I was telling a coworker about going through my box of baseball cards, and how I would like to get them into an album. I was told the sheets are available at Target. I like how a simple name was given: Card Guard, it's what they do. I got a pack of 70 sheets, 9 cards a page, and after getting home tonight I ended up using 90 percent of them. So my first binder is nearly full with over 500 cards! And there still are some complete sets I haven't arrived at yet, along with the box of a thousand unsearched cards. But I have been collecting them for a while. In many ways this reminds me of going through the postcards last year.
There were a few surprises in what I just found in my collection but not many. Most of them really are baseball cards. The first three pages are not, but the rest are. Two of them are hockey cards. I got one as a throw-in on an E-bay order, and the other for free when in South St. Paul for Kaposia Days as the former player's wife was running for office- state legislature. It was Phil Housley for the Calgary Flames. One is from a comedian, given instead of a business card. Another is Al Franken, when he was running for Senate. This does remind me of many of the buttons I have, another common collectible- they are a simple advertising tool. There are 13 football cards, notable that one of them is Fred Dryer, who later became an actor on the TV show 'Hunter'. He played for the then-Los Angeles Rams. Just four of them are basketball cards. The overwhelming majority are from Topps, as that is all I bought and most of these were purchased instead of given to me. This will likely change when I get farther into it, including the packs from Walgreen. Even the ones I found in cereal boxes, two cards together, were from Topps, they were in Post cereals. As I recall I bought this particular cereal for the cards. It was likely Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles which had the Flintstones characters advertising them. These were bought in the era when there was just 26 major league teams. Of the four expansion teams from 1993 and later I have just two cards- both from the cereal boxes. I think there are some more from the unsearched box of a thousand. I liked knowing how there were a decent number of Hall of Famers already recognized in the hundreds now in the binder. It's hard to say what the collection is worth, I may need to go to a 'Comic book guy' like on 'The Simpsons' to find out.
In many ways I will have to give some credit to the E-bay orders I have placed, in terms of finally doing something about it. Speaking of this, I did place another World's Fair postcard order. Both are from New York's 1939 fair, and one has a saying I've seen in a liquor store- 'Remember the donut and not the hole' which is why it moved up the priority list after finding it. The other was advertising Cuban cigars, now illegal in America. It has a map of Cuba in the background. So this would make it 12 World's Fair postcards. I'm still being picky about what I order.
There were a few surprises in what I just found in my collection but not many. Most of them really are baseball cards. The first three pages are not, but the rest are. Two of them are hockey cards. I got one as a throw-in on an E-bay order, and the other for free when in South St. Paul for Kaposia Days as the former player's wife was running for office- state legislature. It was Phil Housley for the Calgary Flames. One is from a comedian, given instead of a business card. Another is Al Franken, when he was running for Senate. This does remind me of many of the buttons I have, another common collectible- they are a simple advertising tool. There are 13 football cards, notable that one of them is Fred Dryer, who later became an actor on the TV show 'Hunter'. He played for the then-Los Angeles Rams. Just four of them are basketball cards. The overwhelming majority are from Topps, as that is all I bought and most of these were purchased instead of given to me. This will likely change when I get farther into it, including the packs from Walgreen. Even the ones I found in cereal boxes, two cards together, were from Topps, they were in Post cereals. As I recall I bought this particular cereal for the cards. It was likely Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles which had the Flintstones characters advertising them. These were bought in the era when there was just 26 major league teams. Of the four expansion teams from 1993 and later I have just two cards- both from the cereal boxes. I think there are some more from the unsearched box of a thousand. I liked knowing how there were a decent number of Hall of Famers already recognized in the hundreds now in the binder. It's hard to say what the collection is worth, I may need to go to a 'Comic book guy' like on 'The Simpsons' to find out.
In many ways I will have to give some credit to the E-bay orders I have placed, in terms of finally doing something about it. Speaking of this, I did place another World's Fair postcard order. Both are from New York's 1939 fair, and one has a saying I've seen in a liquor store- 'Remember the donut and not the hole' which is why it moved up the priority list after finding it. The other was advertising Cuban cigars, now illegal in America. It has a map of Cuba in the background. So this would make it 12 World's Fair postcards. I'm still being picky about what I order.
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