Darryl Strawberry, Celebrity Apprentice Episode 3

SPOILER ALERT!!!

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Well that was unexpected. I can't help but be a little mad at Darryl for throwing himself under the bus like that in the spirit of being a team player. BS. Darryl just didn't want to be there anymore and he found a way out. Darryl is a great guy but from what I saw, he let his charity down and his fans down, big-time, and got himself fired. At least I don't have to keep watching the show anymore. Thanks Darryl.

Barter: Care of Chris OK

Here's the first of hopefully several long overdue trade posts! This one finished up about 2 weeks ago. Chris over at Budget Baseball Cardboarding offered up some cards on my needs lists and some Ichiros for a couple of Longorias he spotted on my blog.

At the rate I'm going, I think I'll have 2010 Topps Series 1 finished before Series 1 2009. Weird.

Chris surprised me by throwing in a bonus card, and wow! This is sweet!

Thanks so much Chris! These are all great additions!!

Darryl Strawberry, The Next Celebrity Apprentice? Episode 1

Minor SPOILER ALERT!!!

Today was the big season debut of the newest run of Celebrity Apprentice with some very entertaining celeb contestants this season, most notably Darryl Strawberry, who will hopefully come away a win. Some of the other celebs to look out for are Bill Goldberg, Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, Rod Blagojevich and Cyndi Lauper all of who seemed to take up 95% of the camera time from the other 9 contestants who, if you're not specifically looking for them, you might not notice.

Darryl had it pretty easy this round as he didn't get shoved into the spotlight or forced to make any decisions. And his team came away with a demanding victory without much drama. Everybody on both sides just loved everyone else and there were no major cat-fights or cuss-fests. In fact, Trump literally raised the most eyebrows trying to get some answers as to who the celebs thought should get fired!

So, yes, we do get an episode 2 of Darryl in Celebrity Apprentice! Same day, same time, next week! 13 contestants left.

The Celebrity Apprentice: Darryl Strawberry

As many of you already know, and are probably tired of hearing about it, I am a big Darryl Strawberry fan. Also, if you didn't already know, Darryl is scheduled to be a contestant on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump starting Sunday 3/14 at 9/8c! If you've ever watched the show before, 2 major components are New York City and fundraising for charity. Both of these are right up Strawberry's alley and Darryl is counting on New York support to come through for him and his charity, The Darryl Strawberry Foundation, big time!

I plan on tuning in and cheering him on, even though 9pm is during my "work" time when I'm supposed to be monitoring 2 laptops for my "job". So I might get distracted at times but I plan on posting a recap as well as I can right here on this here blog every night after the show, until Darryl is fired or he wins.

Barter Scans

I'm beginning to feel the pressure of having more than one trade in progress at any given time. It is intense. I know I've been asking for it but, it's intense! I still have a family and a life outside of collecting and they just won't be ignored. But you guys can count on me. When I have to choose between postage and a meal, I will gladly choose postage because postage means getting cards in return. And I've skipped plenty of meals for cards, sometimes without even realizing it. In fact, just today, I started to lose my sight because I forgot to eat lunch.

This first trade comes from dgreen1899 from Drinking the Orange Kool-Aid. He's got quite an extensive want list, so if you've got any Phillies, Orioles, Ravens, Cowboys or Eagles to trade, head over and he will hook you up!

Initially, the trade was just for some Strawberrys. But things kindof got out of hand...

...He also threw in some surprise Ichiros which are pretty sweet. I've had my eye on the Japanese Topps Trading Card History card up above and I would have eventually paid real American money for it.

The jersey card was also unexpected! Wow! This is actually my first Strawberry jersey card. I didn't even realize that until this trade came in. Thanks D for a great and generous trade!

Next up are a couple of small trades, but of course hugely appreciated. These came from dogfacedgremlin from The Real DFG. He offered to send these over and didn't even ask for anything in return so I've been trying to find all of my Penguins cards to return the favor. Thanks DFG!

And last but not least, Flywheels from Cardboard Collections sent these over for just one card he spotted from a pack of Topps Platinum Football I opened up. My '09 set is really coming together.. 5 of these 9 cards finished an album page so these were really some thrillers for me! Thanks Flywheels!

Barter: Care of Night Owl

First of all, if you traded with me recently, and I didn't share it on here, I'm sorry. Just as of last month, I didn't have internet or a scanner that worked more than 10% of the time, so cards were not posted and cards were assimilated into my collection and they were all very much appreciated. Now that I have these luxuries, posting a trade post doesn't take me 3 1/2 hours to put together.

This latest one is from Night Owl. He contacted me about some Dodgers he spotted from my '93 Action Packed box break, and he had several great Darryl Strawberry cards that I didn't own yet. He also took a stab at my needs list and knocked a few off of there!

Some examples of my base card needs he sent:

2009 Allen & Ginter #213 Stephanie Brown Trafton. She brought home US gold from Beijing for discus.

2009 Topps #259 National League Strikeout Leaders Tim Lincecum (265k), Johan Santana (206k) and Dan Haren (206k). Edinson Volquez also had 206k but I guess he lost the popularity contest.

2008 Stadium Club #98 Roberto Clemente. These Stadium Club cards #91-100 are among my all time favorite cards. Incredibly high quality vintage images with a glossy finish. Nothing better.

Here are all the Darryl Strawberrys I traded for. 1993 Upper Deck #477 Team Stars w/ Eric Davis.

1994 Pinnacle #309 Hometown Heroes.

1992 Studio #50.

1992 Leaf #29.

1991 Fleer Update #U-96.

1991 Donruss #696. This might have been my most heavily collected set as a kid so eventually I'll have to put this one together.

1991 Classic Blue #T68.

Once again, thanks for the great trade Night Owl!

eBay Lot: Strawberry, Sergio and a Star Spangled Banner

Here's a few quick pickups that came in the mail today from eBay. I've become addicted to serial numbered cards and I'm not sure why.

Sergio was really exciting to watch for the Trail Blazers, and just as I started focusing on sports again and was becoming more familiar with the team members, he was dealt to Sacramento.


This red parallel is numbered to 150 and I have the base card on its way from Sportlots.com.


I think I might start a collection of cards featuring flags. I've always been fascinated with them since I was a kid. This one is tied with a Darryl Strawberry card for the smallest serial numbered card that I own. The smallest I've actually pulled from a pack is an Andy Pettitte numbered to 65.

Also, one last reminder to enter my contest! Entries must be recieved by 12:01 AM PST tonight!

Darryl Strawberry Collection

Updated 4/5/10

It's time to take this list off of my want list and give it its own home. This is a list of all the Darryl Strawberry cards in my collection. If you have anything not on this list, I'd be willing to trade for it! Also, a good number of cards on this list have a link to a scan if you're curious what they look like.

As of 3/5/10, my collection is 9.167103195390256678889470927187% complete according to Beckett.com.

Blue means pending.

1. 1984 Drake's #29
2. 1984 Fleer #599
3. 1984 Topps #182
4. 1985 Donruss #312
5. 1985 Drake's #30
6. 1985 Fleer #93
7. 1985 Fleer Limited Edition #38
8. 1985 Topps #278 1980 #1 DP
9. 1985 Topps Glossy All-Stars #5
10. 1986 Donruss Highlights #24
11. 1986 Quaker Granola #16
12. 1986 Topps #80
13. 1986 Topps Glossy Send-Ins #11
14. 1987 Burger King All-Pro #19
15. 1987 Classic Yellow #122
16. 1987 Donruss #4 Diamond Kings
17. 1987 Donruss #118
18. 1987 Donruss Highlights #42
19. 1987 Fleer #23
20. 1987 Fleer Exciting Stars #41
21. 1987 Fleer League Leaders #41
22. 1987 Fleer Star Stickers #114
23. 1987 Kmart #32
24. 1987 Topps #331 "Mets Leaders"
25. 1987 Topps #460
26. 1987 Topps #601 AS
27. 1987 Topps Glossy Send-ins #32
28. 1987 Topps Mini #26
29. 1987 Woolworth's #29
30. 1988 Bazooka #21
31. 1988 Donruss #439
32. 1988 Donruss MVP #BC-20
33. 1988 Donruss Pop-ups #19
34. 1988 Drake's #3
35. 1988 Fleer #151
36. 1988 Fleer #637 Crunch Time w/ Eric Davis
37. 1988 Fleer Headliners #4
38. 1988 Fleer Mini #63
39. 1988 K-Mart Memorable Moments #29
40. 1988 KayBee Superstars of Baseball #29
41. 1988 Panini Stickers #347
42. 1988 Score #360
43. 1988 Topps #710
44. 1988 Topps Glossy All-Stars #19
45. 1988 Topps Glossy Send-ins #22
46. 1988 Topps Mini #63
47. 1989 Bazooka #20
48. 1989 Bowman #387
49. 1989 Captain Crunch #7
50. 1989 Classic Light Blue #8
51. 1989 Classic Travel Orange #108
52. 1989 Classic Travel Orange #150 w/ Will Clark
53. 1989 Donruss #147
54. 1989 Donruss MVP #BC-6
55. 1989 Fleer #49
56. 1989 Fleer #632 w/ Will Clark
57. 1989 Fleer All Star Team #10
58. 1989 Fleer Baseball's Exciting Stars #40
59. 1989 Fleer Wax Box Cards #C-25
60. 1989 Score #10
61. 1989 Score Hottest 100 Stars #50
62. 1989 Topps #300
63. 1989 Topps #390 AS
64. 1989 Topps Ames 20/20 Club #28
65. 1989 Topps Glossy All-Stars #19
66. 1989 Topps Hills Team MVP'S #28
67. 1989 Upper Deck #260
68. 1989 Upper Deck #681 CL
69. 1990 Bowman #141
70. 1990 Bowman Tiffany #141
71. 1990 Classic Blue #33
72. 1990 Donruss #235
73. 1990 Donruss Best NL #80
74. 1990 Fleer #217
75. 1990 Fleer League Standouts #3
76. 1990 Leaf #250
77. 1990 Post #10
78. 1990 Score #200
79. 1990 Score Superstar #15
80. 1990 Starline #21
81. 1990 Topps #600
82. 1990 Topps Glossy Send-ins #7
83. 1990 Upper Deck #182
84. 1990 Wonder Stars #10
85. 1991 Bowman #382 Silver Slugger
86. 1991 Bowman #609
87. 1991 Classic Blue #T68
88. 1991 Donruss #408 MVP
89. 1991 Donruss #696
90. 1991 Fleer #161
91. 1991 Fleer Pro-Visions #12
92. 1991 Fleer Ultra #171
93. 1991 Fleer Update #96
94. 1991 Leaf #377
95. 1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier #117
96. 1991 Score #640
97. 1991 Score #691 Master Blaster
98. 1991 Score #864 The Franchise
99. 1991 Stadium Club #301
100. 1991 Topps #200
101. 1991 Topps #402 AS
102. 1991 Topps Traded #114
103. 1991 Upper Deck #245
104. 1992 Donruss #559
105. 1992 Donruss McDonald's MVP #7
106. 1992 Fleer #471
107. 1992 Fleer The Performer Collection #12
108. 1992 Fleer Ultra #219
109. 1992 Leaf #29
110. 1992 Pinnacle #80
111. 1992 Pinnacle #308 "Shades"
112. 1992 Score #9
113. 1992 Score '90s Impact Player #59
114. 1992 Stadium Club #560
115. 1992 Studio #50
116. 1992 Topps #550
117. 1992 Triple Play #187
118. 1992 Upper Deck #174
119. 1993 Donruss 1992 Long Ball Leaders #LL-11
120. 1993 Duracell Power Players Series II #21
121. 1993 Hostess #7
122. 1993 Leaf #210
123. 1993 Score #42
124. 1993 Score Select #21
125. 1993 Studio #122
126. 1993 Topps #450
127. 1993 Topps Marlins #450
128. 1993 Upper Deck #477 Team Stars W/ Eric Davis
129. 1993 Upper Deck #575
130. 1993 Upper Deck #820 CL
131. 1993 Upper Deck On Deck #23
132. 1994 Finest #87
133. 1994 Flair #444
134. 1994 Fleer #525
135. 1994 Pacific #322
136. 1994 Pinnacle #294
137. 1994 Pinnacle #309 Hometown Heroes
138. 1994 Score #428
139. 1994 Sportflics Rookie/Traded #149
140. 1994 Stadium Club #335
141. 1994 Topps #640
142. 1995 Collector's Choice SE #113
143. 1995 Fleer Ultra #244
144. 1995 Topps #629
145. 1995 Upper Deck Electric Diamond #89
146. 1996 Donruss #215
147. 1996 Fleer Ultra #107
148. 1996 Score #353
149. 1997 Circa #221
150. 1997 Donruss #261
151. 1997 Donruss Elite Edition #110
152. 1997 Metal Universe #123
153. 1997 Score #79
154. 1997 Stadium Club #82
155. 1997 Studio #145
156. 1998 Bowman Chrome #256
157. 1999 Pacific Paramount #166
158. 1999 Stadium Club #7
159. 2002 Topps Archives #159
160. 2003 Fleer Fall Classics #46
161. 2003 Fleer Fall Classics Legendary Collection Memorabilia #DSY *Bat*
162. 2004 Absolute Memorabilia Tools of the Trade Signature Blue Spectrum #38 33/50
163. 2004 Donruss World Series #111
164. 2004 SP Legendary Cuts #20
165. 2004 Upper Deck Etchings Etched in Time Autograph #DS 038/150 Auto
166. 2004 Upper Deck Legends Timeless Teams #255
167. 2004 Upper Deck Yankee Classics #21
168. 2005 Donruss Champions #54
169. 2005 Donruss Greats Signature Gold Holofoil #13 *Autograph*
170. 2005 Donruss Leather & Lumber Big Bang Jersey #BB-7 007/250 *Jersey*
171. 2005 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Tools of the Trade Black #TT-39 053/100
172. 2005 Playoff Prestige #191
173. 2005 Playoff Prestige Red #191 83/150
174. 2005 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites #9
175. 2005 Topps Rookie Cup #51
176. 2005 Upper Deck Classics Classic Counterparts #CC-SG w/ D. Gooden 1807/1999
177. 2008 Topps Update Ring of Honor 1986 New York Mets #DS
178. 2009 Topps Tribute #42
179. 2009 Topps Tribute Black #42 72/99

Card of the Day: 1985 Drake's #30 Darryl Strawberry

It had been awhile since I had added any cards to my Darryl Strawberry collection, so while browsing on eBay I decided on this oddball. I was the only bidder and won it for only 1¢ + 99¢ shipping. 4 days later, it arrived from the seller in a Christmas card! Merry Christmas to me! I've seen a Strawberry card from a 1983 set but didn't know there were others. Turns out they released sets annually from 1980 to 1988, plus one in the 50's, I think. The back of this one is the same as the Topps base set from the same year, except for the Drake's logo.