Mail Day CaptKirk's Mail Bag

[captkirk42]

Wednesday 07 August 2013:
A single card day. Man this was super well packaged from an Ebay seller no less. (got to mark them as a fave) To some this might seem like a repeat from about a month ago I got my 2nd Genelle Williams as Leena Auto card from Warehouse 13. This one is an earlier one from Season 2. Got it for $9.00 + $3.00 shipping It actually cost the seller $5.60 to ship. It was in one of those document sized priority mail envelopes as the outside envelope then a medium media mailing envelope like the old film development envelopes, then sandwiched between to pieces of card board then an invitation type envelope and finally in the "bonus" pack = the original 6 card pack it came from (or one similar if not the exact one)

2011 Rittenhouse Warehouse 13 Season 2: Autocard NNO Genelle Williams as Leena blue sharpie

 

[captkirk42]

Friday 09 August 2013:
Got one of my White Whales from Ebay. The total delivered cost was $75.00 the White Whale 1982 Topps Traded Baseball 98T Cal Ripken Jr. RC Orioles in NRMT (or pretty darn close to it), HOWEVER that was NOT ALL. They also sent the set box. The auction picture showed the Cal. Card in a hard plastic magnetic case sitting on the box and the auction said the box was included. BUT I still wouldn't pay THAT MUCH for just a Rookie card of one of my fave players and the set box the card came from. Also included was the rest of the set card numbers 1T through 132T (with the Cal card being #98T of course).

So I like to think I got the COMPLETE 1982 Topps Traded Baseball Set for $75.00 including the coveted Cal Ripken Jr. RC. Some people might look at it as paying $75 for the Cal RC and getting the rest of the set for free, but I don't because I adamantly refuse to pay more than $40-$50 for JUST ONE CARD. Even a super vintage RC of one of my fave players or of a legend. Those I might mind you I say might consider getting for more than that, but probably not.

The lowest I've seen the Cal card alone go for (actual completed Ebay sale) was $40. Most of the time it starts at close to $100 or over. According to zistle the average price is $155.13 with a recent low of $10 (Say what? I'd love to have found it for just that). The set also usually starts at over $100. So I got quite the little steal.

 

[captkirk42]

Thursday 15 August 2013:
One card day (plus I got my copy of "The Wrapper" Non-Sports Magazine #277 Aug 15 - Oct 1)
The one card I got for Five Bucks ($4.99 + Free Shipping) from Ebay Another card to check off of my Warehouse 13 checklist. This one is from Season One an autograph in the Farnsworth Style Michael Hogan as Warren Bering (Myka's Dad) on-card (as are all the WH13 Autos) blue sharpie. NNO.

 

[captkirk42]

Friday 16 August 2013:
From Sportlots 8 Steve Garvey Cards (7 Dodgers 1 Padres) lot for 0.25¢ + $3.00 shipping (PWE but with an OK/not great cardboard sandwich)
I had 4 of the 8 but really wanted the ones I didn't have.

1976 Topps Baseball 150 Steve Garvey AS Dodgers
1978 Topps Baseball 350 Steve Garvey AS Dodgers
1979 Topps Baseball 50 Steve Garvey AS Dodgers
1980 Topps Baseball 290 Steve Garvey AS Dodgers
1981 Topps Baseball 530 Steve Garvey AS Dodgers
1982 Donruss Baseball
Diamond Kings 3 Steve Garvey Dodgers
84 Steve Garvey Dodgers
1988 Score Baseball 225 Steve Garvey Padres

 

[franklinguy52]

Nice pick ups for $3.25!

 

[captkirk42]

Saturday 17 August 2013:
Two card day the first was in regular bubble mailer from an Ebay BIN $7.50 + $.3.00 shipping well worth the shipping price.
2010 Rittenhouse Warehouse 13 Season 1 NNO Autograph Susan Hogan as Jeannie Bering on-card blue sharpie (like all of the autos in this series)

The other card I'm kind of ticked off, both in what it actually is, but I didn't pay too much for the card itself. I am ticked about the shipping cost vs. HOW it was shipped. It was from sportlots (Kings of the PWE) and this thing was shipped in a PWE the card "secure" in soft cardboard (light card cardstock type cardboard not the big corragated stuff) I gave the seller a "Neutral" and said "High shipping for a PWE w/no toploader. Hopefully the guy will get the hint on that. The cost? For the card it was only $1.25 on one of the sportlots 1,2,3 auctions opening bid, not too bad, the shipping however $5.00 should have been sent in a bubble mailer NOT a PWE with just a soft cardboard "sleeve" (like index card stock or cereal box stock cardboard) that was taped closed. The card was in nothing no penny sleeve no toploader. The PWE was just a standard #10 business envelope (9.5" x 4.125"). The card is a Michael Jordan Baseball "White Sox" (He played in their minor league system for a season or two) by an unknown maker, the Front (I should have looked better at) looks like a 1986 Topps Baseball except no card logo and it is glossy. At first I thought maybe a special box topper, the back is a powder blue background with black text. The weird thing is the stats on the back are his NBA stats 1984-1990 then a statement that says if his stats were converted to baseball they would look like and then they have a baseball stat line for what his Basketball Stats would be like if they were converted to Baseball Stats. Very Weird. I"ll just chock this one down to an Fun OddBall card with no real value. I did see online one of these being auctioned off for $14.24 knocked down from $14.99.

 

[captkirk42]

Monday 19 August 2013:
one envelope mailday 6 base cards of Rams QB Sam Bradford from a Card Forum Sale $3 Delivered
2010 Score: Hot Rookies 3
2010 Topps Chrome C150 RC
2011 Topps:
54 - 2010 NFL Offensive Rookie of The Year
110
2011 Topps Prime 5
2012 Absoulte 99

 

[captkirk42]

Thursday 22 August 2013:
Got a 25 card package from sportlots for $4.25 + $2.99 shipping. Some of these I had but some obviously I didn't Like the Billy Martin. Don't know why I didn't already have some of them.
1974 Topps Baseball
190 Tony Oliva Twins
200 Cesar Cedeno Astros
214 Billy Grabarkewitz Phillies
231 Dick Tidrow Indians
244 Carl Morton Braves
262 Ed Kirkpatrick Royals
275 Ron Hunt Expos
292 Chuck Seelbach Tigers
305 Tito Fuentes Giants
322 Ernie McAnally Expos
337 All-Star Center Fielders Amos Otis Royals and Cesar Cedeno Astros
355 Dave Nelson Rangers
366 Larry Hisle Twins
379 Billy Martin MGR Rangers
395 Doug Rader Astros
409 Ike Brown Tigers
427 Bobby Bolin Red Sox
438 Ed Herrmann White Sox
455 Tom Bradley Giants
468 Pepe Frias Expos
485 Felipe Alou Expos
495 Dick McAuliffe Red Sox
512 Joe Lahoud Angels
524 Bill Plummer Reds
541 Cleveland Indians Team Card

 

[captkirk42]

Friday 23 August 2013:
Got my portion from a 6 box group break of 2013 Prestige Football I had the Ravens:

13 Joe Flacco (4)
14 Haloti Ngata (3)
15 Torrey Smith (3)
16 Ray Rice (5)
17 Dennis Pitta (4)
18 Jacoby Jones (5)
19 Terrell Suggs (4)
Rookie:
202 Aaron Nellette RC
268 Matt Elam RC
"Hit" (or actually Insert maybe, but hit for me)
Extra Points 18 Jacoby Jones #d 20/25

Bonus Card since I didn't get any real hits
2011 Timeless Treasures: Gameday Souvenirs GU No Number - 25 November 2010 Jets 26 Bengals 10 - Jets Mark Sanchez and Shonn Greene two all green swatches top (Sanchez) solid cloth, bottom (Greene) mesh swatch. #10/50

 

[captkirk42]

Saturday 24 August 2013:
Picked up a box from the post office that they had tried to deliver on Monday. It had a set I got from sportlots for $7.50 + $13.00 shipping.
1989 Bowman Baseball full set cards 1 - 484. but ugh doesn't have the subset of reprint cards. Oh well I have about 3 or 4 of those but need that set. The seller did include an unopened set of 1990 Classic Premiere Edition 1st Round Draft Picks Limited Edition set #087,631/150,000

 

[captkirk42]

Wednesday 28 August 2013:
Got some cards from a reader (Tom at Angels In Order blog) of my blog CaptKirk42s Card Blog he sent a batch of cards from the 1993 Ted Williams Baseball set. Those familiar with the 1993 and 1994 Ted Willaims Sets from the Ted Williams Card Company know that it is a commemorative set that mixes many of the classic vintage Hall of Famers and Pioneers of Baseball with some contemporary players. Some of the cards I got have guys like: Tris Speaker, Yogi Berra, Carl Yastrzemski, Warren Span, Willie Stargell, Earl Weaver and several other big baseball stars. Here are the numbers I got:
2, 3, 7, 25, 26, 30,35, 46, 48, 54, 58, 67, 70,72, 74, 81, 82, 85, 86, 97, 105, 106, 107, 108, 115, 121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 160

 

[captkirk42]

Friday 30 August 2013:
Got my batch of cards from a Football Group Break, my main Team(s) RamsSkins plus I had random teams of Cardinals, Saints and Bengals (3 randoms? or unclaimed and the random gave me those teams)

2013 Donruss Elite Football
1 Larry Fitzgerald Cardinals
3 Patrick Peteson Cardinals
21 Andy Dalton Bengals
23 BenJarvus Green-Ellis Bengals
61 Drew Brees Saints
62 Jimmy Graham Saints
63 Mark Ingram Saints
80 Chris Givens Rams
81 Daryl Richardson Rams
98 Robert Griffin III Redskins
99 Pierre Garcon Redskins
100 Alfred Morris Redskins
107 Andre Ellington RC Cardinals

2012 Panini Totally Certified Football
Platinum Red 92 Chris Collinsworth Bengals
Platinum Blue 6 Andy Dalton Bengals #d100/199

2011 Crown Royale Football (yippie /sarcasm)
20 Danny Amendola Rams - Die Cut
132 Evan Royster RC Redskins - Die Cut Gold #d010/499
Rookie Royalty 16 Austin Pettis RC Rams GU all blue mesh - on-card auto #d078/100

 

[captkirk42]

Friday 30 August 2013:
Got a card from Panini from an EXPIRED Redemption. In a group break in early July (got my cards on 09 July 2013) I had gotten a redemption card that had expired 06 January 2013. Figured at the least they would tell me it was expired and not send anything, but they did they actually sent what was promised. So the card I received about 2 months later was:
2010-11 (copyrighted 2011) Panini Zenith Hockey 188 Marcus Johansson Capitals on card auto blue sharpie #d 843/999

 

[captkirk42]

Thursday 05 September 2013
Got my cards from the August TCC Hockey Group Break. My team is the Caps my Draft Team was the Ducks and my random team was the Sharks. Most of the cards were from 2010/11 and 2011-12 Pinnacle confusing at first since both sets are copyright 2011. Some were dupes for me. Here is what I got.

2010-11 Pinnacle Hockey
1 Nicklas Backstrom Washington Diplomats er Capitals
2 Mike Green Capitals
5 David Steckel Capitals
34 Torrey Mitchell Sharks
37 Joe Thornton Sharks
38 Joe Pavelski Sharks
198 George Parros Duck Hunters

2011-12 Pinnacle Hockey
8 Alex Ovechkin Caps
10 Corey Perry Ducks
15 Ryan Getzlaf Ducks
24 Martin Havlat Sharks
39 Logan Couture Sharks
59 Tomas Vokoun Caps
62 Michal Neuvirth Caps
83 Karl Alzner Caps
108 Teemu Selanne Ducks
119 Joe Thornton Sharks
128 Alexander Semin Caps
139 Matt Beleskey Ducks
201 Jonas Hiller Ducks
209 Bobby Ryan Ducks
212 Patrick Marleau Sharks
222 Dan Boyle Sharks
229 Ryane Clowe Sharks
267 ROOKIE (Shiney part hologram part glitter part chrome thing? Reminiscent of the 1980s/90s Sportflics cards but not quite) Maxime Macenauer Ducks
Canvas Creations 17 Logan Couture Sharks

HIT:
2010-11 Luxury Suite Duel Jersey 100 GU Brooks Laich (all white) and Eric Fehr (all red) Capitals #d 181/599

 

[captkirk42]

Saturday 07 September 2013
From Ebay I got a 9 card lot of 1957 Topps Baseball cards for $40 ($39.15 + $1.85) so that is just under $5 ($4.55) per card nice. Overall conditions are probably low Excellent to somewhere near almost NearMint. Not pack fresh. Some of them have very soft corners but only one or two have "rounded" corners.

10 Willie Mays Giants - some paper loss on the front top right edge near the top of his bat and lower right under the team name and position. It has 3 soft almost round corners and one soft but still sort of pointed corner.
69 Roy McMillan Redlegs
71 Murry Dickson Cardinals
72 Bill Tottle Tigers
74 Vito Valintinetti Cubs (on back card number has an "x" pen mark for some reason weird)
75 Jim Piersall Red Sox
77 Paul Foytack Tigers
81 Herm Wehmeter Cardinals (off-center/miss-cut some)
83 Lou Skizas Kansas City A's