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At last, I’m finally getting around to posting the last 7 cards that I received several weeks (months?) ago from Doug at the Sportscards from the Dollar Store blog.  My desk is actually starting look reasonable now!Now all I have to do is find a binder and start getting the 100+ cards I have already into some pages.  I’m sure that there’s one around here somewhere….My favorite cards are the two 2015-16 O-Pee-Chee black border on the bottom row.  The Holden is #’d 34 and the Boychuk is #17.  Both teams already have their cards that are serial #’d below 100 though, so these just become a couple of placeholders in the first 100.  The project still has 7 teams that need cards #’d less than 100; Montreal, Carolina, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, Edmonton and LA.  With more than half the numbers below 100 still available, filling the 7 spots will take a bit of work, but shouldn’t be too great a challenge.The Raffi Torres photo in the top center is a little spooky to me.  In this day of political correctness, I honestly shouldn’t say what he looks like to me.  I could get sued…The Dan Hamhuis card also frightens me, because to me it’s as if he only came into the NHL a few years ago, not a dozen.   I’m getting old fast.Perfect insert set for the Crown Royale release, this Royal Pains card from 2012-13 features one of the best hitters and physical players in the NHL, David Backes.  St. Louis doesn’t need to look too hard to figure out what the difference is in their team this year, they don’t have this guy as their captain.   Doug Armstrong should have been held a little more accountable for not resigning this guy.Unless some cards come my way in the near future, this might be the last serial #’d hockey card for the set that appears on the blog for a little while.   I’m still working toward getting a couple of baseball sets finished sooner rather than later, so purchases of these cards will fall a bit by the wayside.They’ll be back though….Thanks for reading, Robert

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I could being this post with a long preamble about how I haven’t posted for the last week and I’ve been too busy, but we’ve been there done that.I could admonish myself for being too busy, too tired or just plain apathetic, but we’ve been there, done that as well.So, in order to get a post online, I found one page from the baseball serial numbered set that I scanned weeks ago, and had yet to post.  Page 30 it is!Card 262:  Andy Laroche,  2007 Topps ’52,  #’d 262/552.  Los Angeles Dodgers card #10Card 263:  Alexei Ramirez, 2009 Topps Triple Threads #’d 263/1350.  Chicago White Sox card #6Card 264:  Vladimir Guerrero, 2008 Topps Heritage Chrome #264/1959. Los Angeles Angels card #14Card 265:  Bobby Cramer, 2011 Topps Heritage Chrome #265/1962.  Oakland card #14Card 266:  Tony Wolters, 2011 Bowman Green #266/450.  Cleveland card #12Card 267:  Lenny DiNardo, 2007 Topps gold #267/2007.  Oakland card #15Card 268:  Edinson Volquez, 2007 Topps gold #268/2007.  Texas card #9Card 269:  Asdrubal Cabrera, 2011 Topps Heritage Chrome #269/1962.  Cleveland card #13Card 270:  Cole Hamels, 2011 Topps Gypsy Queen #270/999.  Philadelphia card #11 Favorite card on the page:  Vlad Guerrero.  Love the orange background, that’s something you really don’t see often on cards.I also like the Edinson Volquez card.  He’s turned himself into a pretty decent journeyman pitcher; it’ll be interesting to see how he fares with the Marlins this year.Thanks to Max from Starting Nine, Johnny from Cards from the Quarry, and Dennis from Too Many Verlanders for helping contribute to this page.  A couple of cards also came from Roger from the long dormant Cool Breeze Baseball Buzz blog. That’s how long this has been going on….Thanks for reading, Robert

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There’s nothing better than receiving an envelope full of cards out of the blue.  It’s great to come in the house look on the dining table and see a big brown mailer that you didn’t expect, especially when it comes from the Night Owl, because you know you’re getting something good.Greg hit quite a few want lists, and also added some cards that weren’t on a list but were needed none the less.Can’t say that I’ve ever seen one of the Sportflics style discs, so the recently resigned Jose Bautista was a welcome sight.  I wondered when Greg showed off the snowflake style cards from ’16 Topps on his blog a few weeks back if he had pulled any Jays.  Sure enough Russell Martin ends up on my doorstep.  The Jimy (one M) Williams card in the center of the first scan is an OPC from ’89, still need lots of those from the 80’s!  The Blue Jays Boppers card is another that I hadn’t seen previously, from this year’s Heritage set.   Nice…I do remember Greg mentioning on his blog about receiving Shawn Green cards and considering them Jays because when the card on the left came out, Green was a Jays draft pick.  Lucky me, I scored a trio of Green cards, including the jersey on the right, which is the first update to the Jays hits page on my blog since the end of October.  Great stuff….From the endless Dodgers dupe box, maybe?  No matter, the Charlie Neal card you see here becomes the 333rd card I have for the ’59 set.  Still a long way to go for sure, and a lot of big names (and $$) still to purchase, but it’s been a labor of love so far.One of the things I mentioned on my first video blog is that I wanted to complete the 2016 A&G set without buying any more packs.  Well, I’m 44 cards closer now thanks to the great lot of cards you see above.  I wonder if Maria Sharapova or Hannah Storm will end up being the babe of the year for 2016. I was kind of disappointed to see Roberto Alomar in a Cleveland Indians uniform, would have been great to have him appear in his Jays #12…Where Greg finds some of this stuff just amazes me.  This Jays schedule from 1991 was an instant hit for me.  I know I have the ’92 schedule he sent me quite a while back somewhere in my collection, so this will complement that nicely.  Do they even make pocket schedules like this anymore?Greg, what a great envelope, thank you very much!  Everything inside is greatly appreciated.Thanks for reading, Robert

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My New Year’s posts in the past have always been heartfelt.  We all want to do what we set out to do at the beginning of the year, right?  I’m not sure what it is about 2017 though, as I seem to be more in tune with my goals than ever before.This post is my 10th in January, and considering that I was sick and kind of useless for 10 days at the beginning of the month, I’m happy that double digits is coming early. Last night I also got a start on putting together a box of cards to send to COMC.  I’m looking forward to seeing how this little clean up is going to work out, and you can be sure that I’ll let everyone know how it’s going…The $2K “goal”/”project”/whatever you want to call it is in full swing.  I’ve posted twice about purchases so far in January, and I’m using the post title to keep track of how much money I have left for the year.   Easy, right?The contest that I mentioned on my New Year’s post didn’t get as many entries as I thought (only 10 so far), so I figured that I’d give people one more shot at some cards.  I’m looking to grab some cards for everyone the first part of February, so if you want some cards, leave a comment on the post that I’ve linked at the beginning of this paragraph.   Otherwise, I’ll just give more cards to the people that are already in…I didn’t mention the SNIH project in my New Years goals, but tonight’s post will be the leftover cards from my personal collection that I hadn’t posted as of now.  There’s 4 of them, 3 of them goalies and the 4th a goalie killer (for lack of a better description).Serial # 269Loved the Topps Heritage sets that were released back in the early 2000’s, I wish Topps had kept up with them…Serial #408Their homage to the 66-67 set was right on the money, and maybe someday I’ll get around to putting a want list up for it.Serial #517The ’54-’55 version of Topps was redone in 2000-01, and is another set that I want to complete.  I was lucky enough to pull a Gump Worsley auto from a pack many years back.  What might hold me back from completing the set is that there’s several RC’s that list for $10 or more.  Maybe sometime down the road I’ll shoot for this set, but not just yet.Serial #531Everyone say it together now….”his foot was in the crease!!!”  To me, that rule was pretty sketchy at best, although one of my former bosses would disagree as he was a diehard Sabres/Dominik Hasek fan.  Did you know that Brett made a mockery of the BCJHL in the 83-84 season by scoring 105 goals in just 56 games?  Brett also finished 2 spots behind Darren Pang in Calder Trophy voting, which was won in 87-88 by his Calgary teammate Joe Nieuwendyk.OK, that’s all the serial #’d cards from my collection, I just have a few more from Doug I have to post and I’ll be caught up!   Now all I have to do is find a couple of binders and start getting these cards into some pages….thanks for reading, Robert

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The better part of today so far has been spent:Mowing the lawns (Still weird having to mow in January, but such is life)Hanging the new curtains in the living room (Had to get rid of those 70’s style blinds…yuk)Working on cleaning my computer/card room!!The last bullet point will be my domain exclusively, and I’ve started by removing an unnecessary shelf in the closet, which will allow me to put a 4 shelf storage rack in the closet to get a lot of clutter out of sight (and probably out of mind).I decided to take a break by finishing off the trade post I started yesterday.  Chris from The Collector sent me a nice stack of Blue Jays cards to go along with the hockey that I showed off yesterday. The best part about these cards is that they hit my want lists.  Each and every one has been marked off.  I’m curious to see how much longer R.A. Dickey lasts.  Phil Niekro pitched until he was 48, Charlie Hough was 46 when he hung them up; Dickey is now 42 and has a lot fewer innings pitched than the others did at 42, so we’ll see how it goes.  I’m sure getting out of the homer dome in Toronto will help his cause.The two lists that Chris put a nice dent into was the 2000 Topps Chrome & Chrome Traded.  A lot of shiny goodness came my way.All I have to say after collecting the Blue Jays over the past several years is heaven help the person who PC’s Carlos Delgado.  I’m sure that I have over 200 different Jays cards of him (at least), and playing all those years for the Mets and Marlins I’m sure that there are quite a lot of cards that feature that swing of his.  There’s 4 more on this scan alone!!The top 6 cards on the final scan take us back to the mid 90’s with Olerud, Sprague, Green and Hentgen.  I just added the horizontal cards of the Jays Team picture and Homer Bush so that they wouldn’t be left out.43 more cards off the want list is a great hit, and really appreciated.   Thank you Chris!!thanks for reading, Robert

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