BLOG CROSSOVER EVENT 1: Million Dollar Idea

I watch more TV than I should, but it keeps me centered in my life.

I watch it while I blog, while I sort cards, while I do house chores or simply when I have a few minutes of downtime.

One of my favorite things to watch is when shows do crossover episodes. These kinds of episodes occur when they are trying to either get the word out on the new shows or trying to keep them from continuing to falter. since they can't match the original.

For example, there are multiple NCIS shows and sometimes they will crossover three of them into one extended episode starting with the key show because that first show had always carried the weight. Now it's time to help NCIS Sydney and NCIS Hawaii.

I thought, hey, I run three blogs with two that are kind of struggling, why not do a blog crossover event? It's something that no blogger has done before...at least I don't think it's been done so that would be a fun creative idea as well.

So, here is how this will work. I am showing off my latest mail day from Reader Oren. I will post some of the mail day here, move onto Cards Over Coffee for Part 2 before finishing it up at Big Blue Cardboard for Part 3. 

In order for you to see the full mail day you will have to read all three blogs on three different days.

Hopefully this will also influence you to follow/subscribe/add them to your blogroll while you are at it :)

First, let's see how this one goes while we examine my latest mail day from Oren.

In the Sport Card Collectors part of the mail day, I am showing off the 1997 Fleer Million Dollar Moments cards. These cards fell 1 in every pack and were spread across multiple products from 1997 and early 1998 and sports. Each sport had 50 cards to chase, and each offered a chance to win a Million Dollars.

In order to win the Million, you must complete the 50-card set. Sounds easy, but it wasn't Cards 46-50 were all short printed with one of the cards rumored to only have one copy. Meaning, it's a 1/1.

I didn't find that particular card in this lot from Oren, but here are the ones I did find,

 

As far as anyone knows, there wasn't a one-million-dollar winner announced for any of the sports. I would assume that tough to find 1/1 card is still out there. Maybe a collector even has it and doesn't know it. Maybe some collectors thought these were trash and tossed them. Guess we will never know.

All I know is that we don't offer this kind of fun chases anymore.

I wished.

More to come in this mail day. But you will have to read Cards Over Coffee tomorrow to see what else Oren included in this mail day.

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Single Card Mail Day:2015 Topps Fire Forces Of Nature Eli Manning

Occasionally, a NY Giants mail day isn't a loaded mail day, sometimes those mail day enter my mailbox as one-card mail days which is where we begin this new series.

You ever have those moments when you are searching for one card, but it leads you to another. Eli Manning card #826 is that case. I can't quite remember what I was looking for on eBay, but today's card popped up as a suggestion and I had to have it.

2015 Topps Fire included this well-designed insert, Forces Of Nature, two-per hobby box. I hadn't ever seen it before, but it didn't take me very long to chase it down.

There actually were only a couple listings of this card on eBay. So, when I watched it, the seller actually gave me a discount and I pounced for the measly $4.

Thoughts on this newest card is welcomed in comments or comments on if you found cards while looking for others is as well.

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Single Card Mail Day:2015 Topps Fire Forces Of Nature Eli Manning

Occasionally, a NY Giants mail day isn't a loaded mail day, sometimes those mail day enter my mailbox as one-card mail days which is where we begin this new series.

You ever have those moments when you are searching for one card, but it leads you to another. Eli Manning card #826 is that case. I can't quite remember what I was looking for on eBay, but today's card popped up as a suggestion and I had to have it.

2015 Topps Fire included this well-designed insert, Forces Of Nature, two-per hobby box. I hadn't ever seen it before, but it didn't take me very long to chase it down.

There actually were only a couple listings of this card on eBay. So, when I watched it, the seller actually gave me a discount and I pounced for the measly $4.

Thoughts on this newest card is welcomed in comments or comments on if you found cards while looking for others is as well.

My First 2021 Card

 

I am slacking when it comes to posting on here and wanted to share this card when I first got it. It was more magical at that time when I acquired it.

Even though the celebration happened awhile ago, May 18th to be exact, it's still nice to share my first card with the rest of you anyways.

This is a 2021 Score Gold Zone parallel /50 of Sterling Shepard that costed me $2.25 to acquire. 

On top of the great Score photography, their parallels always add some shimmer and shine and are attractive in-hand. I always start off my Giants new card season by picking some up.

One

Today, April ONE, it's weird calling it that but I just want you to go with it regardless, I have ONE card to show off. Just ONE.

 

That ONE card is a 1984 Topps Glossy All-Stars Dave Winfield that I have ONE copy of. I also have ONE full set as well. Why did I choose this ONE card from the set? He is the ONE and only NY Yankee from that set....surprisingly. Can you imagine Topps only putting ONE Yankee in a set today? I heard you all laughing as we all know, it's not happening.

Now more on Winfield. He played for more than ONE team, was a ONE time World Series champion and ONE time NL RBI leader. Also, his jersey number for his time with the Yankees, thirty-ONE.

If that's not enough, Winfield retired in 1996 and guess what, was voted into the Hall Of Fame in 2000 and...you got it..ONE. The same year the Padres retired his jersey number... again thirty-ONE.

I think by now you guys are tired of seeing the number ONE. I know this ONE blogger has. Okay, that wasn't supposed to come out that way. It was the ONE and final time I promise. 

I better stop now

Have a great April Fools Day and don't be fooled.

Random Card Of The Day #1:2011 Topps Gold Marvin Austin