Happy Birthday - Ignas Brazdeikis

Ignas was born on this day in 1999, making him 25 today.

NBA Debut - November 3rd, 2019 (Knicks)

Years Active - 

• 2019-2021 (Knicks)
• 2021 (76'ers)
• 2021 (Magic)

Cards on TCDB - 789 cards (2024) 788 cards (2023) 757 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 30 cards (2024) 26 cards (2023) 11 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #56 (#154 overall)

TCDB Rank - #4

Where they came from -

• Sluggo (12 cards)
• Hollisters (8 cards)
• A Penny Sleeve for Your Thoughts (5 cards)
• Sportlots (4 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (1 card)

Happy Birthday Ignas!

Happy Birthday - Glenn Robinson III

 

Glenn was born on this day in 1994, making him 30 today.

NBA Debut - November 14th, 2014 (Timberwolves)

Years Active - 

• 2014-2015 (Timberwolves)
• 2015 (76'ers)
• 2015-2018 (Pacers)
• 2018-2019 (Pistons)
• 2019-2020 (Warriors)
• 2020 (76'ers)
• 2020-2021 (Kings)

Cards on TCDB - 485 cards (2024) 486 cards (2023) 480 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 17 cards (2024) 17 cards (2023) 12 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #70 (#518 overall)

TCDB Rank - #6

Where they came from -

• A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts (5 cards)
• Sportlots (4 cards)
• Ebay (3 cards)
• COMC (2 cards)
• Hollisters (1 card)
• Sluggo (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Glenn!

More sorting pickups with surprise cards

We set up at the South Bend show yesterday and I picked up some cards that I was excited to run into, but you'll have to wait a few days to see those as I have a couple of birthday posts the next couple of days but the next post up are more cards I picked up from sorting.

I went to the LCS last weekend and picked up 2 shoe boxes of assorted cards and a bag with opened packs so I sorted all of that. Most of it was done last weekend, but I finished up some today. There was an assortment of sports so along with sorting players, I sorted sports. I finished up the baseball last week and finally got the time to do the football and basketball today. I didn't need any of the football but I did the other 2.

I'll start with the basketball, the boxes had older basketball and then a couple of the packs were basketball.

These 2 of Juwan Howard are nothing fancy but they were needed. They give me 129 cards of our current head (assistant) coach.

I also picked up this card of Chris Webber, technically I picked up 2 as the above Juwan Howard card also has Webber on it. Those 2 cards give me 168 cards of the other Fab Fiver.

These 2 Hoops Winter cards came from a couple of packs. Obviously whoever searched them, weren't Michigan fans as I found this LeVert and Robinson in there. I'm pretty sure I just posted the Hoops base a week or 2 ago of LeVert. This is my 60th card of LeVert and my 35th of Robinson.

2 more from Packs, the Wagner was the only card I got out of the Contenders pack, it is my 42nd of him. I also found this Hardaway jr in a Hoops pack. It's pretty cool looking, it's called teal explosion and it gives me 106 cards of him.

Next up is some baseball. Whoever they bought this lot from must have been a Chicago fan because there were a couple of lots of Chicago (both Sox and Cubs) players.

There was a pretty good stack of El Caballo but I only needed these 6. He's not a PC but I do have 108 cards of him.

I got fill in some 2009 Upper Deck needs with these 4 and an insert of Chris Snopek.

5 various Bowman Chrome's, a Prizm rookie and some newer Donruss. The '22 Donruss of Anderson is the Lime Green parallel and a couple of '23 Donruss. It is my 236th card of Anderson and 188 of Ventura. I've been picking up Colson Montgomery as he is one of our top prospects and as bad as we are probably going to suck, he may get some playing time this year.

I did get a couple of PC guys as well.

I actually have this card but this one is one of those asterick variations. I don't actively seek them out but if I come across one and it's free, I keep it. This gets me 1 card closer to 1k, this is 982 cards of jr.

As I said, there were player stacks on some Chicago players, PK being one of them, I got excited because I always like to add cards of my favorite player. I got disappointed that I only got to add 2 though. I'll still take them. These 2 give me 765 of Konerko.

But wait, there's more. The following were in the boxes and they were out of place with what the rest of the cards were but I was still happy to see them.

The box had a bunch of 90's to 2010's in it, so it was odd to run across these. That's 8 cards from the 1980 set, which gives me 449 from that set which is just below 63% completed. There was also 1 card from the 1983 Topps set and that gives me 653 cards and just over 82% completed.

I kept getting more surprised when they started getting older, these 2 cards from the 1967 set give me 48 cards.

Also got 3 cards from the 1966 set. Our first fairly big name as well with that Bill Mazeroski. Not sure what was being collected as all 3 of these cards are Pirates cards. That team card will also go to that collection. These 3 cards give me 224 cards for 37% completed.

It just keeps getting better with this 1959 Topps. This is only my 24th card from that set.

These 2 and the previous card were all Yankees to counter the Pirates cards before. You can see the Bauer card isn't in the greatest of condition but I mean, it is 65 years old now. These 2 give me 26 cards from this set. The odd thing is out of those 26, 9 are Yankees cards and 13 are White Sox cards. The White Sox cards I get as I look for those before I do any others but I find it odd that I keep running across Yankees cards as well.

As I said earlier, I'll go over yesterdays pickups in a few days.

Last cards of 2023

When I met up with Kevin before the show last weekend, he brought me a bunch of cards that he pulled from his sorting duties plus he picked up a collection. It gave me a milestone tonight, well, technically, last week. We'll go through the cards first.

I didn't know what these were but upon looking them up on TCDB, they are the 2005 Champions from Danbury Mint, they each came in plastic cases that I had to use scissors to free them from. I would have preferred to get some of the top names (4 of them are PC's) but they are still pretty cool.

A few oddball stuff from the earlier days of my collecting. The first 2 are from Coca-Cola, then Toys 'r' us. The bottom row is Denny's followed by a Fleer sticker back.

A couple of scans of newer cards as well. Rookies and stars, even an old coach. I didn't realize how many of those Chrome anniversary cards they put out for each team as I keep getting more and more of them. I have 235 of Tim Anderson, 154 of Lucas Giolito and 278 of Jose Abreu.

He also gave me a team card which I don't get too often anymore. I really need to pick up more of these Heritage team cards. I always forget about them until I see one.

Some more old school Strawberry's. A Fleer mini set and another Denny's Grand Slam of him. These 2 give me 159 of Darryl.

I also received a later Dwight Gooden. This gives me 164 cards of Doc K.

2 more of our now former closer. As I said, I keep getting these Chrome Platinum Anniversary cards. These 2 give me 39 cards of Liam. I hope he lands back on his feet.

Another Chrome Anniversary, this time of Eloy. This is my 212th card of Jimenez.

I'm not sure how I didn't have that Jim Abbott, I've probably skimmed right past hundereds of them doing my sorting and thought I already had it. It is my 288th card of him. You also see I did get 1 of my PC players from those card from Danbury Mint which I was happy to see. This is my 387th card of Buehrle.

I thought I had this one as well but it's apparently the silver parallel. I can't imagine how many parallels I went past before I used TCDB. This is my 127th card of our current coach.

2 more former Wolverines picked up. I have a bunch of Charles Woodson in the maize and blue because Panini pumps out a few a year. This is my 59th card of Woodson. I picked up another of Taco as well, this parallel is my 27th of him.

Another of PK, nice. I've picked up a few of him in the last month or so which is great. Another Chrome Platinum as well. This is my 763rd card of Konerko.

I told you at the beginning that I hit a milestone on my last pickups of last year. These 41 cards put me over 10,000 cards added to my collection in 2023. 10,016 to be exact. As I've said in previous posts, I've done that by spending less than half of what I did in 2022. I spent just over $1100 in 2023 as compared to just over $2100 to get just under 2400 cards in 2022. I would say it was definitely a byproduct of all the free cards I get from sorting.

As I've also said above, these were the last cards that I received in 2023, I logged them in (which is the day I consider them received) on New Years Eve day.

Sorting packs

Today's my last day before going back to work. I was supposed to go back on Thursday but there were some issues with the tanks sitting for 2 weeks so I'm going back in tomorrow to get everything set up for 3rd to come in tomorrow night. It probably won't be a full day but I'll take the hours. Since it's my last day off, I figured I should get out a post since it's been a bit. The last week of the year is always heavy with birthday posts and yesterday I just chilled and waited to watch Michigan beat Alabama.

I sorted some cards for my LCS last weekend, there were a couple of bags of opened packs and a box of 2023 A&G, the nice thing was there was all 3 sports. Here's what I got.

As per the usual, I'll start with the White Sox. A couple more Frank Thomas (1,026) and a Jose Abreu (278) and Tim Anderson (235) of whom I have a bunch of. I also got a Romy Gonzalez (13) and a Gavin Sheets (43) who I like to get cards of. I'm hoping to see more of him in the future. These all came from packs.

Next up is some Type 3 collections.

I got these 2 inserts of Yaz. One shiny, one not so much. These 2 give me a step closer to 200 at 193 cards.

I also got these 2 cards of Steve Carlton, one insert and one base. I was actually surprised I needed some of the base A&G because I've sorted quite a bit of it before. The inserts didn't surprise me. These 2 give me 231 cards of the lefty.

Next up is Tier 2 Michigan PC cards.

There were a couple packs of NBA Hoops but this was the only one that I needed. It's my 1st 2023 card of LeVert and my first of him as a Cavalier. This card gives me 59 cards of Caris.

There were also a bunch of packs of Prestige. I added a few of those already last week so I wasn't sure I would get any but I did find these 2. Always love to see Aidan cards, I'm not sure how many we'll get with him being a defensive player but right now they are churning them out. This is my 32nd card of Aidan and my 41st of DPJ. It's also my 1st 2023 of DPJ.

I was really happy to get 3 more cards of Jake Cronenworth. 2 from packs and another base A&G. I was really surprised to get 2 different colors in just a couple of packs. These 3 give me 79 cards of Jake.

Last but not least, I also grabbed 1 card for a Tier 1 PC.

I found this insert of Tom Seaver as well. There really wasn't that many packs so I was surprised to keep as many as I did. This Seaver gives me 580 cards of him.