Jeremy knocks it out of the ballpark!

 I've got quite a few post scans to carry me through the next week or so, probably 2 weeks worth. With today being the real Opening Day of the 2025 MLB baseball season, uh um I figured I'd chime in with the visit last week from Jeremy (Topps cards that never were). Jeremy brought me a stack of cards (I had a huge stack waiting for him too). Among the stack he brought were some PC guys which I did not scan because it was the Braves he gave me that knocked it out of the ballpark.

All Braves needs. I did tell Jeremy he didn't have to break up his 1998 Inaugural Rays set to get me the Braves, but he waivered and did so anyway. Pretty sure he pulled out his Rays and Tigers too. I still need the Dbacks Braves set and most of the 1993 Marlins and half of the Rockies inaugural sets so if you have them PLEASE....let's trade. Jeremy even mailed me another 2025 card I needed after he got back home. Not a Brave (Skenes cup card), but still was a need. Thank you Jeremy for the huge help in my quest for that ATL #1 spot. Which brings me to this     what is coming up. I have cards from Clearwater, more from Ormond, Ebay, and other incoming cards. And I also have a 600+ card haul coming in from Sport Lots which is probably 2/3 of new to me Braves cards. Combine that with themed posts of shadows and Wackys I am pretty set for a couple of weeks and then some. 

Have a great weekend everybody.

WaCkY wEdNeSdAy

 Apparently my brother has re-couped from his ailment and we shall be playing trivia tonight. It's been a month, not sure how we'll do, but the free answer for tonight is "The Godfather". 

1984 fleer offered up several interesting and iconic cards. I also see another baseball card make it on a baseball card. Not bad for junk wax. Now we have started on the 1985 cards.

Have a great night folks!

The DOLLAR boxes.

 Here we go, straight up went through every BASEBALL dollar box (maybe 7) at the shop. I say "at the shop" because pretty sure there are a dozen more baseball at Bill's house. Those will be fun to go through once. I only wish that I could go through them before they get put in the card saver plastics, also nice to not have to look at the other cards again. Maybe, next time I see Bill I will ask if that would be possible before he stuffs them into the plastic.

Of course I will lead off with the Braves.

Threw in the Dylan SP variation to fill the page so that I could keep the four below together.

Now moving to the PC guys.

There you go this closes out that back to back run to Ormond. 

Have a great night all!

Ormond cards from the 2 for 5 boxes and the $5 boxes.

 That Ormond trip with back to back days found me spending my time flipping through the 2 for $5.00 and the $5.00 boxes.

Found another Matt Olson from the Bo Jackson Battle Arena set and a Jackson Holiday too. Mind you I didn't pay $5.00 for each card.  I needed these Braves.

That almost clears up that trip. I have the buck boxes left which I will do tomorrow.

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Talk about a week flying by, this one sure did....at least for me. I was planning on heading 2 hrs south today for a pretty good sized flea market, but decided with it in the mid 30's this morning nah. Nope, ah uh, just not not happening. I'll be staying inside my warm house nice and cozy. Now then, let's look deep into the shadows shall we?

A pig. (tail tucked between his legs of course).

The leaning tower of Piza.

This one made the cut because it caught three shadows, which is pretty cool.

far left could be a very dirty cartoon character.

middle looks like someone is getting ready to punch somebody else.

the far right has to be an alien, see the antennas coming out of his head?

Have a great weekend folks, it won't be long for baseball season to get rolling nor will it be long before we start seeing the non vintage shadows which get a whole lot better.

Baseball cards: FREE PACKS!

 A couple of weeks back when I made the back to back day trips over to Ormond Beach and Kyle jacked the cost of the dime boxes (by the box) 3 fold and I whined I did get some free packs of cards. Yes, I am spoiled....who wouldn't be when for a decade plus you were buying monster (3 and 5 row) boxes of baseball cards for $5-25.00, then all of a sudden they $30.00, then very short lived jumped to $75.00. yeah I'm calling it sticker shock. I just bought 2 and 2/3 boxes that day and I'm probably not going to buy any box full from there again. That is not saying that $75.00 isn't a good deal with the kinds of cards in the dime boxes (that's .03 a piece) a very good deal. I however, am not going to spend $75.00 for them as 99% of them won't be needs of any kind for me. I can hand pick the cards I want, and because the last visit last Friday I grabbed 200 cards and got them for free. I expect that to be the case most of the time going forward, along with a reduced number of trips over there. 

My blog's profile since it's inception was about DEALS. So now I must journey back into the real world and find some DEALS. I actually look forward to taking some trips all over Florida looking for them. It may take awhile, but I'll find some you can bank on it. 

Kyle did make it up to me by giving me some free packs, a book case, a 8ft table, and that curio which was more beneficial to me than anything else I got that day. In an attempt to get my Star Wars all together and organized before May 4th, I visited a few used furniture stores. The closest thing I seen was kind of like the curio I got from the shop, the difference those in the "used" furniture shops were $1200.00. Yeah, that trip albeit shocking initially was a HIT for me. As for the free packs of cards on day 1 were 4 packs of 2024 Heritage and a slew of the 2025 Topps Hobby Rip night packs.

I wasn't able to complete the 15 card set from the first packs on day 1, but I got Kyle to give me some more of them on day 2 along with a few packs of 2023 Big League wrapper redemption packs.

He gave me some packs of the Trading card day too. After the 2 days of packs of the Rip night cards I completed the set but still need the base Crews card.

I slipped in the Soler Braves rainbow foil from 2025 to even out the scan.

The Big League wrapper set is just 100 cards and no short prints in the base. there are lots of parallels too. Did anyone see the one above? The autograph one of one?

The 1/1 is hard to see but it is in the upper left corner just under the BL. That pull would have been better if it was a PC guy or Braves card, but hey I am NOT complaining. I still have a couple more posts from the Ormond cards from those two days. The cards i pulled from the buck box, and then other cards. After those are done I will start on the Clearwater show cards, followed by some Ebay wins, and other incoming and then back to another visit to Ormond. Who knows what else I'll find before I get those posts posted.

Wacky Wednesday

 I am in utter tears right now. Just kidding. Seems like no one had seen those 2024 Topps Holiday Plaid parallels. I have shown two or three of them in previous posts, you must have just missed it. LOL. 

Time for another round of interesting cards for one reason or another, except for one thing. I am foregoing the pre-scanned run of cards I was going to post tonight and going with these instead.

Yes, I got my hands on some 2025 cards. I did NOT buy a ton of them. The dime boxes at KnT finally dumped about 10K of them into their boxes. They also had complete sets already in order so I got one of those and just picked through the boxes grabbing cards for my PC guys and my Braves even though I already bought my Braves team (they are sitting in my Sport Lots, box (well now those are dupes).

Snagged the cards above because simply they caught my eye. A couple of bat flips and a nice slide, a great catch, weirdness picture taking, and just look how high that little feller got up in the air. I figured while 2025 series 1 was still on most people's minds I would get out these and now can proudly place them into the back of my Wacky Binders. 

Have a great night everyone!

The other Dime Box cards

 This go around will be the PC cards that I pulled out of the KnT dime boxes two weeks ago. And before anyone mentions it, I know that I was going to post the "free packs" I got from the back to back days visiting Kyle's shop but yesterday was St Patty's Day (I hope everyone faired well). I will post those packs or most of the goodies on Thursday.

The shop did NOT have the base 2025 cards in the dime boxes as of this trip (they did the next week (this past Friday when I visited the shop with Bill K. I'll post on that some other time. I was surprised to see some parallels and inserts in there though.

As much as I'd like to complain about the paying 3x as much for a whole box of them (I no longer will be doing that), still the .03 I paid for these cards is still a good deal.

Flat out robbery on the yellow Ichiro.

Happy to find some plaid parallels too.

So that finishes off the dimes from those two visits. I did pick up another 150ish last Friday when Bill K. was there. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 I wish all of you the luck of the Irish. As is my annual tribute to this day I am opening it up to the baseball cards where the player/s are wearing their Spring training St. Patty's day attire or I at least think they are.

The next scans (not counting the first card below) will be the birthday athletes. The majority below are baseball, but I left the few others that are not in the binder.

There you have them. I haven't really added much to the Holidate binder in the last few years. But, I will try to do better....maybe. Also noting that yes I do have a few of those Panini National Treasure shamrock (green swatches) relic cards, but I don't keep them in this binder. Maybe I should especially if it isn't a Brave or PC guy. Let me know what you think, do I pull the ones in the relic binder and move to this one or not. 

Saturday Shadow Shots

 This week flew by pretty fast. It was a good week. blog reader Derek is visiting the area from our neighbors up North (Canada). We weren't able to work out a get together and he is flying home today. Likewise, reader Bill K was down this week as well. He too is flying home tonight, however we did manage to meet up twice. Thursday at my house good times we talked for about 8 hours while he picked through some boxes. Then on Friday we met up at Kyle's shop in Ormond. He pulled almost 200 cards from the dime boxes before heading back to Jacksonville where I'm sure he spent some time at the card shop there too. I got some PC updating done this week as well as Braves. On the PC update I am hoping to finish the "G's" by months end and start with the H and I's. (the I is for Ichiro) lol. There might be another player or two in there.

Now let's see what we see in the shadows.

I'll have take a guess at either a Sting Ray or Manta Ray.

Maybe a gorilla or a Scooby Doo monster.

This one is odd. I see the Wendy's girl logo (if you ignore the arm hanging down), but I'll have to go with an Elephant head.

Enjoy the weekend and don't forget to comment on what YOU see in the shadows.

Dime box cards

 Just a reminder that I paid a lot more (2.5-3x) what I normally pay for these cards. I admit I am spoiled at a penny or less per card. But I guess 2-3 cents a piece isn't bad, at least for this bunch. I did separate the dime cards into two post: one of my new to me Braves and the other is PC guys.

Alrighty then. That was the new to me Braves portion. I didn't really need the Archives because I already bought them and they are sitting in my Sport Lots box. But these were in my hands first so the others will be considered the dupes (some will be used for PC too). Pretty sure I got my dollar's worth on the Braves. I'll finish the other dimes cards next Thursday. Game update: Braves win 13-5.

Wacky Wednesday

 Won't be playing trivia tonight, my brother can't make it. He is a bit under the weather, and taking the high road and staying home. He's pretty sure it's just a cold, but you can't spread it if you don't go out. That is what most people should do but don't. I have no idea how he got sick seeing that he only leaves his house to go to Dr's appointments and to the dog park (3x) a week. My guess is the park is where someone didn't stay home with the sniffles. Either way, I hope he gets well soon and very thankful he skipped our regular Tuesday morning visit. Yesterday was an absolutely beautiful day here in North Central Florida, a bit breezy March winds and all, but it was 78 degrees....almost perfection (minus the wind).

Reader Bill Kearney will be here tomorrow to dig through my dupe boxes. It will be interesting as the Braves played the Orioles today. The Grapefruit league isn't fairing so well this spring with only four teams ABOVE .500 as of this morning. My Braves are tied in fourth 2.5 games back at .500 (they are 7-7) again as of this morning. The Cactus league seems to be having a good spring. The Giants are tearing it up followed by the Jays and Dodgers. Apparently the Braves game had a little Wacky going on in the bull pen with a visit from a racoon.

Let's get onto the goofiness.

Ah yes, the iconic Glen Hubbard card. For starter's me no likey snakes, but that card is the card that kicked off my Wacky cards binder. 

Have a great night!

Some from Ormond

 There will be a lot of posts from the two days at Ormond. I will start off with some cards from day 1.

I did buy the complete 2024 Topps Chrome Galaxy set for $30.00 I now have every year of them 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Normally I would scan the entire set and that would be the whole post. However, I wasn't impressed with the set this year. Not sure why because there are some great cards in there, just didn't really do it for me. I scanned card #1 for you.

On day 1 I hit up 6 cards (lol) out of the dollar box, the 2 2/3 boxes of dime cards and the cards below came from the 2 for $5 box.

In case you are wondering about "Ollie" that is a card from the 2024 Bo Jackson Battle Arena gaming set. Ollie is Matt Olson. You will see another Ollie eventually.

Take a 2nd gander at the Roy Halladay "BUYBACK". Topps has now added buybacks to the Holiday set, I didn't know that until I seen this card. Found another 2023 variation I needed plus a pair of inserts from the 2024 set. I like those.

The Battle Arena card in this scan is of Jackson Holliday.

I'll call that a wrap for tonight. I'll break out the dime cards on Thursday. I only scanned 1 post worth. I got a bunch of "FREE packs" on both visits to the shop, so those will have to wait until Monday and you do not want to miss that post.

P.S. It was also Bike week in Daytona.