Maybe I've slowed down on going to card shows over the past year, but towards the end of the summer, I went to a higher profile card show - I usually like to make the rounds at sellers' dollar and under boxes, but since I had to pay admission, maybe I tried to be a little pickier where I spent my time at.
I can't completely avoid rummaging through sellers' cheap-o bins however and these were my finds over three such tables - because of the admission fee to the show, I tack on a premium to my total paid per seller in my mind, so the price per card ends up more like $2 each.
Future stars - with how Bowman products are priced out of the gate, I might be more content to round up various base cards and inserts of top prospects in order for me have something for me to build up, rather than overlook them just the same as filler material for most modern prospectors.
Some fun stuff - that was only worth what I paid, but I have no regrets about adding them to my keeper pile.
Ichiro - I try to make Topps Now cards keepers in the wild, where they are still a little different.
After digging through one dollar bin, I was content to put whatever I'd found back and walk away - but thinking about the pack pulled autograph of Chuckie Robinson with him blowing a bubble made me go back.
Vintage that was a dollar each or 3 for $2.50 - I tried to make a pile of mostly Angels keepers for my all-time Angels register project or my Angels Opening Day starters project, but after a certain point, was content to cut my original keeper pile in half.
When it comes to vintage cards, it ends up just being way before my time - but I do try to attach some meaning to cards of subjects I might have read about in passing.
I found a 1969 Topps Mel Queen card which may just be another common - but it has stat lines for both pitching and hitting, where he might have been one or the other at different points of his playing career.
