Happy Birthday - Brett Adcock

Brett was born on this day in 1995, making him 28 today.

MLB Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 31 cards (same as last year)

Cards I have - 6 cards (3 more than last year)

PC Rank - #87 (#1264 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (5 cards)
• Jan's Sports Cards & Comics (2 cards)

Happy Birthday Brett!

Jordan

We set up in Lansing today and actually had a pretty good day. I was actually amazed at how much Michigan gear I saw. I would say it was 2-1 as far as a ratio with Michigan having the 2 and State being the 1. I only picked up 1 card. I hadn't planned on picking any up but at the very end, a kid came up with some stuff to sell. Sluggo bought a card and I told him to throw in my card. It's an auto of a player I don't have any autos of. You won't see that today though.

Today you get a guy that we haven't seen on here in over 16 months. I only had 1 card of him back then, now I'm up to 4.

Pretty sure all 3 of those are the same photograph. Which is expected for the first 2 since they are parallels but the last one is a total different set. These are minor league sets as he hasn't made it to the majors yet. My other one of his is as well.

I cheated!

I cheated on Michigan today. I went to another Big Ten University and it had nothing to do with Michigan. I feel so dirty. I took my son to a college visit at Purdue, it was actually pretty amazing and I'm hoping that's where he wants to go because he's going into engineering and they are one of the best. 

I'm really going to feel like I'm cheating on Michigan tomorrow when I go to Lansing. We are heading up there tomorrow for a card show, in a mall. I'm actually looking forward to it just because it's in a mall. It's going to bring back all kinds of nostalgia from my childhood. That's where all the card shows were.

I'll sorta be cheating on my wife tomorrow as well since I'm setting up at a card show, on our anniversary. Shhh!

In order to clean my soul, I better post a former Wolverine.

I now have 6 different versions of this card and 6 total cards of Brett. The top 2 are both silver border, I accidentally ordered 2, not sure how. I checked Dennis and he already has 1 but it is serial numbered so technically, a different card so I'll just keep it. The purple is also numbered and the other is a Carolina blue.

I really didn't want to show Astros cards because obviously, I'm rooting for the National League this year. Hopefully the Padres, because of Cronenworth, but if not them, I'll root for the Phillies. Anybody but Houston or New York.

Happy Birthday - Brett Adcock

Brett was born on this day in 1995, making him 27 today.

MLB Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 31 cards (same as last year)

Cards I have - 3 cards (same as last year)

PC Rank - #78 (#1440 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Jan's Sports Cards & Comics (2 cards)
• Sportlots (1 card)

Happy Birthday Brett!

So close to 200

Sluggo and I went to a trade night last night before the card show today in Shipshewana. This is getting to be a pretty huge show, I believe it was advertised as 180+ tables and it definitely has the foot traffic. We've been on a waiting list to get tables for awhile now and are still waiting. Anyways, I spent $42 last night on a half price box and I only picked up 8 cards. Then today, I spent $40 on a dollar box but I got 51 cards for that price. I also picked up a couple of autos for another $10. Plus, I got a player lot as a throw in that I ended up needing 3 cards so it was a pretty good day. I also bought a MacFarland figure of a hall of famer for $10. 

We also hit the LCS on the way home. I didn't spend any money but I came home with another 10 or so cards. I spent too much at the card show so I just shuffled through a couple of dime boxes while my cousin was shopping. He spent enough money that the guy just through the dime cards in for free.

I started logging them today, but didn't get them done. I'll finish them tomorrow and scan them so I can start posting. Don't worry thought, I still have a few other things to show until then.

I have 9 posts left before I enter the ones I just purchased and out of those 9, only 1 of them I didn't pick cards up for this past weekend so I'll post that today so I don't have to post any players twice so close together.

Those top 3 all go to the vintage collection as well. The middle 3 are all the canadian versions. The 1987 Fleer is the glossy version.

I also picked up some 80's oddballs. The Donruss is one of those oversized cards, I believe it's 3x5 or close to it. The right side is a Fleer sticker and a Fun Food pin.

These are the 90's cards I picked up of the Lefty.

2000's & 2001's. I always loved those club 3,000 cards.

2002's & 2003's. It's always odd to see Carlton in a Cardinals jersey, that was definitely before my kid collecting days.

All 2004's. I like the look of that Leather & Lumber card on the bottom right.

2005-2009. I really like the bottom right again, I wish they would have found something to put on the right side of base cards. Maybe even a facsimile signature or something. I like the relic cards more because they use that open space for the relic.

2010-2014. I wish those top 2 corner cards were the vintage versions. Certainly not a fan of the Goodwin Champions sets where they show them in everyday clothes. They're just weird.

I like the black border on the top left and the bottom center with the red background with the powder blue uniforms. You see another 1967 copy in there as well.

2019-2021. Oh look, another 1967 copy.

These 55 cards give me 197 cards of the lefty. I guess I should have picked up 3 more of him this weekend to get me to 200. I should of made it 3 White Sox cards since I didn't get any up there.

Happy Birthday - Brett Adcock

Brett was born on this day in 1995, making him 26 today.

MLB Debut - none

Years Active - none

1st Bowman Card (Astros)

Cards on TCDB - 31 cards

Cards I have - 3 cards

Where they came from - 

• Jan's Sportscards & Comics (2 cards)
• Sportlots (1 cards)

I've only got the 3 cards, pretty much the same cards. The base, the chrome and a refractor.

Happy Birthday Brett!

*All cards shown are in my collection but the scans/photos are from TCDB.

Team Collection Boost

I'm here, just in time to get my last one out for the month. It's a big one too. Tomorrow is my surgery so I didn't want to leave this for the last day of the month. Thanks to all of you who wished me well on the last post. I assure you I'm in safe hands, my doc did graduate from the greatest public university in the world. That would be the University of Michigan for those who don't want to admit it.

There's quite a few of good managers listed up there. Cubs with their floating heads again, I could understand that now a days with social distancing and all. I don't think I knew Don Zimmer ever coached the Red Sox or that Tommy Lasorda did the Dodgers (kidding).

The top picture came from the Facebook purchase, all the others came from Sportlots. These 19 cards put the 1979 Topps set at 402 cards which is good for just over 55% completed.

I put in another order at the virtual dime store (baseballcardstore.ca) as well as had some of my cards shipped from Sportlots. Once those get here and I get them logged in and scanned, I'll start next months cards.

Last day of lay-off

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

I got almost all of vintage dupes logged into TCDB today. All I have left are the 1985 Fleer dupes, I saved it for last because it was the biggest stack. After that, I have to start logging all my White Sox dupes, which will take a little while, especially since I go back to work tomorrow. Does anyone know an easier way to log in cards for trade/sell on TCDB? I thought I'd be able to use the add to trade/sell and just check mark the ones I want to add, but when that list comes up, it has all the cards that I have already have checked which means I have to go through the same thing I do if I just go through the add page. Any suggestions are appreciated.

*Edit - Never mind. After I typed that out I decided to play around and found the add multiple, that went a lot quicker. I even tested it by adding the 1985 Fleer so now I'm done with the vintage collection.

Just 1 card today of a guy that I keep looking for other cards but can't seem to find, at least not in my price range, which we all know is pretty cheap. I just went and looked at all his cards on TCDB and he only has 30 so that's part of the reason I can't find many. Also, with the addition of the one below, out of the 27 left, only 1 isn't serial numbered and it's a colored refractor so I guess I figured out why I had trouble finding any.

Yeah, it looks the same as the other 2 I have. I already had the chrome and the refractor so now I have the "base" card of it. In case you don't want to do the math, this is the 3rd card of the former Wolverine.

Speaking of former Wolverines, at last count that I read, there will be another 12 PC collections, 10 guys got drafted in the NFL and the last I heard, 2 signed undrafted contracts and I haven't even been online to look and see if anyone else signed today. I'm sure it'll be awhile before you see any of these cards though.

Random PC Cards #68

Since I haven't had much come in this week, I'm going to give you another random post. I did get my 30 1985 Topps cards that I mentioned a week or so ago. So that set is now down to only needing 23 cards. If I keep having slow weeks like this, I'll keep picking up those lots and make a little headway on the 80's portion of the Vintage collection. I do have some cards coming so hopefully next week you'll get a few more posts than this week.

I'm going to be using the random card link on TCDB and see how well it works out.

Tier 1 Collections

#1177

Collection - Tom Seaver, Vintage

Card - 1972 Topps

Player - Tom Seaver, Dave Roberts, Don Wilson

Team - New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Houston Astros

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.75

From - Media Madhouse

When - February, 2016

Tier 2 Collections

#6605

Collection - Chris Sale, White Sox

Card - 2011 Bowman Platinum

Player - Chris Sale

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - Unknown

From - Box Break

When - March, 2012

Tier 3 Collections

#706

Collection - Cal Ripken Jr

Card - 2015 Topps Highlight of the Year

Player - Cal Ripken Jr

Team - Baltimore Orioles

Acquired - Trade

From - 2x3 Heroes

When - October, 2015

Michigan Collection

#10699

Collection - Taco Charlton, Michigan

Card - 2017 Panini Prestige

Player - Taco Charlton

Team - Michigan Wolverines, Dallas Cowboys

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.50

From - Ebay

When - November, 2018

White Sox Collection

#3230

Collection - White Sox

Card - 1994 Topps

Player - Joey Cora

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Trade

From - Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes

When - June, 2011

Baseball Collection

#11103

Collection - Baseball

Card - 2016 Topps

Player - Yasmani Grandal

Team - Los Angeles Dodgers

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.06

From - Ebay

When - March, 2019

Vintage Collections - 1950's

#3247

Collection - White Sox, Vintage

Card - 1958 Topps

Player - Earl Torgeson

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.99

From - Ebay

When - June, 2011

Vintage Collections - 1960's

#5873

Collection - White Sox, Vintage

Card - 1968 Topps

Player - Hoyt Wilhelm

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Trade

From - All Trade Bait...All The Time

When - November, 2011

Vintage Collections - 1970's

#8187

Collection - Vintage

Card - 1975 Topps

Player - Jim Wohlford

Team - Kansas City Royals

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $.29

From - Ebay

When - January, 2014

Vintage Collections - 1980's

#3569

Collection - Vintage

Card - 1982 Donruss

Player - Dale Berra

Team - Pittsburgh Pirates

Acquired - Trade

From - Sluggo

When - September, 2016

Relic

#6884

Collection - White Sox

Card - 2012 Topps Allen & Ginter's

Player - Gordon Beckham

Team - Chicago White Sox

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $3

From - Just A Bit Outside

When - August, 2012

Autograph

#10823

Collection - Jake Ryan

Card - 2015 Panini Contenders Rookie Ticket

Player - Jake Ryan

Team - Green Bay Packers

Acquired - Purchased

Price - $3

From - Ebay

When - January, 2019

The Kid plus 5

I found out last week that our new GM to our plant collects baseball cards. He sat in on our Monday meeting yesterday and I was there early enough that I chatted with him about it. Apparently he buys cases and opens them and sells them online. He likes the high end stuff which of course is totally opposite of me but at least there is someone that collects I can have an occasional chat with.

I did get a few cards today. One player collection and some virtual "cheaper than a dime box" cards.

I picked up all of these 2016 Topps for $.06/shipped/each. All were individual auctions, I just don't understand how these people keep selling cards for cheaper than a stamp and stay in business.

I also picked up this Gary Carter dog food card. I remember back when you could get baseball cards everywhere. I used to buy all kinds of things I wouldn't normally eat just to get these cards. I picked this up for $.50/shipped. It is my 117th card of the Kid.