Monday, September 22, 2025
Time: 7:20 PM
Song: One Way or Another
Artist: Uriah Heep
Mode of Consumption: Listening to “High & Mighty” album by Uriah Heep on vinyl.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2efzela7gZ3RlY4o6ERCdr?si=a9c985568ee54381
Jodi’s uncle Tim bought a small box of trading cards at a sale a couple weeks ago. He’s become a sort of picker over the last few years, and he partially runs the His & Her Barn Sales that I set up my records at a couple times a year.
Not having much knowledge in trading cards, he sold them to me after I had looked through them quickly to make sure there wasn’t anything of great value in there.
Tonight, I finally sat down to take a closer look.
The mix of was of baseball, basketball, football and NASCAR cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The most interesting of the baseball cards was a series of hologram cards that must have come in Corn Flakes boxes sometime in the early 1980s.
There was a small pile of football cards that were shaped differently. These were longer than the normal card, probably a half card longer, with the same width. These were from the early 1990s. A few of the football cards actually had a binding so their were multiple pages to one card, featuring photos, a stat page and a page with other information on the player. I don’t think I’d ever seen those.
I don’t know anything about NASCAR cards, but there was a small collection of Jeff Gordon cards from his early years. I do remember how many old school NASCAR fans hated Gordon when he arrived on the scene.
Maybe my favorite card of the entire box was a Bo Jackson card from the “Bo Knows” period. The front has him in a generic baseball uniform on. The back has one phrase in big font: “Bo knows – turn your back on crack.”
I will probably add the baseball cards to my collection to use for craft projects. The other cards I might just resell. We’ll see.
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