Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The earliest bird got the Boog

Generally speaking, the posts that generate comments the quickest are those of the 'free stuff' variety. This isn't surprising of course, after all, time usually is of essence when trying to stake your claim on something that's part of an instant giveaway.

With that in mind, I didn't think I'd have any chance at a recent Diamond King giveaway, as it had already been up for multiple hours before I saw it. Imagine my surprise then, to see that not only was there something of immense interest to me amongst his free offerings, but also that no one else had commented yet. Must've been my lucky day. The funny thing too was that I was reading the post at a time of the day when I almost never check the blogs. 

Anyway, being around at an odd hour on one particular day netted me this much wanted '75 Boog Powell mini. I'm not too keen on the 1975 set, but as is the case with most of the 70's sets, I really like the 'In Action' cards. This one is especially fun. It's interesting to see so few people in the stands. It even looks like there's a group of folks making their way to the exit. My only guess would be that this shot took place late in a blowout. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

Not only is the card itself neat, but I'm pretty sure it also put me over the halfway mark towards completing Boog's original Topps run. Seeing as how his cards are still pretty cheap, I really should try put a little more effort into finishing that.
 
That card was more than enough by itself, but Kevin being the sort that he is, also threw in a few extras...

The Deckle Edge is my second copy of that card. I will now need a third to fill a row in the binder. And this was my third copy of his '72, which was nice because it filled the row. If I ever get another one though, I'll have to do a complete page for it. I can certainly think of worse cards to own a whole page of.

Getting Boog's in the mail is not an everyday (or month or year) occurrence for me, so thanks again to Kevin for giving me the chance to get a new one.

And speaking of giveaways, this blog's anniversary is about a month away from now (I believe), and I've been thinking about doing something to acknowledge it. So far, I've got three possible options in mind.

1). Bring back a special version of my old "Free Stuff Friday". This would be the most time consuming of the three, and I'm still a bit burned out on these, and a little jaded as wee, so this probably won't be happening. But, it is an option

2). I made a few extra bucks during July, and don't seem to be spending it on myself. And since saving is no fun, maybe a cash (PayPal) giveaway would perk up a few ears.

3). #2 would probably generate the most interest, but I'm leaning towards using some of my COMC credit to let one lucky winner go on a mini spending spree. I did this a couple of times some years ago, and it seemed to be the kind of contest that people were interested in joining. If I do go this route, I'd push it back a couple of months so that whoever won could use their winnings during the Black Friday sale. Plus too, that's around the time that I'll be requesting a shipment, so the winner wouldn't have to wait as long to get their stuff as they would if I ran the contest in September.

I'll try to get what I want to do figured out in the next few weeks. I can tell you though that, whichever option I go with, it's gonna be exclusive to folks that either follow at least one of my blogs, or who have commented on one of the blogs in the previous 30-60 days before the contest. The days of me giving things out to rando prize hounds have passed, and will not be returning. So, if you like contests, stay tuned, something will be coming; I just don't know what, or when, yet!

22 comments:

  1. I've got nothing constructive to say, just "Booooooooog!"

    Whatever you do to celebrate your bloggerversary will be great. Also, I'm only here for the free stuff ;)

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    1. Well, that was better than nothing, so...

      I'm sure that they'll be a few other people around for the free stuff too :)

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  2. That card is the very first Cardboard Appreciation topic. BOOOOOOOG!!!!

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    1. I'm guessing that that was before my time on the blogs. I'll have to go back and look for it.

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  3. That is a rather nice card..
    As for the free card posts, I might be in the minority but even if it's a blog I interact with regularly, I feel bad.. My brain doesn't like to make things easy on me.. lol
    That said, I rarely claim too much. anyway, enough rambling

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    1. There's no need to feel bad/weird about claiming things in free stuff posts. After all, people wouldn't be offering it up if they didn't want others to take it.

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  4. You go for it. I plan on digging through my vintage dupes sometime in the near future, I'll pull any boogs still sitting in there if any.

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    1. If you do feel like looking, that would be appreciated.

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  5. If I created a top 5 favorite 1975 Topps baseball cards list... that Boog would be on it. Heck... it's one of my favorite cards from the decade.

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  6. Congrats on all those Boogs! Every once in a while it all works out!

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  7. Go Boog! I always loved that 75, for many of the reasons you mentioned!

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  8. I've got two extra '72 Boogs if you want them!

    Several years ago I did a couple of trades where the other person had me pick out cards on COMC and they bought them for me.

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    1. If they're not too bad, I would. Thanks for the offer.

      That sounds like my kind of trading!

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  9. I loved the Deckle edge cards, I had completed the set years ago. I believe they did them for hockey cards too.

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    1. I had no idea that they did them for hockey, I'll have to go take a gander at those.

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  10. Those Deckle Edge cards are pretty cool. My brother and I had a few of them growing up only they were the NHL variety ones. I had Derek Sanderson and Glen Hall and I think my brother had Rod Gilbert and another Ranger, maybe Ratelle? Anyways, this post definitely made me think about those. I bet my brother still has them somewhere. He grabbed a lot of our hockey cards from when we were kids accidentally when he moved out of my parent's place in 2000. Also, he collected Boog Powell. I know his favorite Powell card was his 1971 Topps. This entire post reminded me of my brother. I should really call him.

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    1. You definitely should! If there's one thing that everyone should've learned over the last couple of years, it's to not put off doing things like that.

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