A rookie indeed

I had an oral surgery today and I've finally come off the drugs so I'll try to post. I have the next week off to recover so I'm really hoping to spend lots of times with my cards but we'll see.

Today's post is a HOF catcher who is in my Tier 3 collection and as you know, I'm just finishing off my Tier 3 collections on Sportlots so your going to see a lot of cards.

These are all from 1985. The Fleer card at the top right is an Update. Not sure why they have 3 different stickers for the Fleer sticker album but there they are. Who knows, maybe theirs more that I don't have.

1986. I was surprised I needed the Donruss as I'm 92% complete on that set. The Fleer mini are relatively new to me. I don't remember those back in the day, at all.

1987. Lots of Fleer and lots of oddballs. The 2 flagship that look like dupes, one is a glossy version. There's a few more in the next pic.

1987-1988. The top 3 and the coin are also from 1987, the top 3 all look the same but they say different things at the top. Not sure about those as I've never seen them before. The rest of the cards are from 1988.

1989-1990. Top row is 1989, the Fleer is update, the 2 Donruss are Baseball's best and All-Star. The rest are 1990. The 2 Topps are a traded and an O-Pee-Chee.

1991. The top 4 Topps are the traded and 2 variations of the asterick kind and the flagship. I don't normally care about the asterick variations so they must have had them listed on Sportlots differently and I didn't notice. 

1992. The Fleer is another printing variation on the back.

1993-1994. The top 2 are 1994 Ted Williams. Is it me or can you see Ryan Reynolds in that one on the left? The 1993's (bottom) are the Topps Rockies variation.

2000. All 3 are from 2000.

2001. The last Sportlots are all from 2001. Lots of reprints or look-a-likes up there.

I also picked up a couple of the Kid in a dime box at the LCS. The top one is from 2000 and the Mosaic Vintage is a 2021.

Last but not least, I picked up these 2 in a dollar box at the Shipshewana show. Yes, that's a real 1975 Topps Rookie I picked up for a buck (actually $.79 since I bought so many and got a discount). That's the actual card and as you can see, it really isn't in bad shape. That might have been my favorite dollar box purchase.

These 78 cards give me 249 of Gary. Almost a quarter of 1000. Maybe in the next shipment.

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.

80's Flashback

My first non-player collection post of the month.

As you know, Dennis of "Too Many Verlanders" sent me a package with lots of goodies in it and that included the 80's cards above that were all new to me. The set that I'm closest to completing would be the Bill Almon, '86 Donruss set. That card puts me at 493 cards which is just under 75% completed.

Speaking of almost completed sets. I needed 9 more of the 1985 Fleer set and they were the higher cards that I couldn't pick up cheap so I splurged and spent more than my minimum. I only paid $.55 for the Rose so that wasn't way over budget but the Ryan ($2.20), Clemens ($5.40) and Puckett ($7.75) were. I probably could have found them cheaper somewhere else but I was already on Sportlots and just wanted to get them.

Last but not least, one lone '85 Topps that also came from Sportlots. Why only one? Because it was the last card I needed to complete the set, again. You may remember, on paper, I thought I had completed this set earlier this year, but during quarantine, I actually went through all my cards and logged them into TCDB and realized I was missing a bunch of cards. Well, not anymore. This final card I needed was only $.18.

The last 2

* I put my January purchases on random for today's post.

This will be a post you've never seen here before. First I'll show the cards.

If you know my collections then you know that these 2 go towards the Vintage collection but why is this a post you've never seen? These were the last 2 cards I needed to complete the 1985 Topps set.

After I got my cards logged into TCDB, I decided that I would occasionally pick up some vintage cards from whatever set I was closest to finishing so I've picked up a few here, a few there. Then last month, I was down to 2 more. I paid more than I normally would for the Clemens but considering it was the last card I needed for the set, I paid it anyways. This is the first complete set I've ever collected card by card. It is definitely a rush to finish it.

The next set that I'm closest to is 1987 Topps so I'll start picking up some of those on occasion. It's so hard to pay for those cards though.

February Additions - Vintage Collection (1986-1987)

This months pick-ups come from

1. Jimmy at S.Mack Talk
2. Ray at All Cardinals All the Time
3. Sluggo (my cousin)
4. JustCommons.com
5. COMC.com
6. LCS - Media Madhouse
7. LCS - Just Cards
8. Ebay
9. Packs

I've randomed and todays selection are going to the Vintage Collection (1986-1987)

1986 Fleer 

1986 Fleer

1986 Fleer

1986 Fleer

1986 Fleer

1986 Topps

1986 Topps

1986 Topps

1986 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Topps

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss 

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

1987 Donruss

I'm not sure how my cousin ended up with the whole Diamond King set but he sent it to me so that's fine by me. I know he buys out other people's collections so that's probably where it came from.

1987 Topps ($.06)

1987 Topps ($.14)

1987 Topps ($.14)

I did manage to nab 3 off of Ebay as well and as you can tell, pretty cheaply at that. I don't put $.50 on certain sets cards that includes the 1986 and 1987 Topps. I only put $.20 max bid.