Great players at great prices

I have a few days without some birthday posts so you might get to see some more pick-ups for a few days. Unless I get lazy, which is always a possibility. Had some good sleep last night too so I'm rearing to go today. I couldn't tell you the last time I slept past 10. I must have needed it.

Today's post is one of my more popular collections because it tends to speak to more collectors than player or team specific ones.

I'll start off with this. Josh, the guy who gave me the 8000 count box of 1982 Topps and all those publications that I purchased, threw this in with the sell just because it fit with my vintage collection. It actually means quite a bit because 1987 was when I went nuts and purchased a ton of Topps. I remember having a 8 or 9 copies of some of the cards that I PC'd. It was also the last year that I really purchased as a kid, which is why my Vintage Collection stops at 1987.

I've already finished the set so I won't open it and I think it's a pretty cool add to the collection even if it isn't worth much.

I picked up these 2 cards for the 1978 set from that $1 box at the Fort Wayne card show. As I go back and post all these $1 box vintage cards I got, I realize just how good of a purchase that was.

These 2 cards give me 186 which bumps me just over the 25% completed mark.

I added these 2 to the 1977 set. You seen the Yaz on his PC post, it came from the $1 box in Fort Wayne. The Lou Brock I grabbed at the Shipshewana show from Joe who's another guy we set up with and I know.

These 2 cards give me 275 cards for that set for 41% complete.

Another PC pick up that also goes in the Vintage. I picked up this 1976 Schmidt. Another $1 box Ft. Wayne pick up.

This card gives me 359 cards of the 1976 set which puts me at 54% completed. Off the top of my head this is 1 of only 2 1970's set that I'm over half complete.

As you may have figured out, if it's a vintage card with a pretty good player on it, or team card, it came from the $1 box in Ft. Wayne. All 3 of these go to other collections as well, the team card to the team card collection and the Schmidt and Carlton are both PC's as well.

These 3 cards give me 142 cards of the 1975 set which is 21% completed.

The top card is a Ft. Wayne purchase as it's also a PC card. Not the greatest condition but I'll take it for a buck. The bottom card was from my last Sportlots shipment.

These 2 cards give me 313 cards for a 47% completion on the 1974 set. Almost another I can put at half way done.

I specifically went looking for some 1973's with my last Sportlots purchase. I like the few action shots in there, you don't see the Fregosi pose often, watching him probably fouling out.

These 8 cards give me 511 of that set which is good for 77% completed. Obviously, this is the other 70's set over 50% completed.

Both of these 1972's came from Ft. Wayne. The top card is another PC card of Seaver while the bottom card I kept because of Hank Aaron. When I say kept, I could have purchased a ton of his card but was trying to budget so I narrowed down that $1 box purchase to PC cards that also went to the vintage collection.

These 2 cards give me only 84 cards of this set which is only 10% completed. Just for kicks I went and looked to see how many Hank Aaron's I have in my Vintage Collection. The answer is 5 but all our leaders or special cards, none of his base, yet.

As I said above, all my $1 box Ft. Wayne purchases were PC and team cards. This is where we start hitting the team cards. I got the Seaver from the same seller but it wasn't in the $1 box, I dropped $5 on it but I couldn't pass it up as I'm sure I got a discount since I bought so much from him so it was under $5.

These 7 cards from the 1971 set put me at 127 cards for a 17% completion.

I picked up the top 2 team cards in Ft. Wayne and the bottom card from Sportlots. If I wanted to pick up any 2 team cards from that set it would be those 2. The Sox card for obvious reasons and the Mets card because when I collected as a kid I was a Mets fan and I had that card. It was an expensive card of the Miracle Mets back then.

These 3 cards give me 99 cards of the 1970 set for only 14% complete.

These were the oldest of the team cards I picked up in Ft. Wayne. A couple of 1966 cards for $1, I'll take it.

These 2 cards only give me 42 cards of that set which is only 7% complete.

I picked up these 4 cards from the 1960 set from Sportlots for under $.50 each a piece. My 1960 set is probably my furthest along for that decade but that's mainly because I have quite a few of the Sox cards from that set.

These 4 give me 76 cards of that set for a 13% completion. Just for fun I went and looked and 29 of those are White Sox cards.

That's right, I even found some cheap 1958 cards on Sportlots. I'll pick these up all day for under $.50 if I can find them. Wonder how the Guardians like that logo.

These 2 cards give me 24 from that set for a 5% completion.

This was a fun post, I always forget how much I love picking up cheap vintage cards. I tend to focus more on my PC stuff and just pick up vintage when I run across them. Maybe I should add some to my search on Sportlots and specifically look for some again.

Sundays with Tom

I thought I'd squeeze in a post in between all the birthday posts this month. Plus I'm in a good mood since the Sox took 3 of 4 from Minnesota. It sucks that it ends up only being a game gained in the standings but it's a start. I just hope they continue after the all-star break.

Today's post is a Tier 1 post of my favorite All-Time pitcher.

All 12 of the above came from my last shipment of Sportlots. I'm going back, or I was, through Sportlots and picking up stuff from a dollar down. Most were still under $.50 but some were over. I really like 1982 O-Pee-Chee as I like that set to begin with. Since Night Owl calls it the hockey stick set, it only makes since that it be Canadian. I also ordered a Canadian leaders card with Seaver on it from 1976, but they sent me the Topps version so I'm still waiting on that one.

Remember the $1 box with Vintage in Fort Wayne, well the top 2 came from that. I paid a little more for the Carousel disc ($2) and the 1971 Topps ($5) but at the same dealer. I paid another dollar for the newer card of Tom Terrific.

These 17 cards put my Seaver collection at 543 cards.

Oldies but goodies

I guess I'm not going to a card show after all. My cousin's kids wife went into labor today so they are flying to Tennessee in the morning to meet their first grandchild. Now I'm afraid I'm going to end up at a 2 year old's party. Help me!

I've shown some of the 1977's that I've received that were a part of my player collections, you'll get to see the rest in this post. All these cards came from the card show in Mishawaka that we set up at.

I picked this up for a quarter. I just happened to run into it in the quarter box and I needed it so there you go. There really wasn't any vintage in the box so I was surprised to see it. This is my 251st card from the 1982 Topps set.

Here's the rest of that 1977 lot. Look at some of those players along with the PC ones you've seen the last couple of days. One of the sellers there heard that I like vintage so he brought this small stack of 77's that he just picked up and offered it to me for $20. How can I say no to that? It's definitely above my budget but those were some great cards for $20. I'm sure it's hard to see but these cards are in really good shape as well. All those 77's give me 271 cards.

I picked this one up for $.50 from the guy next to us. I went through his boxes since we were chatting most of the show and grabbed some stuff. I know he's a Cubs fan so that's probably why he picked this up. It gives me 105 cards from the 1975 set.

I picked this up in a dollar box. I got it a little cheaper because he gave me a discount because I picked up a bunch of Sox cards from him. This was like the Foster up there, not a lot of vintage in there but I stumbled on this one. Some big names in it as well. This was my 95th card from the 1970 set.

This was in the quarter box as well. I will definitely give up a quarter for any 1967 card. When I initially saw it, I assumed the floating head was Killebrew on the card but it's Jim Kaat. This is my 43rd card for that set.

The oldest card in this post didn't actually come from the show. It came from a collection that we got from Sluggo so this was a freebie for me. This card gives me 38 cards from the 1966 set.

Card Show Lots

Well, Michigan lost after the offense decided to not show up and the White Sox lost their opener essentially on an error. Not a great way to start the season, but we do tend to struggle on the west coast. I know it's only the first game in a long season but to be honest, I'm just happy regular baseball is back.

I need to remember next time, not to let my Sportlots package get so huge because it takes forever to log and scan them. I got them logged finally after a few hours during the week and most of today. Tomorrow I will be scanning but I have to help my brother move some stuff so hopefully that won't take too long.

Today's random came up with something we don't see too often anymore but I ran into some at the card show. A guy had small lots of Vintage together, really cheap because they weren't in the best conditions. I picked up a few because of the types of cards they were or the amount there was.

I paid $1 for this lot and it actually had 5 cards. The other 2 will be in another post as they go to another collection as well. Still, $.20 a piece, who can pass that up. These 3 (and the other 2) put that set at 242 cards.

I paid $.50 for this lot of 3, these are a little more battered than the 1977's but I figured worse comes to worse, I'll replace them if I actually get close to finishing the set. These 3 put that set at 353 cards so at least I'm a little over half on that one.

These 13 cards came in 2 lots but they were only $.50 each which you can see why, some of them are pretty beat up. There were other cards with these 2 lots but I already had them, they were Sox cards because even with these 13, I only have 99 cards from this set and almost 1/3 of them are Sox cards as I'm only 1 card short of the team set.

I paid $1 for this lot. Yeah, I know there's only 1 card. The lot was 5 cards and they were all leaders cards from 1971 but this and one other were the only 2 that I needed. The other one had a player collection so you'll see that when I do his post. You know those leaders cards have some great names on them though. I even gave two of the dupes to Fred at work because they had Cubs players on them. The 2 I needed give me 112 cards for that set.

Sox are up so far, let's hope they keep it tonight. I'm out!

Terrific Monday

3 posts left and 4 evenings left. Perfect. I'll start off the new year with the cards I got in the mail today from Sportlots. It was a pretty huge package because I forgot to ship last month. Funny enough though, I opened the package, cleaned out the packing peanuts and grabbed one of the top packages. Flipped it over to cut the tape and who is looking back at me?

RIP Phil! It's been a hard year on former MLB players, even MLB HOF'ers have left at a lot quicker pace than I ever remember. I don't know if I'm just getting older so I'm noticing it more as some of these players I collected as a kid or if it's just a lot for the year.

Oddly enough, today's random was one of those players we've lost this year. I mentioned the other day when I did the Mark Buehrle post that MB was one of my favorite pitchers, this guy would be my favorite of all time.

These 5 cards came from Sportlots. I have to remember not to scan them this way, I can't get the photos any bigger. The first card also goes to the Johnny Bench and the Vintage collection. I was surprised I didn't have the 1983 Donruss which also goes to the Vintage collection. The middle cards are 1983 O-Pee-Chee and 1984 Topps Traded and the last card is one of the many small Fleer sets in the 80's. The 2 Sox cards also go to the White Sox collection.

These 5 all came from, you guessed it, Jeff at 2x3 Heroes. I like the look of the Warrior on the Diamond. Of course, a few vintage look a likes (Phil Niekro makes another appearance on the 1970 reprint) and I'm not sure which set the last card is supposed to be a replica of. I suppose I could Google it but I'm lazy and don't really need to know. Obviously it's the 1969 set but I don't know if they just made it for the Heritage set or if it's a replica of a subset in '69.

The 10 Tom Terrific cards on this page get my Seaver collection up to 398 cards but don't worry, it'll get over 400 once I get the new Sportlots package logged and scanned.

More 80's "Vintage"

Dodgers took game 1. If I had to pick a team I'd want to win, it would probably be the Rays. Just because they are in the AL East and it would rub the Red Sox and Yankees wrong. But either way, I don't mind who wins. I work with a Dodger's fan so if they won, I'd be okay with that. 

Here we go with another 80's vintage post. Good thing Jeff sent a lot.

A couple of pretty good pitcher's in that top row. I didn't mind the 1982 Donruss set but some reason, I don't like this one with the gloves. It's pretty much the same but the glove just doesn't sit right with me. Not sure why. Jeff sent me these 10 cards to give me 56 cards for the set.

I think I might have bought this full set at a card show back in the day. I vaguely remember doing so but I have no idea if it's true or not. I was never into set collecting so I'm sure I got a good deal and I probably broke it up. As you can see above, Jeff dropped a pretty good number on my current attempt at it. These 37 cards put that set at 113 cards.

Jeff hit all 3 major sets with these 47 from the Topps set. Seeing all these Topps cards from the 80's is bringing back so many memories. I don't think I liked this set when it first came out but it grew on me. I was a fan of the 1982 set and this was vastly different. I wasn't so sure about the headshots but like I said, it grew on me. Enough so that when they did it again in 1984, I liked it. I also remember that Willie McGee rookie being a hot commodity. These boosted the set to 185 cards.

Sluggo - Vintage (1973-1970)

Back to work today, damn it! 2 weeks off makes it really hard to go back but after going back, I'm still here posting so that's a positive. These are the times I tend to stop posting because I get to tired after work.

I will continue on with some more vintage from Sluggo. Today, we'll get through the rest of the 70's.

Sluggo gave me 10 or 12 cards from the 1973 set but I had most of them as that's one of the sets I'm over half way completed. These 2 are pretty good cards regardless, especially for free. I'll always take Munson cards, even if he did play for the Yankees.  These 2 put the set at 457 cards for a 69% completed.

I also got 2 more for the 1972 set. These only give me 64 cards for that set which is good for 8% completed.

These 9 cards, plus the 1 below from the 1971 set definitely helped it along. They put the set at 107 cards and 14% completed.

I separated this one because it also goes to my Tom Seaver collection. This card gave me 370 different cards of Tom Terrific.

Last but not least, these 4 cards from the 1970 set put it at 63 cards and 8.7% completed. Yes, that's a former Wolverine at the end and no, I'm not completed with the vintage posts. Tomorrow will head to the 60's.