Flash again

Read before you comment!  We are changing it up (slightly)!

THE rules (hopefully permanent for the foreseeable future):

1. Two of these 12 cards are up for grabs.  The first reader to leave a comment stating which of the cards they want will get the 2 cards of their choice.  If you try to claim more than two cards, your comment will not be eligible for the win!

2. Anyone can pick, even if they have received a flash freebie before.  I will be keeping track of how many each winner picks, and at some point, you may become ineligible to pick for a while.  That is to keep the same person from grabbing too many. But don't let that stop you!

3. When you claim it, send me your mailing address in an email.  My email address can be found in my profile on the sidebar.

The chosen cards will go out 'as is', and in a simple PWE.  If condition is a concern, look closely before claiming.  And several of these have condition issues!

A few days after cards are picked, I will make another post with all of the remaining cards, along with replacements for the picked cards.  The idea is to always have 9+ cards available for picking.  Also, if anyone ever wants to trade for any cards in the selection, feel free to reach out to me.

The Bench, Yount and Gossage all have significant condition issues.  The Palmer might have a little. The A's cloth sticker is 'probably' from the 70's, and it shows.  Not perfect condition, but kind of cool. Please click the pics for larger views.

Five from Gwynn

Today's player was another one that was requested on a previous "5 From" post, Tony Gwynn! I imagine this post will both thrill and annoy 2 of my favorite bloggers...  Fuji should like it (he's the one who requested Gwynn) and Night Owl should despise it (he has commented more than once about too many Gwynn posts)  So mission accomplished, I guess!

Here are my previous "5 From" posts if anyone wants to look back:

Albert Pujols
Stan Musial
Rod Carew
Willie Mays
Pete Rose
Robin Yount
Juan Gonzalez
Scott Rolen
Greg Maddux
Pedro Martinez
Ken Griffey Jr

Like with Griffey, I decided to add a five card run up to the main event, so you are getting 10 Gwynns total today:

Honorable mentions...

2003 Diamond Kings DK Evolution - I think this set isn't very appreciated among collectors.  But I like it!  The cards are lenticular like old sportflix.

2002 Diamond Kings Heritage Collection - Another Diamond Kings Gwynn, I always thought this insert set was fairly classy.

1996 Fleer Ultra Season Crowns - I love me some acetate, partially transparent cards.  This one fits the bill.

1995 Topps Traded & Rookies Power Boosters - This one looks better in hand than in this scan.

2002 SP Legendary Cuts Legendary Bat - My only Gwynn relic.  I keep using the word Classy, and it's appropriate when discussing Tony Gwynn.  This is a relatively classy looking relic card.

OK, on to the top 5 Gwynn's in my collection!

#5 - 2005 Topps Pristine Legends - /1999 - I loved this card from the moment I saw it!  In fact, this whole "The College Years" section of the set are pretty awesome.  I think they could have done more with the color, the  silver stuff in the background is only so-so, but I love them anyway.

#4 - 2000 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Eyes of the Game - Semi-transparent Stadium Club insert.  DK likey! Evidently, there is a refractor version of these?  I wonder what that would look like?

#3 - 1998 Donruss Elite Series - /2500 - These Elite cards are descendants of some of the earliest numbered inserts from Donruss.  These are /2500.  Not rare, but I never seem to see them in the wild.

#2 - 1996 Topps Finest Refractor - Any time I have an old 90s refractor of a star, it will almost certainly show up in my top five lists!

And #1...

2020 Topps Rookie Card Retrospective Logo Medallions and1983 Topps RC - No surprise, really.  But I couldn't just throw up the RC when the Retrospective reprint was right there in the box next to it.  A twofer!

I can only imagine the top 5 Gwynns that Fuji (and others) could share, but these are mine.  Hopefully over the coming years, I can add to them!

Flash!

    Read before you comment!  We are changing it up!

THE rules (hopefully permanent for the foreseeable future):

1. One of these 12 cards is up for grabs.  The first reader to leave a comment stating which of the cards they want will get the card of their choice.  If you try to claim more than one card, your comment will not be eligible for the win!

2. Anyone can pick, even if they have received a flash freebie before.  I will be keeping track of how many each winner picks, and at some point, you may become ineligible to pick for a while.  That is to keep the same person from grabbing too many. But don't let that stop you!

3. When you claim it, send me your mailing address in an email.  My email address can be found in my profile on the sidebar.

The chosen card will go out 'as is', and in a simple PWE.  If condition is a concern, look closely before claiming.  And several of these have condition issues!

A few days after a card is picked, I will make another post with all of the remaining cards, along with a replacement for the picked card.  The idea is to always have 9+ cards available for picking.  Also, if anyone ever wants to trade for any cards in the selection, feel free to reach out to me.

The Bench, Yount and Gossage all have significant condition issues.  The Palmer might have a little.  Please click the pics for larger views.

'Nuther Flash Freebie

   Read before you comment!  We are changing it up!

THE rules (hopefully permanent for the foreseeable future):

1. One of these 9 cards is up for grabs.  The first reader to leave a comment stating which of the cards they want will get the card of their choice.  If you try to claim more than one card, your comment will not be eligible for the win!

2. Anyone can pick, even if they have received a flash freebie before.  I will be keeping track of how many each winner picks, and at some point, you may become ineligible to pick for a while.  That is to keep the same person from grabbing too many.

3. When you claim it, send me your mailing address in an email.  My email address can be found in my profile on the sidebar.

The chosen card will go out 'as is', and in a simple PWE.  If condition is a concern, look closely before claiming.  And several of these have condition issues!

A few days after a card is picked, I will make another post with all of the remaining cards, along with a replacement for the picked card.  The idea is to always have 9 cards available for picking.  Also, if anyone ever wants to trade for any cards in the selection, feel free to reach out to me.

The Bench, Yount and Gossage all have significant condition issues.  The Palmer might have a little.  Please click the pics for larger views.

Don't really have PC guys, but looking for a few...

I don't really have PC guys, where I collect every card they have, except McGwire.  But I do want a few nice cards of pretty much everyone that I find interesting.  And it seems that I have overlooked one that should be in that mix. So...

Recently, I read an article about a player who I have never really had an attachment to or a lot of interest in.  But the article made a lot of good points, and it made me want to build up a bigger collection of him.  

The result is that I want to try to get a decent little Zack Greinke collection going.  In the past, I have pretty much just ignored Greinke cards.  In fact here are the only two I have:

2019 Bowman Platinum - Purple Refractor 

2002 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects

This wouldn't be like my McGwire collection where I want every card ever made, really just the more interesting ones.

Anyone have some nice Greinke's and want to help me out?  I'm sure there are some of you out there who were like me, and pretty much don't care about this guy!  I'm ready to trade for your unwanted Greinkes!  The cards I am interested in are RCs, eye appealing inserts, refractors and possibly a few others that are cool.  In general, the older the better, but anything nice from recent years would be nice too!

Let me know!

Serial Numbers or Not? Card Show Report.

 Short card show report!  I'm only showing a few of the cards I grabbed.  Mostly dime and quarter boxes, as usual.

First up, these top 2 cards were in a quarter box, and the Betts was a dime.  I want to talk about the combo cards.  After I got home, I tried to look them up on COMC since I had not seen this particular design before.  It looks like they are "2021 Topps On Demand Dynamic Duals".  Whatever that means.  Are these some sort of Topps website exclusive or something?  Anyone smarter than me?

COMC also has these listed as numbered /1200, though there is no number stamped anywhere.  I'm guessing that if they are a Topps website thing, they limited the run to 1200.  Who knows.  The COMC prices for these are outrageous too.  If they are actually worth a little, then I missed out, because there were probably 15 more of these in the quarter box.

The Betts is also 'numbered' on COMC, this time /2020.  No numbering or stamping to be found on my copy.  Is that normal?

The next batch were all dimes.

Very fun stuff.  I'm most excited about the sepia Brett, the Abbott (how did I not have that?), the Bench because I like the photo and the very cool Minnie Minoso.  It's a Coca Cola card that I hadn't run into before.  It's not quite standard size, as you might be able to tell from the scan.  A little wider than usual.  The Pujols seems to be some parallel too, so that's nice.

I ran into some nice Buster Poseys.  I really like those Fearless inserts.  Would love any of those anyone has, especially a prizm version.  the other two are artsy numbered cards.  /50 and /100.  Nice!

Several Griffeys.  These weren't quarters though!  Looking back on it, I think I overpaid on the Father/Son card, but the other two were good enough deals to make up for it.  I had not seen those glasses style die cut inserts before.

Three beastly pitchers!  Spahn on the Mets is pretty incongruous, but I will take it!  The Clemens is pretty and any 70s Nolan Ryan is welcome.

And last but not least, dime box packs!  Yes, these were dimes.  I love having these old, unopened packs laying around.  Someday I will need to open some vintage, and these will come in handy.  Not much valuable to get in any of those on the top row, but still fun!

And yes, I got those complete sets of Leaf Draft for a dime each.   They have Tatis, Acuna, Wander Franco, Jasson Dominguez and some other recognizable players. Again, lots of fun for a dime!

Thanks for reading!