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.

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!