All coming together

Before I get started on today's post, I want to throw another blog at you. I've mentioned my cousin Sluggo here many times and he has moved up here and it's his dream to run his own card shop. He's starting a job in a week but he only plans on keeping it long enough to establish some work up here so he can buy a house. After that, he's going to open a shop. He's already looked at a few places but he wants to get a house first so he's not looking real hard yet. We made the decision to start listing stuff on Sportlots, right now it's all commons (over 13,000 cards) but it's a start. I'm helping with all the online stuff so I've spent a considerable amount of time listing all those cards and I have plenty more to list as I get the time.

Back to where I was going, I set up a few accounts for him on social media (including a blog) and I'm hoping to get some follows. He has the inventory to start a store and has some really awesome cards so I'm hoping to get over to where he's staying and click some pics and start posting more on social media. You can go to the blog - https://sluggossportscards.blogspot.com/ and check out the links in the first post. It's a pretty basic blog (and social media) at this point but I'm hoping to do more with them in the near future. Please give them a follow

Since my notepad that I keep my list of posts won't load up so I can't post it into the random, I'll pick one. Since we are talking about my cousin, I'll show some heritage that he gave me. Right now, I'm working for cards so I keep whatever I find in the common boxes that I want. A bunch of these are the SP's though so he let me pull those as well. He's bought me a couple of higher dollar cards at our last trip to the LCS, you'll see those when the random pulls them up.

We'll start off with the 2021. I had gotten some from Fred but these 4 were all new to my collection.

I let the pictures fall where they lay so we'll jump around a bit. These 3 I needed for the 2017 team set.

I needed all these for the 2020 set. They are all high numbers. The Seby Zavala is a SP, that wasn't supposed to be in there.

Here we have the short prints that he gave me. Minus the Seby up there that I scanned in the wrong one. They obviously like to put Abreu in the SP's every year.

Double Header Memorial Day

What a good way to celebrate Memorial Day than hanging with the family for a cookout at lunch and getting home in time to start a double header with Cleveland. Sox won the first game in a back and forth game in extra innings. The 2nd game is tied at 1 as I type this.

Today's post will all be White Sox as well. These were all the pick-ups on Sportlots in my last package. Just fill ins at $.18 to get the sellers up to 4 cards.

Make that down 3-1 to Cleveland now. That was quick. Anyways,

A couple of 2020 Stadium Club pick-ups. One of them being the league MVP for that price. I'll take it. He still doesn't get hobby love but I'm okay with that.

Also picked up 4 Bowman Heritage. The bottom 2 are of the prospects variety but the 2 on the left are no longer with the Sox. Zack is Yasmani's back up and Rutherford is in the minors.

Now going back about 16 years, I grabbed 5 from the Donruss Throwback Threads set. These 4 give me all the current players (in 2004) but I still need the 2 retired and the rookie players for the team set. Those 3 cards are all numbered.

Sticking with 2004, I also picked up this Sweet Sigs card of the Big Hurt. It gives me the 2 current players but I still need the 2 rookies for the team set. Those are both serial numbered as well. Must be a 2004 thing.

I threw the horizontals together. The top 2 are 2007 SP Authentic inserts and the bottom card is a 2004 Leaf Certified Cuts. I do like both of the designs but the Leaf one better, probably because it's shiny. The top 2 were our #1 and #2 hitters on the World Series team though so you know I love those 2 as well.

You can never go wrong picking up vintage White Sox cards for $.18. This Walt Williams is one of the low number cards which I have most of, the higher number is another story. I have 21 of 35 cards for the team set.

Lastly, I also grabbed another 1967 Sox card for the team set. I did pay a little more for for it though, got it for a quarter. It's my 17th of the team set which is just over halfway done, again, the majority of those high numbers.

I know by the time I finish this, most of our Memorial Day's are over but I hope you all had a happy and safe one. As in every day, my appreciation goes out to all the troops, current and past.

Half Dollar Card Show

My Sox got rained out today but I still spent my day in my card room, finally putting all the cards I received in my last Sportlots package away. After all that damage was done, I had to add 2 more binders and I need to order more pages because I only have 10 or so left. Last time I ordered them was a year ago at the height of Covid and it took forever to get them. We'll see how long it takes this time.

Today's random popped up on some of my card show purchases but before I get to those. My cousin (who went with me) sent this to me. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xbjDzTq9Fs&t=553s

I put the link in case the embed didn't work. If you skip to the 8:55 mark, 2 big guys walk in over his shoulder. The guy in the ND hoodie is my cousin, the guy in the Michigan hoodie is me. Does this make me YouTube famous? It has over 11k views and I know everyone that watched it was just to see me in the background. It's just like that Mark Jackson card.

Anyways, at that card show is where I picked up these Sox cards. 

I picked up this 2020 Frank Thomas in a $.50 cent box. I guessed I didn't have it and I was correct. It is my 555th card of the Big Hurt.

I grabbed the Michael Jordan just because it was pretty cool with the 1986 Donruss look-a-like. I paid $3 for it, way more than my usual budget but that's what card shows are for. This is only my 15th card of MJ but I only collect him in Sox uniforms as I don't have a PC of him anymore.

These were in the same $.50 cent box, I was a little surprised to find some Sepia refractors, 3 to be exact. You saw the other in a previous post (Moncada). What was really surprising was the Moncada and Abreu, I mean Mazara sucked for us so he didn't surprise me at all. This is my 10th card of him and my 146th of the MVP.

This is one of those Living Legends cards. I didn't realize that's what it was when I bought it, I knew I recognized it just didn't remember what it was. I paid $2 for it and it is my 37th card of Avi.

Last but not least, I picked up this 1961 Post card of Turk Lown, also, in the $.50 cent box. It's not cut well but you know who doesn't care, this guy. It's only my 3rd card of Turk.

That $.50 cent box only had a few hundred cards in it, that's why I leafed through it. Didn't really figure to find much so I was surprised to find as much as I did. It was also the first thing I looked at it when I walked in the doors. As in, right about where I was when I went off camera in that video above. Small world.

2020 Topps Sox Needs

 Wow! Didn't realize I hadn't posted in 5 days. See what happens when you go back to work. Stupid responsibilities.

Today's random came back with some more 2020 Sox. I seem to be on a team collection kick right now, I was on Sportlots last night and started purchasing 2019 Sox needs. I guess I'll just work down the years every week or two. I also made some purchases on baseballcardstore.ca, trying to complete another set for the Vintage collection. I also threw some 80's Sox needs on that order.

Today's post will be the Topps portion.

All those 2020 Topps are from Series II as I hadn't purchased any. I'm only the Luis Robert short (big surprise), minus all the short prints that is (all 8 of them). The short prints are ridiculous, there are 4 different ones just of Robert. I paid $.18 for each of the above.

In a familiar story, all of these Big League cards would complete the team set, except I need the Luis Robert. I also ran across the Orange version of Grandal for a quarter so I grabbed it. I paid $.18 each for the rest.

I picked up a couple of the Chrome versions as well. Being as Chrome is popular, these are the only 2 I have so a long way from that team collection. It does amaze me that I can pick up the Abreu on the cheap considering he is having a MVP season but he reminds me a lot like Konerko was to us. Very under rated for many years. I don't remember Konerko having a season like Abreu is now but still, same concept. He flies under the radar and they keep pitching to him. It works for us. I paid $.18 each for both of those.

I also paid $.18 for this Yasmani Grandal. I actually grabbed 6 from the Finest team set but the rest were in player collections so you'll see them later, and probably already saw a couple. I'm still 3 short of this team set. I'm sure you know who one of those are.

More 2020 Sox

 Another day, another dollar. I had to go back to work today. Blah! I guess I have to work if I want to buy more cards.

Today's random came up with some 2020 White Sox pick-ups. I hate this set but I have to at least get the Sox cards. Bowman sucks. I'm not a prospector and I hate all the sub sets or whatever they call the Prospects, Chrome Prospects, Draft Picks and whatever else. Then they release Chrome that has all that crap too. I hate trying to figure everything out. Thankfully I can figure them out by filtering on TCDB by the card number so it doesn't take long anymore.

I picked up these 2 from the Bowman base set that would complete the team set if some guy named Luis Robert's cards were at ridiculous prices so that'll be a set I finish when these investor's quit buying stuff.I did buy 3 other cards but they go to their player collections so technically I bought 5 from the set. Both of these were $.18/each.

I picked up these 3 for the Chrome Prospects set. Sadly, these are the only 3 I have. One I could probably find fairly cheap but the other is that Robert guy again. I bought the above 3 for $.18, $.35 and $.40 (left to right).

So another White Sox post and still haven't completed a team set. These purchases didn't work out the way they were supposed to.