Just a short one: sweet tooth fans.

 I got another surprise PWE from another OCTer this week, and this one might be on the sweet side....sort of.

Mr. Biggs sent me a pair of Hostess needs, and a pair of Twinkies needs.

One of these days I may have to go all out and complete one those sets.

Have a great night folks!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day again and hopefully we'll finish strong tonight at trivia. We kicked butt the last time until the final question which we blew although thought we had it down solid for a three-peat. Nope....we were wrong. Shucks.

Here are some interesting cards for you to peer upon tonight.

All from Donruss this time.

Later folks!

Cinco de Mayo

 For the most part I have dumped the May 5th cards from the "Holidates" binder. I left a few just so I could post the unexpected Mexican victory in the 1 day battle where France thought they could undermine Abraham Lincoln. HA!

I wrote this on Monday with plans to grab some Tacos for Tuesday.

2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars: Hyperspce

 No Maddux tonight for obvious reasons. However, we did have another back to back as Laurens wins again! 

About two weeks ago I won an Ebay auction for one of the Star Wars releases on the cheap. BIN price $20.00.

A weird 100 card set, but was happy to get it for $20.00 and celebrate May 4th with you, lol. I have completed every Topps Chrome Galaxy set since the first one, but I've yet to find a cheap one for 2025. Not even a Cheap Topps Chrome Star Wars set for 2025. 

UPDATE: After visiting the LCS and seeing the 25' Galaxy packs are $18.50 each, I bit the bullet and just now did a BIN $80.00 for 25' Galaxy complete set.

Just like all of the other set builds I maybe done trying. I did finally get those Braves stacks put into their binders. I also started working on the 7500 cards to check against my set builds so that I can resume the PC update. I added about 100 Heritage needs half of which were SP's from that $20.00 box from the show in The Villages last month. $20.00 seems to be a sweet spot :)

1962 Topps

 Heading into the weekend with a PWE from fellow OCTer Bob D. 

Bob sent me a PWE with 10 62's inside but I didn't need one of them. The 62' set is one that I probably need the most of for 60's set builds, followed closely with the 63' set.

Always good to get a surprise in the mail. Have a great weekend people!

Last call

 Last post from the package Rod sent, and yes there were some modern Braves :)

Cards for my Presidential collection all Dwight D. Eisenhower.

These 6 football cards are up for grabs, lmk if you're interested.

1921 tobacco card.

I was stoked to get the Rip night card.

I needed 4 of these 5 Braves cards. I thought I needed the Precious Elements too, but I didn't.

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day, midweek, whatever you call it....it is here.

Mostly Upper Deck.

Finish the week strong.

Shall We?

 Shall we peek actually gaze upon the third installment of cards sent to me via Padrographs? I say yes, let us look at Rod's generosity.

Rod, thanks again. There will be one more post from Rod's cards on Thursday! Have a great night everybody!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Congratulations go out to Laurens for last week's win. As for this week, I was wrong thinking there was another rookie in the batch. I went through the batch that carries us to mid July and there is another one in the mix.

Here are this weeks freebies:

The 98' Pinnacle is full stats version (I believe).

Flying into Round TWO from Rod

 Flying right into round two of the amazing package from Rod.

How cools are these vintage cards? Again thank you Rod!

I should have the third installment ready for Tuesday.

Have a super weekend everybody!

Just AMAZING!

 Two weeks ago I got a package from Rod over at Padragraphs and it was a doozie.

I broke up the package into 5 groups for posts.

Some Sgt. Peppers vintage cards which I don't see very much. The Bob Bailey Black Hawks are card is available as I'm pretty sure someone out there on the blog roll collects that Chicago team.  First current blogger in the US to comment and claim it gets it.

Not a bad way to kick off this amazing package from Rod (BTW:  THANK YOU!) Oh look Princess Leia's mom (IRL). 

Just getting warmed up. I'll post the 2nd round tomorrow night that should get you flying.

Later Gators!

Wacky Wednesday

 These cards are screaming....."Did you miss us?" After skipping last week, rather the swapping the post out for JRD which was the right choice. I'm sure they felt a little abandoned, tis tis. 

They should feel better now. Have a great night. Going for a tree-peat tonight at trivia.

A Super quickie!

 A super short post tonight. I decided to kickoff a package I got recently from Padrographs (Rod) on Thursday, and should get 5 posts out if it. With that said tonight is just that single scan (9 cards). Of what I picked up Saturday at the Ocala show.

I'd say colorful would be a very good description here inclduing the three new to me Braves!

I haven't really messed with bindering the stack of Braves (500ish) that I've been looking at for at least a month now. I also have been ignoring the set builds that need checked sitting on my love seat in the living room which will need to be taken care of before I get back to the S's for my PC update. I've been super lazy of late. I really need to hit it hard NOW, but I just haven't been in to it.....

Have a great night folks!

 

Just Another Maddux Monday: Week 10

 I hope that your week has kicked off wonderfully. Last week's winner was none other than DefGav. 

I made it to that Ocala show Saturday, but wasn't there too long. 90% Pokemon. That doesn't mean I didn't get anything though. I managed to get ONE scan worth of cards for a future post. 

Back to Greg Maddux!

This week's giveaway cards: 

If I am not mistaken next week's Maddux cards contain another rookie. It's been awhile so my memory maybe off....we'll see.

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.

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.