Mail Day CaptKirk's Mail Bag

[captkirk42]

On Saturday 26 Apr 2014: I got a single package a kind of big one since it was a hug lot of cards from sportlots for .025¢ +$8 shipping I got a box of aprox. 410 (I counted about 411) Orioles mostly late 80s and early 90s. The oldest ones were from 1981 and the newest one was a 2003. Not many Super Stars but there were a few Eddie Murrays (just one I think with it's dupe), a Cal Ripken (fleer 97?) and a Jim Palmer (K-Mart AS got it already). I haven't sorted to confirm everything yet.

 

[redwing40]

Nice finds Kirk!

 

[captkirk42]

Since I PROcrastinated about my recent maildays mostly because of being too tired or not feeling like it because I'm Middle-Aged Man.

ON Monday 28 Apr 2014: I got my goodies from the April TCC Hockey Group Box Break: My Standard Teams (Owned,Draft then Random Bonus team - the final two unclaimed teams are always random) Capitals, Hurricanes, Coyotes/Old Jets

2011-12 Pinnacle
8 Alex Ovechkin Caps
52 Mike Green Caps
53 Jeff Skinner Hurricanes
56 Nicklas Backstrom Caps
59 Tomas Vokoun Caps
62 Michal Neuvirth Caps
112 Eric Staal Hurricanes
121 Brooks Laich Caps
128 Alexander Semin Caps
167 Anthony Stewart Hurricanes
169 Cam Ward Hurricanes
170 Ray Whitney Coyotes
178 Tuomo Ruutu Hurricanes
191 Brandon Sutter Hurricanes
192 Radim Vrbata Coyotes
200 Kyle Turris Coyotes
228 Mike Smith Coyotes
238 Keith Yandle Coyotes
245 Raffi Torres Coyotes

2012-13 Upper Deck Series 2
145 Radim Vrbata Coyotes
188 Braden Holtby Caps

2013-14 UD Series 2
294 Radim Vrbata Coyotes
295 Antoine Vermette Coyotes
387 Tuomo Ruutu Hurricanes
388 Eric Staal Hurricanes
389 Ron Hansey Hurricanes
390 Nathan Gerbe Hurricanes
391 Cam Ward Hurricanes
393 Joel Ward Caps
394 Jason Chimera Caps
395 Alex Ovechkin Caps
396 Mike Green Caps
397 Eric Fehr Caps
398 Mikhail Graboyski Caps
399 Marcus Johansson Caps
High Gloss Insert 390 Nathan Gerbe Hurricanes 9/10

2013-14 Decade 90s
48 Dave Ellett Old Jets?
175 Keith Tkachuk 1990 Draft Pick Jets
Hit On Card Autograph black sharpie A-KT Keith Thachuk Jets

2010-11 Panini Dominion
Hit Private Signings Auto LS Lee Stempniak Coyotes on-card blue sharpie

Next: On Thursday 01 May 2014: I got my 4 card (well 4 item) order from COMC All Curly W Cards (Meaning Nationals and Senators I'll blog about them on my Curly W Cards Blog) the breakdown is 4 "cards", well 3 cards and 1 coin, 2 are vintage 2 are 2000s, 2 are Senators and 2 Nationals, 1 card is an on-sticker auto and there are only 3 different players. Shipping was $3 I think I was double charged for shipping because 1) I ordered the cards on two separate occasions (2 one day then 2 the next day or later the first day) and then I waited almost a week before requesting them to be shipped. Oh well.

The cards in reverse Chronological order:
2008 Upper Deck: Inkredible On Sticker Auto INK-RC Ryan Church Nationals blue sharpie. The most expensive card of the lot at $4.25

2006 Bowman Chrome Blue Refractor 71 Ryan Church Nationals 020/150 $1.00

1950 Bowman 160 Mickey Harris Senators $2.05

The Non-Card:
1971 Topps Coin 46 Ed Brinkman Senators $1.25

Finally on Friday 02 May 2014: I got one lone card from an Ebay auction for $3.33 + $1.95 shipping I card I should have already had and thought I did at one time 1968 Topps 320 Frank Howard Senators (off-center toward top almost miscut) The seller sent in PWE and included a cute note on the paper the card toploader was white masking taped to: "Thank you Capt. Kirk Enjoy! Live Long + Prosper!

"

 

[redwing40]

Nice pulls Kirk, still cant believe you got a UD High Gloss Insert 390 Nathan Gerbe Hurricanes 9/10, they are so rare to pull, Congrats!

 

[captkirk42]

On Monday 05 May 2014: Got some stuff from two Ebay auctions from the same dealer both were 99¢ shipping was $3.24

2005 Topps Turkey Red White Border 154 Rafael Palmeiro Orioles

2003 Topps Bazooka Baseball 10 base cards 5 minis = 15 cards total. All number 7 Bazooka Joe being a Bandwagon fan wearing a t-shirt with a team logo. They made one for each of the 30 teams in the league at the time and one with the Bazooka Gum logo. A mini parallel and a silver parallel were made.

Regular Base: Diamonbacks, Braves, Cubs, Indians, Dodgers, Brewers, Athletics, Rangers, Blue Jays, Angels
Minis: Bazooka Logo, Orioles, Reds, Twins, Athletics

 

[captkirk42]

On Monday 12 May 2014: Got a medium to large sized mail day of 8 packages/envelopes 3 from Ebay and the rest from Sportlots.

Laides First: Ebay Package #1
From Ebay I got 1994 Colorado Silver Bullets Women's Softball Team Set 9 cards total $13.95 Free Shipping The cards are not numbered:
Melissa Coombres
Julie Croteau
Vivian Holm
Kelly Inouye
Shannon Kimberling
Phil Niekro MGR
Shereen Samonds
Gina Satriano
Stacy Sunny

The Coors brands logos are in Silver Foil on some of the cards and Gold Foil on others there are a 5 different "Brands": Coors Dry, Original Coors, Coors Light, Coors Extra Gold, Coors Cutter

Ebay package #2
1965 Topps Baseball 508b (Small print on front) 7th Series Checklist Cards 507-598 Unmarked $3.90 Free Shipping. Think this is the small print version (large space at bottom between last lines and red border) the difference is difficult to tell unless you have them both side-by-side.

Ebay package #3
1965 Topps Baseball 79a 1st Series Checklist cards 1-88 Unmarked $3.50 + $2.50 Shipping Card 61 line on back is "Cannizzaro" (other version which I already have has "C.Cannizzaro")

Package #4: Sportlots fixed price purchase 5 cards $3.40 Shipping
1965 Topps Baseball
1 AL 1964 Batting Leaders: Tony Oliva Twins, Brooks Robinson Orioles, Elston Howard Yankees .95¢
8 NL 1964 ERA Leaders: Sandy Koufax Dodgers, Don Drysdale Dodgers $3.95
519 Bob Uecker Cardinals $6.00
572 Baltimore Orioles Team Card $4.50
1968 Topps Baseball Game 15 Steve Hargan Reds .50¢

Package #5 Sportlots fixed price .70¢ Shipping
1968 Topps Baseball Game 22 George Scott Red Sox .45¢

Package #6 Sportlots fixed price $1.00 Shipping
1965 Topps Baseball 24 Minnesota Twins Team Card .90¢

Package #7 Sportlots fixed price $1.10 Shipping
1968 Topps Baseball Game
8 Willie Mays Giants $5.75
11 Bill Freehan .50¢

Package #8 Sportlots fixed price .80¢ Shipping
2003 Topps Bazooka Baseball 7 Bazooka Joe Expos .18¢

 

[captkirk42]

This WILL be a long winded post since I have to cover Most of the week. My previous post mentioned the stuff I got on Monday this is the haul for the rest of the week. It was a rare week where I got something in each days mail not just one or two days. So I need to plow through and try to keep my side-comments to the minimum.

Tuesday 13 May 2014:
From Sportlots single card to finish up a small insert/sub-set for the bare minimum of regular common price of .18¢ + only .85¢ shipping I got 2010 Topps Ticket to Topps Town TTT10 Tim Lincecum Giants. That completes the regular Topps Town insert/mini-sub-set now onto the Gold Ticket parallel sub-set.

From Ebay:
First dealer: 2 cards shipping was $2.95
1980-81 Fleer Basketball Team Sticker NoNumber Washington Bullets $1.00
2012 Panini Americana Heroes and Legends: Summer/Winter Olympic Games (Insert sub-set) 22 Lisa Fernandez USA Softball $1.99

Second Dealer: 1986 Provigo Montreal Expos Team Set 28 cards $6.00 Free Shipping. Still in plastic wrap (at least I think it is the original wrap) full 3 card panels 2 player cards plus 1 Provigo store coupon

Wednesday 14 May 2014:
Package 1: sportlots
1965 Topps Baseball 2 cards $2.00 shipping
136 '64 World Series Game 5 "10th Inning Triumph" $1.25
508 -7th Series Checklist cards 507-598 Large print variation. $2.25

Package 2: sportlots 2 cards $2.85 shipping
1977 Topps Baseball 638 Jim Kaat Phillies .25¢
1990 Topps Baseball 8 Record Breaker Cal Ripken Jr. Orioles .25¢

Package 3: My booty from the TCC Baseball Group Break hosted by 5toosweet (Abel) My Team the Nationals plus I got some randomly distributed base cards. Cards are Nationals players unless otherwise mentioned.

2014 Gypsy Queen
9 Nolan Arenado Rockies
52 Jayson Werth
83 Ian Desmond (in Homestead Grays Throwback Uniform)
100 Bryce Harper
101 Doug Fister
110 Anthony Rendon
135 Gio Gonzalez
213 Jordan Zimmermann (in Homestead Grays Throwback Uniform)
Glove Stories GS-BH Bryce Harper
minis
100 Bryce Harper (same pic as base)
135 Gio Gonzalez (same pic as base)
213 Jordan Zimmermann (in regular Nationals Home Uniform)

2014 Topps Heritage Baseball - 1965 Design Style
51 Denard Span
155 Gio Gonzalez
214 Doug Fister
302 Adam Eaton White Sox (in 1970s Throwback Uniform)
351 Adam LaRoche
402 Jayson Werth
469 Ryan Zimmerman

2014 Topps Tribute Baseball
45 Bryce Harper

2014 Topps Museum Collection Baseball
28 Jason Kipnis Indians
95 Gio Gonzalez

Thursday 15 May 2014:
sportlots 3 card package shipping $1.39
1961 Topps Baseball 21 Zorro Versalles Twins .75¢
1964 Topps Baseball
23 Chris Zachary Colts .25¢ (seller called the team "Cold 45s")
494 Al Jackson Mets $1.25

sportlots 1 card package: $3.25 + $2.75 shipping
1976 Topps Baseball 240 Pete Rose Reds

sportlots 1 card: .25¢ + $1.75 shipping
1965 Topps Baseball 37 Fred Gladding Tigers

sportlots 2 cards: both .18¢ + $1.60
1975 Topps Baseball 212 - 1974 MVPs Jeff Burroughs Rangers and Steve Garvey Dodgers
2003 Topps Bazooka Baseball 7 Bazooka Joe Rockies

sportlots 5 cards: $2.50 shipping
1965 Topps Baseball
15 Robin Roberts Orioles $3.00
135 - 1964 World Series Game 4 "Boyer's Grand-Slam" $1.00

1975 Topps Baseball
201 - 1963 MVPs Elston Howard Yankees and Sandy Koufax Dodgers .25¢
210 - 1972 MVPs Rich Allen White Sox and Johnny Bench Reds .50¢

2003 Topps Bazooka Baseball 7 Bazooka Joe Orioles .18¢

sportlots 1 card package: $10.00 + .95¢ shipping
1968 Topps Baseball Game Insert 6 Roberto Clemente Pirates

Ebay package: 1 card $1.49 + $2.49 shipping
1994 Sports Illustrated For Kids 268 Julie Croteau Colorado Silver Bullets

Ebay package: 33 Card/Sticker set $9.00 Free Shipping
1979 Topps NASL Soccer Sticker Set Washington was the Diplomats. The main reason I got the set. I thought about just getting the one sticker for cheaper from another seller but thought why not get the full set at an affordable price?

Friday 16 May 2014:
Sportlots 1 card .25¢ + $3.00 shipping
1981 Fleer Baseball 645 (UnNumbered Error version) Triple Threat Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Larry Bowa Phillies

sportlots 1 card .25¢ + $1.25 Shipping
1967 Topps Baseball 235 AL 1966 Pitching Leaders: Jim Kaat Twins, Denny McLain Tigers, Earl Wilson Tigers (Red Sox cap poorly airbrushed out)

Non card: From my subsription The Wrapper Non-Sport Magazine Issue 283 May 15- July 1 2014: The Rat Patrol 1966 Topps Cover article.

Saturday 17 May 2014:

Sportlots package I've been waiting for a few weeks for from an April 17th order (was shipped out on May 13) 10 cards $3.00 shipping
1962 Topps Baseball 43 Los Angeles Dodgers Team Card $2.25
1972 Topps Baseball 9 card lot Dodgers Cards .25¢ (some of these I already had but got dupes since I needed the others)
25 Bill Singer
63 Duke Sims
114 Bill Buckner
198 Dodgers Rookie Stars: Charlie Hough, Bob O'Brian, Mike Stahler
264 Tommy John
265 Wes Parker
390 Willie Davis
437 Maury Wills
460 Al Downing

Ebay single card package: $1.50 plus .50¢ Shipping
2013 Panini Past and Present Basketball Treads 14 John Wall Wizards

Ebay Single Card: $14.99 + $2.25 shipping:
2005 Upper Deck Reflections: Dual Signature Reflections: FHNJ Frank Howard Senators and Nick Johnson Nationals on-sticker autos blue sharpie RED variation serial #12/99 - Completes the three card rainbow for this one.

Non-Card: From Subcription Non-Sport Update Vol 25 No. 3 June/July 2014 Castle Cryptozoic Seasons 3 and 4 trading cards cover story - enclosed Take along Price Guide has Partridge Family cover.
Bonus cards:
2014 Cryptozoic DC Comics Epic Battles P1
2014 Cryptozoic Castle ABC Seasons 3 and 4 P3
2014 Rittenhouse Star Trek The Original Series P2
2014 Upper Deck Marvel Premier NoNumber Power (with Spider-Man)
2014 Braiiinz Beauty and The Myth P04

 

[Mike]

Wow! That's quite the haul, Kirk, even for a full week. I rarely get more than 2-3 packages a week, and when I do it's usually just 1-2 cards per package. Must be fun opening all those packages, almost like opening a whole pack!

Congrats on completing a rainbow, too. That's always cool.

 

[captkirk42]

Wow! That's quite the haul, Kirk, even for a full week. I rarely get more than 2-3 packages a week, and when I do it's usually just 1-2 cards per package. Must be fun opening all those packages, almost like opening a whole pack!

Congrats on completing a rainbow, too. That's always cool.

Yes it was a big week, both in getting something everyday and also in the amount of stuff. The stuff from the baseball group break that came on Wednesday makes it look larger and the 8 package/envelope Thursday also contributed. I think my biggest single day haul was 10 packages a couple of years ago. Anyway with my apartment shoebox mailbox I can never get anything more than a dozen or so at one time, and I dont' want to press my luck on trying to break that record because I don't want my postal delivery person to cram my box soooooo full I can't open it or get any of the contents out.

 

[captkirk42]

On Monday 19 May 2014:
two sportlots orders
1st package: 2 cards (well 3 there was a bonus card) $2.50 shipping
1965 Topps Baseball 138 - 1964 World Series Game 7 "Gibson Wins Finale" $1.50 - argh the back has a red ink slash across the card number. Sigh.
1972 Topps Baseball 51 Harmon Killebrew Twins .75¢
Bonus Card: 1989 Score Baseball 470 Rex Hudler Expos

2nd package:
1975 Topps Baseball 204 - 1966 MVPs Frank Robinson Orioles Roberto Clemente Pirates .75¢ + $1.75

 

[captkirk42]

On Wednesday 21 May 2014: Not a mailday but got some cards from a Target Shoot/Hunt whatever you wanna call getting cards from Target.

I got the 2014 Topps Baseball National League Team Set (All-Star Team?) 17 cards. Ugh thought it was just the Nationals when I picked it up but it appears to be the NL All-Star Team. Dang Harper being card #1.

Then I got a fairfield repack box, but a box of packs not loose cards. It is one of the 20 pack boxes with 2008 Topps showing can't quite identify the other packs yet, haven't opened it yet. Seems to be 4 or 5 different brands and 3 or 4 packs each.

 

[captkirk42]

Got my goodies today (Tuesday 27 May) from @pwolantern (Ken)'s baseball group break my main bought team Nationals with discounted team Twins

The Booty:
2014 Panini Donruss Baseball:
46 Jayson Werth Nats
54 Ryan Zimmerman Nats
60 Joe Mauer Twins
116 Jordan Zimmerman Nats
124 Stephen Strasburg Nats
143 Bryce Harper Nats
167 Glen Perkins Twins (2)
Power Plus 5 Bryce Harper Nats

2014 Topps Turkey Red Baseball:
64 Bryce Harper Nationals

2013 Topps Tier One: Tier One Autograph Relic
TOAR-RZ Ryan Zimmerman Nationals blue sharpie on-sticker auto w/ a nice 3 color 4 section relic (white, blue stripe, red stripe, white) #72/99

Pic of Zimmerman Auto/Relic on page 5 of this thread link: https://www.sportscardclub.com/threads/pwolanterns-bi-monthly-baseball-break-april-may.29909/page-5

 

[captkirk42]

On Thursday 29 May 2014: I got two packages.

First package was a single card I got from Ebay $4.36 + $3.00 shipping. It was well packaged and the card was in a clear magnetic holder/case. 2008 Topps Allen & Ginters Autograph AGA-AF Andrea Farina World Rock Paper Scissors Champion blue shapie on-card mini in frame.

Second package was cool from a cool colllector Ryan who is currently living in Japan his blog This Card is Cool usually shows off the local Japanese cards he picks up but there are the occasional US Market stuff. Occasionally he has mentioned the Sega Card Gen (other bloggers have mentioned these as well) which is kind of a hybrid. A while back I had sent him a couple of Upper Deck 20th Anniversary cards he needed. In return he sent me some Sega Card Gen cards from my Homie teams that he featured on his blog.

2012 Topps Sega Card Gen Baseball J12-002 Robert Andino Orioles
2013 Topps Sega Card Gen Baseball
J13-007 Wilson Betermit Orioles
J13-008 Jason Hammel Orioles
J13-010 Darren O'Day Orioles
J13-376 Kurt Suzuki Nationals
J13-378 Danny Espinosa Nationals
J13-380 Ryan Zimmerman Nationals
J13-381 Ian Desmond Nationals


Oh I also got the June Auction catalog for Huggins & Scott Auctions.

 

[captkirk42]

Today 31 May 2014: got my booty from the TCZ "Offiicial" Basketball Team Group Break. 2 or 3 years ago I would not be making a post like this, but since I got back into collecting the Bullets (Now Wizards) I figured why not? So my bought team was The Wizards with random draft teams Rockets and Raptors

Here is what I got. (saving my favorite set for last)
2013 Panini Momentum Basketball: Momentous Rookies Autograph: 62 Jonas Valanciunas Raptors blue sharpie sneaky
on-sticker

2013-14 Panini Totally Certified Basketball: A bit flashy/chromelike for my taste but has the raised "stucco" etch type feel (the player's image and some of the design is "raised" etching style)
168 Steve Novak Raptors
185 Patrick Beverley Rockets
235 Robert Covington RC Rockets

2012-13 Panini Crusade Basketball: Quest Autographs Redemption - Redemption card for card 60 Chris Singleton Wizards - requested redemption today I'll see how long it takes. Redemption expires 12DEC14

2011-12 Panini Past & Present Basketball (a retro style set. I love the design)
19 DeMar DeRozan Raptors
87 Hakeem Olajuwon Rockets
104 Andrea Bargnani Raptors
146 Kyle Lowry Rockets
148 Kevin Martin Rockets
153 Nene Wizards - DA MAN! #42 Rocks
163 Luis Scola Rockets
171 John Wall Wizards - Also DA MAN!
190 Mitch Kupchak Bullets
193 Moses Malone Rockets
198 Wes Unseld Bullets LEGEND
Bread for Energy Die-cut (curved corners) Insert: 45 John Wall Wizards
Breakout Insert 25 DeMar DeRozan Raptors
Fireworks Insert 14 John Wall Wizards

 

[cowboy2288]

That's a lot of cards wow!!! I use to be a Bullets fan year's ago when Jeff Malone Moses Malone John Williams was there