Sportlots Pick-Up

Guess how many cards that is?  If you guessed 341, that's pretty impressive, but I'm sorry you still don't win anything.  I recently relieved a seller of his inventory of Tim Wallach baseball cards on Sportlots.com.  The phots above are a quick look at the haul.  I'm guessing I had probably hit this seller up once before at some point in some previous year,  and bought out all his early Topps and Fleer.  I'm not sure else how to explain why there was such a rich vein (to use a gold miners term) of early 80's Donruss to be had, yet aside from a nice pocket of 1985 Fleer, nothing else to be found for Topps or Fleer.

There were some nice little milestones and oddities to be found in this purchase.  The 31 new 1982 Donruss pushed that cards total over the 200 mark.  Donruss still trails Fleer (242) and Topps (1,187) in the rookie card totals, but it just gained a lot of ground.  1983 Donruss, 1984 Donruss,  1985 Donruss, 1991 Leaf, 1991 Stadium Club, and 1994 Topps all reached the 100 card threshold, and 1985 Fleer is now just outside of it.

The 33 '84 Donruss are more copies of that card than I have picked up in the last five years combined.  That's a set (like '89 Upper Deck) that I theorize people hoard more than they probably need to.  I believe it's an artificial "scarcity."  The 37 1985 Donruss increased my total by nearly 50%, and 41 1991 Stadium Club increased my total by 58% (after not picking up a single copy in 2017).  The Panini Canadian Top 15 was the biggest increase, the 17 new copies more than tripled my total bringing it up to 22.  I know this may seem counter intuitive to my stated mission, but it bruises my "ego" a little when ever I find a seller has more copies of a card available than I have in my collection.  Thankfully, that doesn't happen very often anymore, and each time it does, it becomes that much less likely to happen again.

As far as rare stuff, there was some of that too.  1985 Leaf was the first copy I've come by since 2015.   The 1988 Red Foley Sticker (in the blue b.p. jersey) was only my second copy ever and first since 2014, and the 1991 Red Foley was also my first since 2014.

All in all, it was a nice little pick-up and good way to start the year.

Updated Totals:

1982 Donruss x31: 204
1983 Donruss x22: 125
1984 Donruss x33: 150
1985 Donruss x37: 115
1985 Fleer x25: 94
1985 Leaf: 31
1988 O-Pee-Chee: 14
1988 Red Foley: 3
1990 Upper Deck x6: 258
1991 Bowman x7: 57
1991 Donruss x10: 240
1991 Donruss MVP x8: 215
1991 Fleer x4: 167
1991 Leaf x16: 104
1991 Panini Canadian Top 15 x17: 22
1991 Red Foley: 2
1991 Stadium Club x41: 111
1991 Ultra x2: 74
1992 Bowman USA x10: 52
1992 Donruss x12: 182
1992 O-Pee-Chee x3: 19
1992 Ultra x9: 126
1993 Topps x4: 148
1994 Topps x20: 107
1995 Topps x12: 47
1995 Topps Cyber Stats x4: 19
1994 Score Gold Rush x3: 12
1996 Collector's Choice Silver: 7