Your pack of baseball cards
Published: Fri, 09/13/13
I collected baseball cards when I was younger. This was back when
baseball cards were still popular, and you could even buy cards in
the drug store.
I was never really a huge baseball fan, but the cards were
something that all the other boys were doing, so I was too.
Even entire yearly sets fetched a nice price sometimes.
And then there were the collectors prized possessions. I'll
probably never forget that the Honus Wagner card was the most
valuable baseball card due to its rarity.
We certainly didn't find Honus Wagner in our packs.
Also, I remember sending off to have players actually autograph the
cards. The tactic was you would send them a self-addressed stamped
envelope with the card and a note.
The note would politely ask the player to sign the card and then
return it in the handy envelope.
You had to be careful, though, because the rate of ignorance from
the pro players was high. You might not ever see your card again!
So, you had to play this game of Catch-22 where you sent in only
semi-valuable cards to get autographed, with the hope that the
player was having a good day and followed your easy instructions.
Anyway, another neat thing about baseball cards was you would go to
the store, and spend your allowance on 1 or 2 packs.
Then you would rip open the packs.
In the pack were a small amount of cards, of course. Most of my
cards were always the crappy "commons." These were the
dregs or average players that make up most of a team.
Once in a while, you'd find a true star.
But also there in the pack was an extra treat.
It was that pink stick of bubble gum.
Now, we all knew that this was not a high quality piece of gum.
The gum was typically dried out, had a strange white powdery
residue on it and smelled like the cardboard baseball cards it had
been living with for months.
However, that gum still tasted pretty good, and the experience of
that kept you coming back for more.
Anyway, we're now packaging our frac sand testing services, and
it's similar to an old school pack of baseball cards.
You get several frac sand tests in one delightful package:
- Washing and wet sieve analysis
- Sieve analysis
- Sphericity and roundness test on the predominant sized sand
- Turbidity testing
- Acid solubility testing
- Bulk density testing
- Crush resistance test to find out the sand's K value
Sometimes you'll find your sand to just be "common"
and not be marketable.
Once in a while, you find some "superstar" frac sand,
however. And it makes the investment totally worthwhile. Might
even make you rich.
And every package has that "sweet and tasty" bubblegum
treat, in the form a nice delicious deal.
How much?
Total package, soup to nuts is $1,950. You'll pay a lot more
if you "piecemeal" the tests together.
We think it's a home run of a deal.
Keep in mind though that this season won't last forever, and
the package price is bound to go up.
Let's play ball.