About Me
My name is Dave. I’m 29 years old and I reside with my wife, my cat, and my baseball cards in Apex, North Carolina, a suburb or Raleigh. I am fortunate to live close to Durham Bulls Athletic Park, home of the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of my favorite major league baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays. I grew up in Rochester, New York and graduated from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 2001. I have lived in the Raleigh-Durham area (also known as the Research Triangle) ever since then.
I returned to the baseball card hobby after a 14 year absence in February 2008, and I started this blog on June 14, 2008. I was inspired to start a blog after becoming a devoted reader of other card blogs like Wax Heaven, The Baseball Card Blog, Treasure Never Buried, Cardboard Junkie, and Stale Gum. I picked the name “Fielder’s Choice” because I dreamed about opening a sports themed restaurant with that name when I was a kid. At the time, I thought it would be great to have Cecil Fielder in the commercials for the restaurant. When I started the blog, I used a 2007 Goudey card of Cecil’s son, Prince Fielder, on my logo. I changed it to a 2008 Goudey Evan Longoria card in September.
The blog features my opinions and commentary about the baseball card industry. I often write about various cards in my collection and post video box breaks of hobby boxes that I purchase. I love to make card trades with readers as well as other bloggers. I’m a huge baseball fan, and in addition to blogging about cards, I frequently write about the sport of baseball itself. As a Tampa Bay Rays fan, I greatly enjoyed writing about the unbelievable 2008 season that the Rays had, especially their postseason run to the World Series.
One of the greatest things about being a card blogger is the great sense of community among all of the card blogs out there. I’ve encountered some incredibly friendly and generous people since I started the blog. I truly appreciate every comment, every email, every link to the blog, and every card trade that I’ve made since starting Fielder’s Choice.
If you’d like to contact me, you can email me here. And of course, I love receiving comments on my posts. Getting people’s thoughts and opinions about what I write is what makes blogging fun!
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Dave, you have a really cool blog. I don’t know how I hadn’t seen it till now. Anyway, it’s cool to see you live in Apex. I actually grew up in Sanford, and my grandfather used to park his semi-tractor in Apex. How random!
I’ll be linking to your blog and reading much more often from now on.
Comment by Charlie — July 14, 2008 #
Thanks for the comments, Charlie! I hope that I can make the blog a worthwhile read for you!
Comment by Dave — July 15, 2008 #
Love the Goudey Postings!! I’m Jealous!!
Comment by Guido — August 21, 2008 #
Do you have the Alex Rodriguez base card from 2008 upper deck ballpark collection? If so I would buy it if it is for sale or trade for it. I have a number of Evan Longoria rookie doubles that I want to move.
Comment by Jerome Wardlow — November 17, 2008 #
Hey, I emailed you wondering about Don Mattingly signing my baseball. Your website is great.
Scott
Comment by Scott — December 7, 2008 #
Hi Dave
I just added your blog to my list. Truly sad that you support a hockey club in Carolina – and here I am in the hockey Capitol of … um, er … Florida.
come visit my blog when you have time. Keep up the good work.
cheers,
Chuck
PS – Ron Francis – all class !
Comment by Chuck — January 17, 2009 #
Hey Dave!
Just found your blog today and I love it. Great work. You along with other bloggers have really inspired me to get back into collecting baseball cards. I’m 25 now and I probably haven’t bought cards since I was 13.
That’s changing. I’m definitely going to get back into it and want to start a blog about it as well. I’ll be a regular follower! Keep it up.
Comment by Andrew — March 21, 2009 #
Hi Dave. I’ve been away from the hobby for 15 years. I helped my late bro-n-law while he recovered from an illness back in 1992. I can’t believe the changes, esp. the extremely low production runs and limited runs. And the prices of the older rookie cards, such as Shaq, seem really low. Do you think it’s a good time to “invest” in cards? My common sense tells me it is, but I just don’t know much about the current state of affairs concerning the hobby. Thanks, Jim Perdue.
Comment by Jimbo51 — April 2, 2009 #