Month: September 2017

Twitter – 1980 Topps Rick Sutcliffe RC

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Jason (@jklongwith) tweeted the other day asking if anyone was interested in a 1980 Topps Rick Sutcliffe rookie card. I was interested since Sutcliffe spent 8 years of his MLB career with the Cubs. I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said $2 shipped. That seemed pretty good to me, so I sent him the money via Paypal and the card showed up a few days later. It’s in pretty good shape and it gives me another card I didn’t have. Thanks Jason!

Cards in this order:
1980 Topps Rick Sutcliffe #544 RC

2017 Topps Heritage and 2017 Donruss Football at Meijer

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While grocery shopping at Meijer, I noticed some new packs in the card aisle. They were 16-count 2017 Topps Heritage high numbers packs in black packs which made me overlook them at first. I picked up 2 packs of the Heritage while my wife picked up a couple packs of 2017 Donruss Football cards. (which she then gave to me once she kept all the Colts players.)

I’m not too impressed with the cards I got in my Hertiage packs. I like the look of the 1968 cards, but I didn’t get much. The only notable cards were a Trea Turner memorabilia card and a rookie performers Andrew Benintendi. I didn’t even get any Cubs in the two packs. Will I buy more if they’re still there the next time? Probably. 🙂

As for the football cards, I got a few Bears cards including a Mitchell Trubisky Rated Rookie. This card will go well with my Trubisky Gridiron Kings card I got in the last batch. I also got a Marcus Wheaton regular and Press Proof version. There’s not much info on the back of these cards beside the 2016 stats and a quick blurb about the player. Still better than the Score cards though I think.

Twitter – Batch of Cubs players

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I’ve recently started following other card collectors on Twitter (@cubsfanstan) and Instagram (@cubsfanstan). I ran across Cliff (@oriolesrise) on Twitter who was sharing photos of cards he was looking to move. I saw he had a few Cubs players and asked him how much he wanted for them. It wasn’t very much so he found a few more to make the shipping worthwhile.

They’re in varying condition but all new ones for me. I really like batches of cards as I usually get a good assortment for a low price. I added another Ron Santo to my collection along with fellow Cubs Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins. Thanks Cliff for the great deal!

1962 Topps Ron Santo #170

1973 Topps Fergie Jenkins #180

1974 Topps Billy Williams #110

Cards in this order:
1960 Topps Dick Ellsworth #125
1960 Topps Harry Bright #277
1962 Topps Barney Schultz #89 RC
1962 Topps Ron Santo #170
1964 Topps Bob Buhl #96
1964 Topps Don Elston #111
1964 Topps Steve Boros #131
1970 Topps Ken Rudolph #46
1970 Topps Phil Regan #334
1970 Topps Willie Smith #318
1971 Topps Larry Gura #203 RC
1973 Topps Fergie Jenkins #180
1973 Topps Whitey Lockman #81
1974 Topps Billy Williams #110
1974 Topps Carmen Fanzone #484
1974 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Checklist #5
1974 Topps Traded George Mitterwald #249T
1975 Topps Ken Frailing #436
1989 Kmart Baseball Dream Team 33 card set
1991 Woolworth Baseball 33 card set
1992 Post Ryne Sandberg #2