A Quicky

Just a quick post tonight. I get decent sleep over the weekend but my punishment is, I can never get to sleep at a decent time on Sunday nights. I generally get 3-4 hours sleep and last night was not different. So I'll be hitting my pillow early tonight.

I got 3 posts from pickups in the past week. I chose this one because it's only 2 cards. I actually got these at the beginning of the week. Fred, at work, brought me an envelope with 5 or 6 cards in it. I already had most, but I ended up with 2. He usually picks up a few cards for me while he's out shopping for himself. When I originally found out he just got back into cards, I gave him a 800 count box, almost full, of Cubs cards back when I was unloading my no PC stuff. I was just being nice but he gives me cards about once a month now. Like I said, nothing special, but he usually gets things I need. Such as these two.

I liked Madrigal and was upset when we traded him. I liked him enough that when I go through Sox cards, I grab his cards still. I didn't have this 2021 Chrome but it is my 48th card of him.

Now when I pulled this card out, I was pretty sure I already had it, but nope, it was new to me. Still not sure how I didn't have it. This is my 961st card of Cal jr.

Tier 2 additions

I was glad to see the Rangers lose 2 games, I don't have much to go on when it comes to the White Sox these days but we do hold the best winning percentage in the playoffs (tied with some team nobody has heard of) with 11-1 so with them losing 2, they're out. I'm not a big fan of the Astros, but I wouldn't mind seeing Abreu win the big one. I'm not opposed to either of the teams in the NL either, I guess I'll take the Dbacks just because it's been a lot longer for them since they've won one.

I worked on sorting list players today but only for a couple of hours as the wife and I ran errands all morning. I have found a few cards for myself but you'll see those once I get through all the cards.

Today, I'm going to blow through all of my Tier 2 players. They are in alphabetical order by last name. Once I clear out my cache, so to speak, I'll go to the format that I've used the last couple of weeks when I purchased (or gotten) cards.

These 4 cards of Fisk (I swear he's on the Sportflic) came from the quarter box of Hall of Famers at the Michigan City show awhile back. These 4 give me 378 cards of the OG Pudge.

I picked up these 2 A&G's from my sorting duties. I've noticed he doesn't get a ton of cards, all of these smaller sets usually exclude him so it's nice to pick some up. These 2 give me 34 cards of our closer. I'm still waiting to see if he'll be with us next year.

I picked up all of these Eloy cards, except the auto from my sorting duties as well. The autograph I picked up in the half off box at my LCS that I do the sorting for. He ended up giving me those for free as well for the sorting. The 2 from 2023 are from series 2 as I had already completed series 1. I have 197 cards of Eloy and that is my first auto of his.

These 10 cards came from the quarter box at Michigan City as well.

This card was a sorting find for myself.

These 2 cards came from Kevin sorting. All in all, I'm not complaining about adding 13 cards of Larkin without paying a dime. They give me 741 cards of Barry. I keep picking up cards of him like this and he's going to pass Konerko on my PC's.

This was the only card I picked up of Moncada. It's also a series 2. This card gives me 220 of him.

Kevin gave me these from his sorting duties. The Stadium Club is the red parallel and it looks to be a shot from the Field of Dreams game. These 2 give me 194 which, like Eloy, is closing in on that 200 card milestone.

I also picked up this Mojo refractor of Andrew Vaughn. This one came from Fred (a guy at work who gives me cards). I only have 90 of Vaughn so while I'm closing in on a milestone of him as well, it's only half of the other's mentioned on this post.

Vintage stars

It's Thursday so I'm done with work for the week. I got kicked out at 1 today because I hit my 40 hours and they aren't allowing overtime. Maybe I'll get some posts done this weekend. We are setting up at a small show on Saturday but it's only half an hour or so from home so I won't be gone all day.

Today, I'm going to hit a couple of collections. They kind of go together.

I got 3 cards for the team card collection. They are all mid 2000's. I was happy they came back at this time, I wish they had them in the newer sets. You'd think the heritage sets would at least have them. It's only my 4th card of the Marlins but they didn't have any Vintage. I have 14 cards of the Giants, 5 of them are after 2000. The Mets are now at 13 cards, 4 from after 2000. These 3 came from Sluggo

I said these collections go together before I realized the 3 cards I had for the team collection were all modern (sort of) but here we go anyways.

I picked up these 21 cards from sorting. He must have picked up some (sort of) Vintage lots from somebody.

These 13 cards also came from sorting. All of the players in both scans are of list players, some of the players I pull while doing the sorting. When I sort list players, I put them in player stacks. The guy that buys them pays more when they are already sorted. Obviously, these are the older players, mostly hall of famers. There's a lot more modern players than these but you won't see those here being it's a Vintage post.

Remember awhile ago, when I said the promoter at the Plymouth show told me he had some vintage on his table that I should see, Well the rest of the post are those cards.

As you can see, these are a lot better players than I normally purchase on the cheap. The Yaz is a player collection as well. Kevin was upset I grabbed the Hank Aaron before he saw it. I mean, I didn't grab it until the show was closing so it wasn't like he didn't have that option. These 2 cards give me 238 cards from that set which is good for 30% complete.

2 more stars and another needed PC card. These 2 1971's give me 199 cards which is just under 30% complete.

2 more of the same players only a year older. These 2 1970's give me 117 cards which is good for 16% complete. As you can tell, the older I get, the less cards I have.

Lastly, this 1968 of Killebrew gives me only 56 from that set which is still under 10%.

I paid $33 for those 7 cards which is way over what I normally spend, at least on 7 cards but those are some pretty good Vintage stars and not the usual commons that I pick up. Like I said, he was the promoter and a guy I consider a friend so I didn't mind handing him that much money.

Fort Wayne Adds

I worked on sorting for the LCS today. I have a bunch of cards that I'm putting in player order. I got them all in stacks, alphabetically by last name. Now I have to go through each letter and put them in player order, and of course, check some to see if they are anything that I need (or Kevin or Dennis). I only got as far as the A's but I did pull one for me and a few for Kevin. I probably won't finish them until next weekend since we're doing 10 hour days this week. 

We set up at the Fort Wayne show yesterday. It was a good show, it usually is. It helped that it was raining out, the only time the shows aren't as good as usual is when it's nice weather out. I did do some shopping around looking at some vintage but I was looking for a couple of specific cards and didn't see them so I didn't buy anything. I did come home with some cards for myself though as Kevin went through a .50 cent box and bought a bunch of color parallels. He got a discount for buying a bunch as well so he paid less than .50 cents. I paid even less for the ones I wanted, as in, I didn't pay anything. This is what I pulled for myself.

I grabbed 3 more of Tim Anderson. The Donruss is the Lime Green Parallel, the Prizm Machines is the Silver and the bottom card is just a plain old refractor. These 3 give me 223 cards of TA.

I also picked up a Lime Green of Eloy along with a White Wave parallel of Prism. These 2 give me 197.

I picked up this Red, White and Blue of Andrew Vaughn. It's my 3rd parallel of that card and I still don't have the base one. It is my 90th card of Vaughn.

All of the above are all part of the White Sox collection as well.

I also found a few former Wolverines that are current PC's.

Always happy to pick up our 1 semi-star in the pros. The nice thing is he keeps getting more and more cards, unlike a lot of my Michigan baseball PC's who pretty much have Bowman cards and that's it. This Silver parallel of Mosaic is my 74th card of Cronenworth.

See, a Bowman parallel. This is my 5th card of Jack. 3 of them are Bowman parallels and 2 Panini Draft Picks. Another reason I don't want Panini out of business, they do draft pick sets which are in college uni's.

I also picked up 1 football card of Kwity Paye. He's been getting a bunch of cards in new products as well. I only had 15 cards in 2 years time until this year, now I'm at 58.

I save my Tier 1 add for last. I added this insert parallel, the Green one. I already have the base and the Silver. This is my 573rd card of Tom Terrific.

Happy Birthday - Eli Brooks

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

NBA Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 236 cards (up 186 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 1 cards (same as last year)

PC Rank - #114 (#2812 overall)

TCDB Rank - #14

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (1 card)

Happy Birthday Eli!