Happy Birthday - DJ Wilson

DJ was born on this day in 1996, making him 28 today.

NBA Debut - October 20th, 2017 (Bucks)

Years Active - 

• 2017-21 (Bucks)
• 2021 (Rockets)
• 2021-22 (Raptors)

Cards on TCDB - 640 cards (2024) 639 cards (2023) 639 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 24 cards (2024) 23 cards (2023) 2 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #64 (#262 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (21 cards)
• Sluggo (2 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday DJ!

Plymouth Pick Ups

We went to Peru for a decent sized card show yesterday. It started out really slow but got rolling after an hour or so. As per the usual, I went out and shopped and spent $25 plus got some free cards but you'll have to wait another post to see those because today, you get the cards I picked up at last week's show in Plymouth. Kevin bought a few boxes of cards from other dealers and I went through them between customers and pulled some for myself. I also purchased a few from Curtis who I regularly buy from. He only sets up at the Plymouth show because it's local and him and his wife hang out at most of the shows. They're an older couple, retired, but he loves baseball cards and he buys on Ebay and sells at this show. He has his cards sorted by teams, which I love (we do as well) so I always hit his table. It helps he's always set up next to us as well.

I'll post by collection, but I'll point out the couple I paid for, otherwise, everything was free from Sluggo.

I added one more team card to that collection. A Rockies one at that which I don't get many since they didn't have any Vintage one which is where a bunch of my team cards come from. This one gives me 4 team cards of the Rockies.

For the White Sox Collection, I'll start with this trio of Colson Montgmery's (17) and another Oscar Colas who I've been trying to pick up in hopes they'll be on the big league club this year. Been focusing on younger guys more than those already on the team lately for obvious reasons. My 3rd card of Peyton Pallette and another of Madrigal (53), who isn't with us anymore, but I like. Another Abreu (282) and Anderson (239) and one more of some guy named Frank Thomas (1028).

These both were purchased from Curtis, I paid a buck and a half each, which was below the stickers, another reason that I buy from him. It's my 82nd of Rodon and my 12th of Colas.

Oddly enough, there was one vintage card in the box Kevin bought and luckily enough, I needed it. It's my 360th card from the 1975 set. It puts me over 54% complete.

Next up are my Tier 3 collections.

These 3 Tier 3 PC's get a card each. The Bird and Bench are newer cards while the Ripken is an early 2000's Ultra. Larry Bird PC is up to 111 cards, the Bench at 240 cards and Cal is almost there at 986 cards.

Next up, Tier 2.

I added another Cease for free and a Vaughn for $3. The Cease rookie is free from Kevin and the Vaughn is the rainbow foil. Both are rookies. This is 103 cards for Cease and number 99 for Vaughn.

The top 2 Robert Jr's are base cards and obviously, the bottom is the pink refractor. I've been getting his cards pretty quickly lately and these 3 put me at 210 cards.

2 more for Eloy as well. A Chronicles rookie that looks like a color parallel but it's not, and a color parallel that's not a rookie. These 2 cards give me 219 cards of Eloy.

Next up is the Tier 2 Michigan players.

Always happy to grab some baseball Michigan players with this refractor of Franklin which is my 6th card of his. On the flip side, we have an ice parallel of LeVert (have I mentioned I love the Ice parallels). This gives me 62 cards of Caris.

A rookie card of Livers and an extremely shiny Poole. I don't come across too many Livers as this is only my 9th card of him. Poole on the other hand is at 50 cards now.

I also grabbed 2 more of Ronnie Bell, both in the Maize and Blue which makes them even better. These 2 give me 7 of the rookie.

I also grabbed 2 of Moussa Diabate who I just got his 1st one of not long ago. Plus you gotta love the Ice parallels.

I also got one more of Hawkins and Wilson. The Hawkins is my 4th but the 3rd different Sage. The DJ Wilson is the blue velocity parallel and is my 24th card of him.

Next up is Tier 1.

I also found this Chrome of Seaver. I already have the base so I almost passed this up thinking I had it. This is my 582nd of Tom Terrific.

With all those shiny parallels, I also passed a milestone on TCDB. Dennis made me aware of this around a month ago, or at least that I was close but after this post and adding some of the scans, I went over 3000 scans added to TCDB.

2 weeks of sorting

I really need to get to posting, I'm falling behind. Work has been draining lately so I haven't posted as much. I went to my LCS to drop off cards that I sorted last weekend and pick up more and he gave me a few cards while I was there, which means that puts me another post behind. Tomorrow we are going to a pretty big show, we're expecting a good show, hopefully so busy I don't get a chance to shop, too much.

2 weeks ago, I sorted some list NBA cards for the LCS, these are what I pulled out for myself.

I pretty much always pull Webber cards as he is a Hall of Famer so he's on the list and he's one of my newer (older) player collections. I picked up these 6 to add, I think that might be my first Piston jersey card of his. These 6 give me 174 cards of him now.

I added Larry Bird to my Tier 3 player collections around the same time I did Webber. Also a Hall of Famer (duh) so he's on the list. I grabbed these 4. I would have guessed that I already had the Fleer on the top right, but apparently not. These 4 give me 111 of him. 

There are a couple of Michigan PC guys on the list as well. Franz here being one of them. The other, you'll see later. These 2 cards of Wagner give me 47 of him.

When I took those list players back, he gave me some cards in packs. Basically, he has a couple of people who buy packs/blasters, open them up, take out a couple of cards that they want, them sell them back to the LCS. I'm not sure what they take out because there is usually some decent players still in there. When the LCS buys them back, they are still in the packs (opened) and in the Blaster box so it's almost like opening packs. Those might be my favorite type of sort. I pull list players out and any other card the shop might want to sell separately, and of course, the cards I get to keep. There were a few boxes of Hoops and Donruss from basketball and football.

We'll start with the NFL since there was less of those. I went through a couple of blasters of 2023 Donruss and grabbed this Rashan Gary and Hassan Haskins. It's my 25th of Gary and my 22nd of Haskins.

On the basketball side, there was a box of Donruss and a few boxes of NBA Hoops.

The 1 Donruss card was a Caleb Houstan rookie, which is only my 2nd card of his and alongside him is the veteran Tim Hardaway with his 107th. He's my highest non-Fab 5 Michigan basketball player collection. Fab Fivers were in the 90's so they have a ton of cards.

2 more Hoops cards with a LeVert and a Poole. The LeVert is my 62nd card of the veteran. Poole isn't a rookie by any means, even though that's a rookie card shot if I've ever seen one, but he's only been in the league for about five years now. This is my 50th of him.

This was a nice surprise, while I've seen relics left in these opened packs, this is the first time that I got one of someone I collected. Or in this case, was going to start collecting. This is my 1st card of the former Wolverine, Kobe Bufkin. A nice way to start his collection.

The next sorting post, you'll see MLB as I have 3 4 row boxes to start. Probably on Sunday. They came from Hollister's so I know they'll have some good stuff, let's hope I find some stuff for myself. The next actual post, if I get another in before the next birthday post, will be cards I came home with from our last show in Plymouth last weekend.

Happy Birthday - Dave Dravecky

Dave was born on this day in 1956, making him 68 today.

MLB Debut - June 15th, 1982 (Padres)

Years Active - 

• 1982-1987 (Padres)
• 1987-1989 (Giants)

Cards on TCDB - 117 cards (2024) 110 cards (2023) 92 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 66 cards (2024) 66 cards (2023) 64 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #37 (#60 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

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

Happy Birthday Dave!

South Bend show pickups

As per my usual lately, I'm a week behind. It always seems like the days I have birthday posts to do is when I feel like doing a blog post and the days I don't, I don't. I just need to get in the habit of typing it out when I'm in the mood and then just waiting to post it until I don't have a birthday post.

We set up at the Plymouth show yesterday and had a very good show. It was busy all day long. I picked up a few things but like, I said, I'm a week behind so this is stuff that I got at the South Bend show last weekend.

Fred from work came to the show and picked me up a few things while he shopped the other tables. I needed both of these for the Sox collection. I wasn't sure about the Lillibridge because I knew I had a few of those gold sparkle from 2012 but I didn't have his.

He also grabbed these 2 cards for me. The Aidan is from this years Donruss set (which I just sorted on Friday) and the Mazi is from the Prizm draft. It is the Silver parallel. The Hutch gives me 46 of him (already 14 just this year) and my 3rd of Mazi.

There is a kid (the one who pulled the Ohtani autograph out of a Mega we sold him, if you remember that story). He usually comes over and gets bored and will buy a blaster. At the end of the show he will sometime buy a bunch of stuff that he breaks on his Whatnot channel but he bought some of the new Stadium Club. Being as he usually sells us the cards he doesn't want, he just came over and gave us a stack that he didn't feel like carrying home. I went through and found 4 for myself.

2 Sox PC's to start with. I like Vaughn shot although I'm glad there isn't a catcher there tagging him out with that foot way above home plate. It's my 98th card of Vaughn. Suprisingly, Cease is still with us, I don't expect that to last all the way through the season but he's still there now. This card of Dylan gives me 102 of him.

Jumping over to the Tier 3 PC, I picked up this card of Ripken. It's definitely a unique photo, I don't remember why he was riding on the car. I would assume retirement or last day or something. I know when he broke the streak he walked all the way around the stadium, I remember watching that game. This card gives me 982 of Cal who will probably be my 1st player collection with over 1000 cards this year.

I also got this Larkin card. I like seeing the dogs but not a fan of this photo for a baseball card. Maybe it's just me. This Barry gives me 753 of him.

Kevin also bought a 4 row box of commons and I just glanced through some of that. There was a bunch of White Sox together and I found all of these.

These are all the high number White Sox cards which completes the Heritage team set, minus the short prints of course.

Some kids were doing a trade up challenge and Kevin will usually trade with them when all they are wanting is cheaper stuff. The kid offered a few cards for a $10 card and this was included, which I grabbed for myself.

This Abreu relic is my 15th relic of him, and my 281st card of Jose.

Final cost for all of the cards in this post - $0. I spent nothing, now you know why I like working the shows and doing the sorting. Next post will be more sorting before I get to the stuff that I picked up yesterday. I actually paid for some of that.