Along with Al Pacino, Tim Duncan, Ella Fitzgerald, Oliver Cromwell, Edward R. Murrow, Renee Zellweger, and Joe Buck, today is my birthday! Even without this fact, April 25th has also been officially selected as the best day of the year.
And so in honor of my taking another trip around the sun, I've decided to hold a birthday contest. The winners will win this group of hits, with a chance for more cards if we are able to get a lot of people involved in the contest.
You have until the end of the day on Thursday, April 28th to enter the contest. Shortly thereafter, I will randomize the entries and a winner will be selected. The five relics pictured above will be given to the winner but if we get more than 50 entries I will add more to the prize pool. Here's how it will break down:
1-50 Entries: The group of five relics pictured above.
50-75 Entries: An additional 20 vintage cards from the 1960's and earlier.
75-100 Entries: An additional Hall of Famer autograph.
More than 100: Even more cards! Details to follow.
So please spread the word about the contest as it could be worth your while! Share the link on Twitter or maybe do a brief blog post about it if you have a card blog. Good luck!
Comments
Have a great birthday
I recall getting a small lot of 80s Reggie Jackson cards as a birthday gift when I was a kid. He was the first guy I really collected, so it was pretty cool.
I always wanted cards in my Easter basket and never got them, so there's my gift disappointment.
For positive card-gift remembrances, I'll go with when I was 9 and I got sick and had to go to the doctor. Afterward my dad and I stopped at the drug store to fill the prescription and I got a pack of '75 Topps cards and a candy bar. I'm so old they don't make that kind of candy bar anymore, but I really liked it.
1) Christmas 1987 I got the Christmas version complete set of 1987 Topps from the Hook's Drugs down the street. I was the man in class when school came back because I not only had both McGwire and Canseco, but the Wally Joyner and Bo Jackson cards!
2) For my birthday in 1992, my dad bought me a stack of Series I and Series II Fleer Ultra baseball. He gave them to me at a Red Lobster and I opened them right at the table. All 20-some packs of them! I got a Roger Clemens insert and couldn't have been happier.
3) For Christmas in 1989, my uncle bought us all 1989 Donruss wax boxes, and more importantly, gave us autographs of some guy we had never heard of but was his son's roommate at Eastern Michigan University. I still have the card, a 1989 Fleer John Smoltz autographed card. He's still my all-time favorite non-Cub.
That's the greatest thing about this hobby.
If you want specifics, then how about the box of Gypsy Queen I got last week for my birthday?
Happy ANZAC Day!
Happy Birthdaaaayyyyyy!!!
Happy birthday and thanks for the contest!