Thank You For the Extra Eyeballs

One of the top benefits of writing this blog is all of the extra eyeballs it gives me.

I live in a town of 10,000 people and there aren't too many baseball card collectors among the 10,000.  The nearest card shop is at least an hour away.  I have very few opportunities to talk cards with anyone around here.  But this blog gives me the chance to not only talk cards, but to get advice and direction from fellow collectors.

Case in point:  Last week I had a post about my autographed card collection.  My rule is to have at least one certified autograph for each Cub that had a certified autograph issued during a season in which they were active with the Cubs.  I thought that my Nomar Garciaparra auto was my last, but I also asked for help--was I missing anyone.

I was.  In fact, it looks like I was missing six different players.  Your extra eyeballs were a great help...and an excuse to go shopping!

First, I had to clean up my list a little.  I had Bill Madlock included, though his card was from well past his years with the Cubs.  He came off.  Same thing for DJ LeMahieu--his only active season with the Cubs was 2011 and the autograph cards for him are from his minor league days.

Of the additional six, five were easy to find...three on ebay and two from Checkoutmycards.  The hard one is of Kosuke Fukudome.  He's got an autograph from Upper Deck Timelines 2008, but I've never seen one....let the quest begin

Here are the five easy cards....

....one Hall of Famer...

....and four guys who won't even get a sniff of Cooperstown

My new updated list is below.  All right you extra eyeballs, am I finished now??

Cubs players with a certified autograph issued during a season they played with the Cubs

Terry Adams	Leo Gomez	Billy Petrick
Moises Alou	Tom Gorzelanny	Felix Pie
Darwin Barney	Kevin Gregg	Lou Piniella
Francis Beltran	Angel Guzman	Mark Prior
Milton Bradley	Brnedan Harris	Aramis Ramirez
Roosevelt Brown	Kevin Hart	Anthony Rizzo
Scott Bullett	Jose Hernandez	Henry Rodriguez
Freddie Bynum	Rich Hill	Jeff Samardzija
Marlon Byrd	Micah Hoffpauir	Rey Sanchez
Andrew Cashner	Reed Johnson	Ryne Sandberg
Larry Cassian	Matt Karchner	Scott Servais
Frank Castillo	Brooks Kieschnick	Alfonso Soriano
Starlin Castro	Bryan LaHair	Sammy Sosa
Ronny Cedeno	Derrek Lee	Geovany Soto
Buck Coats	Greg Maddux	Ryan Theriot
Tyler Colvin	Dave Magadan	Ozzie Timmons
Juan Cruz	Sean Marshall	Steve Trachsel
Blake DeWitt	Scott Moore	Jermaine Van Buren
Rafael Dolis	Matt Murton	Todd Walker
Scott Downs	Rod Myers	Todd Wellemeyer
Kyle Farnsworth	Will Ohman	Randy Wells
Mike Fontenot	Kevin Orie	Turk Wendell
Kevin Foster	Angel Pagan	Kerry Wood
Kosuke Fukudome	Bob Patterson	Travis Wood
Sam Fuld	Corey Patterson	Carlos Zambrano
Sean Gallagher	David Patton	Julio Zuleta
Nomar Garciaparra	Carlos Pena