Cheers! TTM Season, Card Show, Breaks, Trades

CHEERS!

I remember the show Cheers as a kid but was a little young to have actually watched it. My life is boring enough now that I started watching the show from the beginning and it is terrific. The picture above shows a cryptic message that a quick google search results in a strange explanation. According to whatever the hell I read; a teacher in Ohio was disappointed when Cheers was going to be cancelled around its 3rd season. Apparently this guy successfully rallied fans of the show via a radio station and someone put this message up in an episode to thank him. I don't know if any of this is the truth but I am hoping, for me, its a sign from above that the Tigers are in it this year.

I will say it now because it doesn't fit in anywhere else, to anyone waiting on a package from me for whatever reason; I am without a vehicle until next week. I am hoping to hit the post office Friday or Saturday to get rid of this pile ASAP. This includes winnings, trades, or whatever else I have addressed and laying around.

TTM Season in Full Swing!

I have sent out 16 TTM auto requests to spring training this week. My brother is getting into TTM autos so I created a kind of game for us. We are both sending out 5 requests for each other but not telling each other who they are. It will be cool if any come back because I don't know who he chose for me. I tried to choose some 99% success signers for him. Here is a list of the guys I sent to for myself:

Alex Faedo, Tanner Roark, Chris Bosio, Ron Gardenhire, Brent Honeywell, Bartolo Colon, Whit Merrifield, Grayson Greiner, Jeimer Candelario, Hunter Strickland, Leonys Martin, and Aaron Slegers.

Free Box Breaks?!

If you aren't already, go right now and follow The Iron Lion Breakers on facebook! One of my favorite bloggers The Daily Dimwit posted about being a part of a new online breaker so I checked them out and gave them a follow. Recently, they have been doing FREE breaks! I thought it was a joke at first but I have been a part of three so far. I haven't had any big hits and told them to keep what I have hit for giveaways because I feel bad knowing how crappy shipping is. It is a ton of fun to be in a break, especially a free one. What a way to work out the kinks and gain some customers quickly. I very much recommend checking them out. I can't wait until Heritage and Gypsy Queen come out this year to have them break some boxes for me.

You want to talk about legit? This card was pulled tonight and given away; FREE!

What's In Papa Jack's Box?

Well there are so many boxes now I won't ever run out of stuff to post from Papa Jack. Tonight I have a handful of stuff for y'all to check out. This stuff all came from my most recent gifts. There are some sweet stamp sets that are super interesting if you read the COA from the Babe Ruth ones.

I love breakfast sausage and Cecil Fielder! This cello pack is intact and amazing.

Card Show in the Snow!

The weather was terrible this last week, dumping over a foot of snow around my area. I was still able to slide into the local card show. I was looking for one card. I will get to that in my next section. I did not find it. I did however spend all my time/money on a nickel box, dime box, quarter box and a few stragglers. I would like to warn you; even if you see a nickel box, always spend higher first and work your way down. I always end up spending most of my funds on the cheapest boxes and then finding hot quarter boxes and I already have no room left to carry cards or have no money left. Buy the expensive first and work your way down. The nickel and dime boxes I hit last month were refilled! What I am posting here is unfortunately not even 0.5% of what I took home but I have already sorted much of it into boxes.

Two Orioles Press Proofs

Random 5 cent Auto. He has some Detroit Tiger ties for sure. Ullger Wiki Page

I fill all my pockets with cases and sport a fancy fanny pack and still run out of room for loose cards.

Mr. Big Shot

10 cents to add another Fidrych to the PC!

I can't pass up #'ed cards for a nickel. No matter who the player or sport.

#'ed /250!

#'ed /500! Now I may loose a bunch of followers for saying I have never been a Seinfeld fan but I just am not. This card is available.

10 cents? Does this guy even look at these cards before dumping them for a dime?!

Now this is a crazy card. Cost me a quarter but I had never seen anything like it before. Of course I forgot to scan the back but it says its for promotional use only.

Picked up some decent Bregman RC's for $1 a piece.

I know everyone is chasing the '83 reprints this year but these are the real deal.

Fergie buy back.

I found a bunch of the "black" Stadium Club cards for 10 cents a piece.

I have already found a new suitor for this card.

Can't pass up a memorabilia card from a sure HOFer even if its not in his most memorable team.

 

Oh yeah I almost forgot I snagged this on ebay for .99!

 

Alright, Where Is It?

I need this card (above). Aaron Slegers Topps 2018 #277. Nobody at the card show had one. Don't make me buy it off ebay people. I am offering your choice of the following cards to anyone who is willing to send me a Slegers PWE in time for me to send it to him at spring training. Your choice of any of these four cards sent to you PWE for Slegers in return. The Moncada is a rainbow foil. Somebody hook me up! AJ aka THE LOST COLLECTOR hath hooked me up. Thanks!

GIVEAWAY WINNERS! plus Rite Aid $4.99 repack "Jumbo Box" break

GIVEAWAY CONTEST WINNERS!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest. Seriously, I have been jealous for a long time of the cool blog names out there and am so happy you all have helped me be a little more hip. I will unveil the new name on my 100th post and it will be some sort of Scribbled Ink. I have to check availability of such things.
Meanwhile, here is a list of blog and email winners. JediJeff at 2X3 Heroes wins the Grand Prize at random and everyone else will receive a sweet prize pack too. I am doing my best to track down everyone's shipping addresses but if you see this post and haven't heard from me directly, please shoot me an email with your current address at dionne.tribsports at gmail.

1. 2x3 Heroes
2. The Angels in Order
3. Dan I.
4. Wrigley Field Roster Jenga
5. Diamond Jesters
6. Arpsmith's Sportscard Obsession
7. Kurt S.
8. Mike V.
9. The Lost Collector

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RITE AID $4.99 "Jumbo Box" Break

I had to hit the Rite Aid down the road from my house for some essentials. Now, we are a CVS household but 5pm in my neck of the woods takes you 2 hours to move 2 miles in rush hour traffic so Rite Aid was the only option. It worked out though because unlike my local CVS, this store had some cards. These repack boxes are $5ish and boast 1 in 4 contain a "hit." I could see it was loose cards and one pack in side. I am not sure if I would be able to see the hit but that could be why I didn't get one in the box I grabbed. It was a good mix of 80s - modern cards. I would assume someone out there busts a ton of 2011 Topps to find the Trout RCs and tosses everything else at these repack boxes since I always get a handfull of 2011 Topps. There was some nice 1989 Topps Tiffany cards in this box which was cool. Here are the highlights:

The Ichiro was the front card in the box. The Jeter was in there loose.

Parrish and Jefferies Topps Tiffany.

Some Tig's and some semi-vintage.

Apparently somebody's Yankee team set got broken up.

THE PROBLEM WITH JUNK WAX IS...box break 1993 Donruss

The Problem with Junk Wax is: The Sticky-ickies! 

I consider 1993 Junk Wax era, and I love it!

Now,  I don't know when the "junk wax" era starts and ends exactly. I consider it on a case by case basis and 1993 Donruss would fall into that category for me. I can tell you one of the biggest problems I find with these cards is not the lack of value or of what we would consider hits in today's packs. The problem is a card illness I call the sticky-ickies. The sticky-ickies is a title my 2 year old son helped me come up with for literal bricks of cards that can't be separated cleanly. I recently found a good heap of cards at garage sales for good prices and also bought a sealed case of 1993 Donruss Series One at a card show. Half of the garage sale cards went straight to the trash as one solid hunk of junk wax and even in the sealed case, some of the cards I was looking forward to most were stuck together, ruining the surface of the card. In either case its an all out game of chance as to whether or not they have been stored decently. In both cases with my recent buys they were stored somewhere probably damp and also hot, this is Michigan for God's sake. It can be 30 degrees Tuesday and 88 Wednesday. Not ideal for cars, houses, and baseball cards. I am sure the sticky-ickies is not just a junk wax era cancer and that our modern cards will probably form the same issues when not stored carefully. If anybody knows cures for this issue please enlighten me! I think if this box of Donruss had been left in such heat and pressure much longer it may have become a diamond.

Lets Open this Gem!

The cards were pretty basic and the photography was too. There were a few inserts to chase in this set and some say you can find an "elite" numbered card in these boxes but I may as well look for bigfoot. Here are the stars of the time:

The Canseco and Martinez surfaces were ruined by the sticky-ickies. Some of these guys weren't stars quite yet. Check out the Buccs uni on Zane Smith. Wish I would have pulled the case Nolan Ryan and Cecil Fielder but I already have them anyway.

Let's see some inserts:

Diamond Kings as beautiful as ever. And two of my fav's!

Spirit of the Game front and back. Two fav's here too with Fielder and Alomar.

I had a lot of dupes but these Bud Black cards came in the same pack. I ended up with 7 or 8 Biggio base cards too.

Rookies! The meat and potatoes of Junk Wax boxes:

Some real studs debuted their RCs in 1993. I remember chasing the Piazza and Salmon from this set. I pulled 2 Piazza and 2 Boone from this box.