Happy Birthday - Caleb Houstan

 

Caleb was born on this day in 2003, making him 23 today.

NBA Debut - October 19th, 2022 (Magic)

Years Active - 

• 2023-2025 (Magic)
• 2025-current (Hawks)

Cards on TCDB - 1470 cards (2026), 1427 cards (2025), 1240 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 13 cards (2026), 11 cards (2025), 1 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #88 (#796 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (8 cards)
• Sluggos (4 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Caleb!

Happy Birthday - Caleb Houstan

 

Caleb was born on this day in 2003, making him 21 today.

NBA Debut - October 19th, 2022 (Magic)

Years Active - 

• 2023-current (Magic)

Cards on TCDB - 1427 cards (2025), 1240 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 11 cards (2025), 1 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #79 (#925 overall)

TCDB Rank - #6

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (6 cards)
• Sluggos (4 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Caleb!

Slacking

Since I've been slacking on my posts, I'm going to combine a couple of pickups from sorting because I've done it the last couple of weeks. Plus, I have to get through some posts to show you a surprise card that I got in the mail last week.

We're going with a lots of photos, a little words kind of post.

We'll start off with this random vintage collection card that I found sorting. Not that Rickey Henderson is random but he is a list player and I did do a couple of small boxes of putting list players together.

This card puts the 1982 Topps set at 92.6% complete. I only need 59 cards to finish it.

2 more list players and 2 more PC's.

One last tier 3 player. This isn't a list players but I did find it sorting other stuff.

Next up is some team cards.

I got a decent stack of Sox cards but I'm only showing a couple of scans. These players are mostly guys I have over 50 cards of, plus Crochet who is on the team currently and I like him and an auto that the LCS owner gave me when I walked in.

I also got some Bowman color Sox to add.

I like Colas as well and I threw in the blue Benintendi.

Since we're on the Sox, we'll go to Tier 2 as most of them are current or former Sox players.

I picked up these 3, 2 Eloys and a Moncada. The Moncada is the red parallel.

Next up, Tier 2 Michigan

A couple of former Wolverine baseball players.

Lots of football up there, including my first Jalen Harrell and 5 more of the HOFer Woodson.

I also got lots of basketball.

Lots of great pickups the last couple of weeks while sorting. I also crossed the 1,000 cards added to the collection so far this year.

2 weeks of sorting

I really need to get to posting, I'm falling behind. Work has been draining lately so I haven't posted as much. I went to my LCS to drop off cards that I sorted last weekend and pick up more and he gave me a few cards while I was there, which means that puts me another post behind. Tomorrow we are going to a pretty big show, we're expecting a good show, hopefully so busy I don't get a chance to shop, too much.

2 weeks ago, I sorted some list NBA cards for the LCS, these are what I pulled out for myself.

I pretty much always pull Webber cards as he is a Hall of Famer so he's on the list and he's one of my newer (older) player collections. I picked up these 6 to add, I think that might be my first Piston jersey card of his. These 6 give me 174 cards of him now.

I added Larry Bird to my Tier 3 player collections around the same time I did Webber. Also a Hall of Famer (duh) so he's on the list. I grabbed these 4. I would have guessed that I already had the Fleer on the top right, but apparently not. These 4 give me 111 of him. 

There are a couple of Michigan PC guys on the list as well. Franz here being one of them. The other, you'll see later. These 2 cards of Wagner give me 47 of him.

When I took those list players back, he gave me some cards in packs. Basically, he has a couple of people who buy packs/blasters, open them up, take out a couple of cards that they want, them sell them back to the LCS. I'm not sure what they take out because there is usually some decent players still in there. When the LCS buys them back, they are still in the packs (opened) and in the Blaster box so it's almost like opening packs. Those might be my favorite type of sort. I pull list players out and any other card the shop might want to sell separately, and of course, the cards I get to keep. There were a few boxes of Hoops and Donruss from basketball and football.

We'll start with the NFL since there was less of those. I went through a couple of blasters of 2023 Donruss and grabbed this Rashan Gary and Hassan Haskins. It's my 25th of Gary and my 22nd of Haskins.

On the basketball side, there was a box of Donruss and a few boxes of NBA Hoops.

The 1 Donruss card was a Caleb Houstan rookie, which is only my 2nd card of his and alongside him is the veteran Tim Hardaway with his 107th. He's my highest non-Fab 5 Michigan basketball player collection. Fab Fivers were in the 90's so they have a ton of cards.

2 more Hoops cards with a LeVert and a Poole. The LeVert is my 62nd card of the veteran. Poole isn't a rookie by any means, even though that's a rookie card shot if I've ever seen one, but he's only been in the league for about five years now. This is my 50th of him.

This was a nice surprise, while I've seen relics left in these opened packs, this is the first time that I got one of someone I collected. Or in this case, was going to start collecting. This is my 1st card of the former Wolverine, Kobe Bufkin. A nice way to start his collection.

The next sorting post, you'll see MLB as I have 3 4 row boxes to start. Probably on Sunday. They came from Hollister's so I know they'll have some good stuff, let's hope I find some stuff for myself. The next actual post, if I get another in before the next birthday post, will be cards I came home with from our last show in Plymouth last weekend.