Wacky Wednesday

 The streak ended with 5. That's okay we'll start a new one now.

It is trivia night.

Next week continues with the 90's decade. (probably just 1990, hehe).

Win streak!

 The last week was a good week for my Braves. (psst. That is me making lemonade out of lemons). I mentioned a couple weeks back that I grabbed some Braves from a "new to me" shop in G'ville that has been there for over 2 decades. My memory wasn't good.

I picked 18 Braves cards.

Turned out that only 6 of them were new to me. However, keeping with the lemonade theme, I was able to fit all of the remaining 12 in either PC, mini collections, or set builds. I do have apx. 100+ Braves sitting in my ComC inventory though just waiting for me to request them. I also have another huge SLOTS box building with 700+ cards in it. Unfortunately, those are mainly for set builds. 

Either way I am inching my way forward and at some point tonight I will do a check to see how many "the other guy" has added. I should be ready to start posting the Braves from that last HUGE SLOTS order by Thursday.

Have a great night!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Sunday.

 It is time for another Easter tribute. I hope that everyone enjoyed yesterday. In honor of the RISEN Christ. Every year I post some cards of ball players that are sporting typically a crucifix. Because the date changes year to year there aren't any cards celebrating a specific birthday, so jewelry will have to do (and a bunny or two).

Earrings, necklaces, and maybe other bits.

Some are big and some are small.

What is important is that Jesus rose to save us all.

Saturday Shadow Shots!

 Real quick one today jumping right to the shadows.

Clearly, I see a leaping bull frog.

This shadow made the cut not because I see anything in the shadow, rather in the shadows. Specifically the photographers shadow.

Saber tooth tiger....perhaps not.

Maybe it is just a Mad Hungarian.

Incoming via the west coast.

 Tonight's cards were brought to you via Padrographs. Rod has sent out a bunch of cards early into the baseball season. Here are my goodies.

I only scanned the new to me Braves (he sent a bunch more), and what you see above bumped me up 9 Braves when I got them. Thanks Rod.

Have a great night folks, see ya on Saturday!

Wacky Wednesday

 The week is moving slowly probably because I am planning on hitting the card show in The Villages on Saturday. I hope to find some deals this go around. The last two not so lucky. We'll see.

In case you are wondering about the Grand Gainers, back when I first put them in the binder I had no idea there were a dozen parallels of these cards. Yes a dozen parallels of an insert set back in 1989.

Going for #1 UPDATE: As of today I have Atlanta Braves unique 31,900, and that other guy has 32,519. (short 619 cards)

I do currently hold the #1 spot for Milwaukee Braves with 1,332, him 1,103 tied for 2nd.

Boston Braves has me in #3 spot with 432 (#1 has 538), him #10 with 209.

grand totals: (all 3 team cities): me 33,664 him 33,831 putting me back just 167 cards.

This is Jackie Robinson Day!

 This day is Jackie Robinson Day. I got that $10.00 check from Uncle Sam yesterday BTW.

For those of you who weren't reading this blog a year ago or maybe just missed it. On this day I do a JRD annual post. Not one highlighting his cards or accomplishments. Nope. I have a slight take on how I honor one of the greatest ball players in history. 

First I will show 2 cards highlighting Jackie's jersey number....um retired jersey number. REtired the number in 1997.

One card will be a front view the other the back. After that I will show cards of players that also wore #42 in their playing days. Then I will show how Topps attempts at honoring the day, the latter still being used today. I'll even throw in a single Donruss card commemorating the day (but it is an awful attempt).  HERE WE GO!

The last two cards there from 2016 was how Topps put out a half-butt attempt to highlight JRD. I do appreciate them catching some photos for that particular series release. The day was first establish by MLB in 2004, and in 2009 had all on field personnel wear the number. I loved and still love that. RESPECT.  I wish I had more cards pulled showing players wearing the jersey number than the 2 above. 

In 2017 Topps released a JRD 30 card set using photos taken on JRD (for the most part). As you can see some of the photos would have been if you could see 42. I think they could add a little pizzazz by making the checklist 42 cards.

I am still in need of card 15 (Mike Trout). I need to do something about that.

Topps also puts out commemorative manufactured patch cards too. Those are a little tougher to come by (and cost more).

The 2018 set did get photos showing the 42. Much better job. Still not perfect as the set is part of their "Salute" sets and in my opinion takes away the honoring of Jackie. And of course after 2018, just near impossible to even figure out. Heck, what is really puzzling is that when Topps comes up with more and more parallels (57 this year alone) and that is just series 1, why couldn't they make a dedicated JRD set. Get it right guys      get it right. Donruss failed trying to do the border 42, but it didn't work.

My tribute to one of the greatest baseball players of all time. (I hear he was very very good at other sports too). :)

I got a couple of Bobbers!

 I got a few care packages in the mail recently. The most recent I didn't scan, but it was a very nice 1972 Kellogg's set build need a common Parsons, but a need nonetheless. The card came from Bob D an OCT bud and local Floridian. 

I did scan some cards that I got from a different Bob of "The Best Bubble".

I know for a fact that I didn't have that Muckdogs bubble. I still have to check the others. Bob also included some Braves and the two above were not in my collection so they have helped me out in that "QUEST".... You know the one.

Thanks to both Bobs for thinking of me. I will post the Padrographs cards on Thursday.

Shadow Shots!

 My o my, the Braves won another game the other day. They are still in a 3-way tie for the worst record in all of baseball, lol. 

Blue crab.

An upside down dog laying on the ground.

Going with a wig.

Hope your weekend is a good one!

A trip to the Webster Flea Market

 The Webster Flea Market is about an hour away from me. It has been around a very long time. In the old days it was only open on Mondays, yep Mondays. It is huge they are now open the weekends too. It had been a very very long time since I last went there. This trip reminded me just why that is. I absolutely can't stand the layout of the place. It is NUTS they way things are set up. No way possible to hit every aisle/building in a day for sure and worse to keep track of which ones you've been down. Alas, I did find a few cards and such in the place. They are even going to have a card show in May. That probably wouldn't be so bad because all of the card vendors would be consolidated together in one building. We'll see if I make to the show. I did grab a handful of Braves to inch me toward "that goal". 

I picked up 14 Braves cards and only need these 6. I was able to drop that Chipper from my SLOTS cart though. My memory failed here (it did yesterday too). I also grabbed an Orioles thing for the next time reader Bill makes to down here. I also grabbed another Orioles thing but I am keeping that one a 1959 Hoyt Wilhelm cover magazine. He's a birthday guy (not mine) that I collect. I probably should have scanned that too but I didn't. Oh well, you folks have a nice weekend. My Gators are National Champions once again. That is a bright spot in my Sports World as my Braves are still in a 3-way tie for the worst record in baseball, lol. Maybe I should have kept using that blue text font. Another bright spot is a few incoming packages that got. One came from Rod (Padrographs) and another one from Bob (The Best Bubble). I'll get them posted up next week.

Wacky Wednesday

 See it was the blue font, lol. My Braves have bumped themselves up from the worst record in all of baseball to tied for the worst 3 ways. Ah, it's all good for now. 

There ya have this week's interesting cards. I visited a different shop in Gainesville today. I hadn't been to this one before. I bough a lot of junk to rip to see if it would scratch the itch (it really didn't). I bought stuff from the 80's and 90's, and about 700 singles today. (update: the singles were just 459 of them). I might visit this store again before the year ends.  Maybe.  In other news the free answer at tonight Trivia was Hank Aaron.

Have a great night.

A little of this and a little of that.

 I just figured out the reason my Braves aren't winning. I wasn't using my Blue text font. So this should fix it, lol. 

last month when I met up with reader Bill at the card shop in Ormond I picked up some Braves.

I pulled the Braves team set out of the dime boxes, not that I needed them because I already had them sitting in my SLOTS (Sport Lots) box. The Waldrep auto was NOT in the dime boxes. I forget what I paid, but was probably 2-3 bucks. 

I finally got in that HUGE Slots order Saturday. 668 cards (a few were missing), but nearly 500 new to me Braves. I have sorted them, marked them off of my excel sheets (still need to remove them from my webpage), and finished putting them into TCDB yesterday. The team stat check updates daily, but go figure I added 500+ Braves and got just under 550 cards away from that #1 spot (according to my math). Rather it should have. It has been 24 hours, his numbers jumped up 50 cards (uh huh), and mine hasn't changed yet. Still shows me 1000 behind him. Every single card I put was a completely new to me Braves card, so not one of them was already in the system as a set build or PC anything like that. I'm telling you there is some funny stuff going on there (I've been saying that for 2 years now). 

Have a great night. I might update this tonight before publishing (it is early in the morning right now).

UPDATE: My cards finally got bumped up (31, 893 unique Atlanta Braves) This excludes all of the other Braves listings. His bumped up 3 more bringing him to 32, 447. This leaves me 554 cards short (for now). If the last 2 years has taught me anything, my guess his numbers will jump 500 cards before the month is done.

Ebay Braves

 Just like the start of the Braves 2025 season, Saturday was a bust in Orlando. Went to 3 shops, well one of them was no longer there. The other two not only only didn't have any "good deals", I'd say everything was a bit too pricey. I was back home around 3:30. Also noting the Braves finally put a win in the books, still worst record in baseball, but they sure did put on a show for the home crowd with that 10-0 shutout of the Marlins. Only 2 dingers as well, everybody was hitting that day. That one day. 

About 3 weeks back I won some great new to me Braves cards on Ebay. They all were from the same seller different listings though.

You maybe asking "doesn't John already or shouldn't he have the 2014 team set". The answer be of course I do. This was the complete set of mini 2014's.  I think I only had 1 of those.

Ginter X.

Another year of Ginter X. I do like the Black when it comes to A & G. The only thing I like better are the Glossy's, which are now 1/1's so probably won't obtain many if any of those going forward. Third in line would be the newer Ginter Chrome. The 2024 were great.

Finishing up with the complete B/W Braves team set. Loved getting the free shipping on the combined lots. Great adds to the Braves. Speaking of which I just got that monster Sport Lots Braves order in with about 400 new to me Braves. I will get those put it and see if my competition add a few hundred to his totals. 

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Happy Saturday folks! I'm planning on heading down to Orlando and hit up 3 or 4 card shops today. Wish me luck. I hope to find a new source of "great deals".

I'm not sure what I see in this shadow. Maybe a crab.

I see a Chess pawn.

I could say the head of one of the Pokemon, but I'll go with the body of a huge bird.

Clearwater Florida: The PC gets.

 Wrapping up that show in Clearwater with some PC pickups. Hopefully, I will need them like I did with the Braves gets.

This first (minus the auto) will be checked against set build needs before dumping into the PC boxes. I already know the Clemens SP is a set need.

The first row will go to the set builds too. I did in fact need the Adley's for those builds.

Now I know I didn't need the 87' Hygrades, but I didn't want to leave them.

Starting lineups for less than a buck, yeah I'll take them. The best deal was probably the Gold Fanfest Clemens.

Several great deals in this batch too.

I did take a bath on a handful of cards when compared to what I could get it for on ComC.

I am definitely a fan of the 90's Pacific brands inserts.

Some winners and some losers, but all in all I did get a bunch of really cool cards.

Have a great weekend (no post Friday). See ya with some Shadows on Saturday.