Happy Bird - Larry Bird

Larry was born on this day in 1956, making him 67 today.

NBA Debut - October 12th, 1979 (Celtics)

Years Active - 

• 1979-1992 (Celtics)

Cards on TCDB - 9514 cards

Cards I have - 105 cards

PC Rank - #31 (#38 overall)

TCDB Rank - #26

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (58 cards)
• Sluggo (36 cards)
• Man Cave (6 cards)
• Card Show-South Bend (4 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Larry!

Colorful NBA

We set up at the South Bend show yesterday. We had a pretty good show, sold a ton of wax (blasters & megas) and all 3 showcases had a few sales which is rare. NBA is starting so basketball is finally selling. MLB sells all year but usually tapers off some after the World Series. We also had some good pickups, you'll have to follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to see. What you won't see on there is we purchased another 2 row box of basketball color parallels. I did my usual and went through it for anything I needed and these are what I came up with.

I picked up this Larry Legend. It's listed as a Panini Prizm but it has the Optic logo. Either way, it's going to the collection.

I also grabbed 3 cards of Hardaway jr, as I said above, all color. The top right is a Silver, in case you were wondering. Tim is my highest PC count of a former Wolverine basketball player that isn't a Fab Fiver. These 3 give me 105.

Not a huge pickup but 4 more cards and I still haven't spent any money.

Free as a Bird

I'm just going to throw out my last new PC real quick. The next couple of days are birthday posts and then when those are out of the way, I can start fresh on December pick-ups. I usually type up blogs while I'm watching TV but I was streaming the Michigan basketball game on my laptop so I couldn't blog and now it's late.

There were 2 guys I really liked in the NBA while growing up, one was Jordan but everybody collects him and he has millions of cards but I thought I would start up my first non-Michigan NBA PC of the other guy.

These are the first Bird cards that I started with. They all came from the boxes of Sluggo's that I was sorting.

These 15 came from Sluggo as well but he pulled them from his dollar boxes once he found out I was starting the collection. Lots of shiny newer cards, really like the cracked ice versions up there.

Sluggo and I did some sorting for our LCS, he has boxes and boxes of stuff and I volunteered to help him out in exchange for cards. I pulled anything that I wanted out of the boxes that I wanted since most of the cards were stars but they were base so you can't get a ton of money for it. He has one guy that buys that stuff so he had no problem with me taking a few cards. I sorted MLB (you'll see what I grabbed later) and Sluggo did NBA, he pulled all of these for me and I added them to my stack.

So technically, all 60 of these cards that I'm starting the PC with, were all free to me. That's the way to start PC's.