So, there's this collector down in Florida. He goes by the name of The Collective Troll. His real name is Marck. That can't be a real name. Note the superfluous C.
Anyhow, I tracked down and sent him some Topps Giants cards so that I could enter his Packs Gone Wild wax bust-a-thon. Then I won some random drawing contest.
Last week he sent me my package. The contest winning was this Steve Garvey bat card. I like the spirograph/money look of the Sweet Spot Classic.
The Claude Raymond was part of my claiming the Expos/Nationals as my team of pull. I don't think that this card was recently pulled from a wax pack. Note the big hunk of tape.
The signed Marilyn Jones card must have been thrown in for pity. What with me not having a C in my name. I'm not sure what series that card is from. Larry Fritsch Cards did three series with an update. I'm assuming that it is from Series 1.
2002 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Classics, Game Used Bats, Steve Garvey (card # B-SG)
1971 Topps, Claude Raymond (card #536)
1995 Larry Fritsch, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Marilyn Jones (card #96)
Thanks, Troll. I've got a post brewing with the other Expos/Nats cards you sent. Wait for it. Wait for it.
Any Rockford Peaches card is a good card as far as we're concerned (Rockford natives)! They're former stadium became my elementary school's recess yard - a distant shell of it's glory days, completely unrecognizable, but still kind of cool to say I ran the same bit of land.
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Looks like lots of people like this post. One of them seems real. Well, two, now that I like it too.
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