What a deal!

 Here is another Ebay win that not only was is a great deal but the seller went way over the top. 

1) I bid on a 85 card lot (all different) of 2026 Finest, an expensive set and won with the total with shipping less than $20.00 delivered! That in and of itself is sweet, of course all of the cards are from the first tier 1-100, but still. Very nice indeed.

2) With 85 of the 100 (tier 1) the big names were in there. 

As you can tell here that the Tatis was a refractor and not base. That is okay he is a PC guy. In fact there were a total of 4 refractors in the 85 card lot.  Leaving me with 81/100 of tier 1. That's okay too, and did I mention that the seller included a nice stack of "extras" including but not limited to a handful of 26' Finest dupes.

A key rookie in the middle.

More key rookies.

Those were well worth the twenty bucks, but like I mentioned earlier that wasn't all.

4 more refractors of PC guys to go with that Tatis one of which.

That is a nice stack of PC guys from the "extras" the seller sent plus there were also a handful of rookie extras. But the seller also included partial sets/lots of three other recent sets. He plugged all of them into a 300 count box and 4 days after winning the auction (4 days) they were in my hands.

The other partial sets (which I just pulled the rookies and PC guys out) were from 2025 Topps Update, 2025 Holiday, and the last group was a keeper for my set builds 2025 Topps Pro Debut.

Yes indeed, a well spent Twenty bucks.

I am going to attempt to hit that show in Apopka that Jeremy mentioned tonight, and if it's good I can skip the Jax show tomorrow. The Apopka show is usually a small show and the last few times I went didn't really find anything to my liking, we'll see.

Have a great weekend!

Tennis anyone?

 I mentioned yesterday that I have been hitting up Ebay these last many weeks. The slow and expensive releases by Fanatics and Panini as well is just too much. The usual go to websites for singles and sets are also through the roof, so Ebay it is. I've tried to avoid it this week as I am actually planning on going to the Jacksonville card show which it has been two years since I been. This would also be the first time at the stupid location they have been in. No parking at the hotel. You must park a half mile away and be taken to the hotel by van. Obviously this was the number 1 reason why I haven't been to the show followed closely by it being an addition 30 minutes further away. We'll see.

2025 Topps Chrome Tennis.

As per my usual routine I separated the vertical from the horizontal. I wasn't impressed with the Tennis set this year. So I did not scan the horizontal other than 1 scan just to show you what they look like.

The majority were horizontal as this is a 300 card set. You might tell yourself that I am a fan of tennis, but you would be wrong. I'm not and haven't watched a match since the 70's. I do like some of the pretty ladies though. 

So now you ask "why are you collecting the tennis sets?" I would respond that believe it or not there isn't that many sets and usually can be had for a reasonable price. There are just 3 Topps Chrome sets. 2021, 2024, 2025. And very few others and those are typically very very small sets.

The 2021 set came to me via a 3K count monster box full for $20.00. It was only a 100 card set which I sent 1-99 (didn't have an extra Coco) to Greg who I knew liked tennis. Then the 2024 set had 200 cards in the base (I also have a near set of the Sapphire too). I see the trend the 2025 300 card base. We'll see here too. It doesn't take much to get ranked on TCDB with tennis.

Wacky Packages Wednesday: The last giveaway

 The End is here. It's all over now. This is it. The last one. Speaking of last one RJ won the last ones, lol. Mailing all those recent winnings to you soon.

Its a been 2 months since I made that last trip over to my LCS when I picked up that odd ball stuff that led to the "extra" Wacky Packages stickers. This is week 7 and that means I haven't gone looking for baseball cards in 2 months....Uh OH. I better try to hit a card show this weekend so that I have post material. I'm okay for at least a week as it is. I've bought quite a few sets/lots off Ebay recently that will be posted soon (like starting tomorrow). I also need to get some of the original "Wacky Wednesday" cards scanned up. 

Now here are stickers.

Pretty sure these are all still around these days.

Time for some learning

 If you're not wanting to learn anything that's okay too because you can just look at the pictures.

Catch you on the backside.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Jafronius gets the prize from last week. Let us see who wins tonight.

There ya go. Have a great week!

Better late than never

 Last weekend was this blog's anniversary. I missed it, oops! I've been doing this thing since 2013 so it happens. Not much to mention as far as milestones. This is my 3,470th post which means I'll hit 3,500 here very soon, and later this year I will hit 3M views. 

I hope that I have provided a few moments of respite from your daily lives. I also hope that I can continue to do so.

Have a great weekend.

Got a surprise of 62' Topps

 Oct buddy BOB D dropped some 62's on me for my set build which is the vintage set I probably need the most cards for.

I especially like those vintage unmarked checklists!

Wacky Packages Wednesday

 Last week the winner was Damien again. I believe Damien is Dominic's brother, though I'm not 100%. Either way both of his winnings are on the way.

Week 6 freebies:

I know at least 8 of the products above are "still in service" today. Not sure about Gleem toothpaste though. I haven't seen it on the shelves in a while.

Off to trivia tonight!

The FIRST base hit in the National League AND it's A New to me Braves card: or should I say Boston Red Stocking card.

 Yes you read that right. A new to me Red Stockings which is a Braves card.

I picked up this card in a lot that I got on Ebay. Don't pay attention to the copyright date. This set is the 2023 Historic Autograph Gilded Age set. A 330 card set of wgich this lot contained 228 different. I got one other Braves card too and you'll see him that HOFer as we get to him numerically. I used the O'Rourke out of order to kick this post off.

Like I did with the Olympic set I posted last week, I sorted these cards vertically and horizontally for aesthetics. This go round we'll start off with verticals, but I am only doing a few scans at a time.

You see these cards make great TRIVIA knowledge. So consider these posts which I have decided to run on Tuesday's for a bit....just to TEST your wits. I will say this once the verticals are finished the horizontal backs read much clearer.

The important stuff is on the card backs, so let's see if your memory serves you well or at the very least you increase your knowledge.

This set has just about everything (covering the "Gilded Age"). A lot of the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am wishing now that I had scanned them 6 at a time side by side, bit it was already a bunch of scanning especially front sand backs.

Yeah, I love history, Humanities courses were my FAVE! The other classes were too easy and bored me, lol.

If you're having trouble reading the fine print just click on the image to enlarge...I hope that works. It doesn't so I went back and enlarged them myself.

Just another Maddux Monday

 I hope that everyone's week has started off well. The winner of last week's Greg Maddux cards is San Jose Fuji: Mark I'll get these sent out to you soon.

Now for this weeks freebies:

Oh look ....a Dodger card. LOL.

2026 Topps Chrome U.S. Winter Olympic set and AMERICAN PRIDE!

 This is going to be showing up a day late, but that's okay. 

I sorted the cards horizontal and vertical so that it would just look better.

When I initially sorted the cards I had 3 horizontal cards"extra" meaning not a full scan worth, so I pulled three out. I had 5 vertical extra and pulled 5 of those so as to have full scans. Low and behold when scanning I had missed to horizontal cards so I pulled those two then. Basically there are 10 cards not shown tonight/today. 

God bless the USA!