Social Distancing Diary with Baseball Cards: Mantle, the Babe, and Giants

Aloha, everybody, 

In this episode of Social Distancing with Baseball Cards, we check out some tribute and vintage Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, the Babe and more.

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My Greatest Card Shop Find

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Remember when mom and pop card shops were in every neighborhood? Boy, them were the days. 

We lived high on the card collecting hog and didn't recognize how good we had it. 

Once whilst driving through an unfamiliar neighborhood, I spotted a card shop. I popped in, and made my greatest card shop discovery ever. 

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Finally, I Scored Some "H"

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Last week I struck out in my hunt for 2016 Heritage. Today I was out and about and stopped in to Walmart looking for some "H". 

Bingo!

 Ok, let's get to ripping and see what's in there. My first card of the year is an Angel...

 Then I pulled one of those discs.

I was about seven cards into the pack when I finally found a Dodger - a pretty good one...

Right behind A-Gon I found another Dodger....

 Waitaminute...that's not a Dodger. That's an airbrushed mercenary. 

Anything else in the pack? Just a whole lotta trade package action for all of you. 

I bought some insurance just in case the Heritage pack was lacking, in the form of a discounted rack pack of Topps 2014 - for two reasons. Of course, the first was the discount. Secondly, the front of the package reminded me of the Babe Ruth Story inserts. 

I love Babe Ruth cards, so that was enticing. I also remembered good ol' Night Owl has been looking for one last Babe Ruth Story insert to complete his set. Maybe this pack contained that final card.

It was a semi-hot pack, and included a few inserts. If anyone is chasing these, I hope I pulled an insert you need...

 While I didn't get the BRS card that Night Owl needs, I did catch one...

 Can't go wrong with pulling any Babe Ruth card, and it's extra cool when he's featured as a Red Sock. 

Not a bad haul for a quick hit and run at the hobby card rack. 

UPDATE: Oops, I just checked N.O.'s site and it was Jackie Robinson story inserts he's been chasing! Doh! 
 No wonder I didn't find what he needed. 

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