Happy Birthday - Johnny Bench

Johnny was born on this day in 1947, making him 78 today.

MLB Debut - August 28th, 1967 (Reds)

Years Active - 

• 1967-1983 (Reds)

Cards on TCDB - 15109 cards (2025), 12149 cards (2024), 10311 cards (2023), 9263 cards (2022), 8396 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 265 cards (2025), 257 cards (2024), 241 cards (2023), 209 cards (2022), 117 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #12 (#18 overall)

TCDB Rank - #23

 

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (87 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (42 cards)
• Ebay (41 cards)
• Sluggos (21 cards)
• Unknown (17 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (7 cards)
• Just Commons (7 cards)
• the Diamond King (6 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (5 cards)
• Card Show-Ft Wayne (3 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (3 cards)
• Josh Stewart (3 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (2 cards)
• COMC (2 cards)
• Media Madhouse (2 cards)
• Packs (2 cards)
• the Sport Stash (2 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Card Show-Elkhart (1 card)
• Card Show-Michigan City (1 card)
• Card Show-Warsaw (1 card)
• Joe Migas (1 card)
• Just a Bit Outside (1 card)
• Man Cave (1 card)
• Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)

Happy Birthday Johnny!

Happy Birthday - Johnny Bench

Johnny was born on this day in 1947, making him 77 today.

MLB Debut - August 28th, 1967 (Reds)

Years Active - 

• 1967-1983 (Reds)

Cards on TCDB - 12149 cards (2024), 10311 cards (2023), 9263 cards (2022), 8396 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 257 cards (2024), 241 cards (2023), 209 cards (2022), 117 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #12 (#18 overall)

TCDB Rank - #20

 

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (87 cards)
• Ebay (41 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (34 cards)
• Sluggos (21 cards)
• Unknown (17 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (7 cards)
• Just Commons (7 cards)
• the Diamond King (6 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (5 cards)
• Card Show-Ft Wayne (3 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (3 cards)
• Josh Stewart (3 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (2 cards)
• COMC (2 cards)
• Media Madhouse (2 cards)
• Packs (2 cards)
• the Sport Stash (2 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Card Show-Elkhart (1 card)
• Card Show-Michigan City (1 card)
• Card Show-Warsaw (1 card)
• Joe Migas (1 card)
• Just a Bit Outside (1 card)
• Man Cave (1 card)
• Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)

Happy Birthday Johnny!

More sorting goodies

I went to post this and realized 2 posts ago was number 2,500. Yay me! 

Sluggo and I set up at the Shipshewana show today which was extremely busy. It's a pretty big show, the biggest one that we do on a regular basis. We have customers come up later in the day all the time and say, "I tried to get up to your table earlier, but it was packed." That's always a good thing. Today was no exception, great show. I only spent $15 but I'll get to those later as I'm still playing catch up.

These are the cards I picked up while sorting a couple of weeks ago. I have more sorting cards but I haven't logged them all in on my spread sheets yet. I got them on TCDB, just not my sheets. I will probably take care of that next weekend since I have another show tomorrow.

I grabbed 1 team card from sorting, it's not technically an MLB team card but I never really said MLB so I'm keeping it.

Obviously this is team USA from Stars & Stripes. This gives me 322 team cards which is way more than I thought I had.

Next up, White Sox collection.

This scan are all the young guys and a couple of older ones. I put the Sheets with Wake Forest in just in case I decide to PC him. That's also why I'm showing Crochet and Colas. The only way I'd PC Burger is if he came back to the Sox but I liked him when he was here. I was mad when they traded him. Plus, I showed the Scotty Pods who is intregal in the 2005 Championship plus Eddie Collins.

• Gavin Sheets = 46 cards
• Garrett Crochet = 37 cards
• Jake Burger = 39 cards
• Oscar Colas = 14 cards
• Scott Podsednik = 34 cards
• Eddie Collins = 6 cards

More White Sox cards but this batch are former Sox players who I have quite a few cards of.

• Tim Anderson = 242 cards
• Lucas Giolito = 158 cards
• Jose Abreu = 285 cards

Next up are Tier 3 player's.

Both newer cards which since so many sets are doing that now, I'm constantly having to pick up even more of guys who haven't played in years.

• Steve Carlton = 232 cards
• Cal Ripken jr = 988 cards

A couple more Tier 3, at least the Strawberry is from his playing days.

• Johnny Bench = 241 cards
• Darryl Strawberry = 166 cards

Next up, Tier 2.

Always great to see more LueBob come in since he's about the only great player we had last year. Maybe somebody can step it up this year.

• Luis Robert = 217 cards

Look how young Eloy looks. The last 2 from Tier 2. I thought I had the Larkin but apparently not.

• Eloy Jimenez = 222 cards
• Barry Larkin = 754 cards

Last but not least, some Tier 1 adds.

Always great to see new Konerko's as he's my favorite player. That Prism means he also has 500 more color parallels to get. That Boyhood Photos card is from Heritage Minors.

• Paul Konerko = 767 cards

Next up is some trade cards but wait until you see the next sorting post. Since I didn't have a show last weekend, I did a lot of sorting and ended up with a lot to add to my PC's.

Until next time.

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 - Johnny Bench

Johnny was born on this day in 1947, making him 76 today.

MLB Debut - August 28th, 1967 (Reds)

Years Active - 

• 1967-1983 (Reds)

Cards on TCDB - 10311 cards (up 1048 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 241 cards (up 32 from last year)

PC Rank - #12 (#14 overall)

TCDB Rank - #18

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (87 cards)
• Ebay (41 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (22 cards)
• Sluggo (20 cards)
• Unknown (17 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (7 cards)
• Just Commons (7 cards)
• the Diamond King (6 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (5 cards)
• Card Show-Ft Wayne (3 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (3 cards)
• Card Show-Kalamazoo (2 cards)
• COMC (2 cards)
• Josh Stewart (2 cards)
• Media Madhouse (2 cards)
• Packs (2 cards)
• Card Show-Warsaw (1 card)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Card Show-Elkhart (1 card)
• Joe Migas (1 card)
• Just a Bit Outside (1 card)
• Man Cave (1 card)
• Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)

Happy Birthday Johnny!

HOF'ers and more

Today's post are the cards I returned to the shop last weekend. I organized the list players for my LCS, luckily, it was baseball as I have more than a few PC's that align with the list. The list consists of players that the guy we sell them too has guys that he can sell, there is a list of current and older non HOF'ers plus any HOF'er is included.

Let's see what I got to keep.

We'll start with the team collections.

A couple of Minnie Minoso, a Frank Thomas and an Early Wynn. Not too bad to start with it. I've been getting a lot of the platinum anniversary cards lately.

The 2 Minoso's give me 15 of him.

1019 of Frank Thomas now which is the only player I have over 1k of.

The shiny Wynn gives me 10 of him.

Next up are Tier 3 which a bunch of my PC's are HOF'ers.

I added 4 more of Johnny Bench. The top 2 are from this years Donruss but the bottom 2 I had never seen before. The left one is from the Ted Williams set in 1993. While the right one looks familiar, it is actually an insert set from the 1992 Upper Deck set, not the 2008 set.

These 4 cards give me 238 cards of Johnny.

I also picked up a couple more cards of the kid. One old, one fairly new. With all the sorting of junk wax I've done, you would think I already had the 1988 Donruss All-Star. The other is a Select from 2022.

These 2 give me 349 cards of Carter.

I added 7 more of Mike Schmidt. The top 5 are all from the previously mentioned Ted Williams set, only a year later. The bottom row consists of 1989 Cereal Superstars, I'd be curious what cereal they came from. The right is a 2022 Archives card.

These 7 give me 351 cards of Schmidt.

I also got 1 of Yastrzemski. This is a 2005 Fan Favorite, the 2nd 1963 look-a-like of this post.

This Yaz gives me 183 cards.

Next up are my Tier 2 PC's.

I found 2 more of Pudge, 1 from each of the Sox. You see another of the Platinum Anniversary cards. Along with a Topps Finest from 1993.

These 2 give me 380 of Fisk.

I picked up an Eloy Prizm, but not my only Prizm of this post. This is also a milestone card of Eloy.

This card gives me 200 cards of the Big Baby which puts me #5 on TCDB.

You get another Prizm White Sox with these 3 additions of Moncada. Along with a 2021 Chrome and a 2022 A&G. I've been picking up the A&G's a lot recently.

These 3 give me 226 cards of Yoan which puts me at #1 on TCDB.

It was nice to grab a few of Larkin (I think I got a few for Dennis as well). You see another 2022 A&G only of the X (not old Twitter) variety. A 1998 Chrome which you don't see too often and the one on the right is a Stadium Club Member's only 55 (not sure what the 55 is about). I had never seen that one before. I also got this Showcase Series from 1998 Score.

These 4 give me 746 of the former Wolverine.

I also managed to get a couple from my Tier 1 collections.

I found another 2023 Donruss in the form of Tom Terrific and a 2015 Stadium Club of Aparicio. Nothing too flashy but needs all the same.

The Aparicio gives me 134 cards which moves me into the #1 spot on TCDB.

The Seaver gives me 575 cards which puts me at #4 on TCDB.