GOLDEN AGE CANADA DIME CARDS

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I'VE GOT SOME BLOGGING INERTIA GOING AND I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE RIGHT NOW SO HERE'S ANOTHER FROM THE DRAFT FOLDER. I'M KEEPING THE FDGFADGF STUFF IN BECAUSE I THINK IT'S FUNNY

MOAR CANADIA CARDS. AMONG THE MANY FRANKENSETS I'M BUILDING BUT NOT SHOWING OFF IS ONE FOR PANINI GOLDEN AGE SETS. I HAVE A SMALL PILE FROM 2012-2014 I GOT OUT OF JUNK BOXES AT THE LCS BUT NOWHERE NEAR A COMPLETE SET FOR ANY OF THEM. SO: FRANKENSET! THERE WERE A TON OF CARDS ON THE SITE THAT WOULD HAVE FIT IN THE BINDER BUT I WHITTLED IT DOWN TO MY FOUR FAVORITES

MOE BERG WAS A SPY. BASICALLY JAMES BOND IF HE WAS A CATCHER. I HAVE WANTED TO BUY A VINTAGE CARD OF HIM FOR A WHILE BUT SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK AND THEN THEY ALL GOT EXPENSIVE. THEN I STARTED LOOKING FOR ONE FROM A LEGEND SET. I NEVER FOUND ONE BUT I BET THERE IS ONE HIDING IN A BOX OF UNFINISHED SETS. NOW I HAVE ONE. I WANTED ONE OF HIM IN A BASEBALL UNIFORM BUT THIS ONE WITH THE EYEBROWS IS SO FANTASTIC I CAN'T COMPLAIN

HERE IS THE BACK OF THE CARD. GOLDEN AGE ALWAYS HAD THESE QUASI-VINTAGEY SINGLE COLOR FAKE SCREENPRINTED LOOKING BACKS THAT I HATE WHEN THEY ARE ON HOOPS OR DONRUSS BUT I'M FINE WITH IN THIS SET FOR SOME REASON. TWO OF THE BACKS USE THIS RUSTY MAROON COLOR, THE OTHER IS DARK BLUE. THIS BUGS ME AND MAKES ME YELL ADFGADFGADFG. THREE DIFFERENT COLORS OR ALL SAME COLORS MAKES MY BRAIN HAPPY

LON CHANEY JR IS A GREAT WEREWOLF, AN OK FRANKENSTEIN AND A LOUSY DRACULA. HE'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE MONSTERS THO AS HE WAS GREAT IN OF MICE AND MEN AS LENNY AND HAS AN IMDB PAGE THAT KEEPS SCROLLING FOR MILES. MY FAVORITE LON CHENEY JR. FILM IS SPIDER BABY: OR THE MADDEST STORY EVER TOLD. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT GOOFYASS PICTURE.  ALSO STARRING A BABY SID HAIG. I NEED A TRADING CARD OF SID HAIG TOO

EVERYONE KNOWS I LOVE JIM BOUTON, I LOVE BALL FOUR, I EVEN STARTED ANOTHER CARD BLOG ABOUT BALL FOUR AND THEN I GOT LAID OFF AND ALL THE CREATIVITY WAS CRUSHED OUT OF MY SOUL AND THE BLOGS ALL WENT TO SHIT. I'LL PROBABLY GET LAID OFF AGAIN SOONER OR LATEER BUT THE JOKES ON THEM, I'M ALREADY A BROKEN WRECK OF A MAN SO THEY CAN'T FUCK ME UP ANY MORE THAN I ALREADY AM. JIM WROTE MORE THAN ONE BOOK, I HAVE A VINTAGE COPY OF I'M GLAD YOU DIDN'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY FLOATING AROUND SOMEWHERE. I ALSO HAVE FOUL BALL, A BOOK ABOUT HOW HE TRIED TO RESTORE A SUPER OLD HISTORIC BALLBARK BUT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT WERE PUSHING TO SCRAP IT AND BUILD A BRAND NEW BALLPARK THAT WOULD COST MORE MONEY AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE TOWN VOTERS AND THE BOOK KIND OF HINTS THAT THIS WAS BEING DONE TO BUILD ON TOP OF SOME EPA VIOLATIONS TO PROTECT A LOCAL POLLUTING COMPANY BUT THE BOOK IS KINDA RAMBLY AND I NEVER REALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. THIS BOOK IS GOOD BUT IT READS LIKE IF BALL FOUR WAS WRITTEN BY YOUR CRAZY LIBERAL UNCLE WHO IS INTO A BUNCH OF CONSPIRICY THEORIES

LIBERALS LOVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES TOO, IT'S NOT ALL ALEX JOMES Q BULLSHIT YA KNOW

JIMI. 

THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS JIMI.

I SHOULD JUST BUY ALL THE JIMI CARDS ON THAT SITE, THERE'S A LOT OF THEM SURPRISINGLY

I WENT AHEAD AND PUT THE CARDS INTO THE FRANKENSET BINDER WHILE WRITING THIS POST. MOE AND LON ARE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER ON THE SAME PAGE THAT WAS VERY EMPTY BEFORE NOW. JIMI WENT INTO A PAGE WITH FRANK ROBINSON. JIM DIDN'T GO IN AT ALL BECAUSE GERAL FORD SHARES HIS CARD NUMBER AND I'D RATHER PUT IT WITH MY BOUTON COLLECTION ANYWAY. FUN FACT: THE GOLDEN AGE FRANKENSET IS IN THE SAME BINDER AS MY 2012 WWE HERITAGE SET, WHICH IS ANOTHER SET I WILL NEVER EVER FINISH

TIME TO GET BANNED

EITHER TODAY OR YESTERDAY WAS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST POST HERE LIKE EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS AGO I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH AND I'M TOO LAZY TO LOOK IT UP AND A DAY LATE IS GOOD ENOUGH AROUND HERE ANYWAY AND I THINK IT'S TIME TO GET THE WHOLE BLOG DELETED BY POSTING SEMI QUESTIONABLE CONTENT ANYWAY

HERE'S SOME MORE OF THOSE CANADA DIME BOX POSTS I WAS DOING BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO OCCUPY MYSELF IN LOCKDOWN. REMEMBER THE FANGORIA CARDS I POSTED MONTHS AGO? THIS IS THE SAME DEAL. I FOUND A BUNCH OF CARDS FOR SALE FROM A SET I LIKE BUT DON'T HAVE, FIGURED OUT THE BEST CARDS FROM THE SET AND PICKED OUT A SAMPLE OF FAVORITES BECAUSE AM TOO CHEAP TO JUST PLOP DOWN EIGHT OR NINE BUCKS TO GET AT LEAST MOST OF A COMPLETE SET. SMALL COMPLICATION THIS TIME, THE SET I WAS PICKING FROM IS COMIC IMAGES BORIS SERIES ONE. BORIS VALLEJO IS THE GUY WHO PAINTED ALL THOSE SLIGHTLY NAUGHTY FANTASY CALENDARS FROM THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES WITH BUFF DUDES WITH SWORDS AND DRAGONS AND LOTS OF BARELY DRESSED LADIES ON OIL PAINTINGS THAT LOOK LIKE A POPPIER VERSION OF FRANK FRAZETTA

I KNOW A LOT OF YOU GUYS USE TDCB TO CATALOGUE YOUR COLLECTION AND MAKE TRADES AND HAVE LOTS OF FUN BUT I ONLY USE IT TO LOOK UP CHECKLISTS AND CHECK THE GALLERY TO SEE WHAT THE CARDS LOOK LIKE. THIS IS WHAT I DID WITH FANGORIA, PULL UP THE GALLERY, FIND THE BEST CARDS, NOTE THE CARD NUMBER, BUY. DID THIS WITH THE BORIS VALLEJO SET AND BECAUSE PAINTED BOOBIES IT WAS MARKED AS ADULT CONTENT SO I COULDN'T SEE THE GALLERY UNLESS I CREATED AN ACCOUNT. PEOPLE ON TWITTER SEEM TO LIKE THE SITE SO I CREATED AN ACCOUNT. THE SITE IMMEDIATELY YELLED AT ME FOR USING AN AD BLOCKER. I ROLLED MY EYES AND CLICKED ON THE GALLERY AND WAS THEN INFORMED THAT I HAD TO PAY TEN DOLLARS TO SEE THE GALLERY BECAUSE IT WAS ADULT CONTENT AND THEY COULDN'T HOST ADS AND THEN I LOGGED OUT FOREVER. I WILL CONTINUE TO USE THE SITE FOR CHECKLISTS AND GALLERIES IN ANONYMOUS MODE BUT I DON'T THINK I WANT TO DEAL WITH LOGGED IN MODE ANYMORE. FORTUNATELY IMAGES OF THIS SET ARE ALL OVER THE INTERWEBS SO I QUICKLY FIGURED OUT SOME CARDS I LIKED AND BOUGHT THEM

WARNING - THERE ARE SLEAZY EIGHTIES CHEESECAKE FANTASY PAINTINGS AHEAD SO CLOSE THE TAB NOW IF SEEING SUCH THINGS WILL K̸̤͍̭͇̣͖͓͊̂̊͆̓̓̕Ȉ̵͙̑̽͛̆̓̆͂̎́̌͠L̵̥̟̠̜̓̊̃͗̒̀̀́̈̄̔̆͐L̶̡̜̦̜͎͉̩̱͛̈́̈́͗͐̊͂̀͐͂̃̽̿̕͜ ̴͔͙̝̣͎͍̲̣̐͛̾̉͑̀̌̈͑͗̎͋Ỳ̵̡̹͖̪͎̻̘̠̭̩́̊̌Ǫ̴̧̛̹̩͓̻̳͉̒̇̿̍̇̾͒͛͑͜͝͝Ư̶̖̟̦̟̗̌̅̑̄̎̃̒̊͒͘ͅ

TRUST THE HORSE, RUN NOW

#3 - NIGHT

SPARKLY HAIR LADY RIDING A BIRD CHARIOT PULLED BY A LIZARDY GRIFFONY THING. SUPER BAD ASS. AND THOSE ARE ACTUAL HAIR SPARKLES, NOT INK/PAPER LOSS FROM THE CARDS BRICKING TOGETHER

THE BACKS HAVE A TON OF INFORMATION AND A SECOND SKETCHY DRAWING. POPEYED NAKED DEMON DUDE EYES YOU MENACINGLY FOR LOOKING AT IMAPPROPRIATE TRADING CARDS. WE NOW LEARN THAT THIS PAINTING IS LADY NIGHT BRINGING DARKNESS TO THE WORLD FROM THE 1990 MYTOHOLOGY CALENDAR. I HAD ONE OF THESE CALENDARS WHEN I WAS A KID BUT I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE AND I DON'T THINK I KEPT IT AND IT MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN JULIE BELL OR THE HILDEBRANDT BROS, WHO KNOWS

#26 - WITCH AND HER FAMILIAR

WITCHES ARE COOL. THIS WITCH IS WEARING A SHREDDED DRESS/CAPE COMBO AND HAS SOME WICKED TATS. HER LITTLE FISHY FRIEND SEEMS TO BE MADE OUT OF SPARE PARTS AND ISN'T QUITE SURE WHERE TO GO. THE FOREST LOOKS PRETTY GNARLY IN BOTH THE LITERAL AND SLANG SENSES OF THE WORD. THE HORSE LOOKS LIKE WE ALL FEEL AFTER THIS YEAR

GOOD GRAVY, THAT'S SOME WILD TELL-TALE HEART SHIT HAPPENING ON THE BACK. EXCEPT WITH A WHOLE DEMON LADY INSTEAD OF A HEART. IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH EPIC MAGAZINE, IT IS BASICALLY MARVEL RIPPING OFF HEAVY METAL. IT SEEMS TO BE HARD TO FIND ISSUES NOW BUT I PICKED UP A COPY IN MY MISSPENT YOUTH AND IT WAS PRETTY DOPE FOR A RIPOFF AND I THINK IT WAS MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO CEREBUS

#31 - UNICORN

Y'ALL KNOW I LOVE THE PONIES. HERE'S SOME CONCRETE PROOF THAT BORIS DOES, IN FACT, KNOW HOW TO PAINT CLOTHES

WHOOPS, FURRY BUTT. THIS CARD IS JUST A PLAIN OL' PAINTING. BORIS HAS SOME HELPFUL ART TIPS FOR US AS WELL IF YOU CAN PULL YOUR EYES OFF THE CATGIRL

#50 - GEMINI, THE TWINS

MOARER BUTT. HERE'S SOME ZODIAC BUTTERFLY TATTOO LADIES SITTING ON A ROSE. DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH CASTOR AND POLLUX BUT WHATEVS 

AAARGH - THIS DRAWING IS CREEPING ME OUT THE MORE I LOOK AT IT. I WISH I HAD BOUGHT AN EXAMPLE OF EACH OF THE BACK SKETCHES NOW. OR JUST THE WHOLE BLOODY SET. THIS 1990 MYTHOLOGY CALENDAR MAY BE THE ONE I HAD NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, THOSE IMAGES SEEM FAMILIAR

#61 - SHE VAMPIRE

FUCK YEAH VAMPIRES. MAYBE MY FAVORITE CARD FROM THE SET. RED RED LIPS WITH THAT SUBTLE GREEN POISON BREATH. YOU DON'T NOTICE THE CREEPY FACE EARRINGS UNTIL LATER BUT DAMN ARE THEY UNNERVING ONCE YOU SEE EM

DRAGON ON THE BACK!!! HELL YES THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE CARD. THIS FANTASY TECHNIQUES BOOK MIGHT BE WORTH TRACKING DOWN. ALL YOU PERUVIAN LAWYERS ARE ALLOWED TO SPAM MY COMMENTS FOR JUST THIS POST. GO CRAZY FOLKS

#66 - ENCHANTMENT

HERE WE GO. BLOG FLAGGED AS ADULT CONTENT. NO MORE MONITIZATION EVER. BANNED BY VISA, PAYPAL AND THE LOCAL CREDIT UNION. FORCE YOUR EYES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CARD AND THERE'S MORE CRAZY FURRY SHIT GOING ON. TIGER YIFFING AN EAGLE OR SOME SUCH NONSENSE. WHERE'S MY TRADING CARD OF THAT

OK SO THIS IS A COVER OF AN ACTUAL BOOK. IF AMAZON CAN SHOW IT I PROBABLY CAN TOO. I APPRECIATE HOW THEY DECIDED TO PUT A COOL SKETCH OF A RHINOCEROUS ON THE BACK OF THE PORNIEST CARD TO BALANCE EVERYTHING OUT

THE EARLY NINETIES WERE A GOLDMINE FOR FANTASY ART SETS, THERE ARE ALSO SETS FEATURING FRANK FRAZETTA, BERNI WRIGHTSON, WILLIAM STOUT, JULIE BELL, HILDEBRANDT BROS AND MANY OTHERS. IF YOU'RE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR THE BEWBS, THERE'S PLENTY MORE OF THOSE SETS TOO. LOOK FOR ROYO, OLIVIA, BORIS AND JULIE AGAIN, IF THE CARD IS BY COMIC IMAGES YOU'RE HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. I HOPE THIS WILL INSPIRE SOME OF YOU TO START YOUR OWN FILTHY DISGUSTING CARD COLLECTION, JUST SAVE ME SOME BORIS CARDS ON THAT DIME CARD SITE

*CLARIFICATION - I WORK IN IT AND I WILL NEVER NOT USE AN AD BLOCKER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. EXTREMELY RARELY I WILL WHITELIST A SITE IF I TRUST THEM COMPLETELY AND TCDB HAS NOT WON THAT TRUST. SORRY BUT AFTER MY THIRD WINDOWS REIMAGE IN 2010 I AM DONE WITH SHADY-ASS INTERNET ADS FOREVER. IF YOU SEE AN AD ON THIS OR ANY OF MY POSTS LET ME KNOW BECAUSE I DID NOT AUTHORIZE THAT SHIT

THE TWELVE DAYS OF DRAFTSMAS - DAY TWELVE - PROCRASTINATING MY PROCRASTINATION

CHRISTMAS EVE GONNA TAKE IT EASY AND DO A SIMPLE POST ON SOMETHING COOL THAT I HAVE TRIED AT LEAST TWICE TO COMPLETE IN THE PAST TO ABJECT FAILURE. THIRD TIME'S A CHARM I WRITE AT 1:51 AM FILLED WITH DREAD THAT I WILL KNOCK OFF TO GO TO BED BEFORE FINISHING AND NEVER WRITE ANOTHER WORD EVER AGAIN

2019, I MEAN, 2018 PROCRASTINATION POST - SKETCHY

AND NOW IT'S 2020. LATE 2020 AT THAT

AND THE POST IS A DAY LATE

ORIGINAL SAVE DATE 2/04/2020

I ACTUALLY WROTE THE NEXT PARAGRAPH MONTHS AGO AND INDENTED IT TO DIFFERENTIATE FROM CURRENT RAMBLINGS

HA HA IT'S 2020 AND I'M STILL CATCHING UP WITH POSTS FROM 2018. DON'T WORRY THO I HAVEN'T HAD A SINGLE DIME OF DISPOSABLE INCOME ALL YEAR AND YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN THE TWO TRAE YOUNG* CARDS I BOUGHT WITH THE LAST REMAINING CASH FROM 2019 SO YOU'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING

WELL I AM STILL LACKING IN DISPOSABLE INCOME AND I GUESS I SHOWED OFF THE TWO TRAE YOUNG ROOKIES I GOT THE LAST TIME I WANT TO MY LOCAL CARD SHOP EVER. SO, UH, YEAH. NOTHING'S REALLY CHANGED SINCE FEBRUARY. OTHER THAN THE COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT

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SO THIS THING WAS ACQUIRED AT A LOCAL COMIC CONVENTION IN CARTERSVILLE IN THE FALL OF 2018. IT WAS THE FIRST REAL COMIC CONVENTION I HAD BEEN TO IN YEARS AND I HAD A BALL

I'M GOING TO SLEEP NOW, RIP THIS POST

OK AWAKE AGAIN. I MIGHT ACTUALLY FINISH THIS THING AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. HERE IS A SKETCH CARD. THIS CARD WAS BOUGHT WITH MY SON'S DEBIT CARD BECAUSE I SPENT MY LAST FIVE BUCKS ON SOME DOLLAR COMICS AND THIS CAUGHT MY EYE AS I WAS WALKING OUT THE DOOR

SO WHO THE HELL IS HENRY SWANSON. HE'S FROM AN 80S ACTION FLICK. HE'S PLAYED BY KURT RUSSELL. HE'S NOT THE MAIN CHARACTER, HE'S THE MAIN CHARACTER IN DISGUISE. FIGURED IT OUT YET? IT'S JACK BURTON FROM BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA ACTING LIKE A SLEAZY BUSINESSMAN WHEN HE TRIES TO RESCUE THE GREEN-EYED LADY FROM THE BROTHEL. WHY THE HELL WOULD I FLIP OUT ABOUT A SKETCH CARD ABOUT THAT. BECAUSE IT'S HILARIOUS AND AWESOME, THAT'S WHY

I FOUND A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE SCENE IN QUESTION BUT EMBEDDING VIDEO HAS GONE ALL WEIRD SINCE THE UPDATE AND THE SCENE MAY BE PURGED FROM THE INTERWEBS FOR ALL I KNOW. I CAN'T TEST THE VIDEO UNTIL I PUBLISH IT TO SEE IF IT STILL WORKS. IF IT DOESN'T JUST GO WATCH BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, IT'S WORTH IT



I GRABBED A BUSINESS CARD WHEN I BOUGHT THE CARD BECAUSE I AM TERRIBLE WITH NAMES UNLESS YOU PLAY SPORTS OR STARRED IN AN OLD MONSTER MOVIE. THE ARTIST IS LOCAL WHICH IS REALLY COOL, BUT WE'RE ALL TRAPPED IN OUR HOUSES NOW WHICH IS BAD

THE YEAR AFTER I GOT HENRY I WENT BACK TO THE SAME SHOW AND PICKED UP ANOTHER SKETCHY CARD THAT MAKES ME HAPPY

THIS NEAT INK SKETCH OF DRAX THE DESTROYER FROM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY IS A GOOD PAIR FOR OL HENRY. IMAGINE THE SHENANIGANS THEY COULD GET UP TO IN A BUDDY COP MOVIE. I AM NOT A BIG WRESTLING GUY BUT I LOVED DAVE BAUTISTA IN SPECTRE AND SINCE THEN I'VE PICKED UP A COUPLE OF HIS WWE CARDS AND IT WAS FUN TO FIND A SKETCH CARD OF HIM OUT OF THE BLUE LIKE THIS. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO THE COMIC SHOW AGAIN THIS YEAR AND MAYBE PICKING UP A THIRD SKETCH CARD BUT THEN THE WORLD ENDED AND WE MIGHT STILL ALL END UP DEAD BY NEXT SEPTEMBER. I'M STILL HAPPY TO HAVE TWO SKETCH CARDS EVEN IF A THIRD ISN'T IN THE CARDS. YEEZUS, MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE ENDED THE LAST POST ON A POSITIVE NOT INSTEAD OF A TERRIBLE PUN.  

NAH

WE'RE ALL DOOMED, THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING, THE VIRUS IS OUT OF CONTROL, OUR GOVERNMENT HAS COMPLETELY ABANDONED US AFTER LOOTING THE TREASURY, SOCIETY IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE AND THE FALCONS ARE GOING TO FUCK UP THEIR DRAFT PICK I JUST KNOW IT

HOLLY YOUR JOLLIES MOTHERFUCKERS WHILE YOU CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

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IS THIS THE GINTER CODE

*ALL-STAR STARTER TRAE YOUNG. WHO'S ALSO IN THE RISING STARS GAME AND THE THREE POINT CONTEST

LOOKIT ME WITH MY FOOTNOTES GIMMICK. I HAVE PURCHASED ONE ADDITIONAL TRAE YOUNG CARD SINCE THEN, I HOPE I CAN BUY ANOTHER SOON

THAT'S IT! I'M DONE! NOW I CAN KICK BACK AND RELAX AND UH GO TO WORK TOMORROWDAY BECAUSE IT'S STILL 2020. ENJOY YOUR MERRIES HOWEVER THEY ARE

THE TWELVE DAYS OF DRAFTSMAS - DAY ELEVEN - LANA HOX

DAY ELEVEN AS IN TRAE YOUNG'S NUMBER AS IN ATLANTA HAWKS AS IN THERE'S NO TRAE YOUNG CARDS IN THIS POST

QUICK NOTE - I WORKED ALL DAY YESTERDAY AND COMPLETELY FORGOT I HADN'T POSTED THIS AND EVEN CHECKED TO SEE IF I POSTED IT AND SAW THE MALTESE FALCON POST AND THOUGHT, WEIRD, I DON'T REMEMBER POSTING THAT TODAY BUT I GUESS I DID AND THEN I ACTUALLY LISTENED TO A HAWKS GAME AND IT STILL DIDN'T CLICK BECAUSE GOT-DAMN THE HAWKS KICKED SOME FUCKING ASS LAST NIGHT AND NOW I'M LATE BUT FUKKIT, YOU ALL GOT A BREAK FOR FESTIVUS AND NOW YOU'LL GET A POST ON CHRISTMAS. ME ACTUALLY GETTING ALL THE POSTS WRITTEN DAYS IN ADVANCE AND THEN FUCKING UP THE FOLLOW THROUGH IS EXTREMELY ON BRAND

A WHILE BACK KERRY AT CARDS ON CARDS SENT ME A PACKAGE FULL OF HAWKS AND A FEW BRAVES, WHICH WAS GREATLY APPRCIATED. I HAVE A PILE OF CARDINALS AND BLAZERS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET ACROSS THE COUNTRY ONCE I GET MY ACT TOGETHER. I SCANNED A BUNCH OF THE CARDS FOR POSTS AND THEN DID NOTHING BECAUSE I HAD PANDEMIC BRAIN MONTHS, IF NOT YEARS BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE DID

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SO LAZY ON THIS ONE I NEVER EVEN GAVE IT A TITLE

ORIGINAL SAVE DATE 10/24/2019

ABSOLUTELY ZERO TEXT WRITTEN EXCEPT FOR THE OBLIGATORY 

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BUT THE GENERAL THEME OF THIS POST WAS GOING TO BE THE COOLEST HAWKS STUFF TO COME OUT OF THE PACKAGE AND THE STUFF IS COOL

HERE'S A VINYL STICKER FROM THE HAWKS' SILVER SEASON. I REMEMBER THIS LOGO BEING EVERYWHERE BACK IN THE DAY AND I PROBABLY ALREADY HAD ONE OF THESE STICKERS AND MAYBE STUCK IT ON SOMETHING. THIS IS FOR THEIR TWENTY-FIFTH SEASON IN ATLANTA, NOT ALL-TIME. I THINK IT WAS AROUND 1993 BUT I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE GOOGLE SEARCH IS AN AD-INFESTED MESS AND USELESS FOR SEARCHING ANY INFORMATION FOR A THING THAT IS EVEN SLIGHTLY MONETIZABLE. AT ANY RATE THIS STICKER COME FROM THE TIME BEFORE THE DISMAL YEARS. I WILL PROBABLY HOARD IT AND OCCASIONALLY LOOK AT IT FONDLY INSTEAD OF STICKING IT ON SOMETHING BECAUSE I AM OLD AND NO FUN ANYMORE

PISTOL PETE CANDYSTRIPE PRIZMFRACTOR SILVERY PARALLEL THINGY WHAT I DON'T KNOW THE PROPER NAME FOR! I REALLY LIKE PRIZM BASKETBALL CARDS BECAUSE THEY ARE SHINY AND LOOK GOOD BUT I DO NOT BUY THE PACKS BECAUSE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE AS HECK AND YOU GET LIKE EIGHT CARDS FOR TEN BUCKS AND FOR THAT MONEY YOU COULD GET LITERALLY HALF THE SET OUT OF A DIME BOX. AND ALL THOSE CARDS ARE IN THE DIME BOX IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE PEOPLE RIP THE PACKS AND JUST TAKE THE SHINY ONES AND ROOKIES. SO I DON'T SEE CRAZY PARALLEL VERSIONS LIKE THIS OFTEN BUT I SURE DO APPRECIATE THEM. IT'S GREAT TO SEE PETE IN A HAWKS UNI ALTHOUGH IT MAKES ME A LITTLE SAD. HAWKS MANAGEMENT IN THE 70S FUCKED UP SO SO BAD 

DIKEMBE! LOVE DEKE SO MUCH. HE WASN'T THE FIRST HUGE FREE AGENT SIGNING THE HAWKS MADE WHILE I WAS SERIOUSLY FOLLOWING THE TEAM BUT HE MIGHT BE THE BEST. THE FIRST WAS MOSES FREAKING MALONE AND THEN INEXPLICABLY REGGIE THEUS. THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT SO WELL BUT MOSES CARDS IN AN ATLANTA UNI ARE COOL.  DIKEMBE WAS ON SONE REALLY GOOD HAWKS TEAMS IN THE LATE NINETIES UNTIL MOOKIE LEFT AND ISAIAH RIDER SHOWED UP AND THE TEAM FELL APART. THEN MUTOMBO GOT TRADED FOR TONY KUCOC AND THINGS GOT SO SO MUCH WORSE FROM THERE. NOT SURE IF BOGDONOVIC OR GALLINARI WILL HAVE DEKE LIKE IMPACT, OR EVEN REGGIE THEUS LIKE IMPACT BUT I HOPE THEY WORK OUT BETTER THAN USUAL FOR HAWKS FREE AGENT PICKUPS. DIKEMBE WEARING THAT GOOFY CARTOON HAWK JERSEY ALWAYS MAKES ME HAPPY REMEMBERING THE SOMEWHAT COMPETENT HAWKS ERA

JOHN COLLINS RATED ROOKIE OPTIC MAYBE ROOKIE CARD OR NOT. I DON'T KNOW HOW THESE WORK. I KNOW OPTICE IS PRISM DONRUSS BUT AM NOT SURE IF THE RATED ROOKIES ARE ALL COLORFUL LIKE THIS ONE OR IF THIS IS SOME SORT OF PARALLEL OR WHAT BUT WHO CARES. SHINY COLLINS ROOKIE. I AM CURRENTLY IN A BIT OF A PICKLE AS FAR AS THE HAWKS GO AS TRAE YOUNG AND JOHN COLLINS ARE BOTH POTENTIAL SUPERSTARS IN THE MAKING KIND OF LIKE HEYWARD AND FREEMAN A DOZEN YEARS AGO. I PICKED HEYWARD IN THAT ONE. THIS CHOICE MAY BE A BIT EASIER AS THE HAWKS DIDN'T EXTEND COLLINS SO HE WILL BE A RESTRICTED FREE AGENT NEXT YEAR. OH WELL I KINDA ALREADY PICKED TRAE. DID I MENTION I'M ALL IN ON TRAE YOUNG, HAWKS SAVIOR? LUKA WHO? PTUI- TRAE'S THE REAL DEAL

JOE JOHNSON! SO, UH... JOE! JOHNSON! UM. I... UH... 

JOE JOHNSON WAS AN ATLANTA HAWK FOR SEVEN SEASONS AND AVERAGED 20 POINTS A GAME AND WENT TO SIX ALL STAR GAMES AS A HAWK AND I DON'T REMEMBER NOTHIN ABOUT IT. I MEAN I KNOW HE WAS A HAWK AND A REALLY GOOD PLAYER AND I KNOW I'M BEING REALLY DISRESPECTFUL RIGHT NOW BUT I HAVE NO EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT AT ALL FOR SOME REASON. JOSH SMITH I REMEMBER. JOSH CHILDRESS I REMEMBER. MIKE BIBBY, JEFF TEAGUE, ZAZA PACHULIA, LOVE THOSE GUYS. JOE JOHNSON IS JUST JOE JOHNSON. AND I FEEL TERRIBLE BECAUSE HE IS A LEGIT EXCELLENT PLAYER AND IS STILL OUT THERE TRYING TO PLAY IN ANY LEAGUE HE CAN GET ON. HE JUST DOES NOT STICK IN MY MIND AND I DON'T KNOW WHY. ALL STAR SWATCH IS HELLA COOL THOUGH

AL HORFORD IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLAYERS EVEN THOUGH HE'S BOUNCED TO THE CELTICS, SIXERS AND NOW SONICS, I MEAN THUNDER. HE'S ONE OF THE VANISHINGLY FEW HAWK DRAFT PICKS WHO WERE NOT UTTER FLOPS AND HE TOOK US TO THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS BEFORE THE TEAM BLEW UP. I WAS ACTUALLY BUYING PACKS DURING HIS ROOKIE SEASON TO SO I GOT TO PULL SOME OF HIS CARDS. THIS ONE IS FROM A ROOKIE SET MARKETED IN BLISTER PACKS. THE DRAW WAS DURANT BUT I BOUGHT IT FOR AL. NOW THAT I HAVE THIS ONE I CAN PUT BACK THE OTHER AL AND HAVE A COMPLETE SET AGAIN. TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH AN AL HORFORD FAN I AM HIS CARDS ARE IN THE SAME BINDER AS JASON HEYWARD AND JESSIE TUGGLE. THAT IS A CHERISHED BINDER

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IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN

HAPPY FESTIVUS EVERYONE! MAKE SURE TO AIR THOSE GREIVANCES! WE ALL GOT A LOT OF THEM THIS YEAR

THE TWELVE DAYS OF DRAFTSMAS - DAY TEN - BIGGUNS

I VERY NEARLY CHOSE ANOTHER POST WITH DOZENS OF IMAGES AGAIN FOR TODAY'S POST AND THEN REALIZED WHAT AN IDIOT I WAS AND PICKED AN EASY ONE. I HAD BEGUN MY BLOG SCREAMING MODE BY THIS TIME SO MY NOW RANTING WILL LOOK EXACTLY LIKE MY THEN RANTING. FORTUNATELY THE ONLY TEXT I WROTE FOR THIS POST BACK THEN WAS THE ASDFASDFASDF STUFF.

BIGGUNS

ORIGINAL SAVE DATE 08/18/2019

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I WANNA SAY I GOT THIS FROM THORZUL, NOW AT DEATH STARE CARDS. BUT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FROM A TRADE BOX. I KNOW I DIDN'T BUY THE THING BUT IT IS SOMETHING I ABSOLUTELY WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IF I FOUND IT AT A PRICE I COULD AFFORD. I MAY HAVE EYEBALLED A RELIC VERSION ON COMC RECENTLY COME TO THINK OF IT. 

AT ANY RATE, THE MALTESE FALCON IS A TOP FIVE ALL TIME MOVIE FOR ME AND I AM VERY HAPPY THE MOVIE POSTED GOT A BOX TOPPER CARD

I DONT' KNOW HOW I EVEN FEEL ABOUT THIS CARD DESIGN. I LOVE THE POSTER, I LOVE THE MARQUEE, THE BRICK WALL BACKGROUND IS FANTASTIC. HALF THE CARD TAKEN UP BY A GOLDEN AGE LOGO AND SOME TEXTSEEMS EXCESSIVE. I AM GUESSING A SWATCH OF BOGEY'S UNDERWEAR WOULD GO THERE ON THE 'GOOD' CARDS BUT I'D LIKE A BIGGER PICTURE PLZ. BUT I LIKE IT. MAYBE I JUST GOT USED TO EARLY 00S DONRUSS SETS WHERE THE BASE CARDS LOOKED LIKE GARBAGE SO THEY COULD UNLOAD THE GIANT PILE OF LAUNDRY THEY HAD TO SELL OFF AFTER THE LICENCE WENT AWAY ON THE SAME DESIGN. BUT I LIKE THIS

THE BACK IS CLASSIC PANINI MINIMALIST. YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY COLORS AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS IT IS ONE COLOR + WHITE. I CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT MOVIE THEATER MARQUEE DESIGN THOUGH! IT LOOKS GREAT! AND THE BACK TEXT MENTIONS PETER LORRE! I WANT PETER LORRE CARDS. OH AND THERE IS A SERIAL NUMBER. ANYTHING NICE HAS TO BE SCARCE. DAMMIT PANINI PRONT A MILLION OF THESE THINGS SO I CAN WALLPALER TEH DEN WITH THEM

ANYWAY I LOVE THE MALTESE FALCON AND I SHOULD WATCH IT INSTEAD OF FUCKING ABOUT ON THE INTERWEBS WASTING TIME BUT I WONT.

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WHEN A MAN'S PARTNER'S IS KILLED HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

I MEAN, PLEASANT SOLSTICE OR SOME SUCH THING

THE TWELVE DAYS OF DRAFTSMAS - DAY NINE - THE GINORMOUS TIME-INTENSIVE POST THAT THREATENS TO TRAINWRECK THE ENTIRE PROCESS

I'M ALREADY REGRETTING THIS ONE

IN FACT I'M NOT DOING THIS. THIS IS A SET OF FOUR POSTS I PLANNED AFTER A PARTICULARLY GOOD DAY AT THE CHEAPO BOXES. I CAME UP WITH THIS AMAZING IDEA TO DO A TOP 40 COUNTDOWN AND POST IT DURING THE NATIONAL AND THEN I SCANNED EVERYTHING, UPLOADED ALL THE PICS, EVEN COMPLETED ONE OF THE POSTS AND THEN MISSED MY SELF-IMPOSED DEADLINE AND NEVER POSTED ANYTHING. THE IDEA THIS YEAR WAS GOING TO BE TO POST THE WHOLE SHEBANG AT ONCE AND JOYFULLY COMPLETE SOMETHING I STARTED. AND THEN I DIDN'T HAVE A DAY OFF FOR A WEEK. I DON'T HAVE 4 HOURS TO FINISH THIS THING, BUT ENJOY THE PICTURES AND WHATEVER TEXT IS IN HERE. 

FUCK IT, I'VE GOT TWO FREE HOURS AND I'M GONNA WASTE IT HERE 

HAPPY NATIONAL NATIONAL DAY

I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN THE NATIONAL WAS LAST YEAR BUT THIS WAS GOING TO POST ON THE FIRST DAY THEN THE REST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. GOOD LORD, THIS WAS LAST YEAR?? IT SEEMS LIKE A DECADE AGO

ORIGINAL SAVE DATE 8/10/2019

RANDOMLY FOUND THIS IN A BOX FULL OF PROMO CARDS. SERIAL NUMBERED FROM THE ATLANTA NATIONAL. I REGRET MISSING THIS BUT AT THE TIME I WAS IN COLLEGE ROOMING WITH TWO GIRLS. COME AND KNOCK ON OUR DOOR... WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU....

HEH, HEH, HEH... NICE




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THIS POST WAS WRITTEN ALREADY BUT I'LL CHIME IN IF I HAVE ANYTHING OBNOXIOUS TO SAY


#40 1972 Topps Jim Holt

Let's start off easy with a '72 Topps card in the 500s. Almost everything in this list came from a quarter box, 5 for a dollar box, dime box or a quarter box that turns into a dime box if you buy 100 cards, but this is one of the few I got really spendy on at 75 cents. Totally worth it just for the Count Floyd 3-D bat in the face pose.

#39 2015 Archives 1968 Game Jose Altuve

I completely ignored 2015 Archives so I originally thought this was an insert from 2017 Heritage. Holding a full sized '68 Game card is very disorienting but you know I can't pass up the retro oddballs. Jose Altuve is turning into one of my favorite players to collect since he's an amazing player but he doesn't hit 40 homers a year so his cards are cheap.

I STILL LIKE JOSE ALTUVE, FUCK YOU. I WISH THE BRAVES WOULD CHEAT

#38 2015 Gypsy Queen Bartolo Colon mini parallel #192/199

I don't care if he sucked, I'm glad he was a Brave if only for a couple months. If you check out quarter boxes enough you'll know the experience of not really feeling the box after shuffling through piles of failed bowman prospects and football cards but then - THE CARD APPEARS - that forces you to dig through the rest of the slop looking for enough cards to get the quantity discount. This, my friends, was that card for this particular quarter box. Yes I know I hate Gypsy Queen and the Mets, IS NUMBERED MINI BIG SEXAY.

#37 1975 Topps Leading Firemen

We need to drop the ninth-inning-only closer nonsense and go back to firemen riding into the game with big helmet bullpen carts. Calculate a pitcher's value through saves, relief wins and bitchin' facial hair.

FOR REAL, DO THIS

#36 2017 Andrelton Simmons

When sorting through my Sunday pickups a whole lot of cool inserts and oddballs got left out of the top 40 list, so how did a 2017 base card make it? Because OMG look at that card.

LONG DISTANCE DEDICATION - Harvey Haddix

SO I EVEN INCLUDED THE LONG DISTANCE DEDICATIONS IN THIS POST. I AM NOT SURE WHY I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING FOR HARVEY HADDIX BUT I SUSPECT IT IS BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BECOME HARVEY HADDIX FANFICTION. I ALREADY WROTE JAY BUHNER FANFICTION AND THIS WOULD HAVE GOTTEN EXPONENTIALLY WEIRDER


#35 2003 Bazooka Ichiro Standups

Ichiro Suzuki + retro oddball homage = yes please. This card would rank much much higher if a Seattle Mariners card didn't have Oakland colors but Bazooka made a lot of odd decisions back in the day.

#34 2015 Allen & Ginter Keys to the City Statue of Liberty

A one per blaster insert from 2015 which seemed much tougher since I pulled the same damn one in every blaster I bought. Everyone loves the Statue of Liberty, she even managed to team up with Jackie Wilson and save Ghostbusters 2. NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THIS CROPPING THO TOPPS yes I know it's a horizontal layout but maybe make an exception for this one so Lady Liberty doesn't get her hand chopped off like a giant Luke Skywalker.

#33 1996 Leaf Total Bases Rafael Palmeiro #1244/5000

Gotta love insane 90s inserts with serial numbering and foil stamping and weird genuine base-like textures. Also gotta love that half the players from the 90s can be discounted from Hall of Fame consideration because drugs are bad mmkay so their cards are cheeeeeeep. A one in three box hit is now in a quarter box!

PUT HIM IN THE HALL ALREADY, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT STEROIDS ANYMORE

#32 1986 Fleer Hall of Famer Rod Carew

Rack Pack Goodness! No one gives a crap about 80's Fleer inserts so of course I'm fascinated by them. Topps was the first to put an exclusive insert in rack packs in 1984, so Fleer copied them two years later with a six card set featuring five Hall of Famers and YOU KNOW WHO. I never saw any 86 Fleer racks back in the day so I have to depend on the kindness of junk boxes nowadays.

#31 2005 Donruss Zenith Epix Pedro Martinez #405/750 & Nomar Garciaparra #312/350

OK so I cheated when making the top 40 list. You try choosing between an Orange Mets Pedro card and a Blue Cubs Nomar card. Sadly this is 2005 Donruss Epix instead of 1998 Score Epix so the cards are in crappy-scanning etched foilboard instead of cool shiny holofoil but I promise that they look good in person. Plus, ubiquitous late 90s-early 00s Serial Number Font!

IF THE PEDRO WAS BLUE HE'D BE FLYING SOLO HERE

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

THE NATIONAL IS HAPPENING AND I SPENT ALL MY MONEY ON DIME BOX CARDS LAST WEEKEND

ALL THREE POSTS (THAT'S RIGHT) ORIGINAL SAVE DATE 8/19/2019

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#30 2004 Fleer Greats Battery Mates Don Drysdale & Roy Campanella #1008/1957

GOD, I LOVE FLEER GREATS. IT'S UH, GREAT. TWO BROOKLYN HALL OF FAMERS WITH BONUS SERIAL NUMBER. INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS



IT WOULD KILL ME BUT IT IS A GOOD DEATH

#29 1961 Golden Press Dazzy Vance

NOBODY EVER KNOWS WHAT THESE THINGS ARE SO YOU CAN USUALLY FIND THEM CHEAP AS LONG AS IT'S NOT RUTH. IT'S A FRIGGIN BOOK LIKE THE DOVER REPRINTS THAT HAD PERFORATED CARDS AND ROTTEN LITTLE KIDS SEPARATED THE CARDS AND PLAYED WITH THEM AND HAD LOTS OF FUN AND RUINED THE COLLECTOR VALUE FOREVER, THE BASTARDS. IF THEY DID THIS TODAY IT WOULD BE AN ONLINE EXCLUSIVE WITH LESS THAN A HUNDRED COPIES AND SOME ARTIST PROOFS THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER PLAY WITH BECAUSE WE LIVE IN HELL

#28 2001 Fleer Genuine High Interest Frank Thomas

FLEER HAD THE BEST INSERTS. LOOK AT THIS INSANITY. DIE CUT, GREEN FOIL AND HOLOFOIL WITH A SEAM IN IT THAT JUST ADDS TO THE GLORIOUSNESS. NO ONE REMEMBERS FLEER GENUINE BUT NO ONE WILL FORGET THIS AFTER SEEING IT

#27 1991 O-Pee-Chee Tom Glavine

1991 O-PEE-CHEE MAKES ME SAD BECAUSE IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL BUT IT USES THE TOPPS LOGO AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND WHERE I LIVE. I WANT TO OPEN A BOX OF IT AND SAVOR EVERY DUAL-LANGUAGE CARD BUT THEY PROBABLY COST FOUR FIGURES NOWADAYS

#26 1974 Clarence Gaston Washington "Nat'l Lea."

TRYING TO COMPLETE THE 1974 TOPPS MASTER SET AND I THINK THE ONLY WASHINGTON CARD I NEED IS MCCOVEY. I'LL GET IT ONE DAY

LONG DISTANCE DEDICATION - Random Ass Reprint Thingys

I'VE SAID THIS MANY TIMES BUT THESE GODDAMN THINGS ARE MY KRYPTONITE. WHY BUY REAL ACTUAL VINTAGE CARDS WHEN YOU CAN BUY FAKEY ONES! THAT 61 FORD IS A SERIAL NUMBERED REFRACTOR SO I AM TEH WINNAR

#25 1992 Fleer Headliners Robin Yount

FLEER. INSERTS. BEST. 
I BOUGHT A TON OF 92 FLEER BUT THE INSERTS WERE SO HARD TO GET. THESE BLACK BORDERS LOOK SO GOOD

#24 2012 Archives 1977 Cloth Sticker Reggie Jackson

THE ARCHIVES VERSION OF REGGIE'S 77 CARD SUCKS COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL BUT THE CLOTH CARDS ARE LEGIT ONE OF MY EARLIEST COLLECTING MEMORIES AS I WAS DELIGHTED AND AMAZED BY THESE ODDLY STICKY CARDS WITH THE COOL TEXTURE. THE 21ST CENTURY VERSIONS HAVE A NICE FEEL TO THEM AS WELL AND DON'T HAVE ANCIENT GLUE BLEEDING THROUGH THEM AT ALL

#23 1998 Skybox EX 2001 Mike Piazza

THE CONSTANTLY MORPHING FLEER EX BRAND IS ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE EVEN THOUGH THE CARDS CHANGED DRASTICALLY FROM YEAR TO YEAR SEEMINGLY EVERY YEAR. I LOVE THE PLASTIC SEE-THROUGH ONES THE BEST

#22 2011 Allen & Ginter Minds That Made the Future Galileo Galilei and Dmitri Mendeleev

I STILL NEED TO FINISH THIS SET BUT EVERY TIME I FIND ONE I NEED IT'S A GODDAMN DELIGHT. I FOUND TWO I NEEDED HERE AND I EVEN KNOCKED ONE OFF MY LIST IN THIS HELLISH CARD-STARVED YEAR

#21 1995 Pinnacle Zenith Z-Team Larry Walker

Z-TEAM IN A DIME BOX IS FUCKING CRIMINAL, BUT I ENDED UP WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS AMAZING CARD SO FUCK THE POLICE. MAYBE IT WAS A QUARTER BOX BUT STILL. SO HAPPY LARRY FINALLY GOT HIS DUE

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

IF THIS DOESN'T POST ON SATURDAY YOU KNOW I'M A LAZY ASS

YEP.


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YO DING DONG, MAN. DING DONG YO

#20 1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars Lou Gehrig

PRETTY SURE I MENTIONED 1976 TOPPS IS MY SLOW BURN SET COMPLETING FOCUS BEHIND ALL THE VINTAGE SET I GET BONERS FOR* AND IT'S A GOOD DAY WHEN I CAN PICK OFF ONE AT A CARD SHOW. THIS GEHRIG IS USUALLY STOOPID EXPENSIVE BUT I GOT A SHITTY ONE FOR CHEAP! FITS IN THE CARD POCKET JUST AS GOOD AS THE NEAR MINT ONE!

#19 2003 Upper Deck Post Cereal Barry Bonds

THIS ONE IS WEIRD. I AM A FAT MAN WHO LOVES TO EAT CEREAL TOO MUCH. AND I EAT A lot OF POST CEREALS AND I COLLECTED THE HELL OUT OF THE 2002 POST CEREAL SET BUT I NEVER EVEN KNEW THIS 2003 CARD EVEN EXISTED UNTIL I FOUND IT IN A BLOODY JUNK BOX. IT'S ALL SPORTSFLICKY AND FROM UPPER DECK (?!?) AND HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THESE???? IS THERE A MADDUX OUT THERE SOMEWHERE? A CHIPPER?!?

#18 2006 Heritage Flashbacks Minnie Minoso

MINNIE MINOSO SHOULDA BEEN ELECTED TO THE HALL OF FAME WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE ON THE FIRST FUCKIN BALLOT AND GOD DAMN EVERY HALL VOTER WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM TO EVERLASTING HELLFIRE. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE

#17 1981 Cramer Baseball Legends Ernie Banks

EARLY EARLY PACIFIC CARD GOODNESS. THESE WERE HARD TO FIND WHEN I WAS A KID AND THEY STILL FACINATE ME. THESE FEEL LIKE THEY SHOULD BE WAY OLDER THAN 1981. WISH I COULD FIND A SET BUT I APPRECIATE MY RANDOM SAMPLES

#16 2004 Fleer Greats Ted Williams Reprints

MOAR FLEER GREATS IS GREAT. I ACTUALLY HAVE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS CARD AND I THINK IT MAY BE MY FAVORITE OF THE SET BECAUSE OF THE GOOFY PICTURE AND ALSO BECAUSE TED LOOKS UNCANNILY LIKE ONE OF MY ROOMATES IN COLLEGE

SERIAL NUMBERS ON A REPRINT CARD, LAWD THE EARLY 00S WERE A DISASTER FOR TRADING CARDS

LONG DISTANCE DEDICATION - Craig Griffey

A CRAIG GRIFFEY ODDBALL HOLOGRAM FROM A FLY-BY-NIGHT CARD MANUFACTURER IS MAYBE THE MOST EARLY-90S CARD IN EXISTENCE. I MEAN REALLY

YOU'LL SEE MORE FROM LIME ROCK SOON, SO STAY TUNED

#15 Donruss Hall of Fame Set Needs

PEOPLE PAYING LIKE 200 BUCKS FOR A PACK OF BLACK CHROME WHATEVER WITH FOUR RANDOM-ASS CARDS WHEN YOU CAN GET FOUR UPPER ESCHELON HALL OF FAMERS FOR LIKE A BUCK. THIS HOBBY IS RIDICULOUS

#14 1959 Topps Lou Berberet

I KEEP FORGETTING THIS ISN'T STRICTLY A DIME BOX POST. I MAYBE ONLY SPENT 50 CENTS ON THIS ONE THOUGH. THERE WAS A TWO-FOR-A-BUCK VINTAGE BOX AT THIS SHOW AND IT WAS OFTEN STOCKED WITH SOME OLDER ONES. NICE LOOKING CARD FOR FOUR BITS IF THAT WAS THE CASE

#13 2000 Pacific All-Star Fanfest Promo Hank Aaron

I ALREADY HAD A COUPLE SETS OF THESE HANK AARON ALL STAR FANFEST CARDS BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY AT THE FANFEST AND I BOUGHT A BUNCH OF TERRIBLE OVERPRICED PACKS TO GET THEM. I THINK I HAD TO OPEN PACIFIC OMEGA TO GET THE SHINY PRISM. WORTH IT, I GUESS. I GOT ANOTHER ONE ANYWAY BECAUSE MORE HANK

#12 1996 Pinnacle Team Pinnacle Albert Belle/Sammy Sosa

MORE DUFEX WHAA-HOOOOOOO ALBERT GETS THE GOOD SIDE WHILE POOR SAMMY IS STUCK WITH THE FOILBOARD. STILL A GREAT LOOKING CARD. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS WHY THIS IS #12 AND THE Z-TEAM LARRY IS WAY UP AT #20 IT'S BECAUSE I WANTED TO END THE LAST POST WITH A BANG. DOESN'T WORK AS WELL NOW THAT I SMOOSHED ALL THE POSTS TOGETHER DOES IT

#11 2005 Donruss Zenith Spellbound Greg Maddux

M O A R E R   D U F E X 

AH, PINNACLE/DONRUSS ZENITH. THE CONFUSED NICK YOUNG OF TRADING CARD SETS. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SET. WHY DOES IT EXIST. HOW DID IT KEEP POPPING UP YEAR AFTER YEAR. WHO CARES WE GOT SPELLBOUND CARDS. I THINK A LITTLE POOP CAME OUT WHEN I SPOTTED A DUFEX MADDUX IN A RANDOM JUNK BOX

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

HOLY SHIT I FINISHED A SERIES ON THIS DUMB BLOG

NOPE.

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OK TOP TEN TIME. DIS GON B GUD

#10 1976 Topps Thurman Munson

ANOTHER ONE OFF THE 1976 LIST! THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY A GREAT CARD IN DECENT CONDITION TOO! WHEN I WAS A YOUNG'UN BUYING VINTAGE THURMAN MUNSON CARDS WERE NOT FOUND IN THE CHEAPO BOXES AND VINTAGE BRICKS I WAS BUYING. PRETTY SURE THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW THE DUDE WAS IN THE K-MART MVPS SET. THANKFULLY I'VE MADE UP FOR LOST TIME IN MY AGED YEARS

#9 2017 Archives Bazooka Tom Glavine

I WILL NEVER EVER OWN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL BAZOOKA CARDS SO I'M VERY HAPPY ARCHIVES KEEPS MINING THE VINTAGE ODDBALL STASH TO STEAL DESIGNS FROM. REALLY LIKE THIS TOM CARD, IT WAS UNPRICED ON A RANDOM TABLE AND I WAS VERY HAPPY WHEN THE SELLER DIDN'T QUOTE A RIDICULOUS PRICE FOR IT

#8 2017 Archives Jason Heyward

WHY YES A JASON HEYWARD BASE CARD ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE EVER CARD DESIGNS IS IN MY TOP TEN WHY WOULD YOU EVEN QUESTION THIS

OH OK NOW YOU LIKE IT TOO I SEE. GO AHEAD, SAY IT IN THE COMMENTS. SAY IT YOU COWARDS

#7 2004 Diamond Kings Adam LaRoche Dual Bat Relic #043/100

I DON'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH I PAID FOR THIS CARD BUT I REMEMER IT WAS STOOPID CHEAP. OK, IT'S A BAT RELIC. OK THE ONLY REASON NON-BRAVES FANS REMEMBER ADAM LAROCHE ANYMORE IS BECAUSE DRAKE. OK SERIAL NUMBER OF XX/100 DOESN'T MEAN A DAMN THING ANYMORE. STILL! THIS CARD WAS TOO CHEAP. I'M ASHAMED I PAID SO LITTLE

#6 Allen & Ginter Insert Set Finishers

FIVE sets!!! I finished off FIVE insert sets!!!!!

I DID!!! I REALLY FINISHED OFF FIVE FUCKING INSERT SETS!!!!!!!

Not a Buck-and-a-quarter Quarterstaff, these were all out of the 100 for $10 box.

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT OF CARDS IN THIS POST. THE QUARTER BOXES WHAT BECOMES DIME BOXES WHEN YOU BUY ENOUGH OF THEM HAD SOME SERIOUS QUALITY IN THERE

Cartography mistake that

THAT WHAT? THAT WHAAAAT? I HAVE TO KNOW!

I DON'T KNOW. 2015 HAD A LOT OF COOL INSERTS THOUGH

Topps purposely printed one of these cards with sdlkdf lsk

I LEGIT HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THIS ONE. I WONDER IF THE SDLKDF LSK VARIATION IS HARD TO FIND

Rosie the Robot

MAN, BACK IN THE 60S EVERYONE IMAGINED ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS AS SEXY MAID-BOTS OR AT LEAST AS THE VAGUELY FEMININE DALEK-LOOKING THING FROM THE JETSONS BUT ACTUAL TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS ARE LITTLE FAT FRISBEES ON WHEELS THAT SHUFFLE AROUND BUMPING INTO THINGS UNTIL THE CAT DECIDES TO TAKE A RIDE ON IT. SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTING BUT HONESTLY MORE ENTERTAINING

Cards featuring inscrutable images about obscure subjects is A&G's bread and butter

HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT WHAT THE DUCK THIS PICTURE IS SUPPOSED TO BE? LIKE 90% OF MODERN TOPPS NON-SPORT CARDS THE IMAGE IS DIRECTLY GANKED FROM WIKIPEDIA, BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL IS IT??? 

THERE HAD TO BE A BETTER PICTORIAL DEPICTION OF A SHORTWAVE RADIO STATION THAN A SATELLITE IMAGE. YES, EVEN ONE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. INFURIATING THAT A COOL SET GETS SHITTY IMAGES DUE TO CHEAPNESS/LAZINESS

LONG DISTANCE DEDICATION - Neglected Tony Gwynn '90s Inserts

TONY GWYNN CARDS ARE SO UNDERPRICED. LAZER CUT INSERT FOR LESS THAN A BUCK. MAKES NO SENSE. PLEASE KEEP DOING THIS, SELLERS

#5 1999 Topps Gold Label Race To Aaron Juan Gonzalez

MAN, I WAS SO STOKED FOR THIS SET BACK IN 1999 UNTIL I REALIZED THAT THE PACKS WERE VERY EXPENSIVE AND THE CARDS WERE HARD TO FIND AND NEW INSERT PRICES WERE REALLY JACKED UP. NOW THEY ARE ALL TRASH BECAUSE MIKE TROUT IS NOT ON THE CARD. IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIGURE OUT THIS IS TECHNICALLY A JUAN GONZALEZ CARD. IT'S NOT, IT'S A HANK AARON CARD. BUT TECHNICALLY. I SUPPOSE

#4 1980 Topps Frank White

LAST FUCKIN CARD I NEEDED FOR THE 1980 TOPPS SET EXEPT FOR THAT GODDAMN NOLAN RYAN. I KNEW WHEN I SAW THIS THAT IT WOULD BE THE LAST 1980 CARD I WOULD BE ELATED TO BUY FOR MY SET BECAUSE THAT OVERPRICED NOLAN WOULD BE A BITCHASS TO FIND CHEAP. MANY SUPER GRATEFUL THANKS TO CARDBOARD ICONS FOR SENDING IT TO ME OUT OF THE BLUE ONE DAY

#3 Every Satchel Paige Card In The World

EVERY SATCHEL PAIGE CARD

IS A BEAUTIFUL

SATCHEL PAIGE CARD.

#2 1961-1963 Post Don Mossi Rainbow

SO THE GOOD VINTAGE GUY** SHOWED UP WITH A SHOEBOX FULL OF REALLY TERRIBLE LOOKING POST CEREAL CARDS AND WAS ONLY CHARGING 5 CENTS EACH AND I SCROUNGED THROUGH THEM AND FOUND A FULL 1961-1962-1963 SET OF DON MOSSI CARDS WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS I HAVE EVER FOUND IN MY CHEAPSKATE SCROUNGING COLLECTING CAREER. TWO OF THE BACKS WERE EVEN SCRIBBLED ON. IN RETROSPECT I SHOULDA BOUGHT LIKE TEN BUCKS WORTH OF THE THINGS BUT VERY FEW PLAYERS IN THE BOX REALLY JUMPED OUT AT ME AND HONESTLY I HAD ALREADY FOUND THE BEST THREE CARDS THERE COULD BE. I DECIDED TO LET SOME OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SOME FUN. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE BETTER THAN THIS?

#1 1992 Lime Rock Alfred E. Neuman Hologram

WHAT, ME WORRY?

DAM SI KCAB EHT NEVE

WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING I MEAN MERRY WHATEVER

*1953, 1960, 1972. WHEN I EVENTUALLY BURN ALL MY CARDS IN A RAGE AGAINST MAN AND GOD THESE BINDERS GET CHUCKED IN THE BONFIRE LAST. AS I LEAP IN CLUTCHING THEM TO MY CHEST

**THE CHEAP VINTAGE GUY NOT THE OVERPRICED SNOBBY VINTAGE GUY