Adam Has Arrived ! & Cards From the Nationals

Thanks to the wonderful girls over at Dinged Corners this Adam Miller has a new happy home !

Thank you very much for this trade !

And now, some the treasures that came came home with me from the Nationals in Cleveland.

A lot of those who attend a show of that magnitude are searching for the latest boxes of new products, scarce auto or memorabilia cards, older cards to complete sets or a chance to get live autographs. Well, that all sounds good to me, but being on a limited budget my boys and I were in search of the bargain boxes. Toward the end of the day we found 3-4 tables of 5-cent boxes ! Most of these cards came from there and other ten-cent boxes.

I bought some of these cards for my sample collection and others with some of you readers in mind !

This is long, so bear with me !!

Sometimes I just get into too much of a hurry ! Being a Tribe fan, I grabbed up this card, judging from the bottom lines and not looking at the picture.When I got home and read the back of the card, it was the first INDIA Indians to sign. Hey ! The rest of you guys and gals are going to get old too !!

Football ? Jim was obviously not you're ordinary run-of-the-mill player.As a kid I watched him make some runs through tackles that were unbelievable.I actually picked up two of these cards, one for each son.

These are very neat 1997 SPx. It's hard to tell from the images, but there are 4 different variations here. At 5-$1, these were one of my more expensive purchases !

Don Mattingly Sportflics Cyclone Squad

Mark McGwire Drakes
UD Elements Mark Teixeria and a favorite set of mine, The Ted William's Card CO., Reggie Jackson 500 HR club.

Below : I like holograms and different materials and textures.

1994 SP Holo View FX Trot Nixon and 1998 Fleer Artistic Talents Andrew Jones

I also found these Kellogg's 3D's from various years.

Below : 2008 Donruss Threads Diamond Kings Trystan Magnuson

2006 Topps Triple Threads Paul Konerko

From 1997 Cooperstown Collection, one of my childhood heroes, Mickey Mantle. In my neighborhood everyone wanted to be him when they were at bat!

2004 Fleer Genuine Tools of the Game Chipper Jones.

From the Bash Bros. to the Blues Bros.

This was one of my favorite finds of the day.

Upper Deck Update Robinson Cano

Plastic Upper Deck Elements Miguel Cabrera
'83 Topps Pete Rose-a little off center,but mint condition

Topps AMES Robin Yount

Some of these didn't turn out real well, but we have a 2009 Topps Finest Refractor Jim Thome, 1992 Score Carlton Fisk and a couple 2009 SPx-Scott Kazmir and Josh Hamilton.

Mike Sweeny,2002 Ultimate Collection 311/799

Ichiro, 2008 National Baseball Card day.

Fred Lynn, American Sluggers

Rickey Henderson Woolworth

Scott Rolen 1997 Topps Awsome Impact

John Smoltz 3000th SO SP Authentic Achievements

1996 Donruss Darryl Kile Press Proof

Ken Griffey Jr. Chronicles MVP

2008 Donruss Threads Robin Yount

2008 SP Authentic Jim Thome Authentic Achievments 521st HR

1990 Nolan Ryan 6th No-Hitter

1985 Topps mis-cut Nolan Ryan with Mark Thurmand's cap !

1988 Fleer A/S Team Paul Molitor

2001 Topps Archives Orel Hershiser

2005 Upper Deck Reflections Juan Marichal

2001 Fleer Tradition WS Al Leiter

2006 Fleer Nickname Greats "Disco Dan" Ford

2006 Flair Showcase Wave of the Future Yuniesky Betancourt

2001 Upper Deck National Pastime Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra

1999 Topps Stars Jeff Bagwell Luminaries

1992 Bowman Gold Foil Jack McDowell
2007SP Legendary Cuts Johnny Vander Meer

( Mr. back-to-back no hitters)
1993 Score Rich Rowland Boys of Summer

1990 Classic Games 4-in-1 Frank Viola, "Texas Heat", Chipper Jones and Don Mattingly

2008 GoudeyJohan Santana

2002 Topps American Pie Jackie Robinson

2000 Fleer Greats of the Game Don Mattingly

1995 Collector's Choice SE Don Mattingly

2005 Bowman's Best Jim Thome

1997 Bowman International Albert Belle

1994 SP Don Mattingly

2001 Ken Griffey Grip It /Sean Casey Rip It

1999 Upper Deck Powerdeck Ken Griffey Powerful Moments

1997 Topps Etch-a-Sketch Mo Vaugh (another of my favorite insert sets)

2005 Upper Deck Windfield Collection Yogi Berra

2008 UD Ballpark Collection Alfonso Soriano

2000 Pacific Prism Center Stage Carlos Beltran

(Bring back Pacific !!!)

2000 Pacific Prism Craig Biggio

(as much as I like these, identifying those backgrounds drives me CRAZY)

2006 Topps Triple Threads Chipper Jones

2007 SP Authentic Brian Roberts

1998 Topps Chrome Ryan Minor rookie

1999 Fleer Brilliants Matt Clement Blue

1992 Upper Deck MVP Holograms

I found the nearly complete set in the nickel box!

1986 Sportflics Ron Darling

1999 Skybox Metal Mike Caruso

These last two groups of cards were also in the nickel box.

I'm a sucker for these nostalgic sets.

For those of you who are still with me, I know what you're thinking !

"The name of this blog is 'All Tribe Baseball' and this guy claims to have a fairly large Indian collection. He goes to one of the biggest card shows in the country and this is what he comes back with ? ! " Not to worry ! The Tribe cards I found will be another post. I also got some interesting older packs.