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My White Sox are on a roll so why not show off some Sox cards. That and that's what the random told me to show today. We've won 3 in a row, are over .500 after being right at .500 7 times already this year. The bats are finally coming alive. Kopech got the start today and as of the 3rd inning, we are up 8-1 already. We're currently in 2nd place in the division but we are only 1.5 back going into today. 1 game in the win column and 2 in the loss, we've played 1 more game than KC.

I picked up these awhile ago when I was trying to get 2017 team sets completed. Which these 5 did. That card in the middle is my 49th of Rodon, who just threw the Sox's 20th no-hitter.

Picked these up while looking at the base Bunt. I'm actually only a couple cards short on this team set as well. This is my 13th cards of James Shields.

These 5 also complete the 2017 Chrome set. I need to get back to buying Sox cards but I'm having so much fun going through my player collections. This is my 34th card of Fulmer, 22nd of Q, 33rd of Frazier and Reynaldo, and lastly, my 146th card of the current MVP.

Once I get close to my budget when shopping on Sportlots, I look to see which sellers I haven't bought at least 4 cards from and look through their inventory just to see if there's anything I need. That's what the following cards are.

I picked this up from 2015 Panini. It's my 10th card of our former manager.

I picked up these 1981 Topps Stickers from a seller. I only have 3 for the team set but I do enjoy getting these early 80's stickers. This is my 11th card of Lamar Johnson and my 10th of Wayne Nordhagen.

I picked up these 4 from the 1976 SSPC set. I know 2 aren't in Sox uniforms but they were listed as Sox cards on Sportlots and if you've used it, there isn't many pictures. It does have the Sox listed as their teams on the back so they would still get counted as Sox collection. In order of appearance up there, this is my 7th card of Ralph Garr, 3rd card Nyls Nyman, 10th card of Pat Kelly and my 11th of Jim Spencer.

Lastly, I picked up this Billy Pierce from 1979 TCMA. I was happy to grab this card as I don't have a bunch of him. This is only my 7th card of his and the majority of those are post career, as this one is.

If you want an update since it took me awhile to do this post, KC won again today and the Sox are up 4 in the 7th.

Hemorrhaging Cards

I mentioned that Jay at Card Hemorrhage had sent me some cards out of the kindness of his heart when he sent me a Tim Anderson card. The random decided to show the rest of his package today.

He started off with some of the 1991 Topps Archives. Archives before there was Archives. I needed these 4 and those 4 actually put that team set only needing 1 so I will need to go pick that card up.

Sadly, none of these 3 are even close to completing a team set but they were all needed. I like seeing the Joey Cora as I have seen him play in South Bend on a rehab stint. The Cora (21 cards) and the Cameron (17 cards) are low quantity player cards but the Beckham is my 69th. Mainly because he was active in 2011 when I got back into cards and bought a ton of them. This Beckham is a refractor which is why I didn't have it.

Last but definitely not least. Jay also sent this 1971 Topps of our former manager. It is a high number and on TCDB, it's listed as a SP. I'm not sure if that means because it's a high number or on top of being a high number. All the high numbers aren't listed with the SP so I assume the latter. Either way, it was a nice surprise.

Thanks for the cards Jay. I have a week off work after Christmas, I may get around to seeing if I have anything for you. I haven't decided how lazy I'm going to be that week yet.

This Week on MSO

It’s Sunday, time to recap the pictures that I post on My Sports Obsession Tumblr page.  It is a variety of sports pictures and videos from vintage to current.

Guess you can tell what season it is, this post is a little NBA heavy.  But there is some vintage baseball at the end.

Michael Jordan

Bill Russell

Tracy McGrady

Dominique Wilkins

Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale

Dr. J over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Larry Bird

Clyde Drexler

Shawn Kemp

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar over Wilt Chamberlain

Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, Chico Carrasquel and Vern Stephens

Roberto Clemente

Frank Robinson

Ron Santo and Rusty Staub

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This Week on MSO

It’s Sunday, time to recap the pictures that I post on My Sports Obsession Tumblr page.  It is a variety of sports pictures and videos from vintage to current.  Of course, some days have more Chicago White Sox, Michigan Wolverines and Indianapolis Colts but there are a lot of other stuff mixed in.

Whitey Ford

George Brett

Don Zimmer throwing out Yogi Berra during the World Series (1955)

University of Michigan Women’s basketball team (1908)

1952 Topps Bill Pierce

Jodie Meeks

Jim Abbott

Clayton Kershaw

University of Michigan baseball team (1899)

Rod Carew, 1976

NFL Playoff schedule

Bo Jackson

Michael Jordan

University of Michigan basketball 2013-2014

I’m in the process of moving all of my Michigan Wolverines to a new Tumblr blog of its own.  My Sports Obsession – Wolverines.  So you’ll get twice the fun on these posts next week.  I do have a few over there that didn’t post on the other so here those are.

Michigan vs. Holy Cross

Michigan vs. Minnesota

Tom Brady

Justice Hayes

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