Other breakfast foods

The ladies over at Dinged Corners are fretting over the potential lack of waffles. I went on a hunt to find some baseball related food things to help them through their time of woe.

Tony the Tiger hittin' one deep...

Breakfast at Nettie's house (snagged from the MLB blog - The Baseball Collector)...

A 1970 Reddings Tea Card (British, lifted from ebay)...

Denny's Baseball themed pancake (snagged from Raspberry Kids)...

And I couldn't find a photo of him or one of his cards, but who can forget James Pancake, a catcher for the Elizabethton Twins?

McDonald's 1993 Gameday Collector Cards

I was at the card show last month. I had picked up my Earl Wilson cards and was wandering around, looking at the cool things that vendors had (many 1960's entertainment cards, tons of toys and games) and looking at my watch, knowing that I had to beat it home for my wife's cousin's wedding.

One dealer had boxes and boxes of sports magazines, game programs and photos. A buck each. I didn't find any magazines that I had to have, but I did find this unpunched set of McDonald's football cards.

I don't remember these cards being issued. Individual cards measure 2-1/2" x about 4-3/4". They were produced by Fleer. Looking around on the ebay it appears that there were also sets (3 sheets of 6 cards) for all 28 teams and an All-Stars set. I've got the All-Stars.

Not bad for a dollar.

Sticky Monday - RRAAAAAARRRR Edition

dayf recently posted about some stuff that Trader Crack and I had sent him.

Digging through some cards I found two more that he might like. I present them here. Why the backs? Because Eileen's is cool and because I wanted dayf to have a better idea of what the complete puzzle would be (the back of Artie).






Yeah, not so much baseball. A bit with Eileen. At least I posted.

And dayf's poll (Which is the more insanely awesome dinosaur sticker?) closed before I could reset my IP and stuff the box. Darn.

dayf, if you're nice to me, I'll send these south. What am I saying? I'll send them anyhow.

Favorite Autographs

The ladies over at Dinged Corners asked fellow bloggers to let them know what their three favorite on-card autographs are. They seemed very emphatic about there only being three. But then, after their whole diatribe about autographs actually being on the cards, they let up and would allow a sticker auto to be shown. I will take their wiggle room and show four of my auto cards. Yes, I'm being rebellious. I think that it has to do with the fact that I've been sick for the last week and haven't ventured out into the real world (or the internet) much. I'm stretching my legs. Sticker that, ladies.

So, in no particular order...

Brooks Robinson post

Ryne Sandberg post

BJ Armstrong post

Bill Virdon post

Beethoven validated

It wasn't until last evening that I realized there was something about the 2009 Allen and Ginter set that I was missing.

Caroline, my daughter, has been a bit sick and just not feeling well. As an incentive to finish bathtime I offered to pop in the DVD of A Charlie Brown Christmas. This immediately perked her up.

About 18 minutes into the show there's an exchange between Lucy and Schroeder:

Schroeder: This is the music I’ve set for the Christmas play.
[Schroeder plays Fur Elise]
Lucy Van Pelt: What kind of music is *that*?
Schroeder: Beethoven Christmas music.
Lucy Van Pelt: What’s so great about Beethoven? Everyone talks about how “great” Beethoven was. Beethoven wasn’t so great.
[Schroeder stops playing]
Schroeder: What do you mean Beethoven wasn’t so great?
Lucy Van Pelt: He never got his picture on a bubble gum card. Have you ever seen his picture on a bubble gum card? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who’s never had his picture on a bubble gum card?
Schroeder: Good grief.

So, there you go. Beethoven is now finally great.

Caroline's getting better. Thanks for asking.

Topps and Upper Deck settle law suit

I was out perusing the web and ran across this story that explains in no great detail that Topps and Upper Deck have settled their lawsuit through mediation.

I wrote about it a few months back. I'm glad to see the big boys can now play nice.

The Horror from Arkansas

A package arrived late last week. From Arkansas. I grabbed my biggest butcher knife and slashed it open to find the following...

--David, from Tribecards (and some other words and things, including some sort of Michael Jackson fetish) sent these.

Nuclear Assault. Can't say as I've heard of them. Apparently they were spawned from the band Anthrax.

A Fun Stuff card of Mr. Big Moustache.

Nobody kills Apollo Creed and doesn't have to answer to Rocky. I couldn't decide if this was Rocky 4 or Rocky IV (Intravenous).

Skid Row. Always good when glam-metal reaches for the acoustic guitar.

Mr. Calhoun reminded me that South Carolina would be playing the University of Tennessee in football on Halloween. They were ranked 22, I think. I don't think that they held onto that position.

Iron Maiden. Heavy Metal. No, wait. Jethro Tull is Heavy Metal. Just ask the 1989 Grammy voters.

Towasaurus Wrex. Monster Truck. Halloween. Monsters. I get it.

A Fun Stuff card of No Hair guy. He should be benched.

A Cindy Lauper sticker card. I loved her on Mad About You. She won an Emmy, you know. She's so unusual.

That's the recap. Thanks --David. I'm scared.

On This Date

In 1946, Chuck Connors became the first player in NBA history to shatter a backboard. From the NBA's This Date in History page...

November 5, 1946
Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics shattered the first backboard in NBA history during the warm-up before a Celtics game. Connors went on to shatter desperadoes in the television show “The Rifleman.”

But he also played baseball...

And he was an actor...

I wouldn't mess with him whatever his profession.

Tickets, we got tickets

So, while watching game 6 of the World Series, my son asked, "How much would it cost to sit right behind home plate?" So, off the computer I went.

StubHub is selling tickets to game 7. Below is a partial screen capture from that page.

The short answer is $6,500 to $7,395 for Legends section 20. Per seat. Hurry, there's only 12 of them left as I write this. If you have more money to burn, you can find some $50,000 seats. Who says that the economy is down?