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scotty216brs
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I don't believe I have had a proper mailday in at least a couple years. Been a while. 
I took a bit of a break from collecting mainly so I could save up some money but at the same time not too much interested me for my collection. A couple weeks ago I was browsing eBay and saw a couple cards for sale that I still needed for a team set I had been working on. Prices seemed good enough to me so I BINed them both for ~$185 dlvd total. I said I would wait until my birthday to open and post them so here they are:
(Back type #2 )
(Back type #3 )
These go very nicely with the other 9 I have...might finish the team set by the time I turn 80.
The M116 Sporting Life was more of a promotional baseball card set...there was a mail in offer from the Sporting Life newspaper to help promote the sales over the rival sporting newspaper, The Sporting News. For 24 weeks straight you could mail in the ad from the Sporting Life and receive 12 baseball cards, over 300 total including all players and variations. Some cards had pastel backgrounds and others blue backgrounds. The set had 3 different backs [shown below] with the type 3 back being the rarest. I absolutely love the look of these cards with the pastel colors and the unique backs. I am attempting the Red Sox team set but there are a few that are extremely rare so it's a set I might not ever finish...but I'll give it a good shot. If anyone wants a complete checklist CLICK HERE which gives rarities and is also sortable by rarity, and team/player names.
I think it's time to update the old sig:
That should do it for this years mailday...hopefully I will have another sometime soon. After going through a lot of my old cards getting my collection sorted out I want to start adding to it again.
Thanks for looking!
-Scott
I took a bit of a break from collecting mainly so I could save up some money but at the same time not too much interested me for my collection. A couple weeks ago I was browsing eBay and saw a couple cards for sale that I still needed for a team set I had been working on. Prices seemed good enough to me so I BINed them both for ~$185 dlvd total. I said I would wait until my birthday to open and post them so here they are:
(Back type #2 )
(Back type #3 )
These go very nicely with the other 9 I have...might finish the team set by the time I turn 80.
The M116 Sporting Life was more of a promotional baseball card set...there was a mail in offer from the Sporting Life newspaper to help promote the sales over the rival sporting newspaper, The Sporting News. For 24 weeks straight you could mail in the ad from the Sporting Life and receive 12 baseball cards, over 300 total including all players and variations. Some cards had pastel backgrounds and others blue backgrounds. The set had 3 different backs [shown below] with the type 3 back being the rarest. I absolutely love the look of these cards with the pastel colors and the unique backs. I am attempting the Red Sox team set but there are a few that are extremely rare so it's a set I might not ever finish...but I'll give it a good shot. If anyone wants a complete checklist CLICK HERE which gives rarities and is also sortable by rarity, and team/player names.
I think it's time to update the old sig:
That should do it for this years mailday...hopefully I will have another sometime soon. After going through a lot of my old cards getting my collection sorted out I want to start adding to it again.
Thanks for looking!
-Scott
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