Rare pick-ups for me

I've been sitting around all day, not doing anything and even had the though, I should put out a post while I have time and I never did. Here it is, 10:30 pm and I just remember, oh yeah, I never put out a post. I'm a slacker.

The random decided to stick with the last posts theme of the team collection.

A whole lot of modern cards up there that I needed. I really like the Crochet's because when he comes back from his Tommy John surgery, I think he's going to be a big part of the bullpen next year. These all came from the cards that I was sorting for Sluggo.

These 2 scans come from Fred at work. I like the Gavin Sheets up there because like Crochet, I think he could help us win. I liked him in the little he played last year. I also like that 1992 Kellogg's team decal sticker page on the right side. I thought it was older than that when I got it but it's a 1992. I took it out of the package that carried it through the Frosted Flakes. A couple cards of our former first baseman as well, don't even get me started on that.

I also went through the $3/each or 4 for $10 box at my LCS. I picked up some PC players as well as some cards for the shop, I think it ended up being 16 cards total but these 5 were the only non player PC White Sox cards. A couple of Zack Collins, mainly because they are harder to find (Tek & a color parallel #'d /50), the Mendick because he's been decent for us. The Mags just because I haven't added any relics of his in awhile and the Stiever because it's a red parallel of Stadium Club, also numbered to /50. I also realized as I was typing this paragraph that 4 of those 5 don't play for us anymore. I think Stiever is still there.

I need to do that every so often, just hit the 4 for $10 boxes and grab some autos and relics.

Double Header Memorial Day

What a good way to celebrate Memorial Day than hanging with the family for a cookout at lunch and getting home in time to start a double header with Cleveland. Sox won the first game in a back and forth game in extra innings. The 2nd game is tied at 1 as I type this.

Today's post will all be White Sox as well. These were all the pick-ups on Sportlots in my last package. Just fill ins at $.18 to get the sellers up to 4 cards.

Make that down 3-1 to Cleveland now. That was quick. Anyways,

A couple of 2020 Stadium Club pick-ups. One of them being the league MVP for that price. I'll take it. He still doesn't get hobby love but I'm okay with that.

Also picked up 4 Bowman Heritage. The bottom 2 are of the prospects variety but the 2 on the left are no longer with the Sox. Zack is Yasmani's back up and Rutherford is in the minors.

Now going back about 16 years, I grabbed 5 from the Donruss Throwback Threads set. These 4 give me all the current players (in 2004) but I still need the 2 retired and the rookie players for the team set. Those 3 cards are all numbered.

Sticking with 2004, I also picked up this Sweet Sigs card of the Big Hurt. It gives me the 2 current players but I still need the 2 rookies for the team set. Those are both serial numbered as well. Must be a 2004 thing.

I threw the horizontals together. The top 2 are 2007 SP Authentic inserts and the bottom card is a 2004 Leaf Certified Cuts. I do like both of the designs but the Leaf one better, probably because it's shiny. The top 2 were our #1 and #2 hitters on the World Series team though so you know I love those 2 as well.

You can never go wrong picking up vintage White Sox cards for $.18. This Walt Williams is one of the low number cards which I have most of, the higher number is another story. I have 21 of 35 cards for the team set.

Lastly, I also grabbed another 1967 Sox card for the team set. I did pay a little more for for it though, got it for a quarter. It's my 17th of the team set which is just over halfway done, again, the majority of those high numbers.

I know by the time I finish this, most of our Memorial Day's are over but I hope you all had a happy and safe one. As in every day, my appreciation goes out to all the troops, current and past.

2019 Team Sets

So the Sox are in the news again. The horrible hiring of Tony LaRussa is kicking them in the ass as it should because as I said, it was horrible. I'm hoping the DUI is enough to void his contract and we can move on from this mistake.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I went through all the sets in 2020 and 2019 and looked to see what Sox I need. I'll eventually move down to 2018 and keep going but for today, you get some 2019.

These are from the Bowman Heritage Prospects set. These 2 (and a PC not show) only make up half the team set. Dane Dunning on the left and Zack Collins on the right. Dane Dunning looks like he might have a bright future ahead of him. I'm not sure what's going to happen with  Zack Collins at this moment with 2 catchers above him but I'm guessing that McCann will probably be gone and he'll be our number 2. This is my 19th card of Zack Collins.

These are from the Bowman Draft & Chrome Prospects (have I mentioned that I hate Bowman). We have another Dane Dunning (19th card of him). I don't know much about Thompson (5 cards) or Pilkington (2 cards) but I know Micker Adolfo (2 cards) is supposed to be another one of our young studs. Something else that I know is the top 2 cards complete the Bowman Draft Sox team set and the bottom 2 complete the Chrome Prospects Sox team set.

I might have a few more of this guy than those guys above. This lone A&G of the MVP (hopefully) completes that team set as well. I actually bought this the same time I added a few others but the seller was a little slower shipping it to Sportlots so it came in the next months package. This is my 132nd card of Pito.

These 3 cards come from the Update set and they finish off that team set. You'll see the Anderson at the bottom again when I do his PC page. If I remember correctly, I didn't realize it was Timmy when I scanned it so you get to see it twice. As for Yonder (13 cards) and Leury (7 cards), Garcia got the better end of the deal as we picked up his option as he is a do all and play anywhere kind of guy and Yonder didn't do so well and got designated for assignment.

These 3 cards came from Baseballcardstore.ca and the rest of the cards in this post all came from Sportlots.

These 4 also complete the Opening Day team set so I did pretty well with this posts cards. Out of the 4 cards above, only Rodon (44 cards) is even still with the team and he missed most of 2019 and part of this year with Tommy John surgery. I liked Avi (32 cards) when he was with us but he battled a lot of injuries. Palka (14 cards) and Davidson (26 cards) had their moments when they displayed their power, but ultimately, neither could sustain it for long periods of time.

I don't know if I have more 2019 cards coming from Sportlots or not, guess we'll see next month.

More 2020 Sox

 Another day, another dollar. I had to go back to work today. Blah! I guess I have to work if I want to buy more cards.

Today's random came up with some 2020 White Sox pick-ups. I hate this set but I have to at least get the Sox cards. Bowman sucks. I'm not a prospector and I hate all the sub sets or whatever they call the Prospects, Chrome Prospects, Draft Picks and whatever else. Then they release Chrome that has all that crap too. I hate trying to figure everything out. Thankfully I can figure them out by filtering on TCDB by the card number so it doesn't take long anymore.

I picked up these 2 from the Bowman base set that would complete the team set if some guy named Luis Robert's cards were at ridiculous prices so that'll be a set I finish when these investor's quit buying stuff.I did buy 3 other cards but they go to their player collections so technically I bought 5 from the set. Both of these were $.18/each.

I picked up these 3 for the Chrome Prospects set. Sadly, these are the only 3 I have. One I could probably find fairly cheap but the other is that Robert guy again. I bought the above 3 for $.18, $.35 and $.40 (left to right).

So another White Sox post and still haven't completed a team set. These purchases didn't work out the way they were supposed to.

More White Sox

I've been slacking on my posting. I keep falling asleep fairly early, I'm too old for 10 hour days. This will be my last post until next week as this is our annual Father's Day camping trip.

I read today where they may have a season yet. I'm sure I'll read tomorrow where there's no chance. I'm not even sure we should bother with one at this point. Don't get me wrong, I want to watch some baseball, but it seems kind of pointless now. We'll see what happens.

Today's post are even more White Sox cards so we'll just get to it.

We'll start off with some of Fulmer, he hasn't really grown on me yet, he's been pretty inconsistent. These 3 cards make 28 of his.

A few more odds and ends. You'll see the Dunning again later.

Last but not least, a bunch of Gypsy Queen. Up until the last couple of months, I was way behind on the last few years of GQ but I've been picking them up a lot lately. These 4 base leave me one short of the complete team set, minus the 3 SP's.

All the above cards came from my cousin's packages to me.

These 6 came from Sportlots, all 6 were under $.50, most were only $.18. All newer cards, if I'm not looking for something in particular, I look for the 2020 cards when I start shopping on Sportlots.

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Also nabbed these 2 cards from Brian over at Highly Subjective and Completely Arbituary on his Free Card Fridays. They were 2 different Fridays so they were separate packages. The Frank Thomas is an odd looking card and the Dunning is the yellow border parallel. Thanks to Brian and all you others doing the free card posts. I'm generally to late to get in on most.

That's all for today, hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm looking forward to kicking back and doing nothing for 3 days.

A couple of Sox

This post will have a lot of cards in it. A lot of White Sox cards. My cousin sent me 2 packages last month. These are the Sox cards from the second package that came towards the end of the month.

Those are all the cards from 2016. He sent me a bunch of the Holiday set but I already had a few. The only one I need now is the Abreu, to bad that Frazier don't count since Abreu is on it.

More Frazier and Abreu and some guys you don't see much on Sox cards. I'll definitely take the Zach Putnam as he is a former Wolverine. I should look and see who has played for Michigan and the Sox. Off the top of my head, I already collect Jim Abbott and Chris Getz. I know of Putnam and Clayton Richard as well. There's probably others, probably others I know but can't think of right now. One of these days I should do a list. I'm not sure where I can find something like that but I'll figure it out.

These are all from 2017. Those 4 Topps (Holland is from Update) finish off that team set except for the 2 SP's of Sale and Abreu. Speaking of Abreu, those couple of cards up there make 107 of his in my Sox collection.

These 4 are from 2018. Decent shot of Saladino's mustache.

A couple more of Vaughn who is supposed to be a big deal, my cousin has sent me most of the cards I have of him, these 2 give me 13 total. The Frank Thomas puts his cards at 528.

Last but not least, the 2020. He sent me a bunch of the Gypsy Queen as well but I had bought some of the Sox already but I needed all of those.

I Got Lazy Again

I got a couple of cards the other day but I got lazy and didn't post them. Then I got 3 more today so I guess I'll finally post them along with today's stuff.

I'll start with today's cards. I picked up these 3 card from 2019 Bowman. The Kopech is only the 2nd card I've got from that set and the other 2 are the first of the Prospects set. The Kopech ($.22/shipped) is my 7th card of his, I guess I can still get his since his Tommy John surgery has kept him out of the eye of most collections. The Dunning ($.36/shipped) is my 5th of his and that is my first card of Madrigal ($.24/shipped) who, from what I hear, has been a stud in the minors. Don't know when we'll get to see him in the majors as they like to take their time since we're not in contention of anything.

I picked up my 353rd card of Tom Seaver for $.45/shipped. It is my 4th card I've picked up of his this year which is double of what I picked up last year so at least I got that going for me.

Last but not least, I picked up my first new Chris Getz in 3 years. I picked up this auto for $2.52/shipped. I don't think a lot of his cards get listed is the main reason I don't get many. I suppose I could go look for some on some other sites but I never get around to it. It's my 25th different card of the former Wolverine and Sox. It's not a bad looking card but I think that's because he's got the powder blues on.