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@wthballs Also. No insert set based on the blue Star Wars design (even something as basic as WAR Stars). And if I were king I'd've also pushed a set of Angels stars (from Nolan to Trout/Ohtani) using the Charlies Angels design.

@vossbrink Yep! Total joke. Ah well. I've given up on "modern" cards for years now, so it was to be expected. Heritage was the last one for me. Maybe down the line when prices come down a little I'll just buy a complete base set. A shame.

Wow. Just noticed that Topps didn't "keep it real" with 2026 Heritage by not including the facsimile autograph on front. I just ordered all the All-Stars (only cards I want since the prices for boxes of any kind are absurd) & noticed the auto's missing. OCD triggered...

@wthballs Skip-numbered SPs this year are a disaster too.

@vossbrink Love it! I'm actually bummed I'm not buying any 2026 Heritage because of the ridiculous pricing. 100% out of principle. At this point it's straight up robbery. The "1975-1978" Heritage run was something I was looking forward to 'cause that is my sweet spot as a kid. Oh well...

@wthballs If I were king of Topps I'd've dumped the autos and had the only parallels be foil stamped autos (and maybe player/team names) sorta like the 1994 archives set did.

@vossbrink I thought of you INSTANTLY! Always remembered you not liking the fake autos. Ha!

@prewarcards I just added the Andree when my COMC box arrived this week.

Man, I forgot about this video I made about three years ago. I've since picked up about 200 more cards so my binder is even more full these days.

Here's a glorious photo of two women and three girls on the Don Patricio causeway in Corpus Christi, 1930. A sensational image. So sharp! I think I'd be a bit leery of driving across the water on this structure, but folks back then were apparently a bit more courageous. When Colonel Sam Robertson bought Pat Dunn's interests in Padre Island in 1925, he envisioned developing the Island into the Miami Beach of the Texas coast. In 1927 he built the first causeway from the island's northern end to Flour Bluff on the mainland. He named it the Don Patricio causeway in honor of Patrick Dunn. The construction was very simple: four wooden troughs supported by a trestle. The troughs were spaced so that a standard automobile could place it tires in them and drive across. One pair of troughs was for eastbound traffic and one was for westbound. In the first month of its operation, 1,800 cars used the causeway and 2,500 used it the second month. After that use dropped, possibly because two or three trips across the causeway would ruin a set of tires from rubbing against the wooden planks. In 1933 a hurricane hit Padre Island and washed away the Don Patricio Causeway, leaving Padre Island once again largely inaccessible by vehicles. If you look to the south as you drive across the new causeway, the remains of the old causeway can still be seen.

@prewarcards Still can't believe I landed 99/120 of this set (blank backs) this year.

There's not a ton of interest in American Caramel's E123 set of actors and actresses, which is a shame. But the card of famous comedian Charlie Chaplin is the key and highly desired. Here's my example.

@prewarcards @onemillioncubs But was it the "error"?

@onemillioncubs I remember going to a card show with exactly $6 in my pocket. It was then that I learned to start buying cards I wanted instead of packs. Bought Ben McDonald's 1990 Upper Deck rookie, one of the hottest cards at the time, and never looked back.

It’s 1990. Timmy was shaking after ripping a pack of 1990 Donruss and pulling THE HIT…a rated rookie Ben McDonald. Dad knew this was gonna pay for Timmy’s college education, so he made sure to get that bad boy in a screw down.

@prewarcards Whoa

Not a ton of pre-war field hockey out there, but here's the sport featured with a team on a real photo postcard from the 1910s-20s. $20 shipped

In case you ever wondered what it would be liked to be engulfed in a lava fountain... This video was recorded by the V3 camera, located on the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i. The camera, located in a hazardous closed area of Hawai‘I Volcanoes National Park, was buried by tephra from an inclined lava fountain between 9:55 and 9:57 am HST on December 6, during episode 38 that began this morning at 8:45 am. RIP V3 🪦 V1 (youtube.com/watch?v=tk0tfY…) and V2 (youtube.com/watch?v=fiyttm…) continue to operate.

Pretty sure I've placed my last @CheckOutMyCards order. Especially after getting charged $25 for their $20 bulk shipping. A shame since I've been using that site for ages.

@phitter72 Good god man

Hope this one doesn’t drive you mad.

@prewarcards Holy crap was not expecting this kind of thing to exist for my Hoover PC…

c1940 postcard of US presidents dressed as football players. Includes the most recent presidents and famous earlier ones, including Washington and Lincoln. Unused. $35 shipped

@StormStacks @prewarcards Oh I made sure to send him a request.

@prewarcards @vossbrink That is outstanding. You should autograph it. 😎

I don't think I'd yet gotten around to mentioning it here but thanks to @vossbrink for creating these awesome Ogden-themed cards for the SABR Burdick Award that I won earlier this year!

#ArtnetNews: Pepperdine University museum director resigns after censorship scandal. Two politically inflected works were removed from a show at the school’s Weisman museum. Read more: bit.ly/3Limywa

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

@prewarcards Oh damn. Missed the Gestring card.

1936 Wampole's Olympic trade card of medal winners. The key subject on the card is Jesse Owens. Nicer shape - $35 shipped

@prewarcards A stealth card for Ralph Metcalfe collectors.

Another one of the few sports cards from the 1930s Schutter-Johnson Candy card set -- this is for the track and field athlete. $20 shipped

@prewarcards Realizing I have a Hawaii card from this set but it has a differently printed back.

1903 Parker Brothers Game of US History -- one of the key cards in the set featuring Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee representing the Civil War. Nicer shape - $50 shipped

@prewarcards I think this is for the Chicago Worlds Fair not New York

Here's an interesting one -- 1893 ticket to Manhattan Day in New York, featuring the Statue of Liberty. Decent condition. $35 shipped