The Mermen of Area 51

   As most of you know, P-Town Tom of the blog Eamus Catuli!, hosted a give-away of baseball cards cards earlier this month. Several thousand cards, post paid, have found new homes thanks to Tom's generosity. All we readers had to do, was call dibs on a team. Well there is no shortage of Cubs fans in the blogiverse, and of course one must beware of Darth Vader when approaching White Sox cards, so with all of Chicago baseball covered, I did not jump on board to claim any of the freebies. Some days later, Tom posted an update on the progress of the give-away at Eamus Catuli!. There were still teams left unclaimed. How was this possible?! The Mariners. No one claimed the Mariners? Is there no love for the MLB's mermen? Such a travesty! The odds were slim, but slim odds of getting a new Ichiro card for my collection is worth showing some Mariners love, so I jumped in. Below are my favorite pulls from P-Town Tom's generosity Box.

Thanks Tom!

I like the Fleer Tradition Vintage '61 insert cards. Enclosed were these two fellas on FT '61 cards.

In 1961 they were known as George and Alexander-

    I had never encountered a Metal '98 baseball card before. In fact, I think I had only seen this type of card on comic cards in the 90s. I like it! So, I've added some new cards to my wants list at TCDB. There were actually four of these Metal cards in the box, but I'm only showing the one with the Space Needle. It fits with this thinly veiled theme of using cheesy sci-fi references in this post.

    Look a Cubs card! One of these boys may have been abducted by aliens, and replaced by a quirky doppelganger. It's classified information, so I can't tell you anything more. Let's move on.

I collect cards with bubblegum bubbles.  This is a super nice one!

A couple cards for my 1979 Topps set, and a card for my 1978 Topps set. Yeah, I have decided to work on completing all three years (1977-79) of Topps sets.

This has to be one the most humorous baseball cards I've seen. Love it! 

This guy right here is one of my favorite color commentators. Tom Paciorek has great wit and delivery! 

    LOOK! P-Town Tom included a special packet of a few newer Area 51 cards, and made my day! Good stuff for sure! That's my first ticket shaped card. Nice, and it is a Mariner card to boot.

    These Bowman Platinum cards are pretty cool. I have several of the Cubs, and now I have the Ichiro card too. Love it! All of these Ichiro cards are new to my collection, as I did not have any of them. Oh, and that insert of Ichiro on the Cards Your Mom Threw Out card, that was the one Ichiro card hiding in the box. That was the winning ticket.

    Thank you Tom! I will be giving your want list a going over very soon.

Everyone have a great weekend and thank you for reading!