Happy Birthday - Larry Bird

 

Larry was born on this day in 1956, making him 69 today.

NBA Debut - October 12th, 1979 (Celtics)

Years Active - 

• 1979-1992 (Celtics)

Cards on TCDB - 13066 cards (2025), 10581 cards (2024), 9514 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 124 cards (2025), 123 cards (2024), 105 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #25 (#37 overall)

TCDB Rank - #32

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (66 cards)
• Sluggos (42 cards)
• Man Cave (6 cards)
• Card Show-South Bend (4 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (3 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• the Sport Stash (1 card)

Happy Birthday Larry!

Happy Birthday - Larry Bird

Larry was born on this day in 1956, making him 68 today.

NBA Debut - October 12th, 1979 (Celtics)

Years Active - 

• 1979-1992 (Celtics)

Cards on TCDB - 10581 cards (2024), 9514 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 123 cards (2024), 105 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #27 (#35 overall)

TCDB Rank - #26

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (65 cards)
• Sluggos (42 cards)
• Man Cave (6 cards)
• Card Show-South Bend (4 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (3 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• the Sport Stash (1 card)

Happy Birthday Larry!

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.

2 weeks of sorting

I really need to get to posting, I'm falling behind. Work has been draining lately so I haven't posted as much. I went to my LCS to drop off cards that I sorted last weekend and pick up more and he gave me a few cards while I was there, which means that puts me another post behind. Tomorrow we are going to a pretty big show, we're expecting a good show, hopefully so busy I don't get a chance to shop, too much.

2 weeks ago, I sorted some list NBA cards for the LCS, these are what I pulled out for myself.

I pretty much always pull Webber cards as he is a Hall of Famer so he's on the list and he's one of my newer (older) player collections. I picked up these 6 to add, I think that might be my first Piston jersey card of his. These 6 give me 174 cards of him now.

I added Larry Bird to my Tier 3 player collections around the same time I did Webber. Also a Hall of Famer (duh) so he's on the list. I grabbed these 4. I would have guessed that I already had the Fleer on the top right, but apparently not. These 4 give me 111 of him. 

There are a couple of Michigan PC guys on the list as well. Franz here being one of them. The other, you'll see later. These 2 cards of Wagner give me 47 of him.

When I took those list players back, he gave me some cards in packs. Basically, he has a couple of people who buy packs/blasters, open them up, take out a couple of cards that they want, them sell them back to the LCS. I'm not sure what they take out because there is usually some decent players still in there. When the LCS buys them back, they are still in the packs (opened) and in the Blaster box so it's almost like opening packs. Those might be my favorite type of sort. I pull list players out and any other card the shop might want to sell separately, and of course, the cards I get to keep. There were a few boxes of Hoops and Donruss from basketball and football.

We'll start with the NFL since there was less of those. I went through a couple of blasters of 2023 Donruss and grabbed this Rashan Gary and Hassan Haskins. It's my 25th of Gary and my 22nd of Haskins.

On the basketball side, there was a box of Donruss and a few boxes of NBA Hoops.

The 1 Donruss card was a Caleb Houstan rookie, which is only my 2nd card of his and alongside him is the veteran Tim Hardaway with his 107th. He's my highest non-Fab 5 Michigan basketball player collection. Fab Fivers were in the 90's so they have a ton of cards.

2 more Hoops cards with a LeVert and a Poole. The LeVert is my 62nd card of the veteran. Poole isn't a rookie by any means, even though that's a rookie card shot if I've ever seen one, but he's only been in the league for about five years now. This is my 50th of him.

This was a nice surprise, while I've seen relics left in these opened packs, this is the first time that I got one of someone I collected. Or in this case, was going to start collecting. This is my 1st card of the former Wolverine, Kobe Bufkin. A nice way to start his collection.

The next sorting post, you'll see MLB as I have 3 4 row boxes to start. Probably on Sunday. They came from Hollister's so I know they'll have some good stuff, let's hope I find some stuff for myself. The next actual post, if I get another in before the next birthday post, will be cards I came home with from our last show in Plymouth last weekend.

Happy Bird - Larry Bird

Larry was born on this day in 1956, making him 67 today.

NBA Debut - October 12th, 1979 (Celtics)

Years Active - 

• 1979-1992 (Celtics)

Cards on TCDB - 9514 cards

Cards I have - 105 cards

PC Rank - #31 (#38 overall)

TCDB Rank - #26

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (58 cards)
• Sluggo (36 cards)
• Man Cave (6 cards)
• Card Show-South Bend (4 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Larry!

NBA & NFL

2 weekends ago, I sorted some list boxes of NBA & NFL so obviously I pulled some for me. I wasn't sure how many list players on those 2 sports that I would have but I ended up with more than I thought but I wasn't expecting much.

I was surprised I didn't have this base rookie and it looked familiar to me but I found that I have 6 variations of the optic version so that's probably what I was thinking of.

I knew I hadn't seen this one however. Hutch has been a beast in the pros and it's showing on how many cards he has been getting. This is only my 30th but there are plenty more for me to get.

I did manage to grab a bunch of Woodson's though, including one in the Maize and Blue. These 11 bump his collection up to 56 cards which seems low but I haven't been collecting him really long.

Now on to the NBA cards.

I had never seen the yellow bordered Hoops cards before. There were a bunch of them in the box. The set is called Superstars. These 3 of Larry Legend give me 105 of him.

I did grab 5 more of the recently traded Jordan Poole. We'll see how long before I get some cards with his new team. These 5 give me 48 cards of Poolio.

I also got 4 more cards of Franz. I remembered he was on the list when I started going through them. These 4 give me 41 cards of the younger Wagner.

I always add cards of Webber when I do the list boxes since he's a hall of famer. I started this collection at the same time as the Woodson but I have way more cards of him. These 3 give me 165 cards. Now that I think about it, I started the Larry Bird collection at the same time as those 2.

I think I only have 1 post left and then I'll be caught up, just enough time to go into the weekend when I usually end up with cards. I do have 2 boxes of cards to sort but they are all 1993 Topps and I've already gotten everything I need from those sets so unless there are some gold or gold winners that I don't have, I don't see myself coming away with anything.