Wacky Wednesday

 Two more days and the World Series starts. It has already been a long October. Either winner will be a first, so that is nice. 

Hopefully these will tide you over.

Compliments from 1997 Upper Deck.

MDA and a Bet ya didn't know!

 Last month fellow OCTer Tim Morales offered up on our message board a complete set of 1991 Muscular Dystrophy baseball cards with the mini binder included. I waited for a half a day and no one jumped at the odd ball set, so I replied if no one else wants them I'll take them.

That is the binder above. You know the little mini booklets with standard size 4 pocket pages inside. This set is a 20 card set with two of the card unnumbered. The booklet had several more unfilled pages and I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe the booklets were pre-made and all that was needed was the front and back. Who knows.

4 PC guys.

Two more PC guys.

4 more PC guys one of which is also a b-day guy. Speaking of which, I finished the TCDB update on the b-day binders.

Four more for PC guys bringing the total to 14/20 (14/19). Yeah, I'm glad no one else was interested. I kept the set together as whole and placed it on top on my bookcases with the other odd ball stuff.

There was a 2nd MDA set produced the following year 1992. I checked one out on Ebay but didn't bite. It was like 7.00 plus 7 for shipping. I figure I'll catch one at a show for $5.00 one day. 

Now for the Bet ya didn't know. When I was a kid here in Ocala, my mom made me join a "singing group" The Little People (she made my sister Kathy too but she didn't really participate). This is NOT the "famous" group that came much much later. Believe it or not the group did quite a bit back in the day. In my tenure we sang at the White House, performed with Tanya Tucker, and to tie this to MDA, we even did a Jerry Lewis MDA telethon. I remember that well. My mom gathered lots and lots of autographs from famous singers of the day (I believe I still have them). Jerry himself was present which no where on the internet does it say he was ever in Florida in person, but I tell you he was. I think we were in Jacksonville, not positive on that as it could have been down south a bit. Anyways some "star" got really pissed off at Jerry because he had "our group" do an encore that bumped the star. Obviously that was not shown on t.v. but was live and up front to me and told them (the female star) tough.

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Hey, last week got a few more commenters and thus spreading the odds. However, LOL RJ wins again.  I think he secretly owns random.org....Just kidding Congrats RJ. 

This weeks freebies:

Hope your week has begun on the right path :)

Oh Boy! Hot Digity Dog!

 There are a ton of post titles I could use with this one. Like "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Deal of the Day, Just my Luck, FAVORS, Doing Math .... again, So many more bounced through my head and all of those were before I actually got the cards in hand. You see I won an Ebay auction for a box (not actually counted) of 400 Braves parallels. Technically I didn't win an auction, as the seller sent me an offer on the lot after it went unsold and they relisted it. Same price as the first time, but then his offer was half. I got the box for $18.00 plus $10.00 shipping. and $2.07 in tax. $30.07 to be exact.

I wasn't sure how I would make out. The description said a lot of Tiffany and Glossy and Limited. No dupes. There was 365 cards. I actually needed for my Braves teams sets at first 183 of them (half), but turned out 20 of those were dupes.

These factory diamond anniversary cards are the 20 that turned out to be dupes.

I've broken down what I got in needs.

The Tiffany:

84 Topps: I got 23 needed 7 and still need 7 base and 2 traded.

86 Topps: I got 24 needed 2 and still 4 base and all traded.

87 Topps: I got 28 needed just one and completed the set.

88 Topps: I got 23 need none and still need 3 base 1 traded.

89 Topps: I got 22 needed 11 and still need 7 base and all traded.

90 Topps: I got 35 needed 25 and still 3 base and 1 traded.

91 Topps: I got 24 needed 16 and still need 6 base and 4 traded.

89 Bowman: I got 13 needed 5 still need 4.

90 Bowman: I got 17 needed 14 and still need 3.

The other stuff:

93 Topps Marlins: I got 25 needed 16 and still 8 (also need 5 more Rockies).

00 Topps Limited: I got 11 didn't need any it was already complete.

11 Topps Factory Limited: I got 20 all dupes and still need 7.

15 Topps Limited: I got 21 needed 17 and still need 3.

16 Topps Silver 65th: I got 20 all dupes still need Freeman and the team card.

17 Topps ASG: I got 17 needed 16 (got dupe team card), still need 1 Dansby.

18 Topps ASG: I got 16 all dupes (but 2 for the PC) and still Acuna RC.

11 A&G Glossy: I got 9 needed 3 and still need 1 (Freeman RC). (dupes go to a franken-set).

87 Fleer Glossy: I got 2 needed non as it was already complete.

88 Score Glossy: I got 21 needed 10 still need 5 base and 1 traded.

This turned out to be a really great deal for me. I was able to add 163 Atlanta Braves to TCDB (still 1200+) behind that other guy......GO FIGURE!

You can calculate this 3 ways and still a great deal. from .10-16 cents a piece. 

Happy Birthday Charlie: RIP

 Rest in Peace my brother. One day we'll walk side by side. You make the biscuits I'll bring the Caro Syrup....we'll sop biscuits...mmmh mmmmh good.

Thank you Charlie for everything you did and for the AMAZING LEGACY you left behind. Every nation on Earth is carrying your torch, and will do so until the end of times. 

Let's do this! Using 'NEW MATH" When does 1 equal 3 and then 541?

 Let's do this! My last order from Sport Lots rather I should say my shipment from them had 3 orders. Most of the order of 541 cards were for my birthday binders (that rabbit hole I went down). There were some Braves of course and Elvis as well as a whole bunch of Star Wars (151 of them).

This go around I have scanned the cards by the seller. This way you can seek them out if you like. I will highlights pros & cons of each.

cot315ct: Because I use box shipping most of the sellers I buy from have zero cost to ship to box. Some have a very tiny ship to box rate. I "think" this guy was one of the super cheap ones. I don't order from him a lot so I don't remember for certain.

Both of the scans above came from inserts2 who I order from every time. He uses the zero to box rate. One con that I have is he goes on vacation often. Because my orders sit for a long time before I ship to my box not a big deal for me. Always packs the cards nicely.

lugnut80: another zero to box and pretty solid all around. (does auctions too).

ordner5x: another one I use a lot with zero to box.

uncorked: another regular with zero to box. also does auctions.

These were all singles from different sellers with zero to box or maybe .25-.30.

Here I forgot who these came from but my note says what they are and were new to my Elvis binder.

Last up is one of our former bloggers: AdamPark

I got 151 cards for 3 different Star Wars Chrome Galaxy sets. I scanned just one card from each of the sets. What I did do is jot down the before and after stats.

2021: Before I had 6/100. Now I have 73/100.

2022: Before I had 15/100. Now I have 88/100. I need the following 12 cards to finish it.

6, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 45, 65, 94, 97, 98, 100.

2023: Before I had 50/100. Now I have 62/100.

That covers the entire shipment as I did not scan any of the birthday binder additions. I have entered most of them and updated my TCDB stats for them. I still need to do 7/26 cards. I have stalled on those as I need to go get some smaller binders.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Alright, another week is upon us. Happy to be have woke up on this side of the dirt. 

I have a very busy week ahead (the rest of the month in fact). Which means probably a busy November too. I have 4 medical appointments in the next 7 days, then 2 the week after. THEN, the follow ups for those appt's still to come (the first 3 anyway). Then there is still at least one more that hasn't been scheduled yet to begin with, a little pissed about that.

Let's talk baseball. The Cleveland team is in, and Milwaukee beat the Dodgers. Last but not least RJ won again.....LOL. I think he has someone on the take at Random.org, hehe.

This week freebies:

 

Go get em folks!

Friday night

 Just a quick one tonight. One of members of Old Card Traders (OCT) posted a trade on our group. I closed the deal. 

Will you look at them them thar Indians, oops Guardians. 

Sure would have been nice to make this post after a game 5 win in LA, lol. But for even more giggles, at least the HR counter on the box, had it right for the Braves Dodgers series.

Have a good weekend.

One and done

 That would be win one LDS game and the Braves are done. OUCH! Maybe next year :)

I'd love to say (blame it) on the fact the Braves weren't hitting especially when it counted. The Braves left 23 men on base, but that wasn't because the LA left 29 on base.

I can't even go to production left on base with RISP. They went 1 for 23 over the 4 games, but LA was 0 for 15 until Pages last night. (Yeah, I know it was long ball or nothing for most of the post season so far this year) something the Braves should have been all over. But not for the LA series, nope (see my sense of humor- switched to Dodger blue). Simply put the only thing I can say it that the Braves bats just didn't show up for the LDS. 

Now to finish up that trip to The Villages card show. You know the "odd ball" day. Here are some more. Magazines a slew of them for $15.00.

The most recent induction edition including a Brave.

I've noticed that inside the HOF mags are "removable inserts/posters" You actually would have to cut them out, but they provide the dotted lines. I've considered taken these out of the books and putting them into one pocket pages and in a binder, but I haven't.

That's what the back look like.

Another money grab with Andruw's Induction.

This one's poster is Mel Ott, hence the stick note.

Buck Leonard with this one.

Some of these have three players inside.

This had Chipper Jones for the poster. Hank on the cover is a BIG bonus.

That clears out the stuff from this show. I've gotten a couple things in, be it from Ebay, Other traders, and my 542 card Sport Lots order.

Have a better night than I am, and Padres, and Yankees fans :(

Now it's time for the ChiSox to close out there run, and get to the League Championships, so that we can get to the World Series so that we can get to next season already :)