Sluggo - Vintage (1973-1970)

Back to work today, damn it! 2 weeks off makes it really hard to go back but after going back, I'm still here posting so that's a positive. These are the times I tend to stop posting because I get to tired after work.

I will continue on with some more vintage from Sluggo. Today, we'll get through the rest of the 70's.

Sluggo gave me 10 or 12 cards from the 1973 set but I had most of them as that's one of the sets I'm over half way completed. These 2 are pretty good cards regardless, especially for free. I'll always take Munson cards, even if he did play for the Yankees.  These 2 put the set at 457 cards for a 69% completed.

I also got 2 more for the 1972 set. These only give me 64 cards for that set which is good for 8% completed.

These 9 cards, plus the 1 below from the 1971 set definitely helped it along. They put the set at 107 cards and 14% completed.

I separated this one because it also goes to my Tom Seaver collection. This card gave me 370 different cards of Tom Terrific.

Last but not least, these 4 cards from the 1970 set put it at 63 cards and 8.7% completed. Yes, that's a former Wolverine at the end and no, I'm not completed with the vintage posts. Tomorrow will head to the 60's.

Sluggo - Vintage (1974)

I'm still waiting on an email back from Sportlots on the package they said they sent me. I've been working on logging all my cards from my blog to a spreadsheet and I'm within a few (blog) months of getting finished so I'm sure I'll push harder to get them logged in. The spreadsheet is currently at 13,453 cards logged. Once I get the  cards from my blog logged, then I have to go through all my boxes to see what I haven't gotten logged so I'm nowhere near done but slowly getting there. The sad thing is I can tell you when I started to log my cards and let's just say, last October was 4 years ago so I've be at it for awhile. Maybe 2020 is the year I get caught up, let's hope.

Let's get to the cards. I showed all the Vintage cards my cousin game me up to the 1975. Today I'm just going to show you the 1974 Topps, he was working on completing this set so he had a bunch of dupes.

He gave me all 10 of these cards. It started with that Winfield rookie as he said he had an extra one for me. Then he remembered his dupes from trying to complete the set and it ended up with actually more than 10 but I already had the others. These 10 give me 192 cards for the set which puts me at 29% completed.

He also sent me these 6 cards that aren't technically part of the Vintage collection, but I'm not going to turn them down either.

Next up, the rest of the 70's.

Sluggo - Vintage (1977-1975)

I did get my sportlots cards logged so once I get through the vintage, I'll have those to show. Although Sportlots shorted me one of the packages they said would be there, I'm still awaiting an email back from them.

Yesterday we saw the 1978 and younger of the cards Sluggo gave me. Today will go a little older.

As I said in the last post, lots of Yankees. These 3 from the 1977 Topps set put me at 133 cards which is just above 20% completed.

2 more Yankees. Not a fan of this set because of the colors. If they matched up the colors with the teams I would be ok with it. These 2 cards put me at 190 cards which is 28.8% completed.

Lots more Yankees. Another set where the colors don't match the teams but I can tolerate this one more. These 5 cards gave me 68 cards and that's good for 10.3% completed.

Come on back for the next post of just 1974's.

Sluggo - Vintage (1985-1978)

I got my Sportslots cards in but I haven't logged them yet but I did get the cards logged in from Sluggo so we'll start there. He gave me a stack of vintage that he didn't need. A lot of Yankees we're in the collection he bought out so don't be surprised by how many are in these posts.

I'll start with this 1985 Topps. I mentioned that I was close to finishing this set once I got my Sportslots package and he asked if I had this one. I didn't, so he gave me one, he said he had 3 or 4 of them and they aren't huge sellers anymore.

He set me up with these 2 cards from the 1980 Topps set. They are my 188th and 189th cards from that set and I reached over a quarter done at 26% completed.

If you didn't recognize the names (I know them) from the last 2, you should know the names of these 2 from 1979 Topps. These 2 cards put that set at 351 cards and 48.3% completed. Almost to the half way mark.

He also gave me these 3 from the 1978 Topps. 1 more Yankee but a couple of different team cards as well. These 3 put that set at 174 cards which is good for 24% complete.

Back with some older vintage soon.

2019 in review

I did one of these posts last year so why not this year as well. As you know, I went to Florida last week and to break up the drive home, we stopped overnight at my cousin's house and he gifted me with some Vintage cards he didn't need so I have to get those logged before I can show them and I believe my first Sportslots shipment is due to be delivered today so I should have some cards to show for the month, just not quite yet.

Here's what I've watched for the last 6 years. I watched way more baseball, almost 30 games more. That's because the White Sox were more exciting to watch and also with Michigan making the College World Series, they broadcasted a lot more of their games. I watch them any time the Big Ten network broadcasts them, they just don't get put on that often.

Basketball's about the same because I pretty much only watch Michigan, men and women's. I don't watch pros anymore, just can't get into it.

Football is pretty much Michigan games and that's it. Same thing as basketball, just can't get into pro often.

I record all the Michigan hockey games when they are on, but I really can't stand watching hockey on TV so unless my DVR ends up empty, I usually end up deleting them. I'll get at least one hockey game this year as I already have tickets when Michigan is here in South Bend to play Notre Dame in a couple of weeks.

Softball is like Michigan baseball, I watch whatever games the Big Ten network decides to broadcast.

As far as the cards go, I did a lot better with Konerko and Seaver's collections but not much go at anything else. I've already corrected some of these with my first Sportlots purchase so some of these will get better.

I've gotten a lot more Tier 2 collections as I start a new player collection every time a Michigan player gets drafted. I'm not going to go through every player, the Barry Larkin collection had the largest add, that's usually because I get some from Dennis and then the Shoeless Joe Jackson had a big bump because of the cards I've shown the last few weeks from Sluggo.

No zero's on my tier 3 collections this year so that's a plus. The Ripken collection always gets a big bump because Dennis sends me a ton.

I did a little better on my Vintage collection last year. I haven't really been searching them out so I bet a lot of those were player collections or White Sox cards from the 80's. I did a lot better at getting White Sox cards but I'm guessing that will slow down as Sportslots search system sucks, I'd have to search out every card on it's own which probably won't happen. I'll have to figure something out there. The baseball collection are just baseball cards that don't fit within the parameters of my other collections. It's basically a reason for me to buy packs.

My totals definitely went up this year, which is surprising just how much it went up considering the next stat. 2019 was my highest year since I started keeping track and it's over double last year.

When I figured this out a few nights ago, it was exactly a penny difference between the 2 years. Not by design either, I don't have a budget, I just buy what I find. I try not to spend a ton, these numbers are actually way higher than I would expect or probably should spend but my life gets pretty boring, I need the thrill of opening packages throughout the week. Back to what I was saying though, they were a penny difference then I spent a couple of bucks at sportslots that put last year a little higher.

As far as this blog goes, I did a lot better this year then last year. As a matter of fact, it was the highest post total in 7 years and the 3rd highest total in the history of this blog. I did a lot better at posting cards as soon as I got them which helped me stay consistent. We'll see if that stays since I won't be getting cards throughout the week anymore and I'll actually have to remember to post what I've gotten. Since my Sportslots packages all come in one, I think I'll probably post a player a day or something. I haven't really decided for sure what I'm doing yet. I also have to calculate the shipping into all the cards which will take me a little longer.

So apparently what the new year is bringing me is more work, all because Ebay sucks. It'll be better for the player collections but not the team collections. We'll see how well it goes. Here's to new changes in the new year.