Dime Box Buy: 1988 Woolworth's Topps #6 Nolan Ryan

1988 Woolworth's Topps #6 Nolan Ryan

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Dime Box Buy: 1994-95 Excel #131 Reid Ryan

Knowing that Reid Ryan is Nolan Ryan's son, I couldn't pass this one up.  I felt it would make a cool blog post.

Ryan pitched two seasons in the minors, finishing with a 5-15 record and a 6.04 ERA.  He never made it out of high-A ball.  He is currently the Houston Astros' President of Business Operations.

1994-95 Excel #131 Reid Ryan

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Not A Wax Or Gum Stain - So What Is It?

I decided to pick this card up just because of whose card it is.  It's Twitter's own John Bateman!

What's interesting to me is the back of the card.

At some point, whether in a pack or a box at some point in the next 50 years, the 1966 Tim McCarver Rub-Off was behind it.  It appears they did actually rub off.

So, what do we call this "stain?"  There have to be many more of these out there.

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Dime Box Buy - 1995 Bowman's Best Refractors #B37 Scott Elarton

The scan doesn't show it, but it's a shiny refractor.  I pick all of those out of dime boxes.

1995 Bowman's Best Refractors #B37 Scott Elarton

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about six months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

DBBD: 1968 Topps #21 Ron Davis

Please note:  This is a 1968 Topps and not a 2017 Topps Heritage.

Well loved, but from a dime box!

1968 Topps #21 Ron Davis

1968 Topps #21 Ron Davis (back)

DBBD (Dime Box Buy of the Day): 1987 Kraft Home Plate Heroes Mike Scott #4

Buying hundred of cards from dime boxes at today's show gave me an idea for posts that I hope people will enjoy.  I plan to start posting a card a day that I picked up from a dime box.  It may be a card for me or someone else.  It might be for a set need, a team collection or it just is a "blast from the past" for me.  I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I enjoy finding the cards.

Sometimes I may say why I bought it.  Sometimes it could be just a picture of a card.  If you see one and you're interested, let me know.  Maybe I will be willing to part with it if I haven't planned to send to someone else.

Today's dime box buy of the day:

1987 Kraft Foods #4 Mike Scott

The first year that I collected cards was 1987.  Kraft mac & cheese had panels on the back that had two cards on them.  Let's just say that my family ate a lot of mac & cheese in 1987.  I never quite completed that set though.  I came up a handful of cards short.

Thankfully I had parents that were okay with my hobby.