Old School

* I put my April incoming on random for today's post.

I wasn't planning on posting today because it's my golf league day but since I didn't post yesterday, I'll spit one out.

This one may interest you more than the usual White Sox or Michigan posts. You get a vintage posts, I actually have a vintage post for each decade from the 50's to the 80's this month. Today you get the oldest.

All the photos are from TCDB as my scanner wasn't operational yet. My copies aren't this nice, mine show a little more love. All these came from my cousin whom just sent me another package that I'm trying to get through.

These 2 from 1959 give me 11 for the set. He always sends a bunch of Yankees in the vintage cards. Not sure how he ends up with so many as they come from multiple peoples collections. You wouldn't think there would be so many Yankee fans in North Carolina.

3 more Yankees, good thing I don't care when the cards are this old. These 5 cards give me 21 cards in the 1958 set.

Just one card from 1956 and you guess it, a Yankee. This is card number 4 from 1956.

Also one card from 1955 and it's not a Yankee. Man I love these cards from the 1950's, they are so plain compared to cards these days but I don't care, they are still awesome. This card gives me 7 cards for that set.

Last but definitely not least, 5 Yankees from 1953. My copies of these 5 cards are definitely not this pretty, they are well loved but that doesn't mean anything to me. These 5 cards give me 9 cards from the 1953 set. Oddly enough, all 9 cards are Yankees. I know some of the others came from Sluggo as well, probably all of them.

10 cards, 3 collections

I didn't post yesterday even though I got a couple of envelopes. Then today I got a couple of more so I figured I better get off my ass and get them posted.

We'll start off with 3 cards for the White Sox Collection. The Gordon Beckham logo card I may already have but I didn't have it listed anywhere so I grabbed anyways. All 3 of these White Sox cards I picked up for $.15/shipped. These 3 make 179 cards picked up this year for the White Sox Collection so far this year.

These 2 cards (I know, more 1980's) I picked up for $.18/shipped and $.23/shipped. These 2 cards make 149 cards for the set. The Busby card is the first of a few from the Royals.

These 3 cards from the 1978 Topps set came to me for $.25/shipped, $.23/shipped and $.14/shipped. The cheaper cards were the Royals cards. That old Mariners logo though, I tend to forgot about the trident logo they used to use all the time. These 3 cards put that set at 139 cards.

Last but not least for the Vintage collection comes this card from the 1976 Topps set. I picked it up for $.16/shipped and it is my160th card from that set which puts me closer and closer to that 25% completed.

These 6 vintage cards make 207 cards picked up for that collection so far this year.

I also got to add another Paulie to the Konerko collection. I don't usually get to pick up a lot of his cards on the cheap. I sorta have this card already, only it's stamped with the Special Olumpic logo and also stamped 1 of 1. I don't know the story behind it but here it is. This card is my 419th different Konerko and my 9th card this year which surprised me, but I got a box of cards from Jedi Jeff so I'm guessing the majority of those cards came from that package.

Cheap Ebay pick-ups

I’ve decided since I don’t have much to post with my lack of buying packs anymore, that I would list my Ebay pick-ups in separate posts.  To stretch them out and get some more posts for the blog.  I’ve picked up quite a few cheap cards in the last couple of weeks so I should have plenty of posts for awhile.

• Ken Boyer – 1968 Topps ($.51/shipped)

I really didn’t think I’d win this.  I only put a bid of $.01 with the seller charging $.50 shipping.  I wasn’t too shocked to be winning it on the last day, but was definitely shocked when I got the alert on my phone that I had won.  I figured with $.01 bid, I’d lose it to the next bid of $.06.  That’s the way my luck is. 

One thing I’ve had to get used to when it came to bidding cheaply on Ebay was losing by just a little bit.  I place my maximum bids then I don’t follow them at all.  I usually don’t know I’m even winning something until I get the alert on my phone.  Then I don’t go looking for cards I lost, because I don’t want to know if I lost it by the next bid.  This has worked well for me and I haven’t gotten into any bidding wars, which is the biggest mistake you can make when bidding on Ebay.