Cards From Cards on Cards

How's that for a title. This is only the second time I've used it. 

Kerry recently sent me a batch of Red Sox cards.  I'm really late getting to this post, this recently was actually over a month ago.

This is my first Little Papi card.  I don't know if that's really his nickname but as the son of David Ortiz it should be. He was drafted in 2024 and has only played A ball so far. 

Without these two guys the Sox wouldn't have made the playoffs, if Roman had still been around I think they would have got a lot further than they did too. 

I don't know what this card is.  All I can come up with is 2023 World League Promo. I see there's an Otani and an Acuna but that's all I have figured out. I don't even know what company put then out. 

I don't chase refractors but I sure do collect them. 

This finished off a team set for me. When I buy team sets they usually don't come with the leader cards so I end up having to chase them all. 

When these cards came out, if you would have asked me which one still played for the Sox in 2025 and gave me two guesses, I would have got them both wrong. 

Opps, accidently scanned Xander twice.

Relics are another thing I don't chase but I sure do collect them. Kerry sent me two different color swatches even. 

Another team set finisher. No more chasing 2021s.

New to me Pedros are some of my favorite cards. 

My daughter started a new school this year. She came home one day and said there is a kid in her class who's dad played for the Red Sox.  Turns out it is Pedroia's son. 

New to me Nomar cards don't show up at my house very often. 

My collection is seriously lacking in stickers. Panini Topps all of them in just about every year. 

Thanks for the package Kerry, I'll be starting a new stack of Cardinals for you. 

Weirdness Or More?

Signa Cut cards are ugly they always have been but I still chase all the Virdons. In 2012 they put out a bunch of Bill Virdons.  

The were two Signa Cut sets in 2012: Regular and Bronx Edition.  Both were advertised as Gold/25, Green/10, Red/5, and Purple/1. That means there are eighty- two of them out there.  I completed the rainbow in the regular version long ago. 

The Bronx Edition has been totally different story.  I've never seen the Purple card numbered to 1,  which is totally understandable.  It probably got ripped by someone and it stayed in their collection.  Here's where the weirdness comes. 

That is the Bronx Edition numbered to 10. I've never seen the other 9 that are numbered to 10 and i search more than daily. I recently got the one numbered 4/5.

The 2012 Bronx Edition cards numbered to 25? I've never even seen one of them. It's crazy that a card numbered to 25 has never shown up when a /10 and /5 had shown up.  I call BS on there actually being ten of them numbered to 10 and he's why.  That cards numbered 4/5 i just got, it was my 5th one numbered to 5.

In thirteen years I was able to acquire every single one of the cards #/5 but not a single #/25 have shown up and only one of the #/10 has.  That seems like more than plain weirdness too me  I think maybe those 34 other cats may just plain old not exist. 

For 2013 I have /25, /10, /5, and I've never seen the #/1.

A Completed Team Set

When I got back into collecting cards in the early 2000s I bought a Red Sox Team set checklist on eBay. It consisted of all the Bowman and Topps team sets up through 2005. For each year there was an fill size checklist punched for a binder and there were mini checklists for a binder.  I pitched that whole binder of checklists years and years ago. The mini checklists I have mostly got rid of as I finished team sets.  There are a few of the minis that are still around though because they were in an empty slot of my binder. When I eliminated my binders a while back I got rid of the rest but for some reason not this one. 

I finally got that last 1953 Bowman Black and White. 

Jim Piersal eluded me for long enough and I finely got one to complete my team set. 

I'm going to post the whole team set but it's not a pretty of a picture as everyone else's would be because my team set is top loaded and bagged and I'm not taking them out just for a picture. 

I finished of the color set long ago. So long ago that I can't remember who the last card was. 

When I finished the color set I probably only had three of the black and white and it's taken years to track them all down. When I say years to track down that means years to track then down paying what I'm willing to pay for them.  I finally got the Piersal for $11.

And now:

Boxing Cards To Trade

I know most blogs are baseball and a little bit of football but hopefully someone will want these boxing cards. I thought about listing them for sale but I'd rather trade them if possible. I also have a complete set of 1996 Ringside and a bunch of other random 90s cards that are not pictured. If your interested just let me know. 

48-49 Leaf

1938 Churchman Cigarettes 

1951 Topps Ringside

Hanging

I've always hated hanging picture frames.  It doesn't make sense because it's not hard to do and doesn't take long but for some reason i absolutely hate it. I think maybe I'm a little too picky about the straightness and it bothers me enough I don't want to deal with it. But on an effort to make the new house more my own I hung some stuff today. 

This is a bunch of Virdon stuff.  The autographed bat is one Virdon used for fly ball practice at spring training.  It has hung in my office for almost ten years.  Inside the bat case is an autographed ball, an autographed spring training used batting glove, and a canceled per diem check from the yankees.  On top is a 1981 Stop and Go Virdon cup (because I can't figure out anywhere else to display it) and a Springfield Cardinals minor league Bill Virdon bobblehead.  The photo on the left also hung in my office and it's a picture of him after he was presented with his 1960 World Series ring. On the right is a painting I got from someone that purchased it from the Virdon Estate auction after he passed. (I promise the two pictures are straight, it's an optical illusion from taking the picture from an angle.)

Probably eight or so years ago I bought a shadowbox with the intension of making a collage of oddball Virdon items I have picked up over the years and don't really fit in a binder. I made several attempts and gave up each time because I don't feel like I'm very artistic and a never happy with how it looked. So it sat empty behind the credenza at my office all these years. I made another attempt at it and I'm pretty happy with it this time. 

Every other time I tried to display a whole bunch of Virdon items and it would always look too busy and haphazard. This time I went for simple.  Included is the nameplate from his his 1986 home jersey when he was part of the Pirates coaching staff. The number is just an autographed number I got off of ebay. He wore 9 when he played for the Cardinals his rookie year.  At the bottom is the sign off Virdon's locker while he managed the Astros. The name was hand drawn but the logos are stamped on there with and old school hand stamper.  I had his minor league all star belt buckle in there next to the number but I couldn't find something that was about the same size to balance it out for the other side. I almost went with a card but I didn't like the horizontal buckle on one side with a vertical card on the other side so I opted to just leave it out.