Happy Birthday - AJ Pierzynski

AJ was born on this day in 1976, making him 47 today.

MLB Debut - September 9th, 1998 (Twins)

Years Active - 

• 1998-2003 (Twins)
• 2004 (Giants)
• 2005-2012 (White Sox)
• 2013 (Rangers)
• 2014 (Red Sox)
• 2014 (Cardinals)
• 2015-2016 (Braves)

Cards on TCDB - 1234 cards (up 8 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 261 cards (up 3 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #11 (#13 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (153 cards)
• BaseballCardStore.CA (20 cards)
• Ebay (16 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (15 cards)
• Unknown (14 cards)
• My Cardboard Habit (12 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (7 cards)
• Sluggo (5 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (4 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (2 cards)
• Nomo's Sushi Platter (2 cards)
• Things Are Funner Here (2 cards)
• All Tribe Baseball (1 card)
• BA Benny's Baseball Card Buffet (1 card)
• Box Break (1 card)
• Man Cave (1 card)
• No Relics Pulled (1 card)
• Number 5 Type Collection (1 card)
• Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (1 card)
• the Collective Mind (1 card)
• the Sandlot (1 card)

Happy Birthday AJ!

Happy Birthday - Dave Dravecky

Dave was born on this day in 1956, making him 67 today.

MLB Debut - June 15th, 1982 (Padres)

Years Active - 

• 1982-1987 (San Diego Padres)
• 1987-1989 (San Francisco Giants)

Padres

Giants

Cards on TCDB - 110 cards (up 18 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 64 cards (up 2 from last year)

PC Rank - #31 (#44 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (25 cards)
• Padrographs (4 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (13 cards)
• COMC (4 cards)
• Ebay (4 cards)
• Unknown (3 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (2 cards)
• Sluggo (1 card)

Happy Birthday Dave!

Happy Birthday - Steve Carlton

Steve was born on this day in 1944, making him 78 today.

MLB Debut - April 12th, 1965

Years Active - 

• Cardinals (1965-1971)
• Phillies (1972-1986)
• Giants (1986)
• White Sox (1986)
• Indians (1987)
• Twins (1987-1988)

Cardinals

Phillies

Giants

White Sox

Indians

Twins

Cards on TCDB - 6124 cards (up 427 from last year)

Cards I have - 204 cards (up 78 from last year)

PC Rank - #13 (#14 overall)

TCDB Rank - #12

Where they came from -

• Spotlots (80 cards)
• Ebay (55 cards)
• Unknown (21 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (12 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (8 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (6 cards)
• COMC (4 cards)
• Sluggo (4 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (2 cards)
• Card Show-Ft Wayne (2 cards)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (2 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (2 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (1 card)
• Cards From the Quarry (1 card)
• Just a Bit Outside (1 card)
• Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
• Media Madhouse (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)
• Number 5 Type Collection (1 card)
• Tribe Cards (1 card)

Happy Birthday Steve!

Happy Birthday - Dave Dravecky

Dave was born today in 1956, making him 66 years old

MLB debut - June 15th, 1982 (San Diego Padres)

Years Active -

• 1982-1987 (San Diego Padres)
• 1987-1989 (San Francisco Giants

Padres

Giants

Cards listed on TCDB - 92

Cards I have - 62 (2 not listed on TCDB)

Cards I had on this day last year - 61

I only picked up 1 card since last year but he's a lot harder to find now-a-days, or at least cheap, as we know we are.

The 2 not listed on TCDB

Where they came from - 

• Sportlots (21 cards)
• Padrographs (14 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (14 cards)
• Ebay (4 cards)
• COMC (3 cards)
• Unknown (3 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (2 cards)
• Sluggo (1 card)

Post career cards - 3 of the 4 come from the set on the right.

Happy birthday Dave!

*All cards pictured are in my collection but the scans/photographs come from TCDB.

Happy Birthday - Steve Carlton

Steve was born on this day in 1944, making him 77 today.

MLB Debut - April 12th, 1965

Years Active - 

• Cardinals (1965-1971)
• Phillies (1972-1986)
• Giants (1986)
• White Sox (1986)
• Indians (1987)
• Twins (1987-1988)

Cardinals

Phillies

Giants

White Sox

Indians

Twins

Cards on TCDB - 5,697 cards

Cards I have - 126 cards

Where they came from - 

• Ebay (55 cards)
• Unknown (21 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (12 cards)
• Sportlots (11 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (6 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (6 cards)
• COMC (4 cards)
• Sluggo (4 cards)
• Card Show-Concord Mall (2 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (1 card)
• Cards From the Quarry (1 card)
• F&G Sportscards (1 card)
• Just a Bit Outside (1 card)
• Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
• Media Madhouse (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)
• Number 5 Type Collection (1 card)
• Tribe Cards (1 card)

I only have the 1 relic card of Steve but it's a pretty cool one. Pinstriped and numbered to 100.

Happy Birthday Steve!

*All cards shown are in my collection but the photos/scans are from TCDB.

Team lots

It's Sunday which means I have to go back to work tomorrow. Blah! We're starting off with 10 hour days too but I don't expect that to last long but you never know with our management.

Yesterday, you got vintage, you do today as well. Although technically it is team collection post but they are all apart of the Vintage collection as well.

I picked these up for $.20/each. As you can tell they are a little worse for wear but that's alright. They were in a lot of 5 cards from 1977 for $1 at the card show.

All 3 of these were $.33/each as well and they are in better shape and 7 years older. They aren't perfect by any means but rounded corners and bad cutting isn't as bad as all the creases in the top 2. This was another lot for $1.

Lastly, these 2 were also a lot for $1 which I though was an outstanding price as they aren't in bad shape at all for 61 year old cards.

You can see why I grabbed a bunch of these small lots of Vintage as soon as I saw them.

Happy Birthday - Dave Dravecky

I thought for a new series that I could post on each of my player collections birthdays. I actually meant to start this at the beginning of the month but I missed a couple, oops! This will also be a way of showcasing that players cards and in a year, I can see if that collection has grown and by how much.

Not to mention with all the Michigan guys I collect, this will be quite a few posts.

From baseball-reference.com

Dave was born today in 1956, making him 65 years old

MLB debut - June 15th, 1982 (San Diego Padres)

Years Active -

• 1982-1987 (San Diego Padres)
• 1987-1989 (San Francisco Giants

Rookie cards w/Padres

Traded to the Giants

Cards listed on TCDB - 92

Cards I have - 61 (2 not listed on TCDB)

The 2 not listed on TCDB - both came from Padrographs

Where they came from - 

• Sportlots (21 cards)
• Padrographs (14 cards)
• Just Commons/Card Barrel (14 cards)
• Ebay (4 cards)
• COMC (3 cards)
• Unknown (3 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (2 cards)

While Rob at Blue Batting Helmet gave me my first 2 cards when I announced this collection, Rod of Padrographs gave me my first big chunk when it got going.

The first 2 cards from Blue Batting Helmet

I only have 4 post-career cards of him which is why TCDB only has him with 92 cards, they don't make too many of him anymore so this collection doesn't get added to very often (other than that last lot from Sportlots).

Post career cards - 3 of the 4 come from the set on the right.

Most of you know the story of Dravecky, that he developed Cancer in his arm, rushed back afterwards to get back and in his 2nd start back, shattered his arm, ending his season and career. In the postseason celebration at the end of the 1989 season, he broke his arm again. They found more cancer and ended up amputating his arm.

He wrote a book about it

The reason I collect him is when I was a kid, my father developed cancer in his arm. They amputated it above the elbow but didn't get it all and it ended up going to his lungs and killing him. So when Dave Dravecky started having the above issues, it connected with me and I've always remembered his story because of it.