Big Box Mail Day - Junk Wax Inserts and Such

Junk Wax, bay-beeeeeee. Gimme dem inserts. 

 

I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said about this junk era goodness. Just sit back and enjoy the show. 

 

Quiz lookin' like a P-I-M-P. Perfect closer.

 

Go Redlegs.

Big Box Mail Day - Vintage Football and Hockey

Absolutely zero regrets expanding the collection to football and hockey. Inexpensive vintage. Cool history. And who the hell wants to keep their money, anyway?

 

I didn't even know what these were when I bought em. Just saw old stuff for less than a 1990's phone call. Turns out, these were used to stabilize Fleer Football Patch packs, so they decided to print some info on em. 14 total, and I have 6. Well on the way.

 

 

Some more from '73. Bob Hayes is the obvious standout here. Only player with an Olympic Gold Medal and a Super Bowl ring (1964 100m dash and Super Bowl VI, for the curious). Also an All Pro, so he wasn't one of several Olympic PR hires over the years (Tommie Smith and Bennie Brazell on my Bengals, for example).

 

 

 

Merlin Olson and Ray Nitschke are huge pickups for the '69 Topps set. Also HoFer Floyd Little. NFL gots ta bring back these old hand-drawn logos. And there was exactly one vintage basketball in this box, so there it is.

 

Nice pile of 70's hockey. Hockey cards are absolutely worth it just for the haircuts. Look at all these dapper gentlemen. A couple Hall of Famers in this cluster. Cheers to you if you know who they are. A lot of these old hockey sets didn't have a huge checklist, so completion is realistic. Except for that one '79 card. Yeesh.

 

Big Box keeps a' rollin'.

 

Go Redlegs. 

Big Box Mail Day - Fast Food, Dog Food, Sodie Pop, and Retail Shopping

Some, but not all, of the 80's and 90's goodness from The Box. Trying to complete everything offered from this golden era. Because I'm sick in the head.

 

 

Textbook license-less offering here from the dog food people. Hideous. Zoom right in on their big 80's faces so we don't have to airbrush the unis too. 

 

 

Toys R Us adult checking in. RIP this place.

 

Quick stop for some batteries or cough syrup? Sorry, gotta buy your kid some cards here, too.

 

 

Mickey D's and a Pepsi Big Mac. Pepsi made these a quarter inch too wide. Unforgivable. 

 

These are Long John Silver's cards. Why wouldn't they brand them? I don't get it. But LJS zags when everyone else zigs. Always has.

 

I'm fewer than 10 away from the entire K-Mart run. My parents are very proud of me.

 

 

'92 Sausagefractors! Let's get some logos on the ballcaps, man.

 

 

Kendrick Lamar sang of these, I think. 

 

Grab a Drake's coffee cake and a DQ Blizzard, grab a Trapper Keeper at Ames, some pancakes at Denny's, some erectile dysfunction snake oil at the Circle K, some knee socks at Hills, Rock em Sock em Robots at KayBee, and polish it all off with a PB granola bar. And while doing all this, buy like 200 baseball cards. We ready for summer break 1989, boi.

 

Go Redlegs.

Big Box Mail Day - Halls of Fame, Buckeyes, Ickey, and Anthony

Picking away at my big four Hall of Fame binders. One of each is the goal. Not as easy as you may think.

 

 

 

Easy pick-offs that I was missing for some reason. Loooooots of coaches in the basketball HoF. This is a tough task, since it's not the NBA Hall of Fame, it covers all the bball in the universe. Soviet Olympians, 50's college stars, like 90 referees. Oh, and entire teams, like the original Celtics and the Wayland Baptist Women's teams of 1948-1982. Yes, really. Completion is not an option, yet I persist.

 

 

An addendum to the MLB Hall of Fame binder, is one of everyone in the Reds Hall of Fame. Tons of old old old dudes, so this won't be breezy. This is a sampling.

 

 

The new crews in the MLB and NFL Halls of Fame. Love Brees as a Charger.

 

 

Two Hockey HoF pickups and found a couple rando Ickey and Munoz mojos.

 

 

Closin' with some Buckeye Alums. Mack saw some action with the New York Giants, so he has earned his way into the binder. Scott was cut from a couple practice squads, then the Columbus Aviators. Looking bleak. Porter transferred to Notre Dame (barf), but he will surely find an NFL roster at some point. Renick, Washington, Sorenson, no doubt about it. IN.

 

Damn, I love me some boxes. 

 

Go Redlegs. 

Big Box Mail Day - Vintage Baseball

A modest vintage pile from the Sportlotsbox. A few names in here I forgot that I bought, which is super lovely when you're just expecting commons. No shade to commons, though. Where would we be without em?

 

 

 

Names up top for ya. Manny Sanguillen with his trademark glove. It took half a heifer to get all that leather, they say. Robin Roberts isn't talked about enough among the all-time greats. 86 WAR puts him over Pedro, Fergie, Moose, Verlander, Kershaw, and Nolan Ryan, to name a few 80+ guys. And I now see why the '67 leaders card was like 37 cents. Fine by me.

 

 

 

Will we bring back coaches cards or do we need that space for a 5th or 6th base set Ohtani? I know the answer.

 

60's Topps sets coming along nicely. Doing the worst on '63. People love this set, apparently, because I don't see em often. P.S. if you have a spare #537, I'll trade ya, like, 50 Chrome Refractors for it.

 

 

 

'69 and '70 mostly high-number stuff, which I think we've all calmed down about, in terms of pricing.

 

 '71 and '72 semi-high numbers. Or whatever the designation is. I'll never ever spend the money required to finish the '72 set, so I'll be happy to finish the first 6(?) series. I have all the Reds highs and a few rogues found in busted-up condition, but yeesh people pay primo money for those.

 

 One more name to close it out. The underpants guy!

 

 Go Redlegs. 

Big Box Mail Day

Anything better than a huge mail day? No, sir. Well, nothing with your clothes on.

 

 

Resplendent is the SportLots sticker. A few months of cherry picking for the various projects finally in my grubby little hands.

 

 

Kind of simulates a pack ripping session, other than knowing there is zero serious mojo and 90% of it is twenty-cent cards. Oh wait, that's exactly like a pack ripping session.

 

 

616 additions to the ol' collection. We gots a vintage pile, a junk era food/store issue pile, a junk era insert pile, a Reds HoF pile, a 1991-92 Skybox Bball pile, and a miscellaneous project pile (Buckeyes Alums, various Halls of Fame, Ickey Woods, Anthony Munoz, Opening Day Reds).

 

My actual real life job is going to suffer hugely this week. Sorry, math world. Results can wait.

 

Go Redlegs.
 

1970 Topps O-Pee-Chee Cincinnati Reds Complete Team Set

1970 O-Pee-Chee stopped at card #546. Above #546 in the Topps set were Pete Rose and Johnny Bench. Without those two in the Maple Mojo Parallel set, this was doable. 

There were still some tough cards here. Petey with Clemente is huge. Perez/Santo/McCovery is a Hall of Fame trio. Lee May fans and stans gotta pony up Hank Aaron prices.

 

This Reds squad was stacked. 

Ah, we do get a Johnny Bench at the end. Hooray and huzzah. He absolutely asploded that newspaper.

 

I've enjoyed snagging Chees now that I've piled up the Topps flagships so well. Shifting the collection into hard mode. Lord have mercy on the credit card.

A mari usque ad mare, Canada.

Go Redlegs.