Trade Bait from the Monthly Card Show

Last month, I dragged about 3 or 4 posts out of a trip to my local card show. The great thing for me is that this local card show is a monthly show. I mean, check out the show's Facebook page.

So, I decided to go to the show again in October to see what I could find. 

The last time I went, I wandered around the room a bit more than the previous times that I had attended the show. For whatever reason, I still end up drawn to a table run by an older woman who has tons of "15 for $1" boxes next to the "20 for $2.50" boxes next to the "25 cents each or 200 for $20" boxes before you get to the 50 cent, $1, $2, $3, and $5 boxes. 

Okay, I think the reason that I go to that table should be obvious.

Anyway, to start dragging some more posts out of my card-show trip, I thought I would post some trade bait I picked up at the show.  All of these were either in the 15 for $1 or the 25-cent boxes, and all of them are available in trade.

Let's start in 1979: 

Back to the present, or nearly the present, with this one. Is this a "liquor-fractor" that people talked about from 2012?  Matt, let me know if you want/need this one.

I have a strange love for mid-1980s Fleer cards. Does anyone want a Carl Yastrzemski from 1983 Fleer?

These two Pinnacle cards commemorated a MLB-to-Japan series that occurred in the mid-1990s. I hadn't seen these cards before, so I grabbed them in hopes someone would like them. 

Every once in a while, I get on Twitter and lob out some sarcasm/smart-assery in response to other Tweeters. I usually stay on there until I get tired of it -- usually about 10-15 minutes or so.  But, on the night before the show, I was chatting with View from the Skybox about cards he might need. He mentioned the Blue slate sparkle cards from 2013 and asked if I could look for Royals from that set.

I didn't find any royals, but I got a now-illegal play at the plate hit from Carlos Quentin:

This last card is already going to be sent to the Dime Box King, but I had to share it because it is a strange card to me. It is slightly larger than the normal card -- not so much that it won't fit in a 9-pocket sheet, but just a little bit.  And, it's perforated.  

The card came from a book from Dover Publications, as the back of the card mentions, and it is on white, thin card stock. 

It's a great oddball if you haven't run across those Dover Publications books.

As with anything, let me know if you're interested in any of these. Thanks for reading.

Dime, Quarter, and Fiddy Cent Boxes at the Card Show

I went back to my local card show for the first time in a couple of months today.  The last time I went, I was a deer in headlights -- I didn't know what I wanted, what I was looking for, or where to begin.  Thanks to this blog and generally getting more organized now, I went into today's show with a purpose.

My purpose was simple: get to the dime boxes and augment my Brewers collections.  On that note, I did very, very well: I added about 35-40 Ryan Braun cards, about 10 Prince Fielders, maybe 8 Jean Segura cards, and another 20 Rickie Weeks cards.  Throw in 8 Yovani Gallardo cards and stir.  

These cards are nice cards too, and none of them cost me more than 50 cents -- lots of Topps Chrome and Bowman Chrome, for instance:

A Target parallel:

Some inserts from some recent Topps base sets too:

And even some nice inserts that weren't Brewers:

The 2012 Topps Cloth Sticker card

There wasn't a ton of older stuff in the dime boxes today at the show, but I did find one reasonably decent card of a Hall of Famer from 1978 in the dimers:

It is a little rough around the edges, but it's tough to turn down a 1978 Topps card of any kind for a dime. And this is Andre Dawson!

All in all, I was pleased with the trip.  I lost track of time in the dime boxes for a good hour -- I started to wonder why I was so hungry, then realized that I'd spent nearly 2-1/2 hours going through these dime goodies.  

A lot of the same characters come to the three shows run by the same promoter in the North Atlanta area, so if you have any recent chrome/inserts you'd like for me to watch for, let me know -- I'd be happy to do it, since it gives me a reason to go back again!