Not sure if five weeks is the longest I've gone without posting, but it's probably close. I feel like half the time I'm apologizing for my absence on here. Well, I am sorry I haven't been around, but I'm not sorry about why. Without going into too much detail, it's basically been a whirlwind romance. It started late last year, took a while to get going, and then took off about April or so. We've been dating steadily since May, and it just keeps getting better. We match so well on so many levels, that it's been relatively easy. It's amazing to both of us how it's gotten to this point.
But anyway, enough of the mushy stuff, you guys want to see cards!
I did manage to make the July Chantilly show on what used to be Sneak Preview Day (Friday) but is now basically a whole third (first) day. The show now runs 1PM to 8PM, instead of starting at 5. I got through the bulk of it all, but really just hit most of my favorite dealers.
This is an amalgamation of several purchases, all of which are for player collections. The first things I found were the Safelon discs from '76. I have a big list of '76 and '77 discs for my PC guys, but this flavor wasn't even on it. Got all but three or so of the guys I seek.
The Sutter is a '79 Hostess, which are somehow the most elusive year. I still need about a half dozen of my guys. Have just about all the rest except for a few SPs. Bo Jackson was from yet another new unknown football set that just came out. The Dusty & son is from the current Archives issue, and of course, I will snag anything Jordan Addison.
Knocked out the better part of my '62 Post HOF'ers with this batch from my man Steve B. Still looking for a good starter lot of commons, but most of the big names are found. I continued to strike some other vintage-ish wants with him too...
Almost finished the '69 Fleer World Series from the starter I got from the set hoard. If I'd have started them with Steve, they might be even better. These were nicer than any I have already.
These aren't the ones with the team logo stickers, they're the blue backs.
Stepped over to my regular current insert guy and massacred my list of silver parallels to '24 A&G. There were still two full snap boxes that I didn't go through, but my list was so huge, I was afraid of too many duplicates. Still ended up with a half dozen of these that I actually didn't need. Also got some '23 Heritage short prints and a few other misc. items.
Moved on to Stan's and filled out these '61 Golden Press'ers. Down to Ott, Ruth, Foxx and and Wagner.
Also got three of the four '65s from him. The last purchase of the day was the "C. Canizzaro" flavor of the 1st Checklist from Uncle Dicks. This completes my '65 Topps set!
Thanks for stopping by! Can't guarantee any better frequency of posting, but I can say that I'm jumping right into the 1963 Topps set. Stay tuned for that!