October Card Show

Well went to the local card show to buy some vintage cards.  I ended up spending $70 on 13 cards.  11 1956 Topps and 2 1957 Topps.  Going tomorrow to look at some cards for one of my parent's friend.  Don't know alot about them, so I am interested to go and see what the cards involve.

1955 Eddie Matthews

Well, I haven't posted in a while, didn't realize it had been that long.  I went to a local card show 3 weeks ago and bought 1955 Ed Matthews and 2 1957 cards for $100.  I also bought a box of Heritage nothing too special in that one.  I also spend $35 at Walmart for  Heritage and Series 2 Topps.

I found a new site I am going to try to use to trade some cards that I need.  TheBench, hopefully it ends up being a good site seems like it will.

A few cards from Target

Well a short post here, I went to Target today and bought about $25 worth of cards.  Nothing too special just some base that I needed for this year.

2 for 2012 Topps
7 for 2012 Heritage

Some inserts that I needed as well.

A few eBay buys

Well I have been updating my baseball card buys on time, but I just realized that I haven't updated some of my Jason Kidd collection buys.

Over the past few months I have bought 4 auctions on eBay.
 The first was 427 cards I paid $4.99 plus 7.99 shipping, for a total of 12.98.  I wasn't impressed by this lot, there were alot of multiples in her.  I was expecting some, you can't buy that many cards and not get them.  But this one had 7-10 of a few cards.

The second was 3 jersey cards, I paid $1.00 plus $3.00 shipping for a total of $4.00.  Very pleased with this lot, three jersey cards that I did not have.

The third was 215 cards for $10.50 and 5.95 for shipping, for a total of $16.45.  I really liked this lot, I saw some cards that I did not have, so that is why I bought this lot. 

The fourth was 2 phone cards from his rookie year.  $.99 and $3.00 shipping. I saw this a the last minute and had to check to make sure I didn't have them. A quick check and I didn't so I put in a bid and won.  There are also 10 other phone cards of different players, so I maybe putting them back up on eBay or try to see if I can trade them.

This summer I am planning on working on my Kidd collection and getting a better I idea of what I have.  I haven't updated it in a while, so need to do that.  I am working on putting on together a checklist to use on my computer.

Card Show

Well I went to the local card show tonight.  Couldn't make it tomorrow and the Vintage guy is normally not there on Sunday, so I decided to make tonight.  Much smaller than last month, and one less vintage guy.  But the guy that I have dealt the most with was there. 
Here is what I bought with rough price. I paid $100 all together:
1957 Topps
49 Daryl Spencer $5
79 Lindy McDaniel $3
195 Bobby Avila $4
202 Dick Gernert  $4
206 Willard Schmidt $2
216 Marv Grissom $4
258 Steve Gromek  $4
260 Del Ennis $4
379 Don Lee $4
380 Walker Cooper $4
381 Dean Stone $4
400 Dodger Sluggers $40
405 Duke Maas $4
406 Bob Hale $4

1956 Topps
37 Alex Grammas $2
111 Boston Red Sox Team $10
196 Tom Poholsky $4

1955 Topps
204 Frank Smith $5




I also bought 2 Jason Kidd cards

2012 Topps Heritage Box

I bought this box a the Book Broker.  Here is what I got:
Jim Umbricht Buyback
Stick-ons  Rivera,Kemp,Bautista
Then & Now- Marichal-Shields, Marichal-Verlander
Flashbacks-Baseball-Wynn, Mays, Banks; News-Penn Station
Checklist-2,4,5
Chrome Parallel-Young, Beckett, Wolf
Clubhouse Collection- Stanton, Husdon
Image Swap- Lincecum
SP- Helton, Napoli, Sabathia, Encarnacion, Belt, Rollins, Willingham, Inante, Chacin

Looks like I get 94 cards that I needed, including the 9 SP.

Buying Cards on a day off

Well I didn't have to work today, so I decided to buy some cards.  I went to Book Broker, the local card shop and Wal-Mart.  I ended up spending about $85 dollars, plus a $50 gift card to Book Broker. 
Here is what I bought:
1 box 2012 Heritage
2 packs 2010 Heritage
4 packs 2011-12 NBA Hoops
2 jumbo rack packs 2012 Topps
1 Value Box with 5 packs Topps and 2 pack Heritage
1 Blaster Box of 2011-12 NBA Hoops

Here is what I got:
8 2010 Heritage cards that I need plus 3 inserts
5 2012 Topps cards that I need, plus 23 inserts
14 2012 Heritage cards that I need, including 2 SP, Troy Tulowitzki, Jose Inglesias
NBA Hoops was mostly base- Jason Kidd for Player collection, Thaddeus Young (Artist's Proofs), Bob Laier Heroes, Kevin Love Action Photo, Randy Foye Auto

I haven't opened the box yet, once I do I will post that.

Vintage eBay buy...

Well I received a few cards that I won on eBay last week. I ended up winning two lots from the same person.  7 1957 cards and 6 1963 cards.  I payed $6.25 for them. Here are the cards I got:
1957 Topps (Bold ones are the ones I need for my set)
126
149
226
263
370
385
393

1963 Topps
33
127
137
234
255
350

The cards aren't in the greatest shape, but I am not too concerned with that at the moment.

Two Box Break

Well last Saturday I decided to get a couple of boxes.  I ordered them from www.Dacardworld.com.  They have become the place that I buy boxes from, unless it is at a show.  I ordered a box of 2012 Topps Heritage a box of 2011 Topps Series 2.  I order the Topps because I still need quite a few cards to complete my set.  Total cost of boxes plus shipping $118.These were probably the two of best boxes that I have had.  So here is what I got:

Topps 2011 Series 2: (36 pack box)
Base cards- got all but 2 of the cards that I needed (still need 552, 554)
9 Kimball Champions-Boggs, Bench, Feller, B. Robinson, F. Robinson, Rizzuto, Gwynn, Biggio, Maddux Topps 60-  Walter Johnson, Bautista, Mel Ott, Carpenter, Mauer, Castro, Maddux, Carlos Gonzalez,
Gold Parallel- Garza, Sogard, Leake,Belt
Diamond Stars- Votto, Hanley Ramirez, Heyward, Cabrera, Holliday, Howard
60 Years of Topps- Ed Matthews, Killebrew, Yastrzemski, Bench, Ryan, Gary Carter, Palmer, Ripken, Schilling, Jeter, Pujols, Posey
60 Years of Topps Original Back- David Ortiz
Diamond Duos- Gonzalez-Crawford, Uggla-Heyward, Beltre-Andrus, Chapman-Sele, Halladay-Hernandez, Price-Lester, Johnson-Verlander, Pujols-Holliday, Koufax-Kershaw
Before There Was Topps- Gum Inc., Exhibit Supply Company
Topps Diamond Parallel- Berra, Burrell, Hawpe, Zimmerman, Teahen, Fontenot, Smoak, Schumaker, Freese, Hundley
Topps 60 Relic- Mark Teixeira
Framed Silk Collection- Adrian Gonzalez 42/50
Magenta Printing Plate-1/1 Barry Enright #386

That is the first 1/1 that I have pulled.

On the Topps Heritage Box I won't give a complete breakdown right now as I haven't had time to look at SP and all that so I will give you the highlights.
3 Stickers- Cruz, Kinsler, Ortiz
Heritage Chrome- Ervin Santna, Jacoby Ellsbury, Ian Kennedy
News Flashbacks-Kennedy (Camelot, Berliner) Koufax, Aaron
New Age Performers- Votto, Lincecum
Then & Now-Koufax-Kershaw, Matthews-Bautista
Clubhouse Collection Relic- Hunter Pence
and the pull of the box (pull of the case from what I have read
A redemption Card- 1963 Mint Quarter of Mickey Mantle

I will try to update the Heritage with SP cards, just need to find a list of them.

A few new packs...

Well I checked out the new card shop on Saturday.  I had to work and then went bowling.  There is a new card shop next to it.  So I decided to stop in.  I wasn't overly impressed.  Lots of autos for sale, lots of Jordans, not alot of packs or vintage.

I did buy 3 packs of 2012 Topps and 2012 Topps Heritage each.  I didn't pull much, I think I had 2 of the 2012 Topps that I didn't already have.  Nothing special in the Heritage, but I do like the Heritage cards.  In fact I bought a box from DAcardworld.com that I am looking forward to opening. 

Introduction

I will be updating my purchases for sports cards on this blog.  Both new and vintage cards.  I am creating this so that I can keep track of how much some of my cards cost me.  Then I can look back later and decide if I made good or bad purchases.

A little background on my collecting history.  I started collecting cards as a child, at the age of 6 or seven.  I started with baseball and basketball.  I would stick to mostly Topps  and  Hoops for a few years and then collected some Fleer, Upper Deck, and Donruss.  Around '94, I got out of collecting and I was only buying a few packs a year.  Then right about '02-03 I started collecting again, I was making a little money with a 10hr. job.  I was sticking to mostly basketball. During the '03-'04 season (Lebron's rookie year) I really started getting back in, buying multiple boxes.  Around this time I also started a collection of Jason Kidd cards.  He was my favorite NBA player since his rookie year.  Then my buying of boxes and packs went down and I started focusing more on my Kidd collections.

In 2009, I started getting back into collecting baseball again as well, focusing on Topps and Topps Heritage.  I have stopped collecting basketball except for Jason Kidd, and a few packs here and there.

In August of 2010, I purchase about 2000 cards from one of my parents' friend.  I paid $7000 dollars for these.  In the collection were cards from 1952-1971, and then some big Donruss cards from the '80s.  The majority of these cards were in the 1954-1957 years and then 1971.  The majority of the cards are Topps with a decent number of Bowman. 

Since this purchase I have enjoyed adding to this collection including completing the 1954 Topps series.  I am currently working on completing the 1955, 1956, 1957 Topps complete sets.

Here is my current progress on all sets up to 1958:
Topps 1952    48/487   10%
Topps 1953  138/274   50%
Topps 1954  250/250  100%
Topps 1955  196/206   95%
Topps 1956  305/340   90%
Topps 1957  149/407   37%
Topps 1958  108/534   20%
Topps 1959    52/572     9%
Topps 1960      9/572     2%
Topps 1961    13/587     2%
Topps 1962     6/689      1%
Topps 1963     2/576     .3%
Topps 1971 280/752    37%

Bowman Color 1953  128/160   80%
Bowman B/W  1953   35/64      55%
Bowman 1954          223/225    99%     (Two #66, different players)
Bowman 1955          267/320    83%