Josh is the man

Sluggo and I went out to Warsaw to check out a card show yesterday. It wasn't the greatest but we still found some stuff to grab. Him to sell, me for my collections. The show seemed to be more guys selling their cards than dealers set up, if that makes sense. Which was fine, like I said, I found plenty for myself and Sluggo found some stuff he wanted.

Afterwards, we went around the corner to a LCS there, it was really small (they're getting ready to move to a bigger location) and after being at a show for a couple of hours, I really wasn't in the mood to search a bunch of boxes for cards. I did grab one out of his showcase and again, Sluggo picked up a few as well. 

We left there and headed home but before we got there, we thought we'd hit our LCS and I ended up finding more stuff. He had just bought a collection that had a ton of high end White Sox stuff which was cool to see but was way too rich for my wallet. He did have a bunch more my price range that I did pick up. It was a nice day of shopping for cards and I've spent most of today logging and scanning all the cards from last weekend as well as yesterday.

I just recently looked at how much I've spent this year compared to the last few and I've already spent more than last year, and last year was my highest to date. I guess it's paying off for my collections to work the shows because I generally spend the money I make working for Sluggo towards more cards so it's really easy on the budget. It's also gotten me to spend more money per card instead of always buying cheaply. I've added quite a few cards that I would never had purchased before. To be exact, I've already spent over $600 more than last year and I've picked up a little less than 5000 cards less than last year so that shows you, I've been buying nicer cards.

Today's post, however, is a nod to the old me (from last year). At the Plymouth show last weekend, I was talking to Josh (the promoter) who I had bought a bunch of vintage stuff (you'll see that later) and I was talking about my vintage collection. He handed me a stack of 1975 Topps (39 cards) and asked if I wanted them all for a buck. Hell yeah!

Out of the 39, I needed 33 of them. They are in stacks of teams (you can't tell by the colors so I figured I'd tell you) then the last photo (other than the 2 Rangers) are all the cards I only had 1 player from that team. It boosted my 1975 Topps set to 142 cards. Nothing really flashy but all needs and 1975 cards for $.02 each. I'd call that a bargain, but wait, there's more. 

He also said he had a box of 1982 Topps I could have for $5 but it was at home. He sets up at the Shipshewana show which was a couple of days after his so I told him to bring the box and I'd find him. At the Shipshewana show, I found him and he took me out to his car. I figured he had a 300 count or maybe an 800 count box until he stood up with this.

Those are all 1982 Topps card. I though for sure I'd get to at least only needing the really good players with that many cards. First I sorted them into teams, because they were already somewhat sorted that way.

Yes, those are in alphabetical order by teams. I've sorted baseball cards most of my life and can pretty much name them in alphabetical if I think about it hard enough. Especially 80's, the expansion teams since then throw me off a bit but back to the story. As I was sorting them by teams, I noticed they were almost all standard player cards. Only a couple all-star cards and team leaders cards. No in action, no future stars, no highlights. Alright, that's cool. Than as I started to go through the team stacks, I noticed there were only so many players and a bunch of each. For example, that Athletics stack which seems to be the highest, I only added 13 cards and am still 9 short of the team set. I'm certainly not complaining because I boosted my set quite a bit, almost doubled what I had. Just telling it like it is. Let's look at what I did keep.

I ended up adding 232 cards to the set so I ended up paying just over $.02 a card for the ones I kept and now I have a huge box to get rid of. By the way, the photo of the box was after I took out the 232 cards, that's how packed it was. If you're in need of any 1982 Topps, please let me know. You can have them at no cost, well, maybe shipping cost depending on how many you want.

Let's see how well that boost my 1982 Topps set.

Before

After

61% definitely looks better than under 32%. 

Thanks Josh and quit bringing so much good stuff to the shows, you're taking all my money!

Newer and Older

My White Sox are on a roll so why not show off some Sox cards. That and that's what the random told me to show today. We've won 3 in a row, are over .500 after being right at .500 7 times already this year. The bats are finally coming alive. Kopech got the start today and as of the 3rd inning, we are up 8-1 already. We're currently in 2nd place in the division but we are only 1.5 back going into today. 1 game in the win column and 2 in the loss, we've played 1 more game than KC.

I picked up these awhile ago when I was trying to get 2017 team sets completed. Which these 5 did. That card in the middle is my 49th of Rodon, who just threw the Sox's 20th no-hitter.

Picked these up while looking at the base Bunt. I'm actually only a couple cards short on this team set as well. This is my 13th cards of James Shields.

These 5 also complete the 2017 Chrome set. I need to get back to buying Sox cards but I'm having so much fun going through my player collections. This is my 34th card of Fulmer, 22nd of Q, 33rd of Frazier and Reynaldo, and lastly, my 146th card of the current MVP.

Once I get close to my budget when shopping on Sportlots, I look to see which sellers I haven't bought at least 4 cards from and look through their inventory just to see if there's anything I need. That's what the following cards are.

I picked this up from 2015 Panini. It's my 10th card of our former manager.

I picked up these 1981 Topps Stickers from a seller. I only have 3 for the team set but I do enjoy getting these early 80's stickers. This is my 11th card of Lamar Johnson and my 10th of Wayne Nordhagen.

I picked up these 4 from the 1976 SSPC set. I know 2 aren't in Sox uniforms but they were listed as Sox cards on Sportlots and if you've used it, there isn't many pictures. It does have the Sox listed as their teams on the back so they would still get counted as Sox collection. In order of appearance up there, this is my 7th card of Ralph Garr, 3rd card Nyls Nyman, 10th card of Pat Kelly and my 11th of Jim Spencer.

Lastly, I picked up this Billy Pierce from 1979 TCMA. I was happy to grab this card as I don't have a bunch of him. This is only my 7th card of his and the majority of those are post career, as this one is.

If you want an update since it took me awhile to do this post, KC won again today and the Sox are up 4 in the 7th.

Newest Additions - White Sox Collection (1964-1977)

I have randomed them and let's see what we got (unless you peeked at the title.) Sorry if a few are blurry, I didn't realize it when I edited them and I wasn't going to go back, find the cards and take new photos.

White Sox Collection (1964-1977)

Love the first card, obviously Fox is a White Sox great but on top of that, Killebrew was pretty awesome as well. All these cards are great because they are 2 of my favorite things, White Sox cards and Vintage cards.

I was really surprised to see that Minnie Minoso in a dime box, I had to scoop that up.

Be sure to check out my other 2 card blogs as well.

http://msobaseballcards.blogspot.com/

Just like it says, photos of baseball cards. The "Blog" currently sits at over 4400 cards featured and I add more weekly.

http://msomypcs.blogspot.com/

This "Blog" has photos of the cards from my PC's. I have all the cards that were featured on this blog over here and will be working on adding all of my cards.

http://mysportsobsession.tumblr.com/

Everything from current to vintage sports pictures, baseball cards and more.

Vacation Pick-Ups #2–1970’s

I promised you some vintage today so we’ll pump out this post sponsored by the 1970’s.

I found one card from the 1977 set that I needed.  I believe this was one of the $.20 cards.

I already completed my 1975 Topps set but since this isn’t technically part of the team set, I didn’t have it yet.  Dick Allen is cool enough, but it has Johnny Bench too.  Makes that card that much sweeter.

2 of 3 of these 1972’s will go towards the team set.  But again, another White Sox card with Norm Cash and Reggie Jackson on it.  Not to mention the White Sox player is Bill Melton, whom I’ve considered starting a player collection of just because I like him on the pre and post game shows before and after the Chicago White Sox games.

5 more 1971 cards for the team set.  Including a Wilbur Wood and the team card.  That brings that team set down to needing 11 cards which isn’t a lot when it comes to the team sets in the 1970’s.  Except almost half of those are short prints, yikes.

I even picked up one 1970 card which seem to be somewhat hard for me to come by.  I just don’t run into that many of them.

Tomorrow, we’ll start with the 1960’s, only I have to divide it up into 2 posts because I have that many of them.  And yes, I’ll have a post for the 1950’s too.  Stay Tuned.