Part 2 of this week's purchases has arrived

For $10.50 shipped, the Tony Conigliaro RC from the '64 set is here.  In case you were wondering about Bill Spanswick on the bottom, he only pitched in the majors during the '64 season, going 2-3 with an ERA of 6.89.   Boston's record in the 29 games that Spanswick pitched?   3-26.  Ouch.

I had to look at Tony's stats to see where he hit the 42 doubles in 83 games that is mentioned on the back of the card.  He played for Wellsville in the single A New York Penn League in 1963.  That team also featured another notable Red Sox hitter, George Scott.

The card is in nice shape; off center but the edges and corners are nice and for $10.50 this was an easy addition to the set.

Just 38 cards to go...less than 1 a week to finish by the end of 2016!

thanks for reading, Robert

Upon further review

As I had mentioned last week, I finally took the time yesterday to go over the 3 binders that comprise the SNI set.  My lackadaisical tendency to put the cards away at times led me to believe that I may have made some mistakes when it came to reconciliation time on the spreadsheet.

I did better than I thought.  I was only missing 3 cards that I had on the spreadsheet.  Not a major catastrophe, but it means that I now have 23 serial #'s left to find for the set.  It also means that the post last week about 23 teams being complete is also incorrect.   I'm back down to 21, as 2 of the 3 cards I was missing were for Red Sox players, and the 3rd was a Pirate.  

Going through the pages also allowed me to stumble on something that I found interesting.   Cards # 620 and 621 to be precise...

Back to back in the set are a pair of Kevin Youkilis cards.   Totally unintentional.  Even better is that they are from 2 different teams with Sox as their nickname. 

I also noticed that I had 2 Yovani Gallardo cards from the same set (2012 Topps Heritage), although those serial numbers are quite far apart, 382 and 1129.  I may have some fun when this set is completed, figuring out such things as which player appears the most, which set is represented the most, etc. 

For now, I'm just happy that I was only missing the 3 cards....

thanks for reading, Robert