i mentioned in that previous post that included my meet up with brian that i began my day with the same seller that i typically seek out first. he always has some fun stuff to go through and i am always willing to take a large number of cards off of his hands, even if they don't really fit into my collection. case in point: 
but thought was more of a quarter box sort of card. there were more, but the inserts were vastly outnumbered by the parallels. i was happy to find a 2016 topps update corey seager rainbow foil parallel
that 2025 topps heritage mookie betts parallel was especially nice to see in the dollar box. in the end, i think my cost per card from ed was about sixty cents per.
this time he had quarter and dollar boxes, but always discounts when you buy in bulk. from the quarter boxes, i grabbed the jaws card up top and some allen & ginter n43 box toppers, like these four from 2007 and 2008
and these movie poster cards from 2021 topps archives
plus my usual assortment of other inserts and parallels.
among a host of other dodger cards. i still think it's crazy that topps went and used yogi berra's actual 1951 card (they didn't do that in 1975) but for roy campanella, they just scanned the 1975 mvp card and didn't even bother to get rid of the black horizontal lines when fitting to the window. lazy.
of any team for less than a buck.
as for dodgers, i did ok with a 2025 topps clayton kershaw silver cracked foil parallel
a 2022 topps heritage joe kelly red border
and some 2024 topps heritage white border cards
the dollar boxes had some good stuff in them as well. i know there aren't many marlins card collectors, but i will take a 2025 topps team color border
those aren't serial numbered, but they seem to be relatively scarce. there were plenty of numbered cards in the boxes, however, including a 2023 topps update teoscar hernandez vintage stock parallel
and some 2025 gold foil parallels of different border treatments
numbered to 50 and other various types.
a 2021 topps pedro martinez double header insert
that has his 2008 topps card on the back
and completely ignores his 2009 topps update card documenting his arrival in philadelphia.
there was a lot to go through, and i wound up leaving one of the boxes unsearched. i did snag a healthy dose of dodger needs, including a 2025 topps heritage clayton kershaw through the years insert
here's a 2021 topps brusdar graterol significant statistics insert i needed
as well as a whole host of dodger variety
i did grab a couple of cards from my minicollections from the dollar boxes - a 2024 topps holiday carlos correa blue foil parallel
and a pair of manu-relics from 2018 topps update for the "42" collection
when they are shown wearing 42, i don't discriminate and will happily buy an astros card. it boggles my mind still that topps will produce jackie robinson day themed cards that don't show the number 42 in the photo used, and there were some of those cards mixed in with the two that i've shown above.
a 2022 topps gold label cody bellinger card
2024 topps chrome cosmic mookie betts base card
2024 topps pristine freddie freeman (all-star) base
i wonder why topps didn't bother to number these that year. anyway, i told the guy i had 35 more cards and he said 3 bucks was fine, but i think he was a bit annoyed that i paid separately and cost him 90 cents that i am sure i would have been charged had i bundled them together. sorry not sorry.
was pretty sharp for a quarter
i am still disappointed that 2023 topps heritage didn't give us an updated list of team records via team cards in that set.
my next stop was at another regular's table because he always has dime boxes. i would up with 114 cards from him, including a 2017 panini donruss corey seager name variation
a 2019 topps update hyun-jin ryu rainbow foil parallel
2024 topps tony gonsolin yellow parallel
2024 topps stadium club tyler glasnow red foil parallel
and some more mini collection stuff in the way of a 2014 topps juickson profar red foil parallel
a 2017 panini donruss jose altuve name variation
and a 2022 topps chrome update owen miller purple refractor parallel
i also went off script and snagged some cards that appealed to me for no particular reason, including a 2009 upper deck 1975 o-pee-chee mini insert of mark teixeira
a trio of 2023 topps archives 1954 tarzan 3d inserts
a 2024 topps heritage high numbers reggie jackson perfectly programmed insert
and, my favorite dime box find of the day, a 2022 topps archives andrew mccutchen background swap variation
this is the guy who also has a dime box that he hosts for a friend. you have to keep the cards separate! so, i settled up with him on the cards from his box, and he rounded down to 11 bucks rather than fish for sixty cents of change.
after i waited for another person to clear out, i wound up pulling 35 cards from the other box including a 2017 topps chrome jason kipnis black refractor of jason kipnis
next i pulled two bucks worth of 25-cent vintage from a seller who always makes me wish i were working on another vintage set. i couldn't let bill russell's 1971 topps card go unclaimed
and this 1974 topps dodgers team card
the other vintage i grabbed were miscuts - a 1971 topps john cumberland
a 2000 ud spx auto numbered 1500/1500 isn't something you see every day, and i remembered someone was looking for one of the triple play relics, but couldn't recall who or which one. i later recalled it was madding, but he's looking for the pants and not the bat.
just happened to be in the front of one of the rows in that dollar box, so it was an easy grab.
that is bottom-left justified, a 1972 topps vida blue in action
that has vida looking up instead of to the right where his space is being encroached upon, and a trio of 1973 topps cards
that are kind of all over the place. here are their backs
which makes things a bit easier to see.
the best miscut of the bunch was a 1976 topps traded dock ellis card
because he looks rightfully annoyed at the card creeping into his space.
it was at this point in my time at the show that it started to really smell like a card show and i knew it was time to get going. i made one more lap and found a seller with a $2 autos/relics box. i grabbed three cards
i talked that seller down to $5 fpr the trio even though i had six bucks loose in my pocket, and he seemed annoyed with me. whatever. that allowed me to use the other dollar on a card from a seller who had a singular dollar box and everything else in cases. this 2024 topps update alex vesia red crackle foil
there is usually not a club show in july, but in a couple of weeks, the show migrates to my town for some reason (although it will be smaller than normal). hopefully some of these sellers show up - at least there will be air conditioning!
