Nominator: John Sharp. (1) I have your address, so if I don't get a response to this post within 48 hours with which sport you want, I'll send you a PWE of my choosing.
Nominee: Can't Have Too Many Cards. (2) I don't have this person's address. So hopefully somebody else does. Which sport I should send, as well. morganyud at protonmail dot com
(Nominator went before nominee because it's first alphabetically.)
Pick a blogger who deserves recognition. Give me a reason why.
I'll use the RNG to pick a winner from the nominees and a winner from the nominators.
PWE of cards for each. Football unless otherwise specified by the nominators.
U.S. or Canada only for both winners. (Hopefully the nominator has the winning nominee's address, though I have a few.)
Nominators don't have to be bloggers, but nominees do.
Deadline: 48 hours from this posting.
Don't lick the flag pole.
Jennifer: What kind of collector are you?
Elliptical Man: I'm a star gazer, so I like getting cards of the better players. I have frankensets for football, basketball, and hockey. I'm working on team pages for MLB. Multi-sport athletes and quirky trivia interest me. I'm not a set builder or a hard-core player collector.
Elliptical Man: Not too enthused. Too many "high end" cards that aren't worth it, too many designs that ignore the important stuff, too many ho cards. The breakers and flippers are fucking everybody over. I appreciate the generosity of bloggers, but all my other card sources have me feeling disappointed lately.
Elliptical Man: Yes and no. I tend to like a lot of cards that are considered low-end. But I can be finicky when trading for or buying singles. Damages, player name hard to read or not on the front, no team logo, ho cards are examples of cards that I usually steer away from.
Abby: Why don't you collect soccer cards?
Elliptical Man: I don't follow it enough. I follow the USMNT in World Cup qualifying and then the Cup itself. Same with the USWNT. Very little other than that. I might follow the Wave since they have you and Alex. We'll see.
Julianne: Are you a TTM guy? An autograph chaser?
Elliptical Man: Not really. Auto cards are nice if I get them, but I'm not going out of my way for them. I don't think I've ever traded for an auto card. I sent one card out for a TTM auto and it's not looking like I'll get it back. I didn't really know what to say in my note and I think I came off like an idiot. So no hard feelings toward the player, who's now retired and works in media.
Elliptical Man: Not really. There are always cards I would target if money wasn't an issue though. For baseball, I'd go to 1957 (first year of standard size) and pick between Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays. I don't know much about basketball cards, but maybe Kareem when he was known as Lew Alcindor, or Doc's RC. Football - probably the Jim Brown pink Cadillac card or an early Joe Namath. Hockey would be early career Bobby Orr or Gordie Howe.
Elliptical Man: OMG! This isn't that kind of blog, Cat.
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A couple from my dealer:
A couple from a Time Travel trade with Matt:
Diamond Jesters (diamond-jesters.blogspot.com)
A couple from generous benefactor Kevin:
