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.

Come Dig in my Bargain Box

Trading is great. But sometimes it's easier to trade for money. I grabbed all the cheap stuff from my TCDB for sale/for trade list, organized the list, and put em up here for ya. Everything is 50 cents or 25 cents. 

The 50 cent cards are typically parallels or inserts. The 25 cent cards are typically base stars and rookies. The results of buying a few entire dealer boxes at shows combined with the remainder of my modern Reds Topps parallel collection that I fell out of love with. Nothing amazing, but it's just spare change, eh?

Refer someone who buys and I'll discount ya. 

It's around 1200 Reds and around 1200 Not Reds, for the record.

Go to the tab up above and see if there's anything ya like. 

Also, here's a Hayden Senger Mojo Ice Sparkle Crackle Deckle Speckle Wreckx-n-Effectle Parallel because he's the first player from my high school to make it to The Show.

Go Redlegs.

Columbus Blue Jackets Autos: A-E

My Blue Jackets. Oh, my woeful Blue Jackets. Bill Simmons and The Ringer called them "the most irrelevant franchise in professional sports". And I cannot argue. 27 seasons in the NHL. 6 playoff appearances. 1 playoff series win plus 1 COVID season kind-of-playoffs series win. Never been to round 3. Only one Hall of Famer rostered, Sergei Fedorov in the waning years of his career.

 

But dammit, the games are fun as hell. Go watch NHL hockey in-person if you haven't.

 

The stand-out of this pile is Cam Atkinson, in that he's the only All Star among them. I'll also shout-out Marc Denis, because I'm a sucker for goalies. I believe in you, Jackets. The North will rise again.

Go Redlegs.

Reds IP Auto Collection - A

By "IP", I mean "in-person". By "in-person", I mean "someone who wasn't me asked nicely". Most of these are from the hard work of other people, who then sold them for cheap.

 

About a third are TTM though, and those were indeed by me.

 

I like these much much better than the soulless corporate autographs. Especially the sticker autos. These were out in the wild, man. Not soaking underneath fluorescent lights in some dreary cubicle, man. I, of course, am a hapless hypocrite, as I have plenty 'official' autos too.

 

Here's the current collection, last name A.

 

 

Auto count: 31

Unique Reds: 17

Biggest name (player): Bronson Arroyo

Biggest name (manager): Sparky Anderson 

Current roster: Andrew Abbott, Graham Ashcraft, Tejay Antone

Oldest: Gerry Arrigo (1969 Topps)

Quantity champ: Tejay Antone (5) 

Missing auto I want the most: Steve Avery

 

Go Redlegs.