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.