Early 80's Sox

Well I mentioned in my last post on Wednesday that we were still waiting on election results. I guess that hasn't changed yet.

Today's post will appease those who like early 80's cards and also a few of you who are White Sox fans.

We'll start off with the oldest. I only picked up 2 from the 1981 Fleer set, but that's only because they were the only 2 I needed for the team set. Both players were staples in the 80's. Both of these came from the virtual dime box, baseballcardstore.ca.

Staying in 1981, I also picked up 4 more of the Topps variety, only these came from Card Barrel. Sadly, I still need a couple more for that team set. I'll have to grab them on Sportlots but I've been picking up player collection there lately so I'll eventually get it.

I'm doing well on the Fleer sets as this was the only one I needed for the 1982 Fleer set. Nothing fancy, just a checklist, technically, the back of the checklist but it's still a Sox card. This one also came from the baseballcardstore.ca.

As we did in 1981, we'll follow up the 1982 Fleer with the Topps set. I only picked up these 2 but just like the 1981 set, they leave me with only needing 2. You also get to see another Chet Lemon.

Last but not least, 1 lone card from 1983. This was the only 1983 card I could find on baseballcardstore.ca that I needed, which is bad because I only have less than half the team set.

Nothing that exciting but I definitely needed them all. I kind of flip flop back and forth between buying team collection and player collection. Every week it can change depending on my mood. I'll probably go to Sportlots tomorrow and buy this weeks cards, I don't know what I'll by though. We'll see.

Ebay - White Sox Collection

This weeks new additions to the White Sox collection.

1980’s Kellogg’s cereal 3D cards (Chet Lemon and Claudell Washington)

Picked both of these up for $.99 each.  I saw this seller with these and the following cards and I couldn’t resist.

1983 Kellogg’s 3D cards (Greg Luzinski, Harold Baines & Britt Burns)

I got all the above cards for $.99 each all from the same seller that I got the last Tom Seaver collection cards.

2004 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Sweet Threads game-used jersey

Picked this up for ($2.24/shipped).  Not a huge fan of Mags but I did like him when he was here.  Plus it’s a relic card.

  

1968 Topps Chicago White Sox team card and Wilbur Wood.

Picked up the team card for $.96 and the Wood for $.50.  Great prices, I think.  If I really like the vintage card I’ll usually up my max bid to $1.

2012 Topps ‘87 mini ($.35)

I actually thought I needed this for the Paul Konerko collection, but I already had one.  I still needed one for the White Sox collection though so it still worked out.

Box Break

Dave over at “Indians Baseball Cards” had another oddball box break.  I didn’t get in on any previous ones but I got on the last one.  These breaks are great for a couple of reasons, they are cheap, and for people like me who are just starting their collections, you get some great oddball cards to add.

1986 Fleer Stickers.  These are great, I got a few duplicates but not of the Tom Seaver, who I collect, so I could have put one with my team collection and one with my player collection.  Oh well, still nice to have, I just have to get another one.

An oversized 1985 Donruss Ron Kittle, don’t know if this was a box topper or not, doesn’t matter I guess.  A 1989 Bowman Ozzie Guillen.  And some 1985 Topps rubdowns (Tom Seaver, Harold Baines and Carlton Fisk)

And 4 Topps Fold Outs which are also oversized.  Greg Luzinski, Jerry Koosman, Jim Kern and Ron LaFlore.  All 4 of these have players on the back and I got dupes of all 4, so if your interested in the following, let me know.

Although technically, the Phil Niekro isn’t on the back of one of the Sox players.  It’s a whole different card that Dave threw in.  Who’s on the back of the Niekro you ask?

Are you still trying to figure out who was on the back of one of the Sox cards then?  Well, on the back of the Jerry Koosman was non other than

Tom Seaver himself.  So I get to add the Sox to the team collection and one to the player collection.

Definitely impressed with the Box break.  A bunch of Sox, none of which I had and 3 Tom Seaver’s.  All for $4.  Great box break Dave, thanks again.

 

Sorry about the lack of posts recently, it’s been 100 degrees here and I got a stupid cold that’s been kicking my ass.  Between the lack of sleep and the run down feeling, I haven’t done much online this week.  I think I’m getting on top of it with the help of antibiotics so hopefully I’ll be able to post a little more regularly.