Vintage Peanuts-- Football

Every Peanuts fan knows the recurring bit where Lucy holds a football and entices Charlie Brown to kick it only to pull it away at the last second causing him to land flat on his back.  But did you know that the football gag actually began this way with a less devious Violet  holding the ball on November 14, 1951?

Here's that conniving Lucy:

See, I Do Open Packs -- 2009-10 O-Pee-Chee

This looks to be a bargain pack from Target that my wife bought me for Christmas.

Patrick seems to be out of the game right now.

From the same year:

Beat the Odds of 1:2 packs

 

Ville had 3 goas and 4 assists in the Flyers losing effort against the Blackhawks in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals:

He's now playing for Buffalo:

This was a 1:8 packs pull

Bertuzzi is known for this sad incident:

2008

JR was a 9 time All-Star an is a member of the US Hockey Hall of Fame

Pretty good pack.  Thanks Sweetie!

Ebay Bargains--It's Not a Toomah!

Arnold is right.  It's not a tumor.  It's a Toomer.  New York Giant's All-Time receiving yards leader Amani Toomer.

11 cents shipped.

Diamond Kings and More from The Diamond King

I recently won one of seven prize packages from Kevin, The Diamond King.  The rules stated that you could only enter to win three of them.  As luck would have it not only did I win but I won the package I most wanted.  Kevin labelled them, "modern retired players", which sounds a lot less exciting than the cards themselves.  I picked my favorite 13 cards to show here which is only 10% of the total.  Thanks Kevin!

Not a bad baker's dozen, eh!