Hey guys!!!! I've been buying baseball cards lately. I bought some yesterday, and today. (And I got some good ones!!!!) So I decided I would count all my cards. First, I counted all the cards in my book. 837. Then I counted all the ones from that minor league game, which is in a separate book. 27. Then I counted all the cards in a box my grandma gave me for my birthday. 497. (It would be 500, but 3 are in my book) Then I counted all the cards my assistant coach in softball gave me. 546. Grand total!!! 1,950 cards!!!! I know most of you card collectors reading this are thinking "Man... That's not a lot of cards..."  but I've only been collecting for a year and 6 months, so I think I'm doing pretty good. I have 14 Derek Jeter cards too!!!! In fact, yesterday I bought a box of Upper Deck 2008 Series 2 cards. The box had 10 packs of cards in it, and each pack had 8 cards. One special collection of cards that Upper Deck is doing this year are Star Quest cards. They are ranked by color. Silver and green are common, and so forth until you get to Gold, which is Ultra Rare, meaning rare (which is a blue card) is one rank below that. I had several common ones from packs I'd bought earlier that year, but nothing really special. So anyway, I opened one of the packs, and the first thing I see is a blue Starquest card. I was like "NO WAY!!!!!" and my mom and Ashley looked at me and they were like "What???" I was like "Dude I got a Starquest Rare card!!!!!) Then I was like "Hmm... I wonder who it is...???" So I flipped the card and shrieked again!!!! Once again my mom and Ashley were like "What???" then I said "DUDE!!!!! I GOT A DEREK JETER STARQUEST RARE CARD!!!!" So yeah that was pretty exciting!!! A little later, I found a Felix Hernandez Ultra Rare card!!!! So I was pretty happy!!!! Here are a list of cool cards I've gotten in the last two days.

1. Derek Jeter Starquest Rare card (Upper Deck)

2. Felix Hernandez Starquest Ultra Rare card (Upper Deck)

3. Kosuke Fukudome Rookie Card (Upper Deck)

4. Mike Jacobs Jersey Card (Upper Deck)

5. Ichiro Suzuki Season Highlights Card (Upper Deck)

6. Jonathan Papelbon Card (Upper Deck)

7. Scott Gorgen 2007 National Team Card (Upper Deck)9.

8. Josh Hamilton Card (UD)

9. Paul Konerko Starquest Un-Common card (UD)

10. Jason Bay Jersey Card (Topps)

11. Ryan Howard Topps Stars card (Topps... duh...)

12. Raul Ibanez Year In Review card (Topps)

13. Wandy Rodriguez Gold Parallel card, #481/2008 (Topps. The number means that there are only 2,008 of them... I think...)

14. Andre Either Topps All Rookie Team Gold Parallel #83/99 (Topps)

Oh and Warner Robbins got eliminated last night, so they won't make the LLWS...