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

Mini Collection ; Towels

 I have many mini collections.  The one for today is; HOF'ers with Towels.  I also have an interesting

new "Sunset" card of HOF'er Luke Appling.   As well as, A couple of new bubbles.  I have found 8 new 

bubble from Minor League teams.

I have over a dozen Towel HOF'ers so far

A new addition to my "Bob" collection

This card is from the 1950 "Royal Stars of Baseball".

Issued on the backs of Royal Gelatin boxes. 

There were 24 different panels

A new card for my Japanese League

2 of my new MILB cards

Mini Collection Over the Wall

 It seems like every day there is a new highlight of a player going over the wall to make a great play.

I've had a collection for quite a few years and it might have been inspired by Nick (Dime Boxes).

Also included are two of my newer bubbles: 1st Tennis bubble and an Oddball for Gavin.

My Tigers against the Padres, World Series rematch.

Andy is the Tigers Radio and Sometimes TV color commentator.

future HOF'er

Still my favorite highlight reel player

Two posts in one day

 I was watching the TV show, The Card Life, and they had a feature on Matt Strahm who is the show's 

host.  This year he was selected as an All-Star from the Phillies as a reliever.  At the game and pre-game 

festivities he was wearing a "Card Belt" made by Will of his baseball cards.  I had a similar belt made up 

of bubble cards and sent a "Belt" to a few of my fellow bloggers.

It is a great show devoted to the Card industry and I hope you're able to get this syndicated TV show in 

your area.

Bubble Milestones

It's been awhile.   Just got my COMC order and there were some special Bubble cards.

My first Wrestling bubble.  1985

Maybe the first bubble on a card.  The Rat Patrol, 1966.

Showing my age, Our high school rival had some players on their football team nicknamed the The Rat Patrol.  I did watch the show regularly.

A guy is blowing a bubble in the background.  I thought it would be in a baseball game.

Courtesy of C2Cigars.

I do collect rainbows of bubble blowers.  This card is literally a rainbow.

Deion's third bubble card.

Another minor league card.  Lately, there have been more and more cards from the minors.

Another in a growing segment, autos and SP's.