A little bit of this, that and some Milk

 This morning I was going through some albums that were in a closet and I found one interesting item that I honestly do not remember buying. Along with some older Topps Baseball cards and of course my Women's hockey cards that I got back signed and some other interesting cards.

I thought I would start off with this ticket since the NHL playoffs are underway. This gem of a ticket is from the 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs where the Bruins played the New Jersey Devils. The Bruins would play the 3 playoff games at the famed Boston Garden as it was set to be closed. The Bruins held a preseason exhibition game between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins on September 26, 1995. There would be a final even where the Bruins players along with legends Orr and Bird made appearances and there was the final skate where we saw the Bruins greats skating on the ice for the final time. During that preseason exhibition game the final goal scored was by Bruins defenseman Don Sweeney as the Bruins won the game 3-0 over the Montreal Canadiens. The game known as  "The Last Hurrah" was quite sad as it was a goodbye to the Garden. As you can see on the ticket it reads: Thanks for the Memories Boston Garden 1928-1995.

This card is the first series checklist card for the 1968 Topps set. I really was surprised to find this card not checked as a majority from these older sets are marked and these cards were found at a yard sale and a majority of the time they are all checked and colored in. The player pictured on the card looks to be Jim Kaat but I could be wrong as I am only going by memory and my memory is not what it once was so if I am not correct please correct me.

These two cards are from the 1968 Topps of George "Boomer" Scott and Joe Foy. Both players played a big part for the Red Sox making the 1967 Playoffs as the 1967 Impossible dream. These 2 cards are in very nice condition and I paid less than $1 per card and I got over 40 cards all from this 1968 set.

These 2 players really need no introduction as they both went on to having great careers and Don Sutton was elected to the Baseball Hall of fame and never won a world series and never won a Cy Young award. Sutton only had one season as a 20 game winner during the bicentennial year winning 21 games. He won 324 games with 256 losses. Tug McGraw won 2 world series titles the first with the Miracle Mets of the 1969 season and the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1980 season. Tug McGraw is the Father to Country and Western Icon Tim McGraw. Was very glad these 2 cards were in the lot.

This item I found I thought was very interesting as it is a sheet for 1998 Topps Milk Mustache Trading Cards. The fronts of the cards show each player with a milk mustache and the back of the sheet has tips for Basketball and a Milk Tip. The players on the sheet are; Reggie Miller, Jayson Williams, Tim Hardaway, Brevin Knight, Eddie Jones, Kevin Johnson, Glenn Robinson and Dikembe Mutombo. Thought is was odd they did not have 9 cards but the final spot was a description of the cards. Interesting piece!!!

This is the back of the sheet and you can see the Basketball Tip and Milk Tip. The cards are perforated and I am wondering if the mustache on each player are drawn on or are they real?? Two of the players Jayson Williams and Glenn Robinson both look to be on the court like at the free throw lines so would a player have a milk stache during a game?? Doubtful yes maybe though but well I really dunno, Got Milk?

These 2 cards are from the 2009-10 Wisconsin Women's Hockey set of Kyla Sanders and Anne Dronen and I was fortunate to of got both cards autographed and I wanted to show these two cards now since we are talking about Milk.

This card is from the 1994-95 Classic Women of Hockey card of Stephanie Boyd. What is interesting about this set of cards is there are a total of 40 cards 19 from Team USA 20 from Team CANADA with one checklist card depicting the players from team Canada. One thing that I get upset about is there seems to be more cards of the Team Canada players than the Team USA players. Upper Deck has done so many cards of Team Canada but I have found none for Team USA. The only cards I see from Upper deck now are the PWHL cards but I honestly hate Upper Decks cards as their designs are horrid and a lot on the silly side. The one thing that collectors like about Upper Deck's hockey cards are their Young Guns cards which are basically rookie cards. after that for myself they are just a lot of colorful dust collectors. Back to the card of Stephanie Boyd I am showing this card as it is the last card I need to get autographed and it will complete all of the Team USA players all cards being autographed. The big problem is I do not have her address for trying to get a TTM auto because Stephanie was Born in Canada but she did play for Team USA. I believe that was because her Mother was born in the United States. I only have 2 team Canada players from this set autographed as it will be a huge challenge finding their addresses.

I Wanted to show this card because it is one of my favorite cards I love the name and these cards have a beautiful border and the puck with the team info is nice. However what I do not like is the dark background because when you send to these players, they sign the back of the cards instead of the fronts because most do not have a silver or gold paint pen. So I did get Hattie Hoff's autograph back but signed on the cards back. I plan on sending this card to her and ask her to sign the front in a color that will show, I might even send her a paint pen in a bubble mailer along with the card hoping I get it back signed and when I do I will show it here in an upcoming blog post.

This is the autograph of Hattie Hoff on the cards reverse and she really has a nice autograph which is why it is easy for me to have already made up my mind on sending my last card of her for her autograph on the cards front and in silver paint pen. I only have the one card of her but this card I will keep here as it is the second card of her.

I am showing a drawing I did a couple of years ago. It is a drawing of a covered bridge near where I grew up. The Bridge is called The Blair covered Bridge and the river is the Pemigewasset. This drawing took some time and I am hoping I can get back to drawing as I developed trigger finger over the winter months hoping it gets better so I can get back to drawing.

These 2 drawings I did and they are of our dog Piper. Both were done using a Q-tip and Charcoal, the first drawing Piper was playing in the mud so I called it "Dirty Face". I love to draw and I have been drawing for over 57 years.

Well I hope you all enjoyed this post as I found some interesting pick-ups and auto's. I hope I have a better week this week for getting back lots of autographs through the mail. Until next time, Happy Collecting!!!