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This blog is about sports cards. I tend to only purchase cheap items so don't come hear expecting to see big money cards. My teams collections are Chicago White Sox and Michigan Wolverines. I also have a bunch of player collections.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Happy Birthday - Cesar Ruiz

Cesar was born on this day in 1999, making him 23 today.

NFL Debut - September 21st, 2021 (Saints)

Years Active - 

  • 2021-current (Saints)

Cards on TCDB - 176 cards

Cards I have - 5 cards

PC Rank - #71 (#1136 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

  • Hollister's - 3 cards
  • Sportlots - 2 cards

I have 3 Michigan cards but again, no relics or autos.

Happy Birthday Cesar!

Happy Birthday - Frank Clark

Frank was born on this day in 1993, making him 29 today.

NFL Debut - September 13th, 2015 (Seahawks)

Years Active - 

  • 2015-2018 (Seahawks
  • 2019-current (Chiefs)
Seahawks

Chiefs

Cards on TCDB - 394 cards (up 41 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 16 cards (up 13 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #49 (#172 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3


Where they came from -


Only 1 Michigan card and no auto's or relics. I guess I got a goal for his next birthday post.

Happy Birthday Frank!

Monday, June 13, 2022

2 Players, 2 Cards, 2 Hall of Famers

Just a quick post tonight, I went to a viewing and I didn't sleep much last night so I'm sleepy.

Even though today's post is a quick one, they are some pretty cool cards (in my eyes anyways).


Wanna guess how much I paid for each of those 1975's? Both Steve Carlton's (and some other guy), the bottom card is in pretty good shape, the top one isn't, but good enough for me. These both came from that vintage $1 box at the Fort Wayne show. I bought a bunch of vintage there.

These 2 get me 2 closer to 200 but leaves me 2 short of 200. You got that? In other words these 2 give me 198 cards of Steve Carlton.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

the Shoelace Century

I've been slacking a bit this past week and not getting out my usual amount of posts. I haven't missed any birthday posts thought, that's what usually gets me because I use those to gauge how well that collection is going the following year.

I worked on my cards a bit yesterday. I put everything away that I've gotten the last couple of weeks and decided I was going to print labels for my binders. A few players that have over 250 cards get their own binder and I put the cards in pages. I printed off slips for each year for the player. Or at least until I ran out of ink, stupid printers. Here's an example of 3 years for Ripken.

I like them. I think they're pretty cool with the accomplishments listed for the year.

Today, I went over to Sluggo's to help him. He's making some 50% off boxes and I was helping with the sleeving and top loading while he priced. It goes a lot quicker with 2 people. We stopped to eat some lunch and he noticed that the Notre Dame baseball team was on (he's a ND fan) so we continued to watch the game. They pulled it out with a couple of home runs in the last few innings and beat Tennessee for a birth to the college World Series playoffs? I'm not sure what the correct terminology is for it. They're going to Omaha, that I know is correct.

Anyways, today's post has nothing to do with the above but I had a little time to put it out there, so I did. Today we get a former QB who didn't QB in the pros.

I put these 2 together since they are parallels of each other even though they both came from different places. The one on the left came from card show in Mishawaka and the right one is from the card show at Shipshewana (probably from Hollister's again).

These 2 give me exactly 100 cards of Denard. Denard is my first football collection to reach the century mark.

Friday, June 10, 2022

Ricky Auto

The Sox haven't been as good as advertised this year. It's not too late yet but they need to get it going before they dig themselves too big of a hole. One guy who has been playing well as of late, even though Tony LaRussa doesn't play him as often as he should, is this guy.


The cards above all came from Sluggo. He picked them up in collections and gave them all to me as part of payment for helping him out. He usually just gives me base stuff.

Fred brought me a couple of this year's Heritage, they were my first of the set. This is the only one you get to see today though.

Apparently Bowman has to get fancy and this card is not Pink, but Fuchsia. This was the 1 card I picked up at the LCS in Warsaw that was right around the corner from the show.


I picked this up at my LCS after the Warsaw card show. I needed an auto and he had just bought out a collection with a bunch of White Sox cards, most were way out of my price range but I dropped a few bucks on a few autos of some Sox players that I needed. 4 were current players, this being one of them. It was the 2nd highest priced auto I bought there.

These 8 cards put my Vaughn collection at 44 cards.