Cheaper Than Stamps #42

After taking a break from the Cheaper Than Stamps to see all the stuff Dennis sent me, we are back to it.  For now, because I got a whole box of cards from Jeff at 2 by 3 Heroes to get scanned and posted as well.  Last time, we finished the player collections, so let’s get to the vintage portion of the series.

1987 Donruss (rated rookies) – Eric Bell, Greg Swindell, Benito Santiago, Duane Ward and Chris James

I ended up buying so many of these 5 card lots from the seller that he didn’t charge me shipping.  If I would have paid for shipping, these 5 cards would have cost me $.15/each but since he didn’t charge me shipping, I only paid $.05/card.

1987 Donruss – Mitch Williams, Glenn Braggs, John Cangelosi, Kevin Elster and Bobby Thigpen

Another 5 card lot from the same seller.  I picked up this lot for $.30 or $.06/card.

1987 Donruss – Juan Castillo

I picked this up as a single for $.19.  It sounds kind of expensive after seeing what I paid for the other lots above, but it still fits in the parameters of my purchase prices.

1987 Fleer – Eric King, Ed Correa, Bob Tewksbury, John Cerutti and Bruce Ruffin

You guessed it, another 5 card lot.  Picked this one up for $.25 or $.05/card.

1987 Fleer – Greg Mathews, Mike Aldrete, Mark Eichhorn, Chris Bosio and Bob Sebra

More lots for $.05/card.  You can see why I grabbed up so many of these lots.

1987 Fleer – Reggie Williams, Mike Kingery, Scott Bankhead, Paul Assenmacher and John Cangelosi

Yep, more for a quarter.  Not that any of these lots are huge stars, but the reason the seller lists these players together is because they are rookie lots.

1987 Topps – Mark Eichhorn, Vince Coleman, Glenn Braggs, Mike Birkbech and Ruben Sierra

I even grabbed a couple of lots of 1987 Topps rookies, also for a quarter.

1987 Topps – John Kruk, Paul Assenmacher, Bobby Thigpen and Mike Aldrete

Another 5 card lot for a quarter, except that I already had 1 of the cards.  So technically I paid $.06 a card instead of a nickel.

1987 Topps – Bob Shirley, Tommy John and Dan Pasqua

I bought these as singles, the Shirley for $.19, the John for $.22 and the Pasqua for $.11.

1987 Topps – Alfredo Griffin, Ron Robinson and Steve Sax

I picked up these in 2 card lots of the same card.  I only bid like it’s 1 card because that’s all I need and I still only paid $.12 each for the Griffin and Robinson.  I got the Steve Sax as a single for a quarter.

1987 Topps – Argenis Salazar and Lonnie Smith

I got the Salazar as a single for $.11 and the Smith came in a 2 card lot and I paid $.11 for that as well.

1987 Topps – Steve Sax and Mike Schmidt

I also grabbed these singles for $.21 (Sax) and $.18 (Schmidt).  Pretty soon, I’ll have to move my 1987 Topps have list to it’s own page (I do that when it hits 50%).

I haven’t taken the time recently to search ebay for cards for the vintage collection.  I usually start at 1952 Topps and search each year until 1987 Topps.  Then do the same with Fleer and Donruss from 1981-1987.  It takes a little time but as you can see, I usually end up with quite a bit of cards.

Come back tomorrow to see the 1986 cards.

 

Here’s the rundown on how much I’ve paid and to which collection so far in the Cheaper Than Stamps series.

Player Collections

Barry Larkin (7) $.82 – $.12/card
Bill Melton (4) $1.60 – $.40/card
Cal Ripken jr (26) $5.12 – $.20/card
Carl Yastrzemski (8) $3.07 – $.38/card
Carlton Fisk (2) $.66 – $.33/card
Chris Getz (4) $1.60 – $.40/card
Gary Carter (12) $2.07 – $.17/card
Hoyt Wilhelm (4) $1.25 – $.31/card
Jim Abbott (8) $2.33 – $.29/card
Johnny Bench (8) $2.05 – $.26/card
Mark Buehrle (2) $.45 – $.23/card
Michael Jordan (13) $1.91 – $.25/card
Mike Schmidt (7) $1.97 – $.28/card
Paul Konerko (3) $.70 – $.23/card
Ryan Zimmerman (10) $2.65 – $.27/card
Shoeless Joe Jackson (1) $.15 – $.15/card
Steve Carlton (4) $1.14 – $.29/card
Tom Seaver (6) $1.44 – $.24/card

Vintage Collections

1980's (210) $35.64 – $.17/card
1970's (19) $4.63 – $.24/card
1960's (7) $1.98 – $.28/card

Team Collections

White Sox (1) $.15 – $.15/card

Trade with Potch

I sent Potch of “Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes” some cards, I don’t have a clue what, but I don’t think it was anything special.  Some Tiger refractors is what started it.  Here is his return package.

Mini’s and sort of Mini’s.  I only have a few of the 2011 stickers because I never could find them around here.  NFL stickers all over the place, but no MLB.  The 1987 mini is my first from that set.  The Sox sticker at the front looks pretty awesome scanned.

I have some of the Topps Ticket to Stardom, I think I bought a box awhile back, but I didn’t have any of these perforated type of cards.  I’m not even sure what they are called but I like them.  A minor league White Sox, always a plus.  And like the Ticket to Stardom, I have a bunch of 2009 O-Pee-Chee but didn’t have that card.  Nice action shot at that.

And Darren even managed to hit my player collection with the Paul Konerko Walmart parallel.  I don’t have hardly any of these and all the ones I have, I’ve gotten in trades.  I buy most of my packs at Walmart and apparently can’t ever hit these.

Thanks Darren, as always, great trading with you.  Be sure to check out “Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes”.

Trade with who?

In case you missed it, I am a guest blogger on Dennis’ new blog “Too Many Manninghams” so if you follow me for my Michigan content, you’ll need to head over there to view it.  So this blog will be strictly baseball now.  That should make a lot of you happy, less posts you have to skip.

I traded with someone, and that someone sent me some great cards, but I can’t thank that someone, because I don’t who that someone is.  I received the package, went through the cards, set them up above the scanner so I could scan them the next day, and then didn’t get around to it till a week later.  By then, I forgot who sent it.  But I’ll show the cards anyways.

Some oddballs of some White Sox greats.  Only one I had was the Tom Seaver, but I needed another one for the White Sox collection so that worked out great.  Great players, great cards.

Speaking of great players.  7 cards of one of the greatest players to wear a Sox uniform.  Big thanks to whoever you are.  If it makes you feel better, I keep better records now.  I learned my lesson.