It's been a long month. I'm building a deck piece by piece on my own each night after work and that is taking up a lot of the time and headspace I normally dedicate to baseball cards. Construction projects are not my strong point, so this project has involved watching many YouTube videos and making runs across town to Home Depot to get all the components I keep forgetting are necessary to do this right.
With that in mind, I did manage to get three posts up and running on my primary website Cardboredom.com. Each highlights a different card in the 1952 Topps set I am building.
These include tales of Michey Cochrane's body double competing for a World Series title in a WWII POW camp, the time a Pacific Coast League strikeout champ saw his fortunes implode after Branch Rickey ordered him to change his delivery, and an exploration of the completely made up White Sox logo appearing on Ray Coleman's card.
As far as the collection goes, I added quite a few new cards in the past month. Seven 1952 Topps cards arrived in the mail, six of which pushed the completion percentage higher and one was a much needed upgrade. Three new Jose Canseco cards joined a small but growing player collection. I even found a replacement for a 1994 Finest Ivan Rodriguez refractor that disappeared en route to me earlier in the year.
I'm waiting for COMC to launch its annual Black Friday special to see if any further additions can be made and to take advantage of any free shipping offers. There are several cards in my inventory there that I want to give to some bloggers who's work I read on a regular basis. Given historical shipping speeds, I hope to have some packages going out in January or early February.