Chose The Wrong Adventure, Still Got Cards

Another example of how this hobby is filled with fun-loving and generous people:

A TCDB member named Kurt held a giveaway recently on the site's forums. For fun, he decided to run a contest with a premise based on the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. He told narratives about a trip to The National that he went on years ago, and every day he would offer up a scenario in which you had to pick what came next. If you picked wrong, you were out of the contest, and the further you got, the larger the prize. 

In the first scenario, he talked about trying to get a free ticket for a signing of hockey icon Manon Rheaume. All the tickets were given away by the time he got there, but he was given an opportunity to purchase one of these "free" tickets for $20. The choice was either he bought it or he saved his money. Although I personally would have paid that to get her autograph, my gut instinct told me that I should pick the other option and say he spent his money elsewhere.

To quote the third (and the best) Indiana Jones movie:

 

Yeah, I was among the one-and-done crowd. He of course paid up for a cool autograph. Despite this, Kurt generously gave everyone who participated a prize, and I was allowed to claim a small lot form his For Sale/trade inventory.

I, of course, went little Red Sox heavy.

 

 

The lone non-Red Sox card is from the 1988 Fleer All-Star Team insert set, with Trammell being the penultimate card I needed to complete it. I was also able to knock off a good amount of needed Red Sox from previous Topps base sets. The rest were just cards I found interesting.

 

Favorite Card: In what may be the only time I'll give Carl Crawford props as a member of the Red Sox, his card from 2012 is fantastic!  

Thanks again for your generosity, Kurt!