My town has one full
service post office and they only have three windows, usually only one manned, so I have a feeling if I
were to walk in with this stack of outgoing mail there would be some very unhappy
people waiting behind me so I decided to ship half of the stack today and the other half on Monday.
This isn’t everything,
this is part eBay sales, trades and contest winners. I
still have two more contest winner’s envelopes I need to get addresses for
(JediJeff and Richard Nebe Jr.) plus I am waiting for some items for Jeff’s Door
#3 prize.
I think one of the more unique cards to collect are test proof
cards, cards that were printed out prior to the printing of the cards to be packed out to ensure everything is
aligned and proper coloring. Most of the cards were destroyed, they were often
incomplete so there was no reason to keep them around, but they are actually
pretty easy to find.
Given they aren’t like a packed out card so some collectors
may not like having them in their collection but I do. I find that
having a collection that includes cards with blank backs, missing foil or text
or are just cut to an odd size makes me feel like I have something different to
offer with my collection.
A couple of recent pickups are from the 1999 Stadium Club
Never Compromise insert set. The first card has a blank back and is missing the
foil (top) while the second card is significantly oversized, blank back, no foil and
with some of the printer’s codes along the bottom (Below).
Tom/The Angels In Order has selected the 1993 Ted Williams Buck Leonard autograph with the 1st pick Captain Canuck has selected the Dave Prowse Darth Vader autograph with the 2nd pick. Brett Alan has selected the 2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Monte Irvin autograph with the 3rd pick. JediJeff has selected the Door #3 gambler prize with the 4th pick. Matt has selected the 1982 Fleer Cal Ripken Jr rookie card with the 5th pick. I do not have Richard Nebe Jr.'s email address to let him know that he is getting the 2009-10 Panini National Treasure Mikan printing plate. If anyone has his email address or if Richard sees this, please contact me using the email address in the right column.
The way that this draft will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool, winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five and six will continue the process.
Now on to the winners:
First pick winner:
The Angels In Order
Second pick winner:
Captain Canuck
Third pick winner:
Brett Alan
Fourth pick winner:
JediJeff
Fifth pick winner:
Matt from Diamond Jesters
Sixth pick winner:
Richard Nebe Jr.
The remaining prize:
2009-10 Panini National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate
EDIT- Tom/The Angels In Order has selected the 1993 Ted Williams Buck Leonard autograph with the 1st pick Captain Canuck has selected the Dave Prowse Darth Vader autograph with the 2nd pick. I don't have Brett Alan's email address to contact him for the #3 pick, if anyone has it or if Brett sees this please send me an email using the link in the right column.
The prize winners have
been selected and now is time for the draft. I have decided to include a total
of 6 prizes, the first 4 I have already posted but I am adding a 2009-10 Panini
National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate and a “Door #3” prize,
which is unknown.
The way that this draft
will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able
to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their
prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool,
winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five
and six will continue the process.
Now on to the winners:
First pick winner:
The Angels In Order (Sorry, I accidently called you Angels in the Outfield in the video)
Second pick winner:
Captain Canuck
Third pick winner:
Brett Alan
Fourth pick winner:
JediJeff
Fifth pick winner:
Matt from Diamond
Jesters
Sixth pick winner:
Richard Nebe Jr.
The four remaining prizes:
1982 Fleer Cal Ripken
Jr. rookie card
2004 Topps All-Time Fan
Favorite Monte Irvin
2009-10 Panini National Treasures
George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate
Door #3 prize- This
prize is unknown but will include at least 2 cards, may be autographs, relics,
vintage, rookie cards, non-sports or other. The cards will be collectible (so
no base cards, dupes or a dump of junk wax), but other than that you will have to be
a gambler to find out.
I will reach out to each
of the winners to let them know that they have won and we will then begin the
draft. Once all winners have made their selection and I have gotten their
address I will mail out the card in bubble mailers over the next week,
Thank you all for joining my 2,000-post contest. There
are 33 people who joined and I tonight I will be running the list through
random.org and I will post the winners tomorrow.
The process will be the top sport on the first
randomizer will select what they want from the prize pool, the first person on
the second randomizer will select what they want from the remaining prizes and
so on until all the prizes have been selected.
My #2000 post contest
ends tonight at 11:59 pm PST. If you have not posted that you are interested in
taking part of the contest you can go to the original poste <HERE> and
say you are interested in the comments section.
EDIT- 5:00 PM PST
We just hit 31 people signing up for the contest so here is another prize. If we get to 40 people signing up I will add another prize.
This David Prowse Darth Vader autograph is now part of the prize pool along with the 3 prizes I originally posted.
Last night my daughter’s
choir was part of a group of middle school choirs who sung the national anthem
at the Diamondback’s game. She got in free and parents got tickets at half
price (first level outfield bleachers) through the school.
The game was a barn
burner of a game and ended with the Diamondbacks winning 13-11 and it seemed
like everyone hit a homerun except for the one guy I wanted to see hit a homer,
Giancarlo Stanton. There were 7 homeruns (3 Miami and 4 Arizona) with Miami’s
Marcell Ozuna knocking two and Arizona’s Chris Iannetta also knocking two with
one of those being a grand slam in the 6th that put the D-Backs
ahead 12-9. It was definitely an entertaining game that I got to enjoy with my
baby girl.
Wallet card Griffey made
a couple of appearances but because we were sitting in the outfield I didn't get the best pictures, here he is with Stanton at bat.
This month’s Art Gallery display comes from the amazing
artist Jay Pangan III; who has worked with most of the major companies from
Topps to Leaf, Cryptozoic and Unstoppable Cards. His work is amazing and I
would say his work is up there with some of the best illustrators.
Pangan has a couple of different styles with his pencil
sketches being the most common but I am a much bigger fan of his color work.
The card is of President Ford and his wife Betty and is done in ink and colored
pencil for the 2014 SBay Super Break release. SBay is best known for putting
anything and everything in their high end boxes with some running well over
$5,000 each. The sketch cards were just an extra card and was not included in
the item count in each box.
I picked up the card because any time I can get a pretty
cool President card for under $7 I am happy to include it in my collection.
It has taken 8 years, 3
months and 12 days but today is my 2,000th post on Pack War.
My first post was on
June 6, 2009 and I started with a simple post about some ideas that I had for
the blog, I honestly did not even consider the future of the blog. When I started
I had been reading a couple of blogs regularly and I liked the way that
collectors were interacting with each other and I wanted to be able to share my
story too.
I hadn’t even realized I
was this close to 2,000 posts until I was writing up a couple of Question Day
posts that I save as drafts and looked over and saw I was at 1,991 published
posts and I started wondering if I should just post #2,000 and not make a
mention about it, just add it at the end of a regular post or should I do
something special? I decided to do
something, a giveaway. Nothing big but I wanted to make it special.
Here is what you need to
do to be part of the giveaway:
1.Post
here by Sunday 9/24/17 at 11:59 pm PST
That’s it
The prizes:
1982 Fleer Cal Ripken
Jr. rookie card
1993 Ted Williams Buck
Leonard autograph
2004 Topps All-Time Fan
Favorites Monte Irvin autograph
Awarding of the prizes:
When the contest closes on
Sunday 9/24/17 at 11:59pm PST I will run the entire list through Random.org three times with
the #1 person on each randomization winning a prize.
The person in the #1
position on the first randomization gets first choice
The person in the #1
position on the second randomization gets the second choice
The person in the #1
position on the third randomization gets the remaining card
Additional:
If it reaches 50 people
joining I will add at least 2 additional prizes in which case I will follow the
same rules with the awarding of the prizes but with two additional
randomizations with the person in the #1 position on each of those
randomizations being the winner of a prize.
I close with thanking everyone who has visited Pack War and read my posts. I really do appreciate it.
Forty years ago on September 20, 1977
during the 5th season of Happy Days in the episode Hollywood: Part 3,
Fonzie jumped a shark during a water skiing competition. The episode did extremely
well but many years later during a discussion of television shows on the
decline, some college students at the University of Michigan, including John
Hein, brought up this specific episode as the one where Happy Days was no
longer original and fresh.
The term “jump the shark” was born as a description of when
something popular begins to no longer be popular. Typically, the expression is used
for television or movie sequels but can be used in describing almost anything
in pop culture, among other things collecting too.
I know today is not a
normal question day but what sets would you say jumped the shark? This isn’t
limited to modern sets but any set/series/product ever made.
I know there are more,
but the only one coming to mind is 2011 Topps Triple Threads when they created
manufactured relics for John Henry, Leif Ericson and Pecos Bill. Not only did
that bring attention to Topps rehashing Triple Threads designs over and over
but unleashed manufactured relics as a “hit” in products.
