Sunday Cleve-view: August-erity Is In Big Trouble

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  I like to keep that in mind when I'm about to help someone, or do something nice for my fellow man.  "Whoa," I think, "I might go to hell if I do this!"  And I stop myself.  It's a philosophy that has served me well these many years.

My plan of August-erity, was made with good intentions.  But like most plans to do the right thing, in the end, it just doesn't make sense, and could lead one to hell.  That was my logic when I went to Cleve's this weekend to see the auction materials for Tuesday night.  Can you blame me for being weak?  Lookit:

How about a 1916 Cracker Jack of Walter Johnson?  I'm going to assume this will get out of my range in a hurry.

 Hopefully, one of these Eddie Mathews cards will be more my speed.

Or one of these Willie Mays.

I'm not especially interested in these, but I thought the Mickey Mantle comic and Life Magazine were pretty interesting.

These are separate items- a box of graded basketball and a box of graded football.  I'm more interested in knowing how much it cost to grade all of this.  Isn't it like $8 a card?

A couple of misc cards that I wouldn't mind getting.  I don't know anything about the Ty Cobb Spectrum card, but it is in a super thick holder that I would like to have.

For the non baseball fans, there are a ton of cool Jordan cards and a couple of autos of NFL greats.

 Of course, baseball is where it's at for me, and here is some more of what is going to get me in the doghouse with the lovely wife Tuesday night:

This picture would be so much better if it weren't upside down.  I can't get it flipped though, and don't want to keep messing with it.  Just turn your head or your computer over.  Don't try flipping your iPhone if that's what your looking at this with, because it will just keep rotating.

Yep, I'm in trouble this week.

Postcards From The Hall

The lovely wife and I bought new bedroom furniture recently, and before it was delivered, we cleared out all the crap that was under our old bed.   (As an aside, we splurged and bought a tempur pedic mattress.  Holy crap, it is the best money I have ever spent!)   I found a few boxes of stuff I had kind of forgotten about, and SURPRISE, most of the stuff was related to baseball.

Before we had children, the lovely wife gave me the gift of a lifetime by booking a trip to Cooperstown NY, (and some time in NYC) to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame.  One of these days I'm going to post pictures from the trip, but that is not my purpose today.  I also won't spend a lot of time explaining that if you have never been to the Hall, you absolutely should.  Because you should.  I am chomping at the bit to go back, and when the kids are a little older, we're going.

No, today, I just wanted to show some cool postcards I bought while at the Hall, including the above postcard of the Hall of Fame itself.  I also picked up a handful of other really beautiful post cards of paintings by Arthur K. Miller.   I don't need to wax poetic about these, other than to say I really wish there was a card set based on these paintings.  (Who knows, maybe there is.  Is there one, you experts?)   Here are the ones I have:

Babe Ruth

Ty Cobb

Joe Jackson

Jackie Robinson

Honus Wagner

I don't remember buying these, as the trip was almost 10 years ago.  But I sure wish I had bought more of them.  I'm going to have to do some searching and see if these are available anywhere else because they are incredible.