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:
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| NINE '89 Donruss rookies. Didn't think twice about snagging these. |
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| A trio of sweaty '89 Fleer rookies. |
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| 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:
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| These were in cases taped to the front of the box. They were not a mystery. |
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| 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. |
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| This is a small selection of the '95 UD cards. Not bad..... |
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| There was a stack of 50 or so '95 Pinnacle Zenith as well, all of them pretty good cards. |
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| Plus these.... |
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| .....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.
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| Crazy textures, and all the cards are serial numbered. These were fun to open. |
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| 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:
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| 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......!
