My Sports Obsession

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Happy Birthday - Paul Konerko

Paul was born on this day in 1976, making him 47 today.

MLB Debut - September 8th, 1976 (Dodgers)

Years Active -

1997-1998 (Dodgers)
1998 (Reds)
1999-2014 (White Sox)

Dodgers

Reds

White Sox

Cards on TCDB - 4,787 (up 140 from last year)

Cards I have - 743 cards (up 32 from last year)

PC Rank - #2 (#3 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

Sportlots (245 cards)
Unknown (80 cards)
Ebay (76 cards)
Too Many Verlanders (63 cards)
2x3 Heroes (55 cards)
Just Commons/Card Barrel (37 cards)
Sluggo (25 cards)
BaseballCardStore.CA (20 cards)
Box Breaks (20 cards)
Thoughts and Sox (14 cards)
Things Are Funner Here (7 cards)
COMC (10 cards)
Nomo's Sushi's Platter (10 cards)
Card Show-Elkhart (8 cards)
JayBarkersFan's Junk (8 cards)
Blue Batting Helmet (6 cards)
Night Owl Cards (5 cards)
the Sandlot (5 cards)
BA Benny's Baseball Card Buffet (4 cards)
the Adventures of Napkin Doon (4 cards)
the Diamond King (4 cards)
All Tribe Baseball (3 cards)
F&G Sportscards (3 cards)
Kevin (reader) (3 cards)
Man Cave (3 cards)
North Carolina (3 cards)
Number 5 Type Collector (3 cards)
Spoke Bait and the Game (3 cards)
Tim (reader) (3 cards)
All Trade Bait (2 cards)
Card Show-Shipshewana (2 cards)
Cardboard Connections (2 cards)
Collecting Cutch (2 cards)
Garvey Cey Russell Lopes (2 cards)
Hollister's (2 cards)
Media Madhouse (2 cards)
Morgan (reader) (2 cards)
My 2008 Topps Blog (2 cards)
Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes (2 cards)
Ron (reader) (2 cards)
the Lost Collector (2 cards)
the Diamond King (1 card)
Funner Here (1 card)
Jan's Sportscards & Comics (1 card)
My Cardboard Mistress (1 card)
Nachos Grande (1 card)
S.Mack Talk (1 card)
the Daily Dimwit (1 card)
Topps (1 card)

Happy Birthday Paul!

Saturday, March 4, 2023

We set up in Shipshewana today and had a really good day. It was non-stop from once we set up until about 1 or 1:30. It was packed most of the morning. We barely had a chance to sit down until the afternoon. Which made great timing because about the time it started slowing down, John from John's Big League Baseball Blog stopped by to say hi. He had messaged me the other day and said he'd be at the show so we chatted while he looked through our boxes.

I should have put my head down so you could see my Michigan hat, plus it's crooked, good thing John is more photogenic than me. It was nice to meet another blogger, I think Dennis is the only other one I've met in person. I feel like I might have met another one at some point but my memory is failing me. Great meeting you John, look forward to next time.

Since John and I are both Michigan fans, it's only fair that the random give me some Michigan players for today's post.

I picked up these 3 parallels from Hollister at the Lansing Show. They came from the box we purchased from him. These 3 double the cards I have of this parallel. These 3 also give me 24 cards of Chesson.

I could copy and paste the paragraph above about Chesson here, except I only had 1 other prizm of Long. These 3 came from the same Hollister box as the above. These 3 give me 10 card of him.

The only card on this post that didn't come from Hollisters. This one came from Sluggo as part of the sorting. It's a rookie and he's in the Maize and Blue, I'll definitely take that.

I also got a plethera of Paye's from the same Hollister box. As you can tell, I picked out a bunch of cards from that box. Lots of color parallels up there. These 11 cards of Paye give me 26 of him.

Friday, March 3, 2023

Tier 1 sorting

Went over to Sluggo's after work today to prep a few more things for the big show in Shipshewana tomorrow. The bad thing is that it snowed pretty good here so I'm hoping that doesn't effect the attendance too much. We were pumped up for this show because they only do it 4 times a year and the first one is always the biggest, attendance wise. There's over 180 tables so it's always busy but the 1st one of the year is always the busiest. Plus, a fellow blogger is supposed to make an appearance but he's coming from up North and I'm afraid the snow will be too much. It's supposed to stop snowing tonight and it's not supposed to get real cold and get close to 40 tomorrow so while the roads might suck in the morning, I think they will clear off by late morning. It's also an hour East of us so for all I know, there isn't any snow because that's how Indiana works sometimes.

Today's post will feature my Tier 1 pick-ups, which I don't get to add to very often.

I picked up both of these from the boxes we are sorting and selling from the Man Cave up North. As you can tell by the Dodgers uniforms, these are early in his career.

I picked up these 2 from Hollisters at the Lansing show. Technically, we bought a huge box of cards from him and then I paid Sluggo for them at even more of a discount. I like both of these because I like the early Chrome's and Finest are always nice, these are both refractors as well. I paid less than a buck a piece for these.

These 4 give me 742 cards of PK.

I picked up this from Kevin, it's another one of those retired edition cards that I didn't know existed. It was a freebie for sorting.

This was another one that I got in the Man Cave boxes, so once again, another freebie. This would be one of those cards that I thought I had but I didn't. That happens a lot and that's also why I always check before I purchase, well, most of the time.

This one came from my LCS but it came out of a seriel numbered box that we purchased from them but I still got it free from sorting his other boxes.

These 3 cards give my Aparicio to 128 cards. I remembered when I first started that collection, I really didn't think it would ever get that big. It helps he has a bunch of 90's and early 2000's cards.

This is the only Billy Williams I added, but it was also free from sorting for my LCS. I've seen the '52 sets before but I never seen them in the Chrome versions but there were a few in the cards I sorted. Then I logged it in and realized it's from 2021 so it doesn't surprise me that I hadn't seen them yet.

This card gives me 116 cards so not too far from the Aparicio collection.

These both come from the LCS as well. I've been doing a lot of sorting. I actually don't get very many from the LCS sorts. For the most part, I usually only keep 10 or 12 cards of sorts. Although I walked in on Tuesday of this week and he set aside a card for me and just gave it to me when I came in, for free. The second card also goes to my Schmidt collection. It also came from the serial numbered box.

These 2 of Tom Terrific give me 554 card of him.

I got to add to 4 of my 6 Tier 1 collections with all the sorting I've been doing so it's definitely worth it.