Contest at A Cracked Bat: Baseball Cards and a Hot Dog

Julie's celebrating her 100th post and you could be a winner. A winner of a 400 count box of disCards. What treasures will you find for your collection? Check it out here.

Rackrs

Good evening, fellow bloggers and readers. It's been a while since I've posted. A lot of my time is taken up with the cat rescue my wife and I run. But I still spend late nights reading blogs and Facebook groups I'm in still. Just want to send a shout out to Jessica and Ruben at rackrs 

No, not these kind.

This one.

The site has an autograph reference guide and a free buy and sell marketplace. They also have a store where they sell blank autograph cards. I recently had a chance to try out a prototype of a collectors cut card. I don't have a lot of baseball index cards so I used hockey instead.

With the handy template provided, I cut my Bob Goldham index card and made it into this.

Here's the back where you can put pertinent information.

And I was impressed with the packaging. Card put into plastic sleeve, into top loader, into team bag in padded envelope with cardboard insert. Sent May 12 and received here in Canada on May 24. 

Check them out. You may find something that interests you.

Impetus for 100 Words

Robert @ $30 a week habit provided 5 free cards for a team of your choice. Now for all those who entered, he would like us to write 100 word post on them and be entered into a draw.. As seen below, the envelope and team bag were slit open.. Thankfully, all arrived safely, in all their glory.

71/72 OPC # 43--Face-Off's Billy Duke

91/92 OPC # 79--Captain Crunch

04/05 UD BD # 143--The Eagle

06/07 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallion # 182--Bryan McKlutz

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15/16 OPC # 405--Nazeem the Dream

That's all she wrote.

National Hockey Card Day (belatedly)

Hello loyal readers, the few that I have left. You've probably noticed that my posting has been nearly negligible. In Novemnber 2016, my wife and I received our status as a NFP Incorporation. You can find out more here. Hearts to Homes Feline Rescue and Sanctuary.

We had been doing this for a year but on our own. This is almost like another fulltime job and keeps me pretty busy. But thats not what you're here for. Saturday February 18 2017 was the annual NHCD here in Canada. I was occupied and couldn't get away in time to my LCS. However, my daughter was staying with us that day so I had her go to Toys R Us and see if she could pick me up the card sheets that were available. She was able to pick up these.

I'm not aware of how many different sheets there are but the complete 15 card set can be found on the first 4 sheets pictured.
 She looked at the checklist but couldn't find CAN-16, CAN-CM, CAN-KC or CAN-ON. She felt kind of bummed out about that. She felt a lot lot better when I explained they weren't available on the sheets.

I'm still collecting and reading all my favourite blogs.

And miraculousy, I'll have another post in the next day or two.

Two out of three ain't bad

Don't be sad. Cause two out of three ain't bad. I'm referring to the incarnation of Toronto's Kid line of  Rocky Ray Saganiuk, John Murray Anderson and Lawrence Joseph Boschman. I recently picked up this autographed Sherwood PMPS left handed stick.

 

 

Near the knob is this black ink autograph of Rocky Saganiuk.

Under the D in Sherwood is a blue ink autograph of John Anderson, which has faded badly.

 



 

And getting progressively worse, the invisible (no autograph) of Laurie Boschman.

 

Brings back memories of that Leafs team. From Punch Imlach being brought back as coach, the trading of Lanny McDonald and Tiger Williams and bringing back Carl Brewer, the soap opera that was named Ballard was in full effect. Never a dull moment.

NHL Alumni Tour 2016-Brantford-25 years old

Long time, no post. Last night was the annual NHL Alumni Tour in support of the Torch Run.

 

Here's the autographs I obtained in person.

I had Mark LaForest sign this wire photo for my collection. He remembered that I gave him one last year and said he still had it in a good place. I guess when you played 25 games for the Leafs, there aren't too many photos available.

Mike Krushelnyski  86/87 OPC # 193 and 85/86 OPC # 49

 

Dave "Tiger" Williams 86/87 OPC # 6 and 80/81 OPC # 105

Owen Nolan 90/91 ProSet #401 and 90/91 Upper Deck #352

 

Dave Andreychuk signed wire photo

Dave Andreychuk 90/91 Upper Deck # 41

 

Bryan Muir-CIC 

 

 



At last, got the last autograph to finish off this Leaf Alumni poster. You can read here when I received the poster and the one autograph I was missing.

 

 

All in all, a very productive night. Nolan and Andreychuk were new this year so hopefully they'll be back next year. Here's the link to the rest of this year's tour.

 

Hockey Night in Brantford 2016

Last night was the fifth annual Hockey Night in Brantford game. Proceeds will benefit the Arnold Anderson Sports Fund Charity, which promotes the physical, mental and social development of financially disadvantaged children by providing financial sports grants to eligible families. You can read the background in the Press Release here. This year they actually had posters printed up and a set roster of autograph signer.

Not a great job by me cropping this photo but you get the idea. In addition to this, I got some 4 x 6 photos signed that I brought.

Got this signed between periods. I was late getting there and when I walked in the door to the rink, Adam was standing there signing autographs.

Zac commented that he had never seen this Buffalo shot before.

Wished Brandon best of luck and hope he has a breakout season.

I always thought Laura was bigger than she actually is. I guess most times I've seen her, she's been in uniform and all those pads give an illusion of size.

They raised $72000 and everyone had a great time. Waiting for next year.

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