3 more and 3 in a row

It's been a slow couple of weeks here but it seems like all my cards were just waiting to come here at the end of this week. This is the 3rd day in a row to get cards. On top of that, I got 3 more, which makes 10 in the last 3 days. The most I got in any envelopes was 2 so it's been a bunch of packages.

We'll start with a baseball player collection. I thought I had this card but apparently I've probably just bid on it a few times before winning it. I picked it up $.54/shipped and it's my 454th card of his and he is my largest player collection.

We'll switch over to the White Sox collection and show off this former Wolverine auto I picked up on the cheap, $1.07/shipped. I thought I had more of his cards but this is only the 4th I have listed on TCDB. I wonder if I have more in the cards I haven't logged yet.

I also picked up this former Wolverine, also an auto. This is technically my 8th card of his but some of those are dupes, they are auto's though so I keep them in the collection. I have 6 different cards of his. I picked this one up for $1.06/shipped.

A Wednesday shocker

I actually came home to envelopes today, on a Wednesday, I was shocked. Even better than 2 envelopes was the 5 cards inside. One envelope had 4 of them while the other only had 1. I even got a couple of great oddball cards.

2008 Topps Heritage

I picked this one up for the White Sox collection, it didn't look familiar so I assumed I didn't have it. I'll find out for sure in the next 10 years when I finally get all my cards logged in. I picked this one up for $.16/shipped.

1991 Leaf Studio

I picked this, not too flashy card of Barry Larkin up as well for $.30/shipped. I'm closing in on 100 different card of Barry but not quite there yet.

1990 Collect-A-Books

Now we'll start with the oddball cards. I picked up this card/book of Jim Abbott for $.27/shipped. I'm only 3/4 of the way to 100 cards for Abbott but I'm slowly getting there.

Does anyone (except Dennis) know what the top 3 have in common? Although, I probably gave it away by telling Dennis not to answer. The top 3 cards here are all former Michigan Wolverine players. 2 of the 3 played for the White Sox (Richard (obviously) and Abbott) and the other is a Hall of Famer (I shouldn't have to tell you which one.)

1988 Topps Rite Aid

I grabbed this card for $.45/shipped. It's one from a set that I'm not sure I've ever seen before but it is the 80's and they pumped out oddball sets like nobody's business.

1987 Ralston Purina

Remember the good old days where you could get cards all over the place. I used to buy all kinds of stuff I never ate because they had cards in them. I got this one for $.25/shipped, not bad for a quarter box find.

Not a bad day, 3 Wolverines, and 3 HOF'ers, all brought to you for less then $1.50

Trade with Dennis

Before I get to the trade post, I wanted to let everyone know if you follow me on Twitter, I’ve changed my address as in set up a new account.  I’m going to use the original Twitter for my Random Thoughts From A Random Guy blog as well as my personal account.  So you can still feel free to follow it, but the My Sports Obsession Twitter account is now @sportobsession6 so go on over there and check it out.  This way my followers for each blog don’t get tweets they don’t care about.  My family won’t have to ignore on the sports tweets.

Dennis of “Too Many (Insert Tigers player here)” and I got together last weekend for a real quick in person trade.  I was in Ann Arbor heading up for my annual Michigan game.  This year I got tickets for the Iowa game, mainly because my other 2 options were on weekends I worked.  But I met Dennis a few exits before the exit for the stadium so he could avoid the traffic and I could go straight to the game.  It worked out pretty well.  I handed him a couple of cards I think he liked and he gave me a stack as well.  Dennis always thinks of my kids (he met them last year at the Fan Appreciation Day).  He gave me a stack of Chicago Cubs cards to go to Trevor, and he brought a styrofoam wand that had a light in it for Samantha.  He had gotten it the night before at the ND/Michigan hockey game.  She loved it, so much I had to take it away the first night she had it because she wouldn’t stop playing with it when she was supposed to be going to bed.  But here’s what he sent me.

All of the above were new to the White Sox Collection.  Bowman is such a pain in the ass set to collect so I’m always happy to get them in trades so I don’t have to mess with finding them.

Dennis always tells me about a vintage guy he has at one of his shows and one of these times I’m going to get up there to see him for myself.  I loved these cards.  And even getting 2 of the team card works out because I can put 1 of them in the Vintage Collection.

     

The Clayton Richard card twice as good as the other Sox cards because he is a Michigan man.  This also was numbered and I assume a rookie card.  The more Michael Jordan cards I get with him playing baseball, the more I think about starting a player collection of his.  Just baseball because they would all be Chicago White Sox uniforms or at least in the organization.

He even managed to hit a couple of my player collections.  He hit the Paul Konerko collection with this Bowman card.  I thought I had this when I first saw it but I have the chrome version and that’s what confused me.

I really liked this well loved card for the Luis Aparicio Collection.  You can never go wrong with vintage White Sox but you just make it awesome when it’s Luis Aparicio.

He also hit me up all these for the rarely mentioned Peyton Manning Collection.  I don’t go out of my way to pick his cards up so I always enjoy getting a bunch in trades.  I’m willing to bet about 95% of that collection came from fellow bloggers.

I saved the hit for last, but I’m not sure it’s the best card I got.  Even though it didn’t scan very well it’s a pretty awesome card.  A dual bat card of Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordonez.  It is a much better looking card in person that on this scan.

Dennis also sent me 1 other card, but it goes over on the “Too Many Manninghams” site as it’s a Michigan auto.  I’ll throw it in with some other Michigan cards that I’ve received lately so go over there to check them out.

Be sure to check out “Too Many Verlanders” (I had to go to the site to see what it was named this week) right now because he’s giving away a bunch of cards in team lots.  As always, thanks Dennis for another great trade.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Be safe

Trade with Nomo’s Sushi Platter

And yet another trade last week.  I love getting trade’s in the mail, you get to build your collection and all it costs me is cards I had no use for anyways.  You get to give those cards to someone who loves them in return for cards you love.  And that leads me to my most recent trade with Spiegel at “Nomo’s Sushi Platter.”  I sent him some cards, he sent me some.  And some great cards did he send.  Here’s the highlights.

First off, some Bowman with some gold.  As a set, I’m not a big fan of Bowman because I like getting cards of players I know.  But I do like the base set of the pro players.  I like the looks of most of the Bowman sets.  Don’t get me wrong, I like the draft pick players too, but I much prefer players I know.

I know some people out there aren’t big fans of the Toppstown but I like them.  I don’t play any of the games on the site, but I like the looks of them.

I also like the look of the Upper Deck Signature Stars and of course you should know by now, I like the sets that have the vintage look to them.  And who can complain about 3 different Luis Aparicio’s.

And Spiegel hooked me up with a slew of Paul Konerko’s for my collection that seems to be getting bigger and bigger with each trade.

  

And look at all that sparkle.  Mark Buehrle Refractor and an AJ Pierzynski diamond anniversary card.  I love the shine on that card.

And Spiegel must have been reading my blog and noticed how much I like to post Jordan pictures from his days in basketball.  I know, some of you didn’t realize he played basketball before he did baseball, but that’s why I’m here, to educate.  It just so happened that my favorite basketball player of all time, played his baseball with my favorite baseball team’s organization.  That worked out nicely and thanks to Spiegel, I now have my first Jordan baseball card.  And it’s a nice one at that.

And to top it off, he threw me a little relic love with this Pierzynski jersey card.  And these were just the highlights, he sent me a whole bunch of cards.  A great trade with him, make sure you check his blog out at “Nomo’s Sushi Platter.”  And if you need a good trade partner, look him up as well.  Thanks again, Spiegel