My Sports Obsession: Charles Woodson

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Saturday, January 31, 2026

New show in the area

I hit a local card show that just started. There was a show in the neighboring town but they ended up pushing out the sports cards dealers and it's now a Pokemon, Toys, Comics, Ect show. Which is great for those people who collect that stuff because it's a huge show for them but it does nothing for me. So a guy who ran a fairly big one a couple of times a year, started a new one that is sports cards only. The LCS I sort for was going to be there so I hit it up. They weren't allowing customers in early but I snuck in under his name. I sat and chatted awhile, said hi to a bunch of dealers and customers that I knew from when we set up then hit out and shopped. I was pretty much just looking for Michigan peeps as the Sox are kind of crappy right now so I'm just not feeling it for them.

I did a pretty good job as there was only 1 card that I bought that I already have. The sad thing is Dennis does too and I'm pretty sure I sent it to him so it'll go in John's box. I hate to keep checking TCDB for everything I buy so I guess. I pretty much hit $1 boxes (I paid less than $1) and looked at some stuff on the tables. I ended up buying from 3 different dealers.

Let's get to it. We'll start with the basketball pickups.

I picked up these 3 of Bufkin in the dollar boxes. I actually have a decent sized collection of him considering he's mostly been a G League player. These 3 give me 28 cards of him.

I picked up this Hardaway jr and Robinson in the same boxes. The Topps Chrome Cosmo is unlicensed but is a cool looking card and is numbered to /149. It gives me 127 cards of Tim jr.

The Prizm of Duncan is the White parallel which is numbered to /175 and is my 51st of him.

I'll start the football with the non PC (yet) players. You'll see a couple of these Gold Ice, I paid a little more for those but they are just a cool colored card on Michigan cards. That is my 4th card of Underwood but definitely the coolest looking one. It's also my 4th card of Keene who is no longer with the program.

I'll do the PC guys in alphabetical order like a did basketball.

I grabbed this Disco parallel of Barner for my 6th card of him.

3 more of Nico who had a good year until he got hurt in the Playoffs. These 3 give me 103.

I managed to find another Corum as well. It's shiny but it's a regular insert. This is my 47th card of Blake.

1 more of Colson who I've been steadily picking up recently. This Silver gives me 10 now.

Donovan has bounced between a couple of practice squads, it would be nice if he could land somewhere where he could get some playing time but I don't think that will happen. This is my 17th card of him.

I now have 6 cards of Mason but these are the 1st 2 in pro uniforms. Michigan uniforms look better.

Also my first pro uniform Grant out of 5 cards but it's a very colorful one at that.

This disco parallel gets me up to double digits of Kris at 10 cards.

These Will Johnson cards are boosting his PC, I've already matched cards this year purchased with the same amount that I purchased last year. These 2 give me 11 cards, all in Michigan uniforms.

This guy was making a name for himself towards the end of the year and in the playoffs so I'm sure he'll have plenty more cards coming. These 3 double the PC to 6 cards. I bought the Prizm from the same guy I bought the gold ice cards so I paid a little more for it.

3 more for the JJ PC. Really hoping he stays healthy next year. These 3 put me at 41 cards for the Ohio killer.

A couple of colored parallels. The gold one is a Portrait Studio which are numbered to /100. Also shows is the Blue Hyper. These 2 give me 19 cards of Mazi.

2 more colored parallels for Wilson which give me 37 cards.

There's the other gold ice card I mentioned. Finishing off the cheaper purchases with a legend. This card gives me 102 of Woodson.

The last stop I made was at a dealer that I'm very familiar with. He's a Michigan guy so we talk Michigan all the time when we were setting up and he always gives me great deals. I went up to his table and stood at the showcase where I had eyeballed a couple of autos I was thinking about. He asked what I was looking at it, I told him these 3 autos but I don't think I have enough on me for all 3. He said we'll see what we can do. They totaled $100 on his price tag so I figured I'd be putting one back as I had already spent $48 and only went to the show with a crisp $100 bill. He said, how about $50, I went perfect, that's pretty much what I have.

My first autos of all 3 and all 3 are in Michigan uniforms. The top 2 are Refractors so all 3 are numbered to /499. I've been trying to get some autos of all my PC's, this purchased definitely helped.

It was easier to drop $98 at a show when I won a speaker at a raffle at work that I sold to another guy for $200 at Christmas. I don't think the wife was extremely happy with it but she won't say anything about it because she knows I don't drop money on cards a lot like I was when I was doing shows.

That catches me up on incoming stuff that I had already saved but I got one more post until I'm fully caught up as Fred from work gave me a few more cards. I'm going to get them scanned and logged today so I'll have that post ready. I typed all the previous last week which I think is going to be my process, type out the posts on the weekend and post throughout the week. Most weeks I don't get anything so it won't be like it has been this week.

Monday, January 26, 2026

Doing Deals at Work

I mentioned in the last post that I had a guy at work that I trade with as well. He goes to a lot more shows that I do and he likes to dig through boxes so he always buy's cheaper cards for me. He'll give them to me and I'll go through them and give back whatever I have. I also give him all my top loaders and penny sleeves that I'm not using. Because I give him what I already have, he has quite the Michigan and Sox collection which is hilarious because he's a Notre Dame and Cubs fan.

Let's see what Fred brought me this past week.

Some shiny and some guys I have a lot of. The Tatis is numbered to /99 and the Vaughn is to /100. There are 3 guys up there that I used to PC but don't anymore. I have over 300 of Eloy and Robert each.

He always gets me shiny stuff which I don't usually come across a lot of with what I do in cards so these are always appreciated.

Since we started with teams, I'll throw this one up here as well before I get to my PC's.

Right now I still have Hinton in the Michigan collection, even though he is in the league, he doesn't have much in cards. The only major release he's included in is Prizm and they are all Autographs. Keene was with the team up until the portal opened up and has gone to ASU., his 4th college team. Don't get me started on that.

I started collecting the Fab 5 last year, not sure why it took me so long considering they are the reason I became a Michigan fan way back in high school (please don't estimate my age, it's getting up there.) These 2 cards of Juwan give me 152 cards of him.

2 posts in a row with a Larkin, maybe good signs to come on his PC this year. 781 cards of the Hall of Famer.

Another Nico as well. He always gets me a bunch of Nico cards which is why he's at 103 now.

I just started PCing Woodson last year as well so there are still plenty of older cards of him that I need to add. This one gives me 102 of another Hall of Famer.

These were scanned separately because I got them at different times. I just got the one on the left this past week. These 2 cards of Hutch give me 85 cards of him.

He did give me 1 (former) Sox PC with this Blue Sheets which is my 84th of Gavin.

He also picked up this trio of Cronenworth cards. That is the 2nd auto of Jake he has picked up for me. Non licensed and stickers so they were only a couple of bucks but I'll take them. The Rookie Class set confuses me on which one I have, I believe that is the base and I already had the Emerald one. These 3 give me 114 cards of the former Wolverine.

I'm out until another day.