New Quest

 Since I just stopped being a set collector, I've decided my new quest will be serial numbered cards of 

HOF'ers and possible down the road HOF'ers.  More on set collecting.  After all I'm reading about 

Fanatics and breakers, I've decided to no longer buy any new product.  Trading, going to shows and 

supporting my local card shops, for as long as they survive, is my new focus.

My Serial numbered quest should be easier than Memorabilia.  I'm starting with 70 existing #'d

cards vs 20 Patch cards.  Should be less expensive also.  As always, I try to get cards that are unique.

More choices of multiple HOF'ers on cards

1st Milk Duds card

Elvis, One of the Best Football oddballs

A new Pepsi mini collection card

A minor league Bob

One quest ends and another begins

 Finally got the last card I needed for my Memorabilia quest.   All the Hof'ers that had Sunset cards in 

the 50's until the present.   When you add in Potential HOF'ers the total was 278 cards.  I started with 

about 20 cards and it took about 13 months to finish.   Here are a few of final cards:

This was the final card.

I would have finished this post about a month ago, but there was an update to IOS and it caused a problem with downloading pictures.  After a trip to the Apple store, they decided my browser  couldn't communicate with Blogger.  They couldn't fix it.  My solution was going back to my desktop Mac that is 15 years old.  It takes longer but it works.  Sometimes older is better.

Mr. Budweiser

 First time I've seen this type of card and the back has one of the greatest cartoons ever.

Here's the front, 1996 St. Louis Browns Historical Society

Joe is nicknamed Mr. Budweiser, he can outdrink any teammate.  He also played

for the Toledo Mud Hens, my home team.

The Rifleman

More Oddballs.  Cincinnati Team card, 1983, position - infielder

Another Reds team card

Another McDonald's card for my collection

The Night Owl posted a card of Bob Cluck from this set.

Samari Cecil

A couple of TCMA's

A Wheaties BB card, cut from a box

COMC order arrived

 My COMC order also arrived yesterday.  I have waited for over a year to ship hoping for some special

deal with shipping, but no luck.  With almost 100 cards, it will be good for a couple of posts.  We'll

start with mostly bubbles.   Over 20 new bubble cards, but here were the highlights.

Combining Bubbles and MEM, works for me

Hockey is the only sport that still has newer Bubble cards other than baseball

One of the hardest to find Bubble cards are numbered

A bubble card from the Venezuelan league, timely

I also collect cards of players that are local.  This card is the oldest player from

the Toledo area to have a card.  There is also a Historical Roadside sign a few 

miles from my house that shows where Comstock grew up, one of the first

settlers in the Sylvania suburb.  It does not say he played baseball.  I found 

out that fact searching local sports figures and he started as a Tiger.

Is Roy Kent based on Roy Keane

 According to the articles I've been reading Roy Kent, Ted Lasso, was based on Roy Keane.  Also have 

been trading for a few Relics of down the road maybes for HOF.  Lots of cards from trades this week.

Good chance for this year

3 Cy Youngs should do the trick

Un Licensed cards from the 80's and 90's are making a comeback

Saw Bull Durham over the holidays

A Parallel

Cards from Local Card Shop

 My weekly trip to my LCS, Bob's Bullpen, netted some interesting new cards.  He always seems to

bring new cards I haven't seen before.  I also have made a couple of interesting trades on TCDB.

'52 Wheaties

Altogether I got 9 different stickers from '63 Topps

And this '69 sticker of Tiant

Can always use '70 Hostess

extra Relics from trades

A new bubble from a promising rookie with many parallels

Vintage stamped