Thankful

I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving today, whether that was alone or with friends and family.

Today as always I'm thankful to all of you who come here to read my posts, comment, and trade with me.

To make this a card post I'm showing off a freebie I got from Chris, the Collector, a couple months ago when he let some folks who'd commented on some of his posts pick from some cards he was giving away.

I thought it would be cool to add this Topps Heritage insert of former president (and Michigan Football player) Gerald Ford. This card, which appears to be #9 in my collection of Homer Simpson's best buddy.

(I'm not treating this like a trade post since I want to give Chris credit for his generosity.)

Thanks again for the cool freebie, Chris, and I'm looking forward to sending you a small envelope you can fit under your tree in time for Christmas.

For now, to all who enjoy any combination of watching football, eating nachos, and drinking beer, happy Thanksgiving!

Not just good--PLAQUE good

"When I was starting out they said, 'You're good, but are you plaque good?'  Well, today I can say 'Yes I am!'"

As everyone already knows and/or posted about today, the baseball world celebrated Ken Griffey Jr.'s induction into the sport's Hall of Fame (along with amazing catcher Mike Piazza).  I thought I'd take the opportunity to post his cards from my most recent huge scanning project in which I'm trying to scan everything I have of Junior along with Tony Gwynn, Greg Maddux, and Cal Ripken Jr.  All that's gonna take a bit but I at least have everything of each player from my large complete set collection scanned, so there's that!

The first three groups of scans you see below include cards I scanned (and possibly posted) quite a while ago but wanted to include as this is a day for celebration.

The RCs:

The hits:

The Hall-themed inserts:

Everything from here on out is newly scanned and uploaded to Junior's Picasa album, which now contains well over 400 cards!

With his co-inductee, Mike Piazza:

Some favorite sets:

'95 Pinnacle

'96 Sportflix

'97 Fleer

Other favorite set appearances:

Great inserts:

That swing, tho:

Excellent horizontal cards:

Other fun stuff:

Congrats to one of the greatest players of my generation on some well-deserved kudos!  I also offer well-wishes to Piazza, one of the greatest catchers the game has ever seen.  May these two remain in the memories of all baseball fans forever.