Philly Show 2014 09 28 - Dime Box

As Promised Monday night we our now featuring our VF show Dime Box posting. I love the cheap bins, The shear disorganization fits my personality and I always find stuff that I had either forgotten about or never knew existed.

Since the onslaught of playoff postings has featured so many other teams, we will lead off with a Phillies Card.

2013 Topps Chrome Refractor #90 Ben Revere

Refractor for a dime, much better than the 15 base card "Value Pack" I just shelled out $5 for at Target.

Allen Ginter Inserts

Various A&G Inserts

Any time I see A&G inserts in a dime box, I pick em up. I am sure somebody needs anything I don't want to keep.

Sketch Cards

A&G Sketchers

These are staying in the Phungo Collection. I wasn't building this set but when one can pick up over half of the 24 card set in one day, it becomes part of the dime box search list. 

Vintage Dimes
1971 Topps Dimers 

I  knocked out 23 cards from my 1971 Topps Checker. A couple of the highlights are in the fan, the rest are even more common. The Manny Sanguillen card is a favorite among the lot.

Dime Box Card All-Stars
A couple of cards from this dime box were distinguished enough to get there own features at Phungo:
1981 Topps Record Breakers #206 Mike Schmidt
2013 Topps #WBC-5 Hanley Ramirez 
2003 Bowman Draft #BDP137 JJ Hardy  

Source & Links
Philly Show 2014 09 28 Index
Baseball Cardpedia

Happy Independence Day! 2009 Topps A&G National Pride #NP31 Grady Sizemore

Getting the Holiday weekend off to a start by posting a card of one of the newest faces in the Phillies Organization.

2009 Topps A&G National Pride #NP31 Grady Sizemore

Last week the Phillies signed Grady Sizemore off the scrap heep and he is currently playing the outfield for the teams AAA affiliate Lehigh Valley.

Sizemore has had a decent week, picking up a couple of hits including a Home Run. The move obviously doesn't make the Phillies a contender, but it does allow the Phillies flexibility to do a couple of things. 1) Trade Marlon Byrd or Dom Brown to a contendor 2) Send Ben Revere back to AAA for some seasoning.

At this point I don't know that Ben Revere can learn much at the AAA level, A player with no pop and mediocre defensive ability just doesn't have a spot in the Major Leagues. His lack of any skill outside of hitting singles really makes it hard to find a spot for him as a ballplayer.

2009 A&G National Pride
National Pride was a commong 2009 insert of Allen & Ginter. It is a bit hard to believe that the set is now 5 years old, The checker for the subset consists of 75 cards. The Phillies featured in the set include Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz. The checker for this set has some interesting names on it, and it would be fun to do a where/now on the list 5 years removed from the originals.

Sources
Baseball-ref
Baseball Cardpedia
Teams Sets 4 U

Happy 4th of July: 2009 Topps A&G National Pride #NP24 Chase Utley

Here we stand on the 4th of July, roughly half way through the baseball season and the Phillies appear to be positioned more to dismantle the remainder of the team of their recent glory years.

One of the key players, perhaps even the captain of those squads has been Chase Utley.

2009 Topps A&G National Pride #NP24 Chase Utley

This may be the last 4th of July that we see Chase Utley at second base for the Phillies.  He has been the heart of the team for at least half a decade now, and if he goes it will be a sad moment in the Phillies history.


Chase Utley has been injury prone during recent years, but he has been the source of so many great baseball memories that I will likely always be a fan. I plan on enjoying what remains of Utley's Phillies tenure here, and will likely follow him wherever his career takes him.



2009 Topps Allen & Ginter National Pride

I believe National Pride was the 1/Pack insert in 2009 A&G. It consists of 75 cards and represents players from different countries. 2009 was a WBC year, and this insert tied into the event nicely. I am a fan of many of the AnG per pack inserts, this one may be my favorite.

4th of July Holiday

The fourth is a big grilling day with family BBQs and deck parties. A lot of Fathers will be grilling today and Chase Utley's 09 AnG National Pride has a great father and son story:

2009 Topps A&G National Pride #NP24 Chase Utley (b-side)




Reference
Chase Utley Player Collection Index
Baseballcardpedia