One Blogger, Lots of Cards

We set up in Shipshewana today and had a really good day. It was non-stop from once we set up until about 1 or 1:30. It was packed most of the morning. We barely had a chance to sit down until the afternoon. Which made great timing because about the time it started slowing down, John from John's Big League Baseball Blog stopped by to say hi. He had messaged me the other day and said he'd be at the show so we chatted while he looked through our boxes.

I should have put my head down so you could see my Michigan hat, plus it's crooked, good thing John is more photogenic than me. It was nice to meet another blogger, I think Dennis is the only other one I've met in person. I feel like I might have met another one at some point but my memory is failing me. Great meeting you John, look forward to next time.

Since John and I are both Michigan fans, it's only fair that the random give me some Michigan players for today's post.

I picked up these 3 parallels from Hollister at the Lansing Show. They came from the box we purchased from him. These 3 double the cards I have of this parallel. These 3 also give me 24 cards of Chesson.

I could copy and paste the paragraph above about Chesson here, except I only had 1 other prizm of Long. These 3 came from the same Hollister box as the above. These 3 give me 10 card of him.

The only card on this post that didn't come from Hollisters. This one came from Sluggo as part of the sorting. It's a rookie and he's in the Maize and Blue, I'll definitely take that.

I also got a plethera of Paye's from the same Hollister box. As you can tell, I picked out a bunch of cards from that box.  Lots of color parallels up there. These 11 cards of Paye give me 26 of him.

It's been a Long week

Went to our LCS after my cousin got off work and I picked up a few things. Even spent a bunch of money (for me) on a single card. You'll see that when that Tier 1 player post comes around again. It'll be awhile though because I just posted cards from him last month.

We also opened up a bunch of blasters so I picked up a small stack of 2021's that I didn't have yet.

Today's post is a previous Wolverine which is good for today as we blasted Maryland. Would have been nice to watch it but I didn't know it was streaming until late in the second half when I went to start watching what I though was recorded on my DVR.

I picked up these 4 from Sportlots. I only had 3 to start with so this puts me at 7 cards. I thought I had the last one but this is the Silver parallel. The words are silver instead of white.

Home again

 I had a great time at the National on Friday & Saturday. My cousins friend had some tables so we hung in there for awhile and I just sat back and watched the transactions. The money going in and out of hands was amazing. I have never been around that much money in one place. It was crazy to see cards with price tags in the thousands let alone $54,000. There were so many tables that you couldn't see everything. It was amazing experience and I definitely recommend it. I will be going back and next time, I will have more time to save up some money to go. I did spend about $100, which if you know me, is a lot so those cards are mixed in for the random now.

Today's post isn't any of those cards though. The random pulled up one of my Michigan PC's.

His collection has been sitting on 3 cards for awhile so it was nice to grab some more. The top 2 are Phoenix's, the one on the right is a red parallel and is numbered to /299. The bottom right I already had the base and that is a silver parallel.

In case your bad at math, that puts me at 7 cards of him.

Post draft cards

On the day after the NFL draft, the random gave us the only NFL cards in my collections. Former Michigan players in the NFL. I think I read where 8 players were drafted so that's 8 more player collections for me. What remains to be seen is which players get more than just draft cards as a lot of them tend to do. Let's get to the players that I have already started PC's for. All these were purchased at the card show.

We'll start with the only NFL jersey in today's post. I picked up this Frank Clark Green Prizm card that is pretty cool looking in hand. It is only my 3rd of Frank.

I guess I shouldn't have said PC's that I have started before as these 3 cards of Josh Uche are my first of him. No, it's not dupes on top, the right card is the green parallel. You'll notice his name is in green.

I picked up this auto of Zach Gentry as well. It's only my 2nd card of his. Can't say much about the autograph though.

Another contenders auto. Say what you want about Panini but at least they show college uni's, that's enough for me. This is my 3rd card of David Long.

The one guy who didn't get drafted and is no longer in the NFL (he signed with the Chiefs but was released), is the guy I have more cards of. This is my 7th card of our former QB.

Congrats to the 8 other players who join the ranks of the NFL.

the Long and Short of it

Got 1 card in the mail today and it's only the 2nd card in that players collection.

As I said above, this is only my 2nd card of David Long who just came out of Michigan last year. I have to be careful bidding on his cards that aren't in Michigan uniform because another David Long came out the same year. So these Sage where it has no team listed, I really have to be careful. I usually look at the position to tell. I picked this up for $.25/shipped.

2 Days, 4 Envelopes

I'm a slacker, again. I got a couple cards yesterday but I didn't post them. I got a few more today so you'll get the last 2 days worth.

We'll start with some White Sox pick-ups.

My White Sox collection knows this guy, it's the 398th card of Frank Thomas, which is my highest non-player collection amount of cards. High enough to be 3rd on my all-time list but the top 2 are player collection cards. I picked this up for $.45/shipped.

I picked up both of these 2019 Topps, which were my last 2 of Series 1 (minus the SP's) which is just in time since Series 2 is out. I picked them both up for $.23/shipped/each. This is my 7th card of Engel, and my 13th of Avisail. Both are no longer with the White Sox, at least the big club. Engel is back in the minors while Garcia got let go, I believe he's with Tampa Bay now.

I also picked up this heritage from the same seller as the above 2 cards. I'm still a few cards short of this team set, 6 to be exact. I paid $.35/shipped for it. It is only my 2nd card of our current closer.

Now on to the autograph portion of this post.

I picked up this auto of another former White Sox. This Topps Finest auto came to me for $1.58/shipped. This is my 15th card of Matt. He is now with Texas and when I was looking up at that info, it said he signed a minor league deal as a Infielder and a Pitcher. He had a couple of trips to the mound during blow outs and did pretty well, but I don't know about him becoming a pitcher. It would be pretty cool if he did the transition but you would think he'd want to me in the NL so he could hit too.

Last but not least, my first card of David Long which means a new player collection. I picked this one up for $2.25/shipped of this former Wolverine who was just drafted this year by the Rams. I really have to pay attention to his cards when I'm searching because another David Long got drafted from West Virginia this year as well.

I haven't forgotten about the cards Dennis sent me, I have to finish up the White Sox (I think that's it), I got all the player and Michigan collection cards done. I'm heading that way once this post is done.