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!

Wacky Wednesday

 Heading to trivia tonight, and hoping for another repeat (just this time I hope to actually double up with the championship/final question). It will just be my brother and me. The kids got other things going on today/tonight.

Here are this week's interesting cards for whatever reason.

I always liked those Christy Brinkley cards from 96' Pinnacle. The 4 here were dupes/trips so they fit nicely in the Wacky binders. Throw in the shirtless Gant, the bat shavings, the kid shot, and closing out with one heck of mustache.

 

Wowzers! A complete set

 Look what I got. Two weeks ago I mentioned that I bit the bullet and bought a complete set of the 2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars Galaxy. Here it is..

Still have the full run, thank goodness. 

Just another Maddux Monday

 The winner last week was John Sharp......John, I sent you an e-mail to confirm your current address, lmk.

Here are this week's contestants.

Have a great week!

More from the Free stuff

 There was another group of cards in that box last week that the kids just weren't in to, and that is a shame. This time a totally different Historical Autograph company set.

One that just so happens to be right up my alley.

Parallels numbered to just 25, and a relic too! Not that I actually consider a .22 stamp a relic. I remember stamps costing less than that. Take this as your reminder to buy your stamp stock pile before July when they go up again.

The First Ladies inserts are numbered to 30.

Have a great weekend folks!

Some of the free stuff

 Last week I grabbed up some of the free cards that I knew "kids" would never be interested in. Face it, if it ain't their team or guy or something they can flip they are not interested. Not that I wasn't happy with the $4.00 I spent earlier in the shop....I was. I was pretty stoked about the cards I removed from that kid's freebie box.

An opened box of the 2025 Historic Autograph company. No idea if any cards were actually kept by whoever ripped the packs, but needless to say the kids have no idea or interest in these cards.

The "common" base cards have a print run of 800, the subsets and parallels are numbered much lower (like the ones above).

I sorted these while waiting on my neighbor at the hospital. I'll have another surprise from the freebies tomorrow.

Wacky Wednesday

 We have found mid-week again and that is a good thing. My hips (both of them) would disagree, as would my ride too. I went to the VA in Gainesville today and the "lovebugs" just ate my ride up. I regress, any day waking up on this side of the grass/dirt is a good day. I rewarded myself by stopping in the LCS again. You'll have to wait until next week to see what I brought home today. Definitely, spent more than $4.00 this time.

Now it's time to see what interesting cards are up for tonight.

See y'all tomorrow night.

Four dollars

 Last Monday (not yesterday) I drove my neighbor to the hospital for an outpatient surgery. It was supposed to be a short trip so I figured I'd kill an hour or so at the LCS. I spent a total of 4 bucks! That's it a whopping 4 bucks. It was amazing. I got enough cards to post throughout this week.

You might ask how is that possible? I grabbed twenty Heritage cards from the back (charged me $2.00), and I grabbed 2 cards in top loaders at a buck each. $4.00 (the top two below). I also glanced at the kids freebie box and noticed some stuff that no way would kids care about some of them so I got them too. I'll spread out the goodies over a few posts.

Completed the 2025 Bowman Sterling Braves in one swoop. Plus a couple of other needs too.

The other 11 cards were 2026 Heritage set build needs. That was a great $4.00.

I'll pop out some of the free stuff on Thursday and again on Friday.

BONUS INFO: Did you know?

The 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary base checklist just came out along with the 38 parallels. 

NOT, just another Maddux Monday GIVEAWAY... This one has a story with it.

 Last week was a hard one for Atlanta Braves fans starting with the loss of longtime owner Ted Turner followed by their first series loss of the year (to Mariners), and closed out the weekend with the loss of Bobby Cox. Loved watching Bobby go after those umps (I liked Steve spurrier getting pissed at Gator games too). According to TCDB I am the #1 guy for Bobby Cox cards with 77 unique. If they were all in his PC binder I would have done a solo post for honoring tomorrow. However, only 8 or 9 (mostly Blue Jays) are in his PC binder the rest are scattered throughout the Braves binders where they should be. My brother and I just had a conversation at trivia on Wednesday (we were discussing Turner) and Bobby came into the mix with how we miss those days of unrelenting WINNING (just not the WS), and how much we missed him getting tossed from games. 

One of the memories involved tonight's Greg Maddux and a little inside story about one of Bobby's ejections: Maddux was pitching and there was a questionable call (but not really) on one of his pitches. Bobby was mad and as the story goes, Maddux who knew the call was correct told Bobby immediately when returning to the dugout told Bobby that it was a strike and off he went and sure enough got tossed. Maddux was a character for sure.

Laurens had won the last (two Maddux giveaways) and I apologize as I am just now sending out that 2nd one to you.

Happy Mother's Day

 To all of the mom's out there, may your day be blessed.

My grandson and I are taking his mom out to lunch today.

I love you Mom....miss you so much!

Cards from the Best Bubble

 Bubble gum pink for this post. I was the beneficiary of a package from Bob this week, but first I wanted to say YES we won at trivia on Wednesday night. We led the way all night once again and ahead by 17 points going into the final question, then my brother had a brain fart (he didn't agree on the answer that 4 of us thought was the better answer). The good news is that I made the decision to not wager any points (or put either answer), and that put our fate in the hands of the other 11 teams (slow night). The team that was 17 point behind us didn't wager any points with and came in third and the team that came in second doubled up with the correct answer, but only finished with 85 points giving our 95 the win. YaY!

Now to the cards from Mr. Obert:

The breakdown:

Bob sent 10 cards (I didn't one of them). Six of the cards were autos and I didn't have three of the players before, but still needed all six. So that was a very nice get.

My Braves autos are up to 800.

Total unique Braves players is........ 285.

Just a short one: sweet tooth fans.

 I got another surprise PWE from another OCTer this week, and this one might be on the sweet side....sort of.

Mr. Biggs sent me a pair of Hostess needs, and a pair of Twinkies needs.

One of these days I may have to go all out and complete one those sets.

Have a great night folks!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day again and hopefully we'll finish strong tonight at trivia. We kicked butt the last time until the final question which we blew although thought we had it down solid for a three-peat. Nope....we were wrong. Shucks.

Here are some interesting cards for you to peer upon tonight.

All from Donruss this time.

Later folks!

Cinco de Mayo

 For the most part I have dumped the May 5th cards from the "Holidates" binder. I left a few just so I could post the unexpected Mexican victory in the 1 day battle where France thought they could undermine Abraham Lincoln. HA!

I wrote this on Monday with plans to grab some Tacos for Tuesday.

2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars: Hyperspce

 No Maddux tonight for obvious reasons. However, we did have another back to back as Laurens wins again! 

About two weeks ago I won an Ebay auction for one of the Star Wars releases on the cheap. BIN price $20.00.

A weird 100 card set, but was happy to get it for $20.00 and celebrate May 4th with you, lol. I have completed every Topps Chrome Galaxy set since the first one, but I've yet to find a cheap one for 2025. Not even a Cheap Topps Chrome Star Wars set for 2025. 

UPDATE: After visiting the LCS and seeing the 25' Galaxy packs are $18.50 each, I bit the bullet and just now did a BIN $80.00 for 25' Galaxy complete set.

Just like all of the other set builds I maybe done trying. I did finally get those Braves stacks put into their binders. I also started working on the 7500 cards to check against my set builds so that I can resume the PC update. I added about 100 Heritage needs half of which were SP's from that $20.00 box from the show in The Villages last month. $20.00 seems to be a sweet spot :)