Two More Completed Pages & Card Show

 Went to a card show at Lloyd Center today.  I was able to bypass many tables because they were Pokemon or slabbed superstars, neither of which interest me.  I was surprised that none of the dealers had any 2025 Heritage.  There were several other tables that I was able to pass by because they had many unsorted 5,000 count boxes and I know I don't have the patience to go through that looking for cards I want.  I did pick up one free card of a minor league player for the Hillsboro Hops named Gavin Logan (guess who I picked it up for).  I dropped off some cards at his house this morning.

I must confess that I have never heard of any these guys.  This team no longer exists.

I have heard of none of these guys either and I used to be a Chargers fan, although these cards came out when I was eight years old and living in Newport, Rhode Island. 

I am now at 56% of the set, I have ninety eight of the one hundred seventy six cards.

2025 Heritage a first look

 When I got home from a boring cold day at work today, my wife greeted me with a hot bowl of spaghetti and in the mail I received my pre-ordered hobby box of 2025 Heritage.  I immediately opened it while watching The Rookie.

This is what it looked like after I sorted out the teams that I know I can send to you guys. In the bottom row second from the left is a stack of most of the inserts.  

This was the first card out of the box.

I got these two historical guys.  One of them is very well known in this part of the country.

It's hard to tell here but these are all chrome versions of the base cards.  Paul Skenes showed up so many times in this box I thought it was meant for Pittsburgh.  Luckily I have a friend here who is a Pirates fan.  

Blue borders, no serial numbers on these.

Blue Sparkly versions, no serial numbers here either.

A slightly different color blue sparkly, no serial number.

I did get one serial numbered card, blue chrome.  133/150

Watch for it in the mail Tom

I did get a 1976 Buyback card

These are some of the other inserts.  The Matt Olson relic is the guaranteed relic/autograph in a hobby box.  I was glad to get the Mel Ott he was one of my first baseball heroes when I was a kid.  

Hope you enjoyed this look.

Thanks for stopping by.

The Joy of a completed page

 

I completed a page of my 1965 Topps Football set build.  It is the first page of the set.  I only recognized two names on this page.  Nick Buoniconti, although I know him from when he was with the Miami Dolphins in the 70's.   He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 and passed away in 2019.  Gino Cappelletti played for the Patriots from 1960 to 1970.  Before joining the Patriots he played in the CFL and also played QB for a Rugby Team according to wikipedia.  He passed away in 2022.

Fuji helped me out with eight more cards to bring me to 49% completion of the set.  The only one of these guys I had heard of was Tom Flores and that was from the years he was the Raiders head coach.  Thanks Mark.

On a completely different note, I have a question for those of you who use Blogger.  I can only get my blogroll to show ten other blogs, but I notice some of you have many more than that.  Can you tell how to get more to show up.

Thanks for stopping by and any help you can render.