Wacky Wednesday

 Hump Day! Picking up right where we left off with some great shots of the Mick!

Later!

Class time: History lessons

 Let's do a few more of these.

Hmm, Is Topps/Fanatics in violation?

That is this week's Historical information.

Just another Maddux Monday

 First I need to announce the last Wacky Packages winner: RJ.

Now for last week's Maddux winner (only 3 people commented): Also RJ. The Wacky's were already mailed, I'll get the Maddux out this week.

Now for this week's freebies.

Hope your week is awesome!

Another Ebay win. 2023 Topps Finest Star Wars

 Got this complete set delivered for under $24.00. I made an offer on this complete set as I previously only had 3 cards from the set. The seller countered and I accepted.

As simple as it seems, I don't think that I will ever get 100% of the Star Wars sets out there completed.

Have a great weekend. I hope to knock out 6-7 things off of my to-do list.

INCOMING: Night Owls drops one on me.

 A couple of weeks ago I got a package from Greg.

Greg helped out with some Braves needs or at least I believe so. There was another one that I did already have too. Those Topps sandglitter's, confetti's, and whatever else they're called drives me nuts figuring them out.

Greg also sent along these set build needs, that I had mentioned in his post on the set that I needed.

He wrapped the package up with these Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band cards. I remember going to the "picture show" (theatre/ movies) back as a kid to see the film. Friday night feature films cost a buck and half back then. Dang, the candy was expensive too and those super extra large sizes (double in size what they are today) was a whopping .50 same for the soda or popcorn. 

Thanks Greg!

Back to the ORIGINAL theme: Wacky Wednesday

 For those of you that maybe new here or those that may have a slightly decreasing memory this theme goes back more than a decade and it basically cards that I find INTERESTING for one reason or another. some might be wacky and others just great shots for a baseball card.

Starting it off with a great mix.

Let's get Educational......Educational......

 Physically speaking let's look at some Historical information cards. Yeah, hoping that I stuck the ONJ song in your head too. hehehe.

There were a lot of recognizable names in this batch. 

Later tomaters.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Last week's winner was Ginko.

Now for this week's cards.

I hope your week goes well!

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.