July was a great month for me, maybe the best month I’ve ever had. I ended up with 42 returns and 101 cards within those returns. There was a surprising mix of football in there as some stragglers from the months I was sending those came back to me. The vast majority was made up of baseball though. I would say the other theme I got back were more current players and coaches. Something I’ve been doing more of lately is moving towards sending to some stadiums and really during the season is the only time you can do that.
I rated a few cards pretty highly this month with some highlights being:
- Jim Beattie – 1983 Topps – 8.5
- Al Hrabosky – 1980 Topps – 8.5
- Zane Smith – 1988 Topps – 8.5
- Dave Burba – 1999 Topps – 8.5
I haven’t even gotten to posting all of those yet because I have such a backlog to work through. I might have to step up with more than one post a day.
As far as failures go, they all came in the second half of the month. Willie Horton came back with information regarding how much he charges. I’m not opposed to sending back to him, but I think I’ll find better cards to do that with. I got a bunch of “RTS” returns though. Eric Sogard and Jerry Reuss were sent care of a team and I’m not sure why they came back. While Jay Payton was probably more of the standard bad address variety. I tried to send to Taylor Motter and just sent to the wrong place too.
Seems like August is starting out well for me too.