The Christmas Parade continues: The Naughty List

 Starting off with this week's giveaway: The 2017 Topps Now Ohtani. 

The task this week will be the heavy lift of the month.

Those eligible are: RJ, GINKO, FUJI, TDK, AND DIAMOND JESTERS.

What you need to do (comment here upon completion by midnight FRIDAY (EST).

1) Appreciate what you already have. Seriously now. Be thankful for it.

2) Physically help another person that is NOT related to you. (this could be as simple as holding a door open at a store for a stranger), or donate can goods or clothing to a local shelter/real charity/thrift store. You have until Friday to get it done, so I believe in you- you can do it!`

Now a heads up, scantilly clad women below. Although I covered up the one card that showed a bit too much I am still advising that if you are not at least 18 years old PLEASE exit this page now.

Just to throw in some actual baseball cards that are Christmas related 1 or 2 more scans for you.

Okay one more scan.

Now that is a wrap, speaking of which I had better wrap those last 4 presents.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas: Misc. A short post

 Just a hodge podge of over-sized misc. Christmas cards. A short post to get you into the weekend. Real quick on this week's giveaway: Fuji wins. And to think he almost bowed out. Next week will be the 2017 Topps Now Ohtani. There are still 5 eligible readers for that one.

I'm still missing a couple cards from this set. Don't think I have actually every tried to find them, I should do that.

As promised a short post. Monday is going to be the Naughty list post, so be prepared.

HO HO HO! Merry Christmas. Lots of goodies in here.

Lots of goodies tonight.

I had to pull a card from the above page as it was a dupe.

Some of you may remember when Gavin was sending out Bennie's. As for the bottom row, the first card is what all of the cards in this playing card deck looks like. The base cards nothing Christmas on them, but the there were 3 Jokers with 2 designs. These playing cards came in in a double deck tin which I have, but only the one deck. Now, I have placed another deck inside the tin to fill the space....You'll see it eventually.

Pepsi Cola.

Had to scan the back of these a couple fun things there.

Yes, these cards sit in the Coca-Cola binder (and a few below too).

If you're ever stuck on what to send me, those Pacific Ornament cards are extremely welcomed. You can see the most recent addition to the collection with the 2024 Santa Archives card from the Holiday release. I still forgot to scan another Santa phone card too.

More Santa's from the Coke binder. 

Tomorrow night will be a short "misc" post.

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Christmas athletes.

 What would ultimately become the "Christmas Parade" of posts that I do these days all started with just the athletes that shared 12/25 birthday (with Jesus). I haven't been very good at updating my "Holidates" binder since I did a major cleaning about 7 years ago. Glad I did that. I believe it is somewhat manageable these days. I tend to just get lazy. 

Either way this is what is currently in the binder. 

Just a reminder that one of the "clean ups" I did was to eliminate non-baseball players, but that went out the door. Just so you know I do not seek out cards for the Holidays. What I do is when bored and just so happen to have a newly or fairly new release of cards in hand I look at the birthdays once I have pulled everything else out that I do collect.

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday!

Christmas and Coca-Cola

 For those of you who don't know I have a "beverage" collection. The largest portion is Coke stuff. Tonight's post are cards from the Coke binder.

There were a few more cards and phone cards, that I didn't get to it. One day (I've been saying that for a long time) I'll get my coke collection posted (probably take two weeks worth of posts just for what in the binder which is only maybe 5% of the Coca-Cola collection alone. That doesn't include the Pepsi and others. Some really cool stuff in there.  

I'll have a post tomorrow night to keep this parade floating Um I mean flowing.  Thursday will be a real treat as there are a lot of cards for that post.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Interactive post and the beginning of the Christmas parade.

 Let's get this week's giveaway kick-started. The prize will be the 1975 Gary Carter rookie. 

Those eligible to win:

RJ, SCC (MATT), GINKO, FUJI, DIAMOND JESTERS (MATT), TDK, AND BO.

The task this week: Using the honor system once again, you must put in the mail a RAOK (random act of kindness) or SCP (surprise care package) of baseball cards (at least two cards to someone other than me) no later than Wednesday then .... come back here and comment by midnight Wednesday stating the deed is DONE!

Alrighty then, time for my annual Christmas parade starting with: Christmas around the world.

You can see on the little piece of paper the 6 card numbers that I am missing. I didn't add any this year. I do have them in my ComC watch list, but most of them are nearly 2 bucks. I'm not paying that.

The card backs (all of them) make a very large puzzle.

Funny how the 6 missing cards are balanced. Weird huh? My Christmas shopping is complete and only have 4 more gifts to wrap so things are moving fast.

Bucks R Us

 The winner was from this week's giveaway was TDK. Kevin mailing your prize tomorrow. 

Now to get back to the 2nd trip to Ormond last month, but first heads up on the next 2 weeks. The next 2 weeks will all be Christmas related. technically the 12 days of Christmas starts with Christ's birthday 12/25 (as recognized) as runs through Jan 5th. However, I have other annual posts for the end of the year and the beginning of the year so I'll just be putting this "theme" out hopefully in time to get you folks into the Christmas spirit (if you aren't already). Okay this time really back to the Ormond cards.

I hit Kyle's dollar boxes, 2 for 5, and $5.00 boxes. All discounted of course. The first 3 scans are from the dollar boxes which typically cost me 3 for a buck..

Now moving to the 2 for $5.00 cards. I scan and the last 2 scans are from the $5 box.

Don't know who that last guy is, but man that's a large swatch. The 2 Status, and 2 Gold Standard cards were needs for the Chronicles set builds. 

That wraps the posts for this week! After the Christmas parade of posts, I'll do a couple of posts to cover the last trip in November (11/30) to Ormond, then close out the year with an annual post.

Have a great weekend.

Deuces WILD

 This is the 2nd post of the 2nd trip to Ormond Beach last month. DEUCES WILD.

These are the cards I pulled out of the dime boxes.

Parallel Stadium Club.

More parallels and some inserts too. 

A bunch of Trout's whether I needed them or not.

Ted Williams too (plus the one a few scans above).

Finishing these up with a parallel (artist proof blue) of the recent $765 million man.

Tomorrow I'll post this week's winner of the giveaway and post the cards I pulled from the dollar boxes along with some from the $5.00 boxes and 2 for $5.00.