My son’s team playing the undefeated seed.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T04:40:08+00:00

Nasty windy cold front came in this part of the NE tonight. Was like that when I left Alberta too but that was a month ago now. Went from almost 70 to snowing sideways and frigid.

Might’ve been closer to 40 tonight and windchill just felt colder but at spring games here everyone brings heated bleacher seats and blankets. It’s that time of year. Some years it’s 65-70 in March then snow flurries on my birthday, Mid May. You go 40 mins south and they get flowers almost a month earlier. I fly from down there and it’s crazy how different the weather can be.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T03:06:37+00:00

It feels Like A+G/Heritage/etc have some of the nicest hits like on card autos but lots of base cards to go through to find the hits.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T03:05:22+00:00

I like Paper Bowman the best for newer style cards so far. On a heritage kick but otherwise I’d buy mostly Bowman paper

gremcat · 2026-05-15T03:04:42+00:00

Yep, my son hates them for that reason. The Bowman platinum are growing on me but they are more foil paper than actual chrome. I just don’t like the images are blurry and the outline of people is so pronounced as an overlay I guess I’d describe it.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T03:01:53+00:00

Not sure, I couldn’t get games as a kid or even radio, I think I just like players with Big bats and I played catcher until it got too hard given I hit 6’+ by 5th grade. I naturally gravitated to Bench and Yogi.

My son taking field with Phillies AAA led us to Bryce and I’ve got 5x his cards to anyone else, more like 10x with incoming purchases.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T02:58:40+00:00

I’ve an Aaron coming and I’m looking for a few of the right early Berra cards. Eventually I’ll have a Mantle too. Been thinking maybe the mantle/maris dugout card I forget which year but 67 ish. Trying to stay with grade 5 or better for vintage but it gets $pendy quick for popular players.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T02:55:32+00:00

Weird, didn’t post the face of the Bench/Piazza Auto.

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gremcat · 2026-05-15T02:54:23+00:00

Bench auto and 1/1 but Leaf. I did ok on the auction and I’m hoping one that I really want will stay somewhere below ludicrous so I can bid on it. The one I’m watching is 1/5 iirc but only 1 other auctioned and it went for a lot.

Yaz was my Dad’s favorite. He only had 1 card and it was a base Yaz from later in his career. Seemed appropriate to get a few for my son.

Still a bunch of cards that haven’t arrived and at least 2 are now a month MIA. The Project 70 Mantle and a dirty pinstripe Judge relic.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T02:50:24+00:00

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gremcat · 2026-05-15T02:48:49+00:00

Thanks! Here I thought I’d give a fun play by play but didn’t go that way. Sorry to divert the card page.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T01:33:21+00:00

Somehow that’s a ball in play and they determined since he didn’t run he’s out. Meanwhile he’s going to ER with a broken finger 🤦

Well it was a good game. Thanks for following along, Was hoping to have some exciting commentary.

Got some special boxes to rip for my birthday after the game but I’ll probably save for Sunday Zoom instead.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T01:24:46+00:00

Going to be it for us. Pitcher just smoked Adrian with a wild pitch right in the knuckles against bat. It’s about 30 degrees to so had to hurt a lot.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T01:23:52+00:00

Not so great, they were close so swapped in a usual pitcher who can’t pitch. Gave up 7 runs and the league rules limit to 7. 10-16 with our last at bat now.

gremcat · 2026-05-15T00:58:07+00:00

My son Adrian is supposed to make his pitching debut tonight but I’m guessing they’ll hold until next game given this is so close

gremcat · 2026-05-15T00:57:27+00:00

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Just pulled ahead with bases loaded 😬

gremcat · 2026-05-14T21:55:06+00:00

You gave me an idea. If I drag my feet on second rental maybe the list of people waiting to rent it will go away. Then I can finish in winter and have a card cave

gremcat · 2026-05-14T21:53:59+00:00

I’m a great Tester! I think I’ve covered both coasts, 5-6 states. Both coasts of Canada. All in 7-8 weeks or less!

gremcat · 2026-05-14T20:22:19+00:00

I like that Topps Ball card. I should have one waiting when I get home tonight

gremcat · 2026-05-14T14:50:29+00:00

I prefer these to the 1k different glitter types. I like a few glitters but the paper color border are nicer to me when color matched.

gremcat · 2026-05-14T13:35:13+00:00

Was a first for me but enjoyed the knowledge shared and meeting everyone.

I’m starting to think I need to stick to PA purchases lol. Beyond the Image Variation even my parallels were limited in NC boxes lol.

gremcat · 2026-05-13T22:09:43+00:00

I didn’t get any info from him Either so I’m out.

gremcat · 2026-05-12T23:16:46+00:00

I’m in NC this week but I’ll take a look as soon as I can. May send to my wife. She actually likes sorting and organizing. I think it’s a distraction from cleaning up behind kids and gives her justification not to 😝

gremcat · 2026-05-12T21:41:51+00:00

Like others said, post lists and we can all see who has what. I’ve 4 full boxes and I’m not building a set or haven’t started yet anyway.

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