Happy Birthday - Carlton Fisk

Carlton was born on this day in 1947, making him 78 today.

MLB Debut - September 18th, 1969 (Red Sox)

Years Active - 

• 1969-1980 (Red Sox)
• 1981-1993 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 9176 cards (2025), 8492 cards (2024), 7738 cards (2023), 6906 cards (2022), 6343 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 409 cards (2025), 401 cards (2024), 387 cards (2023), 359 cards (2022), 347 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #6 (#7 overall)

TCDB Rank - #15

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (166 cards)
• Ebay (47 cards)
• Unknown (45 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (27 cards)
• Baseballcardstore.CA (24 cards)
• Sluggos (22 cards)
• Just Commons (13 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (11 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (9 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (5 cards)
• Box Breaks (4 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (4 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (4 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (4 cards)
• Just a Bit Outside (3 cards)
• the Lost Collector (3 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (2 cards)
• North Carolina (2 cards)
• Padrographs (2 cards)
• Tribe Cards (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (1 card)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• COMC (1 card)
• Media Madhouse (1 card)
• Night Owl Cards (1 card)
• Nolan's Dugout (1 card)
• O No! Not Another Orioles Blog (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)
• Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (1 card)
• This Card is Cool (1 card)
• Topps (1 card)

Happy Birthday Carlton!

Happy Birthday - Carlton Fisk

Carlton was born on this day in 1947, making him 77 today.

MLB Debut - September 18th, 1969 (Red Sox)

Years Active - 

• 1969-1980 (Red Sox)
• 1981-1993 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 8492 cards (2024), 7738 cards (2023), 6906 cards (2022), 6343 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 401 cards (2024), 387 cards (2023), 359 cards (2022), 347 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #6 (#7 overall)

TCDB Rank - #13

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (166 cards)
• Ebay (47 cards)
• Unknown (45 cards)
• Baseballcardstore.CA (24 cards)
• Sluggos (21 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (20 cards)
• Just Commons (13 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (11 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (9 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (5 cards)
• Box Breaks (4 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (4 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (4 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (4 cards)
• Just a Bit Outside (3 cards)
• the Lost Collector (3 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (2 cards)
• North Carolina (2 cards)
• Padrographs (2 cards)
• Tribe Cards (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (1 card)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• COMC (1 card)
• Media Madhouse (1 card)
• Night Owl Cards (1 card)
• Nolan's Dugout (1 card)
• O No! Not Another Orioles Blog (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)
• Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (1 card)
• This Card is Cool (1 card)
• Topps (1 card)

Happy Birthday Carlton!

Sluggo trying to hit all my PC's

We set up in South Bend today. It's usually a good show and today was alright. It wasn't a bad show or a great show, somewhere in between. It was actually very strange, the traffic was really good, a lot of people. This show we usually do well on our wax and lower end singles. Today, we did decent on our showcase and nothing else. Sold a few wax boxes, even some that we've carried awhile but nothing like we nearly do. Like I said, it wasn't a bad show, just kind of weird.

I did get some cards but I didn't spend any money. That's always a plus. Obviously nothing high dollar since I didn't pay for anything but you'll have to wait until the next post as I have today's which is cards Kevin (Sluggo) brought me last week that I just finished going through yesterday.

He brought me a decent stack of PC stuff to see if I needed it and also a 2 row box filled with 1980 Topps and 1982 Fleer to see if I needed any of those. Here's what I kept.

He gave me a 2 row box with a row and a half filled with 1982 Fleer and all I came up were the 10 cards on the left but I was a lot closer to finishing that set so I didn't need near as many. That set is now at 97% finished, I only need 13 cards, including the rookie Ripken.

The other half a row had some 1980 Topps in it and as you can see in the photo, I needed a lot more of those. 118 to be exact. Those cards put me at 78% complete on it.

He also hit a bunch of my other collections. Starting with the team cards.

The top 2 are from the stack of PC stuff, the bottom one was in with the 1980 stuff. That's a Topps Heritage and a Fleer Tradition at the top.

Next up is the White Sox Collection.

He sent me 14 Sox cards that I needed, this is half of them. The other half were 90's stuff that we've all seen 100 times. The bottom row consists of possibly our future. Both have seen playing time in Chicago already and looking for more. I've been picking up both of their cards when I run across them.

Next up, Tier 3.

Kevin always hits me up with the Strawberry's and Gooden's in all the 80's and 90's sorting he does. These 6 give me 165 cards of him.

As I mentioned above, I get a bunch of these from Kevin. These 3 of Gooden give me 167 of him.

I don't however, get many of Zimmy from Kevin but he sent me this clear card to add to that PC. This one gives me 401 of Ryan.

Now on to Tier 2

Another winter of Eloy, my last post had the Holiday base card, this one is the Metallic parallel even though you can't really see the flakes. I like the City Slickers, Eloy is in his city connect jersey, makes me wonder if that's what this parallel is all about. I haven't looked into yet. These 2 give me 217 of the big baby.

I'm pretty sure I showed the Chrome version of this 2023 update of Fisk in my last post as well. This one gives me 389 cards of Pudge.

This Buehrle is an insert from A&G commemorating his 15 perfect innings. Obviously there was a perfect game mixed in there. I only picked up 6 of his last year so it'll be nice to get some more of him this year. It'll help if he keeps getting inserted into newer sets. This one gives me 388 so maybe I can double last year and hit 400 by the end of the year.

One more Sox card with this one of Liam, the scan did a pretty crappy job of this card. It's only my 41st of our former closer.

I do have one more Tier 2, just not a Sox. I picked up this Sample card from Score of Larkin. This one gives me 752 cards of Barry.

Now onto the Tier 2 Michigan PC's.

Kevin game me 2 cards of DJ Turner, one in the Maize and Blue and all shiny. These 2 give me 3 cards of Turner, that Rated Rookie is the first pro jersey card.

Kevin picked up 4 or 5 of each of these and we threw them in our showcase in Kalamazoo, Michigan and they sold quick. Luckily, he had already set aside both of them for me. That is my 10th card of Corum and 11th of JJ. Not bad consider neither have been drafted yet.

You might of heard of the first guy up there. I hate the helmet on this card but it's still a Hutch card and it's my 46th of the rookie. 

I also hate those Wild Card Matte cards because the color parallels are sometimes hard to figure out but this one was fairly straight forward on TCDB. Again, hate the helmet but it's my 21st card of Haskins.

A "baseball" card of Denard since it's technically in a baseball set (one of the reason's I'm not a fan of A&G). I feel like I just showed the base of this not long ago. This mini is the A&G back and is my 112th of Shoelace which is my highest football PC.

The Sean McKeon Optic on the right is my 8th of him. Finally back to normal looking helmets.

On to the basketball portion. Kevin gave me these 3 cards of the younger Wagner brother. The first is a Pro Picks, not sure what that is, the other 2 are Panini inserts. These 3 give me 45 cards of Franz. 

That's all for the basketball, but I do have some baseball as well.

I also added these 2 of Jake. The first being the Big League and once again, the mini is an A&G back only this one is from 2022. These 2 give me 81 cards of Cronenworth.

He also hit me with some Michigan collection only cards which means they are earlier than when I started my player collections.

 Some really cool cards up there and some that I had never seen before. I was surprised I didn't already have the Jake Long, the Wheatley is the Gold parallel of Ultra and the Avant is my 4th different version of that card. The bottom row of the top 6 I had never seen before. The Edwards is pretty cool and the other 2 basketball are TK Legacy's. The bottom photo is 3 different of Chris Perry, I like the looks of the Showbound insert and 2 different of John Navarre.

I'll try to get the cards I got at the show today up before my next birthday post, that gives me a couple of days. Until then.

Happy Birthday - Carlton Fisk

Carlton was born on this day in 1947, making him 76 today.

MLB Debut - September 18th, 1969 (Red Sox)

Years Active - 

• 1969,1971-1980 (Red Sox)
• 1981-1993 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 7738 cards (up 832 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 387 cards (up 78 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #7 (#7 overall)

TCDB Rank - #10

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (166 cards)
• Ebay (47 cards)
• Unknown (45 cards)
• BaseballCardStore.CA (24 cards)
• Sluggo (18 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (14 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (13 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (9 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (9 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (5 cards)
• Box Breaks (4 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (4 cards)
• Card Show-Michigan City (4 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (4 cards)
• Just a Bit Outside (3 cards)
• the Lost Collector (3 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (2 cards)
• North Carolina (2 cards)
• Padrographs (2 cards)
• Tribe Cards (2 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• COMC (1 card)
• Media Madhouse (1 card)
• Night Owl (1 card)
• Nolan's Dugout (1 card)
• Oh No! Not Another Orioles Blog (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)
• Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (1 card)
• This Card is Cool (1 card)
• Topps (1 card)

Happy Birthday Carlton!

Cards and More

I guess I've been sitting on my ass all day, the least I could do is another post.

I finished some sorting last week and these were my payment. It was list players again so these players were all on the list and I needed.

We'll start off with the White Sox Collection (non player). All 6 are Hall of Famers which is why they are on the list. I'm closing in on a milestone for Harold Baines and Jim Thome. It's number 1023 of Frank Thomas though, the most I have of any player and he's not even a non-PC. Funny thing with the Griffey, I pulled that for Fred at work. He collects Griffey and just last week he told me he just got his 1st card of him in a Sox jersey and said he didn't even realize he played for them so when I saw that, I was thinking I'd give him a 2nd one. Until I realized I didn't have it. Sorry Fred!

Next up, Tier 3

I found 5 more of Cal jr that I needed. 2 from 2022, 2 from 2023 and a lowely 2007 Masterpieces. Apparently he had 3 different cards in that set. I guess you can say I'm close to a milestone with Ripken too but I'm not going to quite make it before the end of the year. These 5 give me 981 cards of Ripken who is my highest player collection.

I got a couple more of Yaz as well. I wish I could say that was a 1964 Topps but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be in a box to sell for $.02 if it was. It is a 2011 60 Years of Topps but it's a OG back. I already had the normal back. These 20 give me 191 of Yaz, another one I'm close to a milestone.

2 more of Schmidt as well. You've already seen a couple from these sets and you'll see more. Somebody obviously opened some and sold them to the LCS. Good news for me as there are obviously some players that I collect in those sets. These 2 give me 361 of the 2nd best 3rd basemen in my PC. *wink

My last Tier 3 card is another from the same set. This shiny Steve Carlton gives me 230 of him.

Onward with Tier 2 cards.

You'll also see more of these Archives (and A&G) from this year in this section. These 2 of Moncada give 232 cards.

As I stated above, an Archives and an A&G. That has been the really nice thing about sorting is that I've been getting all of the latest releases not too long after they come out. These 2 of Eloy gave me 211 cards of him.

2 more of an Archive and A&G plus a Select as a bonus card. These 3 of Robert jr give me 206 of him. A far cry from the 12 I had of him the first 3 years of collecting him.

I also got a cool card of Fisk. Love this one, blue background from 2003 with the red, white and blue uniforms, looks great. This give me 387 cards of him.

The last 2 singles from my Tier 2 collections, both 2022 Chrome Platinum that you've also see here, and you'll continue to see. This is my 96th of Vaughn so almost a milestone there and my 748th card of Larkin.

On to the Tier 1.

I found another one of Aparicio which is always nice as I don't add a ton of his but I do add some. This is my 10th card this year for a total of 135 of lil Luis.

Definitely like picking up more of Seaver. 2 more newer and like the Yaz above, a 2011 OG back of 60 Years of Topps. These 3 give me 579 cards of Tom Terrific.

That's all from the sorting of the baseball, I'm sorting the football boxes now but I don't think I'm going to get much out of them. If I had to guess, I'd say Charles Woodson will be the only player I get from them because a lot of them are around 5 years or older which means no current players like Hutchinson and Collins.

Before I go, I wanted to give a nod to Dennis at Too Many Verlanders again. I just received his Christmas package not long ago and then on Friday, I got another unexpected package. I was really confused because he just gave me a bunch of cards so imagine my surprise when I opened it to find this. Don't mind the fat guy modeling.

That would be Mike Hart jersey (with the Jordan logo which makes it even better). Obviously it's not a real jersey but I think it's pretty damn cool. As per his usual, Dennis is way too generous. For those that don't know, Mike Hart is my favorite Michigan player of all time. This isn't the first time Dennis has hooked me up with a Mike Hart item. He went to an autograph signing and got me a personalized autograph on one of his cards as well. Like I said, way too generous but we love him for it. Thanks again Dennis.

This also happened yesterday.

I don't play everyday but I check it occasionally, I haven't even checked today. I normally suck at it. I do alright with the written ones, it's when they want me to name a player that played for both teams that I suck. After I run out of guesses and look at some of the players I could have used, I usually smack myself in the head. Duh! I knew that. I can just never think of them. On this one, I knew the Hall of Fame ones were right, all of the others were educated guesses but as you can see, it worked out for me. You can see I only used 2 current players in the 6 slots that you could use current ones. That's probably why I usually struggle with these. I got my 1st one though, that's all that matters.