Affordable Group Break: 2001 Topps Fusion (Hobby)

** UPDATE 09/23/21 - Break is full! **

This break will feature a hobby box of 2001 Topps Fusion. 24 packs / 5 cards per pack. The box should yield one hit. Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. If you have questions on how this works please let me know. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Thursday, 09/23/21 at 9 PM eastern.

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: paypal.me/flywheels86

Anaheim Angels $3 - Adam McKenzie PAID

Arizona Diamondbacks $5 - Adam McKenzie PAID

Atlanta Braves - Colbey PAID
Baltimore Orioles $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Boston Red Sox $5 - Matthew Perry PAID
Chicago Cubs $5 - Ben Martin PAID
Chicago White Sox $6 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Cincinnati Reds - Colbey PAID
Cleveland Indians $6 - Paul Dionne PAID
Colorado Rockies $4 - Ben Martin PAID
Detroit Tigers $4 - Ben Morris PAID
Florida Marlins $3 - Adam McKenzie PAID
Houston Astros $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Kansas City Royals $3 - Joe Greever PAID

Los Angeles Dodgers $3 - Michael Spiegel
Milwaukee Brewers $3 - Adam McKenzie PAID
Minnesota Twins $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

Montreal Expos - Colbey PAID

New York Mets $6 - Jennifer Peebles PAID
New York Yankees $8 - Adam McKenzie PAID
Oakland Athletics $3- Victor Negron PAID
Philadelphia Phillies $4 - Diego Torres PAID
Pittsburgh Pirates $3 - Joe Greever PAID
San Diego Padres $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

San Francisco Giants $3 - Ben Martin PAID
Seattle Mariners $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

St. Louis Cardinals $5 - Kerry Biggs PAID

Tampa Bay Rays $3 - Paul Dionne PAID

Texas Rangers $7 - Ben Morris PAID
Toronto Blue Jays $3 - Victor Negron PAID

Affordable Group Break: 2004 Fleer Tradition (Retail)

** UPDATE 09/17/21 - Break is full! **

This break will feature a hobby box of 2004 Fleer Tradition. 24 packs / 10 cards per pack. Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Friday, 09/17/21 at 10 PM eastern.

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: paypal.me/flywheels86

Anaheim Angels $3 - Chad Butler PAID

Arizona Diamondbacks $5 - Adam McKenzie PAID

Atlanta Braves - Colbey PAID
Baltimore Orioles $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Boston Red Sox $6 - Andrew Rein PAID
Chicago Cubs - Ben Martin PAID
Chicago White Sox $5 - Chad Butler PAID
Cincinnati Reds $4 - Chad Butler PAID

Cleveland Indians $5 - bbcardz PAID
Colorado Rockies $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Detroit Tigers $5 - Ben Morris PAID
Florida Marlins $7 - Paul Dionne PAID
Houston Astros $4 - Chad Butler PAID
Kansas City Royals $6 - Matthew Brenzikofer PAID

Los Angeles Dodgers - Ben Martin PAID
Milwaukee Brewers $3 - Chad Butler PAID
Minnesota Twins $6 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

Montreal Expos - Colbey PAID

New York Mets $6 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
New York Yankees $10 - Hal Sauceman PAID
Oakland Athletics - Colbey PAID
Philadelphia Phillies $4 - Diego Torres PAID
Pittsburgh Pirates $4 - Zachary Chakan PAID
San Diego Padres $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

San Francisco Giants $5 - Jennifer Peebles PAID
Seattle Mariners $5 - Chad Butler PAID
St. Louis Cardinals $6 - Chad Butler PAID

Tampa Bay Rays $3 - Paul Dionne PAID

Texas Rangers $6 - bbcardz PAID
Toronto Blue Jays $6 - bbcardz PAID

Affordable Group Break: 1996 Score Board NFL Phone Cards

This break will feature a box of 1996 Score Board NFL Phone Cards. The box has 18 packs w/ 3 phone cards per pack. Each team is just $2 each! All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. If you have questions on how this works please let me know. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel (youtube.com/flywheels) on Friday, 09/10/21 at 10 PM eastern.

 

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: paypal.me/flywheels86

 

Arizona Cardinals - Ben Martin PAID

Atlanta Falcons - Ben Martin PAID

Baltimore Ravens $1

Buffalo Bills $1

Carolina Panthers - Colbey PAID

Chicago Bears $1 - Ben Martin PAID

Cincinnati Bengals $1 - Hal Sauceman PAID

Dallas Cowboys $2 - Paul Dionne PAID

Denver Broncos $2 - Mauricio Nava PAID

Detroit Lions $2 - Ben Morris PAID

Green Bay Packers $2 - Marcus Scott PAID

Houston Oilers $2 - Denny Wagner PAID

Indianapolis Colts $1

Jacksonville Jaguars $1

Kansas City Chiefs $1

Miami Dolphins $2 - Mauirico Nava PAID

Minnesota Vikings $1

New England Patriots $2 - Shane Salmonson PAID

New Orleans Saints $2 - John Klimavicz PAID

New York Giants $1

New York Jets - Colbey PAID

Oakland Raiders $1

Philadelphia Eagles $2 - Kerry Biggs PAID

Pittsburgh Steelers - Wade Fisher PAID

San Diego Chargers $1

San Francisco 49ers $2 - Hal Sauceman PAID

Seattle Seahawks $1 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

St. Louis Rams $1

Tampa Bay Buccaneers $1

Washington Redskins $1

Affordable Group Break: 1999 Skybox Premium (Retail)

** UPDATE 09/09/21 - Break is FULL! **

This break will feature a retail box of 1999 Skybox Premium. 20 packs / 8 cards per pack. Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. If you have questions on how this works please let me know. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Friday, 09/11/21 at 10 PM eastern.

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: paypal.me/flywheels86

Anaheim Angels $3 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

Arizona Diamondbacks $5 - Adam McKenzie PAID

Atlanta Braves - Colbey PAID
Baltimore Orioles $7 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Boston Red Sox $6 - Shane Salmonson PAID
Chicago Cubs - Ben Martin PAID
Chicago White Sox $7 - Andrew Rein PAID
Cincinnati Reds $3 - Chris Reed PAID
Cleveland Indians $6 - Marcus Scott PAID
Colorado Rockies $4 - John Donovan PAID
Detroit Tigers $7 - Ben Morris PAID
Florida Marlins $3 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Houston Astros $5 - Denny Wagner PAID
Kansas City Royals $5 - Matthew Brenzikofer PAID

Los Angeles Dodgers $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Milwaukee Brewers $3 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Minnesota Twins $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

Montreal Expos - Colbey PAID

New York Mets $5 - Jennifer Peebles PAID
New York Yankees $7 - Hal Sauceman PAID
Oakland Athletics $3 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Philadelphia Phillies $6 - Diego Torres PAID
Pittsburgh Pirates $5 - Zachary Chakan PAID
San Diego Padres $6 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

San Francisco Giants $4 - Shane Salmonson PAID
Seattle Mariners $7 - Andrew Rein PAID
St. Louis Cardinals $6 - Kerry Biggs PAID

Tampa Bay Rays - Ben Martin PAID

Texas Rangers $6 - Ben Morris PAID
Toronto Blue Jays $3 - Andrew Rein PAID

Atlanta Braves Care Package from a Cardinals Fan?

If it's been quite here on the blog it's because I've been moving. I never thought seriously about moving until this summer when the wife and kids started to apply some real pressure. I was a lot of work. I knew I had a lot of stuff, but until you have to put your hands on each and every item you have and pack it you don't really know how much stuff you have!

We got moved into the new home in early August and began to unpack. My new "hobby room" or "man cave" if you will was also the staging area for the movers...so it's taken some time to dig through all the boxes and try to find a new home for many of our things. Fast forward a few weeks and things are starting to come together. I've got a large built in bar in my new room and since I don't drink, I've decided to turn it into my desk for work. It'll also double nicely as a work space for my trading cards and toy photography (eventually). While I still have many boxes of misc. card stuff to unpack, the underside of the bar is making a great storage place for many of my card monster boxes and shoe box houses I use for my card collection.

While I'm still trying to find a home for everything, I got a rather large package the other week that I wasn't expecting. It was forwarded to my new address (thankfully) from the USPS as it was sent some time ago by one of my regular trading card break participants, Patrick W Ayers. Patrick has been grabbing his St. Louis Cardinals in my breaks for a good while now...at least when Kerry Biggs of Cards on Cards doesn't beat him to the punch), but he didn't mention anything to me about a package being en route. 

As you can see from the above image, the package was full of various Atlanta Braves gear. To be completely honest, I was glad that for a change someone didn't send me a box full of cards. While I'm always thankful for any type of gift sent to me, I still have so many 200 ct. boxes and larger full of cards I've been set that I've yet to catalog. To see a Homer Hanky, autographed baseball, a mini foam tomahawk and other items staring back at me was refreshing and fun.

While most of the package contained items other than cards, there were a few included. Across the top row were a few Dubuque autographed mascot cards of Rally and (now culturally insensitive) Homer the Brave. I believe these are some sort of food issued cards. If anyone can shed some light on these I'd greatly appreciate it.

The bottom row featured a chrome like sticker with the Braves logo and a Domino's Pizza card of Dale Murphy. I've never seen either of these so I was super happy to add them to the collection as I love odd ball stuff like this. I thought the sticker was something Panini released back in the day, but it is not.

Patrick must have known David Justice was my favorite Braves player as a kid because not only was there one of those 90's style card plaques, but also this Silver Star AuthenTicket. It's too bad the acrylic screw down slab its in was cracked because it looks great. The 90's era hologram card is awesome and reminds me of the old Denny's Grand Slam cards.

I've never messed around with much baseball memorabilia over my collecting years, but only because that was just another rabbit hole I didn't need to jump down. Included in the package was this encased autographed 1991 NL champions ball. I'm pretty sure the top signature is Braves "legend" Francisco Cabrera, but I can't quite make out the lower signature. Is that a "3B" underneath the signature? If you can make heads or tails of this, please let me know!

Call me silly, but I think my favorite item in the care package was this old touch tone Braves phone. I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with the phone, but it's way too cool in a retro way to not keep. I'm trying to keep the bar area of the room trading card themed so I'll probably find a good place on the wall to mount it.

There were a lot of other cool items in the box and I can't thank Patrick enough for his kindness. It's been weird to have been so distant from the trading card community over these last few months and it's people like Patrick and others I interact with on a regular basis that make this community so great. 

As I'm getting unpacked and my room somewhat settled, I am slowly getting back to business with hosting my "famous" Affordable Group Breaks again. We'll fire it up tomorrow night, then we'll see what happens. I don't think I can return to the same schedule as I was doing before, but I am working on the details. Until then, we'll catch everyone on the next post...