Sports Cards Ate My Brain

Fisticuffs! I picked up my first 2 old boxing cards: 1910 T218 Mecca Champions Series 3 - Charles Eyton (Card 105) This card caught my eye because of the frame border. There are apparently variations with different factory numbers. Eyton later went on to be a silent movie producer. 1948 Leaf 88 - Lou Ambers The front of this card is almost pristine except for the centering It was in the $3 box because of the paper loss on the back. The next post with hi-light the last 5 cards from the boxes.  

The last of the baseball cards I got at the show are 5 cards from 1956 Topps: 131 - Bob Roselli Another backup catcher.  Had 9 at bats in 1955 but was featured in an early series.  Go figure. 185 - Bill Bruton Led the NL in steals for the 3rd straight year in 1955.  Set the table for the big boppers in the Milwaukee lineup. 244 - Bob Buhl A solid pitcher for several years with the Braves.  Was 3rd in the NL in ERA in 1955. 254 - George Crowe 15 HR and 55 RBI in only 303 ABs in 1955. 294 - Ernie Johnson ERNIE!  With Pete van Wieran's recent passing, all 3 of the Braves voices I grew up with are gone.  Ernie was a top flight relief pitcher for several years for the Braves and a key piece of their bullpen during their World Series campaigns in 1957 and 1958.  You young'uns probably know his son better from watching NBA games on TNT. I have 7 more cards to write about from this show but I'll keep them a mystery until the n...

I need many cards from the "big" Topps sets of the early 50's.  I picked up 10 cards from these sets.  Here are the first 5. I added my first 1952 Topps Braves cards: 97 - Earl Torgeson I prefer my earlier Bowman Torgeson's but it is nice to finally have a cards from this iconic set. 1953 Topps 185 - Jim Pendleton The Braves received Jim from the Dodgers before the 1953 season. 214 - Bill Bruton My favorite Bill Bruton card so far. 1955 Topps: 23 - Jack Parks Played 11 years in the minor leagues before making the Majors with the Braves in 1955. 103 - Charlie White Another backup catcher from 1955.  I see a theme! Next up will be 5 1956's.

My new favorite vintage vendor was at the most recent show I attended about 3 months ago.  I bought 20 cards as that was all my budget would allow. I filled in 2 1950 Bowman's that I needed.  These give me a little more than half of the Braves in the set. 55 - John "Buddy" Kerr The back tells us that, as of 1950, Buddy held the record for most consecutive games without an error for a shortstop at 383 games. 74 - Johnny Antonelli (From the cardback) In high school he pitched 3 no-hitters and 5 1-hitters, striking out 231 batters in 103 innings, giving up 36 hits. I got 1 more 1950 Bowman that I thought Dustin over at Coot Veal and the Vealtones needed but I didn't read the want list correctly and he already had it.  242 Dick Kryhoski.  It is up for trade if anyone wants it. I'll post the of the cards I got over the coming days.  Some of the cards are not baseball so I'll post those last.

I decided to give the show Utopia a chance.  So far the producers have already had to intervene because one of the people got sick after a night of everyone (almost) drinking. It seems that in a perfect Utopian society there will be no fat people.  The only overweight person is pregnant so that does not count.  I guess us large folks are TV worthy. Now they are having a "trial" for the guy who got so drunk he started trying to grope people and got into a fight. Now they are already talking about potentially calling 911 if something goes wrong.  They are so self-reliant! What a perfect society! Time to watch Boardwalk Empire and give up on this crap.

I've been meaning to actually post something for a while but am hooked on Star Wars Online and have spent waaaaaaaaaay too much time, and money, playing it. I haven't gotten many cards lately but I'll scan some of the newest old cards I got. I've gotten also gotten hooked on Big Brother and am wondering how Frankie is still in the house.  Since Ariana Grande is his sister I'm sure he doesn't need the half million dollars. Miscellaneous ramblings: Not happy about "Thursday Night Football" moving Big Bang Theory and Sherlock off of their time slots.  I don't need the NFL on Thursdays.  The college football games are nice to flip to during commercials or reruns. Somebody please put the Braves out of their misery.  My Labor Day was depressed by the Phillies no-hitter.  I'm surprised the Braves haven't been no-hit earlier this year with their pathetic of fence. The power went out for an hour and a half right as I was about to pos...

If anyone is actually reading this blog please let me know, otherwise there are better ways I can spend my time than scanning in cards.