Week in review: Chipped away at a lot of items

I guess I'd have to say that the best part of this week is that I minimized the card purchases, both online and in the stores.  I only spent $3 online and did all right; Justin (Twitter ID: @Jloza330) sent me some cards that hit a couple of want lists....

Justin saw my tweet about knocking off the Judge and Trout greens, so he sent me a message to let me know he had these 4.  $3  and these 4 were in my hands, and he generously also sent me this Andrew McCutchen rookie reprint

This is the sapphire version from the 2013 Bowman set, and it goes along with the Jim Thome sapphire rookie version I have from that year as well. 

Speaking of Jim Thome, I also picked up one of his older cards from a TCDB trade with regular partner John (TCDB ID:herkojerko).  Not only did I get the Fleer '94 card, but he sent a couple of Ichiro's as well.

Gotta love the '19 Archives version, using the '75 design.  I think it looks great, and it does a good job on the back as well, even if it doesn't have all of his stats.  The cartoon quiz I also found interesting, so I'll share it with you. 

How many .400 hitters played for a 1st place team?  Answer at the end of the post.

I've also developed a soft spot for the Diamond Kings cards for my player collections so I was glad to get this year's Ichiro also.

Not only did I get those 3 from John, I nabbed a trio of well loved '78s as well.

Yep, they don't look too bad via the scan, but John's grading on them was a bit tough, they are actually better than I expected.  The scan didn't pick it up very well, but there is a "33" to the left of George Mitterwald's name.   Uniform # maybe?  Nope, George played from 74-77 with the Cubs and wore the #15.  There's no telling why that 33 is there. 

Didn't even make it to half of the weekly budget this week, I spent just over $10 in postage for 4 envelopes, and $3 on twitter.  I even completed a trade with long time fellow blogger Colbey, hopefully repaying a bit of the kindness he has shown me and many others with his free breaks over the years.   I wound up sick last weekend so I didn't hit the monthly card show, thus the reason for the low dollar amount.  I'm hoping to pick up one of either Ozzie Smith's or Dave Parker's RC sometime this week to make up for it.

ANSWER:  None

Was shocked to see that answer, so I took a look.  Assuming that 1900 was used as the cut off for the modern era of baseball, then yes indeed it is true.  A few 2nd place finishes, but the teams that had players hit .400 were never a pennant winner.

Enjoy the hobby!

Robert