Incoming from Dime Box and the Lost Collector

 Like most of us, I did not go to the National. I've never been. I don't know that I ever will. I am thankful though that on any given weekend I can go to a card show sometimes two if I want too. That works for me, but it doesn't mean that I can't get cards from the National. Dime Box Nick hit me up with some goodies straight from the National.

I know I've mentioned this before but I really love those 2003 Topps Retired cards or whatever they are called. 

Nick sent me two fat team bags one full of PC guys and the other with Braves. I didn't scan them all. I highlighted 1 scan worth of the PC guys, and the Braves that I thought I needed. You will see the Braves cards that I did actually need again in an upcoming post.

I didn't need the first two (I thought I might need the Buhl for the set build and the Torre for that set build but I didn't). I do have nearly all of the Braves in the Topps flagship run except for a few Hank Aarons, a Spahn variation, heck most variations for that matter. That Chipper in the center is the hot box parallel, it is my very first one from that parallel set.

I needed that first card it is the black parallel and I also needed the Francoeur. Going from memory I guessed right on half of them. 

I also got another surprise from AJ (The Lost Collector). I scanned them first, then later checked to see if I needed any.

I wound up needing the Freddie, the green Absolute Pache, the all black Medlen.

It felt good knocking a dozen all total from above off my needs lists. It really doesn't happen that often, not even by me. See I never go to a show or shop looking for anything specific. Nine times out of ten I don't even carry my set build lists with me, and even then rarely take them out of the vehicle. No, for me I look for the bargains hoping to knock some Braves needs out. Doing that for years on end I have certainly gained some Braves dupes. Maybe 20K I guess. I am better these days although it still happens. I see a card and in my stack it goes without thought. One of these days I may change the way I buy at shows but I doubt it. I typically do my specific Braves shopping online from SL, CB, and Comc. But it isn't the same feeling when a card you need therefore want just shows up in your mailbox. FEELS GOOD! Thanks again to Nick and AJ for the cards. I appreciate them very much, they have already been removed from my lists, added to TCDB and placed on a book shelf where one day I will get them into appropriate binders.