This series will highlight "one page" at a time from my binder of correspondence and autographs from former Angels players and personnel.
Other Want Lists
Monday, February 27, 2023
One Page of Jay Johnstone
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Coming From Behind
When I was in high school, I ran the high and low hurdles. In the low's there was always a guy that was faster than me, Joel, I could never catch him. In the last meet of the season, I had the best race of my life. Coming out of the turn with about 50 yards to go, I found myself catching up to, and nosing out, that thorn in my side Joel. I came from behind to finally beat him. Sweet victory.
I haven't collected much in the last few years, fallen behind a bit, and this trade from Red Sox Fan in Nebraska certainly helps me towards getting caught up.
Friday, February 24, 2023
TCDB Completed Transactions #5 and #6
The fifth TCDB transaction comes from kcjays who reached out to me offering this card:
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Nolan Ryan Binder Tour - Advil Ad
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Friday, February 17, 2023
TCDB Completed Transaction #3
Chad (ccook) was my first contact for a trade on TCDB and was nice enough to walk me through the process since it was new to me. He even proposed a counter-offer so I could experience that for the first time.
His counter-offer included an additional 11 stamps to the four I had proposed. In the initial 4 for 4 trade, I was sending him a couple of Pete Rose stamps and he felt they were worth some additional stamps. He also offered to send a stamp book (I already have one) and a couple of all-star ballots (again, already had), but man, how generous.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday
Ripping a random pack of junk wax from the Local Junk Mall (LJM).
"Tanana and Ryan and two days of cryin."
Rare occurrence when you (or this Angels fan) pull a Ryan and Tanana from the same pack!
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
TCDB Completed Transaction #2
I can get used to this.
Received a TCDB trade envelope today from jbozovsky.
Monday, February 13, 2023
TCDB Completed Transaction #1
Yep, I did it.
I started trading on TCDB. Been a member for a while, but finally started loading my collection. I completed my first TCDB transaction today, and these cards came from non-other than Bo!
Friday, February 10, 2023
Weather Report and Mail
So we made it through the ice storm, temperatures finally rose, and it all melted away. Weather was nice for a day or two, then we had a couple days of severe thunderstorms. Then a day of nice weather, and today we're back down in the mid 40s with a cold wind. This is Texas remember. Anyhow, always nice to get mail.
Night Owl send some cards in exchange for some Trade Bait he claimed. I had mentioned somewhere that I really liked the Ted Williams card: aviation/military related, which is my background, so he sent one. Nice gesture. I also love the pose of that Jim Abbott Black Foil. Several wantlist cards were included as well. The Jeff Schmidt was totally unfamiliar to me for some reason.
Monday, February 6, 2023
One Page of Dave Machemer
This series will highlight "one page" at a time from my binder of correspondence and autographs from former Angels players and personnel.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
A First For Me On TCDB
I originally signed up on TCDB in 2014, but never did anything with it. Recently though I've begun logging my collection, figuring it will take this year to do it. As I'm entering cards, I'm seeing some don't have any image associated with it. Recently I added my first image to the database:
No big deal I know, I just thought it was kinda cool. You can see my username calangels as the user that submitted the images. Kinda nice to get the credit. And I should also give credit again to POISON75 for giving me the card. I hope to be able to add a lot of missing images as I go.Thursday, February 2, 2023
POISON Package Pt 3
Like I said, it thawed some yesterday, then froze again overnight leaving icicles everywhere. Thats the pretty part of an ice storm. Another day for everyone to be home. Today is chores day though so we have vacuuming and dusting and cleaning going on. And baking! One daughter made cookie bars, another blueberry muffins, and my wife made cheesy biscuits. Yum.
Patriots Cards
Be on the lookout for the posts on the team sets that POISON completed for me.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
POISON Package Pt 2
This is the third day of the ice storm and there are signs it's starting to thaw but will probably re-freeze overnight. We'll all be home again tomorrow. It's not that thick, less than an inch, but still not drivable, especially since we drive compact cars and not 4WD. I'm good with that. We didn't see the mail truck yesterday, or again today, whatever happened to "Neither snow, nor rain.... "?
Angels Cards
Get ready for Pt 3....