Finally Friday

* I put my April incoming on random for today's post.

Today's post bring you a Hall of Famer and he has the highest amount of cards that is a player collection, and he's only a tier 3 collection.

More 2020's from Sportlots. These 2 give me 513 cards of the Iron Man. I said he's my highest player collection but oddly enough, I have more cards of Frank Thomas (I know, I say that a lot) even though he's not a player collection. I do like the concept of the Decades Best cards, at least there is a reason to show former players instead of just randomning (not a word) inserting them all over.

If my wife doesn't give me projects to do tomorrow, I'm hoping to get the last of my cards in to TCDB. If not tomorrow, then Sunday.

Iron Sunday

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

Today you get the player collection. All these cards came from Sluggo and they go to one of my top (by count) player collections.

There's a little bit of mixture between the 90's and current in there. He sent me a bunch of Ripken's but these 9 were the only ones I didn't have. They give me 487 cards of the Iron Man and when I said it was one of my top (by count) collections, it is the top.

3 Card Monday

A 3 envelope Monday, nice way to start the week. Except that I don't have much else left to be sent to me. Cards have slowed down, or at least the cards I've won has slowed down.

Another day, another Ripken. I have, by far, picked up more Ripken's this year then any other player collection. This is my 31st this year, the next player is Tom Seaver with 15. That explains why Ripken is my highest player collection at 462 cards. I picked this one up for $.54/shipped.

I always like these Studio cards, the background is pretty awesome. The Sox cards are great with the black background, much like this Reds background. I picked this one up for $.47/shipped. It is my 197th cards of his and he is currently my 4th highest player collection.

After the 2 huge player collections listed above. We come to the Gardner auto, it's my 1st auto of his but only my 2nd card of the former Wolverine quarterback. I picked it up for $2.66/shipped.

Ripken Getz Bench(ed)

It's been a couple of days since I got some cards but I did get a couple of envelopes in the mail today.

I picked up another one of Cal jr. I already had the base version of this set but this is the checklist, it has some other guy on it, a Barry Bonds or somebody, who knows. I picked this up for $.54/shipped and it is my 461st card of the Iron Man.

I like the looks of these Diamond Kings, I can't really tell you why but they look pretty slick to me. I paid $.55/shipped and it is my 90th card of Bench.

This is my 29th card of the former Wolverine and White Sox but my 26th different one because I already have this card, this is my 3rd actually but I picked it up for only $1.06/shipped so I grabbed another.

I'm not low on Iron, Man

Sorry about the title, I couldn't help myself.

Looks like the cards from Dennis have to wait another day since I got another envelope in the mail today and I try to post that day otherwise my stuff gets stacked up and I get behind. Oh, and I haven't logged the stuff from Dennis yet because I'm a slacker. Only 1 card to show off today though.

I landed this Ripken for $.43/shipped. This is my 455th card of the Iron Man which is my highest player collection number. That number will go up once I start logging the cards from Dennis, I think I remember some Ripken's in there being as he's a mutual collection.

3 more and 3 in a row

It's been a slow couple of weeks here but it seems like all my cards were just waiting to come here at the end of this week. This is the 3rd day in a row to get cards. On top of that, I got 3 more, which makes 10 in the last 3 days. The most I got in any envelopes was 2 so it's been a bunch of packages.

We'll start with a baseball player collection. I thought I had this card but apparently I've probably just bid on it a few times before winning it. I picked it up $.54/shipped and it's my 454th card of his and he is my largest player collection.

We'll switch over to the White Sox collection and show off this former Wolverine auto I picked up on the cheap, $1.07/shipped. I thought I had more of his cards but this is only the 4th I have listed on TCDB. I wonder if I have more in the cards I haven't logged yet.

I also picked up this former Wolverine, also an auto. This is technically my 8th card of his but some of those are dupes, they are auto's though so I keep them in the collection. I have 6 different cards of his. I picked this one up for $1.06/shipped.

Random Players From My Collections #4

I didn't do this yesterday but I was working on cards. I have been pretty much all weekend as a matter of fact. I don't have a bunch that need sorted (yet) but the majority of my online activity this weekend has been on cards. I've been trying to catch up on my PC Gallery blog up to the point where I have my Google Sheet and now that they are finally caught up, I can go from this blog and post to both at the same time. It was an effort to get there, I did over 300 cards this weekend which doesn't seem like a lot but the majority of the time, I knock out about 25 in a couple of hours and than get bored with it and go on to something else. So for me to sit and knock over 300 cards was a huge accomplishment. I really wanted to get it caught up with my sheet so I can take the card from this blog (I'm currently in March of 2014), post it to the Google Sheet, than post the card to the PC Gallery, and then link the sheet with the blog all at once. Now I can. Once I'm done with the cards I've posted on the blog, than the sorting begins with all my cards and see what I missed which will be even harder as I'll have to look up every card.

I realize most of you don't care about it but I was proud of the work, and I've been working on getting all my cards logged since January of 2015. I'm sure it'll take me another 4 or 5 years to finish.

Anyways, here is what this post is about. I have 3,312 players (16,999 cards) listed on TCDB. Players is up 1 from last week. These are the random players for this week.

#3221 - Manny Machado (1 card)

With all the 2019 packs I've purchased, I would have thought I would have had more of his especially considering this is off the Cal Ripken Jr Collection.

TCDB has him listed at 6,443 cards so it's a good thing he's not a player collection, I'd have a long way to go.

#1615 - Jim Mason (2 cards)

I didn't recognize this name until I saw the cards. Both his cards were in the 70's so obviously they come from the Vintage Collection.

I would have shown the 1973 but apparently I haven't added it to my PC blog yet so I didn't have a copy of it handy. TCDB shows him with 26 cards but I only need 6 of those for the Vintage Collection.

#1396 - Jimmy Hurst (3 cards)

Sadly, I didn't recognize this name either and he was from my Sox Collection (oops!).

He was obviously a prospect at some point he must never have panned out. He has 41 cards listed on TCDB and upon looking at those, he played here in South Bend back when the Sox owned the team and I used to go all the time. Now I feel really bad for not knowing who he was by name. Sorry Jimmy!

Starting the week off right

I got 5 cards in 2 envelopes in the mail today. A nice start to the week.

I picked up another Ripken, my 452nd, which is my highest player collection. I paid $.47/shipped for this 2000 Upper Deck Legends card.

Another tier 2 collection card. This 2010 Topps insert came to me for $.43/shipped and is my 85th card of Johnny Bench.

I also grabbed 2 more Wagner cards, putting his collection at 9 cards. I paid $.26/shipped for the Prizm Freshman Phenoms and $.34/shipped for the Select. All 4 of the above cards came from the same seller.

Last but not least, I picked up this game-used bat from Upper Deck SP (2001) for $1.34/shipped which is a great deal. It is my 135th card of Mags and my 9th relic card of his. This card goes to the White Sox collection. Ordonez is my 3rd highest non player collection behind Frank Thomas and Chris Sale.

A couple of 80's shortstops

I got an envelope in the mail today, out dropped 4 cards. 1 of which I already have, oops! Sometimes I just don't feel like going through and checking and just bid anyways. I'm only out a quarter so I say screw it.

I picked up a couple more Ripken's, the Donruss version as well as the Optic. I guess this is Panini's version of base and base chrome because they are the same photos. I picked them both up for $.25/shipped/each. This player collection is now at 447 different cards which is my most for a player collection. He passed my Konerko collection last week for that distinction.

I also picked up this Optic version of Larkin for a quarter/shipped. This is my 193rd card of the former Wolverine which puts that collection as my 4th highest.

2 Ripken's plus 1

I got the last envelope today (might have been yesterday but I didn't get the mail) of the cards I purchased on Ebay before I left on my trip.  I didn't check Ebay while I was gone so I didn't bid on anything so it'll probably be a week or so before I have any more cards. Maybe I'll have time to get the other cards I got from Rod and Sluggo up in that time.

I picked up this Ripken for $.38/shipped. I wasn't sure when I bid on it if I had it or not and I was to lazy to check. Luckily I didn't.

That's not 2 cards, that's the front and the back. Lucky for me, they are both player collections. I picked this one up for $.45/shipped. It is my 194th different card of Larkin and the 2 Ripken's above make 445 different cards which (along with the cards I picked up from Sluggo that I haven't shown yet) puts him in 1st place for amount of cards. Which doesn't surprise me since he was around during the overproduction era.

Starting the week off right

Nothing better than opening the mailbox to an envelope on a Monday. Although technically, I already looked on the USPS app this morning and new it was going to be there.

I got 1 envelope with 1 card and it's not a Sox card, that'll please most of you but it is a player that I have a lot of cards of.

I picked up this 2018 Stadium Club of Cal Jr for $.40/shipped. I don't think I need to say how great the Stadium Club cards are. This is my 438th card of Ripken which is my 2nd highest player collection with only 2 cards behind Konerko.

Random PC Cards #68

Since I haven't had much come in this week, I'm going to give you another random post. I did get my 30 1985 Topps cards that I mentioned a week or so ago. So that set is now down to only needing 23 cards. If I keep having slow weeks like this, I'll keep picking up those lots and make a little headway on the 80's portion of the Vintage collection. I do have some cards coming so hopefully next week you'll get a few more posts than this week.

I'm going to be using the random card link on TCDB and see how well it works out.

Tier 1 Collections

#1177

Collection - Tom Seaver, Vintage

Card - 1972 Topps

Player - Tom Seaver, Dave Roberts, Don Wilson

Team - New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Houston Astros

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.75

From - Media Madhouse

When - February, 2016

Tier 2 Collections

#6605

Collection - Chris Sale, White Sox

Card - 2011 Bowman Platinum

Player - Chris Sale

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - Unknown

From - Box Break

When - March, 2012

Tier 3 Collections

#706

Collection - Cal Ripken Jr

Card - 2015 Topps Highlight of the Year

Player - Cal Ripken Jr

Team - Baltimore Orioles

Acquired - Trade

From - 2x3 Heroes

When - October, 2015

Michigan Collection

#10699

Collection - Taco Charlton, Michigan

Card - 2017 Panini Prestige

Player - Taco Charlton

Team - Michigan Wolverines, Dallas Cowboys

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.50

From - Ebay

When - November, 2018

White Sox Collection

#3230

Collection - White Sox

Card - 1994 Topps

Player - Joey Cora

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Trade

From - Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes

When - June, 2011

Baseball Collection

#11103

Collection - Baseball

Card - 2016 Topps

Player - Yasmani Grandal

Team - Los Angeles Dodgers

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.06

From - Ebay

When - March, 2019

Vintage Collections - 1950's

#3247

Collection - White Sox, Vintage

Card - 1958 Topps

Player - Earl Torgeson

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.99

From - Ebay

When - June, 2011

Vintage Collections - 1960's

#5873

Collection - White Sox, Vintage

Card - 1968 Topps

Player - Hoyt Wilhelm

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Trade

From - All Trade Bait...All The Time

When - November, 2011

Vintage Collections - 1970's

#8187

Collection - Vintage

Card - 1975 Topps

Player - Jim Wohlford

Team - Kansas City Royals

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.29

From - Ebay

When - January, 2014

Vintage Collections - 1980's

#3569

Collection - Vintage

Card - 1982 Donruss

Player - Dale Berra

Team - Pittsburgh Pirates

Acquired - Trade

From - Sluggo

When - September, 2016

Relic

#6884

Collection - White Sox

Card - 2012 Topps Allen & Ginter's

Player - Gordon Beckham

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $3

From - Just A Bit Outside

When - August, 2012

Autograph

#10823

Collection - Jake Ryan

Card - 2015 Panini Contenders Rookie Ticket

Player - Jake Ryan

Team - Green Bay Packers

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $3

From - Ebay

When - January, 2019