Happy Birthday - Liam Hendriks

 

Liam was born on this day in 1989, making him 37 today.

MLB Debut - September 6th, 2011 (Twins)

Years Active - 

• 2011-2013 (Twins)
• 2014 (Blue Jays, Orioles)
• 2016-2020 (Athletics)
• 2021-2023 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 1389 cards (2026), 1382 cards (2025), 1299 cards (2024), 1122 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 61 cards (2026), 57 cards (2025), 41 cards (2024), 14 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #43 (#78 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• Sluggos (25 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (20 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (8 cards)
• Man Cave (5 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)

Happy Birthday Liam!

A Non-Birthday post?

Long time no see!

I know I've been posting the birthday posts and I've done a pretty good job at not being late on any of them (other than some being late at night before I get them up.) I enjoy those because I can see how far my collection has come since the previous year. I'm going to try to start posting incoming again. I stopped because at the time, I was working shows and just didn't have the time with everything coming in. Now I only hit a few shows a year and get a few trades here and there. I did order another Sportlots order but I haven't hit ship yet, waiting on one guy to get my cards to the box. So here goes nothing.

You should know if you follow me at all, that I sort cards for the LCS here and in exchange, I can keep whatever I find that I like. That's easy for him to do because I only keep specific collections and for the most part, the cards that I'm sorting are base and commons but it fills in gaps in my PC's. That's not all I get though. When I browse his shop and find some cards, he'll give me a huge discount or sometimes, not charge me at all. For example, he gave me this last week.

I was in the shop when a lady came in with some cards and this. He bought it all for very little. This has a COA but from a company we've never heard of so he knew he wasn't going to be able to sell it very well. He has other Griffey autos in the shop in Mariners uniform with good COA's and he hasn't sold those so he offered it to me. He knows I'm not looking to sell it and it will go in my PC so I jumped on it. I haven't done anything with it yet, which is why it's just leaning on my shelf, on the floor.

I also get a lot of common cards to fill team sets of the Sox but I'm not going to show a lot of that so I'll just show my PC adds.

Here I said I wasn't going to show team stuff but it's shiny and I couldn't resist. He's no longer with the Sox as he was traded a couple of days ago and I no longer PC him anyways but I still collect Sox cards so he stays. He was with the team long enough that I've accumulated 346 cards of him.

Since I'm doing Sox cards, I'll go ahead and throw these in as well. These are all Tiffany versions. I only had 2 to start with, I added these 26 and am now only 1 card short of the team set.

I know you're thinking, he didn't have that yet, but this is the Tiffany version as well which as you can see above, there was a bunch of those in the sorting boxes. This is my 362nd card of the Kid.

I added another of Hendriks which I don't do a lot of, I only added 3 cards all of last year. He sits at 61 cards now.

I also located an older Larkin that I didn't have which is always nice. I only added 10 cards of his last year so I don't get a ton of his anymore which tends to happen when they aren't included in newer sets. I now have 781 cards of Barry.

The next 3 guys you'll see are all former White Sox that I liked when they were here and decided to continue to collect them anyways. You can also add Dylan Cease to that list but I didn't add any of his this week.

When Madrigal was traded away, I hated it. He wasn't a superstar by any means but he was a slap hitter. They called him 2 strikes Nicky because he would get all kinds of hits with 2 strikes. He just got on base, a lot, which I loved but I stopped PCing him when he got traded but I've added him back in and along with the other Sox cards of him that I kept, his count is up to 118.

I really hated this trade because I knew he was good and was only going to get better, now he's a Cy Young contender. Luckily, I picked up a few autos of him because he was a Sox prospect so I got them cheap. This Boston Sox card gives me 59 cards of him.

Another non-superstar that I liked. He's a lefty power hitter but not much of anything else. Plus he ended up going to San Diego with Cronenworth and Cease so I followed the Padres a little bit last year but Cease is gone now. This card gives me 84 of Gavin.

The show owner actually gave this one to me in his shop. While he does his own sorting, he sets aside Sox and Michigan cards for me and hands them to me when I come in. I think it's funny that I've got him and a guy at work that I trade with learning all the Michigan players because they give me cards. They are both Notre Dame fans. This is my 23rd card of the younger Howard.

My Nico collection is doing pretty good since he's doing very well in the NFL. Even though he has an Ohio QB throwing to him (who didn't fare too well with Nico out). The Absolute is the retail version but the Illusions is not the retail version which I rarely ever see. I always find the retail versions of these kinds of cards. I now have 103 cards of Collins.

Last but definitely not least, the last box I sorted had a mixture of old and new. Old usually means 80's and 90's but occasionally I'll find a few vintage cards in there like the 2 above. The Champion is my 367th from the 1975 Topps set which is just above 55% complete and the Cullen is my 257th card of the 1972 Topps set which is good for almost 33% complete.

That's all for now, hopefully there will be more in the future. I have them all scanned, now it's finding time to type them up.

Happy Birthday - Liam Hendriks

 

Liam was born on this day in 1989, making him 36 today.

MLB Debut - September 6th, 2011 (Twins)

Years Active - 

• 2011-2013 (Twins)
• 2014 (Blue Jays, Orioles)
• 2016-2020 (Athletics)
• 2021-2023 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 1382 cards (2025), 1299 cards (2024), 1122 cards (2023)

Cards I have - 57 cards (2025), 41 cards (2024), 14 cards (2023)

PC Rank - #44 (#80 overall)

TCDB Rank - #4

Where they came from -

• Sluggos (25 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (18 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (7 cards)
• Man Cave (5 cards)
• Big Hoss Sports Cards (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)

Happy Birthday !

South Bend recap

A couple of Saturday's ago we did the monthly South Bend show. It wasn't a great show which means I had too much time on my hands and wandered around which means I bought stuff.

These 8 cards came from Fred who I work with. He came to the show and while shopping around for himself, he picked me up these cards. The bottom 3 are all numbered Michigan cards.

I picked up these 3 from Nick and Jackson of Bockaj's Best Ball Cards who are friends of ours. I paid $10 for these 3, the Vaughn and Wynn were $1 cards and he had $15 on the Nwogu auto, it's numbered to /99.

A dealer I didn't know down from us had a small $1 box where I found all 3 of these. The Hutch is base but the other 2 are color/holo parallels.

There was a guy that I had seen before that had oddball stuff so I went over to look at his stuff. I picked up the Avisail Garcia auto helmet and a Seaver figure for $6. I wouldn't have picked up the helmet as he's not someone I normally look for but he only had $5 on it so I couldn't turn that down.

These didn't technically come from the show as Kevin brought them to me from his sorting at home but he gave them to me the same day as the show so I'm throwing them up here. Along with the 2 Haskins at the top, you'll see all current Wolverines.

Some more former Wolverines up there as well. That Houstan is the base and I just added the pink (I think) parallel to my PC a week or so before I got these.

He gave me the top 3 cards of Hutch and I paid for the bottom 3. 

A couple of Tier 3 cards. The Carter is the Retrofractor parallel.

Some inserts and parallels for Tier 2 collections.

Kevin even threw in some Tier 1 cards with these 2 PK's and a Seaver insert. It seems like I've picked up quite a few PK's in the last couple of months.

Lastly, he found some modern team cards to add to my PC's as well.

It may not have been a great show but I did come home with some great cards.

A Sunday Quicky

 I have lots of cards to show and a little time since I need to go to bed so here goes.

I got these from Kevin, he gave me a small box as they have been accumulating for awhile, but let's get to it. As per the usual, type 3.

Lots of Dodger Strawberry with a few sticker Met Strawberry's.

All those Strawberrys and only 1 Doc.

On to Tier 2.

That was the last card I needed for the 2024 Series 1 team set and it happens to be a PC player. The card on the right I put by itself since it has 3 players that are PC's.

2 more of Yoan and

2 more of Vaughn. You'll notice on the first card that it says National Sports Convention on the bottom right.

A rookie of Liam and always great to get another Crede.

Now on to Tier 2 Michigan.

I've been looking for one of these for awhile and Kevin happen to find them both.

Lots of Fab Fiver Webber.

Lots, but less of another Fab Fiver, Rose.

Another Fab Fiver (and former coach), Howard.

My first 2 cards of Money Moody. One in the Maize and Blue at that.

2 more of current draftee, Blake Corum. A Base and a blue version.

Also 2 more of another draftee, JJ. Again, a Base and a blue.

Last but not least, another Wild Card of Kwity. I have 6 different versions of the Wild Card of Paye.

Last but not least, a Tier 1 addition.

Also love getting cards of PK.

Sorry for the quick post but I wanted to get something up between birthday posts and the next one up was a lot. I promise, the next few will be shorter.