Wacky Wednesday

 Moving on to the next Wacky set. This one comes via Topps 1957 Goofy Post Cards.

The script on the backs vary, I want to say there are four or five different sayings. The set contains 6 regular size trading cards. I have half of them with the 30 above.

My uncle ate his breakfast, but didn't fall for the protein in the ice cream this afternoon. I'll try again tonight with a different flavor of ice cream. If that doesn't work will try the boost shakes, just will freeze them so they are like ice cream.

Going on a Crusade

 Getting to the middle of the lineup here. This journey will take us through the Crusade which leads to the Elite, you know the Gold Standard of people often leaving a Legacy, Limited as it may be.

My guess is that I am half way done with the multi brand set. That is a bit off target for me, but then again I have yet to complete a whole year yet. I had fun on the three minutes I spent "punning" the set brands at the top of this post. Got to find bright spots where you can.

The Elite are nice looking cards, good and thick too.

Here we go again, I have no idea why 4 of the 5 cards look orange, they are not, they are Gold..... Gold Standard. These are one of the tougher sets to put together. Rather blank looking too.

Yabba Dabba Baddoo

Great stopping point here. Thursday, I'll lead off (loving the baseball verbage) with Magnitude one of the toughest and costlier sets to put together.

My uncle seemed a little more with it this morning, still not his usual which is where he was this weekend, but as the day progresses I hope that he too will do better. It is supposed to get to 70 today. Not bad for being in the very cold recently. Damn Artic air had it down to 19 here without the wind chill. Thank goodness that wind only lasted a day here. We should have 4 days of this 70 degree weather before the next front. Going to get Uncle Fred some sunshine this week.

Night time update on Fred, the day was okay, he wasn't cooperative at dinner. Everything tastes like dirt to him. Nothing I can do about that. He is also protein deficient right now, so I have to sneak that in some how as the two things he spits out the most is chicken and eggs. Hitting the muscle builders section at the Rx tomorrow for some powder, hopefully he won't taste or feel that in some ice cream. Prayers appreciated.

Chronicles: Chronicles and then some

 Picking up where I left on on Friday with the Chronicles.

Clear Vision. 

Clearly Donruss and these are tough finds. I think they only come in the Hobby boxes.

A better size to look at although my cropping is horrible. I think it is, not sure now.

An update on my uncle: he had a bad day today. Hopefully, tomorrow he gets back on track and this setback doesn't hurt his recovery.

Let's trade

 Hey folks. I need some help. 

I need three 2021 Topps Gallery Braves  BASE cards.

#29 Freeman, #55 Maddux, and #67 Chipper.

I have these three to trade for them.

Rainbow Maddux,  base Hank Aaron and Pache.

Let's do this.

Change up

 Writing this before the sun comes up. My Uncle had me up all night. Zero sleep so if this gets wacky not my fault. Going to do a little something different for the next several posts. I've had scans ready for awhile so it's handy.

The last few years I've been collecting the Chronicles baseball sets....all of them. Well, not actively going after parallels unless they are Braves, but you get the drift. Lots of very small sets, and a few mediocre sets each years. It is tough as all get out. I have want lists they are on the very bottom of the set builds link in the drop down menu.

Anyways, I scanned up a bunch of this years run. Not all of what I have of course, but a lot none the less. I do what I do. I picked up a couple of very large Ebay lots on the cheap. I also bought a value jumbo box at the last show I went to. That box had 180 different cards in it, so that is the easiest and most efficient way to attempt to complete the sets. But the 2 Ebay deals were pretty darn good.

Looks like I forgot to crop this one. America's Pastime is one of the tougher sets to put together. Some people are asking those crazy prices that won't fly with me. I'm usually at .25 or less, but with this one I'm okay at .50 a piece.

Black is another one of the tougher sets, but not as tough as the 1st one. These are really nice cards.

I haven't figured out why some of the cards in this set scan a different color, they are not parallels which are denoted with the color of the foil writing. Green is a typical parallel.

Even here, drives me nuts that I don't know why. Looks cool though. I'll stop here with the Certified set for the week. See y'all back on Monday, hopefully by then everything is on the good side (including a little sleep).

Now for some fun stuff.

I mailed three medium flat rate boxes today. 1 to Portland, 1 to Orange, CA, those are due to arrive on Monday. The last one was heading to Deland 5 hours from here, it isn't expected until Tuesday. Go figure.

Coast to coast (sort of)

 Just a quick little post tonight, still getting things settled here with my uncle.

I got a package from Mark (San Jose Fuji) with mainly Braves. There were a few cards I was able to find a set build need with, but I scanned the Braves that I needed.

Mark was able to hit my Braves needs 9 times including the 4 autographs. Can't believe that I didn't Have that McGriff Platinum Studio card. Mark hits a good spot with that shiny Pache too. I hope this kid works out for Atlanta. Thanks Mark I appreciate the hits.

Quick note on my uncle, get this. They gave him a sleeping pill at discharge (a no no all by itself), hmm. I wonder if they thought that would knock him out so he couldn't tell me everything, but he did. It took a few hours for that no no pill to kick in. He told me everything. I really should sue, but more on all of that later.....much later. 

1959 Wacky Plaks

Congrats to Big Papi. But, more importantly my uncle is home. I'll make this long story short. The last 6 days have been a nightmare. The nightmare is over he is home, and within 1 hour if being home was 1000% better from when I picked him up. He still needs a few days or so to completely recover...not from Covid (he was never ill with that) he needs to recover from the "other" idiotic things they were doing and changed on non Covid issues that they were "ordered" NOT to do and did anyways, thus creating problems that would not exist had he been sent home to begin with or at least after the last dose of Rendesvir which was Sunday 1:30 am. One day I will tell the whole story and it is a doozie. Just not tonight.

 

Round 2 of the 1959 Topps Wacky Plaks.

Most certainly, I should have scanned the Scanlen reprints from 1982. That way you could have seen 84 of the 88 post cards. This is all I have of the Wacky Plaks for now.

Here is the back of one of the Scanlen's.  These were made/reprinted in Australia back in 82'. I have that complete set which is only 84 cards compared to the 88 of the original set. One day I'll run the Scanlen's. For next week.....I've got some more Topps Wackys, but from 1957. See you then to see what those are.

Final round: nickel cards

 This post will wrap up all that I am going to post from the 25,000 card haul at the Jax show earlier this month. I do wish the events of this past week had not happened, but c'est la vie. Moving on, I plan on heading to Jax on Feb 5th for the next show. 

Okay, now they are done. I sent a few packages out that were pre-covid (here). I have put together a few for Gavin, Jeremy, and working on Fuji. Just waiting to be certain all is clear before messing with them or the post office. I hope to get hose out by weeks end. That reminds me also that I just got a package from Mark and will highlight the needs here come Thursday.

Nickel cards: round three

 Round 3:

I'll have 1 more round of the "potential hot" up & comers.

Still can't complain about overpaying for any of these. I decided not to scan any of the penny "potential hot cards". There must have been 2 thousand of those so I just boxed them up until I need them. I put the PC guys from the penny boxes with nickel card PC guys. Roughly 6,000 of those with dupes. I still need to "thin" those out some more. I decided not to scan them as they are just more of what you've seen here already other than a boatload of higher end sets like Legendary Cuts, Finest, and etc.. 

See ya tomorrow with the last of the scans.