Hobbies / Collectibles

What I checked out today or plan on checking out soon. 103 total

These are only rookie cards, draft picks, or minor league cards.

5-29-21 - Went through 5 albums at random.

Alomar
Bagwell
Baines
Beltran
Beltre
Biggio
Blue
Blyleven
Boggs
Bonds
Brett
Brown
Cabrera
Carew
Carter
Clemens
Colon
Dawson
Delgado
Eckersley
Fingers
Fisk
Franco
Garciaparra - Yes. Minors. Season at Trenton. Topps. Bowman. A rookie Topps.
Glavine - No
Gonzales J. - Yes. Upper Deck.
Gossage - No
Greinke - No
Griffey - Yes. 2 Donruss' One w/ stats. One with a description. Also Upper Deck 'Collections.' It has the team listed on the back. Jim Presley was with the team. He wasn't in 1990.
Guerrero - Yes. Last season in the minors. That's a Bowman. First year in the majors. Score? Think so.
Guidry - No
Gwynn - No. Damn. How did I miss Tony?
Halladay - No? Okay. He debuted in 1998. That was the year Dad died.
Henderson - No?!!
Hoffman - Yes. Two minor league cards. One each of Topps & Fleer. 1 rookie card. Topps.
Jansen - No
Jeter - Yes. A 1992 draft pick card. A 1995 rookie card. Both Topps. A Bowman rookie card. It's slightly dogeared at the bottom.
R. Johnson - Yes. Topps.
C. Jones - No. Ouch.
Kent - Yes. Topps.
Kershaw - No
Kimbrel - No
Larkin - No
Maddux - No
Madlock - No
D. Martinez - No
E. Martinez - No
P. Martinez - Yes. Topps.
McGriff - No
McGwire - No
Molitor - No
Morgan - No
Morris - No
Murray - No.
Mussina - Yes. Topps.
Nathan - No
Niekro - No
Nomo - Yes. 2. Both rookies. The first is Bowman & it's a game by game breakdown. The second is Topps.
Ortiz - No
Palmeiro - Yes. Topps.
Papelbon - No
Parker - No
Percival - Yes. Topps
Pettitte - No
Piazza - No
Puckett - No
Pujols - No
Raines - No. 1981 highlight card.
Ramirez M. - Yes. Topps draft pick card & Fleer rookie card.
Reardon - No
Rice - No
Richard - No
Ripkin - Yes. Fleer.
Rivera - No
A. Rodriquez - No
F. Rodriquez - No
I. Rodriquez - Yes. Topps
Rollins - No.
Saberhagen - No
Sandberg - No
Scherzer - No
Schilling - No
Schmidt - No
Sheffield - Yes. Topps.
L. Smith - No
O. Smith - No
Smoltz - Yes. Topps.
Sosa - Yes. Donruss.
Sutter - Yes. Topps.
Suzuki - Yes. Upper Deck. "Talk of the Town."
Tanana
Thomas
Thome
Trammell
Utley
Verlander
Wagner
Walker
Wells
Wetteland
Winfield
Yount

So that's 20 hits (some multiple) in 67 searches. I know I have Brett & Yount too.

The discoveries today...

Aaron - 1974, 1975, 1976. "New All-Time Home Run King." Yes. They made home & run separate words. They're all Topps.

Alomar - Yes. Topps.

Bagwell - Yes. Topps.

Belle - Yes. Donruss & Upper Deck.

Biggio - Yes. Topps.

Bonds - Yes. Topps.

Eckersley - Yes. Topps.

Edmonds - Yes. 1992 'Coming Attractions.' Topps. Rookie card. Fleer.

Suzuki - Yes. Upper Deck. "Talk of the Town."

Thome - Yes. Topps.

Vizquel - Yes. Donruss.

Wagner - Yes. Bowman.

Walker - Yes. Upper Deck.

Wetteland - Yes. Donruss.

Williams B. - Yes. !989. Donruss. All it says on the back is "No Major League Record." Rookie. Topps.

Yount - Yes. Topps.

I saw a couple boxes in a closet.

I went through six boxes in the closet so far. There are maybe two more. I've added approximately 200 cards to my collection. I can't believe the cards I've found. I need more leafs to put them in albums.

9 boxes.

I have to get this stand put together for my Samurai sword.

I also have a big Indian peace pipe on the wall. Ceremonial of course, for Chiefs' victories. Until they change the name to the Kansas City 'Footballers.'

Can I get an exemption for my jerseys & paraphernalia? I'm 1/16th Choctaw on my mother's side. That's Elizabeth Warren territory. But I'm 1/4th Miami Indian on the paternal side. Grandma was born in Miami County, Kansas. I would be 5/16teenths Native American. Shouldn't I be getting a check or something?

I have had my eye on this Henry rifle. A buddy asked if this was Winchester. I thought about that. When did repeating rifles come out? I recently got a book on the Reno Gang. They authored the first train robbery in American history. Haven't read it yet. I need new reading glasses. It's just really hard picturing old west outlaws holding up a train with single shot muskets.

Not sure how much industrial espionage may have been involved, but Henry & Spencer rifles both came out in 1860. They weren't issued to troops in the Civil War because of cost concerns. You had to buy it yourself. As late as the Spanish War, American bureaucrats were thinking about the cost of ammunition. If we give a frightened soldier a repeating rifle, he'll go through a shitload of bullets. Of course that philosophy has been replaced by suppressing your opponent with the sheer volume of shots fired.

But it was interesting reading all that. Now I'm thinking of a replica Spencer rifle. Remember Unforgiven? Morgan Freeman had a Spencer rifle. Winchester bought Spencer.