My Sports Obsession

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Rookies and Hall of Famers

I'm sitting here waiting for the Michigan basketball game to start so I figured I might as well get a post out.

Today's random pulled up some more former Wolverine football players.

That photo looks familiar, Jake has a bunch of cards with that same photo. Just like the Taylor Lewan's with the red padding. I just looked and it's my 13th card with that photo. This is the Orange parallel and is serial numbered to /199. I picked this up in the Hollister box we picked up in Lansing. This is my 31st card of Butt.

This is the base even though it looks Pink, that's from the scan. It is serial numbered to /999 and is my 2nd parallel of this card. I already have an Aspirations Shimmer. You would think I'd start with the base but you'd be wrong. This is my 12th card of the Running Back.

I picked up this card from my LCS, it was a freebie for sorting for him.

These 3 cards came from Sluggo. You can never go wrong with some 90's Finest or with a Woodson in the Maize and Blue, especially when that card is labeled a rookie. These were also free from sorting his cards.

I picked this up at the South Bend show, for a quarter. I couldn't pass that up. To be honest, off the top of my head, I don't remember picking it up and it was only a month ago.

I picked up these 6 from the Hollister box in Lansing as well. The top 3 are rookies. The one that you can't see is numbered to /500 and the Score is the Lava parallel, numbered to /575. Obviously the Prism is the Red, White & Blue.

These 11 cards give me 33 of the former Heisman winner and Hall of Famer. Not too bad for a relatively new collection.

Well, we're up 3 at half time, we'll see if we can hold it. We've struggled to do so this year.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Blue Wednesday

I'm sleepy so we're just going to get to it.

I picked up one card of Gary at a show. This is the blue Press Proof and it's my 20th card of Rashan.

Speaking of blue, this is the Optic Blue of Darboh, Unlike the Gary, this Darboh is numbered to /149. This is my 4th Optic Rated Rookie, the base and 3 color parallels. This is also my 38th card of Amara.

Speaking of blue, again. This is the blue wave prism of Funchess and it is numbered to /150. I didn't plan on 3 different blues but that's how it worked out. All 3 cards also came from the Lansing show from a box we bought from Hollister's.

Speaking of Funchess, I also added this rookie patch and it also came from the state of Michigan but a little further South than Lansing. Dennis sent this to me in his Christmas package. It is my 8th relic of Devin and my 92nd card of him.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Thrice is Nice

I started posting one player a post because I was only getting cards from Sportlots and only once a month. It was my way of stretching out my posts. Well now that I'm getting new cards all the time from lots of different places, I've decided to do 3 players per post. I checked, and I'm 58 posts behind so this will help me get caught up. I'll random the first player and then pick the other 2 in accordance to who the first player is so they are all at least related somehow. I realize you all don't really care but I like to have a set plan in place.

As he always does, Fred at work gave me this and I went yep, I have it. I don't. I've narrowed this player down to 4, let's see who it is.

All of these are base except the Stadium Club in the middle, top row. It's the Sepia parallel.

This is the gold parallel which is numbered to /99.

These 2 should give away where I got the last 3 scans of cards. I've shown a bunch of these 582 Montgomery's before. The last 3 scans were all payment cards from my LCS for sorting cards for them.

I picked up this card at the Lansing card show, It's the purple parallel. I paid $1.50 which was discounted from $3. It is a rookie so I went ahead and paid for it.

Those last 3 scans all came from Sluggo. All of them are parallels or inserts. That coin card in the top scan is extremely thick.

These 20 cards give me over 200 with 203. The best part of all those Moncada's, I paid only $1.50 for the purple, everything else was free.

These top 3 cards of Eloy are from Sluggo. A couple of shiny parallels and a 2022 Heritage. He gave me a bunch of Heritage as you can see with the Moncada as well.

Fred gave me these 2, you've already seen the top one with Moncada but they are both on it. The 1963 look-a-like is an Archives from last year.

These 6 came from my LCS as payment for sorting cards. I'd say some pretty decent cards for free.

I bought this from Curtis who is a guy who sets up next to us in Plymouth. He lives right down the road and this is the only show he does and he's always there. He's a cool guy, other than being a Cubs fan but nobody is perfect.

I paid a buck for this, down from $2. I also picked it up at the Lansing show in a box we bought from Hollisters so while technically, I paid Sluggo for it, I have it marked from the Lansing show.

These 13 cards give me 142 cards of Eloy.

These 2 came from the LCS, also freebies for sorting. This is a fairly new collection so I need a bunch, especially from his previous teams.

These 5 came from the cards we are sorting that were dropped off at Kevin's. We are sorting out what we are going to keep before we sell them off by the box. They are mostly commons so I'm not getting a ton of PC cards but I'm finding a bunch of 80's for my Vintage Collection.