Happy Birthday - Jesse Franklin

Jesse was born on this day in 1998, making him 27 today.

MLB Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 344 cards (2025), 340 cards (2024), 328 cards (2023), 322 cards (2022), 195 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 6 cards (2025), 6 cards (2024), 5 cards (2023), 5 cards (2022), 2 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #106 (#1411 overall)

TCDB Rank - #11

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (4 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (1 card)
• Sluggos (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Happy Birthday - Jesse Franklin

 

Jesse was born on this day in 1998, making him 26 today.

MLB Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 340 cards (2024), 328 cards (2023), 322 cards (2022), 195 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 6 cards (2024), 5 cards (2023), 5 cards (2022), 2 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #96 (#1386 overall)

TCDB Rank - #9

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (4 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (1 card)
• Sluggos (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Plymouth Pick Ups

We went to Peru for a decent sized card show yesterday. It started out really slow but got rolling after an hour or so. As per the usual, I went out and shopped and spent $25 plus got some free cards but you'll have to wait another post to see those because today, you get the cards I picked up at last week's show in Plymouth. Kevin bought a few boxes of cards from other dealers and I went through them between customers and pulled some for myself. I also purchased a few from Curtis who I regularly buy from. He only sets up at the Plymouth show because it's local and him and his wife hang out at most of the shows. They're an older couple, retired, but he loves baseball cards and he buys on Ebay and sells at this show. He has his cards sorted by teams, which I love (we do as well) so I always hit his table. It helps he's always set up next to us as well.

I'll post by collection, but I'll point out the couple I paid for, otherwise, everything was free from Sluggo.

I added one more team card to that collection. A Rockies one at that which I don't get many since they didn't have any Vintage one which is where a bunch of my team cards come from. This one gives me 4 team cards of the Rockies.

For the White Sox Collection, I'll start with this trio of Colson Montgmery's (17) and another Oscar Colas who I've been trying to pick up in hopes they'll be on the big league club this year. Been focusing on younger guys more than those already on the team lately for obvious reasons. My 3rd card of Peyton Pallette and another of Madrigal (53), who isn't with us anymore, but I like. Another Abreu (282) and Anderson (239) and one more of some guy named Frank Thomas (1028).

These both were purchased from Curtis, I paid a buck and a half each, which was below the stickers, another reason that I buy from him. It's my 82nd of Rodon and my 12th of Colas.

Oddly enough, there was one vintage card in the box Kevin bought and luckily enough, I needed it. It's my 360th card from the 1975 set. It puts me over 54% complete.

Next up are my Tier 3 collections.

These 3 Tier 3 PC's get a card each. The Bird and Bench are newer cards while the Ripken is an early 2000's Ultra. Larry Bird PC is up to 111 cards, the Bench at 240 cards and Cal is almost there at 986 cards.

Next up, Tier 2.

I added another Cease for free and a Vaughn for $3. The Cease rookie is free from Kevin and the Vaughn is the rainbow foil. Both are rookies. This is 103 cards for Cease and number 99 for Vaughn.

The top 2 Robert Jr's are base cards and obviously, the bottom is the pink refractor. I've been getting his cards pretty quickly lately and these 3 put me at 210 cards.

2 more for Eloy as well. A Chronicles rookie that looks like a color parallel but it's not, and a color parallel that's not a rookie. These 2 cards give me 219 cards of Eloy.

Next up is the Tier 2 Michigan players.

Always happy to grab some baseball Michigan players with this refractor of Franklin which is my 6th card of his. On the flip side, we have an ice parallel of LeVert (have I mentioned I love the Ice parallels). This gives me 62 cards of Caris.

A rookie card of Livers and an extremely shiny Poole. I don't come across too many Livers as this is only my 9th card of him. Poole on the other hand is at 50 cards now.

I also grabbed 2 more of Ronnie Bell, both in the Maize and Blue which makes them even better. These 2 give me 7 of the rookie.

I also grabbed 2 of Moussa Diabate who I just got his 1st one of not long ago. Plus you gotta love the Ice parallels.

I also got one more of Hawkins and Wilson. The Hawkins is my 4th but the 3rd different Sage. The DJ Wilson is the blue velocity parallel and is my 24th card of him.

Next up is Tier 1.

I also found this Chrome of Seaver. I already have the base so I almost passed this up thinking I had it. This is my 582nd of Tom Terrific.

With all those shiny parallels, I also passed a milestone on TCDB. Dennis made me aware of this around a month ago, or at least that I was close but after this post and adding some of the scans, I went over 3000 scans added to TCDB.

Happy Birthday - Jesse Franklin

Jesse was born on this day in 1998, making him 25 today.

MLB Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 328 cards (up 6 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 5 cards (same as last year)

PC Rank - #92 (#1425 overall)

TCDB Rank - #6

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (4 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Happy Birthday - Jesse Franklin

Jesse was born on this day in 1998, making him 24 today.

MLB Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 322 cards (up 127 cards from last year.)

Cards I have - 5 cards (up 3 cards from last year.)

PC Rank - #83 (#1155 overall)

TCDB Rank - #6

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (4 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Brave Franklin

I spent the day doing team lots. I finished the Dodgers, Expos and just have to bag up the Giants. I'll work on them again tomorrow. I'm certainly not going to finish before the Plymouth show on Saturday but I'll take whatever I have done.

Today's post is back to another former Wolverine currently in the minors.

I managed to get 3 more of Jesse Franklin, the 2 on the left are Pro Debut and the right is Heritage Minors. Pretty sure the Heritage is the same photo, just zoomed in a little.

These 3 give me 5 cards of him.

Happy Birthday - Jesse Franklin

Jesse was born on this day in 1998, making him 23 today!

MLB Debut - none.

Years Active - in the Braves organization.

Braves

He hasn't made the pros yet but is in the Braves organization. I used his 1st Bowman card as he doesn't have a rookie card, yet.

Cards on TCDB - 195 cards

Cards I have - 2 cards

Where they came from -

• Card Show/Kalamazoo (1 card)
• Sportlots (1 card)

I have a pro jersey and a Michigan jersey.

Happy Birthday Jesse!

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

Atlanta it is

Michigan won and is going to face an undefeated Michigan State next week. It's the first time both teams were unbeaten when they meet. Should be a good game. I don't ever predict games because I know anything can happen, especially in this game.

Looks like we're getting a Braves/Astros World Series. I was rooting for the Braves all along in the National League but they were supposed to face my White Sox. To be honest, I would have taken anyone over Houston so I'm definitely rooting for the Braves. Which leads to today's post.

While today's post isn't football or basketball, it's still a Michigan guy post but it's baseball. I like to add to the Michigan baseball guys because it's a much longer road to the pros than those previous sports so the cards are harder to come by. Which make them hard to search for because by the time they do make the pros, they've been out of college for a few years and I don't remember them. It's not like I get to watch a ton of college baseball every year, I'm lucky to get a few games on Big Ten network. Unlike basketball and football where I can see every game. I have to keep a list of players drafted and check those lists occasionally.

You'll get a Bowman card or 2 right away, then silence as you wait for him to make it to the pros. Unless he's a can't miss prospect, which is rare. This is only my 2nd card of Jesse, too bad he hasn't made the pros, I could have been watching him in their playoff run and World Series.

2 days

The Michigan baseball team squeeked into the playoffs and got seeded in South Bend at Notre Dame. Guess who lives near South Bend and has tickets to go see them on Friday night? Yep, this guy. I'm hoping ND and Michigan both win on Friday so they match up on Saturday. I'm pretty hyped to go to my first Michigan baseball game. 2 days!!!

Fittingly enough, today's random popped up with some former Wolverine baseball players. I picked up 1 card each of 5 different players. Some of them are even new collections.

We'll start off with Tommy Henry. This is my 4th card of his. This is a Heritage minors card which he still is in the minors. I don't see any MLB stats for him so maybe he'll get a fall call-up. He is in the DBacks organization.

Same goes for Jeff Criswell as he is still in the minors as well. The difference is, I only have 3 cards of his but this my first pro card as the other 2 are USA cards.

I also picked up another Jesse Franklin card and as with Criswell, this is my first pro card. The other one is a Wolverines uniform card. In case you haven't guessed it, I have 2 cards of Jesse.

Now on to the new player collections.

I picked up my first card of Jorgan Nwogu. I actually got to see him (and the next player) play (on TV) because Michigan made the college World Series in 2019 so they actually broadcasted quite a few of their games on TV.

Jordan was on that 2019 team as well and was the Big Ten player of the year that year. This is a Heritage Minors card as well and he is in the Astros organization.

More Maize and Blue

Today's random gave us a couple of brand new PC's because you know, I could always use more. The nice thing about going to a card show in Michigan is they tend to sort the Michigan cards to make them easier to find. I was still pretty far from Ann Arbor but they did it anyways. They definitely don't separate them like that here in Notre Dame country.

Both these guys were on the World Series runner up team from 2019.

As I stated before, this is my 1st card of Jack. He's currently in the minors in the Rockies organization.

My 1st of Jesse Franklin as well. He's currently in the Braves organization. I actually got to watch them play some since they ended up in the college World Series as they played more of their games on TV.

You know why I love these, Michigan uniforms and the Block M. 2 must haves in my book.

I got my Sportlots package in the mail today and there will be more Michigan players with new PC's in the next round of posts.