Micah and...the Braves?

This Micah Owings card is a new addition to the collection. When
there's a bargain to be had, it's amazing how we go against our
own displeasure with sticker autos, eh? Let's see if we can
distract you from this startling propensity.

News comes from our friend Ann C., source of Most of Our Micah News, 
about Micah's participation in the Rally Foundation, which has
the mission of raising money for childhood cancer research
through grassroots initiatives. He recently attended a benefit
bash (along with Chipper Jones,

Kelly Johnson

and Brian McCann)

that helped raise $183,000 for research.

Tom Glavine (remember him? the former Met?) and John Smoltz

have also played a significant role in fundraising for this group.

We thought it might be nice if once in the blue moon we take a
teeny tiny peek beyond the cardboard. Or, for that matter, the
stickers.

Kelly Johnson card photo from onbaseautos; John Smoltz: the Rally Foundation; Chipper Jones
aand BB Abbott photo by Elizabeth Westby.

Mets Looking Left PLUS miscellany.

JV of Treasure Never Buried, the blog vortex of deep thought,
sent us some really sweet cards. In particular one autographed card that
Lucy totally flipped over, which will appear at the end of this post. One theme
quickly emerged as we sorted through the cards: Mets Looking To Their Left.

There's quite a bit going on, including left-looking, in this Jose
Reyes card. That is a busy bottom third of a card.

Same with this Johan card. A certain person in our family who up
until now has ONLY liked Allen & Ginter cards reluctantly admits
a certain admiration for SP Authentic. This is similar to someone
who only drives Bentleys suddenly taking a happy tear around
the block in a Ford Edge.

David Wright's facial expression always seems worried after he
gets a hit.

By the way, the two X cards above came from different sources:
JV on the left and White Sox Cards on the right. This is called
"the meeting of the twain."

David seems concerned when fielding:

The following David Wright card from JV is what we call
transitional. We will use it to transition to some Barry Zito
cards:

For some reason, throwing arm notwithstanding, the above shot
of David reminds us of Barry. Which raises the question, how can
anyone not love Barry Zito cards? How how how how? Tell us. We
need to know. He combines "flake" with "deep" and "spacey" and
"odd" and "hunky"

and "occasionally quite good" with "sometimes seems overpaid"
in a hypnotizing way:

Actually, even though we carefully transitioned to Barry Zito, we
want to go back for one moment not to Mets Looking Left but to
Random Players Looking To Their Left:

Okay, thank you for allowing that digression.

And in an unrelated development, we must share a mantra we 

now utter when standing outside to pick up the girls at school. 

Every other mom who is there--including many nice ones who 

are talking to us while our mind wanders--discuss weather, the 

PTA, home repairs, politics, you name it. They are wonderful, 

smart, engaged parents. Nevertheless, there's a good chance 

that in our BB-in-a-boxcar brain, Dinged Corners is thinking 

something like, "You can never have enough Micah cards."

JV outdid himself here by sending us a Micah we hadn't seen 

before. Here's the back:

And the front:

Oh by the way, here's Curtis Granderson Looking Left, too:

All righty then.

REGARDING THE MASTHEAD: We became grumpy upon finding 

out about places that are using that particular crate label...you 

can go to tildology for more about this matter and also scroll 

down this blog to find use of the Safe Hit crate label on that 

Fairfield repack box. Tild was spectacularly nice enough to come 

with an alternate, which is now the Dinged Corners masthead. 

Thank you very much, Tild.

ALSO: We have recently received, for whatever undeserving reason, some fantastic 

cards from gca, gcrl, tastelikedirt, whitesoxcards, and saints of the cheap seats, 

among others. We are planning posts to feature more of these cards in the next 

week or so. Just so you know that there are cool visuals coming.

And here's the autographed card from JV that made Lucy so 

happy:

The six facial expressions of baseball players.

This card reminds us that baseball players seem always to wear
one of six possible expressions:

1-the non-expression-that-borders-on-grim look, often when
signing autographs
2-the smile
3-the look of effort (mid-swing, mid-catch, midair, or mid-pitch)
4-the self-satisfied look (watching as homerun leaves park)
5-the worried look (many David Wright cards)
6-Tim Teufel

Are we missing any?

Thank you for the great scan, Night Owl.