Odd 'Lots From The Ballpark

The second seller on SportLots that I bought from was called Ballpark.  I started the same way as last time - with Target Dodgers of my player collection guys.

Still missing Dusty Baker, Cesar Cedeno, Ron Fairly, Manny Mota, and Pete Richert.

Picked up one of the last remaining PCs from the 1990 Pacific Legends set - the aforementioned Baker.

Keeping with the (former) Dodger theme, the oddball Keebler Claude Osteen was something I'd never seen before.  Similar to the Target effort, this is a 446 card set of All Time Texas Rangers created in 1993.  Searched thru the checklist and found several other guys I will be looking for.

Campaneris still chugging along ten years after his World Series dominance with the A's.  Always nice to find cheap minor league cards.  I have a huge list, but usually only find them listed for several dollars. This one was around a quarter.

Continuing with the more obscure items, comes these four Dell Today's Team stamps frpm 1971.  Though the Torre was listed as a Dell and the others were referred to as "MLB Official Stamps".  They're apparently the same thing.  Noted by the color tinted logos on the back, these differ from the Topps Photostamps of '69 and '70 in that the backs of those have a strip to apply adhesive and no names or bio information.  I usually balk at flimsy, small sized items like these, but have run into them cheaply enough that I'll sacrifice the slot in the 9-pocket sheet for them.

'85 Police Brewers Coop.  Wacky thing about these is, there are a series for each of the police departments (and corresponding sponsors) in the greater Milwaukee area, so effectively, there are 64 variations of each card.  This one is Winneconne PD, which is about 100 miles northwest from the middle of downtown Milwaukee.  Not sure I'll be going after all the variations.  Unless someone from that area has thirty or forty different ones for trade.

And rounding out the baseball portion of our program, this unfortunately print-lined, and subsequently free Dave Kingman is a 1976 SportsTix.  It's basically a sticker with just the plain manila backing.  According to the Database, these come in a round and octagonal configuration too.  Same checklist of ten star (but not superstar) players, with bonus A, B, and C of Mays, Clemente, and Mantle respectively.  I submitted this as the only image for the square variety on the Database.

My first card from the Heisman set from 1991 (through 1993) issued in groups of 21 per year.  Weird thing is, they're skip numbered.  The master set is composed of 58 base cards, three cover or title cards, three "HCC" inserts, and three ad cards.  Bo is one of the ads, so I'm still wanting that one.

The other football entry is a Fleer sticker that came with the Team Action cards from 1983.  this finished up the sticker set for that year.

And finally, this Canadian credit card looking thing with the two Caps stars on the front.  Nifty addition to my team set collections.

Three items on this list were more than 50¢, and the Kingman was 100% off of 2.49, so that made up for the extra expense.  The whole order was less than $15 shipped.  This is why I love SportLots.  Most of these would have been way more on COMC.  But there are things that you can only get (or only want to get since you can see them) on COMC too.  Have a few of them coming soon too.