Vintage stars

It's Thursday so I'm done with work for the week. I got kicked out at 1 today because I hit my 40 hours and they aren't allowing overtime. Maybe I'll get some posts done this weekend. We are setting up at a small show on Saturday but it's only half an hour or so from home so I won't be gone all day.

Today, I'm going to hit a couple of collections. They kind of go together.

I got 3 cards for the team card collection. They are all mid 2000's. I was happy they came back at this time, I wish they had them in the newer sets. You'd think the heritage sets would at least have them. It's only my 4th card of the Marlins but they didn't have any Vintage. I have 14 cards of the Giants, 5 of them are after 2000. The Mets are now at 13 cards, 4 from after 2000. These 3 came from Sluggo

I said these collections go together before I realized the 3 cards I had for the team collection were all modern (sort of) but here we go anyways.

I picked up these 21 cards from sorting. He must have picked up some (sort of) Vintage lots from somebody.

These 13 cards also came from sorting. All of the players in both scans are of list players, some of the players I pull while doing the sorting. When I sort list players, I put them in player stacks. The guy that buys them pays more when they are already sorted. Obviously, these are the older players, mostly hall of famers. There's a lot more modern players than these but you won't see those here being it's a Vintage post.

Remember awhile ago, when I said the promoter at the Plymouth show told me he had some vintage on his table that I should see, Well the rest of the post are those cards.

As you can see, these are a lot better players than I normally purchase on the cheap. The Yaz is a player collection as well. Kevin was upset I grabbed the Hank Aaron before he saw it. I mean, I didn't grab it until the show was closing so it wasn't like he didn't have that option. These 2 cards give me 238 cards from that set which is good for 30% complete.

2 more stars and another needed PC card. These 2 1971's give me 199 cards which is just under 30% complete.

2 more of the same players only a year older. These 2 1970's give me 117 cards which is good for 16% complete. As you can tell, the older I get, the less cards I have.

Lastly, this 1968 of Killebrew gives me only 56 from that set which is still under 10%.

I paid $33 for those 7 cards which is way over what I normally spend, at least on 7 cards but those are some pretty good Vintage stars and not the usual commons that I pick up. Like I said, he was the promoter and a guy I consider a friend so I didn't mind handing him that much money.

Vintage adds

I told you that I went to my LCS yesterday and picked up more cards to sort so that's what I did today. He has a guy that buys packs, opens them up looking for I have no idea what, puts them back in the packs and then sells them to the LCS. I say I have no idea what because there isn't much missing from the packs, just a few cards (I assume). The stars are there as well as a whole lot of inserts so I'm guessing he's just looking for hits. Anyways, that's what I sorted today. I had said it was 2022 Update but I was wrong, it was all 2023 Topps series 1. Either way, it sucked for me because I have all the base of both those sets, I'll just be lucky to get some inserts.

I went through 4 Megas, 5 Blasters and 1 Hanger of 2023 Topps. When I sort, I look for myself and 2 other people (Dennis and Sluggo). After all was said and done, I only added 2 cards to my collections but 6 to Sluggo's and about the same (I forgot to count) to Dennis' stack. I added those cards to the random so we'll see if you get to see them today.

We start back up doing shows next weekend so maybe you'll see some better cards then.

It didn't take long to sort today, a little over an hour so I spent a few hours scanning and posting card pics to TCDB. I added 42 cards (42 fronts & 40 backs) so 82 scans in all. I have a long way to go but it was something, I may work on it some more tomorrow.

I added all of these to the Vintage collection from the sorting last weekend. As you can see, they are all Hall of Famers which is why they were in those particular boxes.

While I was on hiatus, I added quite a bit to my 80's sets. Here's where they stand now.

As you can see, I've gotten over 80% on all my 80's sets. Out of the 15 yet completed, 10 of those are over 90% complete and 3 sets are within 5 cards or less. This is on account of all the common stuff we bought and turned around. It was a lot of 80's so I grabbed up what I needed so a lot of it didn't cost me a dime.

This is where I stand on my 70's sets. I have picked up some of them as well but not nearly as much as I did the 80's. I only have 2 sets over 10% out of the 60's and my highest 50's is only at 4%.

Lottsa Cards

I have lots of cards to show and I'm sleepy so let's get to it.

1987 Donruss from my LCS found sorting for him.

1987 Fleer from my LCS found sorting cards.

More 1987 fleer, these are from Kevin while sorting his cards.

1986 Fleer from my LCS.

1986 Fleer from Kevin.

1985 Donruss from Kevin.

1984 Topps from Kevin.

1984 Donruss from Kevin.

1983 Topps from my LCS.

Another 1983 from Sluggo

1983 Topps from my son, the only card I needed out of the repack he bought me.

1983 Fleer from my LCS.

1982 Topps from my LCS.

1982 Topps from Kevin.

1982 Fleer from my LCS.

1982 Donruss from Kevin.

1981 Donruss from Kevin.

1980 Topps from my LCS.

This is the first card on this post that I paid for. This 1972 Topps was in the half off box that Kevin bought from Hollister so I only paid $2.

A 1985 Topps from my LCS,

Last but not least, this 1964 that also came from my LCS.

Lots of vintage up there, very cheap in total for all of it. Cards as old as 50 plus years. If you add up everything, I paid less than $5 for all of it. The majority of it free as payment for sorting cards for Kevin and the LCS.

Oldies but goodies

Has anybody noticed these at Dairy Queen.

My son works there and he sent a pic of one and I said bring me one home. He brought all 3 home because they all say something different. Now that I have them home, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with them. They've actually just been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now. I may decide to just throw them away. I don't know.

A little different of a post today. Usually you get a player collection or a team collection. Today, you get one of my favorites, even though I don't pick them up as much. There's a guy that sets up at the show we are setting up at this weekend that is all these and I'm thinking about throwing some cash his way.

We'll start off with some cheap pick-ups.

I picked up this 1982 Donruss, I usually look for this set when I'm picking up extras on Sportlots because I'm slowly getting closer to completing it. It is my 529th card which is good for 80% complete. It might be time to hit the baseballcardstore.ca to see if I can't grab some more to finish it.

I also picked up a couple from the 1981 Fleer set. A couple pretty good pitchers back in the day at that. This set is right behind the 1982 Donruss with 523 cards.

Next up, we have the good old black border 1971 Topps. One of my favorites from the 70's. This is my 120th card from that set.

It's always a bonus when I can find 60's cards for under a quarter. I picked up this 1967 which gives me 44 cards from that set. I'm pretty sure half of those are White Sox cards. I looked, 17 of them are Sox so not quite half.

I even grabbed a couple from 1960. These 2 give me 72 cards. I'm sure most are Sox cards again (29 Sox cards) so again, almost half.

Not only was I able to grab some 60's, I also managed a few from 1959. I really love finding these cheap, These 3 cards give me 21 cards for that set.

All of the above were from Sportlots that I grabbed to take advantage of the shipping on a couple of sellers when picking up some player collections.

This 1977 Willie Stargell, I picked up at the LCS. It was in the dollar box and I said why not.

I picked up these 2 in Shipshewana in the dollar boxes. If I had to guess, I would say from Hollister because I believe he was the only one I spent money with at that last show. A couple of really good players. The Rose and Stargell up there give me 273 cards from the 1977 Topps set.

I picked these up from Hollister when I ran into him at the LCS. They were in his half off box, they were marked $4 which meant they were $2 but we got a discount for buying a bunch so I paid less than $2 each. I don't think that's too much for the Hall of Fame brothers. (Kidding, I know they aren't). The 1970 on the right gives me 96 cards from that set.

This was also a half off purchase of $2. I wouldn't have spent that much but I was already dropping a bunch, what was $2 more for a Vintage White Sox card. This card gives me 40 for the 1966 set.

This was my favorite of the vintage pick-ups. A 1972 Hank Aaron. Sure, it's not his single but I loved these as a kid because I got great players on 1 card and they were cheaper than the singles. This was also a half off card from Hollister that I grabbed for $2. This and the Brooks Robinson up there give me 82 cards from that set.

Another one down

Baseball is back! I watched our Spring Training game, not that it was terribly exciting being as we lost but it was great to watch some baseball again. The start of spring training signifies that Opening Day is right around the corner (32 days to be exact).

Today, we're not talking about the Sox though. Today, we're talking about another completed set and not a team set. I've completed my 6th set since starting to use Sportlots (and baseballcardstore.ca). I realize they are all 80's sets that aren't extremely difficult to finish but before, I wasn't even trying to complete them so I started with the sets that I was closest to finishing and they all happened to be 80's sets.

I picked up the last 52 cards I needed on Sportlots. If you remember, I picked up what I could from the baseballcardstore.ca back in October so these were all I had left to pick up.

I guess it's fitting that this set is features since the 2021 seems to be reusing the design.

As you can see, there are some great stars in this set but even though, this set isn't to hard to complete because there are no high dollar cards.

I went back on my spreadsheet and according to that, I only dropped $20.87 for all of them, half of that was probably on these 52 just because I wanted to finally complete it. I got a pretty big chunk of it in trades as well.