Pausing for Cards from Night Owl

I received a surprise in the mail.  I had a bubbleope from Night Owl!  That can only mean some good Triber cardness. 

First up, we've got 2012 Topps Opening Day Grady Sizemore.  I don't know if you can tell, but he appears to be look up at a ball he just hit.  His facial expression suggests a long fly out.  The next card is also a 2012 Topps Opening Day.  Jason "Hitnis" is shown turning a double play.  The guy on the ground is a Rangers player.  Next, we have a 1990 Score Young Superstar Felix Fermin.  He is catching some serious ball-tossing air here!

Mark Lewis starts off the next few cards.  This is probably the pose that most sticks out in my mind when I think of Lewis.  He is poised on a 1994 Upper Deck.  The next card is UBER-SWEET!  Greg sent a mini-1975 Topps featuring John Denny, Rawly Eastwick, Jim Kern, and Juan Veintidos.  That is probably the only picture of Kern where his hair is not wild and crazy, sticking out all over the place.  He also looks way more serious in this photo than I think he looks on any other card I can think of.  Rounding out this trio, Omar Vizquel on a 1999 Topps Hands of Gold.  Oh, ladies and gentlemen, this card is a thing of beauty.  I am a sucker for the die cuts.  Where is Pacific when you need them?

Finishing out the bubbleope, Justin Masterson is hurling ball on a 2012 Topps Opening Day.  Frank Herrmann just finished hurling.  That is one mean leg-kick there, buddy.  Stay out of the way of that one!  He comes to us on a 2009 Topps Black Parallel.  Nice!

I am sending out a HUGE "Thank You!!" to Greg at Night Owl Cards for some great Indians baseball cards!! Wahoo!!

Mail Call! Cards from GregP and BrianS!

It's almost always a good sign when the postal carrier drives his pickup truck around my in-laws house, down the hill/driveway that leads to our house and hand delivers the daily arrivals. Why almost always? Because that usually means TRIBE CARDS! And today was no exception!*

The first bubbleope had some real cool goodies! How about that Adam Miller Auto card? And, I had recently posted about having never seen '09 UD Spectrum cards before I busted a pack for APAD and APTBNL, and low and behold - Pronk on a purple Spectrum card! There are also more than a few '53 Archives Indians and a smattering of Fleer '90 Tribers, too. Add to that a handful of other brands and "models" and Greg sent me a very nice package of Indians! THANK YOU!!

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Brian took a look through my want list and found a stack of cards to send my way! He said some were on the list and some he didn't see, so he opted to send them along for the ride. That always works for me!

The Fleer Brilliants Nagy is a gorgeous card. The Thome Hipnotized makes my eyes go all buggy :-). Did you See the Russel Branyan bat card? Nice! Man, this stack has HOFers, future HOFers, silver signatures, and more!


I had to break the scan into two because there were plenty of cards to go 'round. We're talking game-used ball card, Paramount Double Vision, Hands of Gold, a bronze "Youth Movement" card I have never heard of (that I can recall), Chrome and more! THANK YOU!!

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Wow, thank you BOTH very, very much for some excellent examples of Indians cardboard! I'm not even going to wait to get these into the database! That's my 'mini-project' for the afternoon!!

*For those who want to know why the "almost" is in there - I wanted to say "always," which applies to life so far, but sure as I would say "always" there, he'd be bringing some big ol' package of bad news, and I find it's better to be safe than sorry. So, it's "almost." BTW, my Aunt once asked me how it is that I can even keep up with myself (meaning my random, often-veering thoughts). My reply: I'm not sure I do keep up with myself.