New Padrographs

I was searching on eBay and found some Padrographs I didn't have.  

 Randy Curtis was drafted by the Mets in 1991 and came to the Padres in a trade and then went to the Cleveland system.  He was out of professional baseball by 1998.  He has been President and CEO of ABD baseball for the last 28 years.

Euribiel Angeles was drafted by the Padres in 2018 and was traded to the A's in 2022 as part of the trade that brought Sean Manea to the Padres.  He is currently playing in the Texas League.

Nathan Martorella was drafted by the Padres in 2022 and is now in the Southern League in the Marlins system.  He was part of the trade that brought Luis Arraez to San Diego.

Nerwilian Cedeno was signed by the Padres in 2019 at age 17 in the DR.  He is currently playing A+ for the Ft Wayne Tincaps in the Padres system.  

Robby Snelling was drafted by the Padres in 2023, he is currently pitching in the Marlins system as he was also part of the Arraez trade.  

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.

Ripping boxes

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.

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.

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.  

The actual joy of a completed set

COMC came through earlier than projected.  I received the last three cards for my 1965 Philadelphia Gum Football set yesterday.  

The third card refused to scan properly.  It was  Charley Johnson of the St. Louis Cardinals.  I have now finished the 1969 Topps set and this set.  Today I got some cards for my 1957 Topps Football build at the Local Card Show.  I missed seeing the Diamond King there. 

There is a big show coming up at the Oregon Convention Center in three weeks.  Looking forward to seeing what I can find there.

 

First 2025 card

 

The Joy of a Completed Set (kinda)

 My 1965 Philadelphia Football is kinda complete.  The last two cards I needed were Jim Brown and local hero Mel Renfro.  I used to work with a guy who went to high school with Mr. Renfro.

I say the set is kinda of complete, because before I bought these I ordered the other three cards I needed from COMC, I ordered them in late January and according to the website they will be shipped March 3.  This is the first time I have ordered from COMC, is this kind of delay normal?  So now that the Philadelphia set is kinda done I am working on the 1965 Topps football set.  Again I am looking for cards in poor to fair condition.  I found someone today who had one card at the card show.  So I guess it will be an Ebay quest.  

I met up with The Diamond King at the show today and he gave me a Blake Snell card I didn't have and the Bull Durham card featured in a recent post on his blog.  I mentioned that Fuji was coming to town and we are going to try and meet up with him.  Hopefully Gavin will be able to meet up with us also.  

Thanks for stopping by. 

In n Out

That would be nice but it's a two hour drive to the nearest one.  My meaning is that I have received things and I have sent stuff out.  

I went to the local card show last Saturday.  I headed straight for one table where I knew the dealer had 1965 Topps Football.  I picked up 14 cards and now only need 152 to finish the set.  Luckily I got some ebay gift cards for Christmas and was able to pick up the checklists for a reasonable price.  I have gotten one in and am waiting on the other.  They were kind of expensive, but then I still have Broadway Joe on the wantlist.  I also used some of the gift cards to further my pursuit of the 65 Philadelphia Football Set,  I am down to just needing 7 cards to finish that set.  Jim Brown and Mel Renfro are the biggest names still needed.  

On the outgoing side, I finished sorting all the packs and boxes that I got for Christmas.  So I packaged most of them up and sent them out.  Jim, Greg, Tom, Tim, Kerry, Jeremy, and Chris you are all receiving packages from me.  One of you is also getting a poster in a mailing tube.  

Thanks for stopping by.  

 

it was a down year (for me)

In 2024 my interest in cards waned, for a variety of reasons.  The price for cards got to high on some cards for my Padrographs and packs and boxes reached astronomical heights ($50 for a pack of Bowman Draft).  I would go to shows and see people walking around with armored briefcases.  I could go past half the tables because they were selling slabbed Pokemon cards, of which I have absolutely no interest. Another group of tables I would walk past is the dealers that had nothing but slabbed cards, I like to look at my cards and handle them and put them into binders (now back to back in pages, Thanks Mr. Owl).  I have never had the patience to look through 5000 count boxes of unsorted or barely cards.  I am an organizer, so that kind of disorganization puts me on edge.  I will stop if there appears to be cards sorted by sport or team or player.  

Set completed

I started the 1969 Topps football card set with just two cards.  Brian Picollo and Gale Sayers.  Ever since I watched Brians' Song with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams I have been fascinated with their story.  I read any book I could on them.  In 2024 I decided to finish the set.   I finished the set in November.  The set is in poor to good condition.  There are a lot of players in this set that I remember seeing on TV, watching football with my Dad when he was home.  He was in the Navy and would often be gone 6-8 months at a time as I was growing up.  Watching football was one of the few things we did together.  

Sets started 

I started two more football sets, 1965 Philadelphia Gum and 1965 Topps.  I only need 16 more cards to finish the Philadelphia set. I freed Bob Lilly from his slab and I am still getting used to my new scanner which is why that photo looks so weird.  These are the last four cards I received in 2024.   I think I should be able to finish the set before January is over.  

Padrographs

I now have 1302 different Padres autographs.  There were five Padres in Bowman Draft, with four of them having autographed cards.  I managed to get all of them for reasonable prices.  The only one who didn't have an autographed version was Clark Candiotti, son of Tom Candiotti.  The last one I received on December 21 was Kash Mayfield.  I am still missing several of last seasons Padres, Dylan Cease and Jurickson Profar among them.  

Christmas 

Our Christmas Day was a little different. It is just my wife and I at home now.  I woke up at 7 as she was coming to bed after working on a Christmas present all night.  Soon she came to see me and said we need to go to the Emergency Room because she had a kidney stone.  So we went and spent the first 4.5 of Christmas in the ER.  We got home and our granddaughter and her Mom came over to open gifts with us.  I got a cool t shirt and a mug from them.  After they left we opened gifts. I got lots of gift cards from my wife and about 20 blasters of cards from 2024.  Unlike last year I opened them all in about two days and they are sorted to be sent to various collectors in the next month.  

Sets I want to build this year

Or at least get started.  I am going to build sets from my birth year 1957.  That is Hockey, Football, Baseball, Basketball and 6 non sports sets.  

Blog goals

I would like to post at least twice a week.  Hopefully.  I won't find the time so I will have to make the time.

Thanks for stopping by. Aloha

Merry Christmas, to Everyone

 Merry Christmas to all.  I hope you find the cards you wanted under the tree.  Aren't we lucky that Christmas falls between the end of the World Series and the beginning of Spring Training.  Only 48 days to go. 

Hey It's Me

 I am still here and reading your blogs and plotting how to get cards to y'all after Christmas.  I finished the 1969 Topps Football set and am currently working on the 1965 Philadelphia Foot.ball set (I have 30 cards to go).  I have one card for my next set build which is the 1965 Topps football set.  I recently picked up all of the Bowman draft Padres autographs for this year.  I think that will put me over 1,300 Padrographs.  I know that I am getting many boxes of cards for Christmas and will be distributing them among people.  If there is something specific you are interested in please let me know.  

I have not retired from blogging.  I feel busier now than when I was working full time and I can't find time to blog, so I am trying how to make time to blog in the future.  I plan to start again shortly after the holidays.

Thank you for all your friendships.  See you soon.

Hello Again, I got a bobble card today.

 I am still reading blogs and collecting.  

I started a set build, 1969 Topps football.  I had two cards from the set, Brian Picollo and Gale Sayers, so I decided to build the set.  I have liked the set for a long time.  I am now at 24% complete.  I keep spending about $20 at a time.  I am not two worried about condition. So it is a good condition set.  

I am still opening product and sorting it to go to various collectors.  I have added a 2008 Topps card of White Sox utility player Josh Fields to my National Anthem collection.  I found an autographed one on eBay.  

My City Connect mini collection needs to be sorted by team and sleeved.  

I have added a few cards to my Padrographs collection.  

Gavin from Baseball Card Breakdown sent me some cards of Tim Flannery that he had worked his magic on the cards.

I think my favorite is the 1985 Topps card.  I would collect a rainbow of that card.  The 1988 Fleer card is the aforementioned Bobble card.

1992 Padres Stadium Club Team set

 There seem to be a lot more action shots in the 92 set and fewer posed shots.  

There are 33 cards in this set, which is up 9 cards from 1991. With 33 cards that is several more than would be on the roster at any one time.  

I had all kinds of ideas for this series, but I don't seem to be able to muster the same enthusiasm for writing that I did when I started the blog back in 2008.  I still enjoy collecting and reading other blogs and trading, but the writing not so much, so you may see more picture filled posts from me.