The Stars & Stripes week begins!

 To start things off I must announce the winner from last week's Maddux giveaway: RJ.

Now as reminder on how I am doing my 250th celebration of our Nation's Independence.

I will breakup the huge collection of Patriotic themed cards which are primarily baseball cards, but not all into four separate posts. Each post will have some sort of theme to it, but not strictly. One (tonight) will be "STARS" related mixed with some other stuff within like Liberty and America.

The second post (tomorrow) will be the first of two posts of MISC so as to break up the monotony.

The third post (Thursday) will be primarily about the Red, White, and Blue just not completely.

Then closing out on Friday with the other MISC post.

I have created a second binder to assist in the re-arranging of this Holidate. Noe let's kick things off with some odd ball type cards then move into the STARS section.

Of course I had to put some Patriotic Atlanta Braves post cards in here.

Above scans have in order the 2017 Topps Independence day cards and you can easily see which ones I am still missing. Then a splash of R/W/B Optic cards leading into the STARS.

I left a space for the non variation Bo.

I probably should have left a space for the non variation Trout and Pudge too, but then it wouldn't have made a nice scan.

I don't have many of the America parallels.

The Liberty cards definitely look better with the rainbow foil. By now I'm sure you are Donruss'd out.  That's a good thing cuz we're done with round 1.

God bless the USA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

 Happy birthday to us (USA)....happy birthday to us....Happy birthday to the USA.

Good morning everyone may your day be blessed and AWESOME!

This is the commemorative stamps the Postal Service put out for this 250th celebration of our Nations birth. I grabbed two one to use and one to keep.

I am 3/4 the way through re-organizing my July 4th binder (now have 2) and by nightfall I and it should be good to go for some scanning. Be safe! And God Bless the U.S.A! (update: I actually finished the binders by 10:30 am), now to enjoy the day and scan tonight.

DeLand card show: Deal one post 2.

 Just a quickie to kick off this fantastic amazing Holiday weekend. I mentioned a week or two ago about the 2026 Bowman's I grabbed the prospects "paper" and chrome that I could. Here is a short one.

I wound up with 57 of the 150 paper prospects at .18 a piece (well...actually a quarter a piece) 38% of the set.

The Chrome Prospects: netted the 27 you see above for 18% of the set.

Now tomorrow being a very SPECIAL day: I wish everyone a GREAT holiday be safe while celebrating our 250th! Those of you that have been reading/following for years already know that I have an extensive July 4th inventory and typically post leading up to the 4th. This year I will be attempting to get it all covered and will be scanning this weekend and will post all next week (except for Wacky Wednesday-the giveaway begins). Know in advance that next week (minus Wed) is all about the Red, White, and Blue! Four posts that should be EXTREMELY PACKED. 

Again be safe, have fun and God Bless the U.S.A!