Pack War's 2000th Post Contest Winnings

Corky at Pack War had a 2000th post contest recently, and I WON!

Reaching the 2000th post, that's a big accomplishment. Just checking out his sidebar you can see that he's been doing this since at least 2009 (Hey, same year I started this blog!) except that he averages about 220 posts a year, and I'm probably around 150 a year.

Got a ways to go to get to my 2000th.

So being the lucky winner, I got first choice of a handful of great prizes, and I went with this one:

1993 Ted Williams #108 Buck Leonard signed

The 1993 Ted Williams set is one that I have been working on getting autographed for years.

Buck Leonard passed away in 1997 at the age of 87, a long time before I started this autographed set, so he was an automatic contest winning pick for me, I really wanted to add him to the set.

Super stoked to have this.

Corky threw in a few extras as well:

Sketch card created for the 1000th Post Contest by Corky

Is that awesome or what!?

I don't know if Corky actually saw that I collect the Animated Batman cards, I'm assuming he did, and created this card especially for me.

So cool.

2012 Leaf Certified #170, 279/999

2016 Panini Press Proof Red

And a few nice special Patriots!

I'd say that that's a pretty sweet package of contest winnings.

Looking forward to the 2500th Post milestone now!

Checkin It Off - 1993 Ted Williams Checklist Set

Nine card checklist set in the 160-card base set.

Checklists are mostly broken down by subset.

I've been working on an autograph set and have considered getting the checklists signed, like I have in other baseball sets (usually by umpires or front office folk), except that the front of these cards are too black, and I'd rather not have an autograph on the back of the card.