3rd one down

I decided to go ahead and put out a post during the 2nd half of the Michigan game because I shut it off. I couldn't watch it anymore. I may take my White Sox rule that I use when watching their games. Record them all and only watch when they win (who has time to watch 162 games). I can handle watching them lose, I can't handle watching them in the state they are in. As I said on Twitter, they look like a freshman team who have never played together before. It's embarassing and I love Michigan too much that it hurts to watch them like that. We'll see, by the time the next game rolls around (Wisconsin if it doesn't get cancelled) I may watch it. I'm all emotion right now about it.

I got a couple of envelopes this week so since I didn't have to work today, I already got them scanned and added them to the list to random. I got my monthly package from Sportlots as well as another envelope from Jeff at 2x3 Heroes. According to my USPS Informed Delivery, my wife says I have another envelope in the mail today so maybe I'll get around to adding that tomorrow.

Back to a vintage/non-vintage post. This post will be 1987 but I've gotten a few comments from readers that say they don't consider 80's vintage. I do agree with that as I would consider 1980 and older to be vintage but I run my vintage collection up to 1987 because as a kid, I collected heavily until 1987. I slowed down for a couple of years after that and then stopped for awhile. So while I say 1987 is a part of my Vintage collection, I don't necessarily think it's a vintage year. That being said, let's get to it.

We'll start off with the Donruss, Jeff sent me 21 cards for that set. Love seeing the Doc Gooden as I was a big fan of his, pre drug days. These cards give me 304 cards for that set which is still under half but not by much.

Jeff also sent 12 more for the Fleer set which is behind the other 2 sets with only 257 cards which is under 40% completed. I had a ton of these, I think even a whole set of these when I was a kid.

To start off the Topps, I picked up all these at baseballcardstore.ca for a dime ($.14 if you add the shipping.) Some decent names up there, you can tell I'm getting closer to finishing the set.

I had to go to Sportlots for a few of the higher dollar cards. Higher dollar sounds odd when you're talking about 1987 Topps but there you go. I remember having multiple copies of all 3 of these cards as a kid.

Last but not least, Jeff also sent me this card of Ozzie Smith for the Topps set. What is the significance of this lone card?

That's right, another set down. This is the 3rd one completed this year following the 1985 Fleer & Topps set. As you can tell, I've made a little more concentrated effort to complete some. I started off with the sets that I was closest to finishing. It helps with Card Barrel and now Baseballcardstore.ca so I don't have to spend a fortune doing so.

Cheaper Than Stamps #44

We’ve seen 1987 and 1986, today we’ll hit 1985 and then tomorrow the years will start spacing out more.  Tomorrow will be the rest of the 80’s and Friday we will check out the true vintage, a couple of 70’s and even a card from the 60’s.

1985 Donruss – Tony Brewer, Steve Lyons, Billy Hatcher and Larry Sheets

This was another 5 card rookie lot but the 5th card you’ll see when I do the White Sox team sets pick ups.  I paid a quarter for these cards.  I can’t help it but when I see Steve Lyons, I think of this.

1985 Donruss – Mike Pagliarulo, Jeff Pendleton, Rick Schu, Ken Howell and Dan Gladden

I’ve picked up a bunch of Pagliarulo in these 5 card lots.  I got these for, I know you’re shocked, a quarter.

1985 Topps – Fernando Valenzuela, Steve Garvey, Mike Schmidt, Tony Fernandez and Dave Winfield

I don’t think I scanned these 5 cards with the original 5 cards that came in the lot.  I only say that because when I went back to Ebay to see how much I paid, his picture showed different cards.  Regardless, I paid a quarter each for this lot and the next.

1985 Topps – Jose Rijo, Mike Young, Mark Bailey, Jeff Kunkel and Juan Samuel

Like I said above, I got this rookie lot for a quarter.  I remember the Juan Samuel being a hot rookie as well as Jose Rijo.

1985 Topps – Mike Mason, Terry Pendleton, Darryl Strawberry and Frank Williams

Another quarter, another lot.  This was a 5 card lot but I believe it came with another Juan Samuel.  I definitely remember the Strawberry being as I was a New York Mets fan and was a huge fan of his and Dwight Gooden’s until the whole drug thing then I lost interest in them.

 

Here’s the rundown on how much I’ve paid and to which collection so far in the Cheaper Than Stamps series.

Player Collections

Barry Larkin (7) $.82 – $.12/card
Bill Melton (4) $1.60 – $.40/card
Cal Ripken jr (26) $5.12 – $.20/card
Carl Yastrzemski (8) $3.07 – $.38/card
Carlton Fisk (2) $.66 – $.33/card
Chris Getz (4) $1.60 – $.40/card
Gary Carter (12) $2.07 – $.17/card
Hoyt Wilhelm (4) $1.25 – $.31/card
Jim Abbott (8) $2.33 – $.29/card
Johnny Bench (8) $2.05 – $.26/card
Mark Buehrle (2) $.45 – $.23/card
Michael Jordan (13) $1.91 – $.25/card
Mike Schmidt (7) $1.97 – $.28/card
Paul Konerko (3) $.70 – $.23/card
Ryan Zimmerman (10) $2.65 – $.27/card
Shoeless Joe Jackson (1) $.15 – $.15/card
Steve Carlton (4) $1.14 – $.29/card
Tom Seaver (6) $1.44 – $.24/card

Vintage Collections

1980's (260) $39.78 – $.15/card
1970's (19) $4.63 – $.24/card
1960's (7) $1.98 – $.28/card

Team Collections

White Sox (1) $.15 – $.15/card

Cheaper Than Stamps #31

This is a series where I show off cards I need for my PC’s that I pick up on Ebay or COMC for cheaper than a stamp.  My maximum I spend on these cards is actually $.30 so I get them quite a bit cheaper than a stamp.

1985 Donruss – Dave Stieb #196

I paid $.29 for this card, but technically I paid that much for it and 4 other just like it.  It was a 5 card lot of this card but I only needed one so if you happen to need 1, let me know.

1985 Fleer – Jeff Kunkel #561, Mike Mason #562, Albert Hall #326

1985 Fleer – Jeff Robinson #620, Frank Williams #624, Mark Bailey #344

1985 Fleer – Jeff Stone #266, Jay Tibbs #553

1985 Fleer – Mike Pagliarulo #139, Ken Howell #374

I posted all those together because I picked them up in 2 lots of 5 cards.  They aren’t scanned by lot so the lots could be any of the 5 above together.  I picked up the first lot for $.25 with $.50 shipping which is still within range per card.  The second lot I paid $.35 with $.37 shipping.  The shipping on that lot got split with a lot I purchased below which is why it is a funny amount for shipping.

These were the first 1985 Fleer added to the collection.

1985 Topps – Jeff Robinson #592, Ricky Horton #321, Sid Bream #253

1985 Topps – Ron Romanick #579, Mike Pagliarulo #638

This 5 card lot was $.35 and shipping was split with the above at another $.38 which is also still well within the range per card.

A lot of the players above are first timers on this blog as you can tell by their names not linking up with other posts.

Come back for the rest of the 1980’s on this round of Cheaper Than Stamps.