ComC part 2: Firsts and Lasts.

 Short post tonight. The concept will be simple. Most if not all of the cards were either the last cards I needed or the first card needed for a team set build or a major set build or for some other reason. Let's see what pops up.

I forget already , but I believe the last two cards finished the Braves team set, and the others may have finished the actual set build. But for some reason I am thinking I still need one or two. I'll have to check later.

This card was the last card needed to finish the 1973 set build. I had it sitting in the inventory for a couple of months.

These are the first Japanese cards that I have bought, and certainly the first Japanese cards of Ichiro and Oh. (the card fronts can been seen below).

The Frank Robinson card finished that set for me. I believe those are the first Wonder Bread cards for me.

Closing out with a 1909-11 T206 White border. This is my first one added this year! Another blog goal done! It ain't purdy, and just a lil dirty but it works for this year!

Have a great night folks! Probably won't post again until Friday, but let's just it will be nothing but SP Variations.

Devine intervention. ComC order. Atlanta Braves (Milwaukee and Boston Braves too).

 Getting the latest update out of the way. My daughter (in Fort Myers) went back home Thursday. she had no power so she stayed with her friend. Power was restored by daybreak Saturday. Other than trashing the food in the fridge, no problems. Not even limbs to pick up (a neighbor already did that for her). Furthermore, there were over 4 million homes without power, and 90% have been restored leaving apx 400K to go. Florida knows how to get things back on track. 

My brother has a new place, a bigger place, nicer place and close by 5 minutes way (1 mile). I found it for him on Friday morning. I scheduled a walk through for 1pm. We went, he liked and by 5pm the application process was complete and approved. Contract being mailed out Monday/Tuesday. Now he just needs to switch everything over and finish packing up. Our mom called these events "favors", I call them blessings, but we all know what it is.

Now let's get to some baseball cards. The most recent ComC order which as explained last week (or the week before) was here faster that I can write. I'll say it again, they are doing an amazing job these days. There will be several posts this weeks highlighting the different areas of my pick ups. Braves batting first.

Vintage Topps posters from 67' and 69'. i did already have a Niekro, but it certainly needed replaced.

A few 64' Topps coins and a 71'.

The first two are Fleer stickers from 1961. Nice additions. The Cepeda is an upgrade and like the Niekro above can be moved to their respective PCs.

This scanned popped up out of order, but oh well. It is the back of the 2nd Fleer sticker above.

This concludes the Braves exclusive portion of the broadcast. I'll put together some firsts and lasts for tomorrow's post.

The Sport Lots gets.

 Wanted to do a quick post for tonight and start the weekend. The order was a big one, but most of it was for set builds. These are just the Braves.

I believe I have completed this team set now (might need 1 or 2 more).

Let's start with the 1977 Topps Cloth. I now have both of the Braves and both versions of both cards * and **.  I believe those were the last 92' Panini Braves I needed after ripped the box I bought in Tampa.

I did already have those cyber 1995 Topps Braves, and I wasn't sure if I needed them for my patriotic mini collection so I got them.

I am really begin to believe that it is impossible to get all of the Braves cards from the 90's. I know it is impossible for after the 90's.

I did have the Independence Freddy in my team sets, but this one is for the patriotic collection, and just in case it is there too his PC.

That wraps the edition of Braves I had to have. LOL. I will post the recent ComC order all next week.

Have a great weekend.

Topps Hobby Rip Night: KNT Trade night and JSA all in one. Hurricane Milton aftermath.

WEATHER UPDATE: I'm good! My local family are too. My brother lost some more fence, but that will be for the landlord to handle this time (I think). My brother still hasn't found a new place to live with 2 weeks to go. My daughter who lives in Fort Myers home was NOT hit by the tornado that hit two blocks over from her house. It stands....praise God! Will know more in a couple of days there if there are other issues. 

200+ tornado WATCH reports, at least 126 official tornado warnings and at least 30 touchdowns (that will certainly be increased as east coast port st lucie had 17 confirmed separate tornadoes alone). 3.3 million HOMES without power (homes not people- that could 6-7 million) at daybreak. The death total is and will be accumulating over the next few days (the water will be fluctuating for 2 days), but the tornadoes took several people and as of now the total is unknown. The days coming will give us the aftermath stats. This was a monster storm, and thank God for that cold front for those in my immediate area, but that too could have been the cause for the atmospheric conditions for the tornado outbreaks  just crazy. What matters now is picking up moving forward and doing what we can to help our friends and loved ones who may need some help. 

 With the Hudson card show posts done I can now peek at what I have planned going forward. I did do The Villages card show on Sept 7th, but I didn't scan anything. I might scan the highlight of the day which was a magazine. I did get another Sport Lots and another ComC order in as well. Tonight however, will be a trip made over to Ormond for Trade night which was also Topps Rip night last month.

JSA was in the house and brought some giveaways. This particular rep for JSA had met and made a deal with an artist who has deals with former athletes and got him to make some donations for this trade night. I got this To John, autographed rendering of Rollie Fingers (also signed by the artist). That was cool freebie for me just as I got to the shop.

Here was another freebie from Kyle. At first I was like this shirt feels flimsy, cheap like. I checked and it was made in OHIO, and although light is one of the most comfortable tee shirts I have. So soft....feels good.

While at the shop I did pull out a box of the diem cards. Which cost me about a nickel. These are my Braves Pro Debut cards. Complete but still need the chrome versions.

More Braves needs.

Topps broke this 40 card set up. These giveaways are the 2nd half 21-40. I believe 1-20 were stadium giveaways (so I need 2 of each of those now).

Now I move onto the "trade night" portion of the night.

Trade night was successful. Kyle always provides food, and there was plenty of good food, chips and soda.... and cookies too.

Have a great night.

As promised: Something DIFFERENT!

 I PROMISED TO BRING YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR TONIGHT. Here it is a flashback to the 70's. 1976 and 1978 Donruss SKATEBOARDING.

The 1976 Donruss set has blank banks. I have half of the set.

1978 has backs with real life shots on most of the back then current skate kings.

I have 2/3 of this set. The last card is actually listed as 1 of 2 promos. The front of the promos are the same, the picture on the back is what is different.

Now a storm update: Milton has slowed down to a CAT 4 (should build back to a 5) and 36 hours from now (when it is hitting me) should be a CAT 2. Really hoping this thing doesn't get hung up and moves through quickly. I do NOT plan on making a Wednesday night post. Kind of will have other things on mind. I have already prepped the post for Thursday providing all is well it will post.

Hudson card show the Final chapter with a TROPICAL UPDATE!

 I hope that everyone had a great weekend. 

TROPICAL UPDATE: There are three storms brewing all of which should make Hurricanes, 2 going up the Atlantic and shouldn't impose on the US, however Milton, a smaller cyclone than Helene initially but is a cat 5 right now even bigger will come over me (just south likely). The impact is hard to say, as we should NOT judge a book by it's cover. I feel more at ease with this one as we are NOT in the NE quadrant which lessens the chance of Tornadoes. Power outages is a different story. If I'm posting you know it is okay. I'll take your thoughts and prayers (always), but please send them out to those still dealing with the aftermath of Helene. They don't need any more more falling water. This storm is HUGE!

When I was building this house in 2004 we had 3 Hurricanes (direct hits) in a 6 week span, and then 1 of them did a u-turn in NC and came back and hit us directly again as a TS and that did the most damage and was without power for 8 days. I kind of have that feeling again. On a side not: 

Back then FEMA was begging, literally knocking on our doors each storm trying to force us take.... get this $1500-1800 per week. All we had to do was agree. Wow, how things are certainly different today.

Getting right into the cards tonight. More PC guys. Well, some of them are no longer PC guys. More on that later.

These are still PC guys.

Boggy is no longer a PC guy. Nola is now a maybe future PC guy, and Dunn will probably remain but will reside in a box instead of a binder.

These guys are safe. Goldy and Bernie will probably reside in boxes.

This Devers are dupes. Serial numbered is different and he'll probably be boxed or dumped eventually. Arenado has taken up his new residence in my future boxes.

Safe.

These too are all safe. As for my progress regarding the updating of my PC: The A's remain the same as the last update. I still have to completely re-do Aaron, Albies, and Acuna. I have a hundred others that need put into their binders. I am currently working on the "B's". I have eliminated several players and decided which ones will reside in boxes going forward. The B's had 60 players listed. Maybe half of  that now. I have cleared the Ba portion of players (9 keepers and dumped 3), and I have even entered them into TCDB (Player Collection) collection. I begin with the Be's this week. There will be 10 keepers there. Some of which have a good bit of cards and then a couple with just a few cards. Probably going to take the rest of this month to work my way through all of the B's. Next week should cover Biggio through Bo's. Then after those the Br's and then the rest after that. 

Now you know why it used to take 2 years to actually update them. Albeit, I haven't updated in 5 years now, so that does add to the time, but eliminating some players has helped a bunch. There are about 6 boxed "A's" that I did not update the excel sheets or enter into TCDB, just threw them into a monster box. I'll worry about them next year.

If you are still reading, then here is a surprise for you. The next post is absolutely going to be different. 

Have a great night! 

CLARIFICATION. AND THE Hudson card show: First round of PC guys.

Clearing things up: My brother did not have a stroke his landlord did and is being forced to move back home. Although we still haven't heard from him since the Hurricane (he does live in Western NC) his specific area (Salisbury) seems to be okay other than some power issues. Either way my brother has to find a new place to live (paying 500.00 min.) more than he is now for the cheapest place around here, pack up a lifetime of belongings in about 2 weeks. Add in that he (my brother) is in his 70's, oh yeah with a birthday on 10/19.  Very stressful, not good for young folks let alone someone his age. I pray for the best outcome. I'll keep y'all posted.

 Lord help those people devastated by Helene, and with a crappy Federal response, um we're broke, I'll say it.    D.C.   YOU'RE FIRED! Help them dangit!

Okay, I vented a teeny weenie bit. Still have a lot to show from the Hudson visit. Dropping round one tonight and ending it with a biggie. 

Okay so one PC guy there and one prospect. The Topps Chrome seems so old now, but they weren't when I picked these up.

 4 PC guys and some future PC (prospects) guys maybe.

Those 6 inserts together like that make me think of a pack of Bubble Yum. LOL.

Now I do NOT collect Joe Buck, but Justin insisted it be a part of the deal we were going to make. I can't believe how much his autos go for. It's like they are pretending he is already in the Hall of Fame (as an announcer of course). I would have no problem trading him for an equal valued Braves card.... auto not necessary.

Can't read the auto but it got a Gem Mint 10. I'm sorry if it were up to me grading an autograph, if it is not legible (regardless of their actual everyday signature) no way would I put a 10 on something that is NOT easily read. No scribbles. No initials. I'd maybe give this one a 4. FOUR!  Dang I'm tough. LOL At least I tied the beginning and end of this post together. Venting in venting out. I'll finish the PC guys on Monday.

Have a great night! Have a great weekend! Remember those folks that can use your thoughts and prayers.