Gavin works his Magic

 Although Gavin has done multiple customs for me, I'm always amazed with the Magic he performs.

His latest batch has bubbles on players with no previous cards in my collection.  It includes Ohtani

with his first "Bubble".  Reminds me of an earlier Griffey "Bubble".

Another first bubble card.

Two Tigers Managers that blew bubbles.   Sparky also was a blower.

These above are from his series.

Gavin also does 1/1 customs.

Here a are couple of my "Fun" cards.  Where's Waldo?

Into my collection of Footballs on other sports cards

Can he do a faster replay?

Another Jose Lind fun card without the Samuri Sword.

Please check out Gavin's work on Ebays breakdowncards.

New Mini Collection

 I recently decided to try and collect one Memorabilia, Relic or Signature card of every HOF'er

since 1950.  So far I have 42 cards.  There is a long way to go with over 200 HOF'ers in that category.

Here are a few of my latest from a COMC shipment I just received.

Some of the most recent class.

Almost finished with a couple of insert sets I'm pursuing

1996 Mozaics.  Only need Boggs and Griffey to complete

Another 1996 set.  Christie Brinkley Collection.

This particular bubble has over 25 cards in its "Rainbow".  I now have 16

One of a few to have a minor and major league bubble.

New Football bubbles are hard to find.

As I search Minor League cards to find more bubbles, I usually seek out the better oddballs

for my many mini collections.

vintage and misc

 Let's start with a couple of vintage.  I picked up these two at my last card show.

1933 Tatoo Orbit

I thought it was older, but it's a reprint from the 80's

Still good for my "Bob" collection

Another Bob

This was inserted in last month's Beckett

This is for Mark

This card will trigger a Kahn's post soon.

This is Oh's Sunset Card.  Can you believe 805 HR'S!!!

I have 18 Thomas cards that were unauthorized, but not as many as Griffey Jr.

Minor League Bubble King

 Garrett Havig was dedicated to the Bubble.  Garrett was a trainer for two different minor league teams

and on 9 of his 10 cards he has blown a bubble.

This is his biggest

Other new bubbles included a pair from Topps Black and White

I have three version of Strawberry so far

My 6th version of Winn

One of my favorite players,  this is the 5th version I have of this card

Topps Gallery has had some cool inserts lately

Stan was the baseball coach when I was in college and I took a Handball class

with Stan as my instructor.

I have been accumulating quite a few Minor League cards, mostly from the 70's or older

Holiday Cheer

 I received my annual boxes of Stadium Club and was finally able to complete the set with a little help 

from my fellow TCDB traders.  Two new bubble cards for my collection.  Not quite, but Cal Raleigh

looks like he might have gone for his nose.    

The Other bubble was Salvador Perez.

Sunset card of Cabrera

A couple of new Bo cards for my collection

A numbered Ted card.

found a local card shop with lots of Japanese cards

Finally got my winning contest card from September.

Some of the earlier months had winners numbered to 2000 or more.

This card is numbered in the 500's.

Submitted about 10 cards and got one winner.

Merry Christmas everyone.

One Dime Box at show

 I went to a card show in Ft Wayne.  There were 180 tables. Big crowd.  I found one table with 

a couple of .10 boxes and two tables with .25 boxes.  Every table but my Dime Box ( for you Nick)

table had at least one display case.  In all, I picked up 70 -.10 cards and 20 -.25 cards.  Here are some of 

my highlights.

Let's start with the quarter cards

50 Bowman

56 Topps

Now the Dime Box cards.

71 Dell stamp for my "Bob" collection

Some nice rookies

A couple of fun Nolan's

Not from the show, but I've found a lot of Minor League bubbles.

Never see that photo on a Major league card