Vintage boost

The Sox have been a buzzsaw the last week or so, knocking everything out of the parks. I rarely watch games live (usually record them) but I'm watching today's live, so of course, they are losing. It's only 2-1 in the 8th so they still have a shot but I figured I could blog and watch the end of the game.

This is just a sample of the 89 cards I got in that Facebook purchase via Dennis. As I stated before, I just grabbed names that I knew really well. That boosts that set to 231 cards which is good for 35% completed. Pretty good cards for an average of $.06/card.

Birth Year

I occasionally go to Sportlots to search for sets that I'm close to completing and grabbing some cards. I'm not as close as I like on this set but it was the first set I actively purchased cards for, before I was doing the whole Vintage collection, so I went and grabbed some. I found a lot more on the cheap than I thought I would.

18 of these 21 cards were only $.18/each. Obviously I didn't choose from the Mint cards but as you can see, most of those cards aren't bad at all. I'll certainly take them.

These 21 and the Mets team card you saw last week puts my birth year set at exactly 500 cards which is good for just over 75% complete. The majority of those are high numbers so I'm going to have to start dropping a little more money to start completing this set.

This Week on MSO-Tumblr

Another week and another week of My Sports Obsession Tumblr pics and gifs.  Let’s get started.  Lots of MLB today and not a whole lot else, one NBA to start with.

Vince Carter

Chris Sale 

Adam Eaton

Jose Abreu 

DJ Lemahieu

Tommy La Stella

US Cellular Field

Alexei Ramirez

Babe Ruth

Jose Abreu and Alexei Ramirez

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim infield

Cincinnati Reds

Joe Torre

Colorado Rockies

Adam Dunn (via TWJ cards)

Andre Dawson

Vida Blue and Dick Williams

Paul Konerko

Dayan Viciedo

Card Show Vintage #5

I told in the previous posts that I found a quarter box with some vintage, here are some of my finds. Working from the newest to the oldest.

3 1972’s.  2 more towards the team set and another leaders card with Wilbur Wood.  Have I mentioned that I love vintage?