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.

Incoming: round two

 Round two of incoming cards tonight.

As I mentioned in a recent post, after landing the 1/1 Carter Holton I went looking for others especially auto's. I found this numbered 2/10 Carter Holton which just so happens to be a new to me autograph for the Braves. It is also not the only one here tonight. $4.29 with tax and free delivery!

The rest of the cards below all came from fellow OCTer's.

The above cards came from Randy Griffin which includes another new to me Braves auto.....Steve Sisco.

The SI for kids cards came from Tim Morales. The first scan are keepers, but the 2nd are up for grabs. There is one more from an OCTer, but that one should have it's own post.

Have a great weekend!

Incoming: round one. Plus an Out going.

 Well my Braves got whooped last night night, shutout. OUCH. Me no likey that. Something else that I don't like (pertaining to my current PC update) is when I come across a player who spent some time, but not exclusive with the Braves. Such is the case with Gary Sheffield. I should have before kick starting this PC update a year and a half ago, weened the mostly Braves cards from the binders that were put in there during the last update because they should have in the Braves binders. Not all of them as I had to do some weening at the beginning of this year too, but I didn't get everybody who had Braves cards. I have to check to see if they were actually dupes, or if they need to be in my Braves binder a very time consuming process for me. Also back in January I realized that I hadn't pull the Braves cards from the sorted cards for this years update, another huge time suck, and when adding to cards that I decided to build the set this year, ugh. 

I am almost done with Shef, but the other half of the S's all the way through Z is making me wonder if I'll actually finish this year, lol. That would suck because I have lolly gagged around several months this year alone. Oh well, let's see what baseball cards I have for you tonight.

Let's show off round 1 of some incoming cards. The pair of Red parallels above come from OCTer Andy Blackwood, both were needs. Funny is the Harris in the base set is an SP (still needed), but the parallels aren't. Go figure Topps.

I grabbed this less than a Lincoln (remember that theme I used to do)? off of Ebay. Normally I wouldn't pay $5.00 (plus 1.50 shipping) for a prospect. But come on it is a Brave one of one. I had too. After winning this Holton card I did a little prospecting on Ebay, and the next round of incoming might have another of his. Might have. :)

 

This year's BCB custom BUBBLEs from Gavin. Gav said he got lazy with the backs, but I love it. It even reminds me of a non-related southern joke.....Georgia specific.

Do want to hear/read it? Too late here is goes:

A fried bologna sandwich (love em) is also known as "Georgia round steak". And the proper way to say bologna is blony or bloney. :)

Closing out this round with the cards that came in first of all of these were from our highly caffeinated Matt G. These were Braves needs too.

Thanks guys. As for the out going about a dozen zip codes have cards coming.

As for the Braves and BoSox they are knotted up going into the 6th for the series decider game.

Wacky Wednesday

 Man the Braves lost another former player yesterday with the passing of Bob Horner. That's three in less than 2 weeks. OUCH! RIP Mr. Horner. At least the Braves one game 1 against the BoSox. Money Mike (Harris) had a great game going 4 for 4.

Now for the interesting cards this week.

I hope the rest of your week is awesome!

Grand Slam again!

 Let's get this out of the way....My Braves lost their 2nd series of the year to the Nat's over the holiday weekend. Alrighty then. I'm over it moving on to more from that previously mentioned and posted trip to my LCS which should wrap up that visit. 

(I went again this weekend).

Another $20.00 grab was an opened box of these 2025's. Typically the hobby boxes sell between $139-150.00, so getting a slew of them was nice for a set build and some obvious prospecting. These are just the numbered parallels above.

More parallels, and yes that was an extra/dupe of the Brave.

Some of the inserts.

More inserts.

Finally.....more inserts. Overall I wound up with 3 Braves for my team sets, and 68 of the 200 card base set plus the inserts and parallels above. That to me was worth the twenty bucks, but that wasn't it all.....

Just the highlights as I grabbed another opened box of the 2026 USA Stars & Stripes that had about as many cards in it as the other box. Wound up with 73/200 base cards plus the other stuff. Again, definitely got my twenty bucks worth in this post. 

Hoping my Braves get back on a winning streak and finish the first half of the season strong. 

Happy Memorial Day

 The winner last week on the Maddux cards was San Jose Fuji. Mark call it a double dip, as Mr. Sharp told me to give his winnings from the week before to someone else. I'll put both "stacks" in your stack. I should be doing a broad mailing real soon. As for this week....No Maddux Monday.

In honor of Memorial Day we will highlight a few Memorial Day cards.

Lots of people all over the U.S. place mini US Flags on the gravesites of fallen service men and women, and though this tradition started at Arlington and was meant for those KIA it is still widely accepted on the local scale and is appreciated. God bless the U.S.A!

Grand Slam Braves

 I've been very pleased with the Braves thus far this season. I was more pleased this week by adding a $20.00 splurge of Braves from my LCS.

I had never seen those Waldo Candies cards before last week. Apparently there are 4 cards in the set. They had them all, but I only wanted the one Braves card. These 4 cards above came from the wooden box.

The first 4 cards here came from those cheap boxes I mentioned this week, and will post up the rest of that batch probably Tuesday. The Rainbow Braves card also came from that "Topps" box I highlighted yesterday. Spencer here came from the wood box and had an $8.00 tag on it. But the big one in the batch is below.

A ONE OF ONE Cam Caminiti auto. This one had a #13.00 tag on it. I offered Steve (the shop owner) $20.00 for the 6 wood box gets here plus 2 others that I didn't need, oh well. I already had a Cam auto, but a 1/1 which all of the base set cards from 2025 Leaf Vivid are 1/1's was still a nice add. 

Have a great Memorial weekend. Please remember Memorial Day is about the service members (and their families) that DIED during wartime. 

Grand Slam Sports

 Last week I stopped in my LCS for the second time this month. I will say that I certainly spent more than $4.00 this time. I didn't get a ton of cards....maybe 7-800 or so. Enough to make 3 posts out if it. No, I won't be highlighting them all. I spent $60.00 and are broken down into 3 $20.00 lots. I will show the new to me Braves I got for one of those posts, and the other two are groups by prospects and 2026 Topps/PC.

The reasoning. I grabbed an opened boxed of 2026 Topps from the "cheap stuff" which was mainly 2026 Topps series 1, but as you'll see here tonight not all of what I filled that box with was those those although I did get a near set minus 18 cards.

1, 4, 25, 90, 100, 104, 111, 135, 138, 150, 170, 189, 200, 214, 216, 283, 312, 328. These I still need, but tonight's highlights are basically cards for my PC's and are inserts for the most part.

MINIS.

Quite a few (4) "mini collection" grabs in those last 2 scans.

I had to squeeze the Archives Snapshots cards in the box too.  The cards in the scans tonight certainly cover at least half of the $20.00 of this grouping and then add in the ONE near set of 2026 Topps plus I'd say a couple of hundred more dupes/extras of which I already made 20 trades with over at OCT and mailed those off already too. I got my $20.00 worth on this portion of the deal.

Tomorrow being Friday, I'll go easy and do the Braves $20.00 section to start off the weekend.

Have a great night!