Tier 1 additions

I have a rare day off from birthday posts today. Between 9/27-10/7 (11 days), there are 11 birthdays in my PC so it's a busy week and a half. I haven't picked up any more cards since the last post so I'm going to do another random of the cards that I picked up before.

These are all my Tier 1 pick-ups, in alphabetical order.

I picked up this new Prizm of Aparicio from my sorting of my LCS. It's nice to see him getting some more cards. It's my 132nd of Lil' Luis.

Sluggo gave me this Konerko, it's a parallel version from 1998 Leaf called Fractal Foundation. It is numbered but like most 1990's, really high, almost 4000. I definitely like getting some more of PK as I don't run into too many that I don't have anymore. This is my 758th card of him.

I picked up these 3 cards from the Michigan City show, they were in that quarter box of Hall of Famers. I grabbed a whole stack of Seavers but these were the only 3 that I ended up needing. I like the O-Pee-Chee, those were always super rare to see back when I was a kid.

I also picked up these 2 from my sorting duties. As you can see, I generally pick up the newer cards when sorting.

I also picked this up in Michigan City for a quarter. Another player that I don't get to add to very often. This is a 1985 TCMA. It is my 121st card of Billy.

That's all for today, I have another birthday post tomorrow, 2 actually, and then it'll free me up to do some more normal posts. Kevin and I will be set up at a show tomorrow. I don't plan on picking up any cards, but you know how that goes.

Happy Birthday - Chris Evans

Chris was born on this day in 1997, making him 26 today.

NFL Debut - September 12th, 2021 (Bengals)

Years Active - 

• 2021-Current (Bengals)

Cards on TCDB - 1391 cards (up 46 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 51 cards (up 40 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #42 (#71 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (27 cards)
• Sluggo (15 cards)
• Hollister's (4 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (2 cards)
• Andy Pallo (1 card)
• Fred Sawyer (1 card)
• Man Cave (1 card)

Happy Birthday Chris!

Happy Birthday - Jabrill Peppers

Jabrill was born on this day in 1995, making him 28 today.

NFL Debut - September 10th, 2017 (Browns)

Years Active - 

• 2017-2018 (Browns)
• 2019-2021 (Giants
• 2022-current (Patriots)

Cards on TCDB - 1181 cards (up 34 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 28 cards (up 1 from last year)

PC Rank - #58 (#173 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (18 cards)
• Sluggo (3 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (3 cards)
• Ebay (2 cards)
• Card Show-Fort Wayne (1 card)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Jabrill!

Happy Birthday - Lavert Hill

Lavert was born on this day in 1998, making him 25 today.

NFL Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 85 cards

Cards I have - 2 cards

PC Rank - #109 (#2233 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Andy Pallo (2 cards)

Happy Birthday Lavert!

Busy weekend

After 4 days of birthday posts, I finally get a chance to post again. Albeit, it's only a few cards.

Friday night, myself, 2 cousins (Sluggo being one) and a nephew got free tickets (and parking pass) to the White Sox game. When I was offered, I immediately jumped on them because they were playing the Padres so I was hoping to watch Cronenworth, but I forgot he's been out with injury. If you're a Ted Lasso fan, I did get to see Coach Beard throw out the first pitch so there was that. We lost 3-2 but I got to see Dylan Cease pitch and Moncada hit a HR. Benintendi almost had a grand slam but it drifted foul. We still had a good time even though we got home around 1 am and Kevin and I had to get up early for a card show Saturday morning.

We set up at the South Bend show and I actually didn't come home with any cards. Although I did look at some vintage but I didn't buy any. I noticed a table a couple down from me that had some White Sox bobble heads but I didn't go look at them because people always want more than I'm willing to pay. When I went to the bathroom an hour or so later, I decided to walk by the table just to see who they have. As I walked up, there was a Konerko one sitting on the front and I grabbed it to look at. The customer standing next to me said "I'm getting ready to buy that," Oops! I told him my bad and set it down. Then as I was walking by the table of the dealer between ours and the bobble head dealer he showed me a Mark Buehrle one that he bought from him. I was bummed that I didn't get to either one but I was also thinking I probably wouldn't have paid that much anyways. Then the guy said, he couldn't pass it up for $5. I cussed him out. Lol. I told him I was mad at myself enough for not looking earlier than he had to tell me that I could have had them for $5. That's what I get for being cheap at that. I could have had bobble heads of my 2 favorite Sox players.

I did sort some cards for my LCS on Friday before heading out to the Sox/Padres game. I went through 10 opened blasters of 2021 Topps series II, I already have the team set so the only thing I was going to take home was inserts or parallels. Let's see what we got.

For the White Sox collection, I picked up this Madrigal rookie 1986 copy. I liked Madrigal and didn't like that he got traded. This is my 47th card of Nick and I'm pretty sure he only played with us for a year. I do tend to pick up his Sox stuff when I see it because as I said, I liked him.

For Tier 3, I grabbed this die-cut Mike Schmidt. He's been getting new cards more and more so I've been getting more. This is my 344th card of Schmidt.

I also got this 1965 look-a-like of Robert who is out with injury, not that that matters now. This is my 194th of him so I'm closing on that 200 card milestone.

Nothing too flashy but that catches me up with pick-ups other than the old random posts so I'll try to get some of those done so then I'll be caught up with everything new I've added.