Quick Post

Just a quick post tonight, mainly because it's only 1 card. I received a PWE a couple of weeks ago (I think?) which was a surprise. It looked like a card PWE but I haven't received one in forever and I certainly wasn't expecting one. I opened it up and sure enough, it was a card.

I opened this and though, well that's odd that the Diamond King would send me some random Big League parallel but it was a Cronenworth and a rookie at that so I put it down in my card room to log in on the weekend. Once the weekend rolled around and I went to log it in, it didn't come up as a Big League but instead, this is what I saw.

26 cards, all 1/1's. So I started to actually look at the card again and I see the bottom right.

Oh crap! It is a 1/1.

Very interesting. That's all the research I have done so far but this was an unexpected card from someone who I haven't traded with since May of 2021. Kevin put a note but all it said was I saw this and thought of you. That's all that needed to be said. Thanks Kevin, this was extremely generous of you and I know you said I didn't need to send you anything but I'm definitely going to look for something.

Happy Birthday - Maurice Hurst

 

Maurice was born on this day in 1995, making him 29 today.

NFL Debut - September 10th, 2018 (Raiders)

Years Active - 

• 2018-2020 (Raiders)
• 2021-2022 (49'ers)
• 2023-current (Browns)

Cards on TCDB - 556 cards (2024), 548 cards (2023), 539 cards (2022), 535 cards (2021)

Cards I have - 22 cards (2024), 21 cards (2023), 20 cards (2022), 10 cards (2021)

PC Rank - #68 (#329 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (9 cards)
• Ebay (6 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)
• Baseball Card Exchange (1 card)
• F&G Sportscards (1 card)
• Fred Sawyer (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Sluggos (1 card)

Happy Birthday Maurice!

Fort Wayne Pickups

 We did the Fort Wayne show last month. I did pick up a few things.

Kevin bought a box of cards from a dealer so I grabbed a few for myself. The top 3 are my non player collection White Sox.

I did find one player collection in the black gold Robert.

Hollister's set up at Fort Wayne and I've been trying to hit his table whenever we set up at the same show. He has a Michigan box and I flip through it and grab cheap Michigan autos. I try to grab guys I don't have autos of. I only paid $10 for all 3 and the Kwity Paye is numbered to /10. Not too bad of a purchase I'd say.

One guy had his cards in teams so I stopped to flip through the Sox cards and found this PK. It was numbered to /99 and I don't run into too many Konerko's that I don't have so I paid $5 for it. What I didn't realize was that it was a rip card. What I also didn't realize is that it was already ripped. Oh well, it's still one I didn't have.

South Bend freebies

About a month ago (that's how far behind I am), we did the South Bend show. I know it's been a month because tomorrow is the next South Bend show and it's the first Saturday of each month. The good news for my pocket book was I didn't buy anything, but I did still come home with some cards.

Joe, who's one of the dealers we set up with, usually tries to get close to us so we can watch each others tables. He came in with a 600 count box of White Sox cards. He said I could have them, he didn't want any of them back so I went through them. I only needed 33 of the cards. Most of the stuff was commons so I had a lot of it which he said I probably would. I'm only going to show a few of those since most weren't anything special.

These 4 are all guys that I don't PC but I have 50+ cards of their Sox cards so I scanned them.

• Nick Madrigal (62 cards)
• Carlos Rodon (87 cards)
• Frank Thomas (1034 cards)

I put Gavin on here just because he's one of the few current players that I like. He's got 49 cards so he's almost up in the above scan. I've been thinking about adding him to my PC but I've just never took the time to do so.

These 2 are PC guys though. That's a 1st Edition of Vaughn and just a plain old Stadium Club of Eloy. I would have guessed that I already had that but apparently not. That is my 112th card of Vaughn.

Fred, who I've shown cards of here that he gives me (who also works with me) came to the show and he usually picks me up a few things while he shops around so he came by at the end of the show and gave me a few cards as well.

He found this blue scope of Cesar Ruiz. It must have been hard for him to give this up being as he is a Saints fan but on the other hand, he's also a Notre Dame fan so maybe it was easier since he's wearing the Maize and Blue. This is my 15th card of Cesar.

Back to the Sox cards. Another Eloy, a short printed Big League which gives me 234th of him and a X-Fractor of Robert which is my 226th of him. Eloy just got back from injury and Robert is still out.

Another PK I didn't have as well sums up the cards he gave me. I have a bunch of him so I love getting ones I don't have already. This High Tek set has a bunch of parallels and I have the base and this 1 so there's more to go after. This card gives me 774 cards of PK.

Happy Birthday - Jaylen Harrell

Jaylen was born on this day in 2002, making him 22 today.

NFL Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 7 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 2 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #126 (#2867 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from - 

• F&G Sportscards (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jaylen!