Breakdown And A New Griffey

Gavin from Baseball Card Breakdown blog and I usually do many PWE trades throughout the year but last year I was a slacker on doing so. Not sure why, but I was.

This year however, I have already done two with him and plan on doing more. Gavin always seems to find some Giants I need.

Overall, he sent 7 Giants cards but in this post only four of those will be shown. The last three, You gotta check out SNAGGING CARDBOARD if you want to see them. It's the home of my NY Giants PC.

Shiny JPP. I always take refractors when I can.

Some former Gmen. I had high hopes for Williams and "prospected" him. Well, taught me a lesson. However he did play in the XFL, not sure how he did. I didn't watch any of that.

Thanks again Gavin!

Up next, I made a small trade for a big PC card.

Boom! It's my first Quad Relic featuring Griffey Jr. Not that the other guys on here are okay, but the main focus was my boy. I haven't added a Griffey card to the PC in quite some time so it was nice to do so. I have lost track of my PC count once I hit over 1,000 of him. I will need to update that on here at some point.

Thanks to @somosLosAstros on Twitter for the trade!

Just another reminder, if you want to check out the last three cards from Gavin, go check out Snagging Cardboard!

Jeter Rules The Day

Back in my mail day from Dion a couple weeks ago, I mentioned sending out two packages that day and braving the post office because of two big cards.

Well, the second of those mail days is now being posted which came from @tmcbmatt. However, it's being posted minus the big card. You will have to follow Cards Over Coffee if you expect to see that card and it's worth seeing.

In the meantime, you can check out what rest of the mail day was.

Trio of Giants, well, Tarkenton in a Vikings uni. He will always be a Giant in my mind though.

Double the Jeter Topps rookies, Double the Fun!

Dwade! Finally landed a rookie of him. I can cross him off from the want list

Bowman Eli Manning rookie

 

And finally, Eddie Murray rookie. Another long sought after card on my want list. The big card I didn't show was on my want list as well so @tmcbmatt knocked three down!

Thanks again @tmcbmatt and bonuses as always. Much appreciated!

The second mail day came from Rod over at Padrographs.

I claimed one Jeter, he sent five overall. I don't ever mind finding some Jeters in my mail day. 

Thanks Rod!

There was lots of good stuff in these mail days which should give me something to do when it comes to putting them away, though it won't take very long. My biggest sort is still ahead, I just got to get the materials to get that underway.

Rodney's Cardboard:1996 Finest Gold Refractor

It's that day of the week again, a day I show off the latest Rodney Hampton addition!

Today's was a long awaited card that once I saw, I grabbed.

1996 was a great year for Topps Finest with its multi leveled base cards and refractor parallels. One card I have been wanting and wasn't sure I was ever going to find was the Gold refractor since they are so rare. I tried to research how hard these were, but couldn't find the exact details and  my mind is shady to remember such facts from over 24 years ago. I once knew it.

Either way, it's a very tough pull.

One finally popped up on COMC via eBay and I wasn't going to let it sit there for the taken. Instead, I took it.

I couldn't quite capture it's golden refractoryness

Backside of the card tells us it's a rare card level just for the gold aspect. That's not even adding on the fact it's a refractor.

This also finishes up my 1996 Finest needs.

The more Rodney's I find, the closer I am to getting them all. I keep seeing my Google Sheet being covered in yellow, which  makes me happy but sad at the same time knowing probably at some point I could have them all and that's it. Or it could narrow me down to just 1/1's I may never find and that could be it.

But, at least I have plenty of other PC's to pass the time.

Autograph Of The Week:Cedric The Entertainer

I didn't really start to enjoy Cedric The Entertainer until he was the star of the CBS comedy The Neighborhood which is now in Season 2.

The comedy is about a white family from Michigan that moves into the "hood" and all of the laughs that come from that. It also has many heartwarming moments between the main character Calvin Butler (Cedric) and his "favorite" new neighbor Dave Johnson. Calvin always doubted the arrival of his neighbors and wasn't very welcoming unlike his family was to them. Over the past couple of seasons, you can tell that Calvin's rough exterior has a warm place in his heart for his neighbors.

I stumbled upon this autograph of his featured in Panini Americana and offered the seller a price and they accepted.

He has a solid signature and it's a nice addition to my non sports PC.

You can watch The Neighborhood on CBS at 8 pm on Mondays. And no, this was not a sponsored post. I just like to let you know about a gem of a comedy you should not be missing out on .

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Left A Bad Taste

Kerry's Cardboard:1997 Pacific Invincible Pop Prize Card

Today's card gives me more questions than answers.

I don't have a lot of information on this card other than it takes 4 "pop up" redemption cards to get one of these prize cards in which I guess you weren't even guaranteed to land the guy featured? If any of you have any further info, please enlighten me below.

 

None the less, the card is pretty cool. I thought by the look of the card would give an acetate approach since it was Invincible but that wasn't the case at all.

I have always liked how Pacific labels their inserts as some are really hard to tell the difference on especially since theirs don't have labels.

I now have this prize card along with one un-used Pop Redemption. I hope to chase down the rest if I am reading this right about these.

Johnny Sends Lots Of Brunell

Once again, pulled off another blind trade, still need to send a return on, with with Johnny's Trading Spot.

Aaaaaannnd once again, he sent a bunch of surprises which turned out to be a focus on one of my side player PC's, Mark Brunell.

Check out the 10 new autograph additions,

the person who got these signed had a great taste in card choices. A lot of my favorite brands here mixed. Not to mention, a big focus on Mark in a Jags uni. That's when I was the biggest fan of his.

Thanks again for the trade Johnny. I will hopefully have a return sent out soon.

(while you are at it, go read the newest post over at Cards Over Coffee right here→→Settled)


For today's topic,
Do you guys collect IP or TTM autographs for your PC?

Breakin' Wax:1995 Stadium Club Football Series 1 Box Break

Last year, my buddy Shane over at Project Pedro blog and myself pulled off our yearly end of the year wax trade where I trade him cards and he trades me some cheaper football card boxes.

My original intent with these boxes was to post them on an all 90's blog I created at Cards To Talk (now if Coffee Over Cards) About. However, with content getting very low on here, I had to sacrifice their box breaks there and move them to here since this blog takes priority over any blogs I create. But, don't worry those of you who followed that other blog, it's not the end of it. I have plans down the road for more 90's content there once we have moved past this Covid-19 situation.

In the meantime, you can continue to enjoy new content here such as today's box break of 1995 Stadium Club football Series 1.

Back in 1995 I opened a lot of this stuff. I loved the design, photography, subsets and especially inserts. I hadn't ever though broke a box of it til now and it was everything I had hoped for.

Let's check it out here,

In every hobby box of 1995 Stadium Club Series 1 football, there are 13 cards per pack an chances at some pretty slick inserts.

 

The base set is 450 cards deep in Series 1 and 2. The design is basic,clean and full of fun photography like you would expect from Stadium Club.

Here are a few of my favorites from the base set for Series 1,

 

Packs also had subsets to chase such as Extreme Corps with it's foil wording

and of course, Draft Pix. You can't have a product without rookie cards. I think those of us who collected in 1995 will always remember the name Ki-Jana Carter.

I pulled three inserts in my box. All three fell 1:24 packs.

This Metalists, chasing the set by the way, is laser-cut next to the featured player.

 

And well be darned, I pulled two Nightmares of the same player. Sigh. These are etched foil awesomeness regardless.

And that doesn't for this break. A couple cool inserts, some unique base cards and a really fun trip back down memory lane. I hope to bust another one of these sometime just for the fun of it.

Another BFG Mail Day

Mail days will keep this blog going another week on here as I have many to show off. Some are trades like yesterday's and others were RAK's. Let's check out today's share.

The Sunday NGT Collectibles thread was alive again and @battlebrothersg had a Jerry Rice 1995 Skybox Quickstrike I needed for my set so I asked if it was available and it was!

Thanks @battlebrothersg for the set help. I found someone to hit back on there last week and looking forward to this Sunday.

Johnny's Trading Spot had another BFG and once again I was late to the party. However, with this mail day, I didn't mind after all.

I have always wanted some of these Kellogs 3-D Super Stars after seeing multiple bloggers talk about them and now I finally have a few.

Palmer

Guerrero

Hisle

The backs of those

Thanks again Johnny for the fun in BFG. Hopefully I will be there on time for the next, for real this time! I didn't download Chrome on my phone for nothing.

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Dion Sends A Biggie

What seemed to originally look like a long drawn out trade with Dion's Autograph Collection blog turned out much shorter as I was "forced" to the Post Office to mail out another package. So I figured while I was out, why not finish up my trade with Dion as well.

It's really odd to write the words "forced" and Post Office but with this whole Covid thing going on, I am avoiding going out as much as possible.

But, with a couple of big PC cards that could be had in these trades, I pushed myself and went to get these completed.

Dion had recently acquired a lot of Giants cards and he knew the collector to come to first and here we are. One thing to note, not all of the Giants cards from this trade will be featured in this post. You gotta check out SNAGGING CARDBOARD if you want to see the rest.

Up first, some Saquon. The bottom right is a not a Topps rookie, but someone using the Topps design. I have had my eye on these just because they look cool.

Odell Beckham Jr. Just a couple of the ones I grabbed from Dion

This guy is going to break out soon, I just know it!

Dexter will have a big role in the Giants defense next season. If they are going to get better, it's gotta start with this guy

Eli! Going to miss him. Glad there is so much more cardboard I can collect of him

Love had a solid season last year and will be apart of the Giants secondary somewhere

LT needs no introduction and then comes a Sterling player who hopefully will be healed from multiple concussions. This offense needs him and he doesn't  need those.

The final card, this is one of the biggies I spoke about, Terry Bradshaw rookie card! Dion had some rookies up for grabs including this one and to my surprise nobody claimed it. So I did. Been wanting to add more to my Hall Of Fame rookie card collection and now did.


Big thanks to Dion for the trade. I know we will do another as we are already working on the next one.



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