3rd one down

I decided to go ahead and put out a post during the 2nd half of the Michigan game because I shut it off. I couldn't watch it anymore. I may take my White Sox rule that I use when watching their games. Record them all and only watch when they win (who has time to watch 162 games). I can handle watching them lose, I can't handle watching them in the state they are in. As I said on Twitter, they look like a freshman team who have never played together before. It's embarassing and I love Michigan too much that it hurts to watch them like that. We'll see, by the time the next game rolls around (Wisconsin if it doesn't get cancelled) I may watch it. I'm all emotion right now about it.

I got a couple of envelopes this week so since I didn't have to work today, I already got them scanned and added them to the list to random. I got my monthly package from Sportlots as well as another envelope from Jeff at 2x3 Heroes. According to my USPS Informed Delivery, my wife says I have another envelope in the mail today so maybe I'll get around to adding that tomorrow.

Back to a vintage/non-vintage post. This post will be 1987 but I've gotten a few comments from readers that say they don't consider 80's vintage. I do agree with that as I would consider 1980 and older to be vintage but I run my vintage collection up to 1987 because as a kid, I collected heavily until 1987. I slowed down for a couple of years after that and then stopped for awhile. So while I say 1987 is a part of my Vintage collection, I don't necessarily think it's a vintage year. That being said, let's get to it.

We'll start off with the Donruss, Jeff sent me 21 cards for that set. Love seeing the Doc Gooden as I was a big fan of his, pre drug days. These cards give me 304 cards for that set which is still under half but not by much.

Jeff also sent 12 more for the Fleer set which is behind the other 2 sets with only 257 cards which is under 40% completed. I had a ton of these, I think even a whole set of these when I was a kid.

To start off the Topps, I picked up all these at baseballcardstore.ca for a dime ($.14 if you add the shipping.) Some decent names up there, you can tell I'm getting closer to finishing the set.

I had to go to Sportlots for a few of the higher dollar cards. Higher dollar sounds odd when you're talking about 1987 Topps but there you go. I remember having multiple copies of all 3 of these cards as a kid.

Last but not least, Jeff also sent me this card of Ozzie Smith for the Topps set. What is the significance of this lone card?

That's right, another set down. This is the 3rd one completed this year following the 1985 Fleer & Topps set. As you can tell, I've made a little more concentrated effort to complete some. I started off with the sets that I was closest to finishing. It helps with Card Barrel and now Baseballcardstore.ca so I don't have to spend a fortune doing so.

Complete Team Sets–1976 Topps

Another vintage completion.

I like the red jerseys but I’m not in love with them.  I prefer to see the Chicago White Sox in black and white.

Beltin’ Bill Melton and Wilbur Wood.  Both vintage players I like.  Can’t say much about the look of this set.   Kind of hideous if you ask me.  I guess I can’t complain about the red since it was one of their colors that year, but the green?  And I don’t like the little logo guy in the bottom corner either.

I had to pick up a couple of cards from this set to complete it.  I do like the team card, I have always liked them.  They remind me of the team photos they’d send you when you sent the teams letters.  I used to send a letter to each team to get their fan packs.

Ebay Pick-up #2

Wow!  That hair.  It almost looks like some Disney character.  Picked this up for $.75/shipped.  Vintage for under $1 is just fine with me.  I prefer older than 1976 for vintage but hey, for $.75 I can’t complain.  I needed it for my 1976 team set.

Trade with Potch

Before I get to the trade post (because I know how much all of you like them) I wanted to give a shout out to Gavin Floyd of the White Sox.  If you haven’t heard, check out the article here.  You don’t see too many good stories about today’s athletes.  And yes, I would have given him a shout out even if he played for another team.  If you don’t read the trade post below, be sure to check out the Pujols cartoon at the bottom.

Potch of “Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes” saw a couple of cards he wanted, I believe out of some update packs and I sent them his way, in exchange, he sent me these.  Potch must have gone through my want lists because he sent me a bunch of Sox I didn’t have.  I’ll just post the new and the old and spare you all the years in between.  Here’s the new.

Big thanks for the Allen & Ginter’s because I don’t buy any packs of these.  Not exactly my favorite set.  I do like the design, I just don’t like all the other non-baseball cards that come with it so I don’t buy the packs.  I really like the Hometown Heroes inserts as well.  And the Aparicio up there as well.  I’ve been getting a lot of his cards and he was one of my favorite vintage Sox players.

He also sent me these 1977 Topps and an 1984.  I always like the vintage.  I’m waiting to see which vintage team set I finish first.  Between all you bloggers, I’ve been slowly filling them up.  I think 1975 is the closest but I still need quite a few of those too.

Thanks for the trade Potch, as always, it’s great trading with you.  And it’s nice to see your original blog name back as well.

I also ran across this cartoon today and had to post it, it is too funny.  Well, maybe not to you Cub fans.