Pink

October is breast cancer awareness month, but I'm sure that many of you(if not all) already know that.  If you read Collecting Cutch at all, he provides some of the breast reasons to be aware.

I actually have a couple of friends who have lost their breasts to cancer, so I am not only aware of it during the month of October, but year round I am reminded of what cancer can do.

Maybe unwittingly, maybe not, I found a table at the monthly card show on the weekly that had dime boxes, and I bought a few pink cards.

The Bryant was a buck, but the other 15 GQ pink cards were 10 cents apiece.  I'm sure I'll find good homes for them before too long.

I also found nearly 20 of the pink Optic cards, all for a dime apiece.  One has already been shipped off as part of a trade, one is a Marcus Stroman card that goes into the Blue Jays collection, and the others I'm sure will find a home. 

I tried keeping this under the 5 minute allotted time (that is a thing now, right?) but had no luck.

I tried to be cool, but when I think of cool I think of this guy...

Thanks for reading, Robert

Inbound and Down #42: All Trade Bait, All The Time

Gotta love when an envelope arrives totally out of the blue.  I am expecting a couple of orders from ebay/Sportlots, but neither are due for a few days.

I arrived home today to find an envelope from Oscar at the All Trade Bait, All The Time blog.  It was nice to see some Blue Jays hit the household, as I really haven't focused much on them for the past several months (aside from sorting the entire collection).

The note that Oscar included hoped that if I already had these cards that they might be upgrades instead.  What's nice about having the collection sorted now is that I can find these quickly and see if they need upgrading.

3 more for this years Heritage team set.  I have 8 now, still need 7 base plus the 2 SPs to finish this years release.

This Kevin Pillar is one of two base cards I needed to finish the GQ base set.   Richard Urena is the only other card I need.

Speaking of Urena...

He and Pillar are linked again in this pair of 2018 Topps cards.  They're the last 2 for GQ, and they're the first two I have for the flagship. 

Interesting, I have hardly bought any 2018 product, but at 29 cards it isn't the year in my collection that has the fewest # of cards.  That happens to be 1977 with just 24.

Funny what you think of to add to a post while you're writing it.

Oscar, great cards, thank you very much!!!  The envelope was really appreciated!

Thanks for reading, Robert