Happy Birthday - Ryan Zimmerman

Ryan was born on this day in 1984, making him 41 today.

MLB Debut - September 1st, 2005 (Nationals)

Years Active - 

• 2005-2021 (Nationals)

Cards on TCDB - 6821 cards (2025), 6720 cards (2024), 6490 cards (2023), 6262 cards (2022), 6055 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 412 cards (2025), 406 cards (2024), 398 cards (2023), 381 cards (2022), 130 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #5 (#6 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (245 cards)
• Ebay (60 cards)
• Unknown (23 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (21 cards)
• Sluggos (19 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (11 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (10 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (9 cards)
• COMC (5 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (2 cards)
• the National (2 cards)
• Corey Tyler (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Jeremy Bode (1 card)
• the Sports Stash (1 card)

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Happy Birthday - Ryan Zimmerman

 

Ryan was born on this day in 1984, making him 40 today.

MLB Debut - September 1st, 2005 (Nationals)

Years Active - 

• 2005-2021 (Nationals)

Cards on TCDB - 6720 cards (2024), 6490 cards (2023), 6262 cards (2022), 6055 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 406 cards (2024), 398 cards (2023), 381 cards (2022), 130 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #5 (#6 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (245 cards)
• Ebay (60 cards)
• Unknown (23 cards)
• Sluggos (19 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (15 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (11 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (10 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (9 cards)
• COMC (5 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (2 cards)
• the National (2 cards)
• Corey Tyler (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Jeremy Bode (1 card)
• the Sports Stash (1 card)

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Plymouth Pickups

Geez, I didn't realize how far behind I was. Yesterday we did the Fort Wayne show. Last weekend we did the South Bend Show and the Saturday before that we did the Plymouth show. Which is what I'm showing today. I need to get my crap together.

First off, Jeremy who is a long time friend in the show scene. We met him at the very first show I set up at. His work schedule hasn't allowed him to do very many anymore but he popped into the show that Saturday. He brought me this card, I was pretty sure I had it but I try to always check if I have the time and I didn't. I had another variation of it. He just said I could have it.

I went through Corey's $1 box who was set up next to us. I wasn't planning on buying anything but the end of the shows always get a little slow and I get bored. I found all of these in there. Always like getting a new Scotty Pods and I liked Burger when he was here so I usually grab his Sox cards as well. The bottom 3, I have a bunch from that set so I grabbed a few that I didn't have.

• Scott Podsednik - 35 cards
• Jake Burger - 44 cards
• Jonathan Stiever - 10 cards
• Lance Lynn - 18 cards
• Hoyt Wilhelm - 15 cards

I also picked up another Cronenworth and Zimmerman that I didn't have. I wasn't sure about the Zimmy but I didn't have the sparkle.

• Jake Cronenworth - 86 cards
• Ryan Zimmerman - 403 cards

He also had this 1973 Topps mixed in with all that new stuff and I happen to need it for my set. 

• 1973 Topps - 83% complete

All of the above and the card on the right below all came from the $1 box. How much did he charge me for all that. $3. I'm telling you, it pays to make friends at these shows.

Corey said he had the card below in his showcase so I had to look, then I also saw the other card above. I love the Black Chrome Sox cards with black being one of our team colors. They look so great so I couldn't turn that card down.

• Andrew Vaughn - 112 cards (my 2nd auto)

While I was going through his $1 box, he told me he had a Konerko auto. I was really hoping it was one I already had so I wouldn't have to buy it but it wasn't. This jersey/auto is also seriel #'d /25. The price tag on this card was $25 and the Vaughn auto was $10. He gave them both to me for $25. So much for not spending any money at this show.

• Paul Konerko - 783 cards (6 autographs)

I don't do so good at not spending at card shows.

Sluggo trying to hit all my PC's

We set up in South Bend today. It's usually a good show and today was alright. It wasn't a bad show or a great show, somewhere in between. It was actually very strange, the traffic was really good, a lot of people. This show we usually do well on our wax and lower end singles. Today, we did decent on our showcase and nothing else. Sold a few wax boxes, even some that we've carried awhile but nothing like we nearly do. Like I said, it wasn't a bad show, just kind of weird.

I did get some cards but I didn't spend any money. That's always a plus. Obviously nothing high dollar since I didn't pay for anything but you'll have to wait until the next post as I have today's which is cards Kevin (Sluggo) brought me last week that I just finished going through yesterday.

He brought me a decent stack of PC stuff to see if I needed it and also a 2 row box filled with 1980 Topps and 1982 Fleer to see if I needed any of those. Here's what I kept.

He gave me a 2 row box with a row and a half filled with 1982 Fleer and all I came up were the 10 cards on the left but I was a lot closer to finishing that set so I didn't need near as many. That set is now at 97% finished, I only need 13 cards, including the rookie Ripken.

The other half a row had some 1980 Topps in it and as you can see in the photo, I needed a lot more of those. 118 to be exact. Those cards put me at 78% complete on it.

He also hit a bunch of my other collections. Starting with the team cards.

The top 2 are from the stack of PC stuff, the bottom one was in with the 1980 stuff. That's a Topps Heritage and a Fleer Tradition at the top.

Next up is the White Sox Collection.

He sent me 14 Sox cards that I needed, this is half of them. The other half were 90's stuff that we've all seen 100 times. The bottom row consists of possibly our future. Both have seen playing time in Chicago already and looking for more. I've been picking up both of their cards when I run across them.

Next up, Tier 3.

Kevin always hits me up with the Strawberry's and Gooden's in all the 80's and 90's sorting he does. These 6 give me 165 cards of him.

As I mentioned above, I get a bunch of these from Kevin. These 3 of Gooden give me 167 of him.

I don't however, get many of Zimmy from Kevin but he sent me this clear card to add to that PC. This one gives me 401 of Ryan.

Now on to Tier 2

Another winter of Eloy, my last post had the Holiday base card, this one is the Metallic parallel even though you can't really see the flakes. I like the City Slickers, Eloy is in his city connect jersey, makes me wonder if that's what this parallel is all about. I haven't looked into yet. These 2 give me 217 of the big baby.

I'm pretty sure I showed the Chrome version of this 2023 update of Fisk in my last post as well. This one gives me 389 cards of Pudge.

This Buehrle is an insert from A&G commemorating his 15 perfect innings. Obviously there was a perfect game mixed in there. I only picked up 6 of his last year so it'll be nice to get some more of him this year. It'll help if he keeps getting inserted into newer sets. This one gives me 388 so maybe I can double last year and hit 400 by the end of the year.

One more Sox card with this one of Liam, the scan did a pretty crappy job of this card. It's only my 41st of our former closer.

I do have one more Tier 2, just not a Sox. I picked up this Sample card from Score of Larkin. This one gives me 752 cards of Barry.

Now onto the Tier 2 Michigan PC's.

Kevin game me 2 cards of DJ Turner, one in the Maize and Blue and all shiny. These 2 give me 3 cards of Turner, that Rated Rookie is the first pro jersey card.

Kevin picked up 4 or 5 of each of these and we threw them in our showcase in Kalamazoo, Michigan and they sold quick. Luckily, he had already set aside both of them for me. That is my 10th card of Corum and 11th of JJ. Not bad consider neither have been drafted yet.

You might of heard of the first guy up there. I hate the helmet on this card but it's still a Hutch card and it's my 46th of the rookie. 

I also hate those Wild Card Matte cards because the color parallels are sometimes hard to figure out but this one was fairly straight forward on TCDB. Again, hate the helmet but it's my 21st card of Haskins.

A "baseball" card of Denard since it's technically in a baseball set (one of the reason's I'm not a fan of A&G). I feel like I just showed the base of this not long ago. This mini is the A&G back and is my 112th of Shoelace which is my highest football PC.

The Sean McKeon Optic on the right is my 8th of him. Finally back to normal looking helmets.

On to the basketball portion. Kevin gave me these 3 cards of the younger Wagner brother. The first is a Pro Picks, not sure what that is, the other 2 are Panini inserts. These 3 give me 45 cards of Franz. 

That's all for the basketball, but I do have some baseball as well.

I also added these 2 of Jake. The first being the Big League and once again, the mini is an A&G back only this one is from 2022. These 2 give me 81 cards of Cronenworth.

He also hit me with some Michigan collection only cards which means they are earlier than when I started my player collections.

 Some really cool cards up there and some that I had never seen before. I was surprised I didn't already have the Jake Long, the Wheatley is the Gold parallel of Ultra and the Avant is my 4th different version of that card. The bottom row of the top 6 I had never seen before. The Edwards is pretty cool and the other 2 basketball are TK Legacy's. The bottom photo is 3 different of Chris Perry, I like the looks of the Showbound insert and 2 different of John Navarre.

I'll try to get the cards I got at the show today up before my next birthday post, that gives me a couple of days. Until then.