Cards from Benson Pt 2

 Hello Friends!

As we reach the end of the year, I just want to say how grateful I am that you, dear reader, have been here throughout. 

Long time readers know I've been having a rough go for the past few years. This one is no exception. December generally sucks for me anyway, but when you factor in my mom passing (in 2006) 5 days before Christmas... And the fact I'm alone all the time now.. Yeah.. 

Anyway.. Let's look at cards, shall we??

These are more cards from the package I got from Benson. 

One part of why I hate coloured parallels is that I'm partially colourblind. 

Now, to me, this looks blue. However, the blue parallels are serial numbered. The card isn't, so I'm assuming this is Purple. 

The T205 cards were interesting when they came out. 

The Stro Show.. I'm not sure where he is anymore. I feel like anywhere he went he wore out his welcome quickly.. 

Alek Manoah is getting another chance with the Angels.. I hope he does well.. Just not against the Jays.. 

I love Stadium Club. It's one of those sets that, if I could find it, I'd collect. It's never around me.. 

Jordan Romano. I kind of followed him this year with the Phils.. It seemed like he didn't quite have it.. I wonder if he's a flash in the pan. 

And of course, more Manoah, Gurriel, Romano, and some Springer. I have to say the 88 design looks decent Chromified. 

What do you think of this batch of cards?

The Return of the Card Show

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Today I went to the card show that I went to last month. They held another one today. A second test show to gauge interest. It was busier than the first one, which is a good sign.. They said there's one in Feb, but they're not sure of the date because the day they booked originally has something about a Superb Owl.. 

Anyway, before I went,  I had to deal with a little weather. I admit the first few times it looks nice, but after a while it can F right off.. 

EXPOS!!!!

One of the vendors that was there the first time and I talked between shows. He put together a box of Expos for me. Mainly team sets from the 80s that he has packaged up at home. 

That box of Expos was $20. Not a bad price if I do say so myself.. 

There were a few vendors that had vintage cards. Obviously I was interested in the baseball, but there was a lot of hockey and one had football, including 60s OPC CFL cards.. If I ever expanded into collecting CFL, that would be something to consider. 

Anyway, Ron Taylor! As an Astro!

I have to say I love the early Diamond Kings. Here we have Steve Rogers from 83

Some other 83s I needed for the team set. The rest are going to be housed in the Million Expos Project. 

84 Donruss. I have to say, I love this design. I feel that this would be one of the more expensive ones to try to complete. 

A 69 OPC Pete Ward. It's nice finding Canadians in the wild.. 

Andre Dawson OPC! I didn't have a copy of this card yet, so here's one now!

1983 Stuart Bakeries. I found out something today while entering them in on TCDB. There are some cards that are missing the writing on the bottom right corner of the photo. You can see that on the Wallach. These are considered error cards, as they did print corrected ones with the writing in place. 

I did end up getting one more card for a friend. He's reimbursing me for it. (Man, you got expensive tastes!) 

1973-74 OPC WHA.. He's missing three cards. Well, two now.. Bolly Hull and Jacques Plante. This one was marked at $75, but I got it for $40. 

I'm looking forward to the next one now. Hopefully it's February 1. I know the date they originally scheduled will cause nobody to be there (including vendors, I think) 

Cards from Benson

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So not too long ago, the Team Collectors Forum I'm part of took part in a "break" of a box of cards sent to one member by Beau of One Million Cubs fame. 

I've been slowly plugging away at going through the cards and I want to show a few of them here today. 

The Topps 205 cards were interesting when they came out. I don't see many of them, but here I have both versions of the Vlad card.. Clear logo and white logo.. 

A Double Jays sticker! Tony Fernandez on the sticker part, and Jesse Barfield on the back. 

I always love getting Larry Walker cards, especially when they're of his Expos years

Remember those Credit Card style cards they made in the early 80s? I got a Gold Damaso Garcia now.. 

Two Tyler O'Neill cards.. I'd love to see him on the Jays one of these years

Blink and you'll miss him. 

Dasan Brown. I think this card's rather cool. 

Two Ryu cards. I might have three separate versions, but they can be tough to differentiate.. 

Gallery was an interesting concept. 

Good ol' Mascot! Go Mascot Go!!

It annoys me that they either don't have the rights to, or haven't bothered to get the rights to use Ace's name. 

A shiny Guerrero. I really like the look of this card

I'm not sure if I got the right version of the Green card showing here.. I'll snap a picture of the card itself later and maybe we can compare.. 

Finally a shiny A&G Guerrero. I still have more cards to go through, so there will likely be another post from this pile..

So tell me what you think so far. 

Cards From Johnny

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Recently, Johnny at Johnny's Trading Spot held one of his giveaways. This one had a twist to it though. Rather than going through the photos and selecting individual cards, he was going to randomly select the page of 9 to send to people who joined in. 

Now, I admit there were cards all over that I wanted but couldn't get under this restriction, as I'm sure is the case with others, but I'm not going to complain about the possibility of getting something that fits my collections. 

A couple days ago, the envelope arrived and I took a look at the cards I won in the random draw. Most of these are from magazines from back in the 90s that would insert cards as a bonus. They were slightly thinner and more flimsy than a regular card but they were very cool to receive. 

A couple 1990 Baseball Card Monthly cards featuring Rick Reuschel, David Segui, and Chris Hoiles

A 1992 Baseball Card Magazine card of Jack McDowell.. 

I have a couple cards from this.. 

1991 Sportscards Monthly cards with Sandy Alomar and Jeff Conine

I don't remember the magazine this is from but since I don't collect basketball... It's automatically out there for anyone who'd like it. 

A card that does fit my collection though is this nice 2025 League Leaders card with Vladdy in the middle. 

Finally a Topps Hobby Rip Night card with Randy Johnson. 

Thank you Johnny for the cards! 

So since I rolled the dice and got mostly stuff not in my scope of collections, if someone would like any of these cards (aside from the 25 LL) let me know..