This isn't 2x3

Today's random came up with some vintage collection (real vintage). Despite what the title says, they all came from Jeff at 2x3 Heroes. All these photos came from TCDB because of the "lost scans incident."

Jeff is always good for some vintage because (I think) he buys a bunch of those repack boxes and there will be stuff in there. Although most of it is 80's, I think he does occasionally get some 70's as well. Adding these 2 to the set give me 350 cards which is over half done.

He also sent 1 from 1975 of Koosman who was a big part of the Miracle Mets in 1969. I'm not very far on the 1975 set as I am the 1976 set, this is only my 84th card from that set.

This is actually the reason for the title, this isn't 2x3 as in it's one of the couple of early sets that are just a little bigger than the normal cards. I'm sure this didn't come from one of those repack boxes either. It's only my 5th card from the 1956 set and 2 of those are White Sox cards. I really liked getting this card because my buying "rules" prevent me from getting great cards like this.

Sluggo - Vintage (1974)

I'm still waiting on an email back from Sportlots on the package they said they sent me. I've been working on logging all my cards from my blog to a spreadsheet and I'm within a few (blog) months of getting finished so I'm sure I'll push harder to get them logged in. The spreadsheet is currently at 13,453 cards logged. Once I get the  cards from my blog logged, then I have to go through all my boxes to see what I haven't gotten logged so I'm nowhere near done but slowly getting there. The sad thing is I can tell you when I started to log my cards and let's just say, last October was 4 years ago so I've be at it for awhile. Maybe 2020 is the year I get caught up, let's hope.

Let's get to the cards. I showed all the Vintage cards my cousin game me up to the 1975. Today I'm just going to show you the 1974 Topps, he was working on completing this set so he had a bunch of dupes.

He gave me all 10 of these cards. It started with that Winfield rookie as he said he had an extra one for me. Then he remembered his dupes from trying to complete the set and it ended up with actually more than 10 but I already had the others. These 10 give me 192 cards for the set which puts me at 29% completed.

He also sent me these 6 cards that aren't technically part of the Vintage collection, but I'm not going to turn them down either.

Next up, the rest of the 70's.

He is the King

Kevin over at “the Diamond King” sent me an email asking for my address, he said he had cards that he wanted to get rid of and send my way.  Who am I to tell him no.  But I was shocked when I got the box, yes box, of cards he sent.  So much so that I’m breaking it into 2 posts.

Of course he sent me some cards for the White Sox Collection.  Some horizontal card.  Some great action shots of Joe Crede and Jim Thome.  And you can’t go wrong with a vintage like Scott Podsednik.

And some vertical cards.  I already had the Paul Konerko in the Paul Konerko Collection so this one goes to the Sox collection.  And of course you have Rockin Robin Ventura and Magglio Ordonez.  And on top of the modern cards above, he sent these.

All of these also go to the White Sox collection because I fill that one before I do the Vintage collection.

He even managed to hit one of my PC’s, who would have guessed I still needed a 1986 Topps card for the Tom Seaver collection.  While all these cards are great and needed.

Wait until part 2 tomorrow to see what else he sent me.

Box Break

Dave over at “Indians Baseball Cards” had another oddball box break.  I didn’t get in on any previous ones but I got on the last one.  These breaks are great for a couple of reasons, they are cheap, and for people like me who are just starting their collections, you get some great oddball cards to add.

1986 Fleer Stickers.  These are great, I got a few duplicates but not of the Tom Seaver, who I collect, so I could have put one with my team collection and one with my player collection.  Oh well, still nice to have, I just have to get another one.

An oversized 1985 Donruss Ron Kittle, don’t know if this was a box topper or not, doesn’t matter I guess.  A 1989 Bowman Ozzie Guillen.  And some 1985 Topps rubdowns (Tom Seaver, Harold Baines and Carlton Fisk)

And 4 Topps Fold Outs which are also oversized.  Greg Luzinski, Jerry Koosman, Jim Kern and Ron LaFlore.  All 4 of these have players on the back and I got dupes of all 4, so if your interested in the following, let me know.

Although technically, the Phil Niekro isn’t on the back of one of the Sox players.  It’s a whole different card that Dave threw in.  Who’s on the back of the Niekro you ask?

Are you still trying to figure out who was on the back of one of the Sox cards then?  Well, on the back of the Jerry Koosman was non other than

Tom Seaver himself.  So I get to add the Sox to the team collection and one to the player collection.

Definitely impressed with the Box break.  A bunch of Sox, none of which I had and 3 Tom Seaver’s.  All for $4.  Great box break Dave, thanks again.

 

Sorry about the lack of posts recently, it’s been 100 degrees here and I got a stupid cold that’s been kicking my ass.  Between the lack of sleep and the run down feeling, I haven’t done much online this week.  I think I’m getting on top of it with the help of antibiotics so hopefully I’ll be able to post a little more regularly.