Vintage stars

It's Thursday so I'm done with work for the week. I got kicked out at 1 today because I hit my 40 hours and they aren't allowing overtime. Maybe I'll get some posts done this weekend. We are setting up at a small show on Saturday but it's only half an hour or so from home so I won't be gone all day.

Today, I'm going to hit a couple of collections. They kind of go together.

I got 3 cards for the team card collection. They are all mid 2000's. I was happy they came back at this time, I wish they had them in the newer sets. You'd think the heritage sets would at least have them. It's only my 4th card of the Marlins but they didn't have any Vintage. I have 14 cards of the Giants, 5 of them are after 2000. The Mets are now at 13 cards, 4 from after 2000. These 3 came from Sluggo

I said these collections go together before I realized the 3 cards I had for the team collection were all modern (sort of) but here we go anyways.

I picked up these 21 cards from sorting. He must have picked up some (sort of) Vintage lots from somebody.

These 13 cards also came from sorting. All of the players in both scans are of list players, some of the players I pull while doing the sorting. When I sort list players, I put them in player stacks. The guy that buys them pays more when they are already sorted. Obviously, these are the older players, mostly hall of famers. There's a lot more modern players than these but you won't see those here being it's a Vintage post.

Remember awhile ago, when I said the promoter at the Plymouth show told me he had some vintage on his table that I should see, Well the rest of the post are those cards.

As you can see, these are a lot better players than I normally purchase on the cheap. The Yaz is a player collection as well. Kevin was upset I grabbed the Hank Aaron before he saw it. I mean, I didn't grab it until the show was closing so it wasn't like he didn't have that option. These 2 cards give me 238 cards from that set which is good for 30% complete.

2 more stars and another needed PC card. These 2 1971's give me 199 cards which is just under 30% complete.

2 more of the same players only a year older. These 2 1970's give me 117 cards which is good for 16% complete. As you can tell, the older I get, the less cards I have.

Lastly, this 1968 of Killebrew gives me only 56 from that set which is still under 10%.

I paid $33 for those 7 cards which is way over what I normally spend, at least on 7 cards but those are some pretty good Vintage stars and not the usual commons that I pick up. Like I said, he was the promoter and a guy I consider a friend so I didn't mind handing him that much money.

Completed Set

So this months post are all going to be my new collection (that I haven't announced yet) and vintage and then one White Sox post. So today's random came up with one of the vintage posts. It actually goes with a post from last month.

If you remember the post last month, I had said I was only 5 cards away from completing the 1985 Fleer set and that I had already purchased them. Well here they are. All are big names so it's no surprise they were last because I only buy the cheap. These weren't majorly expensive, just more than what I usually pay. I got the Rose for $.55, the Mattingly for $1, the Gwynn for $.98, the Brett for $.85 and the Ripken for $.75.

Normally the Ripken would show up in a player collection post but it is the only card I got this month that goes in a player collection so I let it go up with this post. Actually I probably would have showed it in both posts because this is the final 5 for the set so it was important here as well.

I do like the Fleer sets of the 80's, I think partly because they were harder to find around here growing up but you could find Topps everywhere so I didn't have as many.

I would show the page that shows the completed percentage but it still says I need 2 cards, but as you can see in the above pic, it shows I have no items left.

See, I don't know why it shows that.

This is the 2nd set I've completed this year, and for the last 20 years or so. I don't remember if I completed any sets as a kid or not to be honest. I had some sets but I think I may have just bought them outright. I don't remember collecting to complete sets. I may have the 1987 set, it was the last year I collected and I bought a ton of cards that year.

The last 2

* I put my January purchases on random for today's post.

This will be a post you've never seen here before. First I'll show the cards.

If you know my collections then you know that these 2 go towards the Vintage collection but why is this a post you've never seen? These were the last 2 cards I needed to complete the 1985 Topps set.

After I got my cards logged into TCDB, I decided that I would occasionally pick up some vintage cards from whatever set I was closest to finishing so I've picked up a few here, a few there. Then last month, I was down to 2 more. I paid more than I normally would for the Clemens but considering it was the last card I needed for the set, I paid it anyways. This is the first complete set I've ever collected card by card. It is definitely a rush to finish it.

The next set that I'm closest to is 1987 Topps so I'll start picking up some of those on occasion. It's so hard to pay for those cards though.

Vintage and another Frank

It was a decent Thursday in the household mailbox, well, for me anyways. The bills go to my wife. I got 3 envelopes today with 4 cards total, technically, 10 cards but I only needed 4. 3 of them go to the Vintage collection but only 1 of those is not a player collection card as well.

I picked up this Mattingly for the Vintage collection for $.25/shipped. This gives me 281 cards from that set which is my 12th closest to being finished at 42% completed.

I picked up this Frank Thomas card from 2001 for $.25/shipped as well. Frank Thomas is easily my highest number of player cards for a non player collection player. Mainly due to all of those 90's inserts. He is the 4th highest player for all my collections but the top 3 are player collections and he's only 1 card away from taking 3rd place and I'm pretty sure I have a ton more cards of his that I haven't logged yet.

This Steve Carlton card came in a lot of 6 of his cards, I only needed 2 of them but I won the bid at $.55/shipped. The 2nd card I needed was in pretty rough shape (I didn't notice it when I bid) and while I usually don't concern myself with condition, it was a 1984 Fleer card which I figure would be easy enough to pick up so I didn't keep it. This card hits the century mark for that player collection and 135 cards for the 1983 Topps set.

Last but not least, I picked up this Gary Carter for $.43/shipped. Carter has the collection next highest from Steve Carlton at 116 cards. It's only my 68th card from the 1983 fleer set though.

Cheaper Than Stamps #15

This is a series where I show off cards I need for my PC’s that I pick up on Ebay for cheaper than a stamp.  My maximum I spend on these cards is actually $.30 so I get them quite a bit cheaper than a stamp.

I’ve shown you the current player collection cards, now let’s see what I’ve picked up for the vintage collection.  Starting with 1987 and working our way down.

1987 Topps - Tim Raines #30, Bill Madlock #734, Dave Concepcion #11

I know, 1987 Topps isn’t exciting, but it’s still part of my vintage collection.  I got the Raines for $.15, the Madlock for $.06 and the Concepcion for $.11

1987 Topps – Don Mattingly #500, Dale Mohorcic #497, Todd Worrell #605

I got the Mattingly for $.10, the Mohorcic for $.16 and the Worrell for $.11.  I paid more for the other 2 than I did Mattingly, that’s kind of pathetic.

1987 Topps – Steve Ontiveros #161 and Mark McGwire #366

I picked up the Ontiveros for $.17 and the McGwire for $.10.  I just learned that Steve Ontiveros played for the Michigan Wolverines (thanks Dennis!) and I remember when that McGwire was a big ticket item.  Shocking that any 1987 Topps was a big ticket item but it was very popular at one time because most people couldn’t afford the 1985 Topps USA card.

1987 Topps – Andy McGaffigan #742

I picked this one up for $.10.  Not sure why anyone even listed this, especially with free shipping.  I’m guessing the only reason I paid a dime was because that was the minimum bid.

I scan the cards as they come in and post them when I get around to it.  As you can tell since all these have a single price paid per card instead of a lot price.

1987 Fleer – ML Prospects #650, #653, #647, #649, #645

I picked up this lot for $.30 with $.50 shipping.  Which equals out to $.16 a card.  All prospects, including a Ron Karkovice rookie which isn’t exciting for you, but for us White Sox fans it is.