My Canadian Pal Chris (TCDB Chrisrivers) sent me some stuff for two of the Frankensets this time out. He never fails to amaze me in finding really good trash cards in his trades with others. I never fail to wonder who these degenerates are that are doing these things to cards that, to hear Chris tell it, then try to pass off an Orlando Cepeda with punched out eyes AND NOSTRILS (see previous post) as totally acceptable and normal trades (to anyone buy me). So he offered up a 1968 Game of Dean Chance he thought I'd like
Boy, did I. It's almost as if some kid up in Canukistan there thought "what is the way to protect this prized Strike Out piece that I could throw down like a domino to end an inning" while we play endless rounds of card baseball inside our Ice fishing huts, waiting, long the winter, for bites. So, like the baby Achilles held up by his ankle, this kid dipped Dean Chance into a bucket of Canola oil, which really seems to have caused the image to slowly slide off the card, a process that continues to this day. I also need to find someone who reads braille because it made some bumps that I'm hoping randomly assembled themselves into some sort of obscene gibberish.
He also sent a '65 John Blanchard who he thought had been somebody's wallet card, which I'm not sure is the case. I mean who would be carrying a wallet full of baseball cards out on the plains of the Canadian Rockies back then when the main local currencies would have been Loonie Toonie coins and beaver pelts?
It looks vaguely like turtle skin. And my sister raises free range rescue house turtles, so this looks like the card got wet and was then taped to a turtle while it healed some sort of injury or strip poker loss. Turtles are very sensitive about their nakedness.
Whenever I get a trade offer from Chris, or really any of you, I usually scour the traders and specifically look for the Gold foil and purple holo foil and Toys r Us purple border and Walgreens Yellow borders and fuzzy background type parallels to see if I can find any for my action set. Whenever I find a card that has the ball floating in the air between the batter and fielder I can then see if it's a number I need and I found a couple.
Gold foil Cavan Biggio is frankly cooler than what passes for "gold" now and is way cooler than the usual rainbows because it combines the best of both.
This landscape orientation of Jose Siri floating in the air about to catch a floating ball has given me a thought. I'm constantly having to change orientation of the binder when I flip thru the action parallels and often I have 2 or 3 possible candidates at a given number. I'm seriously considering stripping out all the landscape cards out of this and start a second Action Parallel Landscape edition frankenset for just this orientation and leave all the portrait orientations in the current one. I think I've got the binder and the pages to do so, but I need to sort all my loosies and dupes into Horizontal and vertical orientation and count out how many of each in the current binder to see where it all sits. In the meantime keep looking out for those trashed cards and the Parallel action cards and offer them up.
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