Just Another Maddux Monday

 AJ (The Lost Collector) brings home the win last week. Who will win the free Greg Maddux cards this week?

Here are the prizes.

There ya go! I hope everyone has a great week ahead.

The next round

 Time for the next round from last weekend's card show. It will be a short one.

These four needed Braves (although a couple of them are also sitting in my Sport Lots box) were in that 5K monster dime box that I paid $20.00 for the entire box. Considering that the brand new unmarked box costs between $6-8.00 all by itself, wow. I hope this seller is at the show here in Ocala on the 18th. I do have several scans that also came from that "dime" box, lol but that is another post.

Below are the three cards that I spent the most for and in reality probably paid full price, too late now.

Now for a pair of Acuna rookie year cards that are not common.

Throwback Thursday.

Topps Now. 

These three cards were in that pricier box of cards. I knew that I didn't have them and because that TCDB "other guy" is right back where we started with around 1,100 ATL Braves more than me. Even after I added all of the new to me Braves from this show (about 50, he added 47 in one day then the next added a dozen more). I still call BS!

I will be focusing the rest of this year on just obtaining Braves, that is unless there is a super deal like the $20.00 box here, and the $10.00 Heritage box (BTW: there were 4 SP's in the box). 

Have a super weekend!

Back to back wins

 It was just my brother and I last night at trivia, and we were hitting on all cylinders. We took away the win and big time. Closest team to us was 47 points behind us in the end. It was great. Going to the Championship question we had the lead by just 10 points, and that team actually left and didn't participate in the final which gave us a 15 point margin over the next 2 teams. The final was a slam dunk easy one and we bet it all and doubled up for the win. HooRah! My brother was stoked doublly as well meaning we weren't dependent on the youngins, lol. 

Moving on to the next portion from last Saturday's card show.

Here are the Braves that I pulled out of that $10.00 Heritage box. 7 of the 13 Braves plus one chrome in the Waldrep. I have 3 of the other base cards already in my Slots cart and waiting until there are a lot more sellers with the product to get the rest taken care of unless of course someone out there wants to send me: 145, 273, and 372.

The next 2 scans came from that other monster box of cards marked from a buck to 3 bucks.

All new to me Braves. I'll probably scan a few more from those boxes to post, but they won't be Braves.

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day (trivia too). 

I finished going through all of the cards that I picked up this past Saturday at that show. I still need to scan some stuff, but I certainly have chunks that are ready to go. But, for now some interesting cards for this week's Wacky Wednesday.

I need to scan up the next batch of these now.

I went to a show

 This past Saturday I made it to The Villages card show. My first purchase was from a "tub"/plastic bin of oddball items that were priced $5.00 each. I dug through the large tub and pulled out 4 items (2 I was thinking I already had). I bought them anyway for five bucks. All four were the 5 card tins from Metallic Impressions. 

The two dupes were in fact dupes I had them, but they were PC guys, so now I can have one listed for PC's and one for set builds (not that it matters on TCDB). Those two were 1995 Willie Mays, and the 1993 All Time All-stars (which has Hank Aaron as one of the 5 guys). The other two tins were not dupes.

2001 Arnold Palmer set which wasn't listed in TCDB, so I had to jump through the hoops to get that listed and did. The other was Babe Ruth 5 tn.

I didn't scan the other two.

My 2nd purchase was three purchases actually from one seller.

I will break that down here in text (posts will be later):
1- a BRAND NEW 5 row box half filled with 2026 Topps and then the rest was mainly Heritage from 2023-2025 with a few non Heritage scattered throughout and certainly will be posting some of those. This box had a paper in front say dime each. after digging for 5-10 minutes along with conversation with the seller, I asked how much for the whole box and he quickly grabbed the lid which had a paper taped to the top stating whole box $20.00. I quickly said SOLD! Those are the kind of deals I like. I paid him for those and he said he a small box of 2026 Heritage too. 

2- I said let me see them. It was a BRAND NEW 800 count box. I asked how much again, he thought for 30 seconds and said $10.00, I again said SOLD! My kind of deal, again.

3- This seller had two more 5 row boxes, one filled with dollar cards and the other were marked 2, 3 or 5 bucks each for the most part, and a partial row was higher priced cards. I grabbed about 2 dozen of the lesser priced ones and three of the higher priced ones. I got the seller to take $30.00 less than what they were marked and was thinking that was a great deal. Turns out it was just okay.

I will post separate posts from those 3 deals (lots of them). Mainly will be the Braves that I got which was the goal for me at this show. I may sort the 2026 Topps from that monster box to see how short I am on the set (I know that he pulled the key cards and had them in dollar/2/3 boxes). I already sorted the Heritage sets including the 2026 which had half of the 400 card set, not bad considering all of the SP's which did have 2 of those. The Heritage from the monster box even found about 20 or so cards I needed from those set builds. 

The last purchase I mad was digging through another sellers dollar boxes. I made two stacks one which I wanted and the other stack was cards I like to get but to me were more like .50 cards, so I made the two stacks. In the end there were 30 cards in the I want stack and 35 in the other stack. The seller didn't really understand my "thinking" and his price for all was not anywhere close to where I wanted to be ($35-40). His price was $60.00, no way I said put the iffy stack back into the box, and asked if he'd take $20.00 for the 30 cards. He just watched me throw the other stack back in the box, so he took a minute (it was also at quitting time) and he said okay. Now...I did re-ask if he'd do $20.00 on the stack I put back in the box, and he said no so those are still in his boxes. 

I've scanned up the Braves portion of day, so those will be coming soon.

Just another Maddux Monday

 We have a winner! Jeff B won last week and please e-mail me to confirm your address, thanks.

This week freebies are standing by and ready to view.

Very happy with baseball in full swing.

Enjoy the games!

Surprise Holiday post

 I am not Catholic, still yet Happy Good Friday to those who are. This is my Easter post. Here you will find cards that typically show a cross, but not limited to that as you will see.

The first scan here highlights all necklaces.

A few earring appearance plus a Christian card back.

All necklaces again, but some of these are hefty ones.

Another mixed page including a tattoo.

Here we even have some bunnies.

I wish everyone a wonderful Easter. I have taught my grandson Elijah that the eggs and candy are just something fun we do for the kids, but the main reason we celebrate Easter is that it is the second birthday for Jesus Christ along with why and what that means.

Have a great weekend folks I plan on attending the card show being held in The Villages tomorrow.

Part FOUR: The last deal I made

 Finally, made it to the final post regarding that $90.00 deal I made a couple weeks back. I classified this section/portion as MISC.

I'm not sure who that Leaf Aquatic autograph is, but it is a 1/1.

it is very hard to see in the scan but the 1/1 is just under the card number, in hand you can see it clearly.

I haven't heard of most of the guys in the last 2 scans either, but those boxes are expensive so if I can grab them on the cheap, I will and did!

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 Real quick tonight. Here are this weeks interesting cards.

Have a great night!

Can you hit a change up?

 I only asked because I have "changed" what tonight's post is going to be. I am postponing part 4 of the $90.00 deal until Thursday. I am also changing when I post this year's annual April Fools Day post which normally would be tomorrow. No....it will happen tonight.  Clue there will be another switcheroo before this week is over, another next week as well.

Athletes that celebrate 4/1 birthdays or at least did.

Oh look, the Menedez brothers.

I mentioned not too long ago that I really don't check the card backs much anymore when it comes to adding to my "HOLIDATES" binder. Combine that with me not making many large bulk buys these days, and as I get older I get lazier so it is what it is.

CORRECTION: Boy was I wrong when I said I needed to sort 50K S's for the PC update. WAY WRONG! It's about 15K. Believe it or not this is a relief. I am half way through sorting them into different players. (so far 51 different players: some will make binders, others will be boxed and as always some are just future guys that may or may not get cut.

With that said consider this post as your EARLY WARNING to be on the lookout for your pranksters tomorrow. Get ahead of the game!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 We had another repeat winner last week.....Congrats RJ! Already in the mail too.

Here are this weeks freebies:

You know the rules, now go get em! 

Part THREE: The PC additions

 Well....at least possible PC additions. As you know over the last decade and a half it takes me 2 years to update my PC players. That should end with this update for a couple of reasons.

1) I've cut way back on the overwhelming bulk buys, thus reducing cards just to throw in a box and wait and wait until time to update them. In years past that could be a min. of 50K to 100K+ waiting to find out if I need them. No more. I should complete the R's this weekend with Nolan Ryan bringing us to the largest of all the letters the S's. I have apx 50K of just those to go through and will probably take me 2 months. That will leave me with June through October to finish the rest which only the W's have a good bit, so still ahead of the game. But, man o man am I ready to be done. That way I can have a break before starting the next UPDATE which should only take 6-9 months start to finish going forward. That is the true win here.

2) I cut out roughly 750 players.  Works out great too, as three completely full book shelves house the KEEPERS, with no room to spare.

Now let's see what the highlights (highlights only) of the PC guys from that $90.00 deal.

J-Rod is a future guy and that card is sitting in the "keeper boxes" and I have recorded NO DATA in regards to his cards that I have. Same goes for Caroll and Elly. Yordan is also in the keeper boxes, but I do list his cards in my excel (maybe even TCDB). Seager and Stanton are both binder guys and will be updated soon.

That Ryan is in the current update and will be in TCDB before the weekend is over.

Churio is another one of those future guys as is Roki, but I will actually list the Roki cards here soon. That one cost me a buck! Not a bad deal at all (they were asking $3.

That is a wrap for the PC highlights. There were obviously hundreds more, but they are sitting in the next update boxes. BTW, right now there are apx 25K sitting and waiting for the NEXT Update. 

Have a great weekend. I will be finishing the part 4 with the MISC section on Tuesday. You can then decide if I got a deal or not.

Part TWO: set build highlights

 Alrighty, coming in tonight with the Trivia win last night. YEA!

Now let's get to the 2nd part of that $90.00 deal (roughly 450-500 cards in total).

The set build highlights:

Nothing wrong with some high end product for 2025. 

In reality I didn't check the card backs for those 2025 Bowman above. I was actually thinking they were the Bowman Prospects, and turned out to be the Bowman Draft. Not really a super big deal, but I bought the complete paper Draft set the week before on Ebay and was waiting for them to arrive. No biggie, the chrome version was all needed. Yes, I did just mention ANOTHER COMPLETED SET.

Three singles that were needed to close out tonight.

I'll do the PC section tomorrow. Well....the highlights anyways.

Wacky Wednesday

Mid week and trivia night. Who wants to see some more of those interesting 1995 Stadium Club cards?

 Plus a few others. It's been awhile since I posted up the 2014 Gattis, one of my favorite wacky cards for sure. I doubt that card would ever get released today. I remember the first time I laid eyes on it. In case you didn't know his nickname was "The White Bear".... Odd choice, but it has something to do with his struggle down in Venezuela making it as a ballplayer (he actually took a break and worked as a janitor for a bit). I don't get the reference, but I do love that card.

I wish for a fantastic rest of of your week, and hey  there is a regular season MLB game today!

Spreading $90.00 over FOUR posts!

 I was going to go down to Clearwater last Friday for a card show, but I didn't feel like driving. I wound up visiting Grand Slam collectibles (my local card shop). The deals haven't been abundant lately so I don't go there often anymore. The "quarter boxes" are pretty much gone and in there place are dollar boxes. Some of the cards in those many boxes are not in top loaders, so I told Dylan that I'd be expecting to treat those like they were quarter cards, and he said we work something out. Something new at the shop was a "free" box for kids. It has a ton of stuff from all sports in there including baseballs. I pulled apx 100 2026 Topps cards from there (no there were plenty with dupes for the kids). I added those 100 to about 350 I pulled from the dollar boxes, so that is 450 cards. I then worked my way through the "wooden" boxes prices as marked stuff (these cards were priced when added them at the full value). It is easy to know that they aren't worth anywhere near the marked value. I grabbed quite a handful from there with some marked $10.00 (one of those was actually a fair price for the card and you will see that one tonight). All in all those cards had a marked price of $124.00, I offered $50.00 on those and he was like nope, I explained my reasoning and he looked up a couple and low and behold I was pricing them right, and then for me to buy them I wanted a deal, I'm not paying full price. I bumped my offer up $5.00 and we closed the deal at a total of $90.00 no taxes (no loyalty point either though and that's okay. 

I broke the cards down into 4 groups:

Needed Braves

Set builds

Misc

PC guys.

I didn't scan them all.....not even close. Basically a highlight for the PC, Misc, and Set builds.

Tonight you'll get the new to me Braves cards. Well, sort of. 

I did have all of these (except for Chipper) already sitting in my Sport Lots box, but now they are in hand and ready for the Braves binders. They were all from the "free" box.

The Drake Baldwin Museum rookie was very nice to find. That one I think was marked $2 or $3 in the wooden box. The rest I believe were from the dollar box cards that I got for $35.00

The Hank Aaron reprint is a LIMITED Edition variation which was a sweet get. The autograph card was that $10.00 (marked) card from the wooden boxes I mentioned earlier. Well worth $10.00. The Evergreen Aaron was also a nice find.

The last card from the wooden box was this 1949 Bowman.

I didn't need it for Braves binders, but I did need it for the set build. Dylan thought it was a reprint, and I told him it wasn't, but the creases shoots all value from the card that at best in NM would be about 10.00, so he figured $2 and I worked the deal I mention above. So, I reckon I'll do the set builds on Thursday.

Enjoy the night!