showing up to the card show

today was the monthly card show here in the twin cities, but this post is about july. i attended last month's show - the first show i had been to since the fall of 2019 - october, i believe.  anyway, i got there just as it started and so it wasn't too crowded at first. i made a lap around looking for a couple of regulars, and found one of the guys who always has a dime box.

surprisingly, there aren't too many dime boxes at these shows, but more on that later. i wound up pulling 190 cards from his boxes to start my day. a couple of highlights were this 2016 panini diamond kings jose abreu mini which is numbered to /25

some 1980 topps burger king cards, including one of the late, great jr richard

a 2004 topps cracker jack vladimir guerrero card

which is actually the sticker parallel

some cards from the 2018 topps cody bellinger highlight set

a 2002 topps greg maddux card

showing him pitching in dodger stadium, which is not all that exciting but it's a new card for my dodger stadium collection.

here are the rest of the cards, give or take one or two i didn't scan, from this particular seller:

i have a soft spot for inserts and parallels if you couldn't already tell.  i haven't quite finished sorting these cards, but let me know if you see something you want/need.

next up i went to one of the vintage dealers to look at his 1957 topps supply as i continue to try to finish that set. i wound up buying a couple of cards of catchers

for $5 each. this was not a bargain, but whatever. 

the last table i spent any appreciable amount of time at was another regular dealer who seems to be one of those guys who doesn't want to bother with non-mojo cards. i say that in the best way possible because he is a really nice guy and is a longtime member of the twin cities sports card collectors club as far as i can tell. he just has a lot of good base and insert cards in a bunch of 5 for $1 monster boxes.

when i started digging through, there was just one other collector that i've run in to at other shows and events looking through these boxes. being the considerate card show attendee that i am, i started on the opposite end of the table. as we worked our way towards each other, we would show cards that we found that were steals at $0.20.  like this 2008 topps joey votto rookie card

there were two of them.

then there was this 2011 topps chrome colin kaepernick rookie card

plus gold parallels of 2008 topps joe biden

and john mccain cards

how about a 2008 topps moments & milestones tim lincecum blue parallel, numbered out of 10

less interesting is a 2011 bowman gold parallel of derek jeter

but i did find three online only cards from 2017 topps archives snapshots

and three 2000 fleer ultra gold medallion edition cards that i needed

that eric young card is one of my favorite cards from 2000. it gives a solid look at the jackie robinson heroes patch. the other two cards go in the dodger stadium collection.

here are the other cards i picked up for twenty cents apiece:

that duke snider card

is from a 1984 renata galasso set that i hadn't seen before. the back 

is done up like a '53 bowman. there are cards in the set of sandy koufax and jackie robinson, and i've added the sandy to my list of most wanted cards.

there's the other votto

the adam jones card is a dice back

and the heritage aparicio 

is already in my double play collection, but i added this one because i am pretty sure that the player sliding in is gil hodges in a play from the 1959 world series. in to the lurker collection it goes!

the 2011 topps chrome cards are atomic refractors, and the troy tulowitzki

goes in my double play collection.

that 2014 bowman jed lowrie is worth a closer look

it's probably the most aesthetically pleasing card i picked up on the day!

with the ryu, puig, and magill, i picked up a needed complete dodger team set of refractors from whatever bowman chrome draft picks set that is.

buybacks!

more buybacks! including this 75th anniversary stamped 1977 topps dave lopes league leader card:

most of the dodger buybacks i have are from 2015, but i was stoked to find this one.

a couple more buybacks and perhaps the last keibert ruiz card i will ever buy.

i tend not to pass on roberto clemente cards in bargain boxes

the degrom is the raised snowflake parallel, and the judge rookie is actually a reprint

kershaw is the back of the jackie robinson card in the previous scan. i was excited to see the ted williams card from 2019 topps. that really was a great moment at the 1999 all-star game

and i put this card in my lurker collection thanks to mr. padre there. the only way it could have been better is if williams had worn a red sox cap.

i don't think arozarena rookies would have been in this box last fall.

i put that rainbow foil parallel of the 2020 topps domingo leyba card

in my double play collection even though he held on to the ball

a full page of 2020 bowman ohtanis.

not a bad haul for just under $70. as always, i will try to make my money back and also send some of these out to trade partners. let me know if you see something that strikes your fancy!

bonus content! today was also national baseball card day. here's a card from 2019 nbbcd

that i picked up online after the fact. i'll report on whether or not any of the dealers who have stores brought any 2021 nbbcd product to today's show in a future post.