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This blog is about sports cards. I tend to only purchase cheap items so don't come hear expecting to see big money cards. My teams collections are Chicago White Sox and Michigan Wolverines. I also have a bunch of player collections.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Mark Buehrle collection

Thanks everyone for the good wishes on finding another job.

Today, I get to add another Mark Buehrle as a Toronto Blue Jays to the Mark Buehrle collection.  This is another A&G that I got for $.50.

Mark Buehrle

2013 Topps Allen & Ginter’s

Monday, September 29, 2014

Take the good and the bad

Good news and bad news on the home front.

The bad news is I got laid off last week so even though I pay very little for my cards, I now can’t afford to pay anything.  So I will have to come up with something else for blog posts.  Not that I haven’t been posting sporadically anyways.

The good news is I do still have the last of the cards that I did purchase cheap to post so I will have some things to post for a week or two.  Maybe a month since I haven’t been posting regularly.

Until then, we’ll see what happens.

Since I’ve been laid off, I have been working on getting all my White Sox cards organized.  I have all the base sets from Topps, Fleer, Donruss and Upper Deck done because I’ve been trying to complete those team sets but all the other various sets and inserts need to be logged into my Google Drive pages.  I guess the time I have could be considered more good news.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

This Week on MSO-Tumblr

Hello all, welcome to another Sunday edition of This Week on My Sports Obsession – Tumblr.  (Does anyone else do that with the This Week in Baseball theme music running through the back of their heads?)  There are a lot of vintage NFL gifs in this post so if it gets to be too much on your computer, go to the tumblr page linked above to view them.

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Devin Hester

Colts vs. Jaguars

Indianapolis Colts vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

vanillacts:<br /><br />Michael Singletary puts the brakes on Eric Dickerson.<br />

Mike Singletary stops Eric Dickerson

Barry Sanders with Rod Woodson

vanillacts:<br /><br />Barry Sanders splits the gap<br />

Barry Sanders

Barry Sanders

vanillacts:<br /><br />Reggie White kneels down for Barry Sanders<br />

Barry Sanders with Reggie White

vanillacts:<br /><br />Can’t stop OJ<br />

OJ Simpson

Marshawn Lynch with Ray Lewis

Jerry Rice as a pinball

Jerry Rice

Jim Brown, OJ Simpson, Eric Campbell, Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson and Barry Sanders 

White Sox vs. Rays

Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays

mlb:<br /><br />A thing of beauty.<br />

Evan Longoria

mightyflynn:<br /><br />1965<br />via Mears<br />

Mickey Mantle

mariners:<br /><br />There’s no sweeter swing.<br />

Robinson Cano

vintagesportspictures:<br /><br />Jackie Robinson (undated)<br />

Jackie Robinson 

chicagocubs:<br /><br />Super Szczur<br />

Matt Szczur

fuckyeahwhitesox:<br /><br />Southpaw &amp; Southpaw<br />

Mark Buehrle

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Jim Abbott collection

This is one of the A&G’s that I grabbed for $.50 along with 4 others for the player collections.

Jim Abbott

2013 Topps Allen & Ginter’s

To see this card (again) along with some other Michigan Wolverines cards, go on over to Too Many Manninghams and check them all out.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Gary Carter collection

I’m not sure which team cards of “the kid” that I like to see more.  The New York Mets because I was a big Mets fan when he played for them or the Montreal Expos because I love their uniforms.  This card is even better because it’s a 1985 Fleer which is a rare card in my collections.  I don’t run across too many on Ebay or at least not at the cost I pay.  I grabbed this card for $.30.

Gary Carter

1985 Fleer

Monday, September 22, 2014

Carl Yastrzemski collection

Another guy that I don’t get to add to my collection very often but I managed to grab one this week.  This Carl Yastrzemski is a cool looking card as is most of the Upper Deck Masterpiece cards.  I picked this one up for $.49.

Carl Yastrzemski

2007 Upper Deck Masterpieces