On Wednesday 23 Dec 2015: I got a small box from Upper Deck. A little back story. I had gotten an email from an Upper Deck rep. Probably someone followed my blog. Apparently someone there likes my "Upper Deck Collection". I'm not sure what specifically they liked, but they mentioned they had some left over promo boxes of 2015 CFL Football and would I like a box? Sure I said. So a few weeks later I have a 2015 Upper Deck CFL Football Hobby Box 24 packs 6 cards per pack.

I plan on doing an old school opening soon. I won't attempt a video opening I stink at those and always drag on too long. I plan on scanning the unopened box, an unopened pack and then a sampling of the base cards, scans of the inserts and hits. I will attempt to do a nice review of it.

I'm not much of a fan or collector of CFL so I don't know who the big star guys are currently are. I don't have a "favorite" team from the CFL. I'm not sure if I will attempt the 200 card base set, this box might give me about half a base set, it could also give me tons of duplicates. I will probably either try to sell or give away most of these cards.

Final Mailday Catchup for now December 2015:

Thursday 03 December 2015:
Sportlots 2 cards 1 dealer Both auto cards both .25¢ shipping was $3.25 + $1.00 extra
2007 Topps Turkey Red Baseball: Gold Autograph 127 Ryan Zimmerman Nationals black sharpie #d 0347/1999
2011 Topps Chrome Baseball Certified Autograph 33 Danny Espinosa RC Nationals blue sharpie

Thursday 10 December 2015:
Got another reminder from The Wrapper. UGH gotta renew sub. They included 3 cards again:
1976 Donruss Space 1999:
54 Dr. Russell is Captured by a race of Cannibals
55 Alpha astronauts calculate speed of runaway moon.
1979 Topps Alien: 28 Space Tug: Disengaged blue puzzle back

Friday 11 December 2015:
Sportlots auction 2 cards .25¢ + shipping $3.50 standard PWE marked Do Not Machine (and UGH listed my city as Silver Springs it is a single spring in Maryland not plural the plural Silver Springs is in Florida) Used an UltraPro Card Saver Double UGH. At least the cards are low common base BV to begin with.
2000 Topps Baseball Topps Combo TC-3 Glover Birds Brooks Robinson Cal Ripken Orioles
2002 Topps Baseball T206 456 Honus Wagner Pirates Red (copyrighted 2003 though)

Mail Days Catchup November 2015:

Friday 06 November, 2015:
Nice package of Washington Baseball “Curly W” cards from blogger John Arnold of “pursuitof80s” based in the UK. Obviously most are newer Nationals but there are some retro Senators cards I’ll mention those. If no special notation they are current Nationals franchise (2005-present) I’ll list in chronological order except for the lone early ‘60s vintage that I’ll leave for the last.
2008 Upper Deck Baseball First Edition Update 496 Odalis Perez
2011 Bowman Baseball BDPP11 Mike Wright
2011 Topps Opening Day Baseball 86 Stephen Strasburg
2011 Topps Chrome Baseball 149 Ian Desmond
2011 Topps Baseball Kimball Champions Insert KC-37 Stephen Strasburg
2011 Topps Baseball Stickers:
182 Ryan Zimmerman
183 Ian Desmond
2011 Topps Baseball Reproductions: CMGR-30 Walter Johnson Senators 1909 T204 Repro
2012 Panini Triple Play Baseball 90 Stephen Strasburg
2012 Topps Baseball Golden Moments Insert GM-10 Ryan Zimmerman
2013 Panini Cooperstown Baseball:
7 Walter Johnson Senators
24 Leon “Goose: Goslin Senators
2013 Topps Baseball Opening Day 70 Danny Espinosa
2013 Topps Chrome Baseball:
212 Ryan Zimmerman
220 Bryce Harper
Purple Refractor 128 Anthony Rendon RC
All-Star Game MB-27 Bryce Harper
2013 Topps Baseball Insert Chase It Down CD-3 Ryan Zimmerman
2013 Topps Baseball Insert Making Their Mark MM-25 Stephen Strasburg
2013 Panini Triple Play Baseball 90 Jayson Werth
2015 Panini Donruss Baseball 178 Jordan Zimmermann
2015 Gypsy Queen Baseball:
51 Anthony Rendon
93 Max Scherzer
Gold Framed: 76 Gio Gonzalez #d 383/499
2015 Topps Baseball Opening Day:
14 Michael Taylor RC
45 Bryce Harper
103 Ryan Zimmerman
152 Ian Desmond
Hit The Dirt: HTD-14 Denard Span
Superstar Celebrations: SC-08 Bryce Harper
Stadium Scenes: STA-DD David Joseph Dick Jr.
1962 Post Cereal Baseball 73 Dick Donovan Senators

Saturday 14 November 2015
Package 1:
Non-Sport Update Magazine Vol 26 No. 6 (Dec 2015/Jan 2016) Star Wars The Force Awakens cover. Price Guide insert has Star Trek: The Next Generation Portfolio Prints cover.
3 Free Promo Cards:
Marvels Agents of Shield Season 2 P2
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies P9
Japanese Horror Yoshitoshi 3D Promo Card Two

Package 2:
Abel’s TCC Baseball Group Break. Homie team Nationals, Discount team Rangers, Random cards Rays.
2015 Bowman Baseball Chrome:
16 Yunel Escobar Nationals
67 Denard Span Nationals
102 Prince Fielder Rangers
112 Neftali Feliz Rangers
133 Jordan Zimmermann Nationals
144 Adrian Beltre Rangers
185 Joey Gallo Rangers
BCP170 Jorge Alfaro Rangers
BCP193 Justin O’Conner Rays
BCP200 Lucas Giolito Nationals
BCP201 Luke Jackson Rangers
BCP205 Jefry Rodriguez Nationals
BCP246 Reynaldo Lopez Nationals
BCP249 Michael De Leon Rangers
Bowman Scouts Updates: BSU-NM Nomar Mazara Rangers

2015 Topps Hi-Tek Baseball:
HT-MTR Michael Taylor RC Nationals
HT-JGZ Juan Gonzalez Rangers

2015 Panini Elite Baseball:
33 Anthony Ranaudo RC Texas
33 Anthony Ranaudo RC Texas Emerald Parallel #d 123/199
45 Yu Darvish Texas
171 Alex Cobb Tampa Bay
172 Shin-Soo Choo Texas
189 Max Scherzer shown in college uni Missouri Tigers (Nationals)
190 Stephen Strasburg shown in college uni San Diego State Aztecs (Nationals)
196 Nolan Ryan Texas
HIT: Future Threads: 17 Trea Turner Washington large patch 3 color white/blue/red #d 10/25

Monday 23 November, 2015:
Two Sportlots packages.
Package 1:
9 cards from 3 Sportlots auctions same dealer. Each auction I got for 25¢ shipping was $3.75
All were 1968 Topps Baseball (1 team per lot):
83 John Stephenson Cubs
122 Gene Mauch MGR Phillies
181 Jerry Zimmerman Twins
184 Lou Johnson Cubs
202 Adolfo Phillips Cubs
206 Cal Ermer MGR Twins
225 Richie Allen Phillies
276 Jim Roland Twins
434 Ricardo Joseph Phillies

Package 2:
Single card from Sportlots auction .25¢ Shipping $2.75
1954 Bowman Football 109 Ed Sharkey B’More Colts

Monday 30 November 2015:
Sportlots auctions from one dealer 3 cards .25¢ shipping $3.00 (based on original $2.00 for 1st then .50¢ for each additional)
1961 Topps Baseball:
306 World Series Game 1 Virdon Saves Game
310 World Series Game 5 Face Saves The Day
1962 Topps Baseball: 43 Los Angeles Dodgers Team Card
Bonus Cards:
1989 Upper Deck Baseball: 231 Greg Walker White Sox
2011 Panini Rookie & Stars Longevity Football 233 Robert Quinn Rams Rookie.

Mail Days Catchup for October 2015:

Monday 05 Oct 2015:
Package from Blogger Bert Young (Swing and a Pop-Up) a batch of cards to help with one of my set builds. He left a post-it note “Good luck with the rest of the set!” I’ll just list the numbers to save space.
2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Baseball:
1-6, 8 8, 18-19, 21-29, 32-48, 50-51, 53-54, 56-57, 59, 67-70, 72-83 (2 of #76), 85-89, 95, 103

Thursday 08 Oct 2015:
A PWE from blogger Jeff aka: 2x3Heroes. He sends the cards in a cut row from a plastic card pocket sheet. He can get up to 6 cards per pocket depending on the type and thickness of the card. He usually sends me my Homie Washington teams, and also B’More teams all sports. This time it was Only Baseball:
Pocket 1:
2006 Upper Deck Baseball Starquest 74 Nick Johnson Nationals
2007 Fleer Ultra Baseball 234 Lavale Speigner RC Nationals
2006 Topps Baseball National Baseball Card Day T3 Ryan Zimmerman RC Nationals
2008 Upper Deck Baseball Series One 168 Cristian Guzman Nationals

Pocket 2:
1988 Topps Baseball mini 61 Cal Ripken Orioles
1993 Upper Deck Baseball 827 Orioles Checklist Glenn Davis
2000 Topps Baseball Chrome Highlights 460 Jesse Orosco Orioles
2011 Topps Baseball 60 Years of Topps 60YOT-87 Eddie Murray Orioles

Pocket 3:
1992 Topps Baseball Gold 540 Ben McDonald Orioles
2008 Topps Heritage Baseball 391 Ryan Zimmerman Nationals
2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes 168 Luke Scott Orioles
2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Baseball 140 Ryan Zimmerman Washington

OK here is the first of a series of 4 sort of long posts to catch up on my mail days listings. First up Sept 2015:

Monday 14 September 2015
Cards from 5TooSweet’s (Abel) TCC Baseball Group Box Break. My bought my standard homie team Nationals and bought bonus discount team Twins. It was mostly just my Nationals so I’ll only mention a team if it is not a Nat card.

2015 Topps Baseball Chrome:
8 Denard Span
23 Stephen Strasburg
59 Kevin Kiermaier Rays (random)
81 Bryce Harper
98 Max Scherzer
99 Doug Fister
FUTURE STARS FSC-07 Michael Taylor

2015 Topps Stadium Club Baseball:
42 Jordan Zimmermann
137 Rondell White Expos
142 Antony Rendon
202 Stephen Strasburg
222 Tanner Roark
251 Jayson Werth
296 Max Scherzer
CONTACT SHEET CS-22 Bryce Harper
LUMINOUS TRIUMVIRATE Die-Cut T-6A Bryce Harper

2015 Topps Allen & Ginter:
28 Jayson Werth
101 Stephen Strasburg
106 Yunel Escobar
235 Michael Taylor RC
266 Drew Storen
303 Denard Span
MINI: A World Beneath Our Feet Bug-8 Death’s Head Hawkmoth
STARTING POINTS: SP-97 Bryce Harper

BONUS CARDS: Cards for my almost dead goal “Strive For ‘65” set build: 7 Cards
1965 Topps Baseball:
26 Bobby Knoop Angels
32 Herman Franks MGR Giants
48 Claude Raymond Houston Colt 45’s
53 Dick McAuliffe Tigers
72 Tony Gonzalez Phillies
96 Sonny Siebert Indians
97 Pedro Gonzalez Yankees

Tuesday 29 Sep 2015
Got my renewal order form for my subscription to The Wrapper. Oops still need to complete that, will probably miss an issue or two now. As a bonus tbey sent 3 vintage Non-Sports cards from Donruss 1976 Space 1999 TV show:
Each card has a photo on the front with card number and copyright info with a piece of the card puzzle on back. Most of the titles are hard to read since the text is right over the color photograph, some cards the text is in black, blue or sometimes white depending on the contrast for the photo, but many are hard to read.

14 Alpha Astronaut Checking security system
42 Main Mission Crew Fights Deadly Alien Foam
43 Prof. Bergman Analyzing Trays