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  • Great day from the Northern Illinois Hobby Retailers

    They sponsored a mini-golf event today in Lincolnwood Il and it was a blast...

    http://www.nihr06.com/nihr_020.htm

    Free goodie bag
    $6 to play mini-golf
    $20 to play pack wars afterwards (optional)
    Raffle prizes everywhere....

    I brought my 3 kids (8, 5, 2 1/2) so I let the three of them play...

    They had prizes for best 3 scores, closest to the pin, all sorts of stuff...and the prizes were pretty darn good too.

    AFter they started calling out raffle numbers, It seemed to go on forever, here were some of the prizes...

    6 packs of 2010 elite football
    TNA Impact blaster boxes
    OBAK Baseball blasters
    TNA DVD's
    Cubs glasses
    Autographed Hockey pucks from some of the Blackhawks (UD Authenticated)
    Whiffle ball bat combo
    Panini T-shirt and hats
    Jerseys

    ANyway, after a while I realized everyone was going to get a raffle prize, so I made my kids stick around..."ya wanna win a prize, dont'cha??"

    We walked away with...

    6 packs 2010 DOnruss ELite Football
    2 TNA Impact Blasters
    1 OBAK BAseball Blaster
    1 Alfonso Soriano Bobblehead
    1 TNA Keychain
    1 WHiffle Ball Bat combo
    Panini T-shirt

    Then came the Pack wars...By this time it was running into lunch time and I didn't have a lot of time left since the kids were antsy...but for $20 you got 2 Donruss elite football packs, a stealth press pass pack and a topps baseball pack and a raffle ticket. They had us open 1 pack of elite football and then call out for whoever had the guy with the heaviest wt, or longest name, etc...These prizes were better, but I was only able to stick around for 1 or 2 rounds...

    Prizes included:
    Box of Iron Man cards
    Packs of 09/10 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Basketball
    09/10 Timeless treasure Tins
    Autographed mini basketball of Derrick Rose

    I didn't win anything but had to leave before it was over since the kids were hungry...my one regret was I didn't hand my raffle ticket to a buddy, who knows what I might have won...

    ANyway, in my haul, TNA Velvet Sky auto, TNA SHark boy auto, suh rc #/999
    Montario Hardesty on card auto, jacoby ford auto #/499, david getts auto #/24 (corner ding though, will contact panini)

    But awesome fuun for the kids...Northern Illinois Hobby Retailers, you guys are awesome...esp Dave at Addicted to cards (he paid for my mini-golf as well )
    Not looking for anything specific, just whatever catches my eye, but I am partial to Chicago Cubs, David Wright, Jim Palmer, Miguel Cabrera, and Yao Ming

    My Bucket

  • #2
    sounds awesome,got any pics from it?

    also TNA Velvet Sky auto for sale?

    Thanks
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    • #3
      Phil,
      sounds like you and the kids had a blast.

      If you did take some pics please post them.

      Roy
      Still collecting Frank Thomas in any uni and HoFer G/U & Auto's.

      I do not trade nor buy at "eBay values", unless a card is so rare that it is unlisted.

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      • #4
        Congrats. I may be able to use that Velvet Auto depending on which year it is from. Do you have a scan of it?

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        • #5
          sorry, no pics...

          Velvet sky and shark boy aren;t available for trade...

          I "slabbed" it myself with a printed label on the back...

          "First auto pulled by Sarah Ng 6-27-10"
          "First auto pulled by Matthew Ng 6-27-10"

          and they now have it on their walls
          Not looking for anything specific, just whatever catches my eye, but I am partial to Chicago Cubs, David Wright, Jim Palmer, Miguel Cabrera, and Yao Ming

          My Bucket

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          • #6
            No problem. Thx.

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