Rookie Hart

I finished logging the cards I got yesterday but I didn't get to scan them. I had to go over to my mom's for her 71st birthday party so I didn't get to spend all day working on them like I usually do on Sunday's. I plan on scanning them after work tomorrow but I'm not sure how much time I'll have because I have to stop by my LCS and drop off the box I sorted. Hopefully, he'll have another one for me to start (when I finish my scanning).

Today's post is came up to another Tier 3 collection but I randomed again because that Tier 3 collection has a card that I need to scan so I'll wait until I get it scanned. The 2nd random came up with a Tier 1 that I don't add to very often so I was happy to get these.

It's serial numbered too. It's a pretty cool looking card, would have preferred it in a Michigan uniform but still pretty cool. I like the fancy RB script and the color around the photo.

This card gives me 84 of him which is good for 11% of his cards on TCDB which is why I don't get too many of his. I have a lot of his base, it's all the parallels, autos and 1/1's that I need to start picking up. I run into his cards at shows all the time but they are in the higher price range that I don't like to shop from. I should bite the bullet and buy one every so often.

Saturday Star

Today's post is my all-time favorite Michigan player and unless you followed Michigan at the time, you probably haven't heard of him. I don't get to add to his collection a whole bunch as he didn't have much of a professional career so I'm always happy when I can add some.

I picked up these 7 (3 in the Maize and Blue) from Sportlots. I like the looks of the very first card. They are all inserts or parallels. 4 of them are numbered and you can see the XFractor in the bottom row.

These 7 give me 83 cards

1 Hart, 1 sleepy body

I'm very sleepy this evening so I'm just going to get to it.

Remember in my last post where I said I went through Hollisters half off box. He had the above card as well as 3 autographs but I already had all of those. This was the only one of his that I came across that I needed. It's a bronze rookie that's numbered.

Dos Wolverines

Watched the Michigan men's basketball team today. They looked really good but with the way they looked last week, I'm not sold on them but at least they played well yesterday.

Since this will be a football post, I have to show this video my brother found of the current football season. It's called 2% to #2, which refers to the 2% chance we were predicted with to win our division to being ranked #2 in the playoffs. It's long, but a great video. I've watched it twice and teared up both times. That's a lot of 2's. Oh, and it's 22 minutes and 22 seconds long.

Since we are the number 2, I'll show 4 players that I have 2 cards to show.

Sluggo gave me these before last weekend. The Prestige on the right is the Pink parallel, even though it looks purple and yes, it still looks purple before the scan. These 2 give me 8 cards of Evans.

I got these 2 of Sean McKeon. The red Optic came from Fred at work while the Phenoms came from the card show in Shipshewana. These 2 give me 5 of the tight end which is pretty good considering I got my first in September.

These 2 of Kwity Paye, give me 10 cards which like McKeon, just started in September. That Score is gold, even though it looks Orange to me. The top card came from Sluggo while the Orange/Gold I picked up in Ft. Wayne at a card show.

Lastly, because he's my Tier 1 collection is our current running backs coach which in case you don't follow, have been very good this year. I picked up the Maize and Blue Hart at the Kalamazoo card show, it is numbered to /500. The bottom Score Red Zone is numbered to /100 and I picked it up on Sportlots. These 2 give me 74 cards of my favorite running back.

Red Hart

Sluggo and I headed out bright and early this morning to go to this show. It was a pretty good, lots of tables. I spent most my time at a dime box that had a ton of college stuff. He had a bunch of Michigan autos and such but I was on a limited budget so I just stuck to the dime boxes. I came away with 70 something cards, some dupes in case Dennis needed them. For a dime, I'll take a shot at some dupes. The cards were ones that aren't normally in a dime box. As a matter of fact we picked up a 100 or so for the shop and they'll be listed as dollar cards or higher. There was really good stuff in there. 

You won't see any of that today but you will get another Michigan man. Technically, he's still with the team.

Mike is a Tier 1 collection so I actually did his post earlier this year as I'm on my Tier 3 players now but this one came in on the last package, must have been late getting to my box. This is the red zone parallel and is my 73rd card of Mike who is our current RB's coach.

Wednesday on the Mike

 I've been MIA the last couple of days. My brother sold our childhood home and closed on his new house on Monday so I spent Monday night helping him pack up the house and I was supposed to go over there again tomorrow but he ended up texting me and said he was good. Which was good, I was exhausted and really wanted to just lay around.

Today, I'm pumping out my last PC post of this round of Sportlots. Tonight is my last night with my wife for the week as she his heading off back to Virginia to hang with her family for the weekend so I'm gonna get this out and then have some quality time.

All these were picked up on Sportlots and are all from 2008.

The Donruss section is the best as it's all college uni's, it's nice to see him back in the Maize and Blue rather than the red he was wearing a year or so ago.

Above is the Playoff Contenders and an Upper Deck SP with the Colts. I used to root for the Colts as my NFL team but I don't really get into watching the NFL anymore. I'll usually watch a game here or there if there is a Michigan alumn playing but no certain teams anymore.

You can tell the difference in the top 2 from the scan but technically the only different is the card stock. The one on the left is a glossy version. All 3 are from Score.

Lastly, the Topps portion, they pretty much use the same designs as they do for baseball. I do like the black chrome at top though.

These 12 cards put the Mike Hart collection at 72 cards.

Maize and Blue, and Blue and White

Started my evening off with the Michigan Big Ten tourney game. It was a little scary to start with, they were down 14 or 16 with 5 minutes (or something around there) left in the half and ended up going up by 2 at the break. It stayed close but they never let up the lead. I do need to go and read why Howard got tossed. He was pissed at something.

Since were talking about Michigan, the great random of the internet spit this post out.

We'll start off with with the Colts section of the 2008's. I'd be really excited if I still watched the NFL as they were my team. I like the bottom 2 just because I hate practice pictures. I mean the bottom 2 could be practice as well but if they are, they at least faked it better.

Now for the better portion of the 2008's, the Wolverine cards. They are all Press Pass or Sage cards so they get to wear their college uni's. The black border Legends card (top row, middle card) is my favorite because it shows why he hardly ever fumbled in college.

I did find one 2009, only my 5th from that year. The majority of my Hart collection are from 2008. These 12 cards give me 60 in the collection.

Former/current Wolverine

I really need to get to scanning. This is my last post from Dennis and I have nothing else scanned. They didn't tell us we are working this weekend which they are supposed to do by today, but that doesn't mean they won't throw it in there anyways.

Last but not least, is my favorite former Wolverine who just became a current Wolverine. Although technically, once a Wolverine, always a Wolverine.

Dennis sent me these 2 of Mike Hart, you know the bottom one is my favorite because he's got the Maize and Blue on, although back when I did watch NFL, I was a Colts fan as well. These 2 give me 49 of Hart but I'll have more to come when I get to my Sportlots purchases.

Thanks again for the package Dennis. I won't tell you that I'm going to send yours out soon because we both know it may not happen. It will eventually but why put a date on it.

Sportlots - Tier 1 PC's with Hart

We made it to the Tier 1 collection additions. Woo Hoo! I'm going to do a post for each player so today you only get 1 card. I'm starting with this guy since we just finished a bunch of Michigan Men and he is one of those. He's still my favorite player all time with Michigan.

This is my 44th card of Mike Hart. Out of all those cards, only 3 are not from 2008 and those 3 are from 2009. Which makes it more surprising out of the other 41 cards that I didn't have the regular base from Bowman yet but at least I do now.

Future Cy Young with Hart

If you read my last post, you know I had trouble making a payment on Ebay. Well I finally got that payment to go through and now another card is doing it. I've spent half an hour on the phone with Ebay for them to say it's Paypal's issue. I've chatted with Paypal and they say it's Ebay's issue. So for now my plan is to quit using Ebay when my bids are done. I tweeted this out yesterday.

Ebay responded with a question that I've already answered for them 3 times. I've told them before that their site isn't connecting with Paypal correctly because it doesn't give me any other options other than using my bank account. I have a credit card attached and I had my wife send me enough money to pay it so I have a balance as well but none of them show up. Just my bank account. Seems pretty simple to me that it is something between the sites but I'm just a customer, I don't know anything.

I just responded with I responded to this earlier in the week, check your DM's. Today I tweeted this.

I don't use the other card sites to purchase cards, it was nice buying a card at a time at cheap prices because then the wife is unaware of how much I'm actually spending but I'm just going to have to go to other sites. There are plenty of them and Ebay is definitely not the best game in town. I was also posting a card or 2 a day when I got them, it forced me to post more regularly. I had a nice thing going but I guess it's time for a change.

But alas, I'm posting today because I did finally get some cards after nothing for the last week. Including a player collection that I rarely add to anymore.

I won this guy who just got some votes for Cy Young this year. Nowhere close to winning but hey, it's a start for the young man. This is my 24th card of Lucas, I picked it up for $.54/shipped. It's also my first card from this years Update set.

It's always nice to pick up my all-time favorite player from Michigan. He was a stud RB back in his college days. This is my 42nd card of Mike and only the 2nd I've picked up this year, which is about up already. I only paid $.32/shipped as well, so there's that. It's also fitting that I get a card of his the day before we play Michigan State since he was the one that coined the phrase "little brother" when referring to them.

Finally!

Hey, guess what I finally got done. I finally got the package that Dennis sent me all logged in and finished. It was a pretty awesome package, which if you've received one from Dennis before, than you know, because he always gives great cards. It ended up giving me 77 more cards to my collections. Obviously, I'm not going to show them all but I will hit some highlights.

I just wanted to show this sticker of the logo because, it's a logo and it's a sticker.

These are representing the White Sox Collection cards, I chose the Moncada cards because he's coming into his own and I'm enjoying watching him play.

I used this Breaston card to represent the Michigan collection cards just because I think it's a pretty cool looking card.

These 2 are also part of the Michigan collection but they are also player collections. I appreciated these because I don't have a bunch of either of these players.

Dennis and I also share these 2 player collections so he always hooks me up with a bunch of these players. I just selected a card each to represent here.

I am going to show all the cards of my Tier 1 PC's just because I don't get to add to those collections very often.

I love this Mike Hart because I really like the Topps Magic cards. I think it's the vintage feel plus they are in the collegiate jerseys. This card makes 41 of Mike.

I'm pretty sure there were 4 Seaver's added to the PC, I must have forgotten to scan one. These 3 (and possibly 1 more) give me 356 different cards of his.

I really like seeing these as this is my favorite PC collection. I'm sure Dennis was just happy to get rid of some White Sox cards. These 4 cards make 436 of Konerko which is my top PC number.

If you think that was enough cards, you know Dennis don't play like that.

He also sent this relic of Frazier, I believe this is my 1st and only relic of his. I liked Frazier when he was with us, I wish he would have worked out better.

You know Dennis is going to hook me up with a Michigan auto, the dude has a ton of them. This is my 3rd different auto of Breaston and it wouldn't surprise me if they all came from Dennis.

He hit this player collection with a striped relic of Chris Sale. It's the best kind of Chris Sale because he's with the White Sox instead of the other one.

Last but not least, he sent this Chesson auto, a pink one at that. I haven't hit the double digits with Chesson cards yet but I now have 4 autographs out of 7 cards.

Huge shout out to Dennis, check him out over at Too Many Verlanders. It's pretty good, if you can get past all the Tigers cards. Thanks for the cards, they are greatly appreciated.

Merry (late) Christmas

Since I got no mail today and I had time to get this post up, here's a belated post.

I'm way late on this post but I got these cards before Christmas, which was fitting since he had them labeled as a Christmas gift. In my defense, I went to Florida on Christmas night and was there for just under a week. I have no excuse since then though. I know Dennis has sent a bunch of these out, that's what he does, he's very generous. I'm probably the last to say thanks, because I'm slow like that.

 

  

 

We'll start off with the White Sox collection cards. You know when Dennis is giving you cards, you gonna get some hits. I'm not talking about Dunn either, he was a flop. I recognize all 3 of the auto's which is always a good thing. I really like the Yolmer (Carlos) card because he still plays for us and I like him.

 

 

I don't about you all but I always receive cards of Larkin as well since we both collect him. He's a former Wolverine so why wouldn't we. I remember those SI posters, they were cool back in the day just because they were different. Now a days you get so much stuff in packs they aren't quite as exciting.

 

He also sent me a couple of a Tier 1 player which I don't get very often. They are both Rediscover Topps which I guess for collector's like us, they really aren't that big of a deal because there is a chance we already have them but I understand the concept.

Well you know I'm going to get some Wolverine cards. I definitely like seeing some Taco cards because I don't have very many of him, yet.

Last but definitely not least, an auto of Mike Hart, who would be my favorite former Wolverine. I have a bunch of his auto's but this one was new to me, even by sight it didn't look familiar. I like the looks, it's a sharp looking card.

As always, thank you Dennis. You can check out his stuff at Too Many Verlanders as well as Too Many Manninghams. Get in good with him, he's a great trader to have on your side.