Free Stuff Friday # 17 a Mini Hiccup

Real Talk! The post office that serves my Zip Code is out of commission, and may or may not have had fire damage in the wake of demonstrations this week. No mail has been delivered the last few days as the USPS is taking the necessary step to ensure the safety of their employees and of customers. Right now, the best case scenario is that deliveries could begin again next week. I say all this to temper expectations, I do not plan on leaving my home at all this weekend. Depending on how long we have no safe passage to the post office, it's possible that I could skip FSF next week.

But this week it is still on. I will make stacks for anyone claiming cards and I will send out packages / PWEs when I can safely do it. 

parallels!

Football!

Hockey

Basketball - just found those relatively new NBA Hoops cards, didn't even know I had them. 

For the mini collection, how about a collection of minis? The bottom row are all A&G back variations. Palmer on the top row is a variation as well, I will say it is "black border" but I don't actually know. 

So, claim one or claim them all!

Send me an address if I don't have one - and I'll hopefully be able to send some cards next week. 

Non baseball Baseball cards- For Trade!

I've decided to put non-baseball Allen & Ginter up for grabs/dibs/trade. Claim as many as you like, send me something in return, don't worry about book value or anything like that, I haven't looked these up, I don't think there's anything Earth-shaking anyway.

Top 2 are inserts, the rest are base cards

Everything above is from the 2011 A&G set.

Minis!

2013 for the first three, 2014 for the next four, 2014 Panini Golden Age William Carrier, the rest are all from the 2011 set.

Here are the backs of the minis - the two Phillies have the A&G backs.

More Fun From the Card Shop

So this past weekend I found a new(-ish, to me.) Card Shop, where I picked up a couple packs of Update and a random mix of other things:

I have to monitor my tone of voice when I say "Show me All your Kennys Vargas!" so I don't sound like a crazy person / stick up artist. This was the only one they had that I didn't.

The shop had a table full of random sets from the 80s and early 90s - if you want that hard to forget 1991 Donruss set or a 1988 Topps, they've got you covered. I was drawn to the oddball sets, and Revco was exactly what the doctor ordered.

There were some monster boxes (5 column long box style) of Twins and Twins related players, this was the one card that caught my eye.

I am really skeptical of the autographs I found in this box, these two seemed close enough to legit, and I have no plans to re-sell them. There was a Steve Garvey that I picked up as well, it doesn't look remotely right to me at all, but I will probably ask for GCRL's expert opinion on it at some point.

Back to some oddballs - The Twins teamed up with local law enforcement to release this set several years in a row (maybe they still do?). I found it, uh, interesting that each player has a different crime prevention tip, and for Delmon Young they just were like... "You know what? Better just put the T.V. schedule on that card"

Best of all, they had some oddball supplies as well! Finally I can put these minis in a binder! I will definitely be making a return trip to the shop, there was a big display case of vintage cards that I completely avoided this time around.

Trade Bait: New(er) stuff!

Hello cats and kittens, let's talk trades.

I have sent out a few packages to the good folks that have contacted me so far. I'm adding this post to show a few items that might fit someone's specialty needs from the new 2015 Topps and some other recent issues.

Here are some scans of 2015 Topps that are available to a good home in trade:

Here are some parallels from the recent past:

Minis!

Some random relics/autos:

I foolishly sold off a box filled with 2014 Topps Heritage / Topps Archives / Donruss singles to a vendor at a card show in December because I thought I would be stuck with the cards forever! Now I wish I still had that box because I just know there would so things I could trade in there. Ah well, Live and learn!

I realized that scanning everything was going to take forever, so there's just a small taste and a random sampling.

Interested in anything scanned above? Interested in trading in General? Send me a message using the handy contact form on the right of my blog, or a comment with a way to contact you below. I'll update this post as things are claimed. I'll make new posts for new trade bait items.