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 :)

Wacky Wednesday

 Last night's loss to the Dodgers hurt a bit. Now it's a do or die night. Let's Go Braves!

Need a win!

Cooperstown: Hall of Fame Plaque postcards.

 I'm drifting back to the card show In The Villages last month. Let me start off with some numbers:

There are 354 members and I have "a" postcard of 265 of them. 75%.

Now, here is the tricky part. They (the internet) say there is 853 different versions of those 354 people. THEY ARE WRONG. I have probably a hundred variations that aren't listed so HA!

Yes, there are variations and just like baseball cards some are intentional, but make absolute sense. ie: Spanish. The others are mainly print variations usually pertaining to "what is printed inside the postage stamp box", but there are countless others. Of course the stated print date is one, but TCDB doesn't count those even though there is also typically a design logo that is different on them in the bottom left corner too.

I count them as being different because they are and in an obvious manner at that.

I have in my HOF plaque "box" 337 different (I've been too cheap to buy a 100 count box of the 4 pockets to store them properly in a binder). I should probably do that...wait a minute just a thought.....I can tell people who ask what I want for a Christmas that I want that (hopefully two people will get them, because I could use them all).

I forgot to jot down in my notes for this post how many out of that oddball box that cost me $15.00 were needs. Oh well, maybe I didn't do that because maybe I only scanned actual needs. Not sure at this point it has been a month.

I am leaning that way.

Ahhh. There is a stick note, stating that all of the cards in the box only 6 dupes went to the PC collection. BTW, pretty sure there are some in my PC's that probably should be in the HOF plaque (box-future binder). That makes it a real good deal for sure. 

Here are three of the back variations that I got in this box. Clearly they are different. Well, not exactly as they are not they same person, but you get the idea.

The differences can be in the stamp box, bottom left corner, not to mention the print date. That is not to say every year I want to buy a complete set to get different print date....heads up they actually don't print all of the cards each year.....just the new ones, and any "stock" that is low.

I don't have any yet from the last 3 inductions. Typically you'd pay .99 for each one directly but then you have shipping. I still need 89 people, but I don't mind waiting to catch them for a quarter or fifty cents at a show somewhere. 

It looks like I got 28 new to me plaque cards and pretty sure I only scanned the needed ones. 

Now it is time for what is probably going to be the most watched MLB division series game this season. GO BRAVES!