Cheap Vintage

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

We're starting a new month off with some new purchases from Sportslots. We'll have a few White Sox posts, a few new player collections and a couple of Vintage posts along with a couple other player collections. I think there was a total of 13 posts for the month so I don't have to force myself to post every day, even though I have plenty of time to do so now. Maybe I'll get around to doing a random cards from my collection post.

After the random, we end up with a vintage post. If you remember, before I had the vintage collection, I was trying to collect the 1973 Topps set. I purchased a couple of cards from the same seller so I decided to grab a few 1973's that he was selling just to add to the collection.

The Ron Santo was a nice find, I paid $.18 for each of the cards above. These 9 cards put me at 464 cards which is good for 70% completion. I know I have some more from this set in my Sportlots box so you'll see some more next month.

This Week on MSO

It’s Sunday, time to recap the pictures that I post on My Sports Obsession Tumblr page.  It is a variety of sports pictures and videos from vintage to current.

Guess you can tell what season it is, this post is a little NBA heavy.  But there is some vintage baseball at the end.

Michael Jordan

Bill Russell

Tracy McGrady

Dominique Wilkins

Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale

Dr. J over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Larry Bird

Clyde Drexler

Shawn Kemp

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar over Wilt Chamberlain

Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, Chico Carrasquel and Vern Stephens

Roberto Clemente

Frank Robinson

Ron Santo and Rusty Staub

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Completed Team Sets–1975 Topps

Another vintage team set that I completed with the previous COMC purchase was this awesome set.

I had thought I finished this with the end of the year purchase in December but I accidently bought a mini instead of the regular sized card.

I really do hate all the oddball colors but yet I love the set for them.  I can’t understand it.  I kind of feel the same way about the 1976 Topps set as well.

I guess the advantage of being a White Sox fan is that there is rarely a high dollar card that you have to pick up.

Technically the leader and rookie cards aren’t part of the team set, but I’m throwing them in anyways.

Believe it or not, I still have a couple of Vintage Complete Sets to post.  So stay tuned because I have a few other packages from fellow bloggers to throw up as well.

Completed Team Set–1974 Topps

I completed this set before the end of the year but I’ve been a slacker for awhile.  I get such a satisfaction of finishing a vintage team set.  I finished 4 of them from the 70’s just before the end of the year with my black Friday purchases from COMC.

I can’t believe they followed up the 1973 Topps photography with these.  Only 3 action shots in the first 16 cards.

A couple more action shots.  These were odd years for the White Sox just because their uniforms really have nothing to do with their normal color scheme.  But I do enjoy them because they are a little different from the norm.

I went ahead and threw the Ron Santo traded and a rookie pitchers card with Ken Frailing from the Sox on it even though they may not be technically part of the team set.

Team collections from COMC

I went and purchased my first ever cards from COMC on Black Friday and took advantage of the free shipping plus you got $.10 back on each purchase.  Today we’ll go through the White Sox collection purchases.  I mainly wanted to work on my vintage team collections and vintage player collections.

I needed 4 cards to complete my 1975 Topps team set.  I thought I picked up all 4 but I apparently didn’t pay enough attention to what I was buying.  I picked up all 3 of these for $2.38 - $.30 = $2.08 total.  What’s the last card I need to complete this set and if I bought 4, why did I not complete it?

I accidently picked up the 1975 Topps mini instead of the full size card.  Oops.  So I still need the team card to complete that set.  I still needed the mini for the White Sox Collection so it wasn’t a big deal, but I was disappointed when I pulled it out and knew I didn’t complete it.  I picked this card up for $.65 – $.10 = $.55.

I picked up the final 3 that I needed for the 1974 Topps team set.  You see the odd cut on the Jim Kaat?  2 of the 3 listed had that and the 3rd card was quite a bit more expensive so I went for the bad cut.  It’s not like I’m going to sell the team set and they have to perfect.  I picked up all 3 of these for $1.36 – $.30 = $1.06.

I also picked up these 2 1973 Topps to bring that team set to only needing 3 cards.  I picked both these up for $1.26 – $.20 = $1.06.

I concentrated on those 3 years because they were the vintage ones that I was closest to completing.

So my totals for my black Friday purchases for my White Sox collection was 9 cards (1973-1975) for $4.75.  Not too shabby at all.