NOT, just another Maddux Monday GIVEAWAY... This one has a story with it.

 Last week was a hard one for Atlanta Braves fans starting with the loss of longtime owner Ted Turner followed by their first series loss of the year (to Mariners), and closed out the weekend with the loss of Bobby Cox. Loved watching Bobby go after those umps (I liked Steve spurrier getting pissed at Gator games too). According to TCDB I am the #1 guy for Bobby Cox cards with 77 unique. If they were all in his PC binder I would have done a solo post for honoring tomorrow. However, only 8 or 9 (mostly Blue Jays) are in his PC binder the rest are scattered throughout the Braves binders where they should be. My brother and I just had a conversation at trivia on Wednesday (we were discussing Turner) and Bobby came into the mix with how we miss those days of unrelenting WINNING (just not the WS), and how much we missed him getting tossed from games. 

One of the memories involved tonight's Greg Maddux and a little inside story about one of Bobby's ejections: Maddux was pitching and there was a questionable call (but not really) on one of his pitches. Bobby was mad and as the story goes, Maddux who knew the call was correct told Bobby immediately when returning to the dugout told Bobby that it was a strike and off he went and sure enough got tossed. Maddux was a character for sure.

Laurens had won the last (two Maddux giveaways) and I apologize as I am just now sending out that 2nd one to you.

Happy Mother's Day

 To all of the mom's out there, may your day be blessed.

My grandson and I are taking his mom out to lunch today.

I love you Mom....miss you so much!

Cards from the Best Bubble

 Bubble gum pink for this post. I was the beneficiary of a package from Bob this week, but first I wanted to say YES we won at trivia on Wednesday night. We led the way all night once again and ahead by 17 points going into the final question, then my brother had a brain fart (he didn't agree on the answer that 4 of us thought was the better answer). The good news is that I made the decision to not wager any points (or put either answer), and that put our fate in the hands of the other 11 teams (slow night). The team that was 17 point behind us didn't wager any points with and came in third and the team that came in second doubled up with the correct answer, but only finished with 85 points giving our 95 the win. YaY!

Now to the cards from Mr. Obert:

The breakdown:

Bob sent 10 cards (I didn't one of them). Six of the cards were autos and I didn't have three of the players before, but still needed all six. So that was a very nice get.

My Braves autos are up to 800.

Total unique Braves players is........ 285.

Just a short one: sweet tooth fans.

 I got another surprise PWE from another OCTer this week, and this one might be on the sweet side....sort of.

Mr. Biggs sent me a pair of Hostess needs, and a pair of Twinkies needs.

One of these days I may have to go all out and complete one those sets.

Have a great night folks!

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day again and hopefully we'll finish strong tonight at trivia. We kicked butt the last time until the final question which we blew although thought we had it down solid for a three-peat. Nope....we were wrong. Shucks.

Here are some interesting cards for you to peer upon tonight.

All from Donruss this time.

Later folks!

Cinco de Mayo

 For the most part I have dumped the May 5th cards from the "Holidates" binder. I left a few just so I could post the unexpected Mexican victory in the 1 day battle where France thought they could undermine Abraham Lincoln. HA!

I wrote this on Monday with plans to grab some Tacos for Tuesday.

2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars: Hyperspce

 No Maddux tonight for obvious reasons. However, we did have another back to back as Laurens wins again! 

About two weeks ago I won an Ebay auction for one of the Star Wars releases on the cheap. BIN price $20.00.

A weird 100 card set, but was happy to get it for $20.00 and celebrate May 4th with you, lol. I have completed every Topps Chrome Galaxy set since the first one, but I've yet to find a cheap one for 2025. Not even a Cheap Topps Chrome Star Wars set for 2025. 

UPDATE: After visiting the LCS and seeing the 25' Galaxy packs are $18.50 each, I bit the bullet and just now did a BIN $80.00 for 25' Galaxy complete set.

Just like all of the other set builds I maybe done trying. I did finally get those Braves stacks put into their binders. I also started working on the 7500 cards to check against my set builds so that I can resume the PC update. I added about 100 Heritage needs half of which were SP's from that $20.00 box from the show in The Villages last month. $20.00 seems to be a sweet spot :)

1962 Topps

 Heading into the weekend with a PWE from fellow OCTer Bob D. 

Bob sent me a PWE with 10 62's inside but I didn't need one of them. The 62' set is one that I probably need the most of for 60's set builds, followed closely with the 63' set.

Always good to get a surprise in the mail. Have a great weekend people!

Last call

 Last post from the package Rod sent, and yes there were some modern Braves :)

Cards for my Presidential collection all Dwight D. Eisenhower.

These 6 football cards are up for grabs, lmk if you're interested.

1921 tobacco card.

I was stoked to get the Rip night card.

I needed 4 of these 5 Braves cards. I thought I needed the Precious Elements too, but I didn't.

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day, midweek, whatever you call it....it is here.

Mostly Upper Deck.

Finish the week strong.

Shall We?

 Shall we peek actually gaze upon the third installment of cards sent to me via Padrographs? I say yes, let us look at Rod's generosity.

Rod, thanks again. There will be one more post from Rod's cards on Thursday! Have a great night everybody!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Congratulations go out to Laurens for last week's win. As for this week, I was wrong thinking there was another rookie in the batch. I went through the batch that carries us to mid July and there is another one in the mix.

Here are this weeks freebies:

The 98' Pinnacle is full stats version (I believe).

Flying into Round TWO from Rod

 Flying right into round two of the amazing package from Rod.

How cools are these vintage cards? Again thank you Rod!

I should have the third installment ready for Tuesday.

Have a super weekend everybody!

Just AMAZING!

 Two weeks ago I got a package from Rod over at Padragraphs and it was a doozie.

I broke up the package into 5 groups for posts.

Some Sgt. Peppers vintage cards which I don't see very much. The Bob Bailey Black Hawks are card is available as I'm pretty sure someone out there on the blog roll collects that Chicago team.  First current blogger in the US to comment and claim it gets it.

Not a bad way to kick off this amazing package from Rod (BTW:  THANK YOU!) Oh look Princess Leia's mom (IRL). 

Just getting warmed up. I'll post the 2nd round tomorrow night that should get you flying.

Later Gators!

Wacky Wednesday

 These cards are screaming....."Did you miss us?" After skipping last week, rather the swapping the post out for JRD which was the right choice. I'm sure they felt a little abandoned, tis tis. 

They should feel better now. Have a great night. Going for a tree-peat tonight at trivia.

A Super quickie!

 A super short post tonight. I decided to kickoff a package I got recently from Padrographs (Rod) on Thursday, and should get 5 posts out if it. With that said tonight is just that single scan (9 cards). Of what I picked up Saturday at the Ocala show.

I'd say colorful would be a very good description here inclduing the three new to me Braves!

I haven't really messed with bindering the stack of Braves (500ish) that I've been looking at for at least a month now. I also have been ignoring the set builds that need checked sitting on my love seat in the living room which will need to be taken care of before I get back to the S's for my PC update. I've been super lazy of late. I really need to hit it hard NOW, but I just haven't been in to it.....

Have a great night folks!

 

Just Another Maddux Monday: Week 10

 I hope that your week has kicked off wonderfully. Last week's winner was none other than DefGav. 

I made it to that Ocala show Saturday, but wasn't there too long. 90% Pokemon. That doesn't mean I didn't get anything though. I managed to get ONE scan worth of cards for a future post. 

Back to Greg Maddux!

This week's giveaway cards: 

If I am not mistaken next week's Maddux cards contain another rookie. It's been awhile so my memory maybe off....we'll see.