Stadium bubbles

 After striking out on Bubbles in 2026 Topps, first time no bubbles in years, Stadium Club comes through

with 2 bubble cards.

Here's my Stadium Club story.  I did not buy any boxes.  Went to my local card shop and he had bought a bunch of cards from a breaker that included 2025 Stadium.  I bought about 400 cards for $8.  When I sorted at home, I had almost 150 of the 200 cards in the set.  I was missing all of the Rookie cards.  After 5 trades with fellow TCDB'ers, I had all the rookies and finished the set.  Including the postage my set cost $13.  I'm not buying any boxes or packs this year.  

Still working on my #'d chase.  Down to needing about 37 cards to finish.  Still all thru trading.

While no bubbles in 2026 so far, the First "Bob" in many years.

Easier and cheaper

 Compared to my last quest, #'d cards are easier and cheaper.  I'm down to the final 45 cards and 

all the 106 cards I've gotten so far have been trades on TCDB.  Sooner or later I'll need to buy a

few, but I have another 12 cards proposed for trades.  When I get down to a few, I'll post the

names and see if I can trade with my fellow bloggers.

Two/fer  #'d and Bob

My mother would call me Roberto when she was mad at me.

#'d

Early Inserts are getting popular

Older reprints are fun

A Sparkly Sunset card

Still collecting MEM cards, especially with trades

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.