Blue Jays 50th Anniversary Cards

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I mentioned it a few posts ago and here it is finally. I photographed most of the cards I got. 

First off.. As I showed before, the box I received looks different than the box shown on the websites. I haven't been able to find any copyright information aside from two cards mentioning Topps in their logo in the upper left corner. Nothing else mentions Topps, Fanatics, or any other manufacturing entity. 

So first off.. This is the back of Every... Single... Card.. 

It's like they would do with Topps Now sets. 

Now the fronts. The majority of the cards I received were in this style. Some players have multiple cards

As you can see Varsh has three. 

Cavan has one. 

This one just looks off.. I don't know if that's actually Davis Schneider or not. 

Matt Chapman with a star on his jersey where a number should be.. Another fishy aspect.. 

Why do we have a Jay and a Red Sox player both fielding? 

I apologize for the quality of the pictures.. Once I get a chance to either get my scanner working, or replace the one I have I'll finally be able to take better pics. 

I do like this Springer design. 

This isn't Springer. And it looks like we have another case of an opponent fielding... This honestly looks more like Gausman

This is one of the two cards that reference Topps and I actually really like the design of.. 

Here is the other 

Again, cool card.. I'm interested to see if someone else bought this if they also got "1/100" 

The two cards above were shown in the ads as well. 

Finally, there are a group of cards that look like a Bowman style card.. 

The cards themselves are well made. I like the cards, but there's too much weirdness about them to really be recommendable. 

1: It's all players from recent times. If you're going to have a commemorative set for the 50th Anniversary, show players and moments from the history of the team. Have a card of the first game with the snow on the ground. First pennant. World Series. 4 homer games. No Hitter.. Cy Youngs.. 

Besides, who wouldn't want another Dave Stieb card, or Tom Henke, or Otto Velez? '

2: Some of the images used are just off enough to make you wonder if they're real or crapped out by AI.. 

3: The lack of any copyright information or manufacture information makes me wonder about the validity of them. If it was a True Topps/Fanatics product, they would plaster that shit all over it.. Plus, there would be a checklist available somewhere.. The only information I can find on this, is how to buy it.. 

4: The only thing that makes me think it could be a Topps-Not-Topps product is the fact that, in 80 cards, half were duplicates. 

If I was producing this set, I would have made it just that... A set.. Have a commemorative boxed set of the history of the Jays.. Don't be lazy. Make real backs of the cards. Go through the history of the franchise. 

As excited as I was when I first saw the thing online, I feel like this was a waste of $60US... 

Musicfest

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Normally I'd be doing my usual post about Canada Day by pulling the Jays singing "This Land is Your Land" out of the mothballs, and probably the I Am Canadian rant, but not today.. 

Today I'm going to show some of the pics I took at Musicfest so far. I'm volunteering there this summer as a merch seller. 

The first concert was Gowan and as you can see, it was a beautiful evening. Lots of people showed up too. You can see the shirts we have for sale in this pic as well. 

The merch table is off to the side of the stage, so while I didn't see the show, I heard it. He did the Strange Animal album and a couple other songs from his catalogue. I believe this year is the 40th anniversary of the Strange Animal release. 

People were still milling about. It would fill soon enough. 

I believe it was around this time we were fighting with our payment machine. Couldn't get it to work, so we got a handheld unit and used that. 

And here's a picture of the weirdo who runs this blog showing off his volunteer badge. 

Tonight was supposed to be Neon Nostalgic. I'm not quite sure what that is, but yeah.. Those clouds? Ominous. Within 10 minutes of this picture, we had heavy winds, and the beginning of a lengthy heavy soaking rain.. The backstage area was trashed by the wind. There might have been equipment damage.. Just not a fun sight. The rain went on for about an hour. 

This was after the rain ended while I waited for my cab. The drowned rat I was.. The concert and the fireworks for Canada Day were cancelled. Our next concert is Saturday when the Good Lovelies take the stage at Del Crary Park. I'm not sure when the fireworks will happen. Maybe tomorrow.. Maybe Saturday on the next show. 

I also got some cards in a couple weeks ago that, I'll be honest, have been putting off posting. I'm trying to actually find more information about them and failing. 

It's the Toronto Blue Jays 50th Anniversary Hobby Box of cards. This is the box right from the website

And this is the box I received. Has no MLB or Fanatics logos. Has no manufacturing information at all.. I can't even find a checklist for it. 

This is the wrapper for the cards. Again, not really like what's shown in the photo above. 

I'll go in depth on them next post.

So, Happy Canada Day from the Great White North. Hope you all go out for a rip and give-r. Keep your stick on the ice and don't be a hoser, eh?

1979 Topps

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I'm at a time right now where I have all sorts of ideas, but can't get past the idea stage. I want to continue with my stadium profiles. I want to work on stadium cards again. I want to get organized in my collection. I just have functional paralysis when it comes to getting stuff done it seems. 

Honestly, it doesn't help that Chrome has made it impossible to save pictures from websites now. It saves as a full browser page. I may need to see if Edge will work for that portion of my ideas.. 

Anyway.. 

Recently I got some cards from JKatz. A group of 79 Topps.. Honestly, I got the stack for one card.. An Expos card to put towards the million. 

This one.. I'll be honest, the first time I saw the cap logo on both Fry and Sanderson, I was confused, because it looks like Detroit's. Turns out the Denver Bears used that for their caps for a while. 

The other cards are as follows: 

I honestly loved those uniforms and wish I was old enough to have seen them in their hayday (I was 1) 

So according to a quick search, this looks to be West Palm Beach Stadium. The Braves held Spring Training there for years. At the time the seats were... Red? (not sure.. Colour blind) but then they were switched to blue. 

The structure in the top right is the roof that covers the seats behind home plate. 

Dennis Martinez as an Oriole. 

I wonder if this could be considered a batting cage photo? 

So these are all available. As I mentioned, I only got the stack for one card lol