eBay Wins #217

Once again, collating all my miscellaneous penny wins by set has led me to a large amount of cards that won't fit in one post. Enjoy the first 96 1987 Topps, and their woodgrain borders that remind me of the old paneling in my parents family room. I actually had duplicates of a few, which I noted in the captions. I didn't think I really needed to see scans of all 3 Marvell Wynne cards.

1987 Topps
#3 Dwight Evans
#11 Indians Leaders
#24 Tony Walker
#29 Jimmy Key
#37 Marvell Wynne (x3)
#38 Dennis Leonard
#51 Mel Hall
#69 Lonnie Smith
#70 Charlie Hough

Fun fact about Lonnie Smith: He was traded from the Cardinals to the Royals in 1985, and became the first player to face the team he started the season with in the World Series.

1987 Topps
#83 Mike Davis
#85 Kevin Bass
#92 Urbano Lugo (x2)
#93 Jim Leyland (x2)
#117 Jim Beattie
#127 Vance Law (x2)
#133 Jose Oquendo
#135 Mike Easler (x2)
#137 Jerry Willard

I met Jose Oquendo a few months ago. He looks younger now than he does on this card.

1987 Topps
#138 Roy Lee Jackson
#145 Charlie Kerfeld
#152 Toby Harrah
#156 Mariners Leaders
#162 Mike LaValliere
#165 Jeff Reardon (x2)
#166 Bob Boone
#170 Bo Jackson
#175 Bob Stanley

I also met Mike LaValliere. He doesn't have Jose's fountain of youth, but he's one of the funniest players I've met.

1987 Topps
#181 Cardinals Leaders
#183 Andy Hawkins
#187 Mark Huismann
#198 Lee Mazzilli
#202 Ricky Wright (x2)
#213 Randy Myers
#221 Vern Ruhle
#240 Steve Balboni (x2)
#241 Danny Heep

LaValliere and Ozzie Smith make an appearance on that Cardinals leaders card.

1987 Topps #243 Whitey Herzog
#245 Willie Upshaw
#249 Jim Pankovits (x2)
#253 Eddie Milner (x2)
#263 Stan Javier (x2)
#267 Howard Johnson
#271 Mike Brown
#274 Jeff Hearron
#278 Gary Pettis

For whatever reason, I didn't have this Whitey Herzog card until now. That's one more off the want list.

1987 Topps
#280 Jeffrey Leonard (x2)
#289 Bob Kipper
#308 Don Slaught
#309 Mike Young
#318 Jim Fregosi
#321 Mike Laga
#325 Garry Templeton
#333 Ken Phelps
#334 Ed Correa

Mike Laga is the only guy to hit the ball out of Busch Stadium II. He did it with a foul ball, though.

1987 Topps
#341 Mike Brown
#344 Joe Niekro
#347 Mickey Brantley
#350 Keith Hernandez
#362 Luis Quinones
#363 Jose Guzman
#366 Mark McGwire
#373 Jeff Dedmon
#385 Orel Hershiser

I've been seriously considering purchasing a 1980s powder blue Keith Hernandez jersey from Mitchell and Ness, because not only was he a great player, but he wore my favorite number, 37. Plus I don't see many Hernandez jerseys around town, whereas McGwires are still everywhere.

1987 Topps
#387 T.R. Bryden
#388 Geno Petralli
#401 Billy Jo Robidoux
#402 Mike Trujillo (x2)
#407 Jim Acker
#411 Darnell Coles
#438 Kelly Downs
#441 Dave Leiper
#461 Craig McMurtry

No Cardinals in this scan? Boooo.

1987 Topps
#464 Butch Wynegar
#465 Todd Worrell (x2)
#466 Kal Daniels
#467 Randy St. Claire
#468 George Bamberger
#469 Mike Diaz
#479 Bob Sebra
#480 Jim Rice
#497 Dale Mohorcic

And we wrap up with Todd Worrell's card featuring the Rookie Cup.

These were again out of my half-cent box, which I created to even out the less-than-a-penny-per-card lots I bought. So these 96 count for 48 cents in my tracker.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3697
Total Spent	$54.39
Per Card	1.471 cents
Change	-0.026 cents

Fairfield Football Repack #3

When I find a good deal, I tend to go back for more. Here's another Teenymates repack with a mystery pack of cards, which, again, turned out to be 2013 Score.

2013 Score
#45 Jermaine Gresham
#80 Clay Matthews
#103 Jamaal Charles
#197 Robert Turbin
Airmail #243 carson Palmer
Franchise #283 Camerson wake
Future Franchise #319 Hakeem Nicks
Future Franchise #330 Alfred Morris
2013 Rookie #373 Jawan Jamison

2013 Score
#141 David Wilson
#203 Doug Martin
Road to the Super Bowl #266 Justin Tucker

At first glance I thought that David Wilson card was one of the horizontal cards, and didn't notice until after I scanned it. Still, even if it was correctly oriented he'd be upside down, so I'm going to let that one slide.

2013 NFL Teenymates
Cincinnati, Denver, San Francisco, Glow in the Dark

2014 NFL Teenymates
Carolina, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Monster

I got a rare figurine in 2 different packs in this repack. The Glow in the Dark from series 2 is inserted 1:64, while the monster is 1:37. And, the other 6 figures were all new to my collection.

2013 NFL Teenymates puzzle

2013 puzzle progress

2014 NFL Teenymates puzzle

2014 puzzle progress

All 8 puzzle pieces were new as well, putting me closer to completing both puzzles.

If you're a teenymates collector and have some duplicates to trade, see the list below for my duplicates (anything with more than 1) and needs (zeros).

NFL Teenymates
	Figures				Puzzle Pieces
Team	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
STL/LA	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
SF	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0
SEA	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
AZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
GB	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
CHI	0	2	1	0	0	1	2	0
MIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DET	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
TB	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
ATL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NO	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
CAR	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	1
DAL	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
NYG	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
WAS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
PHI	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0
Team	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
NE	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
NYJ	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
BUF	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
MIA	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
SD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
OAK	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
DEN	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
KC	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
IND	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
HOU	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
JAC	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
TEN	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	0
PIT	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
CIN	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
CLE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAL	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Piece	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
Tee					0	0	0	0
nyM					0	0	0	0
ates					0	0	0	0

RB Special: Glow-in-the-Dark

WR Special: Monster, Orange

eBay Wins #216

Not more 1987 Fleer?!

Not exactly; this is Fleer Update. This lot of 3 includes two guys who only had single-season careers, Ken Dowell and Jim Paciorek. Wally Ritchie stayed with the Phillies for several years.

1987 Fleer Update
#U-27 Ken Dowell
#U-95 Jim Paciorek
#U-104 Wally Ritchie

Update, Traded, or Extended sets always seem to be more rare than the flagship counterparts. In the past some of them were only sold as boxed sets, but other than that, I can't really explain it. When I want to complete a year of Topps these days, I like to get Series 1, Series 2, and what is basically Series 3, even though they call it update. I suppose the smaller sets of the past may have depressed pack sales a bit too. It's funny how that lack of interest in the past leads to increased interest in the present, due to relative scarcity.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3601
Total Spent	$53.91
Per Card	1.497 cents
Change	0 cents

Fairfield Football Repack #2

Something about Teenymates keeps me coming back for more, especially when they are half off the original price, and include a bonus pack of cards. In case you missed it last time, the box comes with 4 packs of NFL Teenymates. The cards this time were 2013 Score again.

2013 Score
#20 Ed Reed
#21 C.J. Spiller
#54 Tony Romo
#264 Terrell Suggs

2013 Score
#18 Bernard Pierce
#40 Andy Dalton
#143 Jason Pierre-Paul
#154 Darren McFadden
Airmail #231 Matthew Stafford
Franchise #294 Frank Gore
Future Franchise #305 Andy Dalton
2013 Rookies #406 Matt Scott

One of those Andy Dalton cards was the top card when I opened the pack and I wondered what the chances were I'd pulled a duplicate pack. I'm sure that happens sometimes. The card machines don't likely shuffled the cards completely randomly, but instead there are many different combinations, but multiple packs that use each combination. But, that wound up being the only duplicate from the last pack.

Let's see some tiny football guys!

2013 NFL Teenymates
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York Jets, Jacksonville

2014 NFL Teenymates
Oakland, Buffalo, Baltimore, Miami

And just for fun, the puzzle pieces and my progress.

2013 NFL Teenymates puzzle

2013 puzzle progress

2014 NFL Teenymates puzzle

2014 puzzle progress

That was as successful a repack as it could be. All 8 figurines, and even the puzzle pieces, were new to my collection. Here's my ugly table to track them all.

NFL Teenymates
	Figures				Puzzle Pieces
Team	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
STL/LA	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
SF	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
SEA	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
AZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
GB	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
CHI	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0
MIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DET	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
TB	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
ATL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NO	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
CAR	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1
DAL	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
NYG	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
WAS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
PHI	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0
Team	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
NE	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
NYJ	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
BUF	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
MIA	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
SD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
OAK	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
DEN	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
KC	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
IND	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
HOU	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
JAC	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
TEN	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
PIT	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
CIN	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
CLE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAL	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Piece	QB	RB	WR	OL	1	2	3	4
Tee					0	0	0	0
nyM					0	0	0	0
ates					0	0	0	0

eBay Wins #215

Today I've got the rest of my 1987 Fleer. People like to sell these cheap.

1987 Fleer
#524 Ed Olwine
#525 David Palmer
#526 Rafael Ramirez
#527 Billy Sample
#528 Ted Simmons
#529 Zane Smith
#530 Bruce Sutter
#531 Andres Thomas
#532 Ozzie Virgil

Ted Simmons and Bruce Sutter, both Braves here, played for the Cardinals. I wondered whether they were teammates in St. Louis, but Simmons left after 1980 while Sutter arrived in 1981.

1987 Fleer
#601 Bill Almon
#602 Rafael Belliard
#603 Mike Bielecki
#605 Bobby Bonilla
#606 Sid Bream
#607 Mike Brown
#608 Pat Clements
#609 Mike Diaz
#610 Cecilio Guante

Bobby Bonilla finished his career in St. Louis, though he's still getting paid by the Mets for something like the next 107 years.

1987 Fleer
#611 Barry Jones
#612 Bob Kipper
#613 Larry McWilliams
#614 Jim Morrison
#615 Joe Orsulak
#616 Junior Ortiz
#617 Tony Pena
#618 Johnny Ray
#619 Rick Reuschel

Tony Pena and Larry McWilliams were reunited in St. Louis for the 1988 season.

1987 Fleer
#620 R.J. Reynolds
#621 Rick Rhoden
#622 Don Robinson
#623 Bob Walk
#624 Jim Winn
#632 Bob Horner
Stickers
 Boston Red Sox and LA Dodgers
LA Dodgers and Cleveland Indians (x2)

I had a Bob Horner in the previous eBay post, but this one commemorates one of the rarest feats in baseball he accomplished in 1986, hitting four home runs in a single game. The next player to do it was Mark Whiten in 1993, and the previous was Mike Schmidt in 1976. He's also one of only two players to do so in a loss for his team, at least according to the record books. The other was in 1896.

1987 Fleer
#649 Ralph Bryant / Jose Gonzalez
#653 Rob Nelson / Steve Fireovid
Stickers
Oakland A's (x2)
Oakland A's and Houston Astros (x2)

I could see these stickers being good for labeling your boxes or binders if you store your cards by team. I work by set, though, so I'll keep them intact for now. As with the last post, these came from my half-cent box, costing me 21 cents, knocking my average below 1.5 cents per card.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3598
Total Spent	$53.88
Per Card	1.497 cents
Change	-0.012 cents

Pi Day 2016

As a math guy, I should really do more to celebrate Pi Day. It seems to have become more well known in recent years, but in case you don't know, today is 3/14, and Pi is the transcendental number that begins 3.14..., so today has been declared Pi Day. Rather than geek out about it from a math perspective, I've opted for a baseball slant. I haven't really posted anything about it for a few years, since 2013 when I declared it Pete Incaviglia Day, because at the time he was the only P.I. in the major leagues.

1993 Topps - ToppsGold #7 Pete Incaviglia

Just over a month after that Pi Day, we got another P.I. in the majors - Phil Irwin. I don't have any cards of his, but he played with Pittsburgh in 2013 and Texas in 2014, for a total of 8.2 innings. Phil's going to have to put in a little more work to get his name on Pi Day, so Happy Pete Incaviglia Day!

eBay Wins #214

Today I start to pay the piper for all the small eBay posts I made by splitting all my penny cards into lots by set. This isn't even all of the 87 Fleer I have to post, but there are too many Cardinals in the full stack to tag them all.

1987 Fleer
#153 Willie Hernandez
#165 Walt Terrell
#202 John Franco
#385 Joaquin Andujar
#386 Doug Bair
#387 Dusty Baker
#388 Bruce Bochte
#390 Chris Codiroli
#391 Mike Davis

As I said, there are Cardinals scattered through this post, even though the teams pictures are almost all A's and Dodgers. Joaquin Andujar is the first.

1987 Fleer
#392 Alfredo Griffin
#393 Moose Haas
#394 Donnie Hill
#395 Jay Howell
#396 Dave Kingman
#397 Carney Lansford
#398 David Leiper
#399 Bill Mooneyham
#400 Dwayne Murphy

Carney Lansford was a coach on Tony La Russa's staff in 1997 and 1998, so I sort of count him among Cardinals.

1987 Fleer
#401 Steve Ontiveros
#402 Tony Phillips
#403 Eric Plunk
#404 Jose Rijo
#405 Terry Steinbach
#406 Dave Stewart
#407 Mickey Tettleton
#408 Dave Von Ohlen
#409 Jerry Willard

Dave Von Ohlen started out with the Cardinals before moving to the A's.

1987 Fleer
#410 Curt Young
#436 Dave Anderson
#437 Greg Brock
#438 Enos Cabell
#439 Mariano Duncan
#440 Pedro Guerrero
#442 Rick Honeycutt
#443 Ken Howell
#444 Ken Landreaux

Pedro Guerrero is a Cardinal I actually remember, even though he only played 43 games in 1992, the first year I watched baseball. Rick Honeycutt had quite a long career, spanning 21 seasons with his last 2 in St. Louis.

1987 Fleer
#445 Bill Madlock
#446 Mike Marshall
#447 Len Matuszek
#448 Tom Niedenfuer
#449 Alejandro Pena
#450 Dennis Powell
#451 Jerry Reuss
#452 Bill Russell
#453 Steve Sax

Niedenfuer and Reuss are two more players to play for the Dodgers and Cardinals.

1987 Fleer
#454 Mike Scioscia
#455 Franklin Stubbs
#456 Alex Trevino
#458 Ed Vande Berg
#459 Bob Welch
#460 Reggie Williams
#491 Joe Cowley
#493 Bill Dawley
#494 Jose DeLeon

Not a Cardinal, but I enjoy cards of managers as players, like Mike Scioscia. Bill Dawley and Jose DeLeon, both White Sox here, were also Cardinals.

1987 Fleer
#501 Bob James
#504 Gene Nelson
#505 Dave Schmidt
#509 Jim Acker
#510 Doyle Alexander
#511 Paul Assenmacher
#512 Bruce Benedict
#513 Chris Chambliss
#514 Jeff Dedmon

No Cardinals players here, but Chris Chambliss was their hitting coach from 1993-95.

1987 Fleer
#515 Gene Garber
#516 Ken Griffey
#517 Terry Harper
#518 Bob Horner
#519 Glenn Hubbard
#520 Rick Mahler
#521 Omar Moreno
#522 Dale Murphy
#523 Ken Oberkfell

Finally, both Bob Horner and Ken Oberkfell played for the Cardinals.

I mostly post penny cards here, but I've purchased some lots for less than a penny each. In order to keep tabs on this (because why not), I put an appropriate number of them into a "half penny" box, so that in the end the total amount I spent is correct. So if I buy 11 cards for 10 cents, 2 go in the half cent box. Go ahead, work it out on paper, I know that sounds wrong at first. Now, I will swap cards in and out, keeping the right amount in the box, though I try to keep "junk" in the half-penny box, since more often those are the sets I wind up paying less for. In short, I count these 72 as costing me 36 cents.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3556
Total Spent	$53.67
Per Card	1.509 cents
Change	-0.021 cents

Belk Bowl Winnings

As he does each year, madding of Cards on Cards ran his confidence pool contest for the 2015 NCAA Football bowl season, with a side prop of picking the score of the Belk Bowl. I was closest on the Belk Bowl portion - even though I wasn't all that close - and received my first 2016 Topps of the year for it. I also got 2nd place in the contest overall, but that prize is too big for this post.

2016 Topps
#62 Trayce Thompson
#89 Edwin Encarnacion
#110 J.D. Martinez
#138 Francisco Liriano
#144 Jose Iglesias
#168 Nathan Eovaldi
#188 Greg Bird
#203 Aaron Hill
#210 Mike Zunino

My first reaction to 2016 Topps is that the design isn't consistent. The team logo is sometimes on the bottom left, sometimes on the bottom right, with no pattern seeming to emerge. As a very organized person, this bugs me a little.

2016 Topps
#214 Chris Colabello
#229 Jesse Hahn
#231 Chris Coghlan
#242 Matt Wisler
#243 Luke Gregerson
#256 C.J. Wilson
#260 Ryan Hanigan
#266 Jonathan Papelbon

2016 Topps
#270 Pat Neshek
#277 Elvis Andrus
#278 Evan Gattis
#281 Alex Dickerson
#286 Joe Mauer
#311 Dariel Alvarez
#317 Jose Altuve
#321 Hanley Ramirez

Pat Neshek was the only Cardinal in this pack, which seems pretty heavy on Astros, although that Orange-jerseyed Dariel Alvarez adds to the effect.

2016 Topps
#21 Mike Moustakas
#25 Brad Ziegler
#64 Corey Kluber
#155 New York Yankees
#162 RBI Leaders Josh Donaldson/Chris Davis/Jose Bautista
#170 Carlos Gomez New Order
#318 Washington Nationals

The horizontal cards have the same inconsistent logo location. One card set I tend to take for granted is the League Leaders, which have been 3 players on a horizontal card for several years now. If anyone at Topps is reading this, keep that up.

2016 Topps
Back to Back #B2B-6 Joc Pederson/Adrian Gonzalez
Berger's Best #BB-33 Don Mattingly
MLB Debut #MLBD-17 Ryan Howard
Pressed Into Service #PIS-8 Garrett Jones

Perhaps it only works with video, but that Pressed Into Service set, with position players who came in when the team was out of pitchers or just wanted to save some arms, is not complete without Mark Grace pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks, doing his best impersonation of Mike Fetters. Still, it's good to have a set dedicated to this rare and usually fun occurrence.

Thanks to madding of Cards on Cards for my first look at 2016 cards!

eBay Wins #213

Today's eBay win is a single card from Kmart's 1987 set, which is full of hall of fame players, including my card, Willie Stargell, and some current players from 1987 (some of which are also now in the hall of fame)

1987 Kmart #22 Willie Stargell

I feel like I've seen cards from this set a lot, but as it turns out, there were none in my collection yet. I couldn't resist, and I added Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, Roger Maris, and Fernando Valenzuela to my want list.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3484
Total Spent	$53.31
Per Card	1.53 cents
Change	0 cents