Skins from GForce

On Tuesday 03 April 2012 I received a batch of Washington Redskins cards from a fellow member at TCC who is leaving the hobby for personal spiritual reasons. Gary known as GForce083 on the forums collected Redskins and focused on Jason Campbell especially GUs. He made a tough decision to sell his collection. He says it's been difficult but it is something that he is determined to do. More power to him.

Here is what I purchased from Gary for a grand total of $80. Most of these beauts are for my Redskins PC some of them might eventually find their way to other Redskins team collectors.
1995 Fleer Metal
192 Tom Carter
193 Henry Ellard
194 Darrell Green
195 Brian Mitchell
196 Heath Shuler
1995 Upper Deck SP
105 Henry Ellard
106 Ken Harvey
107 Gus Frerotte
108 Brian Mitchell
109 Terry Allen
110 Heath Shuler
1996 Fleer Metal 121 Brian Mitchell
1996 Fleer Metal Goldfingers 12of12 Michael Westbrook
2005 Donruss Leaf Certified Materials 119 John Riggins (pretty sure I had this already)
2005 Upper Deck NFL Rookie Debut 98 Clinton Portis
2006 Uppder Deck SPX Football 88 Clinton Portis
2010 Panini Threads 273 Perry Riley RC #d 095/250
2007 Leaf Limited Rookie Spotlight 333 LaRon Landry RC Auto black sharpie on sticker #d 04/49

 2007 Leaf Limited Spotlight Rookie Phenoms Auto 333 LaRon Landry RC
RedskinsBlack Sharpie Auto on Sticker #d04/49

(Front and Back)

2009 Absolute Memorabilia Team Quads GU Jerseys 16 Chris Cooley (all maroon)/ Clinton Portis (white/gold w/stitching/maroon-tiny bit)/ Santana Moss (maroon/gold)/ Jason Campbell (maroon stitching/gold stitching/white) #d 19/25

 2009 Absolute Memorabilia Team Quads GU Jerseys

16 Chris Cooley/ Clinton Portis/ Santana Moss/ Jason Campbell #d 19/25

(Front and Back)

2009 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket Auto 188 Marko Mitchell blue sharpie on sticker

 2009 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket Auto

188 Marko Mitchell blue sharpie on sticker

(Front and Back)

2009 Playoff National Treasures 146 Brian Orakpo RC Auto black sharpie on sticker #d 67/99

 2009 Playoff National Treasures

 146 Brian Orakpo RC Auto black sharpie on sticker #d 67/99

(Front and Back)

2011 Panini Playoff National Treasures Ring of Honor Auto 24 Doug Williams blue sharpie on sticker #d 24/50

 2011 Panini Playoff National Treasures Ring of Honor Auto
24 Doug Williams blue sharpie on sticker #d 24/50
(Front and Back)

This Is What Happens When You Get Traded

Wow talk about getting traded all over the place. Here is a case of a player being traded late in the season to a team that moves to another city the next season but he gets traded to a third team before playing in the new city then before he can play for team number three he gets traded again. I'm talking about this player and his card.

1954 Topps Baseball 19 John "Johnny" Joseph Lipon

1954 Topps Baseball 19 Johnny Lipon Orioles/White Sox

(Front and Back)

It wasn't until I looked at this card closely while I was scanning it when I noticed all the crazy team changing. Looking at this card one can get all sort of confused. ON the front Johnny in the main color portrait is shown in a Red Sox hat and in the small black and white action photo he is wearing an Orioles cap. The card states he is with the Orioles and shows the Orioles Team Logo. Now on the back it says he is with the White Sox. It also mentions that he was traded late "last season" (1953) and played only 7 games with the "Browns". It then goes on to say he was traded to the White Sox in February of 1954. So how does ONE player go to FOUR different teams within one year? Wait I just did some researching and it is even stranger. He never played for the White Sox before playing a single game for them he was traded to the Cincinnati Redlegs (Reds).

So to try to get things straight: John Lipon was playing with the Red Sox when he was traded to the St. Louis Browns in 1963 late in the season. The Browns would move to Baltimore and become the Orioles in 1954, however, Johnny was traded in February of 1954 to The White Sox before playing in Baltimore. The White Sox then traded him to the Cincinnati Redlegs before he even played a game for them. The card doesn't say so, but my research shows he only played one game for Cincinnati then got sent down to the minors where he played a few more years and then started coaching. So as Nick at Dime Boxes would say this is a "Zero-Year" Card. Well sort of he never played for the Orioles but did play for the franchise that moved and became the Orioles, and he never played for the team he is listed with White Sox on the back.

Vintage War and Aviation Cards a pair

Back in March (Tuesday 27 March 2012) I got a bunch of cards mostly baseball some of which I will eventually talk about here, but I thought I'd get these two Non-Sport cards out of the way. I got them from Sportlots for 25¢ plus whatever the shipping was. It was two separate one card auctions from the same seller. The subject of War isn't too fun, but the images of these two cards are pretty cool.

I don't know much about the sets these are from, but this first one is from 1939 so the war had just begun, but not for the US yet where the set was printed. They seem to be pretty rare and auctions at real auction houses usually have full sets going for outrageous prices.

1939 Gum Inc. "World In Arms" 2 British Death-dealing Balloon Barrage

(Front and Back)

This next card is from 1952 well after the war years. It is from the very popular Wings set by Topps. They have the feel of military issued training flash cards, but I don't think they had ever been used as such. The plane featured is the F4U Corsair a plane that I first saw and heard about in the mid 1970s largely in part from the television show Baa Baa Black Sheep later renamed Black Sheep Squadron for syndication starring Robert Conrad as Maj. Greg "Pappy" Boyington who was a real World War II veteran/hero. The show featured other actors who went on to later fame such as John Larroquette (Night Court). The real Pappy Boyington did a walk-on role as a General for the show. The show got a lot of flack because of the way it depicted Boyington's men as misfits and that it was historically inaccurate.

1952 Topps Wings 34 - F4U Corsair

(Front and Back)

2011 Topps Baseball Mailday 06 April 2012

On Friday 06 April 2012 I from sportlots I got a lot of 50 Topps 2011 Baseball cards. They smelled kinda smoky at first UGH, they seem OK now. Here is the list of what I got:

3 Jon Lester Red Sox
17 Mark Ellis Athletics
18 Kevin Millwood Orioles
44 Martin Prado Braves
47 Kevin Correia Padres
62 Jonathan Papelbon Red Sox
63 Edinson VVolquez Reds
66 R.A. Dickey Mets
74 Tyler Clippard Nationals
84 Roger Bernadina Nationals
91 Lucas May RC Royals
96 Zach Duke Pirates
98 Bronson Arroyo Reds
99 Ben Revere RC Twins
331 Carlos Guillen Tigers
348 Landon Powell Athletics
362 Doug Fister Mariners
381 Michael Gonzalez Orioles
384 Nick Hundley Padres
388 Kenley Jansen Dodgers
396 Adam Jones Orioles
429 Skip Schumaker Cardinals
438 Ryan Theriot Cardinals
483 Justin Smoak Mariners
509 Michael Bourn Astros
530 Felix Hernandez Mariners
565 Mark Teahen White Sox
572 Brad Haupe Padres
577 Mike Fontenot Giants
617 Joel Zumaya Tigers
626 Dan Haren Angels
641 Travis Wood Reds
646 Los Angeles Dodgers Team Leaders
647 Jeanmar Gomez Indians
US15 Aaron Heilman Diamondbacks
US40 Brian Fuentes Athletics
US59 Matt Kemp AS Dodgers
US71 Jeff Francis Royals
US80 Jose Bautista AS Blue Jays
US90 James Russell Cubs
US94 Ryan Vogelsong Giants
US138 Michael Young AS Rangers
US139 Rafael Soriano Yankees
US202 Derrek Lee Pirates
US240 Blake Tekotte RC Padres
US248 Octavio Dotel Cardinals
US257 Erik Bedard Red Sox
US269 Sergio Santos White Sox
US279 Trevor Plouffe Twins
US325 Jason Giambi Rockies

2011 Topps Baseball 384 Nick Hundley Padres

(Front and Back)

2011 Topps Baseball 396 Adam Jones Orioles

(Front and Back)

Note: The two Nationals cards I scanned for the quartet of cards at the beginning of this post (cards 74 Tyler Clippard and 84 Roger Bernadina) I will show on my other card blog Curly W Cards soon.

A and G minis from Nick's Dime Box

On Saturday 07 April 2012 as previously mentioned briefly in this post (so this is sort of a repeat/recap), I received a package of 2011 Allen & Ginter Minis from Nick at Dime Boxes. I had sent him about 50 Vladimir Guerrero cards from Vlad's Expos years (a "Vlading" as it were it in reference to "Bipping" except I didn't send multiple duplicates, I think I only sent one dupe) and in the brotherly Trading Card Universe way he returned in kind, minus the Bipping er Vlad-ing by sending me 20 A&G Minis. I'll repeat the list of goodies and then highlight a few of them front and back.

Regular backs
27 Dillon Gee Mets
51 Jimmy Rollins Phillies
36 Eric Sogard A's
88 David Ortiz Red Sox
184 Pedro Alvarez Pirates
190 Sue Bird "Champion Women's Basketball Guard" WNBA Seattle Storm
195 Tommy Hanson Braves
201 Andrew Romine Angels
236 B.J. Upton Rays
259 Tim Hudson Braves
302 John Buck Marlins
322 Trevor Cahill A's
349 Yuniesky Betancourt Brewers

A&G Backs
44 Ozzie Martinez Marlins
113 Miguel Montero Diamondbacks
117 Jonathan Sanchez Giants
132 Colby Rasmus Cardinals
222 James Shields Rays
224 Jason Kubel Twins
288 Rickie Weeks Brewers

 All except one of these cards were of baseball players it is still a sports card not one of the Non-Sports cards. It is Sue Bird of the WNBA team Seattle Storm and according to the title on her card "Champion Women's Basketball Guard". I don't know much about women's basketball I've rarely watched even a few minutes of it as I'm not much into basketball but I'd rather see 10 women running back and forth on a wooden floor than 10 sweaty giant men.

 2011 Allen & Ginter's Mini 190 Sue Bird WNBA Seattle Storm

Champion Women's Basketball Guard

(Front and Back)

This next card I thought it was weird that a baseball player was carrying a football helmet. I didn't think about the fact that it could be and is his catcher's mask/helmet. D'uh.

2011 Allen & Ginter's Mini 302 John Buck Marlins

(Front and Back)

Now here is one one of the 7 A&G backs from this batch. I chose it because I wanted to at least show one of the A&G backs.

2011 Allen & Ginter's Mini 224 Jason Kubel Twins A&G Back

(Front and Back)

Texas Bikini Team 1995 Edition

This is my second attempt at this post the first one the automatic html was acting weird and I deleted a formatting line resulting in text getting printed over anything that followed it in the post so that the image that followed the text had text overtop of the image. UGH. I hate that you can't go back and reinsert something you just deleted while working within the post creating section. Anyway enough of my technology impairments. You just wanna see necked women, well not quite necked this is a PG Rated Blog.

On Monday 02 April 2012 I got several packages from various sources one was an Ebay auction for a small set of 9 cards. I got the set for $12.69 + 86¢ I went into a little detail about the auction with a brief description of the set (actually it was briefer than the bikinis that are shown) in my Maildays 01-07 April post. Now onto the set:

Texas Bikini Team 1995 Edition

Intro Set by Image 2000

This little Nine card set was released in 1995 by Image 2000 is titled as an "Intro Set", I'm not sure but I think this is the only set that was made of this potential series. As you can see the set contains 1 title card and 8 cards with bikini models on them.

The card set is designed to be placed in a 9 pocket binder sleeve page in numerical order, because as you see all the backs have puzzle pieces that make up a nine card image (The model shown is Hope from card number 3).

Card Puzzle Backs:

Top Row: 3, 2, 1 Middle Row: 6, 5, 4 Bottom Row: 9, 8, 7

The backs of the cards don't quite align up if you place them flush against each other, they are cut to allow a tiny border space for placing and displaying in a binder as I said above. If they were framed and mounted with perfect alignment the image would look like you are viewing Ms. Hope through a window. My scan of the backs isn't perfect but its close maybe I should have tried scanning it in a binder page.

Now onto the individual cards. The cards are numbered with an "I-" preceding the card number (except for card number 5 the title card and middle puzzle piece card) the "I" being for "Intro" or maybe "Inaugural" but more likely "Intro". The numbers are in the white corner of a red, white and blue Texas shaped logo with the model's name in white at the bottom of the logo. All these Midwest Ladies are modeling the same red, white and blue bikini honoring the Texas State Flag. There are 8 models and 5 are wearing a single gun holster accessory, 2 of them are holding the gun, 1 is holding a coil of rope, 3 are wearing white cowboy hats, 3 have a cape/jacket/blanket wrapped draped on them and 1 is shown wearing white cowboy boots I'm guessing all of them are actually wearing the boots but you can't see most of them below their knees.

I-1

Niki

I-2

Crystal

I-3

Hope

I-4

Staci

Unnumbered (I-5)

Title Card/Center Puzzle Piece Card

I-6

Isabella

I-7

Joyce

I-8

Malise

I-9

Kim

Watts in a Name? Football Glass

Every once in a while I run across a name that strikes me as being funny, ironic or sometimes unfortunate. From time to time I will try to show some of the cards I have with these names that stand out.

This first card I'll mention I got first because of the name and second because I need to complete this particular set that I am leagues away from completing. I got this card from Ebay for 99¢ + $3.00 shipping

CHIP GLASS

1973 Topps Football - 203 Chip Glass RC Browns

(Front and Back)

This is Chip's Rookie Card, and apparently his only card. Guess Topps doesn't like to pick up broken glass off the floor? Chip made his NFL Debut in 1969 playing for the Cleveland Browns he was traded to the New York Giants in 1974 his last season. According to the back of his card he makes spectacular catches and in 1970 caught a 78 yarder vs. The Houston Oilers.  At the time it was the Browns longest pass. The cartoon is interesting in that it is totally unrelated to the player featured or his team. That is typical for Topps it seems. It has a trivia question about which stadium the New Orleans Saints play in A: The Sugar Bowl. The Superdome was under construction as it opened 2 years later in 1975.

Mr. Glass reminds me of commedian/actor Bruce Mahler who is best known for being in the Police Academy Movies as Sgt. Doug Fackler.

Bruce Mahler as Sgt. Doug Fackler in Police Acedemy 2: Their First Assignment 1985 Warner Bros.

I remember Bruce from the sketch comedy show Fridays, which was ABCs attempt at a Saturday Night Live. It only lasted 3 seasons from 1980-1982, I thought it barely lasted one.

Edit: Yes I borrowed this idea from another blog. That one when they do make funny name posts I think they concentrate on the more unfortunate ones

Mailday Monday 16 April 2012

Playing Mailday Catch-Up! FINAL Post for today. No Scans yet. This time too much stuff at one time. ACK.

ON Monday 16 April 2012 I got 1 Ebay card and a package that contained my haul from the TCC March Baseball Boxbreakers Group break.

My card from Ebay was a 2010-11 Upper Deck Victory Hockey 242 Nick Johnson RC Penguins RED Parallel (SP) I got it for $4.99 + $2.00 shipping. I already have the regular version and I have a Gold parallel version incoming.

Now onto the Group Break from Abel's (5toosweet) Baseball Boxbusters March Group Break (which was actually busted in early April). I had the Nationals, Orioles (my two regular teams) and then picked up the Rockies and Blue Jays to help fill the break. The product busted was: 2011 Triple Threads
2010 Bowman Platinum
2011 Allen & Ginter
2011 Topps Tier 1
2012 Topps Heritage (15 packs)

2011 Allen & Ginter
BASE:
1 Carlos Gonzalez Rockies
4 Jhoulys Chacin Rockies
64 Ricky Romero Blue Jays
73 Brandon Morrow Blue Jays
78 Luke Scott Orioles
97 Zach Britton RC Orioles
105 Ubaldo Jimenez Rockies
123 Rajai Davis Blue Jays
150 Troy Tulowitzki Rockies (cool landscaped sliding into home image)
167 Adam LaRoche Nationals
186 Yunel Escobar Blue Jays
189 Dexter Fowler Rockies
193 Jorge De La Rosa Rockies
228 Brandon Snyder RC Orioles
234 Chrissie Wellington - Champion Triathlete and Iron Man (Woman) World Record Holder
239 Brett Myers Astros (must have been unclaimed team)
278 Travis Snider Blue Jays
Ascent Of Man:
AOM 12 Reptiles (Hylonmus) looks like a gecko is shown
AOM 23 Homo Erectus
Baseball Highlight Sketches: BHS-18 Stephen Strasburg Nationals - Dazzling Debut
Code Symbol Card: NNO four "leaf clover" design front, 3 column PI sign on back
Hometown Heroes HH57 Jordan Zimmermann Nationals
Minds That Made The Future: MMF34 Archimedes
MINIs:
Base:
314 Nick Markakis Orioles
317 Brian Matusz Orioles
A&G Back: 281 Adam Lind Blue Jays
Black Border: 6 Micky Ward - Champion Boxer & Subject of The Fighter
Animals In Peril: AP19 Tasmanian Devil
World's Most Mysterious Figures: WMF10 Captain Charles Johnson

2012 Topps Heritage:
4 AL Home Run Leaders - Top 6 players Bautista, Granderson, Teixeira (#3 but looks like #1 on front w/his floating head center) Reynolds, Beltre and Kinsler
66 Sergio Santos Blue Jays
69 Michael Morse Nationals BEAST
77 J.B. Shuck Astros
88 J.J. Hardy Orioles
108 Vladimir Guerrero Orioles
118 A.J. Pierzynski White Sox (always the unclaimed team)
135 - 2012 Rookie Stars Chris Parmelee Twins, Steve Lombardozzi Nationals, Pedro Florimon Jr. Twins, Jordan Pacheco Rockies
171 Jordan Zimmerman Nationals
217 Dexter Fowler Rockies
243 Jordan Pacheco RC Rockies
291 Stephen Strasburg Nationals
326 Ramon Hernandez Rockies
332 Jorge De La Rosa Rockies
351 Danny Espinosa Nationals 2011 AS-Rookie Cup
389 Drew Pomeranz RC Rockies
402 Davey Johnson MGR Nationals
471 Yunel Escobar Blue Jays
494 Ryan Zimmerman Nationals
HP65 Gio Gonzalez Nationals Chrome Parallel #d0546/1963

2010 Bowman Platinum
1 Stephen Strasburg RC Nationals
19 Ubaldo Jimenez Rockies
26 Troy Tulowitzki Rockies
31 Brian Matusz RC Orioles
34 J.P. Arencibia RC Blue Jays
41 Josh Bell RC Orioles
54 Adam Jones Orioles
64 Adam Dunn Nationals
69 Dayan Viciedo RC White Sox
84 Vernon Wells Blue Jays
87 Ryan Zimmerman Nationals
88 Nick Markakis Orioles
99 Wilson Ramos RC Nationals
PP7 Zach Britton Orioles
PP8 Adeiny Hechavarria Blue Jays
PP14 Kyle Drabek Blue Jays
PP23 J.D. Martinez Astros
PP34 Jason Esposito Team USA - With Delmarva Shorebirds (Orioles)
PP46 Noe Ramirez Team USA Chrome Parallel #d561/999 w/Lowell Spinners (Red Sox)
Autograph Relic Card PAR-PO Peter O'Brien Colegiate National Team GREEN - blue sharpie on sticker 2-color swatch black/white #d180/199 Drafted by Rockies in 2011 but didn't sign playing College w/Miami Hurricanes

2011 Topps Teir One 61 Troy Tulowitzki Rockies Gold? Parallel #d196/199

2011 Topps Triple Threads Unity Relic Card? TTUS-137 Eddie Murray GU all gray some fraying at seams? Ruby Red? #d12/36 (can't find this exact numbering on online lists)

Mailday Saturday 14 April 2012

Mailday Catch-up. NO Scans yet. Lets see got an Ebay order in (actually it was 3 separate ones but all the same seller) and technically it came earlier in the week with the orange pick-up slip I got The 132 card Update sets for:
1987 Topps
1989 Fleer
1990 Topps

Plus got a box of 1980s - 2012 mixed lot cards from a member over at the Sports Card Forum. I paid $13. There were about 250 (I counted 249) cards. Shipping for the box was $5.35 so that was $7.65 for an unsorted lot of commons. Actually they were pretty good it was a nice mix. Only one card had some damage its top left corner was torn, the rest were NMT as one would expect. There is some trade fodder in there, some will end up being PC.

 Playing Mailday Catchup: Next update in 1 hour.

Mailday Wednesday 11 April 2012

Playing catch-up with my maildays. No scans right now. Later when I mention this Team Set.
Got two Ebay packages. Still waiting on a sportlots package that was paid for back on 22 March (all but this one package has arrived, I think the guy might be from Canada and he may have taken time to fill/ship the order, hence the delay) Anyway chronologically I got:

1975 Topps 208 MVPs 1970 Boog Powell Orioles and Johnny Bench Reds

1989 O-Pee-Chee Baltimore Orioles
14 Tom Niedenfuer
22 Billy Ripken
98 Larry Sheets
148 Eddie Murray
161 Brady Anderson
192 Ken Gerhart
124 Jim Traber
213 Rene Gonzales
231 Dave Schmidt
250 Cal Ripken
309 Terry Kennedy
417 Pete Stanicek
352 Rick Schu

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