Blue Tuesday

 Since the draft is over and I added 10 more names (5 drafted, 5 signed FA contracts) to start collecting, it's only fitting that the Michigan pulls up on the random. We'll see if I get to collect all 10 on whether they get some cards.

 

These were all Shipshewana dollar box pick-ups but the LaMarre. He had a bunch of Michigan autos but I had so many cards already that I just picked up this one, mainly because I don't have very many Michigan baseball autographs, and he played for the Sox for a short stint.

I picked this up at the LCS, I actually didn't pay anything for it. My cousin bought a whole stack of cards so he threw this dime box card in.

I also picked these up at the Mishawaka card show, also all dollar box pick-ups except the 2 autos and those both came from the guy who sets up next to us so he gave me a good deal on both. Always liked the mini helmet autographs, I believe this is the 2nd one I have and the other one is a Brandon as well.

Here's the rundown of the player card amounts.

• Tim Biakabutuka - 12 cards
• Tim Jamison - 6 cards
• Chris Webber - 12 cards
• Ryan LaMarre - 3 cards
• Charles Woodson - 10 cards
• LaMarr Woodley - 7 cards
• Chad Henne - 24 cards
• Anthony Carter - 9 cards
• Brandon Minor - 1 card

Quarry Cards

A quick post before I head to bed.

As I'm sure most of you know, Johnny over at Cards From the Quarry hosts a Sunday PWE Trade Bait where you can pick cards (he posts one from every team) and he will PWE them to you in exchange for something off his want list (or other cards he can trade). I selected a bunch and got them in a few envelopes. I had to go to Sportlots to grab stuff for him because I didn't have anything in my very limited trade box.

Everyone of these beauties are numbered. 1 current member (Engel) and 1 World Series Champion (Jenks). Here are the numbers breakdown. 28th card of Jenks, 14th of Engel, 3rd card of Carter, 6th of Fry, 53rd card of Peavy and 151st card of Sale.

A couple more in different envelopes. This boxey Frazier and an Icons Dye. I really thought I had the Dye when it came up but apparently not. I think I have a Thome from the same set that's numbered. It is my 33rd card of Frazier and 89 cards of Dye.

I really appreciate these serial numbered cards because I tend to buy cheap which means, serial numbered are usually out of my price range.

Just a few cards

Lots of cards in this post and just like the last post, it all came from Dennis of "Too Many Verlanders." It's also the first post this month of a team and not a player although I scanned the majority of it by players.

I'm going to start off with a few Michigan cards of the other sports before I get to the majority of the post. This card is awesome. I've been wanting to get a Michigan hockey card, and it's numbered to /999. I don't really get into hockey but all the maize and blue makes this a great card. I do get to some Michigan hockey games now that Notre Dame has joined the Big Ten Conference (in hockey) so they come here to South Bend every year now.

These were the only 2 cards I need out of the basketball cards he sent me. Always happy to add a card of the Fab Five since they are the reason that I am a Michigan fan to this day. It is my 6th card of Webber and my 2nd of his backup.

Now we get into the football. I scanned some by player if they were popular players but these are all Michigan collection cards, not player collection cards even though I'll probably list how many cards I have of the player.

These 2 cards of Arrington give me 15 of him.

3 cards of Avant also give me 15. Love those Topps Magic cards.

1 great looking card of Carter gives me 8. You know I'm going to like a vintage look alike.

3 cards of Edwards give me 10. Another magic, yes!

5 cards of super Mario give me 14 of him.

Make that 15 with this sweet relic card which is my first of his.

 And a whole bunch of Wheatley, 12 to be exact. These give me 16 of him.

Next up are some singles of popular players.

This is my first of our current coach of him in the Maize and Blue. I have a first pitch baseball card of him as well.

I'm showing this one because I have a six degrees of seperation with him. He married a classmate of mine in high school. His wife's brother was a QB at Michigan and was Jerame's roomate. Her brother was also the QB at my high school when my brother played with him. It is my 2nd card of Tuman, the other is an auto.

 This is my 9th card of the #1 draft pick.

This is my 3rd card of the ESPN analyst. Oh yeah, he won a Heisman too so there's that as well.

This is my 18th card of the 12 year veteran and he's still active.

This is my 3rd card of Old 98 even though I've never heard of the set but I'm not picky either.

You know with this many Michigan cards, there's going to be some TK Legacy cards. I really like the cards of the old programs, and they're numbered to /250.

Even though I showed 43 cards, Dennis added 102 cards to the Michigan collection. I told you he sent me a bunch of cards and there are still more to come in some player collections.

3 New in Maize and Blue

You get a post, on my daughter's 18th birthday. Mainly because she's 18 now and wants to hang with her friends. Actually, it's because we had her graduation/birthday party on Sunday so we're not doing anything today anyways.

I put the last 2 posts for May on random and you get stuck with the non baseball portion. Not that it matters to me because they are still awesome cards.

You can never have too many of Anthony Carter and this is my 7th of his.

Of course, this guy is one of the few that can upstage AC. Love seeing Brady in the Maize and Blue and with the prices of his card, and my cheap ass, I rarely get to buy any. As a matter of fact, I just went and looked and out of the 8 cards I have, I only purchased one, in 2012. All of the above go to the Michigan collection, as do what's below, but the ones below are also player collections.

2 different versions of Shea Patterson. I really like when cards manufacturers put the Block M on the cards. I'm sure Shea won't have to many cards in the future, I'm kind of surprised he got any but there they are. Although I just looked and he already has 325 cards on TCDB so what do I know. These are my first 2 of his.

This is also my 1st card of DPJ and another with the Block M. Lots of shininess in this package.

Last but not least, Khaleke Hudson makes an appearance as well. No Michigan uni but he still has the winged helmet so it counts for the Michigan collection too. This is my 1st of his as well so you get 3 new player collections in this post.

One more post for my May pickups, hopefully tomorrow. Then on Friday maybe I'll finish getting all my June cards finished. Maybe!

Hail yeah

I did receive one envelope in the mail today. I almost forgot that I had it, it's about bedtime and I have to throw up this post real quick.

2012 Upper Deck

Thai is one thing I love about football cards that baseball cards don't do, college uniforms. Granted, with baseball, they are usually a few years removed from college before they finally make the pros, that's if they even bothered with college. They should do a small draft set every year like Bowman, only with college uniforms. Anyways, I picked up this Michigan icon for only $.20/shipped. It's my first Michigan pick-up of the year.