300+

Sox pulled out a game in Houston last night. I checked the score before going to bed and they were down 2-0 in the 8th and I went to bed. I woke up to check the score and they scored 4 with 2 outs and nobody on. To be honest, I was expecting to get swept because we've struggled and Houston has been really good so I'll take the win.

Today's post is a Tier 3 player and one of my all-time favorite catchers. I was a Mets fan as a kid so I followed him through the 1986 World Series. I got a lot of cards of him, all from Sportlots so I'm just going to throw them all out there.

Some Playoff/Panini cards.

Fleer cards, love the Expos uniforms.

Donruss cards, even though some of them are Panini now.

Speaking of Panini/Donruss. Some older Donruss look-a-likes. At least in spirit, not in color.

A bunch of Upper Deck.

A bunch of vintage Topps look-a-likes.

A whole lot of Topps inserts and a couple base.

Some various A&G.

And finally some mini's to finish us off. I told you I had a lot in this shipment.

These 63 cards get the Kid collection up over 300 with 312. He becomes the 8th player collection (9th player overall) with over 300 cards.

The Kid Collection

I got all my stuff logged in from the card show. Saturday was a little busier than Friday but it was still pretty slow. Our next show is the Saturday before Valentine's Day, we're heading back to Plymouth. It's a smaller show but it's established so it has pretty good foot traffic.

I didn't post yesterday because I hadn't logged in all my stuff from the show and then when I went to post today, the player that came out on top, I didn't get any new cards of, go figure. I picked up at least 1 card of all my Tier 3 players, except this one. I did get some from other sources though.

I picked up a bunch of stickers as you can see. I love the stickers and the Expos uniforms.

All of those top 2 rows, except the top left card also go to the Vintage collection which means I'm surprised I didn't already have them. The bottom 3 however, didn't surprise me as they are kind of oddballs. I really like the Kellogg's and it's not even curved like a lot that I see.

I even got some oversized cards. I showed the top one of Schmidt earlier and mentioned I had others. The bottom card was the only oversized of that year that I picked up. The above 18 cards were all from Sportlots.

But wait, there's more...

Dennis also sent me this 2021 Donruss (1987 look-a-like, sorta). I already have the holo red and the Independence Day but I didn't have the plain ole base card, until now. Thanks Dennis!

These 19 cards put the Kid Collection at 168 cards.

the Past

Another day, another post brought up on random. My Sox are on a hot streak, even if it's against the Tigers. Playing the North side this weekend so hopefully we stay hot. It'd be better if I didn't have to work Saturday but it is what it is.

That's the present, let's drop back to the past for today's post.

Gotta love the Expos card. Another Cardinals team card as well. I think I ended up with 3 different ones of them.

All 3 of these came from the Facebook purchase that Dennis (how are those Tiger's doing?) hooked me up with. I should probably be nicer to him since he's been good for my collections but you know, he likes the Tigers. It's a good thing he likes Michigan at least. Sorry Dennis, nothing but love for ya!

Expos, the Kid

* I put my February purchases on random for today's post.

The first post of my February pick-ups is only 1 card. My March posts will contain a few post of just 1 card and a few with over 10 cards. That's just the way they got divided out.

This one comes from the Sluggo package. He doesn't usually add my player collections but a little bit ago he asked for a list of them so now I occasionally receive them from him. I figured it was a 2020 as I hadn't seen it before but apparently it's from 2017. I was a fan of the Mets back in the day and that's part of the reason I liked him. Even with that, I do love seeing the Expos jerseys.

Random Players From My Collections #5

I had planned on doing this earlier but I got busy working on my cards and once I get going, I try not to stop because I usually won't get back to it. I got at that point now where I'm done for the day so I remembered this post.

I wanted to do one of these today since I only had 2 posts this week and one of those was for some cards I didn't even win so I only received new cards 1 day this week. It's slowed down a bit because I tapered back on bidding on some autos/relics because my hours have been down a little at work and I have to save money for my Michigan/Ohio tickets (although after yesterday, I'm seriously considering selling them). I did get some OT this past week so hopefully hours will get back up again.

I passed over 17,000 cards entered in on TCDB sometime this week. Probably with the free cards because there were some packs. Which also means my players number has gone up by 33 cards and is now at 3,345 players.

#810 - Nate Jones (5 cards)

Nate Jones is a White Sox collection card. He was with the Sox for 7 years so I thought I would have had more cards than 5.

I believe he was traded earlier this year so he is no longer with the Sox. I think I remember hearing he was the longest tenured Sox player when he got traded. TCDB has him with only 157 cards so I'm guessing he just doesn't make a ton of sets.

#455 - Eric Show (8 cards)

Next up we have a Vintage Collection player in Eric Show. I have 8 cards of his, all but 1 are in the Vintage Collection.

According to TCDB he has 133 and I only need 9 of those for the rest of his Vintage Collection cards.

#3053 - Brad Mills (1 card)

Another Vintage Collection player but I only have 1 of his. These future stars cards from 1982 Topps bring back lots of memories. This one was a Terry Francona rookie card back in the day though.

He only has 47 cards listed on TCDB. I only need 4 of those for the Vintage Collection, all from 1982 and 1983.

Sportscards.com

Ever heard of sportscards.com? I hadn't either until they contacted me. They wanted to send me free cards, who the hell would say no to that?

What are they? Well they plug their database which you can use to find listings on Ebay. It has all the filters and such so you can weed your stuff down, they also show sold listings which to me, if you want to know what your card is worth, what it's selling for is more realistic to me than a price in a magazine. The best thing for me is the save your search. Yes, I know Ebay has that but I also know I'm at my allotted saved searches so I can use this site to save some more.

They also sell those Subscription boxes that are everywhere now. Where you pay so much a month and they send you a box of cards. It sounds pretty basic but when you go to their site, they have 3 different price structures, all with different goodies in them according to price.

They also have Collector's boxes which are like the subscription boxes but you only get one and they are auctioned off so you may get them cheaper than you should. I counted 31 different boxes when I typed this up - To name a few - 1950's graded - Derek Jeter - Bronx Bombers - Golden Age - Autographs. You'll have to check them out as they all offer different things.

I don't remember if they asked which box I wanted or if they just sent me one. Either way, let's check it out.

Here's the box it came in. It was also wrapped in cellophane and once opened, everything in it had the gift wrap tissue paper so everything was packaged really well. I took pics of the cards inside the loaders they were sent in so you could see those as well.

A business card (a nice one, like a credit card) and the bottom card I assume comes in every box. Once you get 5, you get free stuff.

Also this, gotta plug your product. Let's get to the good stuff though. There were 3 unopened packs. We'll start with the 2018 Topps.

 

It says 10 cards, I got 11 including the insert. WooHoo, bonus. You can see the 10 to the right.

And the insert card. Out of the 11, 1 card goes to the White Sox Collection.

Next up is a pack of 2019 Topps, which I actually bought a blaster so we'll see how many new cards I got.

I only got 14 of 14 this time. Out of the 13 above, I already had 3, including the lone White Sox card. Here's the insert and said White Sox card.

Next up was a pack of 2017 Topps Heritage,

This is one of those 20 card packs and as you can see, I got 20 cards.  I didn't get any inserts but you can see I got a high number short print up there. I also got one White Sox card.

That's all for the packs but there were also some single cards in there. As I said before, I took pics of them in their loader/cases that they came in so you can see how they were packed.

This was in a sealed case with the magnet to keep it closed. I was a little confused when I got it because the sticker has their name on it, but it says factory sealed. I was also confused by the back of the card.

Upon logging it into TCDB, I figured out that it's a 1994 Topps Finest Peel Demostrations. I don't know how they were distributed or if it's actually factory sealed but at least I know what it is now.

Since we're going with cards that confused me, this one really did. It looks like one of those cards where they add a signature off of something else they signed, like a check or contract. Only, there's no signature. Here's the paragraph on the back.

Yeah, so, I have no idea since it says SAMPLE on it. It has their logo on the card as well so I assume it's a preview of some sort of a card that you could get (if you weren't a cheap bastard like myself). I don't know.

This is a 1960 Topps Jim Bunning. It also came in one of those magnetized cases and it was sealed with their sticker. Of course, I took it out of that. After having the card in hand, it is in really good condition. The only thing I see wrong is the cut and it wasn't even that bad. I certainly not going to complain about getting a vintage card.

Last but not least, I got this relic from 2001 Donruss Classics of Bob Gibson. It's a relic of the visitors dugout bench so it certainly isn't anything special but it's still a pretty cool card.

As you can see, it was a pretty cool box, mainly because it was free. Nothing against Sportscards.com, but if you read this blog, you know I buy cheap so as much fun as it was to go through everything. I probably won't buy any. I will, however, still be using their site to save some more Ebay searches.

Thanks to the Sportscards.com peeps for sharing the box with me. It was an enjoyable time going through it. If you're into these subscription boxes or want to try one of the collector's boxes, I'd say go for it. Definitely check out their site and see all the different kinds of boxes and see if something jumps out at you.

The Kid plus 5

I found out last week that our new GM to our plant collects baseball cards. He sat in on our Monday meeting yesterday and I was there early enough that I chatted with him about it. Apparently he buys cases and opens them and sells them online. He likes the high end stuff which of course is totally opposite of me but at least there is someone that collects I can have an occasional chat with.

I did get a few cards today. One player collection and some virtual "cheaper than a dime box" cards.

I picked up all of these 2016 Topps for $.06/shipped/each. All were individual auctions, I just don't understand how these people keep selling cards for cheaper than a stamp and stay in business.

I also picked up this Gary Carter dog food card. I remember back when you could get baseball cards everywhere. I used to buy all kinds of things I wouldn't normally eat just to get these cards. I picked this up for $.50/shipped. It is my 117th card of the Kid.