My Sports Obsession: February 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Circus Cards

Get a quick post out here before I head to bed. I got a big show on Saturday and another one on Sunday so I probably won't get any posts in this weekend, unless there is a birthday and I'm a week behind.

These are all pick-ups from the Circus Specatular show a couple of weeks ago, so apparently I'm 2 weeks behind.

These first 2 I picked up from Jackson who is a friend of ours and was set up next to us so I looked through his cards while I was watching his tables so he could do some shopping. I grabbed these 2. Probably nothing I would have picked up at anybody else's table but I knew he'd give them to me cheap. There was a 3rd card but I ended up already having it. I ended up paying $5 for the 2 since the 3rd I already had.

I skimmed tables as I walked around. This guy told me everything was half off his tables so I grabbed this up, he had $5 on it which was a little high but $2.50 was just fine. It's actually my 5th autograph of his out of 26 cards.

I hit up another table that had college cards and they were in team order so you know I'm going to hit that. I didn't want to check my lists so I just grabbed some color stuff (I still ended up with dupes). I think all the dupes I grabbed, Dennis needed so that was good. I paid $10 for all the cards but I only ended up keeping the 7 so it was a little more than I wanted to pay but it was still a good deal.

One other table had a few Michigan cards and I scanned and grabbed this card and another but the other I already had but I asked what he could do for both and I basically paid for this card and the other one was free, which worked out since I already had it. I saw the Ronnie Bell on Dennis' site of the cracked ice with the yellow so I was happy to see this one and snatched it up. I paid $3 for it.

Remember at the last South Bend show where I said there was a breaker set up, he opened up a couple blasters of Stadium Club and gave us all the cards that he didn't want? Well at this show, he bought a jumbo box of 2024 Topps and gave us what he didn't keep for himself. With all the White Sox cards up there, that leaves me with only needing 1 more to complete the Series 1 team set. Luis Robert. I will look for it this weekend. As you can see, I also grabbed the Cronenworth and a Ripken insert and didn't pay a dime.

Kevin picked up this in a lot of cards he purchased. It's the Red Zone parallel. I have him $5 for it even though I probably wouldn't have had to but I also got all those 2024's so I just think of it as $5 for the lot.

That's everything I picked up at that show, I believe I have more sorting pick ups next, after a birthday post for tomorrow. See you on the flip side.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Happy Birthday - Jake Ryan

Jake was born on this day in 1992, making him 32 today.

NFL Debut - September 13th, 2015 (Packers)

Years Active -

2015-18 (Packers)
2018 (Jaguars)

Cards on TCDB - 63 cards (2024) 63 cards (2023) 63 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 5 cards (2024) 5 cards (2023) 5 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #94 (#1442 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

Ebay (2 cards)
Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)
Sportlots (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jake!

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Happy Birthday - Donovan Edwards

Donovan was born on this day in 2003, making him 21 today.

NFL Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 605 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 4 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #113 (#1619 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

Card Show-South Bend (2 cards)
Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)

Happy Birthday Donovan!

Friday, February 23, 2024

Quick LCS pickups

I finished up some sorting this morning, I added 48 more cards total to my collections. 14 cards to my player collections, and 34 additional to my White Sox collection. Once I finished all those up, I ran to my LCS to drop off what I just finished sorting. I wanted to make sure I got more to sort for the weekend since we aren't doing a show.

You can say I brought home a few. It's all baseball and all from the Hollister's which means I should be able to find myself some stuff. I'll go ahead and start it after I finish this post. It's a quicky and I'm going to try to get another one out tomorrow since I should be home all day.

When I went to my LCS last weekend, I picked up a few cards out of his $3 box which he ended up just giving me, no charge.

The 2 autos were from the box. I grabbed the Pilkington just because he was a Sox and I figured I wouldn't be paying anything for it. The Grandal, while I'm not a huge fan of his, I am of those Black Chrome autographs. I would have paid $3 for that.

While I was there, we were talking about 2024 cards. I asked if anybody had given him any back yet and they hadn't. I told him I wanted to at least see some live instead of just photos so he grabbed a packed and opened it. Right on top was that Jose Rodriguez, which he gave me as well so that's my first 2024.