Birthday Update

My latest birthday has brought me the single largest haul of my chip collecting career.  Not counting a couple of doubles, I picked up 44 new chips in all including all 30 of the Tropicana's baseball stadium chip set.  That set comes courtesy of Julie who also had the best looking cake of all-time made for birthday dinner (picture below).  Besides the baseball set, I got 13 Las Vegas chips from my brother and his wife and a chip from the resort Geoff and Tasha stayed at on their honeymoon.  The blog thanks all that contribute for their dedication to the cause.

Only 500 of each Tropicana baseball chip were made so I think a complete set is pretty scarce.  My brother has one too... so I can practically guarantee we're the only pair of brothers with our own sets.  And, I have a second Tropicana Field chip so for the time being, there are only 499 possible sets out there.

I'll separate the new 44 chips into different posts.  Starting with Punta Cana, then Las Vegas and finally the baseball chips.  I'll also use the baseball chips to offer my predictions on how the coming season will play out.  But before all that... the casino chip birthday cake!