2012 Goodwin Champions

...because every collection needs a baseball card of Steve Carlton on the phone.

TTM Success Dog Sledder DeeDee Jonrowe

I ended up picking up a blaster of 2012 Goodwin Champions a while back.  Mainly because I was thinking of working on a post about some of the more ridiculous cards  in the set.  And in that box I pulled a SSP of DeeDee Jonrowe.  You may not know who DeeDee is, but if you live in Alaska you know her really well.

This year DeeDee competed in her 30th Iditarod.  And while she's never won the race she's come in 2nd three times and has 15 Top 10 finishes. She's  a cancer survivor and a huge supporter of the cause. She's also a great signer and loves to get fan mail.  I'll be cheering her on this coming March in the next Iditarod. 

Thanks Dee Dee!

TTM Stats

Date Sent 9/27/12

Date Recieved 10/10/12

Address Used

DeeDee Jonrowe

PO Box 272

Willow, AK 99688

2012 Topps Update Baseball Box Break

So I didn't find any Update at Bosco's last Wednesday so I headed over to Don's my other LCS in town and found he had a couple Jumbo Boxes so I picked one up.

Box Label

 Back are all your favorite inserts from Series 1 and 2, Golden Moments, the 87 mini's, Golden Greats, Gold Sparkly inserts, ect. But this go around we have a new insert and the return of the numbered gold parallels.

So each jumbo pack contains 3 gold parallel cards along with the sparkly golden parallel.  You get 2 golds from the Series 1 or 2  and then one from the update set.

The new insert is Blockbusters. Commemorating the biggest baseball deals of all time. And there are relic and auto versions of some of these cards too.  Here's a sample.

I won't bore you with the other inserts we've already seen, except for this one.

I was really excited to see Yount in to one of the inserts this year.  Sadly there are no relic or auto parallels of this card to chase, but since I haven't added a new Yount to the collection in months, it's a nice surprise to actually pull the one insert I really wanted.

I did get two black parallels as well and it's nice when one of them is going into my team sets.

I also found one SP photo variation.  I need to go back through my cards to see if anything else came out.

And the best part about the Jumbos is the 3 hits, even if one of those is a manurelic.

Back for round three are the ring cards.  And these still are pretty awesome.  Got me a Gehrig.  Not too shabby.

Next up another card for one of my PC's

I still like the big guy and collect his cards, but to be honest I've not been going after them the way I use to. Still a nice All Star Game card with Princey.

And the Auto.

A Golden Debut card of Tyler Pastornicky.  I wasn't familiar with this kid so I had to Google him.  Tyler played in about 76 games this season, only about 50 as a fielder.  He was sent back down to the minors and June and then called back up near the end of the season.

I also didn't get any Presidential Predictors.  I'll have to dig back through the stack to see if I missed them.

Overall not a bad box, but not spectacular.  I'm happy I got a couple of hits that I want to keep. But for the most part it's standard flagship Topps.  I did get a full set and about 50 extras so that makes me happy. I did put the hits on ebay so my wife wouldn't kill me. But if somethings don't sell I'll offer them up to trades.

TTM Success Russ Snyder

When it rains it pours.  So I got my 71 Phil Roof back the other day and when I sent that one out I also sent out another 71. Hoping to get at least one back and luckily I got both and fast.

Russ didn't actually play with the Brewers in 1971, but he did play with them in the 1970 inaugural season, and it was also his last. Russ also won a World Series in 1966 with the Orioles, who are descended from the original Milwaukee Brewers way back in 1901.  Yeah it's a little beat up, but who cares?  Thanks Russ.

TTM Stats
Russ Snyder
PO Box 264
Nelson, NE 68961

Date Sent 9/27/12
Date Received 10/9/12

Second Annual Almost the Easiest World Series Contest on the Web!!

Well I'll say I'm a little disappointed we only got 12 people to enter this year, but that's better than two and with that we have our contestants.  And we have a lot of new people and I know that there are quite a few bloggers in flux right now or that have left us, so I'll take what I can get

So here we have the 12 contestants for this years Almost the Easiest World Series Contest on the Web.



Dawgbones - Nats over the Birds in 5, with 8 homers.

The Brooklyn Met - Reds over As in 7, 12 with homers.

DHoff - Tigers over Reds in 7, with 11 homers.

Milwaukee Southpaw - Reds over Tigers in 6, 16 homers

arpsmith - Giants over Yankees in 6, 7 homers

The Dimwit - Nats over Yanks in 6; 8 HR

High Five Man - A's over the Reds in 7; 21 homers

Dan - Yankees over Cardinals in 6; 11 HR

AdamE - O's over Cards in 7, 7 HR

BA Benny - Yankees over Reds in 6 with 12 HR's

Shane - Nats over Tigers, in half a dozen, baker's dozen dingers

Wilson - Yankees over Nationals in 7, 10 HR

Good luck everybody, I'll be updating the contest as the Semi's wrap up.

TTM Success Phil Roof

I finally got a 71 Brewer!!  And holy crap was that a quick turn around.  I wrote to Phil Roof about a week and a half ago and just got my 71 Topps back the other day.

I'm so happy that I was finally able to cross off 1971 from my Brewers TTM project.  Phil only played for the Brewers briefly, but he played in Milwaukee before that with the Braves.

TTM Stats
Date Send: 9/27/12
Date Recieved: 10/5/12

Address used

Phil Roof
1301 Pillar Chase
Paducah, KY 42001

Thanks Phil!!

Don't forget the Second Annual Almost the Easiest World Series contest on the web.

Well one of the teams I was rooting for made it through the Wildcard games.

Now that the Playoffs are set I've updated the official contest post.  You have until Sunday Oct 7th, 4pm Alaska time or 12 noon EST, to get your picks in.

Go here to leave your pick.