Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Old school dumpster dive

I have certain expectations as see certain tables at a card show and being able to use them as an outlet as far as looking for accessible material - maybe a bargain box where I can pick up a quantity of cheap cards for various interests.

At this last show I went to, I was hoping to get a chance to work on the '2 for $1' box I didn't quite know what to make of the Saturday before last - go figure as I'm trying to glance at where the seller might be at this particular card show date, the table wasn't there, so that threw me for a loop.

The other person who I actually consider my 'go to guy' with the quarter bins of doom hasn't actually been there the past couple of weeks - he might be set up at another weekend show and on YouTube, I actually did see his table set up at a different, unfamiliar spot a month ago.

I got to another table and while his assorted vintage display box might have been promising for a hot minute the first time I saw it - mostly it was stuffed with off-condition cards with just a small number of notable players' cards priced to sit in those boxes for a while.

As much as I want to make some impulse buys off that old school display - there maybe no cards of interest to really build a 'take home' stack on.

I asked for his 1970s-1980s box of commons and started to dig around, pulling the most random cards - I felt like this just wasn't it where if this scrap brick of cards I was building was my bulk purchases of the day, then something didn't go right when I was looking to dwell on my priority tables.

I rounded up 130 random cards even though I was worried that I was going to past what I was willing to pay for what I was finding - it was weird seeing old-school 1970s through early 1980s cards of guys who played through the late 1980s and even the early 1990s. 

I didn't want to grab cards of certain players whose junk wax era commons are kindling in my eyes - but I was primarily looking for mini-collection material and also any sort of 'names' that maybe familiar at the rank-and-file or minor star level. 

Tony Armas
Buddy Bell
Jack Clark
Dwight Evans
Keith Hernandez
Dennis Lamp
Jeffrey Leonard
Fred Lynn 
Bob McClure
Hal McRae
Jack Morris
Rick Reuschel
Ray Searage
Rick Sutcliffe
Garry Templeton 
Manny Trillo
Willie Upshaw
Bob Walk
Lou Whitaker
Frank White
Mookie Wilson
Willie Wilson

Mini-collections
1975 Topps Steve Ontiveros #483 - awesome action; actual on field game action; batting
1982 Topps Chris Welsh #376 - awesome action; actual on field game action; pitching
1980 Topps Ralph Garr #272 - awesome action; game face cards; focused
1980 Topps Larry Parrish #345 - awesome action; game face cards; focused
1976 Topps Ken Brett #401 - bloodlines; brother George 
1980 Topps Joe Niekro #437 - grips
1980 Topps Amos otis #130 - hats-off
1980 Topps Ray Knight #174 - hats-off
1982 Topps Willie Wilson #230 - hats-off
1982 Topps Rick Waits #573 - hats-off
1978 Topps Rick Wise #572 - players smiling
1978 Topps Pat Dobson #575 - players smiling
1980 Topps George Scott #414 - players smiling
1982 Topps George Foster #342 - players smiling
1978 Topps Henry Cruz #516 - shades
1975 Topps Buck Martinez #314 - tools of ignorance
1975 Topps Johnny Oates #319 - tools of ignorance
1976 Topps Larry Haney #446 - tools of ignorance

Facial hair
1975 Topps Bill North #121
1975 Topps Larry Hisle #526
1975 Topps Eddie Leon #528
1975 Topps Steve Mingori #544
1976 Topps Tom Buskey #178
1976 Topps Al Hrabosky / Rich Gossage #205 - Leading Fireman
1976 Topps Tommy Harper #274
1976 Topps Champ Summers #299
1976 Topps Bob Coluccio #333
1976 Topps Steve Stone #378
1976 Topps Ed Herrmann #406
1976 Topps Carl Morton #528
1976 Topps Roric Harrison #567
1976 Topps Darold Knowles #617
1976 Topps Tom Hall #621
1976 Topps Pepe Frias #647
1976 Topps Traded Ken Reitz #158T
1977 Topps Doug Bird #556
1978 Topps Rick Waits #37
1978 Topps Jorge Orta #42
1978 Topps Warren Brusstar #297
1978 Topps Junior Moore #421
1978 Topps Tim Blackwell #449
1978 Topps Ron Blomberg #506
1978 Topps Tommy Hutton #568
1978 Topps Dick Drago #567
1978 Topps Eric Soderholm #602
1978 Topps Joe Wallis #614
1978 Topps Pat Kelly #616
1980 Topps Cecil Cooper #95
1980 Topps Jeffrey Leonard #106
1980 Topps Sparky Lyle #115
1980 Topps Phil Garner #118
1980 Topps Hal McRae #185
1980 Topps J.R. Richard / Ron Guidry #207 - 1979 Earned Run Avg Ldrs 
1980 Topps Larry Hisle #430
1980 Topps Richie Zisk #620
1980 Topps Gorman Thomas #623
1982 Topps Mickey Klutts #148
1982 Topps Chuck Baker #253
1982 Topps Bruce Sutter #260
1982 Topps John Verhoeven #281
1982 Topps Jason Thompson #295
1982 Topps Bob Walk #296
1982 Topps U.L. Washington #329
1982 Topps Dave Tobik #391
1982 Topps Pete Zachry #399
1982 Topps Elias Sosa #414
1982 Topps Ray Searage #478
1982 Topps Bob McClure #487
1982 Topps Jackson Todd #565
1982 Topps Dennis Lamp #622
1982 Topps Ken Kravec #639

Haves
1975 Topps Mike Marshall #330 - awesome action; fun cards; oddities; what's in a name to pair up with the Mike Marshall who played with the Los Angeles Dodgers through the 1980s.
1976 Topps Ray Fosse #554 - tools of ignorance

Decade stars

1970s
1980 Topps Fred Lynn #110
1980 Topps Keith Hernandez / Fred Lynn #201
1980 Topps Lou Whitaker #358
1980 Topps Jack Morris #371 - I may have this 
1980 Topps Dwight Evans #405

Team boxes
1975 Topps Bob Watson #227
1975 Topps Jeff Burroughs #470
1976 Topps Randy Jones / Andy Messersmith / Tom Seaver #201 - 1975 NL ERA Leaders
1976 Topps Dock Ellis #528
1976 Topps Mike Norris #653
1976 Topps J.R. Richard #625
1977 Topps J.R. Richard #260
1980 Topps Frank White #45
1980 Topps Bill Madlock #55 - already had a copy of this card
1980 Topps Ted Simmons #85 - already had a copy of this card
1980 Topps Ron LeFlore #80
1980 Topps Manny Trillo #90
1980 Topps Jack Clark #167
1980 Topps Tim McCarver #178
1980 Topps Buddy Bell #190
1980 Topps Braves checklist #192 - marked
1980 Topps Lance Parrish #196
1980 Topps Dave Kingman / Gorman Thomas #202 - 1979 Home Run Leaders
1980 Topps Omar Moreno / Willie Wilson #204 - 1979 Stolen Base Leaders
1980 Topps Joe Niekro / Phil Niekro / Mike Flanagan #205 - 1979 Victory Leaders
1980 Topps Dave Concepcion #220
1980 Topps Al Oliver #260
1980 Topps Bobby Bonds #410
1982 Topps Rick Sutcliffe #609
1982 Topps Joe Charboneau #630
1982 Topps Cesar Cedeno #640

Topps team runs
1978 Topps Steve Rogers #425
1980 Topps Bob Horner #108 - Atlanta Braves; upgrade
1980 Topps Dock Ellis #117 - New York Mets
1980 Topps Greg Luzinski #120 - Philadelphia Phillies
1980 Topps Rick Reuschel #175 - Chicago Cubs
1980 Topps Willie Wilson #157 - Kansas City Royals
1980 Topps Len Barker #227 - Cleveland Indians
1980 Topps Randy Jones #305 - San Diego Padres
1980 Topps Keith Hernandez #321 - St. Louis Cardinals
1980 Topps Cesar Cedeno #370 - Houston Astros
1980 Topps Tony Armas #391 - Oakland Athletics
1982 Topps Mario Soto #63 - Cincinnati Reds
1982 Topps Mookie Wilson #143 - New York Mets
1982 Topps Willie Upshaw #196 - Toronto Blue Jays
1982 Topps Garry Templeton #288 - St. Louis Cardinals
1982 Topps Pete Vuckovich #643 - Milwaukee Brewers
1982 Topps Frank White #645 - Kansas City Royals

Misc 
1976 Topps Lyman Bostock #263
1976 Topps Mickey Scott #276
1976 Topps Mike Anderson #527
1976 Topps Santo Alcala / Mike Flanagan / Joe Pactwa / Pablo Torrealba #589 - 1976 Rookie Pitchers
1978 Topps Len Randle #544
1980 Topps Bobby Grich #621
1982 Topps Tim Stoddard #457

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