The generosity of this community astounds me. I've recieved packages from JV at
Treasure Never Buried, and the afore mentioned from
Stats on the Back among others. My only regret is that in the grand scheme of things, I'm pretty new to this world and don't have too much to offer in return. The fourteen year gap in my collection has meant that I'm essentially starting from scratch on this thing.
I have decided that as much as I'm enjoying myself, 2009 will be the first year that I actively collect a set in fifteen years. I haven't decided which one yet, but my goal is to put together a set by hand and do my best to get into this on line trading more than I am at the present.
Speaking of, two packages went out today, one to MLB Collector and the other to Hand Collated. I apologize for the lateness of getting these out, time has really slipped away from me over the past several weeks.
All that said, over the past several days two packages have come in that have me pretty excited. The first is a
huge box from
I Am Joe Collector that I haven't even begun to sift through.
Just for an idea of how large this box is, that's a 24 inch wide screen monitor in the background. And yes, that's Kirby from Nintendo fame sitting there peeping out over the box.
Like I said I haven't even made a dent in sifting through this box, but just looking at it something popped out at me. In the sea of white edged cards there were a few browns here and there. Hmmmmm. Being the lover of old cards that I am, those were the places I inspected first. Granted there weren't many of them, but thrown in the mix here and there were a few late 80s Topps. One 88 (Andres Galarraga, one of my all time favorites), a few 89's, but most importantly, one 87. I looked at it and thought "I've never seen this one before."
That's right, I'm now one card closer in my pursuit of the complete 1987 set.
That card is Dale Mohorcic. Mohorcic had a short but interesting career in the Bigs. From April 6th through the 20th of 1986 he appeared in a record thirteen straight games in relief.
Dale's claim to fame, however, came in a 1987 game against the Brewers where he was accused of tampering with the baseball, though the umpire's investigation showed no evidence and play resumed. After the game, however, Mohorcic began to complain of a sore throat and was taken to the hospital where he was found to be bleeding internally from swallowing a piece of sand paper.
The card notes that he attended Cleveland (Ohio) State University, not to be confused with the much more well known
Cleveland, Tennessee, where I bought a Big Daddy's Truck Stop hat probably fifteen years ago.
Moving right along.
This afternoon an envelope showed up from Joe at
MLB Collector containing a beautiful 1988 Score Andre Dawson.
Readers of this site should be well aware of my grand annoyance at pulling very, very few low numbered cards out of my box of '88 Score. Now thanks to trades and generous readers, I'm 16 cards away from the complete set and don't need many of those low numbered cards. But Mr. Dawson is one that I did need.
Funny thing about this card, is that this will be twice in the past several days that this card has been displayed on a card site. 30 Year old Cardboard wrote about it
here.
Since you can see the front of the card there, I'll show you the back, complete with Score's high quality copy writing. The quality of the photography, writing and the general quality of the card stock really make this one of the best sets of the 80s. It's unfortunate that it's so often overlooked.
I apologize for the poor quality of these scans, I'm learning to use the first new scanner/printer/thing I've had in ten years, so it's taking some time.
I've decided that I'm gonna keep this place up and running too, not a daily thing, but I'm having fun with it and I've got a few more posts in me. I still need to get around to posting some cards from the package from Stats on the Back and I'm sure there will be something of interest in this box from Joe Collector.
But that's all for now.
