card got me to thinking about the guy on the cel phone. Forever immortalized on cardboard is his dedication to watching baseball in obviously chilly weather but his complete boredom with the game that he needed to talk to someone other than those he came to the game with. Priceless.


Thanks again to All Tribe Baseball for the cards and especially the CD. I am working on something special coming back your way in the next few weeks. By the way, I am now trying to find a way to cleanse the disturbing experience of Mel Allen rapping...lol....LOVE IT!!

Cheers,

Ready.......Set.......Blog!!

It is 10:51am on Saturday, March 28th 2009.

Another pebble in the ocean that is the world of Blog.

I could not think of a better way to christen this than with, perhaps, the single solitary reason why Baseball remains in my blood to this day. Bud and Lou and their masterpiece.

Enjoy!!