Monday, May 18, 2015

Visit to Orlando Sportscards !

So I asked for some advice the week before my holiday about which LCS to visit during my stay in Orlando. Several of you mentioned that I should visit Orlando Sportscards and of course I obliged !


After a 30 minute drive I arrived at the shop with my wife and kids. This of course meant I needed to entertain my kids a bit to enable a longer stay at the card shop. Luckily my kids love Pokemon and they had a nice assortiment of cards for them to look through !!

With that I could start looking through some boxes for some Glavine cards !! The shop itself has a nice set-up and has plenty to look through and also a nice assortiment of boxes and supplies. The owner, Kendall, is also a very nice guy and we chatted a bit about the hobby. Time was limited of course so I jumped right into a few boxes after that. I found myself a few nice Glavine additions !

Here's a 1998 Topps Stars numbered to 9799 (interesting how they came up with such a print-run !) and a 2004 Leaf Limited (/100). 


I also found a 2006 SP Authentic card as well as a 1992 Panini Sticker !


Last up a very thick Panini Father's Day card as well as another M&M one. Still trying to complete the M&M set so further additions are welcome !!



That was it for the Glavine loot. This brings my total different Glavine cards to 1,625 !! I continue to target at least 2,000 Glavine cards by year-end, let's see if that is possible !!

In addition, to these Glavine cards I bought a few boxes to break during my Holiday, 2 2015 Gypsy Queen and 2 Series 1 boxes so stay tuned in the next few days on a review of these boxes !!

Thanks Kendall for the service, if you come across interesting Glavine cards in the future always feel free to contact me !!

11 comments:

  1. That sticker could be a mirror ball in a disco.

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  2. *Obligatory sticker is shiny comment*

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  3. Looks like a lot of fun ! Not everyday us Europeans get to see a brick and mortar LCS

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  4. Do you collect any European baseball cards or know anyone who does?

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    1. Jason, to be honest I haven't come across any European baseball set yet, not even sure they exist. Do you have any examples so I can check them out ?

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    2. There have been quite a few sets issued for Dutch teams. I suspect they were only available at games. Check here for a bit Dutch collector site:
      http://www.mijnhonkbalplaatjes.nl/

      I found a set for an Austrian set from a few years ago, ordered some cards and blogged about it:
      http://clydes-stalecards.blogspot.com/2014/09/die-2012-diving-ducks-limited-edition.html

      Also, I discovered that sets were issued in 2002 & 2003 for the Italian Baseball League. I haven't been able to find any of them yet, but if you do a Google Image search for sportcards.it (the company/website that produced the cards, but no longer exists), you'll see a lot of the Fortitudo Bologna cards from the set.

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  5. ah... the strip mall card shop. congratulations. a very rare find.

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