Trading at Work

Fred, at work, brought me some more cards. Anytime he goes to a show, he always picks me up whatever he thinks I need. If I don't need them, I give them back and he puts them in his collection. He's actually given me more cards since I scanned these, including some today but I haven't done anything with them yet so this is all you get.

We'll start off with the White Sox cards. Nothing too flashy up there, a couple more of Colson Montgomery who had a great year last year. Looking forward to see if he follows it up this year. I'm closing in on 50 cards of him but still have a few cards to go.

Here are a couple of the flashy ones. A rookie Kopech, who has done way better since leaving and a sparkle of Eloy who has dropped off the map since leaving.

A Lazer Phoenix of Nico and an older Finest of the elder Howard. Nico's collection is moving right along with 104 cards which is good for 3rd place among my football players behind Funchess and Denard which I don't pick up a whole lot anymore so I imagine it won't be to long before he takes the top spot.

Last but not least, another Hutch card I needed. He keeps playing like he is and they'll keep making more cards of the defensive player. This is my 88th card of him.

I've actually received quite a few cards in the last couple of weeks but I've been lazy at getting them logged and I don't post until I log them. Hopefully this weekend, I'll get caught up. I brought home 28 3 row boxes of baseball to sort last Friday so that's what I worked on all weekend.

Happy Birthday - Dave Dravecky

Dave was born on this day in 1956, making him 70 today.

MLB Debut - June 15th, 1982 (Padres)

Years Active - 

• 1982-1987 (Padres)
• 1987-1989 (Giants)

Cards on TCDB - 125 cards (2026), 119 cards (2025), 117 cards (2024), 110 cards (2023), 92 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 66 cards (2026), 66 cards (2025), 66 cards (2024), 66 cards (2023), 64 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #39 (#72 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (25 cards)
• Just Commons (13 cards)
• Padrographs (4 cards)
• COMC (4 cards)
• Ebay (4 cards)
• Unknown (3 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (2 cards)
• Sluggos (1 card)

Happy Birthday Dave!

Sorting 80's

I did get a few cards this week. I've been sorting 80's cards which is great for the nostalgic of it all but it sucks because I don't really need anything so I don't get much out of it. Or did I?

I did get 4 cards for my player collections out of it. As you can see, they are more oddball stuff which was why I didn't have any. I did also get a few that I'm not showing. A checklist from 1991 Fleer and a 1990 Score Eric King, both completed those White Sox sets. I also got a Gary Redus Mini (like the above) that I didn't have.

I did find one card from the 80's that I needed for the 1984 Fleer set.

That is my 622nd card from the set which is good for 94% complete.

Going through all those boxes (I'd guess around 30,000 cards), I was especially shocked (and happy) to find a box of 70's. It was a 4 row box, each row about half full. The rows were 1979, 1978, 1977 & 1976. Sadly, I already completed the 1979 Topps set so those meant nothing to me. The other 3 years were fruitful though.

I added all of those to my set which puts it at 86% complete with 623 cards.

I managed to pull these 19 cards for my 1977 set, these give me 588 which is good for 89% complete.

As for the 1976 set, I added the above which puts it up to 615 cards and 93% complete.

Usually when I sort 80's stuff, there are some random older cards mixed in here and there, that where these come in.

The 1973 card (551 cards) gives me 83% complete and the 1974 cards (548 cards) gives me 83% complete as well. The 1972's, 1971 and the card from the 1969 cards are all under 50% completed so I won't bore you with those details.

I also got a few team cards to go in that collection. The top 2 from the box, the other mixed in for the 1980's.

2 1977's and a team card from 10 years earlier with the 1967.

So this 80's sort ended up being pretty awesome for me. Without that box of 70's though, it would have ended up being only 12 cards added so I am definitely not complaining about that,

I got one more post from last week, we'll see if I get the time to put it up this week.

Happy Birthday - Liam Hendriks

 

Liam was born on this day in 1989, making him 37 today.

MLB Debut - September 6th, 2011 (Twins)

Years Active - 

• 2011-2013 (Twins)
• 2014 (Blue Jays, Orioles)
• 2016-2020 (Athletics)
• 2021-2023 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 1389 cards (2026), 1382 cards (2025), 1299 cards (2024), 1122 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 61 cards (2026), 57 cards (2025), 41 cards (2024), 14 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #43 (#78 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• Sluggos (25 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (20 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (8 cards)
• Man Cave (5 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)

Happy Birthday Liam!

Happy Birthday - Jarrod Wilson

Jarrod was born on this day in 1994, making him 32 today.

NFL Debut - September 11th, 2016 (Jaguars)

Years Active - 

• 2016-2020 (Jaguars)
• 2021 (Jets, 49'ers)

Cards on TCDB - 18 cards (2026), 18 cards (2025), 18 cards (2024), 14 cards (2023), 14 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 2 cards (2026), 2 cards (2025), 2 cards (2024), 2 cards (2023), 1 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #137 (#2476 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

• Hollister's (1 card)
• Sportlots (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jarrod!