Heartbreaking set of Yankees

The other day I had mentioned that I got a whole bunch of mail from various bloggers. I wanted to share some of them with you starting with a package from Matt at Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius who sent me one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Matt sent me a complete 50 card set of Yankees called, "50 Years of Yankee All Stars". The set includes Yankee greats from 1933-1983, and are oversized cards printed in 1983. I absolutely love this set of cards, and the reason I took pictures of some of the cards was because in the scanner the white falls into the background of the scanner and you only see within the portrait border.

The set has many Yankee greats and I decided to take pictures of the more easily identifiable Yankees. Most people wouldn't know Eddie Lopat or Allie Reynolds if they saw a portrait of them so I took pictures of Mantle, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, and Ruth. This is a set that I have never seen before which made it a VERY pleasant and awesome surprise. Matt is a great guy to trade with, and is a very genuine person. I am going to work on putting something nice together for him since I owed him for a previous mailday as well. If you are unfamiliar with his blog you MUST go check it out, and perhaps help him out with completing something he is working on.

I would also like to let everyone know that the post office was closed at noon on Friday so I missed mailing out all packages but will mail them on Monday.

Holy Smokes!

I got so much mail today!!! I guess not having time to get to the post office to pick it up every day has its perks. My mailbox was stuffed to the gills, plus a yellow card indicating more mail. I got packages from all over the place including Heartbreaking Cards (wait til I scan what he sent, I was in heaven), White Sox Cards (a random generous mailer), All Tribe Baseball (World's Greatest Dad, I mean BaseballDad), Night Owl Cards (just felt like sending me stuff- awesome!), Grand Cards (insisted on sending me something in return), @REALjtCarter (my twitter buddy, who I am currently searching for more cards to send him), Dinged Corners (all cards were mint and awesome as always), Jim (who e-mailed me about a mini Goudey Pujols, not sure if he has a blogger name), and someone from NY sent me a Jeter 92 Classic card and a rainbow Bowman Heritage Adam Lind (thanks a million, whoever you are, lol. Please e-mail me and identify yourself, and call me an idiot for forgetting who you are.) I almost forgot Beardy!!! Beardy sent me a BOATLOAD of YSL cards since he is a Yankee Hater and an O's fan. I don't mind, because now we can get rid of the enemy cards to each other. Thanks Beardy!!

I would link all of you but I am incredibly lazy. I suggest that everyone reading this blog take a look at the sidebar and by all means stop by each and every one of the blogs mentioned here and give them a read, sign up to follow them, and enjoy all our bickering and bantering.

The generosity of the people in this close knit group of collectors is something second to none. I can't say enough how grateful I am to have met all of you, and for your genorosity. We should all feel that way. With the way the world is now it is nice to know that some people actual think about others without expecting anything in return (though getting stuff back is the fun part, =) )

My job this weekend is to show off some of this awesome mail, update all of my PC, and pack up cards to mail to everyone I owe stuff to. I have piles of cards on my desk that need to be logged in and I just haven't had the time. I have a hobby box of O-Pee-Chee that is begging to be opened, and a little something else for funsies.

I finished my first Biology class today, and cross your fingers for me that I got a good grade. I studied my ass off, so I better. Monday starts the second and final Biology class I need to take, and lasts another 5 weeks. After that I am done until September, and it will be a welcome end. I am not sure why I didn't think cramming 16 weeks of work in 5 weeks, in a subject that doesn't come very easy would be an easy or somewhat easy task. I'm done babbling about that now.

Anywho, stay tuned to see some fun stuff this weekend. Not sure if anyone will even be home reading this over the weekend so maybe I will save some for posting during the week to give you all something to do at work, other than work.