Fort Wayne Show

Need to get a quick post in to get caught up. Last weekend we were at the Fort Wayne show and I picked up a few things. I didn't really do much shopping around, these were more or less brought to me.

There's a dealer who's a friend of ours who sets up in the other room. He'll usually ask me to come watch his table so he can take a bathroom break, go smoke or just take a little time to shop for himself. He has a shop so he definitely wants to do some shopping to pick things up for that. He usually gives me cards or just discounts what I get since I usually get bored and start looking at what he has on his table. He had a couple of boxes so I hit that.

He had a cheap autos box where I found these. The McGrone was a cheapy, he had the Evans at $7 if I remember right. Both former Wolverines so I snagged them. It's my 4th card of Cameron but my 1st autograph. The Evans is my 2nd autograph but my 54th card of him.

I was really happy to see this card in there as I don't get many Michigan baseball cards (other than Cronenworth), let alone autographs. This is only my 5th card of Jordan but my 1st autograph.

I picked up all 3 of these for $8 total.

He also had a box of Vintage that I could have pulled a lot out of but I wasn't looking to spend too much so I came up with these 3 since they are all player collection as well.

It's hard to tell with the photo but that is a mini. I definitely wanted this one when I saw it. I still need the regular sized Schmidt from '75 but I wasn't going to pass this one up. This card gives me 359 of Mike.

He also had these 2 of Fisk that I needed. Another '75 and his '76. I love getting Vintage of guys I watched when I was a kid. These 2 Fisk give me 386 of him.

I paid $10 for these 3 cards.

We had another dealer friend of ours say he had a bunch of 5x7 cards that were serial numbered that he wanted to know if we wanted to look at. He pulled the Sox for me. I wanted them all as they were one's I didn't have but I narrowed down to these.

Remember these are all 5x7's but I don't know if you can read those serial numbers in the bottom left corner. I tried to get a closer pic of the serial numbers

They are all numbered to /10. I had trouble grabbing cards because there weren't many PC players and not even a lot of my favorite players so I grabbed all of them that were #'d 1/10 and a few others.

There was one PC guy and my most favorite player for the Sox so I definitely grabbed this one. It's my 761st card of Paulie.

Kevin grabbed a stack of Braves ones as well. The Braves had all kinds of "vintage" players unlike the Sox ones. so his stack was pretty healthy so he made a deal for them. I know the dealer was asking a buck a piece to us and Kevin got them cheaper than that but he never gave me a cost on what I owe so he must have gotten them cheap enough that he gave them to me.

I have one more post to get out which are cards I picked up at my LCS on Friday.

Jordan

We set up in Lansing today and actually had a pretty good day. I was actually amazed at how much Michigan gear I saw. I would say it was 2-1 as far as a ratio with Michigan having the 2 and State being the 1. I only picked up 1 card. I hadn't planned on picking any up but at the very end, a kid came up with some stuff to sell. Sluggo bought a card and I told him to throw in my card. It's an auto of a player I don't have any autos of. You won't see that today though.

Today you get a guy that we haven't seen on here in over 16 months. I only had 1 card of him back then, now I'm up to 4.

Pretty sure all 3 of those are the same photograph. Which is expected for the first 2 since they are parallels but the last one is a total different set. These are minor league sets as he hasn't made it to the majors yet. My other one of his is as well.

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.