My Million Card Giveaway Cards

So I've been seeing a bunch of Million Card Giveaway posts lately.  And it reminded me that we only have till March to have your cards shipped or I guess they go back in the Topps vault.  See you in 20 years 1987 Topps cards.

I decided that I would have all my cards pre 1970 shipped and I actually had two 1970 and above shipped to me.  For a "Free" giveaway shipping and handling is awfully expensive.  It cost me somewhere around 8 bucks to have these 12 cards shipped to me.  To be honest they were all in top loaders which is nice.  But when postage is under 2 bucks it still feels like a rip off.  And to be honest the quality and condition of these cards leaves a little to be desired.  But it's always nice to add a little vintage to the collection.  I was looking through my MCG portfolio the other day and somehow I missed a 1965 card and then traded up to another 1965.  I think the 65's are one of my favorite looking sets from the 60's.  So I'm probably going to get at least one more round of cards shipped, but the majority are high 70's and not worth very much.  I think I'll let Topps put them back in the vault.  Anyway... here's what I got last year from the code cards that was mostly pre 1970.

My oldest card is this 1956 Arnold Portocarrero.  It's a little rough.  This is my oldest Topps card that I own now.  And close to the oldest in my collection if you count the 2002 Topps T206 buyback I got years ago.

Next in line is this 1958 Paul Giel.  Terribly miss cut and a nice crease on the top portion.

1962 Don Hoak.  This card actually isn't too bad.  Not very well centered but in fairly good shape.  The original Topps woody.

1964 Diego Segui.  Another dogeared card.  If I'd have known what kind of condition some of these cards would be coming in I probably would have saved my money.

1965 Ty Cline.  WoHoo a Milwaukee Brave!!!!  I ended up trading for this bad boy and at least 3 of the 4 corners were in pretty good shape.

1966 Bill Rigney.  Nothing like a manager card to spice things up.  Also not the best shape.

1967 Boog Powell.  Probably one of my favorites that I pulled this year.  I just like saying his name. Boog.  Boooooooooooog.  How do you get the nickname Boog? And more why do you use it?


I got a trio of 1968 cards.

Dick Simpson

Jim Merritt

And Mel Queen, and all three were in pretty good shape.

Well that's all my pre 1970's here we have a 1970 Luis Tiant.

And my lone Brewer Mike Hegan from the 1977 set.  Which sadly I already had in better shape.

Over all not impressed.  If I didn't have a few 1960 left in the bin and a ton of 1972's I probably would just say screw it and leave them but I think I'll have a few more shipped to me.  I'm a glutton for punishment.  I also apologize.  As I started writing this post I wished I'd have scanned the backs.  The early Topps backs were great with cartoons and interesting use of colors.  Maybe I'll save that for a later post. 

Have a great humpday.

Almost the Easiest SuperBowl Contest on the Web 3 Days Left

The clock is ticking.  I can hear it, or maybe its a bomb under the table either way there is a definite ticking going on. 

The first of the playoff games starts at 4:30 eastern time, 12:30 my time, I already got the Pabst chilling in the fridge.  That means the deadline for getting your picks in is 4:00pm eastern or 12 noon my time or what ever time it is relative to where you live.  I stole the logo up there from some web site, dates wrong, it's February 6th not 4th, maybe its when you're suppose to start drinking, whatever not important to the contest.  And I see I finally snagged 3 more followers, so this contest has been a success no matter how you look at it.  It also increased my traffic considerably. 

Remember all I want is the winning team, plus who they beat and the score.  But mainly the team.  If you guess the Seahawks and they take it, well that would be something, you win, and I probably won't have to go to a tie breaker, but it looks like the Pats are the team to beat again.  I'm rooting for the Packers at least this Sunday, we'll see who I get to root for next week.

ENTER HERE

You can leave comments here but take the link above to enter your official prediction.

Remember up for grabs is a set of 2010 NFL Topps Rookie Redemption code cards,  there are some great rookies in there.  Plus I'm probably going to add a bonus prize for all who enter and draw a name randomly.  What will it be who knows, maybe a hand full of dog-eared 1988 Donruss baseball cards,  I guess that would be a prize for me getting rid of them.  It'll be something good I promise, well maybe I promise.

One entry per person, thanks to the 13 people who've entered already. 

I'll have an official list of entries probably after the games on Saturday since I'm probably not going to be home watching the games this weekend.

cb out

Hey Topps Thanks.

A few weeks back I had a few left over MCG cards that I thought I'd redeem before I forgot about them.  As I was going throught the stack I came across 3 cards that wouldn't work.  After looking a little closer I noticed that each code only had 8 characters instead of the 9 needed.  I was a little miffed.  I thought about ranting about it, but with all the problems Topps has been having with quality control it would have been just another drop in the bucket.  So I wrote a nice little letter to Topps put my cards in with it and sent it off to there consumer services address and forgot about it.  Then a few days ago I got a letter from Duryea PA.  Mmmmm.  And lo and behold 3 replacement code cards all had 9 characters.  Well I got these before the big move so I figured I better redeem them ASAP and here's what I got.

One 79 and two 80's.

Hohum so much for 52 gold.

Still it was nice of Topps to replace the cards and they did it fairly quickly too. I also got a form letter with my name on it telling me how to submit cards in the future.  Is that foreshadowing?

cb out.