LCS Pickups

Kevin and I ran down to the LCS on Friday, we dropped off some stuff we sorted and picked up some more. I worked on that on Sunday and will probably finish the next few days as tomorrow is my last day at work until the 5th of January so I'll have plenty of time. I brought home 3 2 row boxes of baseball list players and 5 2 rows of football list players to sort. I probably won't end up with a whole lot for myself but I do usually end up with some.

While we were there, Kevin bought a bunch of colored parallels from them. We generally only pay a quarter a piece and throw them in our dollar boxes, or more if they are worth it. So while we were sitting there, I went through the box and pulled out a bunch for myself.

Everything above is a holo or refractor, lots of color up there as well. The Gavin Sheets in the top row of the top photo wasn't in the box, the LCS owner had set that aside for me and gave it to me, along with another card you'll see. The 3 Giolito's give me 153 of him. The 2 Anderson's give me 232 and the Abreu is my 275th.

Next up are Tier 3 pickups.

I picked up 1 basketball card and it's of Larry Legend. This insert is the holo parallel because yes, even the inserts have parallels. This is my 106th card of Larry.

2 more Tier 3 collections with this Stadium Club refractor of Steve Carlton and an Update Sapphire of Ripken. I guess technically the Sapphire isn't a color parallel as it's its own set but you all know I love the cracked ice. This is my 229th card of the lefty Carlton and the 976th of Ripken.

Next up is Tier 2.

2 more of Fisk, both in White Sox, both made to look like older sets and of course, not both parallels. The 1988 look-a-like is from 2023 and is an insert, the Platinum Anniversary Prism is from 2022. This is my 386th card of th OG Pudge.

I grabbed a couple more of the only star from last year's team. Let's hope he stays with the team and continues to get better. The 2022 on the left is another Prism parallel and the Optic on the right is the holo parallel of the insert. These 2 give me 203 cards of Luis.

The top card is a Stadium Club Chrome refractor, I already had the non-Chrome and the Chrome to go with it. The bottom card is the other card that the LCS gave me, it's only my 2nd relic of Moncada and these 2 give me 230 of him.

Really love the Buehrle, mainly because I don't pick up too many of him. It's only my 5th card that I've picked up this year and one of those was a week or two ago. It's also my 386th of him. At this rate, it'll be a few years before I hit 400. The purple Eloy is my 209th of him.

A couple of former Wolverine Tier 2 players. The Larkin is an insert parallel as it's the Holo and you can tell the Cronenworth is an XFractor. Oddly enough I have the SC Red, Chrome and now the XFractor but not the base. I have both of the base and the Holo of the Larkin though. The Barry is my 747th card of his and the 77th of Jake.

The LCS refilled his 1/2 off box and I went through that as well and pulled these 2 auto's. I feel like they equaled $36 and then half off was $18 but he gave them both to me for $10. He had others I wanted but I was trying not to spend too much. I grabbed the Burger just because I liked him and wish they wouldn't have traded him and I also like Sheets so those are the 2 I grabbed.

I am all caught up on posts, for now. We don't have another show until the 31st but I may go to the LCS with all my time off. I should finish the sorting so I'm sure I'll hit it sooner or later.

Colorful NBA

We set up at the South Bend show yesterday. We had a pretty good show, sold a ton of wax (blasters & megas) and all 3 showcases had a few sales which is rare. NBA is starting so basketball is finally selling. MLB sells all year but usually tapers off some after the World Series. We also had some good pickups, you'll have to follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to see. What you won't see on there is we purchased another 2 row box of basketball color parallels. I did my usual and went through it for anything I needed and these are what I came up with.

I picked up this Larry Legend. It's listed as a Panini Prizm but it has the Optic logo. Either way, it's going to the collection.

I also grabbed 3 cards of Hardaway jr, as I said above, all color. The top right is a Silver, in case you were wondering. Tim is my highest PC count of a former Wolverine basketball player that isn't a Fab Fiver. These 3 give me 105.

Not a huge pickup but 4 more cards and I still haven't spent any money.

Free as a Bird

I'm just going to throw out my last new PC real quick. The next couple of days are birthday posts and then when those are out of the way, I can start fresh on December pick-ups. I usually type up blogs while I'm watching TV but I was streaming the Michigan basketball game on my laptop so I couldn't blog and now it's late.

There were 2 guys I really liked in the NBA while growing up, one was Jordan but everybody collects him and he has millions of cards but I thought I would start up my first non-Michigan NBA PC of the other guy.

These are the first Bird cards that I started with. They all came from the boxes of Sluggo's that I was sorting.

These 15 came from Sluggo as well but he pulled them from his dollar boxes once he found out I was starting the collection. Lots of shiny newer cards, really like the cracked ice versions up there.

Sluggo and I did some sorting for our LCS, he has boxes and boxes of stuff and I volunteered to help him out in exchange for cards. I pulled anything that I wanted out of the boxes that I wanted since most of the cards were stars but they were base so you can't get a ton of money for it. He has one guy that buys that stuff so he had no problem with me taking a few cards. I sorted MLB (you'll see what I grabbed later) and Sluggo did NBA, he pulled all of these for me and I added them to my stack.

So technically, all 60 of these cards that I'm starting the PC with, were all free to me. That's the way to start PC's.