Friday, April 17, 2026

Dollar box finds.

 The last purchase from the show in The Villages came from the seller across the aisle from that great seller. He had nothing but dollar boxes out, and a lot of them. Half were baseball, and as I dug through them I was seeing that a lot of these at best should be in a .50 box maybe even a quarter box. I made two stacks as I dug. In the end one had 35 cards the other 31. I asked for a deal and he was like knocking off 3 bucks, I looked at him with NO WAY clearly understood. I put the larger (the ones I would of paid about $15.00 for). Took one out of the other stack figuring this guy doesn't deal. I said I put one back how about $20.00, he said okay. I then offered $20.00 for the other stack as they were closing shop. He still said no. 

These are the just the highlights:



Braves needs of course.





I did have the Holiday variations already except for the Elly, that one I needed. How about that young Juan Soto. 

Have a great weekend. I'm hoping to make the Ocala show tomorrow.


Thursday, April 16, 2026

The Villages: The dime box finds

 I pulled and scanned a handful of what I think are highlight worthy cards from that $20.00 monster box. There were plenty of others, but this should suffice. Mind you 2 of the 5 rows were 2026 Topps and one row was 3/4 2025 basketball 1/4 football. 

So what kind of cards were in the first row (besides the 2020-2025 heritage I mentioned immediately after the show)?





The White Turkey Red's are just the keepers, there was a lot of them and a few Black too.



Some rookie keepers plus the Chrome Adley from 2026. The trio of Arrieta was cool.





The Ted Williams subset cards were very cool to find in there. As far as Diamante from 2026 there were a hefty handful of those just not keepers for me. That $20.00 box was definitely the best deal of the day followed closely by the $10.00 Heritage box of 2026.


Tomorrow I will highlight the last cards of the day that came from a different seller that only had dollar boxes.


Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Jackie Robinson Day!

 Mid week has arrived, and skipping out on Wacky Wednesday tonight. No worries they'll be back next week. Also ignoring TAX DAY too. these days most people have filed already and probably a little bit happier this year than in recent years.


I thought for a change this year that I would scan the pages in My Jackie Robinson binder rather than the usual annual "42" tribute cards that I typically show. Now, this isn't all of the Jackie cards that I have as there are several more that are part of set builds and unless they are a dupe won't be in the PC binder. Currently I sit at #9 on TCDB with 259 total (223 in binder). With that said, Greg (NO) is at #3 with 425, and GCRL at #2 with 507. Time to sit back and enjoy the Jackie show.



































































In case you are wondering the two orange cards have different backs (one red one yellow).





The Swell is a reprint of the 48' (I wish it was an original one :)



Pretty sure this is my oldest Jackie card, sad I know. Then again it seems like I do have something of his in my Topps set builds from the 50's or 60's. Guess I need to flip through those binders again.






These are the oversize versions.





Happy Jackie Robinson Day! One heck of a ball player!


Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The Villages card show: A few I forgot about.

 Getting to the last of that show's pick ups (2 more posts). This weekend will be two weeks ago, and also time for a smaller (much) here in Ocala, but all the way across town (30 minute drive). I will take it though, as I haven't been to a "show" in Ocala in a few years. I am really hoping that great seller from the Villages is there :). Although there hasn't been anything new actually released since then.



These 6 cards came from that 1/2/3 dollar box from that dealer I just mentioned, albeit one of them was marked $2 I just forget which one.


The next two scans were in my wallet and I had forgotten about them.






1970 Topps Posters. I bought these early in the show and had put them in my wallet. I think I paid $7.00 for the pair.  Not a good deal especially since they are not in great condition, but too late now. I probably should of paid a buck each or left them.

I have two more posts left from this show one is from that dime box, and the other is from a different seller and his dollar boxes. Next week I will start highlighting the goodies I received from Rod last week.....some really cool stuff!