June Group Break - 3 Hobby Boxes - Unique, Co-Signers & Legendary Cuts!

*** GROUP BREAK IS FULL!!!!!! THANKS EVERYONE!!!***

Hey everyone, it's that time again! Another Dimwit Group Break! June's Group Break is going to be epic and awesome... some would even venture to say epically awesome! Atlanta Sports Cards is coming through with some great deals on some boxes for the break!

First up... 2009 Topps Unique!

24 Packs Per Box - 7 Cards per Pack - 1 Autograph and 2 Relics per Box! 1 Relic will be either a jumbo swatch or jumbo patch!

2008 Topps Co-Signers! 12 Packs per box - 6 cards per pack! 3 autographs including one multiple-player auto! Lots of parallels!

 

Finally the big box of the break! 2007 UD SP Legendary Cuts! 12 packs, 4 cards per pack! There are 2 cut autos per CASE, so we have a shot at some legendary cut autos! One numbered autograph per box for sure.

Alright, there are a few possibilities of non-baseball cards. Any non-hit cards will be randomly sorted among all participants. Any non-baseball HITS will be randomized amongst ALL PARTICIPANTS. So if you buy multiple slots in the break, you'll get the same number of multiple slots in the randomization. If we pull a Negro League autograph, that will be included in the randomization (even if those players ended up going to a MLB team). I want everyone to be clear about this ahead of time.

So, that just leaves the cost... $18 for a TWO team slot! One you pick, one you are randomly assigned! That's less than a blaster! If you want additional slots, it'll be $16 per slot after the first slot. Payment sent via paypal to samuelpair (at) yahoo (dot) com as a gift, please!

Please claim a team by leaving a comment on this post with the team  (please make sure I have your e-mail or access to it via your blogger profile).

As an added incentive, if the break fills by Sunday night, I'll throw in a blaster of 2012 Gypsy Queen and 2012 Topps Archives!

Atlanta - Chris Mays - PAID
Arizona -
Baltimore - William - PAID
Boston - Matt Perry - PAID
Chicago Cubs - Matt Pederson - PAID
Chicago White Sox - Jeff Wilk - PAID
Cincinnati -
Cleveland - David - PAID
Colorado -
Detroit - The Dutch Card Guy - PAID
Houston - The Dimwit - PAID
Kansas City -
Los Angeles Dodgers - dodgers88 -PAID
Los Angeles Angels -
Miami -
Milwaukee -
Minnesota -
New York Mets -
New York Yankees - kmsrocknj (Kevin S) - PAID
Oakland -
Philadelphia - daddyohoho - PAID
Pittsburgh - Pirates Treasure Room - PAID
San Diego -
San Fransisco -arpsmith - PAID
Seattle -
St. Louis - William - PAID
Tampa - 
Texas - Matt Pederson - PAID
Toronto -
Washington -

2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Autographs

Alright, other than Koufax, Aaron, Halladay and Ripken... I've decided to track down as many 2011 Gypsy Queen autos as possible... here's what I already have:

Nolasco
Cecil
Torres
Jay
Hudson
Byrd
Cashner
Hunter
Venable
DeJesus
Pagan
Tomlin
Castro

If you have an auto not on this list that you'd like to trade me, please let me know! Email me and we'll work something out!

Thanks in advance for anyone who helps me in this craziness!

Lots of Mail To Catch Up On!!!!

Ok, so going home for Memorial Day weekend created a HUGE backlog in mail... so I'll start out with some good, old fashioned COMC/eBay purchases!

The last 6 full sized relics I needed!!!! SWEEEET!!! The full sized relic set is DONE! Stan The Man is the 3rd-from-last card I needed... only Munson and Ruth left... and I think I have a firm deal in place for the Munson... :-D... I LOVED the Bagwel/Thomas card! Two guys born on the same day, with equal success, playing the same position (pretty much) and who burst onto the scene about the same time?!?!? How awesome of a dual relic? And got it for like $2.00... I'll take that any day!

Trumbo finishes up my Future Stars insert set, the two 1978 cards brings me down to just 3 CARDS needed for that set!!!! So close! My first "vintage" set (I define vintage as anything older than me, so pre-1980). A few GQ short prints and a couple of Queens from last year!

Finally, my COMC purchase would not be complete without mini's!

Next up are contest winnings from Brian over at the Pirates Treasure Room... he's running a great contest throughout the year, where all you have to do is root for the Pirates to win a series, and he gives away cards if they do. You get bonus entries for rooting against "your team". Thus I won the Astros prize shown above. An awesome "oddball" relic of a Glen Barker batting glove. Then I rooted against the Rockies and got the SWEEEET Drew Pomeranz triple jersey Team USA relic. Brian threw in a few extra cards as well! Thanks Brian for the contest and the blog! Great to finally have an active and avid Pirates fan/collector out there!

Here's a small (b/c they are mini's of course) trade with Larry over at My 2008 Topps Set Blog... he needed mini's, I needed mini's... we swapped... thanks Larry!

Finally, the results of a group break...

Them's the breaks... it was only $6.00 and I was taking a stab at getting an auto from 2 boxes of 2012 Archives over at JABO's. Kyle had a big stack o' Astros to send my way as well as part of his collection down sizing, so I ended up with a bunch more cards.

Kyle was a bit discouraged (I hope he doesn't mind me sharing) that some people buy into his breaks, then only end up with stacks like mine: 2 cards for $6-$10. I told Kyle not to worry, thats the breaks. Heck, even when we bust a whole hobby box on our own or even a blaster, there's not guarantee we'll even end up with one card we want (for instance, the craptastic blaster of Archives I opened this past weekend, talk about your all-time waste of $20). Kyle, I've wasted worse money chasing worse odds... keep up the great work on the group breaks. I am fairly certain we all know the odds are typically not in our favor, so when we hit something nice in a break we know there are probably 2-3 breaks down the road where we subsidize a few other participants' awesome cards. Get ready to see an example of this later this week... let's just say I joined a case break for the price of a blaster, and ended up with what will probably go down as one of the best cards in my collection... just sayin'... it's going to be epic!

Speaking of group breaks... it's almost time for The Dimwit's June Group Break announcement... I honestly have NO CLUE what boxes to bust this month... I thought about doing a break of a BUNCH of blasters but I couldn't guarantee which ones ahead of time but mostly would consist of current products and whatever other craziness I could find... I think I prefer hobby boxes because of the guaranteed hits, but let me know what you'd be interested in... I'm guessing if we did something like 10 blasters, it'd be about $18 per two-team slot... let me know what interests you, what products you'd like to see in a break...

Silent Auction Pick-Up

My dad recent gad a silent auction at his work and picked this up for me. That's Jimmy Wynn and Larry Dierker! Thanks dad! I am back in Houston for the weekend so my posting will be a bit sporadic. Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Tired Of Seeing GQ On My Blog Yet???

No???? Well me neither!!! So, here's a couple of trades... first up a bunch of cards for our favorite Holland-er... The Netherlands-er... Dutch... yes! Dutch! Man, I'm dumb... The Dutch Card Guy... see, it's right there in his name... he's Dutch...

The Freese I picked up for James, if he still needs it... yay mini's!!!

Next up are cards from a new trade partner Jeff over at 2 x 3 Heroes... add him to your blogroll or RSS feed for sure!!!! (Does anyone know what happened to the "Follow" link on Blogger's header bar??? It's gone missing and has made it dang near impossible to "follow" a blog if they don't have the "followers widget on their side bar.... stupid Blogger)...

The Hosmer finishes up my Future Stars inserts, the Banks leaves me with just the Cobb in Hallmark Heroes!

I picked up a value pack from Target, nothing exciting but did get a Reggie Jackson, Felix Hernandex and Jesus Montero gold border.

I hope everyone is having a great week!!!!

The Rumors Are True...

HE'S BACK!!!!!

Welcome back bud! The Blog-O-Sphere can now rejoice!!!!

Rumblings...

Rumors are swirling... can they be true???? Is a hall-of-famer coming out of self-imposed retirement???? The intrigue... the drama...


Ok, so it's not Roger... but pretty damn close... more news to come as unsubstantiated rumors become fact... please feel free to speculate in the comments... this should be fun...

Two Posts in One Day???? Surely You Jest...

I don't jest, and don't call me Shirley... (that never gets old, thank you Leslie Nielson)

It was a big mail day here in Alabama... so I figured I'd get this posted as soon as we got back to the apartment...

First up is Jeroen from The Dutch Card Guy... he bought into a group break over at Nachos Grande and the Astros were his random team and we made a trade where I ended up with his Astros... so these cards went from Nachos Grande's home to The Netherlands and now to Mobile, AL... these cards have had a tiresome journey but they are home at last... :)

A nice mix of base cards!

Bagwell jersey, numbered parallel and an auto of a failed prospect I had never heard of...  Thanks Jeroen!!!!

Next up, a couple of eBay purchases toward the GQ Full Sized relic set... inching closer and closer!!!!

Finally, Adam from Thoughts and Sox sent me a nice "just because" Astros package...

Thanks Adam... that Pence looks RIDICULOUS scanned... it's out of /999!

Alright, that's all.... for now...

A New Trade From a New Blogger! and some COMC action...

Hey everyone, first of all there is a new Cubs blogger in the community. I want you all to head over there NOW... Once a Cub he's got 7 followers and deserves more love from the blog-o-sphere! So go follow him, even if he is a Cub fan... ;) Anyways, Matt from Once a Cub (seriously, click the link and follow, don't make me post the link again) and I recently made a Gypsy Queen centric trade! I sent a bunch of GQ Cubs & Nats his way, he sent a bunch of GQ my way... here's the spoils!

Four of the SP's that I needed! And 3 of the retail inserts I needed as well! Only two retail inserts left that I need! Trumbo Future Stars and Cobb Hallmark Heroes!

 More mini's!!!!!! YAY!!! Thanks Matt for a great trade, and I hope I send some bloggers your way to grow your follower list a bit!

I have a love/hate relationship with COMC... I love buying cards from there... I hate waiting on them to show up... here's my latest round of pick-ups...

Of course it would include 2012 and 2011 GQ Mini's!!!! Plus a Gyspy Queen insert I was lacking. Hey, if anyone has 2011 GQ to trade, I do still have a small, dwindling list of needs for that set as well! Mainly mini's, Gypsy Queen inserts and a couple of high dollar mini relics. Yes, that's right, I have another batch of COMC waiting to be shipped that will complete my Full Sized Relic set... stay tuned for a post that shows off that whole set!

I also scrounged around one seller's page picking off super cheap 1960 Topps... why? Because they are vintage and they were cheap of course! I also picked up my 2nd ever vintage Hank Aaron card, a league leaders card from 1972 Topps!

No recognizable (to me) names from the 1960 Topps, the Torre/Stargell/Aaron card is the treasure amongst these vintage cards. I don't know if you'd be interested in these Red Sox, Matt/DocHoloday, but if you are, let me know...

That's it for today everyone! Hope you enjoyed the show! Have a great weekend... The Hotwit and I have been busy since yesterday afternoon helping foster 3 awesome kittens that were abandoned by their mother at my work. They are about 8 weeks old, very loud and feeling better already. We don't know how long they were on their own, but the vet said they were very malnourished so we're getting back to health. Just trying to keep the wife from getting attached... they have a home to go to, it just won't be ready until next week some time. Hopefully they all stay well and healthy until then!

A Trade with Bob!

Bob is a Facebook card collecting friend... he showed off a card the other day, and I sent him my Frank Robinson Gypsy Queen autograph from last year, although it hurt a lot to trade it away, I decided this card was worth it...

Yes, a laundry tag card! It's numbered 9/10! It's FREAKIN' SWEEEET!

I've now shown off my two favorite 1st basemen in consecutive posts... Gehrig obviously had the more storied career, but I think Bagwell will end up in the HOF with Lou some day! Thanks Bob, and enjoy the Robinson auto!