More White Sox

I've been slacking on my posting. I keep falling asleep fairly early, I'm too old for 10 hour days. This will be my last post until next week as this is our annual Father's Day camping trip.

I read today where they may have a season yet. I'm sure I'll read tomorrow where there's no chance. I'm not even sure we should bother with one at this point. Don't get me wrong, I want to watch some baseball, but it seems kind of pointless now. We'll see what happens.

Today's post are even more White Sox cards so we'll just get to it.

We'll start off with some of Fulmer, he hasn't really grown on me yet, he's been pretty inconsistent. These 3 cards make 28 of his.

A few more odds and ends. You'll see the Dunning again later.

Last but not least, a bunch of Gypsy Queen. Up until the last couple of months, I was way behind on the last few years of GQ but I've been picking them up a lot lately. These 4 base leave me one short of the complete team set, minus the 3 SP's.

All the above cards came from my cousin's packages to me.

These 6 came from Sportlots, all 6 were under $.50, most were only $.18. All newer cards, if I'm not looking for something in particular, I look for the 2020 cards when I start shopping on Sportlots.

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Also nabbed these 2 cards from Brian over at Highly Subjective and Completely Arbituary on his Free Card Fridays. They were 2 different Fridays so they were separate packages. The Frank Thomas is an odd looking card and the Dunning is the yellow border parallel. Thanks to Brian and all you others doing the free card posts. I'm generally to late to get in on most.

That's all for today, hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm looking forward to kicking back and doing nothing for 3 days.

Some more 2020

* I put my March purchases on random for today's post.

First off, I asked this question on Twitter, not sure why I ask them there as I never get an answer but you bloggers/readers usually do. I used to buy my pages for cards on Ebay and now that I don't give them any of my money, I need a new place to buy them. Where's the cheapest place to get them? I've found them in a couple of places but when you add the shipping, it can get ridiculous so if you have a place that sells them as a reasonable price, let me know.

I've gotta say, I love going back through all my cards again. I read a comment from Fuji that said he's been trying to appreciate the cards he has more and I understand why. I get cards, I log them in and then they go to wherever I'm storing them and I don't see them again. I might have to make it a point to every so often, just flip through them again.

I'm slowly making it through the White Sox collection, alphabetically. The last player I completed today was Billy Pierce so I'm over halfway. I work about 5 or 6 hours a day on my cards. It's more or less, my job, now that I'm not working. I sleep in, grab some breakfast, go to my card room and work until about supper time. I really enjoy the time to myself with my cards.

Anyways, the random popped up with some more 2020 White Sox cards.

These 14 cards are all 2020 Heritage, I paid $.18 for all of them except the one with Abreu and some guy named Killebrew, I paid $.42 for that one. I picked these up not long after they were released, that's the bad part about posting a month after I purchase stuff. I just bought some 2020 Donruss and Gypsy Queen yesterday but they probably won't be in hand until the end of next month (they'll go to my Sportlots box) and then not get posted here until June. It is what it is, I'm just explaining my process some.

2020

* I put my February purchases on random for today's post.

I guess technically I didn't random this post as it's the only post left for the month, and with a day to spare. This probably should have been the first post this month as now everyone has already seen these cards but it's the way the random fell.

I picked up all of these on Sportlots, all were under $.50, most were only $.18. After I purchased these but before I had them shipped to me, my cousin sent his package to me and it had some of these in it as well so I ended up with some dupes but I'm alright with that. I need a couple of the photo variations to complete the base set and there were plenty of parallels and other stuff that I still need but I pretty much knocked the base set off quickly.

I'm not sure why the Tim Anderson card doesn't have the yellow League Leader like the Abreu does considering he led the league in batting average. Only thing I can figure is that he'll have another card in series II with the LL on it.

2 Days, 4 Envelopes

I'm a slacker, again. I got a couple cards yesterday but I didn't post them. I got a few more today so you'll get the last 2 days worth.

We'll start with some White Sox pick-ups.

My White Sox collection knows this guy, it's the 398th card of Frank Thomas, which is my highest non-player collection amount of cards. High enough to be 3rd on my all-time list but the top 2 are player collection cards. I picked this up for $.45/shipped.

I picked up both of these 2019 Topps, which were my last 2 of Series 1 (minus the SP's) which is just in time since Series 2 is out. I picked them both up for $.23/shipped/each. This is my 7th card of Engel, and my 13th of Avisail. Both are no longer with the White Sox, at least the big club. Engel is back in the minors while Garcia got let go, I believe he's with Tampa Bay now.

I also picked up this heritage from the same seller as the above 2 cards. I'm still a few cards short of this team set, 6 to be exact. I paid $.35/shipped for it. It is only my 2nd card of our current closer.

Now on to the autograph portion of this post.

I picked up this auto of another former White Sox. This Topps Finest auto came to me for $1.58/shipped. This is my 15th card of Matt. He is now with Texas and when I was looking up at that info, it said he signed a minor league deal as a Infielder and a Pitcher. He had a couple of trips to the mound during blow outs and did pretty well, but I don't know about him becoming a pitcher. It would be pretty cool if he did the transition but you would think he'd want to me in the NL so he could hit too.

Last but not least, my first card of David Long which means a new player collection. I picked this one up for $2.25/shipped of this former Wolverine who was just drafted this year by the Rams. I really have to pay attention to his cards when I'm searching because another David Long got drafted from West Virginia this year as well.

I haven't forgotten about the cards Dennis sent me, I have to finish up the White Sox (I think that's it), I got all the player and Michigan collection cards done. I'm heading that way once this post is done.