Showing posts with label Danny Mendick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danny Mendick. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Announcements and a Few Pickups

A few things. 
 
Thanks to a USPS shipping supplies delivery that took more than a month to arrive, I've finally managed to ship out all of the stuff claimed from Free Stuff Fridays over the summer. That means I feel like I can finally do another round. Look for another post this Friday, hopefully.
Erin complained that this photo is really blurry.

After months with no cards on the shelves except Magic and Pokemon, my local Target finally created a tiny little endcap with some new baseball cards on it. I picked up a couple of 2020 Topps Series 2 hanger boxes, as these provide the most bang for your buck if you're a Turkey Red collector. I've made a little dent in the Series 2 checklist, but of course would appreciate any help from anyone who happens to have some extras.
This will probably be heading off to Bob Walk the Plank.

Each box had a short print (is this a thing? I feel like I've pulled at least a half dozen SPs from the 2020 flagship sets) and each also had a numbered card. The Hoskins bubble-blower will likely be headed to bubble-blowing enthusiast Bob, but I don't have anyone in mind for the Kaline yet.
There's nothing more American than Mendick.

I probably need to at least partially walk back what I said about Independence Day themed cards of late. This one lacks appeal to me because it doesn't have that special retro cardfeel to it. Cardfeel is a word I'm going to force into all of the dictionaries, by the way. This is numbered to just 76 copies, though. It's also a rookie card, so that's something.

The second announcement is that I'm going to finally be doing my second Pandemic Panic PWE Free* Group Break of the year. I have been waiting for something interesting (and cheap) to open and distribute since I started one out of boredom back in May. This will have similar rules as the last. I'll have a sign-up post going as soon as I find one more thing to supplement what I found today.

This is also my first post since Google forced its latest Blogger update on me. I'll get used to it, hopefully.