My Sports Obsession

Saturday, January 31, 2026

New show in the area

I hit a local card show that just started. There was a show in the neighboring town but they ended up pushing out the sports cards dealers and it's now a Pokemon, Toys, Comics, Ect show. Which is great for those people who collect that stuff because it's a huge show for them but it does nothing for me. So a guy who ran a fairly big one a couple of times a year, started a new one that is sports cards only. The LCS I sort for was going to be there so I hit it up. They weren't allowing customers in early but I snuck in under his name. I sat and chatted awhile, said hi to a bunch of dealers and customers that I knew from when we set up then hit out and shopped. I was pretty much just looking for Michigan peeps as the Sox are kind of crappy right now so I'm just not feeling it for them.

I did a pretty good job as there was only 1 card that I bought that I already have. The sad thing is Dennis does too and I'm pretty sure I sent it to him so it'll go in John's box. I hate to keep checking TCDB for everything I buy so I guess. I pretty much hit $1 boxes (I paid less than $1) and looked at some stuff on the tables. I ended up buying from 3 different dealers.

Let's get to it. We'll start with the basketball pickups.

I picked up these 3 of Bufkin in the dollar boxes. I actually have a decent sized collection of him considering he's mostly been a G League player. These 3 give me 28 cards of him.

I picked up this Hardaway jr and Robinson in the same boxes. The Topps Chrome Cosmo is unlicensed but is a cool looking card and is numbered to /149. It gives me 127 cards of Tim jr.

The Prizm of Duncan is the White parallel which is numbered to /175 and is my 51st of him.

I'll start the football with the non PC (yet) players. You'll see a couple of these Gold Ice, I paid a little more for those but they are just a cool colored card on Michigan cards. That is my 4th card of Underwood but definitely the coolest looking one. It's also my 4th card of Keene who is no longer with the program.

I'll do the PC guys in alphabetical order like a did basketball.

I grabbed this Disco parallel of Barner for my 6th card of him.

3 more of Nico who had a good year until he got hurt in the Playoffs. These 3 give me 103.

I managed to find another Corum as well. It's shiny but it's a regular insert. This is my 47th card of Blake.

1 more of Colson who I've been steadily picking up recently. This Silver gives me 10 now.

Donovan has bounced between a couple of practice squads, it would be nice if he could land somewhere where he could get some playing time but I don't think that will happen. This is my 17th card of him.

I now have 6 cards of Mason but these are the 1st 2 in pro uniforms. Michigan uniforms look better.

Also my first pro uniform Grant out of 5 cards but it's a very colorful one at that.

This disco parallel gets me up to double digits of Kris at 10 cards.

These Will Johnson cards are boosting his PC, I've already matched cards this year purchased with the same amount that I purchased last year. These 2 give me 11 cards, all in Michigan uniforms.

This guy was making a name for himself towards the end of the year and in the playoffs so I'm sure he'll have plenty more cards coming. These 3 double the PC to 6 cards. I bought the Prizm from the same guy I bought the gold ice cards so I paid a little more for it.

3 more for the JJ PC. Really hoping he stays healthy next year. These 3 put me at 41 cards for the Ohio killer.

A couple of colored parallels. The gold one is a Portrait Studio which are numbered to /100. Also shows is the Blue Hyper. These 2 give me 19 cards of Mazi.

2 more colored parallels for Wilson which give me 37 cards.

There's the other gold ice card I mentioned. Finishing off the cheaper purchases with a legend. This card gives me 102 of Woodson.

The last stop I made was at a dealer that I'm very familiar with. He's a Michigan guy so we talk Michigan all the time when we were setting up and he always gives me great deals. I went up to his table and stood at the showcase where I had eyeballed a couple of autos I was thinking about. He asked what I was looking at it, I told him these 3 autos but I don't think I have enough on me for all 3. He said we'll see what we can do. They totaled $100 on his price tag so I figured I'd be putting one back as I had already spent $48 and only went to the show with a crisp $100 bill. He said, how about $50, I went perfect, that's pretty much what I have.

My first autos of all 3 and all 3 are in Michigan uniforms. The top 2 are Refractors so all 3 are numbered to /499. I've been trying to get some autos of all my PC's, this purchased definitely helped.

It was easier to drop $98 at a show when I won a speaker at a raffle at work that I sold to another guy for $200 at Christmas. I don't think the wife was extremely happy with it but she won't say anything about it because she knows I don't drop money on cards a lot like I was when I was doing shows.

That catches me up on incoming stuff that I had already saved but I got one more post until I'm fully caught up as Fred from work gave me a few more cards. I'm going to get them scanned and logged today so I'll have that post ready. I typed all the previous last week which I think is going to be my process, type out the posts on the weekend and post throughout the week. Most weeks I don't get anything so it won't be like it has been this week.

Friday, January 30, 2026

Happy Birthday - Jalen Rose

Jalen was born on this day in 1973, making him 53 today.

NBA Debut - November 4th, 1994 (Nuggets)

Years Active -

1994-1996 (Nuggets)
1996-2002 (Pacers)
2002-2003 (Bulls)
2003-2006 (Raptors)
2006 (Knicks)
2006-2007 (Suns)

Cards on TCDB - 2190 cards (2026), 2087 cards (2025), 2006 cards (2024), 1932 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 153 cards (2026), 151 cards (2025), 139 cards (2024), 24 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #19 (#30 overall)

TCDB Rank - #15

Where they came from -

Sluggos (110 cards)
F&G Sportscards (20 cards)
Man Cave (9 cards)
Too Many Verlanders (6 cards)
Tony (3 cards)
2x3 Heroes (1 card)
Ace's Sportscards (1 card)
Ebay (1 card)
Fred Sawyer (1 card)
Unknown (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jalen!

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Incoming ONIT

I got my 5th (I think) package from ONIT Athlete. I signed up for their monthly box mainly because they had other sports that I don't get often so I was annoyed when the first 3 packages were all football. Do I want the football, of course, but I only keep 1 of each card so when you keep sending packs of the same product, my cost per card goes up because I only account for the cards I keep. I'm ok with dupes because they get sent off to Dennis but that doesn't mean I want a ton of them. I emailed them after the last box and told them exactly that and I will be dropping it if I don't start seeing some other sports.

Let's see if they listened. You get 5 packs per box. Only 1 pack was football which was nice to see. There are 79 cards in the team set, I'm now at 47 so I definitely need some more.

2 more for the team set and a couple of inserts. I like the inserts but I have no idea what they are called so I can't add them in on TCDB. I have a few from the other packages scanned and ready if I could figure out what they are. The Mikey Keene auto (#'d to /10) was in a magnetic holder in the package as well. I generally get the autos in a separate package which tells me they are at least making sure I get autos as well. I've received a #1/1 auto of Fredrick Moore late last year.

I also got 2 packs of men's basketball, there is only 16 cards in this set so I'm over half on it. I'm happy to have the Yaxel already as he is crushing it.

Also happy to get a card of Morez as I have been impressed by his play as well. This is one of those inserts that I have no idea what they are called.

This is what I really wanted because you can't find woman's basketball cards anywhere. You can occasionally find WNBA cards but how many actually make it there? There were 4 that I wanted, I believe all are Sophmores, Olson, Swords and Delfosse were 3 of them so I got all but Holloway. There are only 14 in this team set so it's over half as well.

I also got this unnamed insert of Olson who is crushing it. Her and Swords are my 2 favorite on the team but they are a really good team and I hope they start broadcasting more since they are doing so well. I've been watching them when I can.

I don't know how long I'll stick with the box service with ONIT because eventually I'll just be getting a ton of duplicates. I'm also waiting to see if they do other sports (that would be awesome) but I think that might be it.