Two adds for the bloodlines collection

I made a cameo at my LCS to raid the quarter boxes for any newer cards to flip through like 2018 Donruss baseball but no dice on that - so I ended up rummaging around for some loose cards as well as picking up packs of penny sleeves and a cardboard box.

1975 Topps Rookie Pitchers #615 - feat. Pat Darcy, Dennis Leonard, Tom Underwood and Hank Webb; this card will count as a bloodlines collection add with Webb being the father of big leaguer Ryan, but Underwood [R.I.P.] was also the brother of former MLB pitcher Pat and the father of one time Dodgers minor leaguer J.D. Underwood...this card could be a beyond the glory card for Darcy, who served up Carlton Fisk’s home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.

Leonard had the most success out of the four guys on this card but after being a front line starter for the Kansas City Royals - a knee injury derailed the latter part of his career; I’d put him in the beyond the glory mini-collection, though I know I have a card of his somewhere, so this card wouldn't be a 2018 add for him.

2017 Panini Score football Kiko Alonso #6 - this is where I feel my mini-collections can get really esoteric at times.

I had a Bowman Draft card of one-time pro baseball player Carlos Alonso and I looked him up just to see if he was still playing - Carlos washed out after parts of 7 minor league seasons, but I saw he had a brother [Kiko] who plays in the NFL.

It wasn't a priority - but when I stumbled upon a random base card of Kiko, I had to pick it up so I had a card for each brother.

1986 Topps Kurt Sohn #100

I must have seen this card somewhere online and I wanted a copy of the card because it shows this NFL player, football in-hand glaring with his game face on - maybe Sohn was stuck on the bench, but the eye black makes it like he's ready to get involved in the action at any given moment.

Sohn played in parts of 7 NFL seasons back in the 1980s and was a wide receiver / punt and kick returner - his best year was in 1985 when he caught 39 balls for 534 yards.

Quarterbacks out of the quarter bin

There are a bunch of 2014 Upper Deck football cards at my LCS quarter bin - I plucked a few of them out to pack my other random finds with some immediate 'star power.'

2014 Upper Deck football Andrew Luck #1
2014 Upper Deck football Peyton Manning #10
2014 Upper Deck football Joe Montana #15
2014 Upper Deck football Drew Brees #35
2014 Upper Deck football Ben Roethlisberger #40

As is, my method of collecting random football cards is to arrange them in a A-Z archive / Rolodex of sorts - so maybe once in a blue moon, I might find a card I can get autographed [for guys who end up still doing that sort of thing at random events for free, not the guys who charge $200 to sign, like Manning, Montana, Brees...lol].

My baseball finds - at times it's a struggle to find anything when scraping the bottom of the barrel, but I'm always looking to stumble upon random cards for random needs.

1976 Topps Brent Strom #84 - x2
1976 Topps Kurt Bevacqua #564
1977 Topps Bill Russell #322
1977 Topps Roy Howell #608 - x2
2011 Topps Rod Barajas #575
2013 Bowman Chrome Onelki Garcia #BCP 118
2013 Panini Extra Edition Jake Bauers - Status parallel serial #'d 031/100
2013 Topps Chrome Nick Maronde #24 - Xfractor parallel
2013 Topps Chrome Paco Rodriguez #182

Card shop finds - a pair of quarterbacks

Drew Brees is sort of the gold standard in my book as far as active NFL quarterbacks are concerned - he seems like an accessible, down to earth superstar who is a pro all the way.

Maybe it's the idea that he doesn't necessarily tower over people or maybe the commercials he's been in that shows him mostly as a regular guy and father - maybe it's because of a 'cool story bro' moment I had with him at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe back in 2006.

I was getting him to sign a card inside my autograph book - after signing my card, he took an extra moment to look at my other cards and I thought it was a little odd for whatever reason, he was interested in looking at the Vince Coleman card I had affixed on there.

As far as Russell Wilson, I've finally found one, lousy common card of his in the quarter box - I don't have an NFL fantasy team but for whatever reason, I randomly end up checking NFL box scores on ESPN to see how certain players like Wilson have performed.

He's become a little more established in his second season - but he is still a tiny guy having to scrap through and prove himself from week to week.

Featured player: Mike Golic
1990 Score #519 - I was going to throw this card away, because it is a new [as in 19 years old] card and it is in 'beater' shape. On the other hand, Golic has become this star in the media as a former NFL defensive tackle turned commentator on Mike and Mike in the Morning. I've sort of warmed up to the show broadcast on ESPN 2, because it is on, when I'm up at night and it is nice to find a live-broadcast show - instead of endless stream of informercials for "getting bigger."

I really don't pay much attention to the things going on in the show, other than what he and co-host Mike Greenberg have to say as far as an 'immediate reaction' to maybe the latest sports news. As a baseball fan they have Peter Gammons, Tim Kurkjian and Buster Olney on different days. As a whole, Golic has some interesting things to say all-around [not just about football and/or the NFL] and comes more across as a every day guy talking about sports, rather than some 'holier than thou,' ex-jock.

Not to make this like a Wikipedia entry, but he also admitted to steroids and was subject to a roast gone wrong.