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. 

Single Card Post - 1952 Topps #29 Ted Kluszewski

Badass set. Badass dude. Teddy's 1953-1956 stretch was stellar. 171 dingers, 464 ribbies, .315/.585/.968 slash, 4 All Star nods. Also 4 stolen bases. Missed out on an MVP to some schlub named Willie.

 

A mouse bite on the top there, but such is life in my collection. It matched Ted's torn sleeves that allegedly could not contain dem boulder shoulders

 

Big Klu was on the coaching staff for the Reds '75 and '76 World Series wins, had his #18 retired by the club, and was elected to the Reds Hall of Fame about 9 seconds after he retired. Legend.

 

Go Redlegs. 

Didi Gregorius Signed Dayton Dragons Program

I don't know why I have this. Maybe eBay? Is it a sign of baseball gluttony that I have too much stuff to remember where it all came from? Yeah maybe. 

 

 

Mariekson Julius Gregorius is the 2nd greatest baseball player of all time born in the Netherlands, behind Bert Blyleven but ahead of Jack Lelivelt and Rick van den Hurk. The Reds signed him from a Caribbean league in 2008, he debuted in the bigs in 2012, but he wasn't as good as Zack Cozart so we traded him for Shin-Soo Choo after only 8 games in The Show. He then played major league ball for a decade for other teams that aren't the Reds. He repped the Netherlands in the WBC and is currenlty playing in Mexico.

 

Signed is a program from the Reds' Single-A Dayton Dragons 4/19/10 game vs. the Diamondbacks' South Bend Silver Hawks. 

 

Go Redlegs.