Card show trip - some more vintage

These were more pick ups from the last show I went to over the summer - I may have two or three more things to show, though it might be up in the air whether future roundup posts will ever be made.

The individually priced vintage bins from a familiar enough seller table may have been picked over just the same - but I tried to rummage around to flag some vintage odds and ends, then moved over to the $0.50 bins with the newest cards, but wasn’t patient enough to pick through that.

1959 Topps Baseball Thrills Duke Snider #468 [$10.00] - on my blog, this has been on my collecting topics wantlist - Top 10-15 wants, so I finally knocked it out.

1964 Topps Coins Roberto Clemente #150 [$10.00] - a vintage oddball item picturing an iconic Hall of Fame has symbolic value, even when a cliche I spit out is something being only worth what I paid. 

1967 Topps Dick Allen / Hank Aaron Roberto / Clemente #242 [$10.00] - a trifecta of Hall of Famers makes this leaders card keeper.

1967 Topps Lou Brock #285 [$5.00] - there might be infinitely better cards than a vintage base card of a Hall of Famer, but I'll take it for what I paid. 

Another quickie card show pit stop #2

I stumbled upon a real high brow monster box of cards and went to work for about the 10 minutes I had left at a card show - I was kind of on the clock where I had to wrap things up sooner than never, so I was trying to make the most out of my rummage.

I've ended up with two or three of these Bowman Jordan Walker prospect cards over the past few years, but was in a hurry to pile up cards - so I just threw one new copy found into my pile.

I made keepers out of mini collection material such as - Greg Maddux hitting on the back of one of his cards, an awesome outfield action card picturing Kevin Pillar, a Tampa Bay Rays mascot card, a Benito Santiago catcher card and a random Dave Righetti oddball, I made a keeper because of the bald guy in sunglasses making a cameo.

Team USA cards - I tried to look for the guys that were kind of familiar now [even though they were either on college or even on U-18 teams when depicted on the cards].

I was able to find a couple of cards of Reid Detmers - I think I sent similar copies and got them back signed TTM during the pandemic season.

Even though I ended up grabbing at least a few guys who might not be in the big leagues yet or may not get there - I found cards of Anthony Volpe, Bryson Stott, Riley Greene and Corbin Carroll.

Finally some random cheap-o Hall of Famer cards - even though they didn't start their careers in the junk wax era, I might be content to ignore cards of guys Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Gary Carter and Alan Trammell because they had their glut of cards printed during those 1986-92 years.

Depending on what I may find at the bulk level, I might be compelled to pick up two or three cards of the HOFers whose cards from the junk wax era I'll usually skip over - if the cards end up being a little different like oddballs or cards with a unique image used that stand out.

A little change of pace at the card show

I stumbled upon a little different table where it was a woman selling ephemera rather than cards - set up next to the seller I'd just bought some cards from, it looks like they were friends and/or good acquaintances.

I was looking through the cheaper dollar baseball themed postcards, team issued photo cards, et al - even at the lowest end, maybe I wasn't finding much, where I don’t collect any of this I’m looking through, but I’ll humor myself with this cutesy stuff.

Maybe some of this stuff is old-school or vintage - but still feel like they are mass produced and already used where it's not worth much.

I'm not sure if it's how postcard sellers do things, but seeing prices marked in pencil on the back are kind of peculiar - it would not prevent me from picking something up I liked, but kind of a turn off.

I was going through another misc baseball themed box - there were scattered First Day Covers, but they are literally envelopes and I'm not familiar with them as perhaps a dated sports collectible.

I didn't want anything newer skewing towards the 1990s onwared, but than found a Reggie Jackson FDC from 1984 for $4 - I don't think I was looking for this, but it wasn't unreasonable to consider.

While I wonder about dealing with odd-sized baseball card items, I found some loose I found some old MSA oddball discs - featuring Thurman Munson, Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver and a Willie Stargell for $2 each.

The seller was showing me a full box panel where the cards came from - though it seemed the cards on the box seemed smaller than the ones I was considering as keepers.

I ended up spending $12 for what I picked out - after the fact two of the discs were marked lightly on the back, but they were still OK purchases, even if they don't end up unlocking something that takes me to a different place with the odds and ends I find.

Some newer card show recaps #4

I went through a table that had a ‘5 for $1’ box and started grabbing loose 2021 Topps Home Run Challenge contest / code cards - I don’t think they were scratched, so maybe I can use them, even though I consider them throwaways after I've used the cards for the codes.

I scratched off cards of Pete Alonso, Eugenio Suarez, Nolan Arenado and Giancarlo Stanton last week - Alonso and Stanton ended up being winners for me, so I await my prize cards in several months.

I missed on using a code for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - not that I would have picked the right date, but he's been on an absolute tear and hit 3 straight home runs over the weekend.

Star power - I started to pull cards including some cheap binder material cards to add shine to my indidivual player collections.

2020 Donruss Optic Carolina Blue and White Prizm Anthony Rendon #155
2020 Donruss Optic Holo Prizm Anthony Rendon #155
2020 Donruss Optic Diamond Kings Lime Green Prizm Juan Soto #23
2020 Panini Optic Lime Green Prizm Max Scherzer #138
2020 Panini Prizm Numbers Game insert Shohei Ohtani #NG8
2020 Panini Optic Lime Green Prizm Bryce Harper #183
2020 Topps Chrome Aaron Judge Sepia refractor #50
2020 Topps Chrome Kris Bryant Prism refractor #53
2020 Topps Chrome Kris Bryant Sepia refractor #53
2020 Topps Chrome Max Scherzer Sepia refractor #139
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Clayton Kershaw Emperor of the Zone insert #EOZ-11
2021 Topps Series 1 Jacob deGrom Rainbow Foil #200

Legends and icons

2020 Panini Donruss Optic Retro 1986 Holo Prizm Don Mattingly #R86-16
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Cal Ripken Jr. #106
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Stan Musial #187
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Ken Griffey Jr. #270
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome X-Fractor Roberto Clemente #159

Miscellaneous

2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Noah Song #BCP161 - he was the prospect who had to fulfill obligations to go to Navy flight school.
2020 Donruss Optic T-Minus insert Deshaun Watson #TM-10 - I thought this NFL card was pretty neat looking, though it's probably an 'infamous' add.
2020 Topps Chrome refractor Andrew Heaney #28 - I'm sure I have my share of Heaney's but this parallel goes towards my Angels Opening Day starters set.
2020 Topps Chrome X-Fractor Scott Kingery #64 - maybe some base running, dirt fetish or hats-off add.
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Mitch Garver #20 - gum card
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Xfractor Justin Turner #45 - honestly, he's not a decade stars / binder guy for me, but might as well be.
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome refractor Salvador Perez #206 - tools of ignorance
2021 Topps Series 1 History of Topps insert Sy Berger / first complete set #HOT-3
2021 Topps Series 1 History of Topps insert Topps Receives MLB Exclusive #HOT-7

Miscellaneous prospects - it's a little confusing and redundant [even if the checklist was actually different], but intriguing to see there were Mega Box Mojo refractor cards for both 2020 Bowman and 2020 Bowman Chrome; unlike the cards from recap #1, these loose cards came from 2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Boxes.

2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Kyle Isbel #BCP-165
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Brandon Marsh #BCP-166
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Francisco Alvarez #BCP-198
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Marco Luciano #BCP-213
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Michael Toglia #BCP-225
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo refractor Trevor Larnach #BCP-249
2020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Dawn is Glory insert Adley Rutschman #DG-13
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Brennen Davis #BCP-65
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Carson Tucker #BCP-77
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Brandon Marsh #BCP-112
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Drew Romo #BCP-126

COMC - modern Hall of Fame cards

Inspired by a Web site or two and hardly an original idea, I'm trying to put together a Hall of Fame collection - featuring at least one card [if available] of a Hall of Fame inductee [players, umpires, executives, etc] as a loose card project to work on for fun.

I picked up 11 retro cards of Hall of Famers to give my HOF collection a small boost [I'm up to about 140 different subjects] - I went on a little 'sampler' run, picking up at least two of the same type of insert / parallel from Panini releases from the past several years.

The wood motifs on the 2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Cooperstown Lumberjacks inserts caught my eye - though modern, shiny UV cards featuring long deceased old-timers are kind of anachronistic, the newer cards are much more interesting to look at as opposed to comparable junk wax era retro cards featuring the same subjects.

2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Green Crystal Shard Dan Brouthers #13

2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Red Crystal Shard #23 Hack Wilson - serial #28/399

2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Cooperstown Lumberjacks Roger Bresnahan #36

2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Cooperstown Lumberjacks Chief Bender #99
2013 Panini Cooperstown Collection Cooperstown Lumberjacks Eddie Plank #100

2014 Panini Classics Timeless Tributes Silver George Kelly #53 - serial #’d 98 of 149

2014 Panini Classics Timeless Tributes Silver Willie Keeler #144 - serial #’d 129 of 149

2014 Panini Hall of Fame Blue Shield Red Frank Chance #15 - serial #’d 24 of 50

2014 Panini Hall of Fame Red Shield Red Zack Wheat #29 - serial #’d 7 of 50

2014 Panini Hall of Fame Crusades Red Herb Pennock #20 - serial #’d 40 of 75

2014 Panini Hall of Fame Crusades Red Mordecai Brown #22 - serial #’d 23 of 75

Vintage baseball card display #2

During a pit stop at the McDonald's by the Salt River Fields in Arizona, I was wandering around and found a couple of baseball card related displays - this was the second featuring assorted baseball cards.

It's easier to do quick research with the Internet, so I looked up the cards and except for the 1965 Topps Embossed inserts of Willie Mays and Ernie Banks - the other cards were from the 1961 Golden Press set, when can sort of be defined as a vintage 'retro set' of cards.