A couple of Sox

This post will have a lot of cards in it. A lot of White Sox cards. My cousin sent me 2 packages last month. These are the Sox cards from the second package that came towards the end of the month.

Those are all the cards from 2016. He sent me a bunch of the Holiday set but I already had a few. The only one I need now is the Abreu, to bad that Frazier don't count since Abreu is on it.

More Frazier and Abreu and some guys you don't see much on Sox cards. I'll definitely take the Zach Putnam as he is a former Wolverine. I should look and see who has played for Michigan and the Sox. Off the top of my head, I already collect Jim Abbott and Chris Getz. I know of Putnam and Clayton Richard as well. There's probably others, probably others I know but can't think of right now. One of these days I should do a list. I'm not sure where I can find something like that but I'll figure it out.

These are all from 2017. Those 4 Topps (Holland is from Update) finish off that team set except for the 2 SP's of Sale and Abreu. Speaking of Abreu, those couple of cards up there make 107 of his in my Sox collection.

These 4 are from 2018. Decent shot of Saladino's mustache.

A couple more of Vaughn who is supposed to be a big deal, my cousin has sent me most of the cards I have of him, these 2 give me 13 total. The Frank Thomas puts his cards at 528.

Last but not least, the 2020. He sent me a bunch of the Gypsy Queen as well but I had bought some of the Sox already but I needed all of those.

Almost a complete set

If you remember a few months ago, I though I completed my 1985 Topps set. Then a week or 2 later, I got to that part of my collection to add them on TCDB and ended up missing 40 cards, all between card number 400 to 500. So I spent a little time on Sportlots and picked some of those missing cards up.

I'm still apparently learning my scanner. I picked up these 35 cards from Cardbarrel. All of them were $.22 or $.23 each.

I picked up these 4 from Sportlots. I paid a quarter for the Orel, I remember when that was a hot rookie (so was the Pettis for that matter) and I paid $.18 each for the other 3.

Now if you can add, that is 39 cards. I needed 40. No worries though, I have already purchased the final card I needed for the set. It just didn't make it to my Sportlots box before my last shipment so I assume I'll get that at the end of the month when I ship again.

Zimmy!

Before I get started on today's post, has anyone had any problems with Card Barrel/Just Commons before? I received my last order (my 3rd all time, 2nd since changing names) and they sent me 2 of the wrong cards. They are different players, teams and even card sets but what they have in common are they are the same year (2017) and both card numbers match up with the 2 they sent. Technically, this isn't the problem. I understand mistakes happen and I sent them an email last week stating what happened and asked what they wanted me to do with the 2 cards they sent me that I didn't ask for. I assumed they'll tell me to keep them and refund me the money for the 2 I didn't get. My problem is, I've had no response at all.

Part of me is, it's only 2 cards and you're out only $.40 and I'm ok with that but I'm not sure I want to do business with a company that won't even acknowledge it's customers when they did something wrong. If I keep placing orders and they short me that much every time, then that will add up. I sent them another email today, we'll see if I get a response to that one. They are lucky that I want to continue to do business because my go to when this happens with any other company, I'd post it on Twitter with their username tagged and they generally respond right away.

Enough bitching, Onto today's post. This is a tier 3 player collection.

These 2 came from the 2nd package that I received from my cousin last month. I didn't have very many of the 2017 Gypsy Queen until he sent me a bunch of the Sox, and a couple of my other player collections. Same goes with the Fire card, I've added a couple but he sent me a bunch.

These 3 also came from Sluggo but earlier in the month. As you can see, he ended up sending me the Topps Fire and the parallel, Flame.

These 5 cards of Zimmy put me at 116 cards of the MS activist.

Maize and Blue Thursday

Today's post is 4 different players but you already know what they have in common if you're a regular reader.

We'll start off with the only card not in their Maize and Blue and also the only card that I got from Sportlots. I only paid $.25 for it though. It is only my 3rd card of this Glasgow brother and my 1st non-autograph.

We'll do the Chris Wormley next since he only has the Maize and Blue on his helmet and gloves. This is my 10th different card of Wormley, 15th total as I have some duplicate autographs. This is the Silver version of the Sage HIT. I do have the base copy as well.

Now we get to the all Maize and Blue cards. This is only my 3rd card of Gardner. He had all kinds of potential but moving him to Wide Receiver for a year kind of screwed him up, in my opinion.

Last but not least, this Amara Darboh. I hate it when they take the wings off the helmet, it just looks stupid. This is my 24th different Darboh, 28th total as again, I have a duplicate autograph as well as a few duplicate relics.

The last 3 cards all came from my cousin's package. He's a Notre Dame fan so he's always happy to get rid of his Wolverines.

Milestone Tuesday

Before I get to today's post, what's up with Bloggers comments spam detector. I've had the same spam message posted on a couple blog posts every day for the last week. I mark them all spam so you think blogger could figure this out but apparently not. I hate having to have captcha or whatever they are doing now to leave comments but if this keeps up, I might have to. I haven't had it on for years and I will get the occasional one but this every day, same message is a little ridiculous. Get your shit together, blogger.

On to today's post. I went to Sportlots at one point last month and picked up a few players that I was close to milestone spots on my counts for the player. This player would be one of them but it's not just 3 cards, these probably aren't rare but they certainly don't get seen that often, at least by me so I was happy to pick them up.

Ok, 2 out of 3 I wasn't familiar with. I know the Sports Illustrated one at the bottom. I do love the cover series in that set. I think they should make a set with all the SI covers (at least baseball), that would be cool. Baseball Digest as well, lots of memories with those back in the day. The one of the left is marked on TCDB as a 1990 Interpretive Marketing Baseball Wit. Definitely never heard of those. The one on the right is a Topps Nestle Dream Team. Those are some cool and unusual cards. I picked up the oddballs for $.18/each and the Fleer SI card for $.50.

Oh yeah, that milestone I reached with these 3 cards was 100 cards in the Aparicio Collection.