reaching for new loes (and lowes and logans)

i haven't placed a sportlots or comc order for a few months now. i still buy on ebay occasionally, but am really focusing on steve garvey stuff and maybe timeless teams parallels if they pop up at a reasonable price.

one of the last non-garvey, non-timeless teams ebay purchases i made was a 1952 topps billy loes card

it's super colorful and reduces my low number needs for the dodger team set to just 8 cards. i have no illusions of ever completing this team set, leaving it and the 1953 topps dodger team sets as the only ones i have not and likely will not complete. i'm ok with that, although i might try to get the last four 1953 cards that i need.

some of the last sportlots orders i placed included cards from my "nefarious 9" list of most wanted cards. they included a 2005 upper deck mvp derek lowe card

and a 2006 topps allen & ginter derek lowe card

i believe the a&g lowe was a short print, but regardless, both of these lowes complete team sets for me.

some other formerly most wanted cards that i added to complete team sets were a 2017 topps allen & ginter logan forsythe card

a 1999 pacific alex core card

a 2000 topps hd adrian beltre card

a 2005 topps retired signature duke snider card

a 1984 topps cereal series fernando valenzuela card

(not sure how i didn't already have one of those)

a 1999 upper deck ovation adrian beltre card

and i also added this 1991 swell don drysdale card

to finish up yet another team set!

even though these cards were crossed off the list, there are always more! following kerry's lead, i've moved the list from the web version sidebar to a link below the header so that it is more easily available on mobile devices.  take a look at my most wanted cards and see if you can help a blogger out! you will be rewarded!

i'd buy that for $0.07! and i did!

i made it to the monthly card show on saturday for the first time in a while.  i made purchases from three dealers. the first guy had a decent dime box from which i found 40 cards.  good deal.  the third guy had his 15/$1 boxes, and i had to quickly dig before the people next to me decided to buy the full boxes at $12/each.  one guy did pull two boxes before i could get there, but i found some pretty decent stuff, including a 2017 topps update yu darvish photo variation short print.

yu had some friends, including the robinson cano

and joey votto

photo variation short prints from the same set.

i've never completed my 2017 want lists, so i wasn't sure if i needed the darvish or not.  it didn't matter in the end, as i wasn't going to leave him there for less than a dime.

in all, i found 75 cards to take from the boxes - some to flip and some to keep for my mini collections.  this is a 2005 upper deck mvp batter up card of phil niekro

who happens to be standing in dodger stadium.  you might think phil was there for an old-timer's game, but knowing the way ballplayers aged back then, this could be phil in his 30's.

here's a new double play for that collection - a 2012 topps erick aybar golden sparkle parallel

comc calls these parallels "golden moments", but i go with the sparkle.

my big daddy vladdy pc is represented by his 2001 upper deck legends card

here's a 2017 topps all-time all-stars card of eddie mathews

i like this insert set a lot, but it would have been even better had they included a certain dodger first baseman who won the all-star game mvp award twice.  oh well.  as much as i like this mathews, it was not the best one i picked up on saturday.

the last time i was at the card show, i picked up a big name (roberto clemente, to be exact) for my 1957 topps set build, and i did the same on saturday with this card

this came from the second dealer i purchased from, and i also grabbed another 10 cards from the set from him.

while i was looking at the 57's, i heard a person next to me talking about building the 1964 topps venezuelan set, and i knew that it had to be brian from highly subjective completely arbitrary. and so it was.  we had just recently completed a trade, so we didn't have any cards to exchange, but it was good to see him nonetheless.

here are a couple of the cards he sent me recently:

that's a 2018 panini diamond kings original materials relic card of clayton kershaw, and this is a 2018 topps stadium club kyle farmer auto

i like it when brian is assigned the nl west in his transatlantic box breaks!

as for the rest of the show, i was pulling cards from a quarter box at another seller's table when he began a homophobic rant to the seller next to him regarding someone who had walked by earlier. i loudly put the cards back and said no thanks. i wouldn't buy that at any price.