Saturday, July 26, 2025

SHADOW SHOTS

 Howdy! I decided not to go to Tampa today, and for good reason. You see.... I went back to Grand Slam yesterday. My intention was swing by the shop for 20 minutes and then to grab a bite to eat (drive-thru). Yeah, the shop owner had bought a dealer out, and he had 200 of those monster boxes. Needless to say, I wasn't out of there in 20 minutes. I looked through the 6 boxes they had out in the shop. Filled a 3 row box up 2 hours later. meanwhile the manager Shawn (Sean) made me an offer on a quantity of the boxes in the back. I did my thing negotiated a bit and got the price per lower. Most of the boxes were 4 row and then 5 row. There were some 3 rows too, but I steered away from those for obvious reasons. I now have roughly 21,000 baseball cards and about 1,200 FB and BKB to do some sorting. If you do the math based on those numbers you come up with 2 cents. I have done the preliminary sort whereas 3K were wasted on Topps Flagship that I certainly don't need. Another 3K were wasted on brands that I have no intentions of building those sets. Now if you calculate the 15K for a cost per card and now we are at a smidge over 3 cents each. No, I won't be scanning a whole lot from this purchase. I will probably make up a 2 or 3 short posts highlighting cards certainly worth less than a nickel. 



Now....let us see what is in the shadows.



I see a gun. A pistol. Bang bang!


I see Scooby Doo walking out from behind a fence or something. You could also say a horse.


 


I see a golden retriever jumping over something.


Have a great weekend.


7 comments:

  1. Wow - one of these days I'll have time to sort through 21,000 cards! For now I can barely get through about 40 or so!

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  2. That is a lot of cards! I see a Long-Nosed Gar, a basketball player making a lay-up, and a bat. Enjoy the weekend all!

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  3. A. I saw a pistol too!
    B. cartoon snake
    C. Ford Mustang logo

    My back is starting to hurt just thinking about sorting through 21,000 cards. That being said... I'm happy for you. Have fun buddy!

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    1. Took about 7 hours, but it's all done. Gave my left hip a fit though.

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  4. I was gonna offer to come back to Florida to help you out. But looks like you've saved me the flight.

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    1. Derek, there you are.....Where have you been?

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    2. Way behind in my reading, enjoying the summer. But I'm still here! My collecting has slowed down as well, kicking myself though because I keep forgetting about eBay lots that I'm bidding on as a result

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