Hey, Look What I Bought: a Trip to the LCS

When I was a kid and I went to the card shop, I was pretty excited to have ten bucks to spend.  I would pick up a couple of packs and maybe a Griffey base card for three bucks, and that would be it.  Now in the days of adult pay checks and credit cards and such, I am able to score hauls that 13-year-old me would have done that awkward adolescent overreaction for.

Case in point: my LCS had a big ol' box of dollar cards, and I went through every one.  Here's what I landed:

 

NINE '89 Donruss rookies.  Didn't think twice about snagging these.

 

A trio of sweaty '89 Fleer rookies.



Leo Durocher got kicked out of 95 games in his career as a manager.  I've never been able to find an affordable Bob Uecker card (in case you live under a rock he's the foul-mouthed, whiskey-swilling commentator for the Indians in the movie Major League).  It cracked me up that there's a white Frank Thomas who also played pro ball, and that is a Willie Mays card for a dollar.  Couldn't pass that up.  Plus that one dude's name is Pie.  That's funny.



 

Here we have two great Frank Thomas rookies, two Piazza rookies, and a Michael Jordan pre-rookie.  New Orleans may be the only place that Will Clark could sell for a dollar.  Also a signed Kent Hrbek rookie, a nickname-signed "Shotgun" Shuba, and a vintage Ruth/Aaron/Mays card from before Hank's breaking fo the HR record.  That last one blew my mind.  I don't actually know the value, but it's got to be more than a dollar, right?

That's it for the dollar cards.  The following are from a ten dollar 800-count mystery long box.  These have produced some great stuff int he past, and overall this one was no different:



These were in cases taped to the front of the box.  They were not a mystery.



There was a ton of 1995 stuff in that box, particularly Stadium Club and Upper Deck (some of my favorite sets).  Plus a Tino rookie I didn't have and a Will Clark cameo on a Joey Cora card.



This is a small selection of the '95 UD cards.  Not bad.....



There was a stack of 50 or so '95 Pinnacle Zenith as well, all of them pretty good cards.



Plus these....



.....and a couple of these playing cards.



This box has been pretty good, but were there Griffeys..........?

You bet your sweet bippy there were Griffeys.

He also had a box of dollar packs that uncluded a bunch of Bowman from the 2000's.  I picked up two packs of Bowman and two of Topps Stars which I had never opened before.


Crazy textures, and all the cards are serial numbered.  These were fun to open.



Yadier Molina rookie from a pack of Bowman.



That was it from my LCS.  I did also find myself on the Westbank this past weekend and ended up stopping at a card shop we spotted in a strip mall.  There wasn't much to be had, but I found these that I needed:



My first successful trip to the WBCS (Westbank Card Shop).



Card shops down here are not at all baseball-oriented, so hauls like this tend to be few and far-between.  I feel like I hit the lottery right now.

Happy Tuesday, everybody......!