Why yes it is...... Mr. Carl Mays. But first our winner for the very last time Friday night was.......drum roll....... Eliiptical man. Please e-mail me (jfmjr1@aol.com) make sure I have your address. Again, thanks everyone for putting up with it for the last year.
Carl Mays:
Hopefully you folks saved the link to the Archives for part TWO. There is one more baseball player I have for next week. I'll be back on the remaining interesting people from our past.
Our winner last night was: Jeremy
Folks it has been a year in the running, but tonight is the last night of the "almost daily giveaway". One year ago I started this thing to celebrate my ninth blog anniversary and coast it right up to my 10th anniversary which is tomorrow (I will be at the Jacksonville card show). It was a multi-purpose giveaway in reality. My uncle Fred who passed last September would be celebrating his 100th birthday today that is a real big one rather it would have been. I miss him.
The giveaway was also to celebrate a few milestones other than hitting #10. As you can see I had a birthday not long after my anniversary (got one coming soon again). I also knew that I would surpass my 2,500th blog post (now over 2,700), nearly a half a million views, and over 11K comments. For some bloggers that's just a months work but it took me ten years. I am proud of the numbers but I promise I won't get upset at all if they continue to rise at a faster pace.
Along the way several new followers came aboard, happy about that too. When running the commenters names (or abbreviations) in Random.org nearly everyday I noticed a few quirky things, but my mind works that way all of the time. For instance, the order in which people commented could leave you a quip or two as follows: Bo Derek or Bo NO.
That added a little fun on the days it worked out that way. I randomized three times each day and seeing how it randomly picked could also be interesting. I seen the same name in the #1 spot all 3 takes too. A few times anyways. What was happening a lot though was the top name after 2 spins would also wind up the top name on #3. A lot.
All in all there counting tonight was 266 giveaway days resulting in apx 2,394 cards given away. My goal was to put a hurting on that 5K count box of super stars that sat next to my laptop while up in Georgia. yeah, that didn't happen it is still full and I can still see that very box that I was wanting to avoid lugging back to Florida. Oh well.
I hope that those of you who commented and won cards got some cards that you needed or wanted along the way. (pretty sure that everyone won at some point). That was also fascinating to see back to back wins and even a third back to back back.
I do still have a bunch of cards that I plan to send out to all of those who commented over this past year. That may take me a bit to put that altogether. Mainly because I have old new plans for this blog.
At some point the Masonic Mondays will cease and I will be bringing back some of my old theme posts like
Monday Mini Collections (I have a slew of those). Signing, Bubble Gum, Birthdays, and several others.
Tuesday Trade Day: This go around will be a different spin on what I was doing 10 years ago. This time I am starting it out with baseball cards either autos relics or both. I have finally put all of my autos & relic cards into binders they took up 4 binders for the non Braves (well there are a bunch of dupes Braves in those binders). I also have left out my PC guys unless they were dupes too. There are plenty of them. The first one of those posts will be a super duper long one because those are not sorted by teams like the rest will be. Then I will go each week alphabetically posting those autos/relics and they are all available for trade. WHAT IS UNIQUE HERE IS, where usually one would trade relic for relic or auto for auto and that is fair. What I will be wanting in return is a Braves card that I need and to be basically equivalent if fairness.
In case you didn't know I have always collected auto cards and relic cards no matter who they were. Well, this way I can thin those out (hard to do with me always adding to my collection) and add some NEEDED Braves to my collection. It would be nice if they were autos or relics but I really just want a fair trade on any Brave card that I need.
Wacky Wednesday: Over the last ten years I have ran two separate kinds of Wacky Wednesdays. 1 being baseball cards that for some reason or another I find interesting, and the other being Wacky Packages. The originals, pre-originals, the re-runs, the ANS, and even the underground ones. I will be resuming both of those in that order. I will do the baseball cards first until I run out of them and have to start stockpiling them again. While doing that I will fall back onto the Wacky Packages. I have finally got those into binders too. I am still working on re0organizing the baseball Wackys as I have decided to break them into different categories, so it will be a while before we start this, but I am working on it. Takes time you know, lol.
Franken-Friday: I have been talking about those darned sets for nearly ten years. For those not aware my 1st Franken-set was all Braves by card numbers. Then I built another Franken-Set with Jersey numbers not Braves specific, I can't seem to find one of those binders now. But I plan on tearing the remaining two binders apart anyways. But I had been stock piling and talking about three others (actually there are 4 other Franken-Sets). Ten years in the making and I am finally working on getting those put into binders. I will announce now what they are. The first one is" #1", all cards with card #1, could be an insert or checklist or base card whatever card #1. The next one is "Easy as 1 2 3" All cards numbered 123. The third one is called "Trips" these are cards numbered 111, 222, 333, etc. The fourth was Uniforms but I am pretty sure I am going to break that one apart too, just not 100%.
Lastly, I will be bringing back what I used to call Saturday Shadow Shots, I just won't be doing the "Shadow Shots" on Saturday this go around.
None of these will be taking place in the immediate near future, as I am just now working on them, but rest assured before year's end some of these will be hitting the blog.
Okay let's get to the next portion of that 1958 Topps set.
Alright I will finish the set up (the All Stars are in the back of the set). on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend! I have enjoyed the last 10 years writing (mainly scanning and posting cards) this blog. I hope I make another 10.
The winner last night was: R.J.
Now pages 14-26.
I'm not sure if you folks remember when I got back home and started organizing my garage. Ordered a dozen new book cases to house my binders then decided to put them inside the house. Yea way back then probably a good 6 months ago I was going nuts because I couldn't find two of vintage binders. 1975 which turned up after I bought a whole bunch of 75's to rebuild. The other was 1958 Topps. Well.... turns out I was looking for the wrong thing this time, and obviously back when I was in Georgia thinking I couldn't find my 1958 binder. Apparently, in GA. I decided to box them and label the box misc. which I stuck on my Topps bookcase and never looked inside. That is until last week. I be damned, there was all of my 58's except for the dozen or so I actually put in a new binder say 5 months ago. Could have been 6, nonetheless. I found my missing 58's. I have now placed those cards in the new binder with the others. Normally, I wouldn't be scanning and posting them until I completed the set build. But I did every page. No blank pages either. Without further delay I will post up a fourth of the binder tonight, and follow up the next three non Monday post days with the rest.
Typically I don't like writing on my cards especially the fronts, but #42 isn't the only one that the card number was written on the front.
In case you are wondering who won the almost daily free cards last night..... Crocodile.
The winner last night was Derek. Just 4 more giveaway days left.
Last week I left off with the High End Tribute and Finest cards that I was lucky to get. Then the inserts that I pulled which are easy to spot....they're different looking of course. Now I am back to the cards I worked for to pull out of those dollar boxes.
I remember chasing those Dress for Success cards back in the day, they were and still are expensive inserts. Glad to steal this one for .33.
A little prospecting there at the end. This wraps up the last trip to Ormond which is a good thing. I plan on going back next week as there have been a couple of new releases and I want too scavenge the dime boxes for the cheapies.
