All coming together

Before I get started on today's post, I want to throw another blog at you. I've mentioned my cousin Sluggo here many times and he has moved up here and it's his dream to run his own card shop. He's starting a job in a week but he only plans on keeping it long enough to establish some work up here so he can buy a house. After that, he's going to open a shop. He's already looked at a few places but he wants to get a house first so he's not looking real hard yet. We made the decision to start listing stuff on Sportlots, right now it's all commons (over 13,000 cards) but it's a start. I'm helping with all the online stuff so I've spent a considerable amount of time listing all those cards and I have plenty more to list as I get the time.

Back to where I was going, I set up a few accounts for him on social media (including a blog) and I'm hoping to get some follows. He has the inventory to start a store and has some really awesome cards so I'm hoping to get over to where he's staying and click some pics and start posting more on social media. You can go to the blog - https://sluggossportscards.blogspot.com/ and check out the links in the first post. It's a pretty basic blog (and social media) at this point but I'm hoping to do more with them in the near future. Please give them a follow

Since my notepad that I keep my list of posts won't load up so I can't post it into the random, I'll pick one. Since we are talking about my cousin, I'll show some heritage that he gave me. Right now, I'm working for cards so I keep whatever I find in the common boxes that I want. A bunch of these are the SP's though so he let me pull those as well. He's bought me a couple of higher dollar cards at our last trip to the LCS, you'll see those when the random pulls them up.

We'll start off with the 2021. I had gotten some from Fred but these 4 were all new to my collection.

I let the pictures fall where they lay so we'll jump around a bit. These 3 I needed for the 2017 team set.

I needed all these for the 2020 set. They are all high numbers. The Seby Zavala is a SP, that wasn't supposed to be in there.

Here we have the short prints that he gave me. Minus the Seby up there that I scanned in the wrong one. They obviously like to put Abreu in the SP's every year.

Some old with some new

I spent my one day off watching the Michigan Men's team beat Ohio which was pretty great. It was a little scary for a bit but they pulled it out. After that game, I watched the woman also beat Ohio so it was a good day on the Michigan front. 

While watching the game, I organized my non collection cards in alphabetical order. I have them all listed on TCDB so I'll check there to see if I have something but than spend a bunch of time trying to find the card, so I alphabetized them. Nothing terribly exciting I know, but it was still a day hanging with my cards so that makes it a good day.

I mentioned that Fred (guy at work) has been bringing me cards and that he brought me some yesterday. Well today, the great random of the internet decided you'd get to see those today. It's like when you mention buying a car and next thing you know, your computer ads are all automobiles.

I mentioned in my last post that he'd been buying packs so I'm happy he bought some Update because I hadn't purchased any yet so these are my first 4 from that set which is over half the Sox if you don't include the multiple variations of Luis Robert in it.

As part of his older cards that he's going through, he gave me this Robin Ventura that I didn't have. This is my 129 card of Rockin' Robin.

He also had this auto of Grebeck, I'm assuming it is actually his because it came with this.

I've accepted other on card autos just assuming they were legit so it's pretty cool that he kept this ticket with it. The card is my 27th of Grebeck.

These are the 2 cards he brought me yesterday that I didn't have. He offered me a 1976 Bill Melton as well but I already have it. I'm pretty sure I have a few of them. The 1992 Guillen I have but I didn't have the gold parallel. It is my 94th card of Ozzie. The Tommy John is from 2002 Archives and is only my 14th card of the first player to have Tommy John surgery. It is my first post-career card of his. Most of the other 14 are from the Vintage collection as he was only with the Sox for 7 years but all very early in his career. This archives and a 1965 Topps are the only 2 I have of him with the Sox.

That's all of the Sox cards I got from Fred but you'll see some other cards in my player collections and he's still going through his cards so I may get some more.