Merry Christmas!

Its been a while...

.., since I last posted. It takes a while for me to scan stuff and post  them and I would rather do other stuff. However, I will definitely do a post after christmas. Anyway, on Wednesday I drew up a Stratomatic roster for 2 teams, The Hobbit/LOR team, and the All Comics/ Cartoons team. On Thursday I assigned Stratomatic cards that I thought matched them and played a 5 game exhibition series. Sometime I'll publish the cards I use. And  here are the results. I personally love statistics so this is going to be real fun for me. 1st the All Tolkien Team:
NAME POS AVG HR RBI H AB 2B 3B G    BB SO SAC (total) E GDP  NOTES
Faramir Rf  .214    0     0      4  21   0    0  5    0    1      0               0     0         
Merry   Cf  .000    0     0      0  11   0    0  3    1    2      0               1     1
Aragorn P/Cf.250 2     3      3  12  0     0  4     2    2      0                0     1
Thorin Lf   .250    1     1      5  20  2     0  5    0     5      0                0    1
Gimli  C    .278     2     4      5  18 1      0 5    2     3      0                0     0
Boromir 1b.333    0     0      4  12  2     0 4    0     3      0                0      0
Tom Bomb.3b.438 0   2      7  16  1     1 5    1     1      2                1      0
Sam  2b  .263      0     2       5  19  0     1 5    0     4      1                0      0
Pippin SS.278     0     2       5  18  0     1 5    0     4       1               0      0
Kili 1b/P .200     0     1       1   5   0     0 2    0      0       0              0      0
Legolas  .250     0       0      1   4   0     0  3   1      1       2              0      0 P/PH
Cartoon/comic team:
Pogo 3b .048     0        0     1   21 0     0  5    0      4       0              2     0
Tintin 1b .357   0        0     8   21    1  0  5    2      3      0                0     0
J.P     Cf .286    2        5     6   21    0  0  5   1      2      0                1     1 Jose Peterson ( Peanuts)
SnoopySS.235  3        4    4    17    0  0 5     3      1     0                0      1
PopeyeC . 389  1        2    7    18    2  1  5    1      4      0               1      0
M.M Rf  .263   2        5    5    19    0  0  5    0       7     0               1      0 Mickey Mouse
U.A  Lf  .500   1         1    9    18   1  1   5    0       0    1                0      0 Uncle Albert (Pogo)
Calvin2b.211   0         3   4     19   0  0   5    0       2    0                0      2
Pitching:
W L K IP  ERA  ER BB H  GS  G   SV   NAME TEAM ( t or c)
0  2  10 11 9.82   12   2   19  2     2     0   Aragorn T
1  0  9    9 0.00     0   1     2  1      1     0  Legolas
0  0  3 7.2 4.69     4   0    12  1      1    0 Gandalf
0  1 3  7.1 6.14     5   0     10 1      1     0 Fili
1  0 2 2.2  0.00     0   0      1  0      2     0 Gloin
0 0 1  4    0.00      0   2      2  0      1     0 Kili
0 0 0  1    9.00      1   1      1 0       1     0 Oin
C
2 0 10 13 4.85     7    3   12  2    2     0 Linus C
0 1 4    8 2.25      2    1   8    1   1      0 Ignatz Mouse (Krazy Kat)
0 0 6   7 2.57       2    1   10  1   1      0 Hobbes
0 0 6   9 4.00      4     3   7    1   1      0 Peppermint Patty
0 1 0  3  3.00      1     0   3    0   2      0 Olive Oyl
1 0 3 5   0.00      0    2    2    0   3      1 Jeff ( Mutt&Jeff)
These statistics are not perfectly accurate but there accurate in the more important stuff like H&AVG&HR etc.

... for santa...

Card show!

I went to a card show today!  Thankfully for me there was somebody with a pretty decent dimebox.

 The odd-ball Ken Griffey Jr. ( top left corner) is rather oversized. Multiple exposure cards are always welcome here, especially when they feature Don Mattingly.

 Basically, I collect all knuckelballers.

  A quartet of odd-balls! The Waldo Candies Ryne Sandberg is rather weird.The bottom 2 are from Investor's Journal. Go figure. I reallt have no idea what that Jose Canseco is.

 These 4 costed a combined 40 cents! I'm especially happy about the 1977 st. Louis pocket schedule.

 Carlton Fisk in the 1900s, Cal Ripken on his phone, baseball card magazine cards=awesome.

 Anybody know what this card is? I researched a bit but I wasn't able to find any thing.

 I  also got about 15 more of these  Action Packed cards. I always love getting cards of oldies like Frankie Crosseti and Joe Garagiola. I've always collected Bobby Doerr  since I made a homemade baseball card for him before he died and he sent it back signed. That card is now one of the centerpieces of my collection.

The dime-box guy gave me this as a throw-in.On the way out I stopped at the the proprietor's vintage table. I'm certainly glad I did.

The 1936 Goudey "Bobo" Newsom was listed at $6 and the other 2 were listed as $1 combined but the guy gave me them for $6 total.Overall, $14 well spent.
It's raining here in TX and I recommend "Rainy Day, Dream Away" by Jimi Hendrix.

Needs I

I don't have anywhere to show what I need cardwise and so I'm just going to have it here. I'll update it every time  I get anything new. I'm going to tell you what I HAVE unless noted. Without further rambling, I give you my list of "needs":

Set needs:
1933 Goudey. Completion: 4/239:
#6 Jimmy Dykes
#12 George Pipgras
#138 Herb Pennock SGC 1
#209 Adolfo Luque

1953 Bowman Color.  Completion: 4/160 :
 #16 Bob Friend
#51 Monte Irvin
#93 Rizzuto/Martin SGC 20/1.5
#104 Luke Easter

1969 Topps Deckle Edge ( including variations) NEEDS. Completion: 30/35:
#4 Carl Yastremski
#20 Tommy Helms
#22A Rusty Staub
#28 Curt Flood
#33 Willie Mays

2007 UD Masterpieces. Completion:4/90:
#48 Randy Johnson
#57 Victor Martinez
#61 Jason Bay
#72 Alex Rodriguez

2008 UD Masterpieces.Completion: 5/120:
#5 Max Scherzer RC
#48 Ryan Braun
#62 Alex Rodriguez
#68 Rich Harden
#76 Greg Maddux

My Black Friday

Sorry folks ( folk?), its been awhile since I last posted. I have recently been having a lot of technical difficulties. However, my mom was able to figure it out this morning and I am finally able to divulge the great details of my COMC Black Friday. I spent a little over $35 and qualified for free shipping 

I got the Bob Friend for $1.50. The Monte Irvin wasn't on sale but I decided it was a good deal for $2.95.

This mutilated Luke Easter came my way for a paltry $1.21!

I had to get about a dozen filler cards to qualify for free shipping.

All but one were under 40 cents including this beautiful Dimaggio!

Cards of guys in military uniform and Tris Speaker refractors are hard for me to resist.

 And finally, the only filler card I spent over 40 cents for:

It's Eddie!!!! I've wanting a card of Eddie Gaedel for a while, so this card for 45 cents was a steal in my mind. But that's not all. I am still to divulge the 2 centerpiece cards!

Holy moely!

I got the Jack Quinn for a paltry $12.25, down from $30.25 without the sale! I think for  a 247 game-winner  that was a serious bargain. Old Jack Quinn survived in the majors until his very late 40s as  a relief pitcher!  Also a  1933 Goudey card of a 22-year survivor for $6.38 was a awesome deal. I actually got these cards in the mail on Saturday, but I wasn't able to post them until today. I also got my dad 8 cards closer to completing the 1970 Topps set, which he started in 1970, for a late birthday present. Overall, a Black Friday well spent.

The Mega Break

Last night at about 8:15 I signed up for Jay Barker Fan's Mega Break. There was only 3 MLB teams left so I got the Phillies. At least they had Mike Schmidt. Still, I'm glad that I got any,  because when I checked this morning there weren't any left. 

Black Friday.

I had a great time on Friday at Comc.com. I spent about $35 and qualified for free shipping. However, I will wait 'till they come so I can show the scans (+ plus I've forgotten a lot of the details anyway). I don't have any readers yet except for my Mom and Dad so nobody will be disappointed anyway.

The shining waters of Donora, PA.

Ken Griffey Jr; the 2nd greatest player ever to have been born in Donora, PA, and born on November 21 as Stan Musial also fit those qualifications.  Its kind of hard to be better than somebody who accumulated 3630 hits, even if you did hit 630 homeruns. Anyway, I don't have much time tonight, but I  still would to like to wish the the Donora boys a happy birthday.



P.S Stan Musial hit a homerun in his 1st at-bat after becoming a grandfather.

About the author& the birthday loot.!

Hello, I my name is John, I am 12 years old, and I am an avid baseball card collector. I also love Rock&Roll and other kinds of music. I play Little League baseball and I am  mainly a pitcher and 2nd baseman. I am a little absent minded and my collection goes a little slow because of mom imposed limits but I will try to post at least once a week.As my  birthday was 2 weeks ago I  might as well display the display the loot:

 The 53' color Billy Martin and Phil Rizzuto is graded 1.5 and is in beautiful condition except for some glue on the back.Also the Pennock card has some paper loss on the back but is otherwise in pretty good condition.

I did not want these cards sideways but I dont know how to change that either. I'm still learning here.

These Kellogs cards were given to me by a friend of my fathers.

I also got a 1962 topps whitey ford card from my dad. I didn't get any other cards from relatives but I got a good amount of money which I plan to make use of on black friday on COMC.Overall, it was a pretty good birthday.