Hell of a Mail Day

This past Saturday night I had to bring the family dog to a canine emergency room in Redwood City, CA - no worries, he's okay. That said, it occasioned me the opportunity to sit in my car for 4.5 hours while I waited for him to be treated and discharged, as humans weren't allowed into the pet hospital due to our pandemic-ridden times. It therefore occasioned me the opportunity to also order several cards on my phone, all of which arrived in a whoosh yesterday on what you might call a "hell of a mail day". 

Let's start with the 1965 Sandy Koufax card that I talked about earlier in the week. I bought it for a big $2.87 from a seller on eBay. That was the Buy It Now price, not an auction. It looks and feels like an authentic '65, but I'm 99% sure it's a total phony. The blue on the back is a pantone shade lighter than on my other 1965 cards, and of course, this card isn't worn at all, 56 years after its supposed production. I like looking at it, but it's a fake all the way. 

Thankfully my mail day presented all sorts of non-fakes as well. I bought all five of the 1986 Topps "Turn Back The Clock" cards, because "cards on cards" is a phenomenal concept. These were, I believe, about 25 cents each on CardBarrel.

Also got an /50 from my new pitching hero Max Fried, from 2020 Donruss:

....and my other 21st century pitching hero Tim Lincecum - just a 2008 Upper Deck Series 2 base card of his that I didn't happen to have.

I "took part" in Jim at Cards As I See Them's "(Almost) Free Card Friday", in which I was able to send him a couple things from his want list in exchange for a few things he was offering up. This is what I claimed, and what I was fortunate to receive in the mail yesterday; that's Trevor Hoffman (2000 Pacific Aces del Diamante), Frank Robinson (2014 Panini October Heroes) and Willie McCovey (2005 Upper Deck Past Time Pennants):

Tucked into a relatively small CardBarrel order - the one that yielded those Turn Back The Clocks - was a handful of 1972 Topps on my want list. I didn't scan all 10 or 12 of them here, just Manny Mota, as a representative example of the glories of the 1972 set.

It wouldn't be a truly epic mail day without a new Pablo Sandoval card:

Finally, I got a little closer to my relatively easy quest to complete the San Francisco Giants Allen & Ginter team sets from 2006 to the present. I'm mostly working backwards. Here are a few ringers that showed up yesterday.