My Sports Obsession

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Happy Birthday - Nico Collins

Nico was born on this day in 1999, making him 24 today.

NFL Debut - September 12th, 2021 (Texans)

Years Active -

2021-current (Texans)

Texans

Cards on TCDB - 3109 cards (up 1251 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 24 cards (up 15 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #57 (#172 overall)

TCDB Rank - #9

Where they came from -

F&G Sportscards (7 cards)
Sportlots (6 cards)
Sluggo (4 cards)
Hollister's (3 cards)
Card Show-Lansing (1 card)
Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
Mom (1 card)
Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Nico!

Saturday, March 18, 2023

We set up at the Michigan City show today. It was the first show there and we were a little worried when it started but about an hour into it, the traffic started picking up. We did alright and made some more connections. One with a dealer we met at the past South Bend show, he's going to start a show in Mishawaka, we're all about the local shows. Much less travel, unlike Lansing next week.

We also bought a couple of dealers low end boxes so guess who has more boxes to sort. I'm hoping to finish up my cards tonight so I can get to sorting those next week after work.

Today's post are my Tier 3 collections. Starting with one my fairly new ones.

These 3 Larry Bird cards (all featuring other players with him) came from the Man Cave boxes so they were freebies for sorting.

Speaking of freebies, these were from sorting the cards from the LCS. I remember the USA set from back in the day.

I picked this up from Hollister's box that we bought so I paid a couple of bucks for it, I do like the shiny stuff but I'm not sure about this one. It does look better live than scanned.

I picked these up at the South Bend show, they also came out of boxes that we bought. I ended up giving Sluggo some cash for them so they weren't freebies but I definitely didn't pay much.

These 11 cards give me 71 cards of Larry Legend, it has grown quite a bit since I started it in January.

These were all freebies for sorting for the LCS. A little mix of old and new in there.

These were all freebies from the Man Cave cards. I don't particularly like his cards in other uniform's because I really only remember him playing for the Sox.

These 11 cards give me 53 cards of Darryl.

Again, we have new & old of Gooden also from sorting for the LCS. That '86 Donruss at the bottom is the Holo Purple parallel.

These 3 came from the Man Cave sorting, all 90's goodies.

This was offered to me at the Zeeland show and I may have overpayed but I thought I might as well knock off my first auto. He bought some blasters from us and gave Sluggo some cards he was selling and this was one of them. Although the picture doesn't show it, it's one of those clear cards, plus it's an on card auto

These 9 cards give me 46 cards of Doc.

Friday, March 17, 2023

Pitcher and Catchers report

I got off work early today so I worked on my cards for part of the day. I'm a long way from being caught up but it's a start. Tomorrow we are setting up in Michigan City. I'm not sure about this show as there hasn't been much advertisement online and that makes a big difference but it's the only show around and we try to do one every weekend.

Sox were finally on TV today but I couldn't watch it since I ditched cable. It was hard knowing I could be watching and couldn't. The random felt my pain and gave me some former and current Sox players and they are all battery position players from 3 different eras.

These were both freebies for sorting for the LCS. Great photography and vintage look-a-like, can't get much better than that.

These were both freebies for sorting for Sluggo. He gave me a bunch of 1974's for my Vintage Collection and this one was in there. A great action shot in that set. That is my oldest base card with Fisk.

These 4 give me 363 cards of the original Pudge.

All those were more freebies from my LCS, are you starting to see why I do all the sorting. Each scan were at different times. The last card was one that I just scanned today. It was nice to get 2 different parallels of the Aces card from 2 different years. You can see the 2023 up there in the first scan, I actually completed the team set for series 1 already as I sorted a ton of 2023 for them.

These all came from Sluggo, you can see another parallel of the Aces card along with the Prism refractor above it.

These 9 cards give me 178 of our hopeful return to an Ace of Lucas.

I only got 1 card of AJ but I don't come across too many of his these days. Nothing too flashy here but you see him in the Giants uniform where they claim to not like him. I'm happy for that because that's how we got him.

This is my 259th card of AJ.