It was fun while it lasted

Even though it's been a few months since they ended, I'm fairly certain that everyone remembers Rod's (Padrographs) month-long (two-month long?) stretch of daily giveaways, yes? If you're somehow not familiar with them, well, that sucks for you, because they were something that the blogs had never seen before, and unless Rod decides to do them again, they'll probably be something that the blogs never see again.

Seeing as I'm here talking about them, and have written about them before, I obviously do remember them, although my brain keep trying to trick me into thinking that they were a summer event, which is interesting since they happened this year, and it's not even summer yet (although weather wise, it kind of already is here in the south). I guess in the long-run though, it doesn't really matter when they happened, all that matters is that they did happen.

I, like a lot of other folks, was able to pick up a number of neat cards thanks to Rod's daily dose of generosity. I'm feeling a little lazy right now, so I won't be providing a link to my previous post of goodies from Rod (you can probably find it if you need to), but suffice to say that it was full of good stuff, and today's group of claims isn't so bad itself.

I've already shown the 2020 GQ Babe Ruth (last week in day 2 of Tim's 7-day challenge), which might just be my favorite card that I acquired from Rod. And there's the pair of '88 Topps that I led off the post with. As a set, I'm not overly enamored with it, and I've never owned very many cards from it, but this duo was hard to pass up, especially the Largent.

Junior was a fairly common sight amongst the daily offerings, and after awhile it felt like my claiming them became a common sight to anyone who scrolled down to the comment section. These were a put away quite some time ago, but if I recall correctly, the middle card was numbered to /10,000... pretty cool of Rod to give up such a limited card :)

Feel free to razz me, but I claimed this card to give to my mom, and am not ashamed to have done so. Long running procedurals aren't really my thing, but my mom is a big fan of a few of them, including NCIS. She liked this card a lot, and after telling her how it was acquired, she had nice things to say about Rod, and his generosity.

That'll do it for the last of my claims, but the post isn't over with yet, no, you see a week or so after my last envelope from Rod showed up, another chunky PWE arrived from Portland, and was full of nothing but...

... Junior's! Lots...

... and lots...

... of Junior's... Oh, and one senior!

This was a very unexpected, and very appreciated, surprise -- and one that I won't soon forget.

I owe Rod much, and once the card shows fire back up, I'll be doing my best to repay Rod in kind, and not just for what I received, but also for the selfless act of the giveaways themselves, as they came at a time when a lot of people needed their minds taken off of all the doom and gloom, and for that he should be praised... as well as be sent lots of cool things. Thanks again, Rod!


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Clever title for another card show post

Editor's note: I couldn't think of a title for today's post, so... yeah!

As mentioned on Monday, the guy who had the dime boxes from that post, also had a bunch of $0.25 (5/$1) boxes - those of the two-row shoebox variety - as well.

He had never had these at any of the shows that I've been to, so it was nice to see him roll something different out. The boxes themselves were separated by baseball, basketball, boxing, football, hockey, and wrestling.

I actually started with boxing because that's not a common category to see boxes of around these parts, unfortunately all of the cards were from the 1991 (?) Kayo set, and since I know where I can get a box for $8, which I have been thinking about trying, I didn't want to buy any singles just in case I end up splurging on a box.

Wrestling was next, all of them were from the 1990 Classic (series 1) set, and all of them had badly dinged corners. I knew that I probably wouldn't find anything, because I don't know who anybody is, but I tried the hockey box next, my attempt to try and find something for someone else didn't go so well, because again... no idea who anyone is? Of the remaining boxes, the baseball looked like it was the most packed, so that was next, and that's where I'll start with the pictures (all three of the remaining sports are covered here today though).

There was a group of maybe 25-30 of those newer deckle edged cards, Heritage, I think, anyways those are of absolute no interest to me, but I thought they'd still be worth going through, just in case I could find something that someone else might want. Much like the hockey cards though, I didn't recognize any of the faces, and the signatures weren't helping any either, so after the first couple I just kind of shuffled through them (they were in toploaders) in one fell swoop, while doing so I noticed one that didn't look like the rest. It took my brain a second to catch-up, but after it did I went back through and found Willie, who indeed wasn't like the rest. I've already got one of these, but he looks pretty darn good for being fifty years old, so I certainly didn't mind shelling out twenty cents for another one.

That must've been one heck of a bird!

I'm not a big fan of the newer Tek baseball sets, but this card is kind of nice looking, although it helps too that I actually know who's on it.

These are from one of those Ted Williams sets. They seem to be serial numbered, but I don't know to what though, as it's just some random crazy high numbers on  the back.

I'll grab just about any cheap Eric Dickerson that I come across, and won't leave behind any cheap colored legends from 2018 Classics, so these two required absolutely no thought before being added to the stack.

I think that this is my third copy of this Barry Sanders insert, it's considered to be lower end, therefor no one cares about it -- which is just fine by me, I'll keep grabbing these beauties, and every one else can have whatever the latest hot cards are. It's hard to tell from the scan, but Eli is a refactor, and a very nice one at that.

I don't see old stickers at shows very often, and even if I did I probably wouldn't be buying too many of them, but this one's alright, it's from '87 I think.

I never knew that Wild Card did any inserts like these, I really like'em, very difficult to photograph/scan though.

These were the only two vintage cards in the football box, at a quarter apiece there was no way that they weren't coming home with me. I don't imagine that too many people have noticed, but I've added some wantlists/what I'm collecting tabs back to the top of the blog. If by chance anyone has actually seen them, and has clicked on the football tab, you might've noticed that I've started a bunch of new player collections (inspired by the Reggie Roby chase). I only mention this because I think old John David Crow is going to be added to that list pretty soon, I've just got to go through some boxes and see if I have any more of his cards before I do so.

The QBC set is one that I still don't fully understand, I mean I think it's one of the one's that does the bronze or copper, silver, and gold tiers, but how it's broken down is a bit of mystery (to me). Apparently it also has a parallel called... uh... hold the line while I go look up the name again... okay I've got it, they're called Preferred Power! These Preferred Power's seem to be tiered as well, at least that's what it seems like to me what with them being serial numbered to different things and all. Jim here must be one of the more common one's though, as he's #'d to /500. Great looking card though, sort of refractory, but also sort of not.

I know that they're considered "junk wax" at this point, but I still really like Upper Deck Heroes cards, especially those from the basketball releases. Twenty cents is a bit much to pay for a Broder, but I hadn't seen this Bird before, so I didn't mind overpaying a tad to get it. The late 90's Jerry west insert is just cool! And as far as the Dirk rookie goes, well, a lot of you already know that I don't give two poops about rookie cards, but for the price it was kind of hard not to grab it.

Cheap 90's inserts are always a good thing! I got all of these knowing that I probably already had at least one copy of each, at least that's what I thought until I got home and noticed that The Admiral was a Gold Medallion. I still haven't looked yet, but I'm pretty sure that that one will be new to me. As an aside, I really don't like the subtle Gold Medallion's (or Platinum's), that was a bit of misstep on Fleer's part, not that it really matters at this point, but I'm just sayin'.

Now that I've covered the nickel and dime (so to speak) stuff that I got from this fellow, I'm gonna save my "big ticket" item, also bought from him, for Friday. I'm not a big fan of doing the one-card posts, but I think this one will be worth it.


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In case you haven't heard, football's back!

This second to last recap from July's card show haul was delayed by a couple of days, the reason... sheer laziness!

It was supposed to be finished on Saturday, but I started reading a new book -- a book that I found to be quite engrossing -- so other than doing about five hours of work outside, I spent the entire weekend reading... which was really nice. So nice in fact, that I think I'm going to try and replicate the experience this upcoming weekend as well.

As exciting as hearing about me reading a book must be, I do have some cards to show off, so without anymore dilly-dallying, here's a rare all football edition for your viewing pleasure:

I was pretty excited to find my first card (Dan Fouts) from this All Time Great Quarterbacks set at the show in June, and then at the July show...

... I ended up finding eight more!

I didn't show the back of the Fouts last time, so here's a back for anyone who might care about such things.

Considering they're are just base cards, these Pacific Prism's have all kinds of shine. Not rare by any stretch of the imagination, but still, I never see these at shows -- in fact, before finding this quartet, I only owned one card from the set -- so this really was quite the treat!

Anybody familiar with 1994 Pro Tags? I certainly wasn't! I found all of these in a new seller's quarter boxes, and I couldn't resist taking them home with me. At first I just thought that they were some sort of novelty item, but upon further research, I saw that while they are a bit of a novelty item, they were part of an actual set that came in regular boxes -- with packs and everything. Their were even randomly inserted autographs in said packs, the signatures were on the back of the cards, ala Pro Line.

From the same seller that I got the Pro Tags, came another first, in the form of a Joe Montana card that was apparently given away as a freebie by Mervyn's back in 1995. By the time this card was released in 1995, Joe Montana was in his second season with Kansas City, so I thought it was kind of interesting to see that Mervyn's chose to use a photo of Joe from his San Francisco days (as evidenced by his wearing #16).

The back of this card is kind of funny too, what with it's mention of being limited, I mean mine's #233,684, so just how limited is it? Also, you can't get too much more 90's than to refer to something with such a high print run as a "prized collectible".

Here's some randomness from the dime boxes, two shiny, and two not so shiny.

And some 25 cent box randomness, all being of the shiny variety!

Normally I'm able to bring out more of the Archives Reserve rainbow via a cellular phone camera, but I failed pretty hard this time, since people these days always like to shift the blame, I will too... the sun really dropped (fumbled) the ball on this one! Bad photo aside, these are two very cool cards featuring two really great players.

With the football done, there's just the obligatory basketball post left, which will of course be comprised of mostly inserts from the 90's -- so if that's you're thing, I guess you know where you need to be in a few days.


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