{"id":1220,"date":"2017-03-28T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dubmentality.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2017-03-28T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:52:33","slug":"mail-day-from-shane-katz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Mail Day from Shane Katz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a fine mail day from Shane Katz (@shanekatz73<\/a> on twitter) and I have to share these additions to the PC.<\/span>  <\/span>Shane also has a blog that\u2019s found at www.otwbbcards.wordpress.com<\/a><\/span>  <\/span>Shane is a Boston guy and collects Red Sox if you have any to deal.<\/span>  <\/span>He\u2019s a great trade partner and responsible shipper.<\/span>  <\/span>Check him out!<\/span>  <\/span>My mail day was heavy on the Ron Gant cards, which is really the best kind of mail day.<\/span>  <\/span>Shane also tossed in some extras that are really cool that are worth sharing.<\/span> \"\"<\/a> <\/span>Shane sent 13 Gant\u2019s and I needed 12 of them.<\/span>  <\/span>I am thin on Gant in the late 90\u2019s-early 2000\u2019s and that\u2019s where he came through.<\/span>  <\/span>The stretch I received covered Gant in 6 uniforms.<\/span>  <\/span>I did not have any from his Rockies season so that was a nice addition.<\/span>  <\/span>I won\u2019t discuss all of them but here are a few highlights.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Of course, one for nostalgia was the 1989 Topps Glossy Rookies card #9.<\/span>  <\/span>Ronnie looks like they caught him right after BP.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Then, representing the Reds, we have the 1996 Topps card #70.<\/span>  <\/span>He only played one full season with the Reds as he spent 1994 on the disabled list.<\/span>  <\/span>In \u201895, he hit .276 with 29 home runs and 23 stolen bases, good enough for his second National League Comeback Player of the Year award.  He looks a lot like Reggie Sanders in this picture.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Next, he appeared twice in the 1999 Topps set.<\/span>  <\/span>Once in the base set in his St. Louis uniform and then in the traded set after his move to Philadelphia.<\/span>  <\/span>In St. Louis, he played 3 seasons with 73 total home runs and 35 stolen bases.<\/span>  <\/span>He endured a very tough stretch in batting average never topping .246 in that as a Cardinal.<\/span>  <\/span>He also had a career high 162 strikeouts in 1997.<\/span>  <\/span>In Philly, he rebounded a bit in the average department but the home runs dipped to 20 and 17.<\/span>  <\/span>Stolen bases had also reached a career low with 5 in \u201999 and 1 in 2000.\"\"<\/a><\/span>The next stop was Colorado for a partial season in 2001 as shown on the 2001 Topps here.<\/span>  <\/span>A forgettable stop in Colorado with a .257 average and 8 homeruns.<\/span>  <\/span>He would finish the season in Oakland, playing 34 games and compiling a .420 average and 2 home runs.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Ronnie\u2019s final full season in the majors was with San Diego in 2002.<\/span>  <\/span>The 2003 Topps would be his final of the set as an active player.<\/span>  <\/span>He would go on to appear in Archives and other products as a retired player.\"\"<\/a><\/span>The last two cards are from the 2014 Topps Archives set and are a couple of my favorites.<\/span>  <\/span>The first is the \u201969 Deckle Mini with the facsimile autograph.<\/span>  <\/span>There is a \u201969 Deckle in the set with a true autograph and I have tried to snipe it from time to time on eBay.<\/span>  <\/span>The second card is the 1987 Topps Future Star and is hands down my favorite Gant.<\/span>  <\/span>First you have the 1987 Topps design and then you have the sweet Future Star logo that I have raved about in several blog posts.<\/span>  <\/span>You really can\u2019t beat a card like this and it was the best card in the mail day!<\/span>  <\/span>Also, both in Braves uniforms.\"\"<\/a><\/span>The extras included this sweet 1984 Ralston Purina Dan Quisenberry.<\/span>  <\/span>I have been eyeing this set for a future oddball set post.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Next up are four awesome 1980-1981 Topps Basketball cards from Shane\u2019s youth.<\/span>  <\/span>He even made sure they were all Atlanta Hawks.<\/span>  <\/span>I do not own enough early 80\u2019s basketball.\"\"<\/a><\/span>More oddballs with Steve Garvey and Don Mattingly from the 1987 Fleer Exciting Stars set.<\/span>  <\/span>Mattingly was exciting but Garvey was pretty bland for a set title like that.\"\"<\/a><\/span>The final piece of the mail day was another oddball with the 1986 KayBee Young Superstars of Baseball, Alvin Davis.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

All of these cards are right up my alley and made for a very exciting early week mail day.<\/span>  <\/span>I need to get to work on another trade with Shane because he provides some sweet returns.<\/span>  <\/span>I will no doubt have to step up my game on the next mailing though.<\/span>  <\/span>Thanks Shane!<\/span><\/p>\n

J-Dub<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received a fine mail day from Shane Katz (@shanekatz73 on twitter) and I have to share these additions to the PC.  Shane also has a blog that\u2019s found at www.otwbbcards.wordpress.com  Shane is a Boston guy and collects Red Sox if you have any to deal.  He\u2019s a great trade partner and responsible shipper.  Check him … Continue reading “Mail Day from Shane Katz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends","category-hobbies","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubmentality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_6964.jpg?fit=1125%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7912A-jG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmentality.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}