One more post before I get my lazy ass down to the card room this weekend and finish the stuff I got last couple of weekends. These came from Fred, at work.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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Monday, March 25, 2024
South Bend Sunday Show
I went to my LCS today to drop off previous sorting. I only pulled a few cards for myself but when I walked into the LCS, he had a few cards already set back for me. Then I started walking around and he had bought 100 autographed mini helmets. I'll tell you the story when I post them but you can see them on my Instagram account now.
Today's post are the cards that I picked up at the South Bend show which was a day after the Shipshewana show.
I paid $5 buck for these 5 cards. The Hutch and Hayes were priced at $2 each but he discounted everything to a buck a card. I picked these up from the guy who sets up in front of us, I believe his name is Ray but I'm not positive.
I picked up these 5 from Austin who sets up at a bunch of shows that we do. He had a dollar box that had a bunch of color so I went through it and found these and paid a buck a piece. Apparently he's not like the other dealers and give a little deal to other dealers.
Kevin bought a box of cards from a guy and I flipped through it and pulled these 3 for me. Although now that I see them again, I'm pretty sure one of the cards from my LCS today was that Bufkin. Looks like it might be another card for Dennis' stack.
Next up are some cards that Fred brought me at work and then I need to get my cards done from the last couple of weeks. See, I haven't only slacked here, but on my cards as well. That's partly because I spent most of Sunday finally putting all my stuff away. I had a huge stack that needed to get put away in my boxes and books. I had to resort the books and added a couple more as well because I've been picking up a lot so far this year. I'm currently at 745 cards so far this year in concurrence with this post
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Shipshy Stuff
Another weekend, another show. Yesterday's show in Buchanan was ran by a 15 year old. The same 15 year old that pulled that Ohtani die cut, numbered to /99 autograph from a Mega we sold him over a year ago. He's come a long way just in the time we've know him. His father gave him some start up money and he started doing breaks. He still does them, along with setting up at shows and now running one. His father said that he paid him all back within 6 months and is essentially running his own business now and I'm guessing he makes pretty good money doing so. His father also says he plays baseball for the school and get's straight A's. To be honest, I'm kind of proud of the kid and I don't know him that well. I mean really, the best part of him is he's a Michigan fan so....
Anyways, we did his show yesterday. He had asked us if we'd be interested when he was thinking about running his own and we agreed. We've done a few shows that way, they tend to come to us because we've got a pretty good reputation. I purchased a few cards, and came home with some freebies but you'll have to wait to see those.
Today's post is cards I picked up at the Shipshewana show a couple of weeks ago.
I went to Hollister's table as well because he always has a Michigan box so I don't have to sort through a bunch of stuff to find anything. I grabbed these 5 auto's from that box. I was trying to grab auto's of guys I don't have auto's of and ended up with 3 guys that I didn't even have cards of yet. Quinn Nordin, Chris Hinton and Tarik Black. I probably won't do a PC of Black because he transferred out but I will still pick up his Michigan stuff. The Jack Blomgren is my 6th card of his but that's my 1st auto. I mainly grabbed the Kauffman because there isn't a ton of Michigan baseball cards out there so I grabbed it. It's my 3rd auto of Kauffmann out of 3 cards I have of him. I paid $15 for all 5 plus an additional auto that I picked up for Dennis.
The day after the Shipshewana show, we did the South Bend show so guess what pick ups you'll get to see tomorrow (if I post).
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Happy Birthday - Mark Buehrle
Mark was born on this day in 1979, making him 45 today.
MLB Debut - July 16th, 2000 (White Sox)
Years Active -
- 2000-2011 (White Sox)
- 2012 (Marlins)
- 2013-2014 (Blue Jays)
Cards on TCDB - 2757 cards (2024), 2645 cards (2023), 2515 cards (2022), 2380 cards (2021)
Cards I have - 390 cards (2024), 381 cards (2023), 369 cards (2022), 212 cards (2021)
PC Rank - #6 (#7 overall)
TCDB Rank - #2
Where they came from -
- Sportlots (175 cards)
- Unknown (70 cards)
- Ebay (26 cards)
- 2x3 Heroes (19 cards)
- Just Commons/Card Barrel (13 cards)
- Too Many Verlanders (11 cards)
- BaseballCardStore.CA (9 cards)
- Card Show-Elkhart (8 cards)
- Box Break (7 cards)
- Nomo's Sushi Platter (6 cards)
- Sluggo (5 cards)
- F&G Sportscards (4 cards)
- Things Are Funner Here (4 cards)
- Thoughts and Sox (4 cards)
- COMC (3 cards)
- Crinkly Wrappers (3 cards)
- Garvey Cey Russell Lopes (2 cards)
- Just Cards (2 cards)
- Justin's Cards (2 cards)
- the Sandlot (2 cards)
- Topps (2 cards)
- All Trade Bait, All the Time (1 card)
- All Tribe Baseball (1 card)
- Card Show-Shipshewana (1 card)
- Doug's Sports Cuts (1 card)
- Manupatches & Mustaches (1 card)
- Nachos Grande (1 card)
- Night Owl Cards (1 card)
- Once a Cub (1 card)
- Padrographs (1 card)
- Spoke Bait & the Game (1 card)
- the Adventures of Napkin Doon (1 card)
- the Collective Mind (1 card)
- This Card is Cool (1 card)
Happy Birthday Mark!
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Catching up
I've been a slacker lately on here. I've got cards to show and I just have been too lazy. I even picked up a few cards last weekend that I haven't even logged or scanned. Although it you follow this site's Instagram you would have seen them.
My last sort for the LCS was a big one. 16 800 count boxes and 4 2 row boxes so needless to say, it was a very big sort so I got quite a big stack of cards to keep so let's get to it. There won't be a lot of commentary as I need to get to bed.
We'll start off with the vintage and other stuff.
On to the Sox collection.
Next up are my Tier 3 PC's
Next up are my Tier 2 cards.
Next up are my Tier 2 Michigan PC's
Yeah, that's it but most of this is MLB and Cronenworth is the only guy who's getting cards in most of the sets.
Last but not least, Tier 1
Like I said, a lot of cards.
I have more cards that I picked up a couple of weekends ago at the Shipshewana and South Bend shows, plus some from Fred and then at the Mishawaka show last weekend so I'll try to get some more posts out between birthday posts.
Meanwhile, I'm out, time for bed.