2025 Topps Stadium Club: COMPLETED

 I bought the complete set on Ebay ($50.00 plus shipping), so much cheaper this way. I found one card missing in the set #64 Malloy and I reached out to the seller and he is working on it for me. I have scanned the entire 200 card set (minus the Malloy). I will show the first half tonight and the other half tomorrow night.

Let me say this before you peek at the cards.... I am disappointed in Topps/Fanatics with the product this year (last year). 

The Pros: there are several great photos used but not as many as usual. Lots of good shots though.

The Cons: Design is weak, card stock is somewhat flimsy for what is supposed to be higher type set, and even with many good shots and a few great shots the overall shots seem redundant. This set will not rank better than flagship as the last of the 2025's roll out (still a few more coming). 

Okay now that is out of the way it is time to highlight the first 99 cards. (64 missing).

There ya go the first half of the set.

Wacky Wednesday: HUMP day

 Hump day already. I had to pickup my grandson from school today (flu), and I am praying (have prayed) that I didn't catch what he has. Poor little guy didn't feel so good (neither does his mommy who is also sick). 

This weeks interesting cards:

There ya go.

More Topps 1952

 Two turned into 7. That's right. Last week or the the week before I posted a pair of 52' Topps that a fellow OCT'er sent to me. Almost immediately David from CARDBOREDOM reached out and offered up some more. 

Wowzers! He sent me 5 that I needed. Even had his own specialized mailer which was very cool. 

I'm sure at some point I may replace the Richards (certainly not going to try to do so). One fo the cards had been trimmed and he put a note stating such. Easy to tell which one if look for it. Hank Bauer, no need for me to ever replace that one unless the cardboard heavens send me an excellent complete set, lol.

David, thanks BIGTIME! I really appreciate it. 

Folks out there in the spaces from here to there....David is working on building a mid to upper grade 1949 Leaf set.  So if you see any...........

Thanks again David.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Last week's winner was Fuji. Already in the mail too.

Now here are this week's giveaway cards.

Everyone hope that your week begins (and ends well)!

Got a couple from 59'

 I'll end the week with a short post. Yesterday I got two 59' Topps for my set build. It's storming pretty good (rain) here right now.

Still a long way to go, but we'll get there one day....Hopefully :)

Enjoy the weekend!

27 years in the making

 I could spin this as my youngest (Hunter) just turned 27 on Jan. 30th, but I'm not, No....this is about something else from 1999. 

1999 Upper Deck. These were the last three cards needed to complete that set. 27 years in the making. These 3 cards actually came in today. There were 2 others that came in last month from the same trader, plus these 3 card numbers but from the stadium club set by mistake. I reached out to him and he said oops. He then reached out to the guy he had traded with to get those original 5 cards and yes he still had these 3. From him to him and then to me. DONE! 

It is always a good feeling when completing a normal size set. Now if I can just do something about those 96' and 97' Upper deck needs to complete them.

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 HUMP DAY! And it just so happens to be our trivia night, wish us luck (that our brains are functioning well). 

Here are this weeks interesting cards.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Got these 2 items from the flea market

 I went to one of the local flea markets this past Saturday. I made two purchases half way through the market (about an hour into the visit). Just 2, but very pleased with both.

A 1980's (early) ruler for my Presidential collection for a buck.

Next buy cost me 5x as much as the ruler, hehe.

1997 Wheaties Starting Lineup. The box opens up, but here is a look at the back of the box.

Inside front left side.

Inside right side. I haven't seen one of these before so very pleased indeed. I got the figure, the card, the coin, and the box (albeit the box is beat a bit) all for a Lincoln. (see how I tied the two items together, lol.

Have a great night folks!

Just another Maddux Monday

 I forgot to mention the previous winner of the Maddux giveaway: it was Gavin. I'll try to remember to say something this time. Rules for the giveaway:

1) Must be a follower of this blog and in the U.S. or Canada.

2) Comment on this post by midnight Friday EST.

Here are this weeks Greg Maddux cards to be given away.

In case you didn't know.....2026 Topps has added 10 more parallels to the checklists bringing the total to 67 versions of the same card PLUS the others that will come out like 582 Montgomery etc. The good news is that is NOT every card (about half fo my Braves).

There you go, I wish the week ahead be a good one!

USA wins GOLD in overtime

 Congratulations to both USA hockey teams! GOLD! It's been awhile. Great day for the US.

1952 Topps

 How often does one get in the mail a couple of 1952 Topps cards? I for one certainly don't get many, especially unannounced. A total surprise for sure. They came with a note stating: "A couple of "mini's", but I hope they can be place holders for you." 

The cards themselves cover the "mini" angle. They certainly will serve as place holders, but I won't be stressing over "UPGRADING" them. For the immediate future and then some, they'll do just fine.

Have a great weekend!

Sport Lots all in one post.

 The last Slots order came in a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't a super large order. I wouldn't even call it a big one. I only scanned the Braves. Half of the order were set builds.

Okay, so I did leave one set build need in the batch. But it was a vintage Laughlin.

Have a great night everybody!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day! I am working hard trying to get those "P's" caught up and I am nearly done with the players. The biggest ones remain Piazza, Pucket, B. Posey, and Pujols. I'm updating Sal Perez right now. And have begun the sort of Mr. Piazza. I'll be glad to get back to the sort of the R's (roughly 15-20K) yeah that's a lot especially with the S's and T's right behind them. Looking forward to closing out this 2 year update because going forward won't take half as long and probably half of that as I haven't been buying a "ton" of bulk cards. Pun intended. 

Now let us peer at a few baseball cards that I found interesting at one time.

That top row is TOP NOTCH! 

Enjoy the last half of the week.

Guess what? Yep, I went and did it again.

 Yep, I done messed up again. No..... I didn't piss anyone off (at least not that I know of). No, I thought I finished updating my P's with my PC's including updating TCDB too. In fact, I started going through my PC boxes and pulling out the R's, S's, and T's to eventually sort them and when I got down to that last three boxes, I decided to grab the "R" boxes that were already separated from a year ago when I found 2 more shoe boxes full of P's. UH OH. 

I like to make lemonade when given lemons, so the positive takeaway is that I hadn't started the MAJOR sort with the R's yet. That would have eliminated any available space for sorting the P's now. So that is a good thing. Another good thing is for Night Owl,  several Dodgers in them there P's. I just sent a package loaded with Dodgers, and I mailed another one today..., Yes, Greg, there's another one coming. LOL, plus whatever I pull out of this batch of P's. The player with the most cards in these 2 boxes just happens to be Piazza (25% of all), then Pujols (who does have Dodger cards), then Puckett, Posey and Palmeiro so those last few are clear but might find a Podres dupe or two. 

Otherwise, I had an awesome long weekend. Started by picking up Elijah (my grandson) Friday after school, grabbed some dinner to bring home and wait for his mama to get off work. They spent the night and all day Saturday. The little guy and I went and got our hair cut which was cool. After they left is when I decided to start going through the PC boxes. Took all night, and all day Sunday, and Monday just pulling the r, s, and t's. Back to the drawing board with the P's...get it done and move on.

Here is a couple of scans of some baseball cards. Braves needs from and E-Bay purchase.

 It was the complete team set (I already had a few so I pulled those out).

I have a Sport Lots order to cover yet and more incoming cards too. besides the package to Greg, I've sent many more out Mark you have a box a PWE, Tom T, Mike D., Bo you have an interesting package coming at you.....LOL! RJ, Dennis, and Matt as well. Plus a PWE or two heading out to Gavin, AJ, and I think a couple more. 

Happy President's day!

 For those of you that have been following this blog for years, you've seen me on this day unload my entire Presidential collection. It is huge (tons of scans---several hundred maybe a thousand), and I love it. Doesn't matter left or right, it is a very nice collection.

 This year in fact recently, I received a packaged from our buddy Mark (Fuji). This was perfect timing, and I feel it worthy to be the sole representation this year. 

The first item from Mark was the deck of playing cards. I didn't scan these as the box covers the face cards which are the only ones with pictures.

Now the other item was an OVERSIZED complete set that I didn't own.

This is what that backs are like. That last line should also show that LBJ was also 6'4". Our current President is in third at 6'3".

That is where the set was printed. 

I included the card backs for person in case some of you wanted to read up on them.

God Bless the U.S.A.

Thanks mark, greatly appreciated.