More sorting pickups with surprise cards

We set up at the South Bend show yesterday and I picked up some cards that I was excited to run into, but you'll have to wait a few days to see those as I have a couple of birthday posts the next couple of days but the next post up are more cards I picked up from sorting.

I went to the LCS last weekend and picked up 2 shoe boxes of assorted cards and a bag with opened packs so I sorted all of that. Most of it was done last weekend, but I finished up some today. There was an assortment of sports so along with sorting players, I sorted sports. I finished up the baseball last week and finally got the time to do the football and basketball today. I didn't need any of the football but I did the other 2.

I'll start with the basketball, the boxes had older basketball and then a couple of the packs were basketball.

These 2 of Juwan Howard are nothing fancy but they were needed. They give me 129 cards of our current head (assistant) coach.

I also picked up this card of Chris Webber, technically I picked up 2 as the above Juwan Howard card also has Webber on it. Those 2 cards give me 168 cards of the other Fab Fiver.

These 2 Hoops Winter cards came from a couple of packs. Obviously whoever searched them, weren't Michigan fans as I found this LeVert and Robinson in there. I'm pretty sure I just posted the Hoops base a week or 2 ago of LeVert. This is my 60th card of LeVert and my 35th of Robinson.

2 more from Packs, the Wagner was the only card I got out of the Contenders pack, it is my 42nd of him. I also found this Hardaway jr in a Hoops pack. It's pretty cool looking, it's called teal explosion and it gives me 106 cards of him.

Next up is some baseball. Whoever they bought this lot from must have been a Chicago fan because there were a couple of lots of Chicago (both Sox and Cubs) players.

There was a pretty good stack of El Caballo but I only needed these 6. He's not a PC but I do have 108 cards of him.

I got fill in some 2009 Upper Deck needs with these 4 and an insert of Chris Snopek.

5 various Bowman Chrome's, a Prizm rookie and some newer Donruss. The '22 Donruss of Anderson is the Lime Green parallel and a couple of '23 Donruss. It is my 236th card of Anderson and 188 of Ventura. I've been picking up Colson Montgomery as he is one of our top prospects and as bad as we are probably going to suck, he may get some playing time this year.

I did get a couple of PC guys as well.

I actually have this card but this one is one of those asterick variations. I don't actively seek them out but if I come across one and it's free, I keep it. This gets me 1 card closer to 1k, this is 982 cards of jr.

As I said, there were player stacks on some Chicago players, PK being one of them, I got excited because I always like to add cards of my favorite player. I got disappointed that I only got to add 2 though. I'll still take them. These 2 give me 765 of Konerko.

But wait, there's more. The following were in the boxes and they were out of place with what the rest of the cards were but I was still happy to see them.

The box had a bunch of 90's to 2010's in it, so it was odd to run across these. That's 8 cards from the 1980 set, which gives me 449 from that set which is just below 63% completed. There was also 1 card from the 1983 Topps set and that gives me 653 cards and just over 82% completed.

I kept getting more surprised when they started getting older, these 2 cards from the 1967 set give me 48 cards.

Also got 3 cards from the 1966 set. Our first fairly big name as well with that Bill Mazeroski. Not sure what was being collected as all 3 of these cards are Pirates cards. That team card will also go to that collection. These 3 cards give me 224 cards for 37% completed.

It just keeps getting better with this 1959 Topps. This is only my 24th card from that set.

These 2 and the previous card were all Yankees to counter the Pirates cards before. You can see the Bauer card isn't in the greatest of condition but I mean, it is 65 years old now. These 2 give me 26 cards from this set. The odd thing is out of those 26, 9 are Yankees cards and 13 are White Sox cards. The White Sox cards I get as I look for those before I do any others but I find it odd that I keep running across Yankees cards as well.

As I said earlier, I'll go over yesterdays pickups in a few days.

A break for Sox

I got some time finally. There's been a lot of Birthday's lately and the days there isn't, I wasn't feeling it. I'm in a little better mood now since I have the next 3 days off work. The card show on Saturday got cancelled as well so I get 3 days at home, sleeping in. I did hit my LCS yesterday. I had to go to conference in town and it finished at 3 instead of my usual getting off work at 4:30. It was also right up the road from the LCS. I dropped off the stuff I sorted last week and since I had 4 days off, I went ahead and grabbed 4 3 row boxes of cards to sort so that's what I'll probably be doing for those 3 days. After I sleep in that is. I did pick up 1 card at the LCS so I'll get that logged and scanned tomorrow. Since I don't have it ready, you'll get another random post but this is a team post. Although they don't play much like a team which should tell you which team since I follow 2 and they are both at the complete opposites of the spectrum.

Fred at work gave these to me. I know some of them he picked up in a quarter box at the Shipshewana show. Some of the others he brought to me at work. I love the look of the cracked ice so you know I love the Sapphire set.

I got these from sorting packs. The flagship is series 2 as I've already completed series 1. The 4 Prizm are my first from the 2023 set.

All of these last 3 scans are list players that I sorted for the LCS. Hall of Famers are automatically on the list so Frank Thomas and Tim Raines are in and Bo Jackson and Sammy Sosa are popular players so they are on it.

The real announcement is with the addition of those 13 cards of Frank Thomas (and the one further above) I have officially hit 1000 cards of him. It's my first player to 1000 and it's not even a PC of mine, he just has that many White Sox cards. My official total right now is 1003.

These 6 cards are from Kevin. The top 4 came from a box he bought at the Mishawaka show, I skimmed through it and pulled some cards for myself. The bottom 2 are from his sorting of the LCS stuff.

Do you remember the Vintage stuff I picked up at the Plymouth show? I've already shown some of it, this was also on his table so I picked it up as well. I liked Madrigal before we sent him off to the Cubs plus it's a rookie auto and as I mentioned before, I like the Sapphire set.

I'll be back tomorrow with another birthday post before I finally get some time to post other stuff.

Pre Show Post

Went over to my cousin's this evening to load up the cards and showcases for the show tomorrow. It's the same show we did a couple of months ago in Plymouth. It's not an overly huge show, it's in the basement of a church but it's been running for a couple of years now so it's got a good following. Plus, the church raises money while we're there by selling biscuits and gravy for breakfast and chili for lunch so we get food as well. The guy that runs it gives the money to the church and the local little league.

Today's post is in hopes of a season. I haven't see anything about spring training being postponed so we'll see.

I picked up all of these White Sox cards from the Baseball Card Store (online dime box) at a nickel a piece.

Fred gave me the top 2 cards as well as this team set from when the White Sox were the local minor league club. If I remember, there was only one name that did anything in the majors. I really liked this because I used to go to the games a lot more often when they were the White Sox. Now they're the Cubs.

Dennis sent me a ton of White Sox cards. I just selected the guys I have over 100 cards of to show off and I'll flip through them pretty quickly.

Robin Ventura - 153 cards.

To be honest, I'm not sure why I scanned these 3 together.

Harold Baines - 85 cards (I posted him because he's a HOFer.

Frank Thomas - 576 cards.

Ozzie Guillen - 110 cards. The cards Dennis sent me put my Ozzie cards over 100.

I posted Chris Sabo because, well, you know. Or at least Dennis does.

Some oddballs he sent as well. Love the bottom 2.

He also sent me this awesome 1959 card which will also go to the vintage collection.

Not only did Dennis hook me up with all of the above cards, but also these relics and auto. I told you he sent an awesome package.

The above 4 came from Sluggo. I'm not sure about those top 2 as in where they came from. It's not like he goes through the older stuff anymore, most of that is at our house. I liked Madrigal, I wish they wouldn't have traded him.

Lastly, I picked up all these Sox cards at the last card show we did. I paid a lot more of what I normally spend on cards on the Crochet auto. I'm really hoping he becomes something special.

That's all I got for White Sox cards that are non PC cards. Which is plenty. I don't know if I'll post tomorrow night or not. I'll be home in the early evening but as much as I enjoy setting up at shows, it wears me out.

Fred Sox

Today, I'm going to show off the cards that I get from Fred, whom I work with. Every few days or so he brings me a couple of cards. He's going through all his cards from 30 years ago and when he comes across Sox cards, he brings them in to me. I scan them when I get them so that's how the pics will be. He actually brought me in a couple yesterday but I haven't gotten around to doing them yet so you'll see those in the next round.

I didn't realize how often he gives me cards until I was uploading all the scans.

I had this Jason Bere from 1994 Upper Deck but I didn't have the Electric Diamond parallel and a Magglio rookie from Fleer.

When he started bringing the cards in and I saw all those 90's, I figured I'd have most of them. I had some but he gave me a lot more than I thought I would need. This is my 3rd card of Clemons and my 32nd of Roberto Hernandez.

These 2 were studs in the 90's for the Sox, Black Jack McDowell and Rockin' Robin.

As you can tell, he had some that weren't 90's. I think he'd pick up cheap cards at the LCS or card shows for me as well. This is my 13th card of Danish.

He gave me my first 2021 Topps awhile ago and he gave me these as well. They only get shown because I received them before the box breaks cards that I had won. That is my 1st card of Heuer, my 146th of the current MVP and my 10th of Leury.

Back to the 90's with this trio of Ventura cards. Again, I though I had all 3 of these but nope.

An assortment of early to mid 90's. Another Blackjack along with a Bo Jackson, I wasn't a huge fan of his, didn't hate him or anything, but wasn't really into him. I did like Ray Durham though. That is my 9th of Parque, my 26th of Bo and my 74th of Durham.

I do like getting Mike Caruso cards. I know you're thinking who? Back in the day, the White Sox had a minor league team right here in South Bend (they are the Cubs now) and he's one of the few names I remember seeing play here. Jason Bere is another one of those guys but I remember him more from his pro career. This is my 25th of Caruso, my 48th of Belle and my 37th card of Bere.

We've seen all 3 of these guys already. I thought I had both of those Award Winners. Makes me wonder how many cards I fly by flipping through dime boxes thinking I already had them. The Fernandez at the bottom is the silver signature version and is my 46th of him.

I remember buying a box of these Collector's Choice back in the day. I think my cousin (Sluggo) and I split it. That was back when cards were cheap. It is my 3rd of Fabregas and my 5th of Valdez.

Another Maggs, with a rookie cup and another McDowell. The above Ordonez's give me 161 of him and my 55th of Jack McDowell.

Another trio, this time of 1998 Upper Deck's. This Cameron makes my 20th, my 6th of Norberto and my 12th of Navarro.

He also picked up some packs of Heritage and gave me this Keuchel. It's only my 5th of Keuchel.

A couple more for the late 90's. I told you he sent a bunch of cards in the last couple of months. This is my 5th of Scott Eyre and my 15th of Abbott.

Lastly, he picked this up at a card show for me. I think he said he only paid a couple of bucks for it and he bought it for me. This is my 6th card of Thompson and my first auto of his.

I feel bad that I never give him any cards but the one time, but that one time was an 800 count box about 3/4 full of Cubs cards so it's not like he's even close to giving me what I gave him (for the record, he doesn't have to give me anything) I just feel bad because a couple times a week he gives me cards and I just keep taking. I have to remind myself that I already gave him a box.