Doing Deals at Work

I mentioned in the last post that I had a guy at work that I trade with as well. He goes to a lot more shows that I do and he likes to dig through boxes so he always buy's cheaper cards for me. He'll give them to me and I'll go through them and give back whatever I have. I also give him all my top loaders and penny sleeves that I'm not using. Because I give him what I already have, he has quite the Michigan and Sox collection which is hilarious because he's a Notre Dame and Cubs fan.

Let's see what Fred brought me this past week.

Some shiny and some guys I have a lot of. The Tatis is numbered to /99 and the Vaughn is to /100. There are 3 guys up there that I used to PC but don't anymore. I have over 300 of Eloy and Robert each.

He always gets me shiny stuff which I don't usually come across a lot of with what I do in cards so these are always appreciated.

Since we started with teams, I'll throw this one up here as well before I get to my PC's.

Right now I still have Hinton in the Michigan collection, even though he is in the league, he doesn't have much in cards. The only major release he's included in is Prizm and they are all Autographs. Keene was with the team up until the portal opened up and has gone to ASU., his 4th college team. Don't get me started on that.

I started collecting the Fab 5 last year, not sure why it took me so long considering they are the reason I became a Michigan fan way back in high school (please don't estimate my age, it's getting up there.) These 2 cards of Juwan give me 152 cards of him.

2 posts in a row with a Larkin, maybe good signs to come on his PC this year. 781 cards of the Hall of Famer.

Another Nico as well. He always gets me a bunch of Nico cards which is why he's at 103 now.

I just started PCing Woodson last year as well so there are still plenty of older cards of him that I need to add. This one gives me 102 of another Hall of Famer.

These were scanned separately because I got them at different times. I just got the one on the left this past week. These 2 cards of Hutch give me 85 cards of him.

He did give me 1 (former) Sox PC with this Blue Sheets which is my 84th of Gavin.

He also picked up this trio of Cronenworth cards. That is the 2nd auto of Jake he has picked up for me. Non licensed and stickers so they were only a couple of bucks but I'll take them. The Rookie Class set confuses me on which one I have, I believe that is the base and I already had the Emerald one. These 3 give me 114 cards of the former Wolverine.

I'm out until another day.

Happy Birthday - Jake Cronenworth

Jake was born on this day in 1994, making him 32 today.

MLB Debut - July 26th, 2020 (Padres)

Years Active - 

• 2020-current (Padres)

Cards on TCDB - 2809 cards (2026), 2673 cards (2025), 2545 cards (2024), 2154 cards (2023), 1469 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 117 cards (2026), 103 cards (2025), 79 cards (2024), 47 cards (2023), 17 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #29 (#47 overall)

TCDB Rank - #4

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (35 cards)
• Sluggos (26 cards)
• Sportlots (20 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (8 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (6 cards)
• Card Show-Shipshewana (4 cards)
• Card Show-Plymouth (3 cards)
• Garvey Cey Russell Lopes (2 cards)
• Packs (2 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (1 card)
• Card Show-Lansing (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• Corey Tyler (1 card)
• High Heat Cards (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Mom (1 card)
• the Diamond King (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jake!

Happy Birthday - Jake Cronenworth

Jake was born on this day in 1994, making him 31 today.

MLB Debut - July 26th, 2020 (Padres)

Years Active - 

• 2020-current (Padres)

Cards on TCDB - 2673 cards (2025), 2545 cards (2024), 2154 cards (2023), 1469 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 103 cards (2025), 79 cards (2024), 47 cards (2023), 17 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #29 (#47 overall)

TCDB Rank - #4

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (29 cards)
• Sluggos (26 cards)
• Sportlots (20 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (8 cards)
• Card Show-Shipshewana (4 cards)
• Card Show-Plymouth (3 cards)
• Packs (2 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (1 card)
• Card Show-Lansing (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• Corey Tyler (1 card)
• Fred Sawyer (1 card)
• High Heat Cards (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Mom (1 card)
• the Diamond King (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jake!

Quick Post

Just a quick post tonight, mainly because it's only 1 card. I received a PWE a couple of weeks ago (I think?) which was a surprise. It looked like a card PWE but I haven't received one in forever and I certainly wasn't expecting one. I opened it up and sure enough, it was a card.

I opened this and though, well that's odd that the Diamond King would send me some random Big League parallel but it was a Cronenworth and a rookie at that so I put it down in my card room to log in on the weekend. Once the weekend rolled around and I went to log it in, it didn't come up as a Big League but instead, this is what I saw.

26 cards, all 1/1's. So I started to actually look at the card again and I see the bottom right.

Oh crap! It is a 1/1.

Very interesting. That's all the research I have done so far but this was an unexpected card from someone who I haven't traded with since May of 2021. Kevin put a note but all it said was I saw this and thought of you. That's all that needed to be said. Thanks Kevin, this was extremely generous of you and I know you said I didn't need to send you anything but I'm definitely going to look for something.

Plymouth Pickups

Geez, I didn't realize how far behind I was. Yesterday we did the Fort Wayne show. Last weekend we did the South Bend Show and the Saturday before that we did the Plymouth show. Which is what I'm showing today. I need to get my crap together.

First off, Jeremy who is a long time friend in the show scene. We met him at the very first show I set up at. His work schedule hasn't allowed him to do very many anymore but he popped into the show that Saturday. He brought me this card, I was pretty sure I had it but I try to always check if I have the time and I didn't. I had another variation of it. He just said I could have it.

I went through Corey's $1 box who was set up next to us. I wasn't planning on buying anything but the end of the shows always get a little slow and I get bored. I found all of these in there. Always like getting a new Scotty Pods and I liked Burger when he was here so I usually grab his Sox cards as well. The bottom 3, I have a bunch from that set so I grabbed a few that I didn't have.

• Scott Podsednik - 35 cards
• Jake Burger - 44 cards
• Jonathan Stiever - 10 cards
• Lance Lynn - 18 cards
• Hoyt Wilhelm - 15 cards

I also picked up another Cronenworth and Zimmerman that I didn't have. I wasn't sure about the Zimmy but I didn't have the sparkle.

• Jake Cronenworth - 86 cards
• Ryan Zimmerman - 403 cards

He also had this 1973 Topps mixed in with all that new stuff and I happen to need it for my set. 

• 1973 Topps - 83% complete

All of the above and the card on the right below all came from the $1 box. How much did he charge me for all that. $3. I'm telling you, it pays to make friends at these shows.

Corey said he had the card below in his showcase so I had to look, then I also saw the other card above. I love the Black Chrome Sox cards with black being one of our team colors. They look so great so I couldn't turn that card down.

• Andrew Vaughn - 112 cards (my 2nd auto)

While I was going through his $1 box, he told me he had a Konerko auto. I was really hoping it was one I already had so I wouldn't have to buy it but it wasn't. This jersey/auto is also seriel #'d /25. The price tag on this card was $25 and the Vaughn auto was $10. He gave them both to me for $25. So much for not spending any money at this show.

• Paul Konerko - 783 cards (6 autographs)

I don't do so good at not spending at card shows.

Shipshy Stuff

Another weekend, another show. Yesterday's show in Buchanan was ran by a 15 year old. The same 15 year old that pulled that Ohtani die cut, numbered to /99 autograph from a Mega we sold him over a year ago. He's come a long way just in the time we've know him. His father gave him some start up money and he started doing breaks. He still does them, along with setting up at shows and now running one. His father said that he paid him all back within 6 months and is essentially running his own business now and I'm guessing he makes pretty good money doing so. His father also says he plays baseball for the school and get's straight A's. To be honest, I'm kind of proud of the kid and I don't know him that well. I mean really, the best part of him is he's a Michigan fan so....

Anyways, we did his show yesterday. He had asked us if we'd be interested when he was thinking about running his own and we agreed. We've done a few shows that way, they tend to come to us because we've got a pretty good reputation. I purchased a few cards, and came home with some freebies but you'll have to wait to see those.

Today's post is cards I picked up at the Shipshewana show a couple of weeks ago.

I picked this up from the High Heat table. He used to set up across from us in Plymouth so I got to know him pretty good. He's a White Sox fan as well so we usually have things to talk about it. I just checked his table real quick before we tore down at the end of the show. I like to throw him some business but this was the only Cronenworth he had that I didn't. I'm sure I overpaid at $5 but like I said, I like the guy so that doesn't bother me. It is my 85th card of Jake.

I went to Hollister's table as well because he always has a Michigan box so I don't have to sort through a bunch of stuff to find anything. I grabbed these 5 auto's from that box. I was trying to grab auto's of guys I don't have auto's of and ended up with 3 guys that I didn't even have cards of yet. Quinn Nordin, Chris Hinton and Tarik Black. I probably won't do a PC of Black because he transferred out but I will still pick up his Michigan stuff. The Jack Blomgren is my 6th card of his but that's my 1st auto. I mainly grabbed the Kauffman because there isn't a ton of Michigan baseball cards out there so I grabbed it. It's my 3rd auto of Kauffmann out of 3 cards I have of him. I paid $15 for all 5 plus an additional auto that I picked up for Dennis.

The day after the Shipshewana show, we did the South Bend show so guess what pick ups you'll get to see tomorrow (if I post).

Catching up

I've been a slacker lately on here. I've got cards to show and I just have been too lazy. I even picked up a few cards last weekend that I haven't even logged or scanned. Although it you follow this site's Instagram you would have seen them.

My last sort for the LCS was a big one. 16 800 count boxes and 4 2 row boxes so needless to say, it was a very big sort so I got quite a big stack of cards to keep so let's get to it. There won't be a lot of commentary as I need to get to bed. 

We'll start off with the vintage and other stuff.

There were a couple of vintage Tigers to add to the Vintage collection.

I mean, when I started the team card collection, I didn't say they had to major league. They're free to me so I added them.

I added this to my other collection of cards that don't actually fit into my PC's. I will forever know this as the Sears Tower and not Willis. I've spent a lot of time in Chicago over the years and this was a pretty consistent stop when I was young. The observation deck is on the 103rd floor (I think) which was pretty cool as a young 'en. I have made it back since they added the glass that you can look straight down from.

On to the Sox collection.

I only scanned the players I have a lot of cards of or the players that I like that I don't actually PC.

Next up are my Tier 3 PC's

Next up are my Tier 2 cards.

Next up are my Tier 2 Michigan PC's

Yeah, that's it but most of this is MLB and Cronenworth is the only guy who's getting cards in most of the sets.

Last but not least, Tier 1

Like I said, a lot of cards.

I have more cards that I picked up a couple of weekends ago at the Shipshewana and South Bend shows, plus some from Fred and then at the Mishawaka show last weekend so I'll try to get some more posts out between birthday posts.

Meanwhile, I'm out, time for bed.