Yesterday's show was going to be the same. Hit some dime or quarter boxes and try and knock off some more cards. A funny thing happened though.
There weren't any dime or quarter boxes. That is rare for this show. So I decided to go and hit up my vintage dealer to see if he had any 59's for me. I got to his table and couldn't hit the 59 Topps box.
Turns out I didn't need to, as he has another box that contained miscellaneous 70's and 80's goodies. I only wound up buying 7 cards, but they featured some great players at great prices.
Both the '74 and '76 Topps set builds are at a point where I'm starting to get into the star card purchases. I haven't looked in great detail at how many commons I still have to pick up, however I know that both want lists are below 200 cards and thus buying cards such as these will be a necessity.
The Yaz was $6 and the Carew was $2. Not bad.
Both of these were $1, again not a bad buy in my opinion. The 1980 want list is getting low, just 52 cards to go (including the Henderson RC). The Seaver was one of the "hero numbers" that I still needed (#500). The '81 Topps Stolen Base leaders card didn't make as big a dent into that want list as the Seaver did, as I still need over 400 cards to complete that set. I might try and find a large/cheap lot of cards in the next couple of months to knock that list down some.
I mentioned last Sunday that I had pulled in a nice lot of 1985 Topps cards for cheap. In that post I also talked about needing 6 rookie cards that were listed in the Beckett price guide. Yesterday I grabbed the 2 biggest names off of that list, plus another star player...
Purchased these three cards for $20. Can't beat that if you ask me.
I walked into that show with a 400 count box to take a whole bunch of cards home. That was the plan. In the end, you can see it wasn't needed. Not a bad haul for one week's worth of spending money.
Thanks for reading, Robert
