Welcome to my blog. Preparing for the last Cardboard Hurrah

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Goodwill spoke to me!

I knew that something was leading me to stop into goodwill the other day.  This time I was right!  Check out this awesomeness!

 At first glance I thought this was Randy Travis.  Regardless he is in the bobble hoard.
 Check out the backside of what really got me excited.
 Hometown squad mascot. HOMER
 Not sure why Homer's butt is here again but look at the best part of finding bobbleheads at Goodwill
 Hot Damn!  It appears this one is autographed. Score
I will continue to snag any bobble that crosses my path...jack.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A Junior Junkie delivers the Brick

I got a small first class flat rate brick a couple of days ago from TJ of Junior Junkie. So many Braves!  Awesomesauce. What I am about to share are the Braves that I pulled from the gargantuan package that were not already in my binder.  So So Rare for me to add this many players at once.  I'm in your debt TJ!
                                             Dennis Burlingame
 Manny Acosta
Nick Ahmed
 Anton French
 Brad Woodall
 Graig Nettles
 Chase Larsson
 Matt Murray
I will be rocking this beauty at my next poker night!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Todd Father sends me a package I can't refuse!

Tim of Home of the Todd Father sent me some brilliant Braves.  I'm going to spoil you with the top 4!

 I thought for long time Moylan would be our closer... Ummmm not so much
 Teheran Blue
 A beautiful chrome Andy Rookie!
Beachy Orange Refractor=Awesomeness

Thanks again Tim!!

Monday, March 25, 2013

Bo makes my mailbox come alive!

Bo runs one of the top flight blogs out there.  Very informative stuff at Baseball Cards Come to Life if you're not already following.  Bo recently inquired about a card he would like. I sent it his way and he sent some vintage towards North Alabama!

 Art and Doug Peek Out of the Shadows in my horrible picture taking
 Two more veterans
 Scrap Iron!
Mr. Three Run Homerun himself Earl Weaver!

Thanks again Bo!

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Arpsmith Drops a Heavy Package on Me!

Adam from the Arpsmith blog has become quite a good friend of mine and of my jbf junk blog.  He recently claimed a couple off one of my posts.  The return package he sent me seemed heavy.  It was because it was full of vintage gold.  Check out these new vintage binder residents!

 I love 1972's!
 Bob is so Awesome he gets his own scan!

 Welcome to 1973
 Red Schoendienst in all his glory.
 The gem in this one was a piece from the ArpSmith Vault!
Thanks again Adam!

Trying to stay a 2013 Topps Virgin-Help Me!

I pledged that I was going to steer cleer of 2013 Topps. Not one dime of my money has been dropped on this year's flagship other than a group break I participated in-and I'm not counting that!

I'm starting to waver a bit.  I was near a ToysRus yesterday and fought to not go in and grab a couple of blasters.  The purple parallels were calling my name.

My pledge was to spend that money that I would have spent on flagship on vintage instead.  I want to buy some vintage today.  I would spend $20 on a blaster.  So anyone out there in blogland this morning that wants to make a quick twenty-take my challenge.  I don't even want to know what or how much you plan to send-just like I wouldn't know on a blaster!

Shoot me an email or drop me a comment. Help me stay pure!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Group Break Loot and a Piece of Vintage Greatness

I participated in my first break over at Jason's blog-Joe Average.I did ok.  I will be back.  Here's just a couple of cards I knocked down.
 Bobby OPC!
 Run Bo Run
 Nomo. Do you need a platter to rest on?
 A hit that I have a great Red Sox home for!


Jason also claimed a couple of cards from me a while back and sent this vintage Auto for trade.  Wonderful!


Thanks for the break and the trade Jason!

Monday, March 18, 2013

An armistice with Ptown Tom

I have agreed to stop bombing PTown Tom of Waiting Til' Next year for now.  All that means is someone else is about to be bombed next until they bend under my barrage of cardboard. Who's the next target.  That shall remain mysterious for now. The first salvo goes out in tomorrow's mail. Tick Tick Boom

An epic 4 card envelope arrives at the JBF Junkpile

My buddy Brett, aka UCF, dropped an epic envelope in the mail to me this week.  Four cards that reek of awesomeness.  Brett knows what I'm all about and he delivered again!

 Ole Gaylord!
 A shiny great one that I did not have!
 Yes, I'm a Cardinal Fan.  And Jake is pretty much all it takes to get excited.
This is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for these days.  Baseball. Braves. Vintage.  You can't get much more vintagey than Chuck!  I'm ecstatic.  Brett, all I can say is thanks bro.  Payback will be coming soon and hopefully epic for your collection!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

I'm looking for a fantasy baseball player

My league needs one more team to be able to draft.   10 Team League on Yahoo.  Head to Head Scoring.  No buy in or anything just looking for another player.  First one in gets it. Shoot me an email at lifebythedrop79@yahoo dot com

Monday, March 11, 2013

Woody helps me with my Football Blues


I'll admit it.  I'm sad football is gone.  It's sad enough being a Cardinal fan but the offseason blows!  My buddy Jeff from CCW helped with my withdrawals by send me some Card's Cards.  Thanks Woody!
 A pair of Big Dan's
 QB awesomeness
 OOOOOOO.  Floyd.  So Shiny!
 I was so sad when Boldin left.
 One of my top five all time favorite Cards.
 Woody must have know that I have a soft spot for the Snake.
 Kinda wacky but he always played hard.
My favorite of the lot!  Thanks again Jeff!


Sunday, March 10, 2013

Shout out to Daddyoho and FanofReds

Sean from Screaming Line Drive sent me some cards out of the blue.  Always appreciate that, especially when they sport Blue and Red like the Bravos that Daddyoho sent me!

 Some Rooks!
 The crafty lefty!
 Smoltzie!
Thanks again for the Pile o Braves


Also showing up in my mail this weekend was a package from Chris at FanofReds.  Completely unexpected!  Thanks my friend.

 Some early 90's goodies!
 I love the 83 set
 Ginter and Turkey
 Legends Indeed
 A Tex that I've never seen!


Thanks again Chris and Sean!