South Bend show pickups

As per my usual lately, I'm a week behind. It always seems like the days I have birthday posts to do is when I feel like doing a blog post and the days I don't, I don't. I just need to get in the habit of typing it out when I'm in the mood and then just waiting to post it until I don't have a birthday post.

We set up at the Plymouth show yesterday and had a very good show. It was busy all day long. I picked up a few things but like, I said, I'm a week behind so this is stuff that I got at the South Bend show last weekend.

Fred from work came to the show and picked me up a few things while he shopped the other tables. I needed both of these for the Sox collection. I wasn't sure about the Lillibridge because I knew I had a few of those gold sparkle from 2012 but I didn't have his.

He also grabbed these 2 cards for me. The Aidan is from this years Donruss set (which I just sorted on Friday) and the Mazi is from the Prizm draft. It is the Silver parallel. The Hutch gives me 46 of him (already 14 just this year) and my 3rd of Mazi.

There is a kid (the one who pulled the Ohtani autograph out of a Mega we sold him, if you remember that story). He usually comes over and gets bored and will buy a blaster. At the end of the show he will sometime buy a bunch of stuff that he breaks on his Whatnot channel but he bought some of the new Stadium Club. Being as he usually sells us the cards he doesn't want, he just came over and gave us a stack that he didn't feel like carrying home. I went through and found 4 for myself.

2 Sox PC's to start with. I like Vaughn shot although I'm glad there isn't a catcher there tagging him out with that foot way above home plate. It's my 98th card of Vaughn. Suprisingly, Cease is still with us, I don't expect that to last all the way through the season but he's still there now. This card of Dylan gives me 102 of him.

Jumping over to the Tier 3 PC, I picked up this card of Ripken. It's definitely a unique photo, I don't remember why he was riding on the car. I would assume retirement or last day or something. I know when he broke the streak he walked all the way around the stadium, I remember watching that game. This card gives me 982 of Cal who will probably be my 1st player collection with over 1000 cards this year.

I also got this Larkin card. I like seeing the dogs but not a fan of this photo for a baseball card. Maybe it's just me. This Barry gives me 753 of him.

Kevin also bought a 4 row box of commons and I just glanced through some of that. There was a bunch of White Sox together and I found all of these.

These are all the high number White Sox cards which completes the Heritage team set, minus the short prints of course.

Some kids were doing a trade up challenge and Kevin will usually trade with them when all they are wanting is cheaper stuff. The kid offered a few cards for a $10 card and this was included, which I grabbed for myself.

This Abreu relic is my 15th relic of him, and my 281st card of Jose.

Final cost for all of the cards in this post - $0. I spent nothing, now you know why I like working the shows and doing the sorting. Next post will be more sorting before I get to the stuff that I picked up yesterday. I actually paid for some of that.

Lotsa Sox

Even though it's a White Sox post, I'm not talking about the team this year. Beyond frustrated but we are winning at the moment. We'll see if they can hold it.

I've picked up cards for this collection for awhile without getting a post so there's a lot of cards. I'll just bunch them on where I got them.

All of the above were freebies from Sluggo. He got in a lot from his guy and there was an 800 count box of this stuff so I went through it and grabbed what I didn't have. Lots of new Bowman and lots of shiny. Some of the other stuff I picked up awhile ago from him.

These all came from last box of Sportlots. The top pic are all TCMA's (I think) but I don't remember what year. The bottom 2 I think are pretty cool. They are 1979 Fleer Grand Slam stickers.

I picked up all these at my LCS. The top photo were all dime box cards and they were thrown in on the purchase. I picked up the Abreu relic there, I've been eyeballing it for awhile and I finally picked it up. It's numbered to /99. The autographs I wanted to grab some of players that I didn't have. I knew I was going to grab the Scotty Pods when I saw it. I definitely wanted an auto of one our World Series heroes. I didn't have one of Grandal or Mags. I have a bunch of relics of him but this is my first auto.

I picked up these 2 at the card show in Warsaw. I liked Madrigal, wish they wouldn't have gotten rid of him and Sheets is doing pretty well as of late.

These 2 both came from Fred. Leury was great last year, this year, not so much and Burger has some pretty key hits for us this year so I'll definitely take a rookie card of him.

These 2 both came from the dealer at the Fort Wayne show that I bought a bunch of vintage cards for a buck a piece, these included. The top one goes in my Team collection as well and the bottom one also goes to my Schmidt PC. I had the 1975 mini of the bottom card, but not the regular sized one.

I picked up the above 3 at the Shipshewana show but they all came from 3 dealers that I buy from all the time. The top card came from Hollister, the middle (mini) from a guy named Joe that we set up at Mishawaka and Plymouth. The bottom one from Josh who runs the Plymouth show.

These 3 were throw in's with my cousin's cards when we went up to the Stanton Man Cave card shop. I don't actively look for these pocket schedules but I do pick them up when I run into them.

Last but not least, Dennis sent these last 2 scans to me. The Frank Thomas is numbered to /25, love low numbered cards. The Kittle relic is my first of him but I do have an autographed card as well as a 5x7 autographed photo of him. I actually have a bunch of Abreu relics but this might be my first bat card.

Like I said, a lot of Sox for one post.