Card Collecting 5: Incoming

  

So I received three envelopes in the mail: one had free cards and the other two were trades.

Free 2020 Gypsy Queen baseball cards from Rod at Padrographs:

   



So props to Rod for hooking me up with my first GQ cards.

Trade with Eric, from TCDB:

   

 

The Score Marino is #13, like his uniform number. :)

Trade with Mike, from TCDB:

   


In other news that isn't worth its own post:  I had sponsored a series of mini contests on TCDB and have started to send out people's cards.

I also sponsored an NFL Draft contest for a larger card bundle.  Was kind of disappointed more people didn't enter it.  But it got a few entries, so it could've been worse. Ha.   Anyway, I have the winner's stash packaged and ready. I should get it out today.

Lastly, I feel like I should transition my better cards to 9-pockets and binders, but I currently don't have access to Target or my local hobby shop.  So they're going to be stuck in boxes a while longer.  At least they're in top loaders.

Card Collecting 4: Customized Sets

A lot of card collectors like to build complete sets.  Other than almost getting there in 1987 with Topps baseball, I am not one of these collectors. It's too expensive and there are too many cards that only matter because they're part of the set. Also, the sets are too big.

However, I love customized sets.  Or theme-based collecting. Since I got back into collecting, I have been working on a few of these. Mostly football.  The results have been ... let's be generous and say mixed. Ha.   

HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS

I decided to work on this when I got the Archie Griffin rookie.   I need Steve Owens, and then I'll have them all from O.J. Simpson through Kyler Murray.

    

  

   

ELITE SPECIAL TEAMERS

I noticed that they don't get much love in the card collecting world.  So here we are.  I have a Dante Hall coming through a trade, and then I'll just need a Stephen Gostkowski to have all the special teamers on the 100th anniversary, 75th anniversary, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s NFL teams.

   

   

CLUB 100 

Kind of like a Frankenset.  But I have a feeling Sportzcommish's 'best player of each uniform number' set might have inspired this.

Anyway, 100 cards numbered 1 through 100 / 100 players, so no player repeated.  I need 24 and 76, and either 33 or 63 because I currently have Tom Brady for both of them.  Then it will just be a matter of finding better players or better cards for certain numbers.

   

    

ACTORS

I've abandoned this one because there are more than I thought. I got a couple Fred Dryers though, and the O.J. shown above.

   

ABA STARS

This one is too hard to do without buying online.  There aren't a lot of people trading them on TCDB. The hobby shop had some ABA cards, but kind of random.

MULTI-SPORT STARS

Another one I abandoned because there are too many of them.  Bo, obviously, as shown above. 

   

Brian Jordan

   

BUSTS

I abandoned this one because it's too hard to decide who's a bust and who merely had a disappointing career.

     

Card Collecting 3: Repack Adventures

I made a trip to Walgreen's for some cleaning supplies and while I was there I bought three Fairfield football boxes.

One of the main things I noticed is that each of the three boxes had a pack from a different set.  One was 2020 Leaf Draft, one was 1991 Pro Set Platinum, and the other one was 1992 Fleer.  Usually, it's the same set represented in each box.

Best Leaf Draft Card



Best 1991 Pro Set Platinum Cards

Bruce Smith

Emmitt Smith

Best 1992 Fleer Cards
   

As for the 225 loose cards, there were a lot of Pro Set.  Most of them went to my contest offerings / trade box or my commons box. But a few made it to my keepers.

Best Pro Set Cards - Both from 1990

Card number 16 :)

   


Best of the Rest

Rookie Card

Reggie Wayne Chrome

Rookie Card

    

Best Adds to My Trader Box

   

 

Lane Johnson Rookie Card

Card Collecting 2

Things I Don't Like That You Probably Do

Fake Autographs




Horizontal Cards
(Ho cards)

 

Late Career Cards of Players On Wrong Teams
(talking about good players we associate with certain teams but they played somewhere else in their twilight years)



Shared Rookie Cards
Here's the rookie card of one of the best baseball players ever.



Airbrushed Team Logos