$15 Scumbucket Grab Bag 2.16

Donruss Chipper Jones Rocket Launchers (#0330/5000)

I think this is another card that was a part of an older one of these grab bags that withered on the vine.  Here's your second chance, kids.

THE PILE

Stacy Augmon Lovs-A-Lotts

2018 Topps Opening Day Mike Trout

1994 NBA Hoops Magic & Bird Insert

2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Ron Gant / Barry Larkin

1993 Topps Top Prospects Catchers - Piazza / Delgado

A Couple of 'Zos and a Shiny Penny

Lot of 26 '70s and '80s Topps Football Cards

 1000 Vietnamese Dong Note

 2017 Topps Gallery Masterpiece Albert Pujols

1992-93 The Arizona Republic / The Phoenix Gazette Suns Lot of 3

2008 Topps Moments & Milestones Hanley Ramirez (004/150)

1988 Topps Tom Glavine

Lot of 5 2021-22 Topps Bundesliga Cards

1990 Topps Ken Griffey, Jr.

2002 Fleer Tradition Jose Vidro Parallel (067/200)

1983 Topps Tony Dorsett Record Breaker

Completion! - 1993 Topps Gold

While there are likely several larger parallel sets out there, this is probably the biggest one I'll ever build.  Many of the cards therein are the same ones I pulled from packs as a young man making the transition from junior high to high school.  It was a build 30 years in the making, one resumed in earnest just a few years ago, and now it's over.

The final card?

#444 David Nied

Why is he performing his wind-up with a dark expanse ("Blacker than midnight on a moonless night.") lurking behind him?  How did the Rockies know to track Nied to his Enclave of Obscurity in order to make him their first pick in the 1992 Expansion Draft?  What sort of dark arts did he practice, and why did he fail to use them to enhance his pitching prowess?  So many unanswered questions here.

As the final card to go into the binder, Nied has some auspicious company on the completed page.  With Murphy, Caminiti, and Strawberry, Nied struggles to make it into the top half of players on his page, much less earning the honor of the page's captain.

It's a pair of binders that looks really good on the shelf.  I will show this off to any head of state whose car happens to break down in front of my house and asks to use the phone.  

 *Special thanks to Chris Harris, who generously provided a few hundred cards for this endeavor.

$15 Scumbucket Grab Bag 2.15

1983 Topps Tony Dorsett Record Breaker

 

Here's a look at that 99-yard run.

THE PILE

Stacy Augmon Lovs-A-Lotts

2018 Topps Opening Day Mike Trout

1994 NBA Hoops Magic & Bird Insert

2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Ron Gant / Barry Larkin

1993 Topps Top Prospects Catchers - Piazza / Delgado

A Couple of 'Zos and a Shiny Penny

Lot of 26 '70s and '80s Topps Football Cards

 1000 Vietnamese Dong Note

 2017 Topps Gallery Masterpiece Albert Pujols

1992-93 The Arizona Republic / The Phoenix Gazette Suns Lot of 3

2008 Topps Moments & Milestones Hanley Ramirez (004/150)

1988 Topps Tom Glavine

Lot of 5 2021-22 Topps Bundesliga Cards

1990 Topps Ken Griffey, Jr.

2002 Fleer Tradition Jose Vidro Parallel (067/200)

$15 Scumbucket Grab Bag 2.14

2002 Fleer Tradition Jose Vidro Parallel (067/200)

So I hear international baseball is all the rage at the moment.  Well, we have Puerto Rico and Canada represented on this card.  Not exactly the championship final, but pretty decent.

THE PILE

Stacy Augmon Lovs-A-Lotts

2018 Topps Opening Day Mike Trout

1994 NBA Hoops Magic & Bird Insert

2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Ron Gant / Barry Larkin

1993 Topps Top Prospects Catchers - Piazza / Delgado

A Couple of 'Zos and a Shiny Penny

Lot of 26 '70s and '80s Topps Football Cards

 1000 Vietnamese Dong Note

 2017 Topps Gallery Masterpiece Albert Pujols

1992-93 The Arizona Republic / The Phoenix Gazette Suns Lot of 3

2008 Topps Moments & Milestones Hanley Ramirez (004/150)

1988 Topps Tom Glavine

Lot of 5 2021-22 Topps Bundesliga Cards

1990 Topps Ken Griffey, Jr.