Happy Birthday - Bill Melton

I bet you thought I forgot some birthdays but I actually had a little time between them.

Bill was born on this day in 1945 making him 76 today.

MLB Debut - May 4th, 1968 (White Sox)

Years Active - 

• 1968-1975 (White Sox)
• 1976 (Angels)
• 1977 (Indians)

1969 Topps rookie (White Sox)

1976 Topps Traded (Angels)

According to TCDB, he only has 1 card with the Indians and it was a postcard.

I do have his full run of career cards (1969-1976).

Cards on TCDB - 80 cards

Cards I Have - 17 cards

These are the only 2 "oddballs" I have from his playing days. A 1976 SSPC and a 1975 Hostess.

Where They Came From - 

• Sportlots (4 cards)
• COMC (3 cards)
• Ebay (2 cards)
• Blue Batting Helmet (1 card)
• Crinkly Wrapper (1 card)
• Just Commons/card barrel (1 card)
• Night Owl Cards (1 card)
• North Carolina (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)
• Topps (1 card)
• Unknown (1 card)

These are the only post career cards I have. Except the 1975 is actually a 1975 but it's a buyback so I counted it as post career.

I wasn't around for his career as I was only 4 when he retired but I really enjoyed him when he did pre/post games for the White Sox.

Happy Birthday Beltin' Bill!

*I have all these cards shown in my collection but all photos are from TCDB.

Mr. Perfect

Since I've changed the way I post (by player), you'll get some posts like the last couple with 1 photo (1 card and 3 cards) and you'll get posts like today. These posts will probably have less words because there are so many cards.

One lone 2004.

2005 Bowman's.

2005 Donruss'. The bottom left is numbered to /750. It's always nice to grab serial numbered on the cheap.

2005 Leaf's. I like the Century Collection in the top middle. The bottom card not so much, it looks a little better in real life but not much.

A couple 2005 Playoff's. I do like that one on the left with his number on it.

Some 2005 Upper Deck to finish off that year.

We'll start off with the 2006 Bowman and one lone Upper Deck.

2006 Topps. I like the co-signers and the Turkey Red but I prefer the base and not the red parallel.

Some more 2006 Topps. I like the Gallery photo, it's a unique angel.

An all Topps 2007. The Heritage is the Rainbow Foil and the Topps at the bottom left is the red back.

All 2008's. Finest and the refractor, the Topps on the top right is the Gold Foil.

2009's & 2010's. I think I was supposed to crop this into 2 pictures since the 2009's are on the bottom. Oops!

Lastly, some Blue Jays Buehrle's. These vary from 2013 & 2014. Actually, I believe they are all 2013 except the 1965 look-a-like Heritage that is a 2014.

These 55 cards bump up the Buehrle Collection to 336 cards. That puts me comfortably in 2nd place on TCDB.

Also leaves me far from 1st place.

It was hot enough for a Poole today

Sorry about the title, I couldn't help myself.

I haven't been purchasing much on Sportlots in a few weeks now but I still have some cards there that I need to ship. I've had some 40 hour checks with no overtime and also we purchased a new car for my wife a little over a month ago and those payments start up this month so I've been taking it easy. I do still have plenty from my last order to post about though so I won't disappear (hopefully).

Today's post is a Michigan Alum who is most know for his game winner against Houston in the NCAA tourney.

These 3 cards of Jordan Poole, all with his pro jersey, only give me 5 of his pros. I've actually managed to pick up more in his Michigan uni than the pro as I now have 13 cards in his collection. Not sure what's going on in the Hoops card, if they superimposed him over a blue background or it's just the angle. It's a little weird.

A rare sighting here

I had a great question about the other blog I posted about yesterday and I wanted to give a quick answer here. The blog is not to sell cards. It will be showing some pick-ups as we are picking up collections for store inventory and how it's going on getting an actual store. I wouldn't want to follow it either if we were just going to sell stuff. 

Here's the link again - https://sluggossportscards.blogspot.com/. I went ahead and made a quick post there just to show a little of what kinds of posts there will be.

Today, I actually get to show off a card of a guy that I hardly get to show because he's above my price range.

Sluggo picked this up for me at the LCS. He actually bought 2 and gave me one. The other he kept for the shop. That would be a Heritage Minors in case you didn't look too closely. It's certainly not a high dollar amount card but if you know me, it was still out of my range.

This is only my 20th card of Luis. 

I'll be happy when him and Eloy get back for the Sox. He's still a month or so away, but we all know how those timelines go when rehabbing.

All coming together

Before I get started on today's post, I want to throw another blog at you. I've mentioned my cousin Sluggo here many times and he has moved up here and it's his dream to run his own card shop. He's starting a job in a week but he only plans on keeping it long enough to establish some work up here so he can buy a house. After that, he's going to open a shop. He's already looked at a few places but he wants to get a house first so he's not looking real hard yet. We made the decision to start listing stuff on Sportlots, right now it's all commons (over 13,000 cards) but it's a start. I'm helping with all the online stuff so I've spent a considerable amount of time listing all those cards and I have plenty more to list as I get the time.

Back to where I was going, I set up a few accounts for him on social media (including a blog) and I'm hoping to get some follows. He has the inventory to start a store and has some really awesome cards so I'm hoping to get over to where he's staying and click some pics and start posting more on social media. You can go to the blog - https://sluggossportscards.blogspot.com/ and check out the links in the first post. It's a pretty basic blog (and social media) at this point but I'm hoping to do more with them in the near future. Please give them a follow

Since my notepad that I keep my list of posts won't load up so I can't post it into the random, I'll pick one. Since we are talking about my cousin, I'll show some heritage that he gave me. Right now, I'm working for cards so I keep whatever I find in the common boxes that I want. A bunch of these are the SP's though so he let me pull those as well. He's bought me a couple of higher dollar cards at our last trip to the LCS, you'll see those when the random pulls them up.

We'll start off with the 2021. I had gotten some from Fred but these 4 were all new to my collection.

I let the pictures fall where they lay so we'll jump around a bit. These 3 I needed for the 2017 team set.

I needed all these for the 2020 set. They are all high numbers. The Seby Zavala is a SP, that wasn't supposed to be in there.

Here we have the short prints that he gave me. Minus the Seby up there that I scanned in the wrong one. They obviously like to put Abreu in the SP's every year.