He's at it again: Another surprise box of cards shows up!

I said to my family earlier today, before checking the PO box, that I wasn't expecting anything, but that doesn't always mean there won't be something there anyway, and sure enough...what was waiting for me but another box of cards and stuff, all the way from Germany, and SumoMenkoMan!

If you have been following A Pack to be Named Later, you'll see that Ryan has been posting a lot of oddball stuff, random non-sports cards and some lesser-known sports like Sled Dog racing. Well, guess who now has most of those cards in his possession? If you guessed me, you guessed correctly!

There's actually some brand new sports for me in here, too...it's not every day that I can add a brand new sport...let alone more than one...in one day! I'm especially intrigued by the handball set, shown in the bottom right, as it's kind of a cross between basketball and hockey, from what little I know of it. (I know they were trying to recruit LeBron James to come play in their league at one point!)

An added bonus, most if not all of the people in these packs (minus the Beach Boys, a set I REALLY need to work on) will be all new for my collection. As you saw in my Blog Bat Around getting as many different people as possible is a project I'm working on.

It's going to take me a while to get into all these, because as is my style lately I'm spreading out everything...at least for the remainder of this year.

But it wasn't all cards...oh no..

German Chocolate! Legendary. These too will be parceled out slowly...but I know they are going to be good. as soon as I saw the customs form, and the contents of the box, my mind flashed to one thing...

Homer's "Land of Chocolate" fantasy when some Germans bought the power plant way back in season 3. (As an aside, I wish the Frinkiac gif generator could have gotten the whole scene, it's one of my favorites of that season)

And then there is this cool NBA/Spalding branded notepad. I have no idea where you'd ever find something like this, or what year it's from, but it's really cool. I'll probably keep it as a collectible rather than actually use it, to be honest. The David J. Stern signature impression dates it somewhere between 1984 and 2014, at least.

Thank you so much my friend, I still don't know how I got to be on the receiving end of such kindness, but I am forever grateful!