Happy Veteran's Day!

 Thanks to all Veteran's and their families! May God bless all of you. 

Below we have some athletes that share this day as their birthdays.

Enjoy your freedoms.... they have been paid for.

Let's go ahead and do this. NOT 2024 Topps Allen & Ginter, but 2023 instead. I also need your help.

 Super short post tonight, 6 scans in total.

This is where I need your help. I have mentioned this before. 3 of the 4 cards above are different than the other one. They are virtually identical other than the three have that silverish coating on the borders too. Side by side the Tatis displays the difference. No idea what they are. The parallels whether tcdb or beckett, do not mention this. At least not that I have read. They are not foil filigree, those are super easy to tell. All I see left is the silver portrait which would be the Tatis on the right along with all of the ones below.

With just 4 scans of the A&G, I'm adding a couple of Diamond Kings scans to balance things out.

I wish everyone a fantastic weekend.

Vintage buybacks plus 2024 Leaf Electrum, Pristine and Finest.

 Doing a quick one tonight with more cards from the Ormond run (should last at least two weeks).

I know there isn't anyone extra special in those relic cards but paying .22 for them is something that I can live with. 

Okay, Night Owl here are the card numbers on those buybacks, lmk if you need any.

The Panini Boys of Summer were very pricey boxes, so grabbing them up for .22 was a no brainer for me, even though Dawson is the only one hitting my PC. I'll throw the other two into the rookie boxes.

These four are the base cards for the 2024 Leaf Electrum. They are serial numbered to /99.

All 4 PC guys.

These are serial #d from 20 to 75. Five are in the PC boxes, and 1 on the rookie box.

Cards above and below are from this years Finest.

The base set this year does little for me, but those inserts are very nice.

This years Pristine inserts and some of those red parallel Hobby Rip night cards. I did get about a hundred of the Pristine cards for my set build that I did NOT scan. Same for the Finest but more like 50 of those. Still some at a penny and others .22. I like those kind of deals.

Have a great night.

Ormond Beach trip. 2024 Panini Crusade

 Not much sleep last night. Even woke up early and treated myself to a sit down breakfast out, followed that with a trip to Wally World then over to my brother's and hung out there for a minute. Spent the rest of the morning working on the PC update. Grabbed a pizza for lunch (and dinner too). After lunch resumed the PC update and typed up this post. Getting that 2024 Panini Crusade portion out of the wat tonight.

I like this set sort of. Panini did a decent job of using shots where the NO LOGO isn't a big deal. 

They also color coordinated okay too.

I used the one Braves card to highlight what the card backs look like. The write ups are interesting. 

Have a great night!

LISTEN UP. What I was supposed to do this weekend and didn't.

CONTEST PIMP FOR THE DIAMON KING

CONTEST LINK

 Many of us (card collector's) know that the reality of ever attending a NATIONAL is close to nil. In a way I am happy about that, but yet I do have it in my MENTAL bucket list. With that said FANATICS was going to do a mini National in Orlando from the 1st-3rd. Supposedly, it would be about a third of the National in size, and that is good for me. I booked my advanced tickets secured a 4 star hotel across the street (at a bargain price too). Then after the two Hurricanes passed through Florida, they decided to cancel (even though there would not have been an issue. I was so looking forward to that get-a-away. Three full days of nothing but cards all day long. I was let down. I did get my refund from Fanatics, the hotel didn't need to refund as they don't charge until you actually check in. Now, to make lemonade out of the situation I helped my brother at his new house and to make up for the cards I was hoping to obtain in Orlando I went over to Ormond and came back with TWELVE THOUSAND cards. 99.9% baseball cards of course. None of which were high dollar cards. 3 monster boxes from the diem section, so those cost me a penny a piece, and 1 box from the dollar boxes that cost me .22 a piece.

I plan on spreading those gets out of the whole month and even then may not last the entire month. I may have to go to a show in Clearwater or St. Pete. Will see. Not going to overwhelm any of the posts with a bunch of scans. tonight I am highlighting the new to me Braves cards.

I was able to knock out all of the base Update Braves. the bulk of the dime cards (penny cards) were actually 2024 Topps Update, maybe 7,500. I've got to quit doing that. Probably should stick to just a thousand or so going forward. Now, I also was able to get close to the complete Update set for my binders. Of course Topps loaded the key cards up with 2 cards of those guys like Skenes, Chourio, Merrill, and Holliday. I came up 22 card shy of the set, and already have 4 of those heading to my SLOTS box.

I still need the following cards: 50, 86, 97, 100, 149, 151, 155, 169, 175, 181, 210, 223, 240, 281, 288, 325, 341, and 350 Elly.

Got 6 of the hotbox silver portraits. I figure the next time I hit up Ormond (maybe tomorrow) I should find A&G in the dime boxes. 

I also got nearly all of the Braves inserts from Update.

My first Pristine Braves. Maybe I'll find some of them in the dime boxes too, but I doubt it.

There was one more Brave not highlighted here (odd man out) and that was 2024 Panini Crusade Owen Murphy. Believe it or not, it isn't a bad looking set. You'll get to see them later in the month as I got a nice stack of those.

That wraps up the new to me Braves. So, let's address the elephant in the room....

Thank you everyone for being interactive on Friday's post. I love it! Just so you guys know. I do already have a list of the Holliday binder guys that I need minus the newer players from the last 3 years (got to find that folder with those lists....lol). Same goes for the birthday binder guys. I'll get to updating those binders (and the Miller binder) after I complete the massive current task of updating my PC guys. I did NOT finish the B's. Bonds took all of last week. Leaving me with two more big ones, and 1 mediocre size update, and then a dozen very small updates to finish the B's. At this point, probably won't get to the C's until December. I also need to go back and add a couple hundred more to the A's and B's that were either missed the first time around or cards that I just got.

I'll try to get all that qualified some cards out this week. 

Have a great week.... VOTE.....If you haven't already.

It's Friday and time to play a game and with your MIND!

 I hope that everyone's week has progressively gotten better as we are now at the end of the week. Last night I mentioned that I would be doing something different tonight starting with a re-do of the Pink Topps mini cards. Let's do that now.

I rarely find the parallel mini cards in the wild (especially in the cheap boxes). Most of them are numbered to just 25 which could be a very good reason why. I believe I picked these up from a box of dollar cards that needed sorting at Kyle's shop in Ormond last year. It was one of those days where I got to throw them in with the dime box cards that I was getting for $20-25.00 for 3K. Well, those days are gone (I mentioned this the other night). I can expect to pay $30.00 which still isn't bad. If it is stuffed and you get 3K cards in there then that is a penny a piece and I can live with that I guess. Getting back to the cards above. Only ONE PC guy above, more of a "keeper" guy Lindor. Here is where you guys might have been thinking I would be doing a PC guy contest NOPE. Got ya! LOL. 

No, here is where I want to put it out there reminding everyone that we shouldn't just highlight Breast Cancer Awareness in October each year. Raising 4 girls (technically 5), this should be year round. 

Okay, there is a bonus tonight. yesterday was Halloween, and normally I would have posted cards from the Hollidate binder. So tonight I recognize those athletes that I already have in the binder (I did just add one for Halloween).

Pay close attention as I might have a giveaway....

I no longer add football and basketball players to the Hollidates binder, but these have been in there for over a decade.

See the 2024 card I added. I haven't been looking at the birthdays on the card backs for a few years now. Shame on me. Once in a while I do look, but have really been super lazy. BUT, I DID FIND ONE MORE TODAY.

So here is the deal....it is Friday night so I'll give this to midnight (EST) Sunday to get FREE cards. (DON'T FORGET TO TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK THIS WEEKEND).

1) I ONLY want baseball athletes.... BASEBALL.

2) Comment ONLY once!

3) Get me the names of  baseball athletes that are NOT posted above. Only need 1 of each guy who has a 10/31 birthday. 

4) DO NOT use any players that are listed in comments before you so holding off might wipe out your entire list.  That is the FUN part for me.

5) Anyone getting at least 1 that counts will get something, and the person with the most will get a nice prize.

Have a great weekend! 

A big one! 2023 Topps Chrome. Plus something extra!

 2023 Topps Chrome has more pink cards in my collection than any other year (as far as chrome is concerned). Here we go.

These look pretty good. I'll rate them right along with the 2015 set.

The reason a card is missing here is because I realized that it was a pink/fuchsia wave parallel, so I moved it to the end.

Okay, that is the end of the 2023. With that in mind I do have a couple of 2024 plus some other Topps in the book. Those are below because tonight is the last night of the month, and I skipped posting last night. I did have this timed out perfectly, but I was just too tired after getting in from a winning night at Trivia! 

The 2024 looks okay too. The Flagship 2013 looks really good likewise the Pro Debut do too. 

These are mini's (above and the scan below).

Now, I will re-run the mini's tomorrow. Yeah, redoing it because I'm throwing a little contest at you with them.

Happy Halloween!