Sunday, December 14, 2025

Fuji asked, 3 days in a row

 A week ago, I went to a card show about a 1/2 hour away.   Best local show I've been to in a while.

70 tables with only 4 or 5 Pokemon.  Amazingly there were 5 tables with Dime boxes.  After finding a

few cards at the 2nd table I came across this card in the dime boxes.



At first glance it looked like any other '87 Hygrades.   But it just looked different.
When I got home sure enough there are no signatures on these cards.
After studying other Ernie autos, it sure looks like it's real.  




Some other interesting dime box finds.  Super WWII spy, Moe Berg.
His biography is very interesting.




Might make my list of favorite Oddballs.











Saturday, December 13, 2025

2nd Post in Two days, new record

 I give all the credit to my fellow bloggers who post multiple days in one week.  Got lucky today.

Went to my local card shop and he gave me a box of cards to look through he had gotten earlier this 

morning.   Lots of interesting cards, but here were the ones I bought.  Special Christmas discount

helped.




Think it's a give a way card from the 2014 NCCC convention


custom Clemente Beer game card





Clemente numbered cards



First time I've seen this Factory stamp on the back


Art Card





A couple of Relic cards.  Does it count if it's a bench he might have sat on?




























Friday, December 12, 2025

Lots of Trading

 I passed 500 trades on TCDB a few weeks ago.  Can't find all the cards I want, but I found a huge chunk 

of my Relics.  Down to 2 cards to complete my Relic quest.  Here's the latest.



3 HOF'ers, including Clemente




A couple more with potential


My oldest "Bubble" card from the 1880's


Looks like National Guard buddies, Bench and Rose


Bubble Gum, unblown


traded for a few different Murakami's


Trying to complete at least one card from every HOF'er, some 
of the Negro League guys are hard to find


















Tuesday, December 2, 2025

At the Wall

 Got some cards at Costco today.  Topps 2025 Flagship and 2025 Topps Archives.  They're in a package 

together with packs of Topps Series 2.   These 3 cards reminded me of Nick's mini collection of 

At The Wall.   Can you tell if they were staged or actual game photos?




Dirty uniform, probably during a game



Last card to finish this set.


Max is wearing my Hometown Toledo Mud Hens hat.



A few more potential HOF'ers



One of my more interesting 1/1's


















Saturday, November 29, 2025

Visit to LCS

Had a chance to visit my LCS before the OSU and Michigan game.  Found some interesting cards.

I hope this first one is authentic and not a "fake". 



Yogi looks pretty thin, 1952 Berk Ross


How's this for a "Bob" card


Another Bob, 1963


Very cool card with holes that make the image



Griffey is scorching hot lately


Dover reprint from 1978



And finally a National Sports Card Convention card from 1995

All the above cards cost me .50 each, Thanksgiving Bargain














Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Down to 3

 I'm down to needed 3 more Relic cards to complete my HOF'er and future(possible) HOF'er.  183 so far.

The three I need are Koufax, Clemente and the hardest one to find Joe Gordon.  Joe Gordon finished his 

career in 1949 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009.  While there are Autos of Joe,  I have not

seen any relic cards.







My 1st relic with 4 swatches of same player



My 2nd football flip



some more "Bob's"


latest bubble


Cricket


Happy Thanksgiving a little early






















Fuji asked, 3 days in a row

 A week ago, I went to a card show about a 1/2 hour away.   Best local show I've been to in a while. 70 tables with only 4 or 5 Pokemon....