Monday, April 29, 2013

Dime Box Adventure - Part 3 of 3

Alrighty. The final installment of my recent dime box splurge. Let's get 'er goin'...

1988 Topps Kmart Dream Team Chris Sabo. All the Rec Spec goodness of my boy Sabo. Of the hundred thousand Kmart cards I've ever had, I don't know how Sabo went so long without sneaking in. No longer, sir! Next up...

1984 Milton Bradley Dave Concepcion. A card used in the dice-based game Championship Baseball. Something I would definitely love to gather a few friends and a few beers for. Not sure how many people I know who would enjoy that. Very few, I imagine. I can dream though. Moving forward...

Some Bowman Chrome goodness. 2010 Travis Wood and Chris Heisey. 2011 Todd Frazier. The Wood is a refractor but didn't show up at all on the scan. More Bowman parallellyness...

2010 Bowman Gold Chris Heisey, Mike Leake, and Yasmani Grandal. I enjoy the super thick golds Bowman put out, I just don't understand why the base set golds are normal thickness and draft pick/prospect sets are extra thick. Silly, silly Bowman. What's that? More Bowman parallel?...

2011 Bowman International Edinson Volquez. International is a very underrated Bowman set. At least I think so. Using the player's home country or hometown as a backdrop is smooth. I wish I had more of these. I probably have ten total, yet one exists for every player since the 90s. Unforgivable. Hey, remember that one year Volquez was friggin invincible for the Reds? That was fun. Now, invincible is hardly a word being used around him very often. Soldiering...

Hmmm. 1984 Topps? Well, yes and no. Check the product tag. Nestle! Topps had no problem shilling their designs for other companies. At some point, Topps realized never to hide their name. Not in the '80s, man. Just get cards everywhere. Ev-er-y-where. Glad they did though, so I can nab treasures like these for pocket change. Ok, closing up...


Hideous Fleer. but how could a Pete Rose card from his playing days be hideous? It can't. Of course. Pictured are 1986 Fleer, 1987 Fleer Hottest Stars, 1986 Fleer League Leaders, 1987 Fleer Record Setters, and 1987 Fleer Baseball All Stars. Sweet.

Congratulation if you made it through all three days of this. I didn' even come close to posting all the dime goodies, but such is life. They will all grace the binders in splendiferous majesty. I have some vintage goodness and some TTM successes in the holster for this week. As usual, Go Redlegs.



4 comments:

  1. I had that Championship Baseball games. I loved it. I have no clue what happened to it.

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    1. It's probably been touring its way around the country, one yard sale at a time. That seems to be the fate of games like those.

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  2. Those Nestle cards are sweet!

    (No pun intended.)

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    1. I do believe that pun WAS intended. But yeah, I like seeing the regular 80s cards with one minor logo change. 1981 topps coca cola comes to mind. And o-pee-chee is always great.

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