Spent some time at a card show today. Wasn't looking for anything in particular and certainly didn't have a lot of money to spend. When I walked in, I stopped at the first table I came to. The guy behind it asked me if I had ever been there before. I told him no and he proceeded to explain to me that he ran the show and others in the area. He then handed me this pin from the inaugural season at Turner Field as a gift for first time guests at the show.
I thought that was very kind of him. He had mostly vintage at his table so I moved on to the next where I picked up something I'll reveal later along with the other items for that little project I'm working on.
So after that, with the little cash I had left I hit up a 12 for $1 box and a Braves box. Apparently you can mark up Braves cards just because we're in Atlanta. I guess that's the whole supply and demand thing. I wouldn't know. To me, "economics class" was synonymous with "nap time".
Anyways, here are the 12 for $1 cards:
2001 Upper Deck Rookie Roundup
My only card of Ankiel as a pitcher.
1996 Collector's Choice Award Winner
2006 Topps Turkey Red
1992 Score Dream Team
Glavine played both baseball and hockey in college. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round, 69th overall, of the 1984 Entry Draft. He says he chose baseball over hockey because he had an advantage in baseball being a left-handed pitcher.
2002 Topps 206
2005 Topps Heritage
The back of this card says that Hinske stole home on June 29, 2004 against Tampa Bay. I can't believe "The Water Buffalo", as Uggla affectionately calls him, stole home!
1996 Collector's Choice
2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom
And now, on to the Braves box:
I need to start getting my hands on some more Bobby Cox cards. These two bring me to a whopping total of three.
I love these When They Were Young cards. This particular one is incredibly cute. I need to look at the checklist and see who else is in this set.
When I saw this, I had to have it since I won the gold version of it in a contest over at Jaybarkerfan's Junk.
I had my eye on a couple of other cards, so look for them next week as some of the same sellers from this show will be at the one closer to me next Sunday.
I wonder which promoter you met. Frank is the one I remember most, mainly because I think he was doing the shows I went to when I got back into the hobby. His table usually had lots of old stuff. Avery is the other main promoter, but sadly I can't remember what he had on his table. There was another (he was a pack searcher who set up his own small show in Woodstock for a while) that you probably won't see selling.
ReplyDeleteOne person you must buy from is Heather, if she's still selling. She consistently had two or three cases of nicer stuff, and next to those she'd have a $1 box, $2 box, and $3 box. She would also have out singles from recent products left in the hobby boxes, a 50c/3-for-a-$1 box, and a couple 3000 or 5000 count boxes of 5c or 10c cards. I always made sure I hit the shows when they opened and I'd make a bee-line for her table to get all the great cards, especially of current stuff.
Keep us updated! I enjoyed the Atlanta-area shows more than the usual shows out here.
I didn't catch his name. He said he ran two shows in the area. Seems like the same people set up tables at both of the shows. Buzz cut, gray hair, maybe glasses?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that was Heather that I got these cards from. I talked to her a bit, but I'm not good with getting names. She had a lot of boxes that sound similar to what you mentioned. So many in fact that I didn't have the time to make it through even half of them. I'll probably head straight for her table next weekend as well to finish looking through the boxes and also to pick up an Uggla relic I saw.