Kellen Raab on baseball cards

Kellen Raab pitched in the Diamondbacks' organization from 2004-2006. In 76 games he went 19-17 with a 5.31 ERA. Recently, he joined TCDB and posted about his new project to collect cards of his teammates and blog or do videos about them. I reached out to him with some more questions about his baseball card experiences and he kindly replied.

 "My favorite card story of mine is the 2005 South Bend card.  The photographer was only taking pictures for the first homestand and I wasn't pitching until game 5 on the road.  So he said that if I wanted an "action" shot I had to come to the stadium on my own to get it.  So my pitching shot was really just an empty stadium other than me and a photographer at like 10 AM.
 

I would say all of my cards are my favorite.  I think the biggest regret was never getting a major produced card like a Bowman, Topps, Upper Deck etc.  I didn't have an agent until after I started to pitch well and didn't make it known it was a priority.  I always assumed it would happen eventually and then I got hurt and things didn't happen.  I am also sad the team I played for last didn't produce any baseball card sets as it would have been nice to have more of them.

Growing up I collected cards with my mom and dad.  We pretty much collected anything and everything in the 90's.  Living in Omaha with the Royals I collected autographs.  So I was always trying to get cards of guys I could get signed. We also collected high level players and tried to collect all of their different cards.  My favorite players were Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden.  As life went on and moving into my own life I had to downsize the collection considerably due to space in my home.  My collection now consists mostly of my favorite players and the guys I played with and against."

Thanks!