COMC Shuffle #26

Another week, another ten randomly selected cards from last year's COMC hoard!

1970 Topps #324

This has always seemed like an odd photo to me, not quite as awkward as the Hank Aaron from this set, but it definitely doesn't look natural.

1999-00 Upper Deck Ultimate Victory - Ultimate Collection #146

This was just an impulse purchase, it was cheap, shiny, and just so happened to be a hard to find 90's parallel, so...

1971 Topps Milk Duds Whole Box

If Willie Davis ever asks you if you'd be interested in seeing his famous disappearing bat trick, take my advice and... run away as fast you can!!!

2018 Panini Classics Timeless Tributes Orange #102

I love Eric's card from this set, but after getting this basic orange, as well as one of the orange Optichromes, I can honestly say that I probably need them. The blue's and gold's look great, but the orange's not so much (at least not for Dickerson).

2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Green Crystal Shard #32

Replacing one logo for another. That's exactly what Panini did with this photo, Jimmie now looks like he's playing for the National Baseball Hall of Fame's... can't say that I've ever heard of that team before?

1909 T206 #?

Harry Gaspar (misspelled on the card) played four seasons of professional ball, all with Cincinnati. During this time he compiled a record of 46-48, with his best season being his first (1909), in which he went 19-11, with a 2.01 ERA. In 1910, he and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown led the majors in saves, each notching seven respectively.

I had forgotten that there was a stamp on the back of this one. Now I'm gonna have to go find it and see if I can see what it says.

1974-75 Topps #30

Set need. This card proved surprisingly difficult to find in decent shape for a realistic price.

2014-15 Panini Prizm Yellow and Red Mosaic Prizms #209

Recently I responded to a question on Twitter by a posting a picture of Shawn Kemp's 1990-91 Fleer rookie, this then led to someone who I didn't know that I was mutually following mentioning growing up in the Northwest and watching him and Gary Payton, I then said that I saw plenty of them while growing up in Portland, which led to them to reveal that they too were from Portland!!! Portland isn't a small place (at least not anymore), and I know that a lot of people have come from there, but it's still always a bit of a surprise when I encounter a fellow native.

2014-15 Panini Prizm Blue and Green Mosaic Prizms #198

Even though the 2014 set has two different kinds of all-blue Prizms (regular and mojo), I think that Elgin looks best on the blue-green combo, although him on those all-blue's looks pretty good as well, and I certainly wouldn't mind getting a few of them :)

2000 EX - E-Xceptional Red #7 XC

When talking about the big three, it's kind of amazing to see the difference in price with E-Xceptional inserts. On the basketball side they keep going up, most of the baseball are still fairly cheap (a few have gone up though), meanwhile the football is in the gutter and isn't showing any signs of climbing out anytime soon. As far as this insert goes, most of my examples are of the basketball variety, but over the last year or so I have started picking up more of the super cheap football's.


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COMC Shuffle #21

Another week, another ten randomly selected cards from last year's COMC hoard!


1972-73 Topps #173

I am fourteen cards away from completing this set, and like most of my other nearly completed sets, I'm not entirely sure that I want to bother finishing it anymore. I'd kind of like to pull out some of the names, and just sell the rest. I think I'm only a few cards (not counting the Star cards) away from having everything that came out during Kareem's playing days, I might be kind of nice to have it altogether in one place? No matter what I end up doing, this is still a great card, one that just so happens to feature three of the greatest centers to ever play the game.

1999-00 Upper Deck HoloGrFX AuSOME #34AU

Even though Terrell Brandon is a Portland guy, I can't say that I was ever a huge fan of his. He ended up having a pretty solid career, and by all accounts he was always a good dude off of the court, so in retrospect, I feel a little bad for not supporting him more -- after all, it's not like there's been that many NBAer's to come out of Portland.

1971 Milk Duds Whole Boxes

Yes, this is a cool item, but I'm still down on the Milk Duds boxes.

2013 Panini Black Friday Panini Collection Lava Flow #20

Kool be holdin' a turntable while rocking an old school Bullets hat! This card is so great that I think I'm gonna have to clear my throat before continuing on with the rest of this post :)

2018 Panini Classics Timeless Tributes Gold #102

There's been serious lack of gold Dickerson's being added to COMC (and eBay for that matter) as of late, how am I supposed to complete my goal of getting an entire page's worth if people aren't listing them? There was just recently one of the orange optichrome's on COMC, but after getting the one that I have, and seeing how they're not the greatest looking parallels in the world, I decided to pass on the COMC one. That being said, I still might've bought it had the price been a little lower, but it ended up selling, so I guess I don't have to worry about it anymore.

1997-98 Fleer Soaring Stars #10SS

I seem to recall watching an NBA game or two back in '97 where they were using an ABA ball, but for the life of the me I can't remember why, and I'm feeling little lazy while typing this, so I'm not gonna go look it up -- if your curiosity has been peaked, you can go look it up! :)

1909 T206 #?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there about Art Fromme, it's pretty much just his career stats, and that's it. He spent ten years in the bigs, pitching for the Cardinals, Reds, and Giants. He finished his career at 80-90, with a 2.90 ERA. His best season appears to have been in 1909 while with St. Louis, went 19-13 with a 1.90 ERA. After the majors, he spent seven seasons in the PCL, all seven of those being with the Venice/Vernon Tigers, where he ended up having a little bit more success, going 93-66.

For you back addicts :)

2014-15 Panini Prizm Yellow and Red Mosaic Prizms #198

Being able to get a gaudy card of a young Elgin Baylor is one of the reasons why I like the earlier Prizm sets so much.

1996-97 Topps Hobby Masters #HM20

I know I say it every single time I show a Hobby Masters, but who cares, it's one of my all-time favorite insert sets, and I will most likely continue to mention that every single time I show one.

1972 Topps #774

I was still working on the set when this card was gotten, a year later, and I'm no longer working on the set... I wonder if it's too late to return it? I'm kidding of course, I shouldn't have too much trouble trying to trade this, it is one of those dreaded high numbers after all.

After pulling today's cards, I am now down to only eight weeks worth of Shuffle stuff left...


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COMC Shuffle #5

Another week, another ten randomly selected cards from last year's COMC hoard!


1955 Red Man Tobacco All-Star Series #14

My first Red Man! It's a little rough, but it does still have the tab, plus it was really cheap (under $2). Solid player too. Having never seen one of these in person before, I was a bit surprised at how big they are. I always thought that they were Play Ball sized, nope, they are considerably larger.


2014 Topps Red Hot Foil #580 (x3)

It's a red out! I'm gonna go on record and say that this might be the best looking individual parallel of the 2010's. Am I wrong about this? If so, Prove me wrong.


2013-14 Panini Prizm Red, White, and Blue Wave Prizms #22

I've said it many (many) times before, but there will never be another player like Tim Duncan! Countdown to the hall of fame in...


1994 Pacific Crown Collection Knights of the Gridiron #3

Drew Bledsoe used to receive a lot of hobby love, now he gets next to none, (cue Fred Willard) Wha' Happened?


2013 Panini Golden Age Historic Signatures #LP

Laffit Pincay is one of the signers who has an autograph in both the 2013 and 2014 sets, which I now have both of. I know nothing of horse racing, but with a signature as nice as this, I have no problem with him being in two out of the three Golden Age sets.


2013-14 Panini Prizm Red, White, and Blue Mosaic Prizms #230

This was my sixth R,W, &B Dave DeBusschere. I really want a full page (or more) of this card!

1973 Kellogg's #54

This is yet another purchase that I can blame on Chris' bad influence! Sorry for the lousy picture, I have a lot to learn when it comes to taking photos of graded cards. After buying this card last year, I, just for a split second mind you, had the brief notion that I would try to collect the entire set in PSA 9 form... thankfully that idea didn't stick around for too long.


1909-11 T206

I got my first three T206's last year, all from the same seller, and all within a couple of days of each other. Condition wise, Danny Moeller here would probably receive the lowest grade, he's obviously got a bit of a crease, but the colors are still really crisp.

There isn't a great deal of info on the interwebz about Danny Moeller. He spent the part of seven seasons in the bigs, playing for Pittsburgh, Washington, and Cleveland. In 1912, while in his first season with Washington, he finished 21st in the AL MVP voting -- and in 1913 (still with the Senators), he racked up 62 stolen bases, which were second in the majors only to teammate Clyde Milan's 75.

Obligatory shot of the back.


1998-99 Upper Deck Ionix Reciprocal #R55

The '98-99 Reciprocal's is are one of my favorite 90's basketball parallels, easily in the top ten, maybe even in the top five... I might have to do a personal top ten 90's basketball parallels list one of these days (that'll really bring in the views)?


1971-72 Topps #172

Although drafted by the Detroit Pistons in 1967, Ron decided to instead join the newly created ABA, playing for five teams during his six seasons. In 1975, he traveled to Europe to play in the European Professional Basketball League, a league that only lasted for one season.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed another week's worth of picks. The shuffle button will now get a much deserved week off, after all... being asked to choose ten random cards isn't as easy as it sounds :)


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