Third round of Braves ComC cards.

 Back to the blue font so maybe the Braves can win a couple more games. This post will be the last of the Braves pickups from that order. I will have a 4th post of non Braves for Thursday. Monday I am going to do another TEASER. 

Five more autos.

Seven more autos.

Closing the post out with two new relics.  Renaldo's drink matches the card or is that vice versa? I guess the old cliche of what came first the chicken or the egg comes to mind.

Have a great night!

Going # two

 OOOOOHHHH, I'm so full of crap..  Pun intended. This is the 2nd post (ie: #2) from that last ComC shipment.

Let's get to this batch of Braves additions.

Still running with the orange parallels.

Some numbered variety.

Squeezed in an auto here.

And another one here.

A couple more fancy autos here.  I think I now have three or four from that useless rainbow. Well, other than they are Atlanta Braves and that counts.

In my Braves autos are I believe are 555 Braves with 239 or so unique players. That doesn't count any dupes I may have. Which reminds me I just picked up another one Friday that I need to input in my excel sheets.

Two more autos there, but my fave card above is the Freeman Canvas.

Four more autos.

closing out this post with two more autos and yes, those are included in the total I mentioned earlier.

I'll "dump" (reference to post title) duh...PUN intended round 3 of the Braves after that the 4th and last post from the haul will be non Braves.

Have a great night and a fantastic week!

Shadow Shots

 Another week has flown by. My my how the summer fleets before our very eyes.

I was able to hit up that new LCS again yesterday making my 2nd trip (also within 1 week). Monday and Friday. Dropped a penny or two for sure. I am going to have to watch it going forward as they are open 10-6 seven days a week plus additional times for special events like TODAY.... they are opening up at 8am for Cards & Coffee (Shaun said there would be free donuts too). UH oh.....15 minutes away from free coffee and donuts...... oh man....UH oh is all I can say. 

Here is this weeks Shadows.... LMK what you see.

I see a HUGE bird in flight (I also see one of those fake mustaches).

I see a brontosaurus eating some leaves on the ground.

Hands down (head tilted to the left).....Clearly that is a cheerleader with her pom poms and doing a leg kick.

Have a great weekend, I may have to skip the coffee and donuts.....

Let's get started! On your marks.....Get set......GO!

 Okay, kicking of the start of the last ComC order I had got in. As I preluded too in previous posts this order took 6 weeks before they shipped it out. Just like the old days. They spoiled me the last 6 or so months. Loved getting my order within 10 days. I am hoping it not back to that "old" schedule. I order 3x as much while they were getting them out quickly. In fact I would have already ordered and requested shipment on another one had this one not taken so long. 

This order certainly had a lot of the orange parallels which aided quite a bit in the pursuit for #1.  There will be a total of 4 posts from this order. 

See y'all Saturday for the Shadow Shots!

It's WaCkY WeDnEsDay.

 This week (the last 7 days( flew by. Literally, it seems like I posted last Wednesday two days ago, lol. 

A PC update: I haven't updated y'all in a while on the project so here goes: I haven't done much in the last month. I am half way through the K's. With the 2 new book cases in place (1 was for my Braves stuff), I now know that I can fit them into the 3 cases reserved for PC guys. It might get tight, but I should be able to do it. The M's are HUGE, so are the R's and S's just not as big as the M's. 

For those unfamiliar with my PC guys. For the last decade plus, it would take 2 years non-stop to update the PC binders having over 1500 different players (albeit, half of them are not in binders and are specifically flagship Topps. Those are in boxes and I have never actually did anything with them)- ever. On day I hope too. I skipped a couple of updates which got me super way behind. I started this update October 2024. I have been doing some serious weeding out along the way. Meaning completely eliminating many guys that will never make the HOF (not even with the veteran's), and also boxing some that either have too much connection to or might make it to the HOF via the veteran's. I should probably do a more thorough cleansing if you know what I mean especially when it comes to current players who I think are great and have a chance.

Okay that is a pretty good update. Looks like I am going to finish in record time with it.

Now for this week if Wacky baseball cards.

The early 90's was loaded with "different" photos on cards, fronts and back. As we have made it into 1992 the next couple of months should bring us all back especially when we get to the 1993 Upper Deck cards.

Finish the week strong, have a good time, and remember to always always.........

punchout those you don't like...   I'm kidding give me a break. Be nice. Run like crazy from them instead.

Going off course: I had an amazing day yesterday.

 Tonight is just a teaser. Putting that out there to start. 

Many of you may have noticed that this entire year I have been (let's say) disappointed with the lack of deals at shops and shows. I even posted about branching out to shows and shops in other faraway cities looking to find the right spot. I spent one day all over the Orlando area and was completely bummed and gave up before hitting all of the shops on my list. Who knows maybe I'll attempt the ones I missed another day, but for the near future I got a place....A new place. I haven't been to Jax all year, and wasn't really thrilled closing out the 4th quarter last year either. Don't miss it. I started the year off cutting back the Tampa area shows (last year I was doing 3 a month). That wore me out, and the deals were on the small scale, even the couple from year. I like BIG deals, tons of cards, weeks of sorting if not months. What can I say? That's is how the first decade of this blog did things. 

My next Ormond post you are going to find that I'm not exactly thrilled with the trips I made this year, but if you look back at the posts on them, you may have figured that out. I may have very well made my last trip over there. I say may, because you never know and Daytona Beach is the hop and a skip away. Prices to me went from (example) $20.00 per monster box (dime boxes), to no less than a nickel a piece. Don't get me wrong happy to pay 5 cents for cards, I'm just saying. Think about it 3 hours driving plus $25.00 in gas.....Not really doing it for me. Anyways, I should probably get to the whole point of the title.

This summer is a first for me, as with my grandson just finishing his first year of big kid school, I am on call. (his father is pretty lame about his responsibilities to put it bluntly). Yesterday, nothing on the agenda so I did a deep dive on the internet looking for a new source of deals close by. Wala.....I found two shops not just close by, but right here in Ocala, (one of them I had seen on the way to Ormond each time, but I was always traveling before they opened at 1pm and coming back was either they were closed and/or I was hungry or tired and really just wanted to get home).

I planned my day to get 5 stops/errands done. Go to the bank, go to shop 1, then shop 2 (I was figuring only about 30 minutes in each shop), then the post office and fill up with gas before getting back home. Bank, done, onto shop 1, WOW. There website sucks right now they are working on it. I didn't make it 10 feet inside the door and I sat down for 4 hours.. Yeah. I'll give you much much more in a couple of weeks. Tonight is just a teaser. I noticed the time, and had to get out to make it to the post office before they closed. 

The rest of this is pictures. The teaser.

Yes....an original 1977 Star Wars lunch box. Thermos also inside.  Pretty cool. It is obviously, NOT mint or anywhere close to that, but I am completely stoked having this in my collection.  The lunch boxes were not at the front of the store where I originally stopped. Half way through my DIG, I needed a break and walked around the shop.....IT IS A HUGE store. And they are doubling the size too to properly display what they have to sell.  Now back to those first ten feet.

CHEAP BOXES. There was only one dime box, 95% basketball, but I found these gems in there.

(3 more below), but nearly the entire set missing just 4 cards which I probably already have.

There were another 10 monster boxes label 5 for a dollar (.20) or bulk deal 50 for $10.00. No, I didn't say anything about that not being a bulk deal....It's the same thing .20 a card. The register is right up front and the clerk there was friendly, I asked immediately about a real bulk deal. He said the manager was working with a customer in the back, but he'll go ask. He came back said yeah he'll work something out. The clerk was one of their Pokemon specialists, lol. The manager was the sports card guy. Like I said it is a big shop and apparently they have 5 or 6 guys rotate in and out as they are open 7 days a week from 10am til 6pm. There is SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY, but you will have to wait until I clear out the scan folders from the last ComC order (a week's worth), and then the post regarding this past Saturdays' trip over to Ormond ( a week's worth too). Until then. 

Later gators!

Clearing things up a bit

 My scan/post file is filling up with some smaller scans (fewer cards). To remedy that I am going to pop a few of them right into this post before starting one of the other larger/multiple posts.

The Braves Japan team set. I bought the entire 2024 Topps Japan edition for pretty cheap off of Ebay with April/May running together it was one of them. I also grabbed some set build needs from this seller who again was priced right (auction) but I won. 

I do remember trying to grab a couple more lots the next week, but didn't fair so well.

As you can tell the cards above came from Michael over at Dillard's Dugout. Apparently, I had guessed a giveaway correctly, and Michael threw in some more cards for me. He included a few others but the ones here were all needs. Thank you!

Love me some vintage OpeeChee. These cards came courtesy of an OCT trade buddy and they were even the highlight of the envelope!

No sir.  This was. Hank Aaron Forever stamp was. I noticed immediately from pulling it out of the mailbox. It was a Saturday. I opened the envelope to find the OPC cards and then I went straight to the post office and short story there.

I waited in line (there were only a few people ahead of me). Got up to the counter and the clerk (after I showed him the stamp on the envelope) said he thought they were discontinued. NO WAY! He asked his supervisor who was a 2 stations away (she usually helps me) and she said yes they had them, but they were in the vault. She asked me how many I wanted, I told her and the guy clerk kindly said you know that is going to cost x amount per sheet. I said yes, moved to her window she broke out the calculator and punched in the numbers, she asked If I was sure, I of course said no, double the sheets.  LOL! I bought twenty of the sheets. I am keeping two of them (1 for the Braves collection, one for the Hank Aaron PC, and I gave one to my brother). The rest are for mailing baseball cards, and I just mailed out 2 yesterday.

Have a great night, this cleaned up the smaller files. Now just a week worth of ComC posts plus another section from Ormond. I am going to have to get creative.....

Saturday Shadow Shots!

 Can you see what I see?

I see the back end of a dinosaur (with a very short tail).

I see a boot. 

I am going out on a limb here (pun intended). I see the beginnings of  a tee pee or 

lean-tu.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks!

Now for the "REST OF THE STORY"

 Okay okay I know that was a play on Paul Harvey, but I couldn't resist.

So tonight we'll wrap up the 2nd half of the 2020 cards from that huge Sport Lots' order back in May or was it April? Anyways. 

Here            we                    gooooooooooooooooooooo.

I'm not really a fan of those "artsy" cards Topps puts out. But I got to have my Braves.

There ya have it. Whether it was in April or May too long ago for me at this point, Between the hundreds of Braves from SLOTS plus the hundred or two from ComC which I still have to post those highlights all I know that that "other guy" remains 500ish Atlanta Braves cards ahead of me. Better than the 1100 he was staying at. I am adding several hundred new to me ATL Braves every month, I will catch him, especially since I am re-budgeting the bb card funds to accommodate such task. I haven't been to show since Webster, and I've only been to Ormond once since then. 

As of today the numbers for ATL have me behind 488.

I'm at 32, 204 and he is at 32, 692.

Now if we are talking "all Braves" I have him there.

I'm still #1 with the Milwaukee Braves and + 215 over that other guy

Boston I'm #3 (80 cards from #1) and + 222 over that other guy.

Throw in the Beaneaters, Bees, and Rustlers and I add + 88 more which overall puts me ahead by 50 cards, HUH!    lol.

Even the Night Owl beat that other guy out on two of those (Greg has 7 Beaneaters and 1 Rustler in TCDB). 

I did however buy those two new shelves and yes I did all of the re-arranging and all of that has been complete for over a week now. Looks good even my daughter said so which is always cool. I have bough several things off Ebay and gotten several care packages in the mail which all have to be posted and even 1 or 2 will inch me closer and closer to getting that #1 SPOT! Afterall, this is Johnny's Trading SpoT!

Have a great weekend folks! Try real hard not to slap anyone for that matter try not to think about wanting to slap someone, lol.