Happy Birthday - Paul Konerko

 

Paul was born on this day in 1976, making him 49 today.

MLB Debut - September 8th, 1997 (Dodgers)

Years Active - 

• 1997-1998 (Dodgers)
• 1998 (Reds)
• 1999-2014 (White Sox)

Cards on TCDB - 5305 cards (2025), 5092 cards (2024), 4787 cards (2023), 4644 cards (2022), 4530 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 796 cards (2025), 767 cards (2024), 743 cards (2023), 711 cards (2022), 698 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #3 (#3 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (245 cards)
• Unknown (80 cards)
• Ebay (76 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (69 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (55 cards)
• Sluggos (40 cards)
• Just Commons (37 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (21 cards)
• Baseballcard.ca (20 cards)
• Box Break (20 cards)
• Things Are Funner Here (14 cards)
• Thoughts and Sox (14 cards)
• COMC (10 cards)
• Nomo's Sushi Platter (10 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (8 cards)
• JayBarkerFans Junk (8 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (6 cards)
• Night Owl Cards (5 cards)
• the Diamond King (5 cards)
• the Sandlot (5 cards)
• BA Benny's Card Buffet (4 cards)
• Man Cave (4 cards)
• the Adventures of Napkin Doon (4 cards)
• All Tribe Baseball (3 cards)
• Kevin (reader) (3 cards)
• North Carolina (3 cards)
• Number 5 Type Collection (3 cards)
• Spoke Bait and the Game (3 cards)
• Tim (reader) (3 cards)
• All Trade Bait (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (2 cards)
• Card Show-Shipshewana (2 cards)
• Cardboard Connections (2 cards)
• Collecting Cutch (2 cards)
• Corey Tyler (2 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (2 cards)
• Garvey Cey Russell Lopes (2 cards)
• Hollister's (2 cards)
• Media Madhouse (2 cards)
• Morgan (reader) (2 cards)
• My 2008 Topps Blog (2 cards)
• Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (2 cards)
• Ron (reader) (2 cards)
• the Lost Collector (2 cards)
• Card Show-Buchanan (1 card)
• Card Show-Fort Wayne (1 card)
• Card Show-South Bend (1 card)
• Funner Here (1 card)
• Gwen Orman (1 card)
• Jan's Sports Cards & Comics (1 card)
• My Cardboard Mistress (1 card)
• Nachos Grande (1 card)
• S.Mack Talk (1 card)
• the Daily Dimwit (1 card)
• the Sports Stash (1 card)
• Topps (1 card)

Happy Birthday Paul!

Don't Call it a Comeback

I have a dilema. I stopped doing card shows with Sluggo moving back to North Carolina so I have more time to start posting. Only, without the card shows, I have less money (holidays including in that as well) and less cards coming in to show off anyways.

I have been posting the cards on Instagram though, occasionally. So I took those to show off in this post and if I get anything decent, I'll try to post. I did add 76 cards from my last sort job but a lot of it was 80's and 90's stuff so nothing terribly exciting. Mostly White Sox and maybe 10 or 12 PC cards but mostly Strawberry and Gooden as those PC's are still new enough that I still needed some of the 80's stuff.

Here's what I had going on in December though. If you follow on Instagram than I'm sorry for the repeat.

All new Frank Thomas cards to my Sox collection.

All Konerko autos and relics.

The above 2 pics came from the LCS that I do all the sorting from. He bought out another guy that we know (White Sox fan) that was getting out of the business so he gave me first dibs on stuff. The other guy was a big Frank Thomas fan so he boxes of stuff of his. I don't even PC him and I'm up to 1,421 cards of his.

The 2nd pic are all of Paulie. Including 3 autographs. The High-Tek auto on top is numbered out of 50 and the Archives on the bottom is numbered to 9. I'm closing in on the 800 count of my Konerko collection.

How much did I pay? $0. He let me take it all so I keep sorting for him and before you don't think I earn it, here's the pics of the last cards that I sorted for him.

That was the 2nd load that I did in December. That'll slow down now that I have to go back to work on Monday.

The wife and I went to Virginia to hang out with some of her family down there. There was a day where she hung out with her best friend who still lives down there so I hung out with the mother-in-law. We hit the grocery store and stuff like that but she had also scoped out a LCS down there and we went in there. I think she was more excited about it than me. I hit the dollar boxes and picked a few cards plus grabbed some to give to the grandkids for Christmas. I was talking to the dealer and told him where I was from, yada, yada. I said, I'm going ask you something that you've probably never been asked down here. Do you have any Konerko autographs? He did, in the top pic. I was looking in his showcase and saw the Seaver. I figured I'd ask how much since it wasn't cut really well but he still wanted $40 for it and he told me it was an O-Pee-Chee at that. I said it was more than I wanted to spend but it was a good price. I continued to look around and when I went to check out, the mother-in-law said she wanted to buy what I had for my Christmas and she wanted to get me the Seaver. I tried talking her out of the Seaver but she wouldn't budge so I got both of those and some dollar cards for Christmas.

When I got back home, there was a package from Dennis from Too Many Verlanders for me to go through. We had just done a trade not long ago so I certainly wasn't expecting much but these great cards popped out along with some other PC stuff. Love those Topps Retired autos and look, another Konerko autograph. I almost doubled my autographs of Konerko in one month. Thanks Dennis!

That was my December, with me out of card shows now, I'm sure you won't see as much nice stuff. Hopefully when I get back to work, I can pick up some OT and start hitting the local shows that I used to set up and start picking out some more cards. Then you might get some posts that aren't related to my PC birthdays.

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.