I recently opened some boxes. A hobby box and a blaster of Series 1, two blasters of high number heritage and a mega box of Celebration of series one. I have put together packages for some of my readers, they will be going out this week. I thought I would share some of the inserts and parallels I got. If you see something you would like let me know and we'll see what we can work out. I am looking for 1990 chrome parallels of Tony Gwynn and Call to the Hall parallels of him.
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
Ripping boxes
Got a bunch of these.
Got four serial number chrome cards
Got a few of these. Like seeing Juan Marichal, I used to have his Sports Illustrated poster on my wall in the 70's
The card on the left is a variation, it says white border on the back but the borders look to be green.
I would like to know if there is a Padres card like the Astros. I only got one Call to the Hall in everything I opened.
Got so many of these I didn't scan them all.
I got the inexpensive Skenes card.
Really?
Several mascots but no Swingin Friar
And my guaranteed relic, at least the relic matches the picture.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
1957 Topps Non Sports
I have started in on my 1957 Non Sports sets. I am working on Robin Hood, Planes, Space, Hit Stars and Isolation Booth. I managed to pick up a lot of forty cards for the Planes set. I also picked up a small lot of the isolation booth cards. The planes set comes in two different color backs, Blue and Red, I am making a combined set. I don't card about condition, some are pretty bad. Here is where I am with each set.
17/88 for 19% of Isolation Booth
1/60 for 2% of Robin Hood
9/88 for 10% of Hit Stars, this will be the third time I have built this set.
1/88 for 1% of Space
38/88 for 32% of Planes.
I was going to look for some more at the card show at the Oregon Convention Center but it was a big disappointment. I waited in line to park. I had a prepaid ticket but had to wait in line to get a wristband, then another line to get in. When I did get in I basically turned around and left. The promoter severly underestimated the crowd. The show was over capacity within the first ten minutes. I couldn't tell what vendors were there or what they had to offer because the crowds were so thick.