2 weeks of mail. May require "load" time!

[TheGriceBoys]

Well I have 2 weeks of mail to catch up on so here it be.

Before we start though I have a few shout outs to HI members in this mail thread again (surprise, surprise).

I have to thank Mike (turtlelo) for the Noah Clarke BAP Ultimate Gold Auto, The Marcel Dionne Legendary "personal" Scripts auto and the Rogie Vachon jersey card. Mike is just a solid class act all around. Thanks again my friend!

I also have to give give big thumbs up again to my buddy Bruce (suitman19). I caved in and bought ANOTHER of his Yzerman autos, 2 Lidstrom autos and a BIG thank you to him for pointing out a card on the bay I wanted, the Lidstrom Topps Premier Plus Game Piece Jersey card. Bruce, thanks again my man!

I also have to thank our own Jordan (hockeycardguy9) for my sweet new banner of my boy Magic Johnson. Thanks buddy!

And to "christen" the new banner I have some nice Magic pieces to show off that came in. I think EVERY PC got some love the past 2 weeks except for my 49ers collection. Thank you for stopping by and comments, as always, are appreciated and welcomed! Here's the bling!

Some goods for the Mets and Ensberg PC's. I really like the Nickname autos from GOTG. Need the HoJo and Rusty Staub for the Mets PC still.

More goods for the Mets PC, Ensberg PC and a token Boom Boom.

Ensberg SP Fielding Glove card and 1 for the Foppa and two for the Blake PC's.

2 more for the Blake PC and a couple more Av's RC's.

The FINAL Blake card for the run of 24 in SPGU. I have been waiting over a month for this thing to get here!

Nice hard-signed goodie for the Blake PC.

Haven't found anything of note for my Celebrity PC in awhile until I saw this and had to have it. The Chairman of the Board. Awesome card!

Another beautiful Topps Triple Threads piece for the Straw PC.

Topps Retired Uncirculated Refractor auto #/25

Stevie Y, Lidstrom and Drury autos.

Lidstrom again and a couple for the Kings PC.

Kings ink.

Kings team set given out at Luc Robitaille's final home game this year. Thanks to my sister for nabbing this one for me down in La La land. She took some unreal pics too as she was sitting center ice, ten rows back at this game. I'll post those sometime.

And to close some HUGE additions to the Magic Johnson PC.

First, the banner Jordan hooked me up (it's also in my sig).

Next a Gretz that got "stuck" in this scan. I had the top 2 cards in this pic but wanted cleaner verions and got em. That one top left is one of my fav Magic cards ever. Love the design and photo. The bottom left is a RARE card, very tough to find but I nabbed one finally. See next scan for the reverse shot.

Topps Stars GJ redeemed (Yes, a redemption GJ).

Topps Xpectations Bowman's Best Jersey card.

01-02 Ultimate Signature Auto. Some of you may not know this but I only do hard-signed Magic Johnson and Joe Montana auto's for my PC's of them. Saves me a few bucks (LOL) and keeps things in check......slightly!

04-05 SP Signature SP Auto. Card looks awesome in person but for some reason the scanner kills the auto in the gold foil background.

That's ok, you can see the auto just fine in the parallel gold version. Oh, and it's numbered to 10!

Here's a rare one. Numbered to 25 as well. Magic and Kareem have very few (7 or less I believe) cards on which they are both signers.

And to finish a 04-05 Ultimate Collection Signature Patch card. Yup, just like the hockey versions, signed right on the game-used piece of patch. I love this card.

Thanks again taking the time to look and take care!

 

[GabbyGuy]

Sweet pickups!

Your Rogie card reminds of the this one I have:

 

[ZP9]

Hey Barrie, some great looking stuff dude. The Baseball stuff is cool, some nice looking cards. Don't much about them, but they are shiny and autographed and game used, and look cool

Some great Blakes....the dual patch with Sakic is pretty cool, and you can't be a nice hard signed autograph.

We shall skip the Red stuff in your post....I tell ya, Avs fans with Red Wings cards

Some sweet Kings autos and the Vachon GU is a great looking card...gotta love the personalization of the Dionne Trilogy

The Magic stuff is great. The Autographs are all super...loving the dual with Kareem, sweet card Gotta love the Signature Patch card, one of the best sets out there in any sport, love it when they have them sign on the patches like that, and the yellow from the lakers makes for a nice clean surface and easy to read auto

 

[TheGriceBoys]

Shawn, glad you like the Wings....er Kings.......er Av's stuff! Yeah, that's it, the Av's stuff!

I knew you'd be one of the guys who'd dig the Magic goodies. You, Mike, Lionel and a few others are from that "era" and remember and loved what Showtime was all about!

The Ultimate patch does look stunning with the sig on the yellow patch and the dual auto with Kareem, especially Kareem tossing up the sky hook, is priceless.

Thanks my man for the look!

 

[MGiuseffi1969]

Barrie, Another rediculous haul my man. Should we call you Mac Daddy or Daddy Mac? Love the Magic stuff and the Straw Topps Auto is a beauty. Thanks for the peek. Mike

 

[He-Man]

Lovin the Magic. Awesome mail.

 

[TheGriceBoys]

Barrie, Another rediculous haul my man. Should we call you Mac Daddy or Daddy Mac? Love the Magic stuff and the Straw Topps Auto is a beauty. Thanks for the peek. Mike

I'll reply to either preceded by sir, LOL.

Thanks for the looksie Mike!

 

[TheGriceBoys]

Lovin the Magic. Awesome mail.

Josh, thanks as always for dropping by one of my posts buddy! Glad you dig the Magic goodness.

How's the E Davis PC coming along? Baseball has been kinda slow lately on retired guys huh? I haven't had many new Straw's to chase.

Take care dude!

 

[Avalanchefan21]

Barrie, As always a cool read. Love the Blake Sakic patch the most out of all the cards! You also have some cool Kings there too!

 

[Jonsportscardz]

Very nice Awsome cards.

 

[DredJAw]

What the heck Barrie, I open it up and all I see is Mets junk! Comon, after 14years you should know better ....

We're starting to come around, I would be worried if I were you

 

[Crosby87]

some amazing pickups, i dont even know where to start. congrats!

 

[TanguayFan]

Is it just me or does David Cone look like that creepy sheriff dude from "Invasion"?

Sweet stuff all around, although I'm not a Baseball fan. The thing that caught my eye was a card you said you still need: The HoJo autograph....I remember a friend that I grew up with, (and the person who got me into sportscards) used to be a huge Howard Johnson fan. I would love to see that card when you finally snag it....

Rob

 

[TheGriceBoys]

Guys, thanks again for dropping in and the kind comments!


Why RJ, I am shocked! You like the Sakic/Blake card the best?

Ernie 14 years about to come to a screeching halt!

Rob, I have only seen a few clips here and there of the show you're refering to but now I look again, dan dude, you're right! Cone does look like him in that photo!

I hope I find that HoJo soon, I am POed I didn;t grab one early when I saw few. Be just my luck it's a SP right?