Travis Blackley - 2017-18 Brisbane Bandits

Former Aussie MLBer Blackley last played for the Bandits in 2015-16 before spending time in the Mexican League. He spent both 2016 and 2017 with Pericos de Puebla and chose to play with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo of the Mexican Pacific Winter League instead of returning to the ABL in between. He came back to the Bandits for the 2017-18 ABL season, also spending time with the Pittsburgh Diamonds in the independent Pacific Association in both 2017 and 2018.

2017-18 Brisbane Bandits Travis Blackley card front - ©2018 Adam East

Dingo 2013-14 Melbourne Aces - Series Three Checklist

Here is the checklist for series three of the 2013-14 Melbourne Aces cards released by Dingo Cards on the 1st January 2014.

Dingo 2013-14 Melbourne Aces Series Three Header/Checklist Card - front

Dingo 2013-14 Melbourne Aces Series Three Header/Checklist Card - back

Here are the ten cards that make up Dingo's 2013-14 Melbourne Aces Series Three set of cards:

Card Number: Player: (Nationality, current or past MLB affiliation)
153 Joe Burns (USA, played 2013 with the Texas Rangers.)
154 Corey Kimes (USA, played 2 seasons with the Minnesota Twins organisation between 2011-12)
155 Sam Gibbons (Australia, played 2013 with the Minnesota Twins organisation.)
156 Travis Blackley (Australia, former MLB Player)
157 Justin Erasmus (Australia, played 4 seasons with the Boston Red Sox organisation between 2009-2012)
158 Bubbie Buzachero (USA, played 9 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros organisations between 2002-2010)
159 Trevor Holder (USA, played 2013 with the San Diego Padres.)
160 Ben Leslie (Australia, played 2013 with the San Francisco Giants.)
unnumbered - Header / Checklist Card
unnumbered -  Dingo advert on front / Release Schedule for Melbourne Aces card sets on back

COMC - A Nice Bunch of Aussie MLB Autos

Several months ago I did a flurry of buying and selling on Ebay, having the cards I bought shipped to my COMC account.Eventually I had them all shipped to me along with a number of cards I picked up on COMC. Besides a number of Aussie MLB Parallel cards, these were the more notable cards in the shipment. The Card of the Buy™ goes to the Grant Balfour 2013 Topps Tier One Crowd Pleaser Autograph GB1 variation card simply for the design and on card Balfour autograph.

Grant Balfour 2004 Topps Total Signatures GB

Grant Balfour 2013 Topps Tier One Crowd Pleaser Autographs GB1

Grant Balfour 2013 Topps Tier One Crowd Pleaser Autographs GB2

Grant Balfour 2001 Bowman Draft Futures Game Relics FGRGB

Justin Huber 2003 Topps Blue Chips Autographs JH

Mark Hutton 1996 Leaf Signature Autographs Gold 114 (#d 500)

Travis Blackley 2013 Pinnacle Autographs 68

Liam Hendriks 2011Bowman Draft Futures Game Relics LH

Graeme Lloyd 2002 Topps Chrome Black Refractors 178 (#d 50)

 

Trade With Beckster - Micheal's in the House

Thanks to Beckster for another trade. My eTopps Snellings finally arrived, and Beckster was kind of enough to trade a Nakamura auto and Japanese card as well as some Aussie MLB commons that I needed. The card of the trade is a toss up between the Nakamara cards - the smallish numbered auto vs the Japanese card. In the end, Card of the Trade™ goes to National Pastime Signs of the Future card for being a serial numbered auto which is in shorter supply than the Japanese card, even though the BBM card might be harder to get for a non-Japanese resident.

Grant Balfour 2008 Topps Update UH48

Micheal Nakamura 2004 National Pastime Signs of the Future Red MN  #d/133

Micheal Nakamura 2006 BBM Nippon Ham Fighters F89

Trent Durrington 2007 Buffalo Bisons Choice 4

Travis Blackley 2005 Donruss 31

Inaugural COMC Motherload Part 7 - The Pitchers

This is part seven of my attempt to document my initial large load of cards ordered from COMC. This batch includes 11 cards of Australian pitchers who have all recently appeared in the Majors at some point over the last couple of seasons. These include current Texas Ranger Travis Blackley, current LA Dodger Peter Moylan, Josh Spence, who made his MLB debut for the Padres in 2011, and former Aussie MLB pitchers Shane Lindsay, Ryan Rowland-Smith and Phil Stockman.

The Card of the Buy™ goes to the Hyphen - the Ryan Rowland-Smith 2007 Upper Deck Future Stars card for being an autographed rookie card of one of the Aussie pitchers I particularly like.

Josh Spence 2010 Donruss Elite Extra Edition 167 #d/699

Peter Moylan 2006 Topps 52 Chrome 18  #d/1952

Peter Moylan 2011 Topps Update US45

Peter Moylan 2011 Topps Update Cognac Diamond Anniversary US45

Ryan Rowland-Smith 2007 Upper Deck Future Stars 141 (RC)

Shane Lindsay 2006 Waikiki Beachboys Team Issue 16

Shane Lindsay 2007 Waikiki Beachboys Team Issue 39

Phil Stockman 2004 Leaf certified Materials Mirror White 298 #d/100

Phil Stockman 2004 Upper Deck 587 (RC)

Phil Stockman 2006 SP Authentic WBC Future Watch 7  #d/999

Travis Blackley 2004 Topps Pristine 110 (RC)

Checklist - 2012 Melbourne Aces Select

The official 2012 Melbourne Aces baseball card set created by Select features cards of the following players:

2012 Melbourne Aces Logo card by Select

• 37 Melbourne Aces Logo
• 38 Elliot Biddle
• 39 Travis Blackley
• 40 Josh Davies
• 41 Darryl George
• 42 Brad Harman
• 43 Justin Huber
• 44 Shane Lindsay
• 45 Daniel McGrath
• 46 Andrew Russell
• 47 Scott Wearne
• 48 Mascot "Maverick"

The Melbourne Aces team set of 12 cards can be ordered from the ABL Online Store for $AU9.99.