Hump day (trivia too).
I finished going through all of the cards that I picked up this past Saturday at that show. I still need to scan some stuff, but I certainly have chunks that are ready to go. But, for now some interesting cards for this week's Wacky Wednesday.
This past Saturday I made it to The Villages card show. My first purchase was from a "tub"/plastic bin of oddball items that were priced $5.00 each. I dug through the large tub and pulled out 4 items (2 I was thinking I already had). I bought them anyway for five bucks. All four were the 5 card tins from Metallic Impressions.
The two dupes were in fact dupes I had them, but they were PC guys, so now I can have one listed for PC's and one for set builds (not that it matters on TCDB). Those two were 1995 Willie Mays, and the 1993 All Time All-stars (which has Hank Aaron as one of the 5 guys). The other two tins were not dupes.
2001 Arnold Palmer set which wasn't listed in TCDB, so I had to jump through the hoops to get that listed and did. The other was Babe Ruth 5 tn.
My 2nd purchase was three purchases actually from one seller.
I will break that down here in text (posts will be later):
1- a BRAND NEW 5 row box half filled with 2026 Topps and then the rest was mainly Heritage from 2023-2025 with a few non Heritage scattered throughout and certainly will be posting some of those. This box had a paper in front say dime each. after digging for 5-10 minutes along with conversation with the seller, I asked how much for the whole box and he quickly grabbed the lid which had a paper taped to the top stating whole box $20.00. I quickly said SOLD! Those are the kind of deals I like. I paid him for those and he said he a small box of 2026 Heritage too.
2- I said let me see them. It was a BRAND NEW 800 count box. I asked how much again, he thought for 30 seconds and said $10.00, I again said SOLD! My kind of deal, again.
3- This seller had two more 5 row boxes, one filled with dollar cards and the other were marked 2, 3 or 5 bucks each for the most part, and a partial row was higher priced cards. I grabbed about 2 dozen of the lesser priced ones and three of the higher priced ones. I got the seller to take $30.00 less than what they were marked and was thinking that was a great deal. Turns out it was just okay.
I will post separate posts from those 3 deals (lots of them). Mainly will be the Braves that I got which was the goal for me at this show. I may sort the 2026 Topps from that monster box to see how short I am on the set (I know that he pulled the key cards and had them in dollar/2/3 boxes). I already sorted the Heritage sets including the 2026 which had half of the 400 card set, not bad considering all of the SP's which did have 2 of those. The Heritage from the monster box even found about 20 or so cards I needed from those set builds.
The last purchase I mad was digging through another sellers dollar boxes. I made two stacks one which I wanted and the other stack was cards I like to get but to me were more like .50 cards, so I made the two stacks. In the end there were 30 cards in the I want stack and 35 in the other stack. The seller didn't really understand my "thinking" and his price for all was not anywhere close to where I wanted to be ($35-40). His price was $60.00, no way I said put the iffy stack back into the box, and asked if he'd take $20.00 for the 30 cards. He just watched me throw the other stack back in the box, so he took a minute (it was also at quitting time) and he said okay. Now...I did re-ask if he'd do $20.00 on the stack I put back in the box, and he said no so those are still in his boxes.
I've scanned up the Braves portion of day, so those will be coming soon.
We have a winner! Jeff B won last week and please e-mail me to confirm your address, thanks.
This week freebies are standing by and ready to view.
Very happy with baseball in full swing.
Enjoy the games!
I am not Catholic, still yet Happy Good Friday to those who are. This is my Easter post. Here you will find cards that typically show a cross, but not limited to that as you will see.
I wish everyone a wonderful Easter. I have taught my grandson Elijah that the eggs and candy are just something fun we do for the kids, but the main reason we celebrate Easter is that it is the second birthday for Jesus Christ along with why and what that means.
Have a great weekend folks I plan on attending the card show being held in The Villages tomorrow.
Finally, made it to the final post regarding that $90.00 deal I made a couple weeks back. I classified this section/portion as MISC.
Have a great night!
I only asked because I have "changed" what tonight's post is going to be. I am postponing part 4 of the $90.00 deal until Thursday. I am also changing when I post this year's annual April Fools Day post which normally would be tomorrow. No....it will happen tonight. Clue there will be another switcheroo before this week is over, another next week as well.
Athletes that celebrate 4/1 birthdays or at least did.
I mentioned not too long ago that I really don't check the card backs much anymore when it comes to adding to my "HOLIDATES" binder. Combine that with me not making many large bulk buys these days, and as I get older I get lazier so it is what it is.
CORRECTION: Boy was I wrong when I said I needed to sort 50K S's for the PC update. WAY WRONG! It's about 15K. Believe it or not this is a relief. I am half way through sorting them into different players. (so far 51 different players: some will make binders, others will be boxed and as always some are just future guys that may or may not get cut.
With that said consider this post as your EARLY WARNING to be on the lookout for your pranksters tomorrow. Get ahead of the game!
We had another repeat winner last week.....Congrats RJ! Already in the mail too.
Here are this weeks freebies:
You know the rules, now go get em!
Well....at least possible PC additions. As you know over the last decade and a half it takes me 2 years to update my PC players. That should end with this update for a couple of reasons.
1) I've cut way back on the overwhelming bulk buys, thus reducing cards just to throw in a box and wait and wait until time to update them. In years past that could be a min. of 50K to 100K+ waiting to find out if I need them. No more. I should complete the R's this weekend with Nolan Ryan bringing us to the largest of all the letters the S's. I have apx 50K of just those to go through and will probably take me 2 months. That will leave me with June through October to finish the rest which only the W's have a good bit, so still ahead of the game. But, man o man am I ready to be done. That way I can have a break before starting the next UPDATE which should only take 6-9 months start to finish going forward. That is the true win here.
2) I cut out roughly 750 players. Works out great too, as three completely full book shelves house the KEEPERS, with no room to spare.
Now let's see what the highlights (highlights only) of the PC guys from that $90.00 deal.
That is a wrap for the PC highlights. There were obviously hundreds more, but they are sitting in the next update boxes. BTW, right now there are apx 25K sitting and waiting for the NEXT Update.
Have a great weekend. I will be finishing the part 4 with the MISC section on Tuesday. You can then decide if I got a deal or not.
Alrighty, coming in tonight with the Trivia win last night. YEA!
Now let's get to the 2nd part of that $90.00 deal (roughly 450-500 cards in total).
The set build highlights:
I'll do the PC section tomorrow. Well....the highlights anyways.
Mid week and trivia night. Who wants to see some more of those interesting 1995 Stadium Club cards?
I wish for a fantastic rest of of your week, and hey there is a regular season MLB game today!
I was going to go down to Clearwater last Friday for a card show, but I didn't feel like driving. I wound up visiting Grand Slam collectibles (my local card shop). The deals haven't been abundant lately so I don't go there often anymore. The "quarter boxes" are pretty much gone and in there place are dollar boxes. Some of the cards in those many boxes are not in top loaders, so I told Dylan that I'd be expecting to treat those like they were quarter cards, and he said we work something out. Something new at the shop was a "free" box for kids. It has a ton of stuff from all sports in there including baseballs. I pulled apx 100 2026 Topps cards from there (no there were plenty with dupes for the kids). I added those 100 to about 350 I pulled from the dollar boxes, so that is 450 cards. I then worked my way through the "wooden" boxes prices as marked stuff (these cards were priced when added them at the full value). It is easy to know that they aren't worth anywhere near the marked value. I grabbed quite a handful from there with some marked $10.00 (one of those was actually a fair price for the card and you will see that one tonight). All in all those cards had a marked price of $124.00, I offered $50.00 on those and he was like nope, I explained my reasoning and he looked up a couple and low and behold I was pricing them right, and then for me to buy them I wanted a deal, I'm not paying full price. I bumped my offer up $5.00 and we closed the deal at a total of $90.00 no taxes (no loyalty point either though and that's okay.
I broke the cards down into 4 groups:
Needed Braves
Set builds
Misc
PC guys.
I didn't scan them all.....not even close. Basically a highlight for the PC, Misc, and Set builds.
Tonight you'll get the new to me Braves cards. Well, sort of.
The last card from the wooden box was this 1949 Bowman.
Last week's winner was R.J. Congrats!
Here are this weeks giveaway Greg Maddux cards.
I hope your week has started off wonderful.
Have a great night!
I just finished updating (even in TCDB) Arod. I have a lot of cards of him. According to TCDB I am ranked #6 with 1319 different. The PC binder however holds or will hold as I still need to put them into 2 binders is sitting at 1160 cards. (update: they're in the binders and on the shelf). One of the areas that upped the count was the 2007 Topps (branded) Road to 500. Those cards were spread out over pretty much EVERY Topps/Bowman products. Some here some there. I have 123 of the 500. Go figure Topps even put a parallel or two of the set, but I have none of those.
What I do have are 16 dupes that are available if you are building that HUGE set run. Here are those dupes if interested.
I only have a few of the 400's, so chances are if you have dupes of those I could use them (for the next update-lol).
Hope your weekend is awesome!
Greg dropped a mailer to me a week or two ago.
Greg also returned some of the cards that I sent him by mistake (thank you Greg (wasn't necessary though). I put most of them into stacks again for the guys they were originally intended for (at least I hope I did, lol). Our brains sometimes "miss" things which is how they wound up in New York.
Greg also included a bunch of 1982 Fleer Stamps (the bigger ones). I pulled out my PC guys, and some for those stacks previously mentioned.
Thanks Greg for the surprise always appreciated!
Running a little behind today, so getting right to the cards.
