tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43533189774048838302024-03-14T01:11:01.407-04:00Once a CubOnce a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.comBlogger797125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-35282185689498935672018-06-07T20:00:00.000-04:002018-06-07T20:00:01.849-04:00Quick UpdateI just wanted to give a quick update as it has been about three weeks since I last posted. I had some computer issues about three weeks ago. Between that frustration and back-to-back long weekend travel trips, there wasn't much time for the hobbies.<br />
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My weekend plans include going to get a new laptop, because that is probably smarter in the long run than trying to fix this one. A few years ago I rode a computer into the ground and lost some important files so I don't want to make that mistake again. This one gave me a good run.<br />
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Hopefully, I'll be able to bring the new computer up to my desired specs with the files I need and programs I use over the weekend and return to regular blogging early next week.Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-83730039263799262742018-05-16T13:00:00.000-04:002018-05-16T13:00:02.464-04:00Wroad to Wrigley Wednesday - Mark Zagunis and Justin Hancock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Just after last week's Wroad to Wrigley post went live, I found out that the Cubs were doing another roster shuffle that included outfielder Mark Zagunis and pitcher Justin Hancock.</div>
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Zagunis managed just four walks and two stolen bases in seven games last year as a September call-up. He had to wait for being recalled this year to secure his first Major League hit.</div>
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Mark Zagunis picks up his first <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLB</a> hit! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EverybodyIn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EverybodyIn</a> <a href="https://t.co/p8WxxkGEKs">pic.twitter.com/p8WxxkGEKs</a></div>
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Probably worth the wait for him!</div>
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The Cubs picked up Justin Hancock from the Padres in the deal that sent Matt Szczur out west. This Hancock card came out of the supplemental set that the Tennessee Smokies put out last year. This set included some rehabs assignments and guys like Hancock who missed the initial release.</div>
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Hancock made his MLB debut on May 9th and got a quick two outs. Quickly followed by a walk and home run. But in a 12-1 game, that's pretty meaningless.</div>
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The real tragedy is that with the bases loaded, Hancock got called out on strikes with this pitch and was robbed of an RBI:</div>
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Hancock certainly didn't get that call on the walk he gave up before the home run! The umpire must have had post game plans and needed to get out of there.</div>
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But I digress. Congrats to these two Cubs on their milestones!</div>
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The day before this card, the Brewers had walked-off the Cubs after the Cubs had battled back to tie the game in late innings. On this day, the Cubs gave up the go ahead run in the bottom of the 8th before putting up a 4-spot in the top of the 9th and eventually winning. Ian Happ drove in the tying and go ahead runs, playing the hero and getting the Topps Now recognition. At this point in the season, that brought the Cubs record up to 4-4.</div>
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A few days later, with the Cubs still battling the .500 bug, the Cubs took down another division rival, beating the Pirates 13-5. The highlight here was Javier Baez's second consecutive two-home run game. Baez came to the plate in the bottom of the second with the bases loaded and no outs. If not for a run scoring wild pitch during the at-bat, Baez could have had a grand slam. The second shot came in the bottom of the 8th and added the superfluous 13th run.</div>
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When the Cubs gave up 10 runs in the first four innings to the Braves on April 14th, they ran the risk of falling two games below .500 for the first time of the season. In what seems to be a theme this year though, they battled back with a nine-run eighth inning to secure the win.</div>
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When Topps originally posted the card, they had mispelled "eighth" on the front. I mentioned it to them on Twitter and they replied it would be fixed before printing. Sure enough it was as you can see by the card I scanned in. Maybe next I'll let it go and see if they correct themselves?</div>
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One of the great strories of the 2016 World Series was the success Kyle Schwarber had in his return after missing nearly the whole regular season. Schwarber continued his dominance at Progressive Field in the Cubs first trip back to Cleveland since Game 7 of that World Series with two home runs in a 10-3 victory. </div>
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In honor of the holiday, here are a few things in my collection that have Mother's Day ties.</div>
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Technically it was slightly more than two years ago, but two Mother's Days ago, Javier Baez hit a walk-off home run in the 13th inning to bring the team record to a pretty amazing 24-6.</div>
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I don't normally chase the parallels limited to fewer than 100 copies but I've made an exception for cards that also fall under the "I Was There" category, such these pink ones.</div>
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And Lackey. All four of these pink parallels are numbered out of 50 and featured plays from games I attended last year.</div>
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Ian Happ made his debut on May 13, 2018, the day before Mother's Day last year. The Cubs wore the jerseys with the pink lettering on the Saturday before as well. The first card is his rookie debut card out of 2017 Topps Update. The middle card is from the Salute insert set, also out of 2017 Topps Update and uses a slightly different crop of the same photo. The final card is another Salute insert but from this year's 2018 Topps Series 1.</div>
Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-15835140196492677992018-05-09T12:00:00.000-04:002018-05-09T12:24:43.702-04:00Wroad to Wrigley WednesdayDon't you just love alliteration?<br />
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I've been adding team issued baseball card sets for all of the Cubs minor league affiliates the last couple of years. It's been a while since I did a post on them, definitely not since I've been back from my blogging hiatus.<br />
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I meant to do a few when I received the 2017 team sets for all of the Cubs affiliates, but scanning and cropping 150+ cards was a little daunting at the time and got put on the back burner once all the 2018 cards started coming out. Thanks again to <a href="http://tilnextyear-tom.blogspot.com/"><strong>P-Town Tom</strong></a> for helping to <strong><a href="http://onceacub.blogspot.com/2018/01/holy-smokes-package-from-p-town-tom.html">coordinate that acquisition</a></strong> when he went to the Cubs convention in January!<br />
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I recently found the scanned-but-uncropped images from these sets in a folder on my desktop. At the same time, the Cubs made some roster moves and after taking a look through the folder, I figured I'd get some of these posted. I made some progress on cropping and naming while watching these guys play this weekend so we'll start with them.<br />
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I like the design of the 2017 Iowa Cubs team set. Simple, but still attractive. The photography is not as crisp as the stuff Topps gets from Getty Images but still pretty good.</div>
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Victor Caratini was a little bit of a surprise 25th man to make the roster coming out of Spring Training this year. There was a lot of speculation that Chris Gimenez, a catcher with Yu Darvish experience, would snag the last spot. Caratini though has proven valuable off the bench and when spelling Willson Contreras behind the plate. He has also filled in at first base, including a stretch of games when Anthony Rizzo was sidelined with a back injury a few weeks ago.</div>
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Just last night he plated the tying and game winning runs in a comeback victory over the Marlins.</div>
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Part of the reason the Cubs needed to come from behind was a bit of a rough start from Jen-Ho Tseng, who made a last minute spot start for an under the weather Yu Darvish. Actually, the start was pretty good, as he got the first two outs on a 3-pitch strikeout and a 1-pitch groundout. Then four straight hits (including a single by former Cub Starlin Castro and homerun by former Cubs minor leaguer Justin Bour) landed the Cubs in a 3-0 hole.</div>
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Tseng regrouped in the second inning with two more strikeouts and another groundball to finish his day. Luckily, the Cubs got 8 innings out of the Kyle Hendricks the night before in the 14-2 blowout win so the bullpen was rested. They managed to shut down the Marlins the rest of the way.</div>
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David Bote pinch hit for Tseng in the bottom of the second. While Caratini drove in the first two runs of the game, Bote put the Cubs back in the game intially, driving in two runs with a two-out double. It was his second Major League hit but his first two RBIs.</div>
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The 2017 Tennessee Smokies cards are put out by Grandstand, but the fronts mimic the 2009 Topps set. The only difference I see is the position is in the upper left corner on these, whereas it is in the lower left corner on the Topps cards.</div>
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One of the things I don't like about minor league cards is that many of them don't have any kind of numbering system. Sure, I guess you could use the jerseys numbers, which the Smokies set has on the back, but then you have gaps in the numbering as not every number is used.</div>
Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-55863189884419469622018-05-08T12:00:00.000-04:002018-05-08T12:55:06.659-04:00Topps Living Set - A One Red Paperclip-ish Story BeginsA few weeks back, Topps introduced us to the Living Set. If you've been <em>living</em> under a rock, essentially Topps offers three cards every week that you can buy together for $14.99 or separately for $7.99 each. The set mimics the 1953 design with original artwork by Mayumi Seto. Players will only be featured once, unless they change teams, so there is no worry about flooding the market with Aaron Judges or Shohei Ohtanis.<br />
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It's no secret that I will pick up any Topps Now card issued for a Cubs player. I wasn't quite sure how I would feel about the Living Set, but Topps didn't give me too long to think about it when Ian Happ was featured in week two. Now I just had to decide whether I wanted Happ for $8 or essentially double down for two extra cards. The third option was to get a card on the secondary market for just over $5, which is what I've been doing this year with the Topps Now cards.<br />
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Topps has rewarded Now buyers in the past so I decided to go through Topps, at least for the first one to get/stay in their database. And if I was going through Topps, I might as well get the three pack, right?<br />
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Happ was matched up with a rookie card of Rhys Hoskins of the Phillies and Nick Markakis of the Braves. I had some eBay success with a purple Toys R Us parallel of Hoskins back in February so I figured he would be a decent flip to minimize the cost of the Happ, maybe even pay for the whole set itself. Eventually.<br />
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Worst case scenario, he fizzles and I trade the Hoskins and Markakis to team collectors down the road. Markakis wasn't even on my radar as someone to flip when I made my purchase.<br />
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Fast forward a few weeks, I had also pulled the trigger on the week 5 set with Bryce Harper, AJ Pollock and Mallex Smith. The Harper is staying with me and I had already hit up Daniel of <a href="http://betterthanbeckett.blogspot.com/"><strong>It's Like Having My Own Card Shop</strong></a><strong> </strong>to trade away the Pollock. But I had no interest in the Smith card and don't even know any Rays collectors.<br />
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Imagine my surprise when I was clued in to the secondary market on these cards!<br />
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I don't normally talk money here on the blog because it really isn't about that for me. I buy cards that interest me, which means Cubs cards, packs with the hopes to pull Cubs cards or an occasional set build. I'm not a prospector. My only Ohtani cards are the ones I pulled from my Opening Day case.<br />
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Long story short, after eBay fees, Paypal fees, shipping and taking out my initial costs, I netted about $250 from selling the Hoskins, Markakis and Mallex Smith cards.<br />
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For those unfamiliar with the <strong><a href="http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/">One Red Paperclip</a></strong> story, essentially a guy traded a single red clip for various other items, all the way up to a house. I had been thinking of doing something along those lines with my Opening Day case, to see how I would turn a case of random cards into cards that fit my collection but I think the scope was too big. At least for me.<br />
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Enter these Topps Living cards.<br />
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While selling the cards kind of goes against the premise of bartering, I did want to keep track of how initially spending $15 improved my collection. Since I've already turned it into $250, I'm going to track how I spend this "found" money specifically. I have a few things in mind but it'll be interesting to see what I can turn three cards that didn't have a place in my collection into!Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-34632667857245869282018-05-07T12:00:00.000-04:002018-05-07T12:00:08.456-04:00Mailday Monday - Ivy and Nats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've done it again. I went and acquired too much, too quickly and am in backlog mode. In the past few weeks between the Opening Day case, a card show and the older Opening Day sets I picked up, I have to stop and get organized again before I do anymore buying sprees. </div>
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However, during the offseason, I spent a lot of time combing sets looking for Ivy cards. When the 2018 card season began, I promptly left about 80 cards just sitting in my <b><a href="http://cardbarrel.com/">Cardbarrel</a> </b>cart. By the time I came back to it about two weeks ago, 4-5 were no longer available. I filled out the cart a little bit more to bump it over the free shipping mark and pulled the trigger. The cards above are the Ivy cards from the lot, with a few Cubs cameos mixed in. I'm still working on cataloging these, but I'm pretty sure this bumps me over the 600 mark for Ivy cards.</div>
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As for the filler cards, I found some early 2000s Cubs needs from when I wasn't back into collecting yet.</div>
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And a few more from 2009. These are from ten seasons ago already?!? Anybody kow why Aramis doesn't have a last name here? Is this one of those mimic "error" cards?</div>
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Last but not least, a bubble mailer full of miscellaneous Nationals cards from the Team Collectors group I joined. It's a bit hard to tell from the glare and they way I stacked them but there's about two team bags worth of cards there. My incidental Nats collection is now at about 250 different cards.</div>
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This is the last of my dollar store repacks. And after this one, I'm ok with that. Time to move onto a different style maybe.</div>
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This Chi Chi Gonzalez rookie from 2015 Topps was the cover card and doubles as the newest card in the pack. He is currently on the DL after undergoing Tommy John surgery. He is not expected back this season.</div>
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Another Ranger here in Jeff Russell. This one nearly got skipped until I noticed the football in his hands. I remember the 1989 Upper Deck with Nolan Ryan throwing a football. Was this a Rangers thing? Russell is notable to me as the father of former Cub James Russell. James was traded to the Braves in 2014 with Emilio Bonifacio for current Cubs backup catcher Victor Caratini.</div>
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More Rangers! A Charlie Hough hot pack courtesy of 1986 Topps.</div>
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Or is it a Tony Armas hot pack? The 1983 card was also the oldest card in the pack.</div>
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Another rookie, Aaron Poreda from 2009 Topps Update and Highlights. Poreda finished his Major League career with, you guessed it, the Texas Rangers.</div>
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A pair of division rivals who would go on to become Cubs. </div>
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Two horizontals. Trevor Crowe seems to be out of baseball. FP Santangelo has been the color analyst for the Nationals since 2011. </div>
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Speaking of Nationals, wrapping up the pack is this Austin Kearns for the side Nats collection.</div>
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Going out on a bit of dud pack here. No Hall of Famers. No current Cubs. I may have to hit the Five Below again to see if they've restocked their $4.99 repacks. Or I hear Walgreens has had some recently.</div>
Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-14268393844239330542018-05-05T10:00:00.000-04:002018-05-05T10:00:01.682-04:00Two Random Rynos<em>In this weekly series, I show off two random Ryne Sandberg cards from my 600+ card PC. One will be from his playing days (pre-1998) and one since his retirement (1998-present).<em><br /></em></em><br />
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Today's playing days card is an insert from the February 1989 issue of Baseball Card Magazine. The whole calendar year worth of inserts are based off the 1959 Topps design, though it is missing the faux signature. This particular issue focused on top second baseman and also featured Juan Samuel, Julio Franco, Harold Reynolds, Lou Whitaker and Gregg Jefferies.<br />
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Cubs players were represented on 5 of the 72 cards issued in 1989. Andre Dawson and Damon Berryhill had cards similar to this one. Rookie of the Year, Jerome Walton had a Rookie Stars of 1989 card. And Sandberg had a second one, a dual card with Ozzie Smith labeled Keystone Combo.<br />
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Most companies have giveaways at the National Sports Collectors Convention and Leaf is no different. This card was a promo from 2012 when the convention was held in Baltimore. I picked mine up on the secondary market so I'm not exactly sure how these were distributed. It appears to be a 100-card mixed sports set.</div>
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The set information is incomplete on <b><a href="http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewAllSet.cfm/sid/69368/2012-Leaf-National-Convention?PageIndex=1#5050425">Trading Card Database</a></b> so I don't know how many, if any, more Cubs there are. Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins are in the set and probably Cubs. Andre Dawson and Greg Maddux are as well, but which team they represent is usually a tossup. And actually, if you look at the card, front and back, you'll see there is no team designation at all. Not even a Chicago (NL).</div>
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The photo used is from the home run derby during the 1990 All-Star Game. The most obviously tell is that he is batting without a helmet, but I've seen it a couple of times on various cards over the years. Sandberg was the first player from the host team to win the derby. Todd Frazier recently did it as well when the Reds hosted.</div>
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<b>*UPDATE*</b> Billy Williams and Andre Dawson are Cubs. Maddux is a Brave. I didn't see a photo of Fergie to confirm.</div>
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I've sporadically done a couple of post series on the blog over the years.</div>
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Por Que No Los Dos covers horiztonal Ivy cards, because I collect both of those categories individually and I think it's kind of neat when they overlap.</div>
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If a Cubs player shows up in the background of a non-Cubs card, I'll usually set it aside as well and do a "Cubs Cameo" post.</div>
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I enjoy finding the source photos of newer cards, but I also really enjoy when I can nail down a game on an older card.</div>
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This Gregg Jefferies card out of 1994 Topps Stadium Club hits all of these categories and I was pretty excited when I came across it. It's got some white speckles along the edges as I imagine it was part of a brick of cards at some point. But since it is a non-Cubs card, I will just passively keep an eye out for a better looking copy.</div>
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With that said, let's see if we can game date the photo. It looks like a stolen base attempt. I feel like if it was a double, the Cubs player would be in a different position to field the throw from the outfield/cutoff man.</div>
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So heading over to <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jeffegr01.shtml"><strong>Gregg Jefferies' Baseball-Reference</strong></a> page, I'm looking for a 1993 game at Wrigley Field between the Cardinals and Cubs where Gregg Jefferies has a stolen base or a caught stealing.</div>
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Jefferies was 2/4 on attempts at Wrigley Field in 1993.</div>
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On <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199306180.shtml">June 18th</a></strong>, Jefferies reached on an error in the top of the 1st but was thrown out as part of a strike 'em out, throw 'em out double play. The receiving fielder is listed as the shortstop, Rey Sanchez. Though Sanchez wore #6 in 1992*, he wore #11 in 1993, which does not seem to match what can be seen on the back of the mystery Cubs player. So either way, the photo does not seem to match this play.</div>
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That didn't deter Jefferies as he stole two bases the next day, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199306190.shtml">June 19th</a></strong>. </div>
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In the top of the 5th inning, Jefferies singled and eventually stole 2nd base cleanly. The 2nd baseman was #20, Eric Yelding. Again, not a clean match based on what we can see on the back of the Cubs jersey. Rey Sanchez was again at shortstop. Hmmm.</div>
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The other successful stolen base that day was of third, which does have any bearing here.</div>
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Let's fast forward to September 22 when Jefferies was thrown out for the second time.</div>
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This was a high scoring game (11-9 in the Cubs favor) so there were a lot of substitutions. Jose Vizcaino started the game at shortstop and bumped over to second base as part of a double switch-pitching change in the 6th inning. So Vizcaino was the shortstop of record in the 4th inning when this play happened. Vizcaino's jersey number in 1993?<br />
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16! I think we have a winner! I can easily see the "1" wrapping around to the unseen side of the fielder in the card photo.<br />
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Here is Vizcaino's card from the same set. You can see he is wearing the same kind of high-top Nike cleats in both photos. </div>
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* Sanchez switched from #6 when Willie Wilson joined the Cubs prior to the 1993 season. Wilson had worn #6 during most of his tenure with the Royals and A's.</div>
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I might kick myself later but I refrained from picking up the autograph edition. The Cubs have been on a roll lately and if they can keep the momentum, there is a bonus card if they are in first place at the All-Star break, among other things.<br />
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Like last year, the full checklist took a while to come out but I'm pretty happy with the selection. Four starting pitchers, the main eight from the starting lineup, two mega utility guys who get playing time and one from the bullpen, though not the new closer.<br />
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The Anthony Rizzo is probably my favorite card, looks like a beautiful day for baseball! I do like the green hats from St. Patrick's Day on the Addison Russell and Jason Heyward cards. Jon Lester and Carl Edwards Jr are sporting the MSD patch.</div>
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I mentioned before when I received card #1 from the regular season issues that I like the backs this year. Very streamlined and easy to read, though the font for the blurb could be a bit bigger. The biggest drawback though...</div>
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...is that aside from the player name, position and card number, they backs are all the same. Same blurb on all fifteen cards. Oh well!</div>
Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-58150042087402212532018-04-29T13:00:00.000-04:002018-04-29T13:00:19.941-04:00Repack Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another week, another 30-card $1 repack from a dollar store. </div>
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The cover card was this Sam LeCure rookie out of 2010 Topps. This was from right before I came back to collecting and despite being on a division rival, I've never heard of him.</div>
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A trio of catchers in gear. Funny how all of these photos could have been used on unlicensed cards aside from a small patch on Tucker Barnhart's sleeve. Amazing the difference a logo makes for a card. The Barnahrt doubles as the newest card in the pack, from 2016.</div>
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The oldest card in the pack was this 1981 Donruss Eddie Solomon. A few weeks ago this would have been an amazing pull for me with the Wrigley Ivy in the background. But since then, I received a bunch of Ivy cards from this set from Daniel of <b><a href="http://betterthanbeckett.blogspot.com/2018/02/donruss.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ItsLikeHavingMyOwnCardShop+%28It%27s+like+having+my+own+Card+Shop%29">It's Like Having My Own Card Shop</a> </b>when he was clearing out some old sets. Solomon died in a card accident in 1986.</div>
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A pair of Hall of Famers, Carlton Fisk and Greg Maddux. The Upper Deck Black Diamond is a very nice card. Surprised to see something like that in a repack.</div>
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Speaking of something I don't in repacks very often, there was a Washington National. When these are filled with a bunch of junk wax, I'm much more likely to get Expos. </div>
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Cliff Johnson and Dan Plesac join Maddux as former Cubs from the pack.</div>
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As for actual Cubs, Dave Smith is the only rep. A two-time All-Star with the Astros, Smith passed away after a heart attack in 2008.</div>
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Continuing the theme of tragic early deaths in this pack, I was still on my blogging hiatus when Roy Halladay passed away. I have a couple of Ivy cards for him, surprisingly from his Blue Jays days and not his Phillies time that have been in my draft folder for a couple of months now.</div>
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12/30 cards I found notable. Not too bad.</div>
Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-43322073455732834412018-04-28T12:00:00.000-04:002018-04-28T12:00:26.601-04:00Two Random Rynos<em>In this weekly series, I show off two random Ryne Sandberg cards from my 600+ card PC. One will be from his playing days (pre-1998) and one since his retirement (1998-present).<em><br /></em></em><br />
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<em><br /></em> <span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Playing Days:</strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span><br />
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The 1997 Score set had 551 cards. Back when there were 28 teams, the Cubs' 18 cards cards was about a card and half below equal allotment. The set had a couple of subsets (before they became separately numbered inserts) and today's Sandberg playing days card comes from the True Grit subset. This one must have been for the star players who didn't fit the Goin' Yard (power hitters) or Rock and Fire (pitchers) subsets. It is 15 cards and made up of guys like Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken Jr, Barry Larkin, and Derek Jeter.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Post Retirement:</strong></span></span><br />
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In 2013, the Cubs had four different card giveaways featuring Cubs of the past and present (at the time) using Topps designs. This card is from set 3, the only set I've managed to pick up. It has been a couple of years now, but a few more and it might be time to revisit this idea. The Cubs have a whole new cast of characters that have entered their lore with the recent World Series title. As of now, Anothony Rizzo is the only one with a solo card from the set still with the team. Albert Almora and Javier Baez appeared on card #81 as Future Stars with Jorge Soler. Heck, I'd settle for a full team set of the 25 or 40-man roster in any design.</div>
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Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-56147707544745484012018-04-25T12:00:00.000-04:002018-04-25T12:00:08.026-04:00April CSA Show Part 4 - The RestI've actually had all of these cards scanned for a while now but my regular weekend series interrupted the posts. This was by far the biggest purchase of the day and it all came from the same table. Get ready for a boatload of scans!<br />
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After my initial loop, I gravitated towards this dealer for a couple of reasons. Lots of base singles from recent sets. Lots of inserts from these sets. Cheap "hits" from yesteryear.<br />
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As I mentioned previously, the drawback was that there were no prices on the boxes of singles. Were they dime boxes? Quarter boxes? Sold by the pound?<br />
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I asked and the guy said, "It depends on the player." Huh.<br />
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He saw me pulling Cubs and said, "Bryant's would be $.50, Rizzos a quarter, most others a dime."<br />
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Also, the boxes were not in order other than each set was together. It was like the dealer opened boxes and boxes, pulled the inserts and stuffed all the base in a box.<br />
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I didn't need any Cubs base cards from Series 1, Heritage, Gypsy Queen or Opening Day from this year though all of those sets were there in spades. I always hesitate going through Donruss. I know I need it, but it is just so unappealing to me.<br />
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It drew me in anyway.<br />
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Mixed in with all that base were these three variations. I don't know whether they were overlooked or if the dealer didn't really care because there were others in the box, too. Had I known which were the base and which were the variations, I probably would have grabbed more.</div>
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I turned the corner of the booth and found more boxes, but with stuff from last year.</div>
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More stuff I know little about and had no interest in, but picked up anyway. Four cards out of Panini Chronicles. The idea is sound, but I find the execution lacking a bit.</div>
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The next boxes over is where I found the "good stuff" hiding.</div>
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Topps Fire didn't excite me much either. I get the appeal, just not my thing. But Cubs are Cubs and I found nine base Cubs to add to my stack.</div>
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I think the above Wade Davis is the Blue Chip parallel?</div>
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And Flame parallels? I think the dealer had as hard a time telling the difference as I did. I probably put base Happ and Banks base cards back thinking I pulled them already with these parallels.</div>
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I think this Golden Grabs Anthony Rizzo is the base version but heck if I know. And the Jon Lester is a numbered parallel out of 299. I think that makes it Orange?</div>
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This card celebrates a Walk Off win for Kris Bryant and the Cubs and again, I think it is a base version. Because Fire had parallels for everything seemingly.</div>
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Lots and lots of Gold Label and all kinds of classes. I did a double take every time I pulled a player thinking I had pulled him already, but sure enough, the photo was different and it was a different class. I'm going to have to figure out which ones I still need here. I need to try that photo/scanner app to see if I can get better photos of these. The red streaks my scanner puts on shiny cards annoy me.</div>
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A trio of Topps Inception.</div>
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A pair of Topps Museum.</div>
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This was a box topper out of Heritage? A three-card panel with Kershaw on the back. I guess there's one with Bryant on the back that I have to track down, too.</div>
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There were probably another 20 or so cards that I had pulled as trade bait in addition to the above. I handed the dealer my stack and waited for him to tally them up.</div>
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I talked to the guy a little bit and he told me about another smaller monthly show in my area as well. I'll definitely be hitting his booth up in the future. To pick up all of these different brands of singles, I probably would have ended up spending $20 just on shipping, let alone the cards themselves!</div>
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This table proved to me no matter how prepared I <em>think</em> I am for a card show, there's still so much I don't know. Time to get even more prepared for the July show!</div>
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Light mail week as I was content with my card show pick ups. Organizing those kept me offline more than usual.</div>
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My "big" purchase of the week was near complete sets of 1998 and 2000 Opening Day. The 1998 set was only short #87 Gary Sheffield and #127 Roger Clemens and cost me $2.11 plus shipping. If anybody has either of those cards and is willing to move them, let me know.</div>
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The 1998 set yielded some fun shots like this Vladimir Guerrero. The darker backgrounds around the names were harder to read on the scans.</div>
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Compare the legibility to this fun Brian Jordan card.</div>
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It also led me to a new Ivy card to track down another of with this Derek Bell.</div>
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The 2000 set was just missing #91 Miguel Tejada, something I coincidentally already had. I must have pulled it from a repack somewhere along the way. That "set" ran me $.99 and just a little bit more with combined shipping from the same seller.</div>
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In a cheap plug, I'll be showing off all of these and tying them into <b><a href="http://2018openingday.blogspot.com/">my other blog</a></b> over the next few weeks. If you haven't checked it out yet, please do!</div>
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On a side note, does anybody have any spare Opening Day sets from 2001-2010, 2015-2017? I'm looking to add those in the meantime. I can swap a full one of the 2018 set or something else.</div>
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The only other pickup this week was a Missing Blackplate parallel from this year's Gypsy Queen of Jose Quintana. This marks my fifth version of this card and 20th different Jose Quintana card from 2018 that meets the "I Was There" criteria. Add in the 21 cards from 2017 and I have 41 different Jose Quintana cards that have ties to one game in July in Baltimore last year. Crazy.</div>
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I'm short on time today but it's been a few days since my last post. Let's get back on track here with a 30-count repack from the dollar store.</div>
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The rookie Kyle Phillips was the top card in the pack and the only one I could see. Phillips played five game for the blue Jays in 2009 and 36 more for the Padres in 2011. The only rookie, he gets paired up with the only Hall of Famer in the pack, John Smoltz.</div>
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A pair of horizontal Stadium Clubs are always a nice find. Max Scherzer does double duty as the newest card in the pack from 2017. The Scherzer will make a fine addition to an incidental, burgeoning Nats collection as well.</div>
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Like a radio station playing hits from the 80's, 90's and today, I pulled this trio of Cubs. Former Cubs manager Joe Amalfitano was also the oldest card in the pack, from 1981 Donruss. The Ryan Norwood card might actually be new to the Cubs collection as it comes from that time period I didn't collect much. </div>
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Speaking of Cubs, we have a pair of future ones in Luis Gonzalez and Sammy Sosa. And I suspect Luis Gonzalez may even be at Wrigley Field which means a partial Cubs cameo at catcher.</div>
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An appearance by 1991 Fleer just because it got some hate on witter recently. Mark Whiten is probably best known for hitting four home runs in one game and one of just two players with 12 RBI in a game.</div>
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Bringing up the rear is an oddball Minor League card. Are Just cards considered oddball? I know they were the main Minor League card then, but doesn't it just being a Minor League card make it an oddball? </div>
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Anyway, the Ottawa Lynx were a Triple A team from 1993-2007 and were affiliates of the Expos, Orioles and Phillies. The ownership group moved them to Allentown, PA where they became known as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in 2008. Jeremy Powell made 35 appearance for the Expos between 1998-2000 with a record of 5-16 and 5.84 ERA. He signed as a free agent with the Padres but then bounce around the JPPL and JPCL a bit before a brief US return with the Pirates minor league system in 2009-10.</div>
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I hit the April CSA card show the weekend before last and I've been trying to get caught up on scanning and cropping. Today's cards are from the "big" money table I hit, AKA dollar boxes.</div>
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I consider myself a frugal collector and am always looking for a deal but as I mentioned in my Two Random Rynos post, I've come to terms with spending a buck on an insert or PC card I know I don't have. Even if I managed to find one online for cheaper, I'd usually end up spending more on shipping. And this way, I feel like I'm supporting a few local dealers too.</div>
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I ended up with 28 cards from this table for a bulk discounted rate of $20. Some are below, I've already shown some of the Ryne Sandbergs and the rest are spread around to other collectors.</div>
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I didn't know anything about this Ernie Banks card, and still don't really. Cramer Baseball Legends was a running set from 1980 through 1983. There was a new set each of those years but he numbering continued from the previous season.</div>
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I was more or less done with cards in 1997 so I was unfamiliar with the TSC Matrix parallel in 1997 Stadium Club. It didn't scan very well but it is a standard card with "effects" to make in interesting. These were a 1:12 odds pull. Grace joins Ryne Sandberg and Sammy Sosa in the Cubs team checklist but I have neither.</div>
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I've said it before and I'll say it here, Sammy sosa is the biggest gap in my Cubs collection. He played in those prime years where I was not collecting. Despite having nearly 8,000 cards according to the TradingCardDB, I'd be surprised if I have 100 yet. This card is standard size, but clear around the letter I. The shadows are because it didn't lie flat on the scanner and while sometimes I will put something on top of a card to flatten it, I didn't do that with the clear card.</div>
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This is one that probably falls into the overpay category, a base card out of 2015 Topps Update. But can you really pass up a rookie card of an All-Star/World Champion for a buck? While I wasn't completely out of the hobby in 2015, I wasn't quite in it either and this one had escaped my grasp. For some reason, this Rookie Debut doesn't carry the same value as the straight rookie, despite being in the same set.</div>
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A shiny Ben Zobrist out of last year's Bowman's Best.</div>
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A quick search and yes, this is the only card in my collection labeled as a Peach parallel. This one is numbered out of 199.</div>
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And to bring things full circle, we have both the oldest and newest card of the bunch. A 2017 Topps Heritage 1968 50th Anniversary buyback. This card is 10 years older than me and it is a beaut. The edges and corners are sharp and the centering is very good. I wish I could find one without the stamp in this condition for just a buck!</div>
<span id="goog_52891897"></span><span id="goog_52891898"></span><br />Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-78464778320829232962018-04-16T11:00:00.000-04:002018-04-16T13:35:20.640-04:00Mailday MondayI haven't picked up much lately online seeing as I had a card show coming up and then to process afterwards. But I do have a few stragglers from purchases I made a couple of weeks ago that finally came around.<br />
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I've been trying to clean up the gaps in my Throwback Thursday cards. I started strong with those but kind of lost interest when the same players were being chosen again and again. The new Living Set kind of solves that problem, but I also liked that the Throwback Thursday cards usually had some kind of unifying theme each week.</div>
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The Kris Bryant cards above are from Week 8 of the 2017 edition. The one on the left is the original error version where the photo they used bled into the border. Everybody who ordered the set received all six cards this way. Topps then corrected their mistake and sent everybody the corrected version (above right).</div>
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I picked up the correction a while ago, but just recently found the error at a reasonable price. Luckily, the print run is exactly the same (615) so the cost is similar. The other five cards in the sets with errors include Corey Seager, Bryce Harper, Adrian Beltre, Mookie Betts and Francisco Lindor.</div>
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Fast forward to set #25 from last year and you have this L-shaped Anthony Rizzo. Normally a six-card set, this particular set bumped it up to eight. Each of the four remaining playoff teams were represented twice to spell out ALCS and NLCS. Kris Bryant was the S (still needed) while Clayton Kershaw and Cody Bellinger were the N and C respectively. </div>
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In my attempt to be a Jose Quintana supercollector (ha!) I added the Gypsy Queen logo swap. The regular card is on the right with just a GQ logo. The swap is on the left with the profile of an old Gypsy woman. Otherwise the card is the same.</div>
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Topps reuses the GQ logo on the back of both cards. I think it would have been more interesting to do an actual swap and have had the profile on the back of the regular card.</div>
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Another Quintana variation for the collection, this time out of Heritage. The front is the same as the regular card...</div>
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...but the back has the "traded" variation. At the bottom of the top white box, the "Acquired" line is present, whereas the original is blank.</div>
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Last but not least, the Cubs (and MLB) season started off with a bang. Card #1 for this year's regular season edition of Topps Now is literally from the first pitch of the entire season. Ian Happ teed off on a first pitch home run to get the Cubs off to a great start. What's happened since then has been kind of...meh. Despite being just 7-7, the Cubs already have four(!) Topps Now cards. The others are on their way.</div>
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I really like the back this year, very clean. You can't really tell from the scan but they have a rainbow security feature. They are pretty easy to download and print out yourself (though much lower quality) so I'm wondering if Topps ran into some kind of counterfeiting problem with that? Or if they are just anticipating problems with all the Shohei Ohtani cards they are pumping out?</div>
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It's been over a month since I did one of these, what with my pack ripping itch being scratched by my Opening Day case. I've also been doing a lot of scanning and cropping with the collection so it was hard to motivate myself to get that done on repack cards. With these cards below I tried a <i><b>free</b></i> app that was new to me called CamScanner. I read about it somewhere as an alternative for scanning the shiny cards without getting the refracted rainbow, but can't for the life of me remember to give proper credit.</div>
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The think the picture quality came out fine. I find the cropping feature to be a little more precise but a lot of cards don't lay perfectly flat, making it tough to have a great crop. And since a lot of the early chrome and other shiny cards have some curvature to them, I'm not sure how often I'll use the app.</div>
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First up is the Dioner Navarro out of 2010 Topps. He was the visible card in the pack and as a former Cub (and otherwise slim pickings from the rack) is the reason I picked the pack. The legibility of his name on the card is much better compared to what would should up on a scan, I think.</div>
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The other former/future Cubs in the pack were Frank DiPino and Joe Niekro. No current Cubs. Sad trombone.</div>
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Though down on the farm, Mariano Duncan is the current hitting coach for the Cubs' high-A affiliate, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans.</div>
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The newest card in the box was this 2016 Topps Chrome Alex Gordon. Decent job scanning through the app, though it seems a little dark.</div>
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Oldest card in the box was a 1983 Mickey Hatcher. You can see how the curve in this card affects the crop down at the bottom. If I used a scanner, I could flatten it better.</div>
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Charlie Kerfeld hot pack!</div>
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A trio of the era's best shortstops. Ozzie's got some hops and the ump is in the background chillin' like Ozzie is just being Ozzie.</div>
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1989 Upper Deck was a hot topic in the Twitter world recently. Seems to be a very polarizing set! Hall of Famer Dave Winfield represented here.</div>
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Another Hall of Famer in Bill Mazeroski on this pretty cool horizontal card. Walking it off before that was a thing.</div>
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I've never really been a fan of sketch cards or art cards. Props to the artists because they are more talented than me, but they just aren't my thing. Diamond Kings and these early Collector's Choice checklist cards are the rare exceptions. </div>
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<em><br /></em> Normally these cards are random, but I went to a card show last weekend and managed to find nine Rynos that were new to the PC.<br />
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I don't know much about newer Panini Donruss products aside from the fact I don't have much. The unlicensed stuff just doesn't draw me in. But as a player collector, I'll add Sandbergs as I see them. The card above is from the 2017 Optic product, an insert set called Masters of the Game. It is a 15-card set and Sandberg is the only Cubs representative. Greg Maddux shows up for the Braves though.</div>
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I don't always need to have the newest, shiniest in baseball card design but in the past, I've tended to shy away from vintage tables. One, they make me realize how unprepared I am for a card show no matter how much I may think otherwise. Watching the elder statesmen of the hobby with their hand written checklists hunched over the boxes to complete their sets can be a little intimidating. This isn't Black Friday where I can just throw on the elbow spurs and push my way through the crowd to get the deals.<br />
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Two, growing up in the junk wax/baseball-cards-can-be-investments era, I can be a bit of a condition snob. I realize that. I own it. But trust me, with my low bankroll, those two things don't go hand in hand. So I generally keep moving.<br />
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Three, pricing. I've noticed "book value" is a term most vintage dealers still use and while there's nothing wrong with that, I don't know what that means anymore. Which makes me feel unprepared (see #1).<br />
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And finally, four, in light of all of the above, I don't have much of a want list for vintage, because I pretty much need everything. And where do you start when you need everything?? I need to finish up cataloging my collection so I can start attacking this hole in the collection before it takes a mortgage payment to do. It's both motivating and demotivating at the same time.<br />
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Anyway, on my first loop around the show, I saw one dealer with vintage in card savers, stacked about 25 high and rubber banded by year and in numerical groups (1-50, 51-100, etc). One card in particular caught my attention because it was right on top, a 1961 Topps checklist. The prices were marked in sharpie on the card saver itself with designations like 15/7. This meant the book price was $15, dealer price was $7.<br />
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Did I want to pay $7 for a checklist? It was unmarked, pretty well centered, good edges, slightly soft corners. That seems like a pretty ok price for a card in that condition that was nearing voting age by the time I was born (and I'll be more than twice that this year!)<br />
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But for a checklist? Good thing this was my first pass, and as I mentioned yesterday, I was in hands in pocket mode so didn't have to make this decision just yet.<br />
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I finished my lap, and having satisfied the modern itch by this point, I came across a different vintage table that was very well organized. Boxes of "common" vintage were labeled by price points (condition based, I'm guessing) and by year within each box.<br />
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Not having anything in particular in mind, I started at a $3 per or 2/$5 box at the 1961's. Maybe the checklist would be cheaper here?<br />
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No dice, but then further down the table I notice a dollar box, or 6/$5. Organized the same way, I went straight for the 1961's. And for my only vintage purchases of the day, I had no trouble finding six cards.<br />
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The Ivy collection has some new oldest cards! These beat the recently acquired 1973 Topps Dave Roberts by more than a decade! This was the worst of the bunch condition wise, with creases above the O in Topps and first B in Baseball. Somebody had also stamped the back of the card. The horizontal marks along the back aren't creases, but some kind of scuff/scratch. I'm pretty sure that's Ernie Banks in the card above.</div>
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With that said, I did hit a fairly large card show last Friday and picked up some stuff. The scanning is coming along but it's been a few days since I posted, so I thought I'd show off some photos of other pickups.<br />
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Although it has been a while since I hit up a card show, I fell back into the routine pretty easily. The first thing I do is take a full loop around the show with my hands figuratively in my pockets, making notes on tables I'd like to come back to. Not buying, just getting a general sense of who has what. Then I compare those notes to my list of things I'm looking for, prioritize, and attack.<br />
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I ended up only buying from four different dealers so each one will get its own post because what I bought from each was distinctly different. That should buy me some more time to scan and crop when you throw in my running weekend posts.<br />
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One particular dealer that I have hit up before usually has older boxes from $5-$20. There wasn't as much this time around to my liking despite it being the first couple of hours of the first day of a three day show.<br />
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After a couple of weeks of busting a case of 2018 Opening Day (yes, I'm finally done with it, and yes <strong><a href="https://2018openingday.blogspot.com/">here's a cheap plug for my other blog</a></strong>), I still had a pack ripping itch. Two 36-pack boxes with no time crunch should do the trick. The box on the left is a shrink wrapped box of 1993 Donruss. That was probably the last year I was really buying packs before other things took priority in high school life, so those names should be a nice trip down memory lane.</div>
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I was ready to give this guy $30, $10 for the boxes and $20 for the McFarlanes, but he only wanted $20 for the lot. Six McFarlanes and 72+ packs of cards for $20? That's like buying just one of the McFarlane figures new at the time!</div>
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The other tables will be recent (last year and this year) base and inserts, some slightly older inserts, and a very small vintage pickup. Stay tuned!</div>
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Another light mail week, but I've been saving what little card money I have set aside for the big local card show this past weekend. I'm still scanning and cropping all of that loot so stayed tuned for those later this week.</div>
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First up is a black and white parallel of this year's Jose Quintana Gypsy Queen card that is limited to 50 copies. In light of some of the terrible parallels offered this year, this is one of the least worst. Yay? As I mentioned a few weeks ago when GQ came out, this one will slide into the "I Was There" collection because Topps keeps picking photos taken from his first Cubs start in Baltimore.</div>
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I haven't been quite as vigilant in picking up the Throwback Thursday cards as I have the Topps Now, but I've been trying to catch up a bit when I see a good deal. For those making a custom documentary/Now custom team set, this might be a good set to mimic?</div>
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Three down, seven to go on the World Series Parade short print parallels from last year's Topps Stadium Club. The well seems to be drying up on these so I try to grab them when I can. Anthony Rizzo is a big one to snag, second to probably only the Kris Bryant.</div>
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While I have been lax in grabbing the Throwback Thursday cards, I did pick up the second week trio of cards from Topps' newest <strike>money grab</strike> venture, the Living Set for the Ian Happ card. Surprisingly, these are holding their value and then some on the secondary market. With Judge and Ohtani out of the way, I'm not sure how much that will hold up week to week though.</div>
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Once a Cubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335285038636911672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353318977404883830.post-69711967828258595002018-04-07T12:00:00.000-04:002018-04-07T12:24:47.263-04:00Two Not-So-Random Rynos<em>In this weekly series, I show off two random Ryne Sandberg cards from my 600+ card PC. One will be from his playing days (pre-1998) and one since his retirement (1998-present).</em><br />
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Normally these cards are random, but I went to a card show yesterday and managed to find nine Rynos that were new to the PC.<br />
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Sandberg played during the junk wax era, but was done before the parallels and inserts got super crazy limited. Therefore, very rarely do I come across a Sandberg card from his playing days that I don't have, let alone have never even seen before. But that was the case with this 1993 Score Select Stars insert.</div>
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I stumbled upon this one in a box yesterday that was sorted by team. All the cards in the box were a dollar and I did end up pulling a couple of other Cubs needs. At first, a dollar for a junk wax card seemed a bit high, but I think I've gotten to a point where spending a dollar (with no shipping to boot) on my #1 PC guy for a card I've never seen is allowable.</div>
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When I got home and did a search to figure out exactly what this card was, I was pleasantly surprised to see it runs a couple of bucks on eBay and Sportlots <i>plus</i> shipping. Score! (pun intended)</div>
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A different table had monster boxes full of products from last year and this year, rough sorted by number but with no prices. When I asked what the prices were, the dealer said it depends on the player. Ugh. I hate that. Someone like Ryno could be a common or a star depending on your point of view.</div>
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But I went through and pulled a bunch of Cubs from sets I didn't buy any of like Fire, Tribute, Gallery, this year's Donruss, etc. I handed the dealer a stack of about 60-70 cards, a mixture of base and inserts and parallels expecting the worst. When he quoted me $12, I couldn't pay quickly enough! Sportlots type prices on higher end brands without the shipping? I'll take that every time!</div>
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Just a reminder, I take a lot of things into consideration for what makes the Frankenset. Diversity is key as I'm looking for a good mixture of players, teams, sets and brands.</div>
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Some numbers have matchups, some don't. When I first started collecting Ivy cards, I wasn't looking for duplicate numbers. Once I found one, I moved on. Now, I'm looking for the best card at each number so these early numbers are something that need to be revisited.</div>
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After being snubbed for the #9 slot on Page 1, Dwight Gooden is bringing the heat with 3 cards to make it on Page 2, even challenging himself for the #14 spot.</div>
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Stay tuned for the final cut down to 9!</div>
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