A Sunday Quicky

 I have lots of cards to show and a little time since I need to go to bed so here goes.

I got these from Kevin, he gave me a small box as they have been accumulating for awhile, but let's get to it. As per the usual, type 3.

Lots of Dodger Strawberry with a few sticker Met Strawberry's.

All those Strawberrys and only 1 Doc.

On to Tier 2.

That was the last card I needed for the 2024 Series 1 team set and it happens to be a PC player. The card on the right I put by itself since it has 3 players that are PC's.

2 more of Yoan and

2 more of Vaughn. You'll notice on the first card that it says National Sports Convention on the bottom right.

A rookie of Liam and always great to get another Crede.

Now on to Tier 2 Michigan.

I've been looking for one of these for awhile and Kevin happen to find them both.

Lots of Fab Fiver Webber.

Lots, but less of another Fab Fiver, Rose.

Another Fab Fiver (and former coach), Howard.

My first 2 cards of Money Moody. One in the Maize and Blue at that.

2 more of current draftee, Blake Corum. A Base and a blue version.

Also 2 more of another draftee, JJ. Again, a Base and a blue.

Last but not least, another Wild Card of Kwity. I have 6 different versions of the Wild Card of Paye.

Last but not least, a Tier 1 addition.

Also love getting cards of PK.

Sorry for the quick post but I wanted to get something up between birthday posts and the next one up was a lot. I promise, the next few will be shorter.

Sox and more

I dropped off previous sorting at my LCS a week ago and he gave me some more stuff to sort. I was in his shop when Kevin text and said we weren't going to the show on Saturday so I grabbed some more to sort since I'd be home. I started it Friday when I got home and finished Saturday afternoon. There was a book of pages and a lot of cards in penny sleeves which is a pain because I have to take them all out. That probably took more time than all of the sorting. I went through a lot of baseball, some football and a real small stack of basketball but I only ended up with more baseball for myself.

We'll start with the older White Sox cards that I got. There was quite a mix of stuff in this sort as you see the above cards. That is my 109th card of Carlos Lee and my 192nd of Mags.

These are the shiny newer cards. Well, except the Colas, it's not shiny but he's a player I've been picking up cards of lately because I'm hoping for good things. The Keuchel is the Prism Refractor. 

There was also a ton of these Chrome Platinum Anniversary. I didn't realize how many cards were in the set because I figured I was getting close to the team set until I looked these up. I was wrong, these 4 give me 14 but there's 31 total. That's my 238th card of Tim Anderson and my 279th card of Abreu.

Then getting into the player collections, I got one Tier 3 of Gary Carter. The scan doesn't show but it's a pretty shiny card itself. This is my 350th card of the Kid.

Some more platinum anniversary Sox cards but both PC's. That's 233 cards of Moncada and 213th of Eloy.

1 more, same set, different team. I also found this Larkin to add to that PC.  This is my 749th card of Larkin.

As I said above, there was quite an assortment of cards.

I also found 6 cards to add to my 1971 Topps set. As you can see, they are in pretty good shape as well. These 6 give me 204 cards which is good for just over 27% completed.

Even better than the 1971's were these 4 from 1969. They give me only 71 from the set which is just over 10% completed.

The temps dropped below 0 for the first couple of days this week and they cancelled work so I'm working tomorrow to make it up so I'm not sure when I'll get back to my LCS to exchange cards. We have the show that got cancelled last week on Saturday as it got moved so it might have to wait until next weekend.

Johnny Bench collection

I actually got this card in a lot of 4 1973 cards.  I wasn’t even sure how many of them I needed but there were 2 of my player collections in it, plus as you should know, I’m collecting the 1973 set so I figured I should be able to place a few of them into my collections and I didn’t check them before I bid.  They were all 4 leaders cards in the set and I ended up only needing 2 of them.  Which means I overpayed because I put a $2 bid on the lot which equals $.50 each.  The good news is, my cousin is also collecting the set so they will still find a good home.  The other one goes to the ‘73 set.

1973 Topps (leaders)

I also grabbed this Johnny Bench from the afore mentioned seller that I grabbed 5 A&G’s for $.50.

2013 Topps Allen & Ginter’s

I also picked up this modern Johnny Bench for $.50.  I actually got this card in a lot of 4 Golden Age cards but I won the whole lot at that price.

2014 Panini Golden Age

Vacation Pick-Ups #2–1970’s

I promised you some vintage today so we’ll pump out this post sponsored by the 1970’s.

I found one card from the 1977 set that I needed.  I believe this was one of the $.20 cards.

I already completed my 1975 Topps set but since this isn’t technically part of the team set, I didn’t have it yet.  Dick Allen is cool enough, but it has Johnny Bench too.  Makes that card that much sweeter.

2 of 3 of these 1972’s will go towards the team set.  But again, another White Sox card with Norm Cash and Reggie Jackson on it.  Not to mention the White Sox player is Bill Melton, whom I’ve considered starting a player collection of just because I like him on the pre and post game shows before and after the Chicago White Sox games.

5 more 1971 cards for the team set.  Including a Wilbur Wood and the team card.  That brings that team set down to needing 11 cards which isn’t a lot when it comes to the team sets in the 1970’s.  Except almost half of those are short prints, yikes.

I even picked up one 1970 card which seem to be somewhat hard for me to come by.  I just don’t run into that many of them.

Tomorrow, we’ll start with the 1960’s, only I have to divide it up into 2 posts because I have that many of them.  And yes, I’ll have a post for the 1950’s too.  Stay Tuned.

Completed Team Sets–1975 Topps

Another vintage team set that I completed with the previous COMC purchase was this awesome set.

I had thought I finished this with the end of the year purchase in December but I accidently bought a mini instead of the regular sized card.

I really do hate all the oddball colors but yet I love the set for them.  I can’t understand it.  I kind of feel the same way about the 1976 Topps set as well.

I guess the advantage of being a White Sox fan is that there is rarely a high dollar card that you have to pick up.

Technically the leader and rookie cards aren’t part of the team set, but I’m throwing them in anyways.

Believe it or not, I still have a couple of Vintage Complete Sets to post.  So stay tuned because I have a few other packages from fellow bloggers to throw up as well.

Completed Team Set–1974 Topps

I completed this set before the end of the year but I’ve been a slacker for awhile.  I get such a satisfaction of finishing a vintage team set.  I finished 4 of them from the 70’s just before the end of the year with my black Friday purchases from COMC.

I can’t believe they followed up the 1973 Topps photography with these.  Only 3 action shots in the first 16 cards.

A couple more action shots.  These were odd years for the White Sox just because their uniforms really have nothing to do with their normal color scheme.  But I do enjoy them because they are a little different from the norm.

I went ahead and threw the Ron Santo traded and a rookie pitchers card with Ken Frailing from the Sox on it even though they may not be technically part of the team set.

Card Show Vintage #2

Before I get to today’s vintage, I posted an update on the MS Walk: 2012 that I’ve mentioned before on this blog.  The update is on my other blog, you can see it here.  Thanks to all of you who have donated and you can click the banner at the bottom of the update post and still donate if you feel generous.  Now on to the cards.

I told in the previous post that I found a quarter box with some vintage, here are some of my finds.  Working from the newest to the oldest.

4 1975’s.  I was very happy with these.  So excited that I didn’t realize I grabbed a dupe and even scanned it before I noticed.  This years team set is probably the closest vintage team set I am close to completing.  And upon further review, I only need 4 more cards.

Cheap Ebay Pick-up

 

• 5 card lot of 1972 Topps ($1.71/shipped)

I needed all 5 of the cards in this lot.  It comes down to $.34/card.  I loved picking up all these vintage cards cheap.

Card Show #2

At the before mentioned Card show, I also stacked up on a bunch of Frank Thomas.  I actually put some Thomas cards back because there were stacks and stacks of them in the cheap boxes.  Here are the ones I did pick up though.

Some new, some old.  the 1992 topps is the insert of 60 years of Topps.  A few of these I haven’t had before but most I had.  Here’s some more Thomas cards.

“The Big Hurt” used to be one of my favorite Sox players until the latter of his career when he started wanting more money and he was spending half his seasons on the DL, then trashed talked after he left.  He has since apologized and is working with the Sox here and there.  I have no ill feelings towards him for the most part but when your idol leaves like that, you don’t ever forget.

I also picked up whatever oddball cards I could just because I figured they would be harder to come by.  Not to mention one is a Tom Seaver to add to that collection as well.

One more post to come.  Vintage and player collections left.