Cards from the Astrodome

The above smattering of cards was delivered last week and were courtesy of Marc from Remember the Astrodome. Between work, hosting breaks and getting ready for a camping trip this weekend I just haven't had time to do much blogging, however I wanted to take a moment to publicly thank Marc for the cards.

I decided to skip the annual Gypsy Queen set for the first since it debuted in 2011. This decision was made before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and threatened the 2020 baseball season...and as a result the 2020 baseball card season as well. To date I've not bought a single pack of 2020 GQ so these cards of Freddie Freeman and new Braves catcher, Travis D'Arnaud represent the first new GQ cards in my Braves collection.

I opened my first pack of 2020 Topps Stickers earlier today as well so I'm excited to see the Mike Soroka card in the package. I still think he is going to help solidify and anchor the rotation for years to come...plus these sticker cards have a fun design.

I honestly can't remember if I have the included Donruss, Heritage, Archives or Opening Day cards, but I do look forward to sitting down and updating my Google Sheets file.

Marc, if you're reading I'll try my best to have a package out to you. Thanks again for sending these my way.

Hidden in Plain Sight

Between work, family, hobbies and the multitude of blogs I try to maintain each day, each week, each month, there are going to be things that slip through the cracks. I've been taking advantage of my boss' 2 week vacation and get caught up on a few things and get my home office desk cleaned up a bit. While doing so I found a simple plain white envelope and inside was a folded 9 pocket sheet that contained several 2017 Donruss cards I needed for my set. Marc from Remember the Astrodome was kind of to send these, yet it's taken me this long to publicly say thank you.

I'm now 7 cards away from completing the base set, minus the short printed Diamond Kings, Rated Rookies and the base variations. I've yet to jump into 2018 Donruss, but I plan to eventually so I'm glad I'm so close to finishing out the 2017 set.

If you want to help, here is what I'm still missing:

Diamond Kings - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Rated Rookies - 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45

Base - 171, 172, 176, 179, 182, 185, 193

1st Trade with Remember the Astrodome

Last week I posted my 2017 Topps want list and Marc from Remember the Astrodome kindly replied to my Facebook Group post and offered to help out. We struck up a little trade and off sent each others cards. On Monday, I got a bubble mailer from Marc that contained several Series 1 commons and one more 1987 insert. Thank you Marc...let's do this again sometime.