Outgoing mailday!

Quick note, headed to the post office to drop off some trade packages.  Also dropped a couple off last night.  If your zip is below, be on the lookout!

08094
13601
27314
45067
60445
61615
66223
85255
97213

Talking Trades: Feeding my addiction with an almost complete set!

A few months ago I saw a couple box break posts from Adam from Addiction as Therapy.  He was looking to fill some 2016 Heritage needs, as well as some 2016 Gypsy Queen needs, and I was happy to supply his addiction.

His return package blew me all the way back to 2007!

At the time, my Cubs All-Time Collection was in its infancy, and this trade provided welcome additions in Mark DeRosa, Jason Marquis, Ted Lilly and Daryle Ward.  This Sean Marshall card upgraded a non-Cub card of him.  Dempster and Soriano fit right into their respective PCs, and Theriot is looking off into the distance, pondering what stupid thing he can say next.

Big Z and another Soriano for their PCs, as well as non-Cubs Votto, Ervin Santana, Yadi, Ichiro and The Big Unit.

This mailing also put me just 3 cards away from owning the full team set for 2007 Heritage.  If you have any of the following, please let me know if you want to set up a trade!

• 66 - Matt Murton
• 122 - Jacque Jones (SP)
• 384 - Scott Moore (RC) (SP)

Thank you very much, Adam, for feeding my addiction, and getting me near another completed team set!  Hope you enjoyed the cards I sent you as much as I enjoyed these!

Tales from the LCS: The 1/1, more NBCD + Tradebait!

Picked up my second lifetime 1/1 the other day, but of course you'll have to wait to the end.  Eventually I'll post about the first 1/1.

The other day I ventured into an LCS looking for a box of the el-cheapo Topps Bunt physical cards.  They didn't have any, due to the proprietors objection to digital cards.  Completely understandable, so I grabbed a pack of 2015 Panini Prizm while I was there, and also checked to see if he had any National Baseball Card Day packs left.  He did, so he hooked me up with one.

Looks like it would be a decent matchup...

I needed these, the following are tradebait.

Tradebait

As for the Prizm pack, there were also two cards that I needed:

The Salad and the Snake

Apparently it was Jake Arrieta Day.

Don't need the following, so also tradebait:

Tradebait

Also in the Prizm pack were not one, but TWO numbered parallels!  BOTH ARE UP FOR TRADE!

Starting off is the ace Cardinals pitcher, Adam Wainwright.  Red Power Prizm 97/125.  The fact that it is a red parallel makes for a great looking, non-clashing, Card card.

Lastly, you MIGHT have heard of this guy.

Former Cardinals Pitcher.

Former Braves Pitcher.

Former Diamondbacks Pitcher.

Current Ace Pitcher.

Well, Aces Pitcher.  The Reno Aces, the AAA affiliate of the D-Backs, as he looks to return to form.

But that doesn't matter, as here we have a Black Finite Prizm 1/1 of Shelby Miller from his glory days with Atlanta.

It's a great looking card, but they still can't figure out how to make a Braves uniform look decent.  The Waino looks pretty good, except for the hat, of course, but a Redbird fan would probably be a little more finicky than me.

Pretty good day at the LCS.  As stated above, everything but the Arrietas, Szczur and Harper are for trade!

Talking Trades: The Card Ch- erm... Baseball Picture Cards

A couple months ago, the former Chop Keeper, Cardboard Curmudgeon, changed the direction and name of his blog, and was awesome to mail out some notifications, each of which included an oddball:

Sincere apologies for the melting scan, I flipped the card too quick while scanning!

The Cubs gave these out on August 20, 1982 as a promo in partnership with Red Lobster.  More information on the set can be found here.

Thanks for the update and the card!  It booted a base card out of the ATC, as oddballs will always have a home there!  Once I get everything caught up, I'll be back to building trade packages!

Talking Trades: (W)Roster Jenga with the Burbs

Back toward the beginning of the year when I was first getting back into collecting, I discovered Tony's blog Wrigley Roster Jenga (keep wanting to type Wroster), I wreached out to him about a card he needed, Donn Roach as a Cub.

This is where it all began

I had purchased the I-Cubs set on ebay in hopes of getting some in-person autos of some players, and to grab the pre-callup cards for Bryant, Russell and others, and this card fit into his Cubs All-Time Roster Collection.  Looking at my 2015 book, I'm missing a card for Donnie Roach, since he did make a (not good) appearance with Chicago.

His initial offering (there have been a couple) was full of guys I mentioned I was starting PCs for, as well as replacements for the Cubgrades I sent him:

He clearly did not disappoint!  My budding collection was off to a great start!  The three down the left were replacements for I-Cubs I sent him, cult hero John backer at the bottom, the Professor, the good Soriano, Kid K, A-Ram, and the Harry Carey impersonator.

You'll also notice at the bottom a manu-relic to commemorate Buster Posey's debut, one of the first additions to my non-Cubs PC list.

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A few weeks later I had more for his various All-Time Roster lists, so another mailing went out, and another came back!  This is after I decided to pursue a similar venture, in making a Cubs All-Time collection, so he decided to attack it with authority.

The Jose Reyes shot creeps me out for some reason, and I'm also wondering what's on Todd Zeile's mind here.  I for one, love spring training shots, and the Brendan Harris is just excellent, in my opinion.  Excellent shot from the backfields.  Also, I fear for the poor woman Dave Geilsel is eyeballing in that '82 Donruss shot.

This group reaches back a bit further (with the exception of The Hawk) to fill a few holes from vintage teams.  Ernie and the aforementioned Awesome Dawson make their way into their respective binders, whereas the rest slot into their respective years with their team sets.  It was all I could do to restrain myself from sticking Sutter to the front of a binder.

The final grouping gives me my first "cards" of Moises Alou in a Cubs uniform, Joe Pepitone wondering when he can get to his stash, current Athletic and short time big league Cub Arismendy Alcantara, a young J-Hey, a pre-photoshop era Scott Downs Expos card, and a few Cubs before they were Cubs, in Michael Tucker, Ryan Freel, and Red Murray, whom all spent a season or less with the Cubs.

Tony, thanks again for the dents to my lists!

[NBCD '16] Who needs a Kris Bryant?

By now you've all heard about it.  You've been to the card shops to get your freebies.  But how did you fare for your collections?

I took my son with me to two different participating shops, so we ended up with 4 packs each.  He ended up with a couple of my PC guys, and he didn't mind hooking me up with a trade.  The proprietor of one of the shops was even awesome enough to dig through the box of packs to find one with the boy's favorite player on top, to guarantee him that card.  Super awesome.

Anyway, onto the cards!

All the PCs!

• Schwarbs was the only Cub I pulled.  KB was part of the promotion (required $10 Topps product purchase)
• Goldy was on top of the two packs at our first stop.  I gave him the other pack.  It had Jake in it, and the boy was stoked!
• Happy they put Prince in the set.  Obviously this was ready for distribution before his announcement

I really like the design for the cards.  Clean.  Subtle.  Logo, primary team color stripe, set stamp, no smoke.

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On to the boy's cards.

The boy's favorite player is Anthony Rizzo, and it was awesome of the LCS owner to hook him up.

He'd also been bugging me for some basketball cards, so I let him dig out 10 from the dimebox.  As I was scanning, he asked if I could scan that one too, so I obliged.  Lastly, I obviously had to make purchases to get the KB cards, so I picked up some 2016 Chrome for the two of us.  He drew his own packs.  Naturally he had the Addy insert in one of his packs (his second favorite player).

We also picked up his first official baseball card binder.  He was using one of my old 1" binders before, but we filled it up!

Not a bad way to spend the day with the kiddo!  That's what today is for, anyway, right?

LASTLY - both shops hooked us up with 2 KB cards, so between him, me, and my little girl, I have ONE left for trade!

Testing the Auto Tweeter 3

Just a test post for an IFTTT recipe.

Attempt 3

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Talking Trades: Driving through P-Town and Normal (Holy Cow!)

Back in April I got to chatting with P-Town Tom regarding a couple cards he wanted to send my way as a part of some house cleaning of duplicates... and triplets... and quads...  At the same time, I was planning a trip to Chi-town on business, so I figured I'd just swing through Peoria on the way to pick up the cards so that he can save on postage.

Why would I be concerned with helping him save on postage for just a couple of cards?  Because it wasn't just a couple cards...

IT WAS A COUPLE THOUSAND CARDS!  Obviously, this put a massive dent in my all-time collection!  Below are the holes that were filled with his contribution.

Terry	Adams	Pitcher	1995-1999	No
Jack	Aker	Pitcher	1972-1973	No
Antonio	Alfonseca	Pitcher	2002-2003	No
George	Altman	Outfielder	1959-1962, 1965-1967	No
Shane	Andrews	Third Base	1999-2000	No
Jairo	Asencio	Pitcher	2012	Yes
Jeff	Baker	Second Base	2009-2012	Yes
Jay	Baller	Pitcher	1985-1987	No
Willie	Banks	Pitcher	1993-1995	No
Richard	Barker	Pitcher	1999-2000	No
Michael	Barrett	Catcher	2004-2007	No
Glenn	Beckert	Second Base	1965-1973	No
George	Bell	Outfielder	1991	No
Larry	Biitner	Outfielder	1976-1980	No
Doug	Bird	Pitcher	1981-1982	No
Tim	Blackwell	Catcher	1978-1981	No
Jeff	Blauser	Shortstop	1998-1999	No
John	Boccabella	Catcher	1963-1968	No
Brian	Bogusevic	Outfielder	2013	Yes
Bobby	Bonds	Outfielder	1981	No
Bill	Bonham	Pitcher	1971-1977	No
Rich	Bordi	Pitcher	1983-1984	No
Steve	Boros	Third Base	1963	No
Larry	Bowa	Shortstop	1982-1985	No
Michael	Bowden	Pitcher	2012-2013	Yes
Micah	Bowie	Pitcher	1999	No
Milton	Bradley	Outfielder	2009	No
Harry	Bright	First Base	1965	No
Byron	Browne	Outfielder	1965-1967	No
Warren	Brusstar	Pitcher	1983-1985	No
Bill	Buckner	First Base	1977-1984	No
Steve	Buechele	Third Base	1992-1995	No
Bob	Buhl	Pitcher	1962-1966	No
Scott	Bullett	Outfielder	1995-1996	No
Jim	Bullinger	Pitcher	1992-1996	No
Ray	Burris	Pitcher	1973-1979	No
Freddie	Bynum	Outfielder	2006	Yes
Marlon	Byrd	Outfielder	2010-2012	Yes
Alberto	Cabrera	Pitcher	2012-2013	Yes
Johnny	Callison	Outfielder	1970-1971	No
Shawn	Camp	Pitcher	2012-2013	Yes
Bill	Campbell	Pitcher	1982-1983	No
Doug	Capilla	Pitcher	1979-1981	No
Adrian	Cardenas	Second Base	2012	No
Andrew	Cashner	Pitcher	2010-2011	Yes
Bill	Caudill	Pitcher	1979-1981	No
Ronny	Cedeno	Shortstop	2005-2008	Yes
Ron	Cey	Third Base	1983-1986	No
Rocky	Cherry	Pitcher	2007	No
Hee-Seop	Choi	First Base	2002-2003	No
Dave	Clark	Outfielder	1990, 1997	No
Gene	Clines	Outfielder	1977-1979	No
Casey	Coleman	Pitcher	2010-2012	Yes
Joe	Coleman	Pitcher	1976	No
Tyler	Colvin	Outfielder	2009-2011	Yes
Neal	Cotts	Pitcher	2007-2009	Yes
Billy	Cowan	Outfielder	1963-1964	No
Larry	Cox	Catcher	1978, 1982	No
Hector	Cruz	Outfielder	1978, 1981-1982	No
Juan	Cruz	Pitcher	2001-2003	Yes
Ron	Davis	Pitcher	1986-1987	No
Joe	Decker	Pitcher	1969-1972	No
Ivan	DeJesus	Shortstop	1977-1981	No
Tom	Dettore	Pitcher	1974-1976	No
Blake	DeWitt	Second Base	2010-2012	Yes
Steve	Dillard	Second Base	1979-1981	No
Jim	Dunegan	Pitcher	1970	No
Dennis	Eckersley	Pitcher	1984-1986	No
Carl	Edwards, Jr.	Pitcher	2015-2016 (Present)	Yes
Carmen	Fanzone	Third Base	1971-1974	No
Scott	Feldman	Pitcher	2013	Yes
Jesus	Figueroa	Outfielder	1980	No
Ray	Fontenot	Pitcher	1985-1986	No
Barry	Foote	Catcher	1979-1981	No
Jake	Fox	Outfielder	2007, 2009	Yes
Terry	Francona	First Base	1986	No
George	Frazier	Pitcher	1984-1986	No
Woodie	Fryman	Pitcher	1978	No
Sam	Fuld	Outfielder	2007, 2009-2010	Yes
Mike	Garman	Pitcher	1976	No
Joey	Gathright	Outfielder	2009	Yes
Chad	Gaudin	Pitcher	2008	Yes
Preston	Gomez	Manager	1980	No
Luis	Gonzalez	Outfielder	1995-1996	No
Tom	Gorzelanny	Pitcher	2009-2010	Yes
John	Grabow	Pitcher	2009-2011	Yes
Kevin	Gregg	Pitcher	2009, 2013	Yes
Justin	Grimm	Pitcher	2013-2016 (Present)	Yes
Greg	Gross	Outfielder	1977-1978	No
Larry	Gura	Pitcher	1970-1973, 1985	No
Jose	Guzman	Pitcher	1993-1994	No
Jerry	Hairston Jr.	Second Base	2005-2006	No
Mel	Hall	Outfielder	1981-1984	No
Bill	Hands	Pitcher	1966-1972	No
Brendan	Harris	Third Base	2004	Yes
Vic	Harris	Second Base	1974-1975	No
Ron	Hassey	Catcher	1984	No
Billy	Hatcher	Outfielder	1984-1985	No
Richie	Hebner	Third Base	1984-1985	No
Ken	Henderson	Outfielder	1979-1980	No
Steve	Henderson	Outfielder	1981-1982	No
Bob	Hendley	Pitcher	1965-1967	No
Ramon	Hernandez	Pitcher	1968, 1976-1977	No
Willie (Guillermo)	Hernandez	Pitcher	1977-1983	No
Jim	Hickman	Outfielder	1968-1973	No
Gene	Hiser	Outfielder	1971-1975	No
Glen	Hobbie	Pitcher	1957-1964	No
Billy	Hoeft	Pitcher	1965-1966	No
Guy	Hoffman	Pitcher	1986	No
Burt	Hooton	Pitcher	1971-1975	No
Tim	Hosley	Catcher	1975-1976	No
Cesar	Izturis	Shortstop	2006-2007	No
Brett	Jackson	Outfielder	2012	Yes
Lou	Jackson	Outfielder	1958-1959	No
Cleo	James	Outfielder	1970-1973	No
Robin	Jennings	Outfielder	1996-1997, 1999	No
Cliff	Johnson	First Base	1980	No
Jay	Johnstone	Outfielder	1982-1984	No
Jacque	Jones	Outfielder	2006-2007	No
Mick	Kelleher	Shortstop	1976-1980	No
David	Kelton	Outfielder	2003-2004	No
Jason	Kendall	Catcher	2007	No
Darold	Knowles	Pitcher	1975-1976	No
Mike	Krukow	Pitcher	1976-1981	No
Steve	Lake	Catcher	1983-1986, 1993	No
Dennis	Lamp	Pitcher	1977-1980	No
Ced	Landrum	Outfielder	1991	No
Craig	Lefferts	Pitcher	1983	No
Carlos	Lezcano	Outfielder	1980-1981	No
Bob	Locker	Pitcher	1973-1975	No
Steve	Macko	Second Base	1979-1980	No
Bill	Madlock	Third Base	1974-1976	No
Jerry	Martin	Outfielder	1979-1980	No
Ramon	Martinez	Shortstop	2003-2004	No
Randy	Martz	Pitcher	1980-1982	No
Mike	Mason	Pitcher	1987	No
Marcos	Mateo	Pitcher	2010-2011	Yes
Gary	Matthews	Outfielder	1984-1987	No
Lindy	McDaniel	Pitcher	1963-1965	No
Dan	McGinn	Pitcher	1972	No
Fred	McGriff	First Base	2001-2002	No
Rudy	Meoli	Shortstop	1978	No
Chad	Meyers	Second Base	1999-2001	No
Gene	Michael	Manager	1986-1987	No
Damian	Miller	Catcher	2003	No
Wade	Miller	Pitcher	2006-2007	No
George	Mitterwald	Catcher	1974-1977	No
Donnie	Moore	Pitcher	1975-1979	No
Scott	Moore	Third Base	2006-2007	Yes
Jerry	Morales	Outfielder	1974-1977, 1981-1983	No
Mickey	Morandini	Second Base	1997-1999	No
Mike	Morgan	Pitcher	1991-1995, 1998	No
Bobby	Murcer	Outfielder	1977-1979	No
Danny	Murphy	Outfielder	1960-1962	No
Matt	Murton	Outfielder	2005-2008	Yes
Xavier	Nady	Outfielder	2010	Yes
Jose	Nieves	Shortstop	1998-2000	No
Dickie	Noles	Pitcher	1982-1984, 1987	No
Phil	Norton	Pitcher	2000, 2003	No
Rich	Nye	Pitcher	1966-1969	No
Gene	Oliver	Catcher	1968-1969	No
Steve	Ontiveros	Third Base	1977-1980	No
Dave	Owen	Shortstop	1983-1985	No
Erik	Pappas	Catcher	1991	No
Ken	Patterson	Pitcher	1992	No
Dave	Pavlas	Pitcher	1990-1991	No
Felix	Pie	Outfielder	2007-2008	Yes
Horacio	Pina	Pitcher	1974	No
Juan	Pizarro	Pitcher	1970-1973	No
Dan	Plesac	Pitcher	1992-1994	No
Paul	Popovich	Second Base	1964-1967, 1969-1973	No
Mike	Proly	Pitcher	1982-1983	No
Chuck	Rainey	Pitcher	1983-1984	No
Fernando	Ramsey	Outfielder	1992	No
Phil	Regan	Pitcher	1968-1972	No
Paul	Reuschel	Pitcher	1975-1978	No
Rick	Reuschel	Pitcher	1972-1981, 1983-1984	No
George	Riley	Pitcher	1979-1980	No
Dave	Roberts	Pitcher	1977-1978	No
Daryl	Robertson	Shortstop	1962	No
Jeff	Robinson	Pitcher	1992	No
Andre	Rodgers	Shortstop	1961-1964	No
Mel	Rojas	Pitcher	1997	No
Dave	Rosello	Second Base	1972-1977	No
Ken	Rudolph	Catcher	1969-1973	No
Justin	Ruggiano	Outfielder	2014	Yes
Dick	Ruthven	Pitcher	1983-1986	No
Ted	Savage	Outfielder	1967-1968	No
Roe	Skidmore	--	1970	No
Marcelino	Solis	Pitcher	1958	No
Lary	Sorensen	Pitcher	1985	No
Chris	Speier	Shortstop	1985-1986	No
Rob	Sperring	Second Base	1974-1976	No
Earl	Stephenson	Pitcher	1971	No
Tim	Stoddard	Pitcher	1984	No
Joe	Strain	Second Base	1981	No
Steve	Swisher	Catcher	1974-1977	No
Scot	Thompson	Outfielder	1978-1983	No
Steve	Trout	Pitcher	1983-1987	No
Mike	Tyson	Second Base	1980-1981	No
Mike	Vail	Outfielder	1978-1980	No
Ismael	Valdez	Pitcher	2000	No
Josh	Vitters	Third Base	2012	Yes
Arodys	Vizcaino	Pitcher	2014	Yes
Chris	Volstad	Pitcher	2012	Yes
Matt	Walbeck	Catcher	1993	No
Chico	Walker	Outfielder	1985-1987, 1991-1992	No
Todd	Walker	Second Base	2004-2006	No
Joe	Wallis	Outfielder	1975-1978	No
Randy	Wells	Pitcher	2008-2012	No
Gary	Woods	Outfielder	1982-1985	No
Michael	Wuertz	Pitcher	2004-2008	Yes
Don	Young	Outfielder	1965-1969	No
Geoff	Zahn	Pitcher	1975-1976	No
Todd	Zeile	Third Base	1995	No

While cataloging the cards, I found plenty of duplicates that I passed on to another blogger, Trevor P of Bump and Run Football Cards and to my friend who got me into the Cubs (He also helped me with the initial sort).  After weeding out the dupes, I sorted them by year.

Then made myself a bowl of Rizzos!

Since receiving these I have started binders with cards dating back to the 50s (of which I had 1-2 cards prior to this), and was able to set the kid collectors at home up with a ton of Cubs for their binders.

There were a ton of amazing cards in the boxes, to include a massive amount that fit in with my Cubs specific PCs from HOFers, shoulda been HOFers, and future HOFers.  Way to many to scan!  I couldn't have been any happier

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The other stop near P-Town brought in this amazing gem from my wife's mom's friend's husband when we stopped by their place in Normal for a bit.  David has been a long (long) time Cubs fan, and is a collector of pretty much everything, but was willing to part with this to another fan:

Rather innocuous, right?  Just a normal Vine Line from 1990, right?

Oh, cool, a Bud ad featuring the legendary Harry Carey.

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*Squints*

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HOLY COW!  Signed by the legend himself, with his signature line!  I'm still trying to figure out how to display this at home.  (I know, first world problems)

Thanks again, Tom, for the amazing boxen of awesomeness!