My Sports Obsession: May 2024

Friday, May 17, 2024

Happy Birthday - David Ojabo

David was born on this day in 2000, making him 24 today.

NFL Debut - December 17th, 2022 (Ravens)

Years Active -

2022-current (Ravens)

Cards on TCDB - 1722 cards (2024), 1551 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 37 cards (2024), 17 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #59 (#146 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

Sportlots (12 cards)
Sluggo (6 cards)
Andy Pallo (4 cards)
Card Show-Lake Station (4 cards)
F&G Sportscards (3 cards)
Card Show-Peru (1 card)
Card Show-South Bend (1 card)

Happy Birthday David!

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

South Bend recap

A couple of Saturday's ago we did the monthly South Bend show. It wasn't a great show which means I had too much time on my hands and wandered around which means I bought stuff.

These 8 cards came from Fred who I work with. He came to the show and while shopping around for himself, he picked me up these cards. The bottom 3 are all numbered Michigan cards.

I picked up these 3 from Nick and Jackson of Bockaj's Best Ball Cards who are friends of ours. I paid $10 for these 3, the Vaughn and Wynn were $1 cards and he had $15 on the Nwogu auto, it's numbered to /99.

A dealer I didn't know down from us had a small $1 box where I found all 3 of these. The Hutch is base but the other 2 are color/holo parallels.

There was a guy that I had seen before that had oddball stuff so I went over to look at his stuff. I picked up the Avisail Garcia auto helmet and a Seaver figure for $6. I wouldn't have picked up the helmet as he's not someone I normally look for but he only had $5 on it so I couldn't turn that down.

These didn't technically come from the show as Kevin brought them to me from his sorting at home but he gave them to me the same day as the show so I'm throwing them up here. Along with the 2 Haskins at the top, you'll see all current Wolverines.

Some more former Wolverines up there as well. That Houstan is the base and I just added the pink (I think) parallel to my PC a week or so before I got these.

He gave me the top 3 cards of Hutch and I paid for the bottom 3.

A couple of Tier 3 cards. The Carter is the Retrofractor parallel.

Some inserts and parallels for Tier 2 collections.

Kevin even threw in some Tier 1 cards with these 2 PK's and a Seaver insert. It seems like I've picked up quite a few PK's in the last couple of months.

Lastly, he found some modern team cards to add to my PC's as well.

It may not have been a great show but I did come home with some great cards.

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Quick Post

Just a quick post tonight, mainly because it's only 1 card. I received a PWE a couple of weeks ago (I think?) which was a surprise. It looked like a card PWE but I haven't received one in forever and I certainly wasn't expecting one. I opened it up and sure enough, it was a card.

I opened this and though, well that's odd that the Diamond King would send me some random Big League parallel but it was a Cronenworth and a rookie at that so I put it down in my card room to log in on the weekend. Once the weekend rolled around and I went to log it in, it didn't come up as a Big League but instead, this is what I saw.

26 cards, all 1/1's. So I started to actually look at the card again and I see the bottom right.

Oh crap! It is a 1/1.

Very interesting. That's all the research I have done so far but this was an unexpected card from someone who I haven't traded with since May of 2021. Kevin put a note but all it said was I saw this and thought of you. That's all that needed to be said. Thanks Kevin, this was extremely generous of you and I know you said I didn't need to send you anything but I'm definitely going to look for something.