FUN STUFF for a Friday.....Babe ruth 100 years ago in LIVING COLOR

 A bit of the past in living color.

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Babe Ruth 1920's in color and LIVE

I hope you enjoyed this short clip and the tidbits after if you watched them too.

Have a great weekend.

Good news or bad news?

 HONESTY is always the best policy. For a week or two I had been getting unsolicited e-mails from an auction house out in Dallas, TX. I didn't open any of them, but did notice the headline notes one of which mentioned a check. Straight up I figured phishing scam and sent right to spam and trashed it. 

Now I did recognize the auction house as I had registered to bid on some stuff, but never  did. That was maybe 6 months ago. Monday's mail brought me an envelope from the auction house, and inside was a check for $498.90. The memo section on the check just said June. I knew that I hadn't sent them any cards to consign, so either they sent me another John Miller's check by mistake or something nefarious. I decided to call to get to the bottom of it. Yes, this was a legit check. My call went to voicemail so I left one. Not hearing back after a few hours and just before their closing time I called again. The owner answered. It was his and his wife's anniversary and they were out doing something. I explained the deal, and he was blown away for my honesty and integrity. We wound up talking for an hour. 

Long story short, he might come to Florida to look at and buy my entire collection. Seriously, he was floored by what I said I would accept based on what I valued it at. He said his integrity wouldn't allow that and he'd have to pay more. I explained to him that big bulk buys like that in Florida, nah doesn't happen. I sent pics of the 3 Ohtani cards, he's a little excited. I promised to take some pics of the better vintage cards (he gave me his personal cell number) this week which I have done a bunch already, and will still do some more of the overall situation. 

So yes....this could be good news or bad news depending on your perspective. Of course I will keep you posted as things progress.

I'm going to get you.

 Before anyone has a coronary, yes it is still Wacky Wednesday. I'm playing around with the post title of this themed day post as real soon like next week I'll be switching up the content for it (but only for 6 weeks). After which I will return to the interesting/wacky cards like you see tonight. All kinds of post titles have been running through my brain.....all in an effort to mess with you. Y'all know how I like doing that from time to time. 

Now that I've got your attention let me give you a heads up about what will fill the page for those 6 weeks. Last week I only made one purchase an in person purchase of a bunch of oddball items which those will be posted on other days over a period of time several posts anyway. However, that is not what you can expect. No, this will be something totally Wacky instead. You see as part of that oddball purchase I grabbed up a good size stack of original vintage Wacky Packages stickers. There were 63 stickers of them. I do have most of those original sets complete, however I need one or two here and there, plus the * and ** variations of which I still have most of those too, just not all of them. 

I was taking a chance there would be any that I needed and they were pricey $80.00 for the 63 stickers. Turned out that I potentially made use of 24 of them which I will post those first in the 6 week run. Then the remaining 5 weeks will be the actual duplicates that I don't need. I will be giving them away each Wednesday in the same fashion that I do the Maddux giveaway. So stay tuned in if you like original vintage Wacky Packages and freebie!

Now to our regular scheduled program:

Have a great week and see you next Wednesday for the Wacky Package stickers!

2026 Donruss and 2026 Bowman

 A few weeks back I won an auction for a lot containing 2026 Donruss from Ebay. It was the first half of the set minus 7 or 8 cards (I have a few in my sport lots box, but the rest are noted in my Donruss Set builds). I scanned the first nine cards as by now most have already seen them.

Not Panini's worst design and at least they filled the back with "stuff". I also picked up a large chunk of the second half of this set (Rated) last week over in Deland.

As for the 2026 Bowman, I picked up quite a bit at the Deland card show which I will start highlighting (mainly the Prospects, and the Chrome Prospects) and the other pick ups later this week. I made 2 purchases at the show with a total of about 800 cards plus the cards Jeremy brought me.

Just another Maddux Monday

 I hope everyone had a great weekend. Getting right to the post.

Here are this week's contenders.

Some nice cards in the lot. Last week's winner was Jafronius.

Happy Father's Day!

 With Father's day this weekend, I wanted to give a shout out to all those papa bears.

Here are some commemorative cards from the holidate binder.

I wish everyone a fantastic weekend!

Shall we dance?

 Let's not and instead I bring you the remaining Braves cards from the Sport Lots box order. 

these heritage tells you just how long I had these cards sitting in my box.

Now these Heritage (when first released) is probably when I started the box build up.

I have some more Braves that I bought at the show in Deland plus the Braves Jeremy brought me that I have yet to enter into TCDB, but I will be doing so soon. But alas....I'm sure I'll still be around 1,100 cards short of that **&*&!! other guy, lol.

Catch ya tomorrow folks!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day and trivia night. Let's hope my brother and I do better this week. Last time we stunk!. :)

Have a great one!

Sport Lots box

 I got my long awaited Sport Lots box (2 orders in one) that had been sitting there for most of the year. Nearly 300 cards (276). No, I am sadden as they were not all Braves. Maybe half, and most of those had since been acquired. New to me Braves total 74. 

This is about as close to the half way mark as I can get. I'll do the last half on Thursday. I'm still a smidge over 1,100 cards behind that "other guy"....again.

What really pisses me off is last weeks update after I put in nearly two hundred Atlanta Braves cards (includes the 74 cards from this order), still doesn't show them as unique Braves in my collection. My numbers remain the same as they were a month before (as of yesterday). His numbers changed every single day..... I haven't checked today as I am writing this post in the morning, but I will. I did get some Braves at the Deland Show, that I haven't put in yet (kind of waiting to see when the last cards finally show up.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Here we go again. Derek has taken back to back weeks in the Maddux giveaway!

Now for this week's contenders:

Love that look on Greg's face on the Ultra above.

Greg's grin on that Pinnacle up top looks like he just pulled a prank or some kind.

Here is to kicking off your week! Here in my world my grandson Elijah and I go to the movies once a week (the kids shows are only a buck)! We went today to kick start our week. Tomorrow I think after my brother visits we'll go get us a slurpee :) 

U.S. Flag day is coming.

 This weekend holds a holiday: Flag Day. Here are some athletes that share June 14th as their birthday.

Throwing two more names out there for you:

Jeremy who I should see tomorrow at the Deland card show, and of course President Trump!

My flag is always flying! God bless America!

That other stuff

 I did say that I would be posting the "other stuff" from the last trip to Grand Slam tonight, so here they are. But first a moment of silence for the Braves dropping their third series of the season to the Chisox.

A few for set builds and a few for PC guys.

Some colorful hopefuls.

Some for the ladies binder.

Most certainly a set build grab. I was very happy to have swiped these up as those boxes are so expensive. 

 

Happy to swipe these too. Now, I know for certain (3x over) that I didn't need the Acuna SP, but figuring It was a dollar before I squeezed my discount in....couldn't leave it. The Ohtani SP super sweet for a buck (before discount). The Maddux and Aaron have a short story behind them.

I pulled them out of the wooden box. The Hank was priced at $10.00, and the Maddux at $7.00. I plopped them down with all of the others stuff that day and told Dylan we had to serious talk about these two. 

He said, why? I said no way are they booking for any where close to that especially with the stains on the Twinkies.

He looked them up and we settled on $5.00 for the Hank and $3.00 on the Maddux. The Maddux probably should have been a buck, but I had never seen it before and knew I needed it.

I got my Sport Lots box in and tallied them up, now I just need to scan them and enter them in tcdb.

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 Mid week has arrived (as so has the rain). It is that time of the year where it rains everyday, maybe 5 minutes....maybe 5 hours. Typically in the late afternoon.

Here are this week's interesting cards:

Later folks!

Kicking off the summer by grilling some steaks! NOT!

 I didn't grill anything last year. I will be grilling tonight on a charcoal only grill I bought last summer. This will be the first time on it, hope things go well! 

UPDATE: Got cloudy, so changed plans to cook the steaks inside, bummer. Oh well, another day!

I visited my LCS 3 weeks in a row last month. I have a couple of posts from the most recent. One of Braves, and then the other stuff. Each visit cost more than the previous with the first one of those 3 trips at $4.00. The middle one was 15x the first, and this one was 2x the previous one.

These Hank Aaron reprints are the "LIMITED EDITION"  parallel.  I have most if not all of the base version and I had 1 of the LE, but got lucky here and didn't double up. Now I have most of the LE too!

I did double up on Tate though. Apparently he is tearing up the basepaths down in the minors. I believe Drake Bowmans best is a refractor....I forget now. Shiny Hank Aaron cards you bet.

heck, even if Hank is shiny his cards that I don't have will be welcomed with the same appreciation! A new to me Brave auto. I do the other stuff Thursday.

Have a wonderful evening. My post from yesterday just popped up on my roll at 3pm today. Let's see how long it takes this one. UPDATE: POSTED INSTANTLY, LOL.

Just another Maddux Monday. FREEBIES

 The winner last week takes us north of the border: Derek your cards are on the way!

The freebies for tonight/today (depending on when google updates, lol). For those who may not be aware, the cards below all go to one randomized commenter who just so happens to be a follower of this blog. Comments must be posted no later than midnight this coming Friday.

Enjoy the week!

How about a quickie?

 It is Friday, home alone thus far as the youngins went to Aquatica in Orlando and won't be back til late. I finished up my Sammy Sosa PC update today and realized an oddity.

He has a total of 30,356 cards listed in TCDB through 2026. The total for 2025 alone is 16,754 then 2026 has 969 so far. That just goes to show just how ridiculous the card makers have gotten.

Now for the quickie. I bought a complete "paper" set of the 2026 Bowman base for under $20.00 delivered.

I only scanned the first 9 cards. It isn't Bowman's worst for sure, but being that I am not the first to show off any new Bowmans' these will do. The design is okay and is one of their better ones of the last decade (last year wasn't too bad either).

Tomorrow is D-Day.

Have a great weekend!

Sport Lots auction winnings

 Not sure how many of you folks have went the Slots auction route before. I check it from time to time, and it's different but sometimes I win one. This time there was a "lot" right up my alley. 

There was a lot of 93 Atlanta Braves Topps rainbow foil cards with no dupes. I had a competitor but I won out in the end. $4.50 (plus $6.00 for shipping). Now rainbow foils are one of the easier parallels to obtain and that means that I have a lot, but not all so it would be a chance. 

The years were 205-2025. I scanned only the needed for the Braves team.

I needed 48 of 93! That was really awesome. Several more went to the PC boxes (for the next sort). Only 21 cards were of no use to me. I call that great!

I was certainly surprised by the big names being in there too.

The auction win was definitely a good thing for me. On a side note, I've finally requested my "BOX" containing 276 cards mainly Braves to be shipped and they are now on the way! And even if I need 200 of them that still keeps me behind that other guy by 1000 cards, yeah he is back to where he was staying for years around 1100 cards ahead of me no matter how many I add he always comes back to that number which is why I think he fakes it. But oh well, I will get there one day it just takes a really really long time when I am keeping it on the cheap side (usually .25 or less cards). The box order coming does has some .50 cards though.

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump and pump day! For those inquiring minds:

Hump day: mid week Wednesday

Pump day: had the septic tank pumped today, lol.

Now for baseball cards that in one way or another are interesting.

Score is holding down the lot tonight.

Enjoy!

AI sucks!

 I think Greg hit the nail on the head last week about blogger....it is just getting worse and worse. In case you are wondering (not that any of you are, lol) I would be just fine going 100% completely off grid. Of course that means I need to buy an excellent conditioned and low mileage truck from say 1985 or earlier. You remember those kinds of vehicles, the kind you could not just work on yourself, but fix anything too without any special tools. Some people might think, no way we are too spoiled, but those in my real life know that I would even be okay if we were living in the horse and buggy days. Just need a good horse. 

I got this 90's St. Vincent Grenadine from Bob D over at OCT.

Inside left side. That first day issue is technically pertaining to the $2.00 Hank Aaron stamp.

here we have some fuzzy math. The Gold foil stamp is a $10.00 stamp. The game is a weird one, because looking it up AI came up with a couple of answers one correct and one incorrect. One said Braves won the game, and the other said the Braves lost.

As for the some weird math this is hand written #5 of three. 

Needless to say Hank Aaron was certainly a "work horse". How else does it get the nickname "The Hammer" "Hammerin' Hank"? 

Bob D. is also a work horse within the OCT world. He has won more quarterly trading periods (point wise) than anyone and by far. I am the closest to him and I will never be able to catch him, and the guy behind me shouldn't be able to catch me either. That's not to say I don't have some records that aren't ever going to be touched on OCT, I do....many in fact. I haven't popped a new milestone over there in a few years, so I may need to do something before the end of the year. 

Here is to the rest of the week being awesome!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Well, my Braves dropped one to the Reds yesterday, hoping tonight they take the series. The good news is that they were the last team in the majors to hit 20 loses. Acuna seems to be back doing his thing. Hopefully, he will remain healthy for the rest of the season.

Now on to the giveaway Greg Maddux cards for tonight.

I am hoping that the cards I mailed out last week have made it to their destinations by now. I'll have Hunter and Elijah here for the summer, here is to a great summer!

Have a great night.