Shows, Shops and Auctions oh my!

 

I met my nephew at last weekends card show.  Our interests really couldn't be further apart - he's into the hottest players and shiny premium cards that will grade well.  Me, well I guess I'm old school.  I search out vintage cards and try to complete sets.  He complains about having 'junk' cards of the latest players while carrying around a PSA 10 thousand dollar CJ Stroud rookie.  While I complain how grading has wrecked the hobby.  Nevertheless his perspective is interesting because I view it as a window into what the future of card collecting will be.

Unfortunately for both of us, the show was a bit of a bust.  He was looking to offload some shiny cards (no takers) and I was looking for some vintage for my sets (no luck).  I did manage to score a Shaq rookie beam team (I sent that off for grading - sorry no pic this time).  So we left the show and visited not 1 but 3 card shops.  He finally found a taker for some of his cards while I found this:

Boom!  I never thought I'd actually own this card but the shop owner was willing to deal.  Heck, with this in hand I might even try to build the set.

From some auctions, I landed these Jordan's on the cheap.  Not sure if I'll have these graded.

I also picked up a couple of Kobe's.  You really can't go wrong adding Kobe's to your collection.

I don't own a Trout rookie so this second year card was hard to pass up.

This opening day Ichiro rookie cup was a nice addition.

Of course I had to add yet another Arraez rookie portrait.

Moving on to another favorite, this second year Ant die-cut is awesome.

This 1977 sticker lot set me back $10.  There were 13 in all but I only scanned these.  There were dupes of Randy Jones and Dave Cash, so if anyone needs them - say so in the comments.  First come, first serve!

Finally I grabbed some random cards from my collection to give away.  You know the drill, first come first serve.  Indicate which cards you want - go ahead be greedy!

And football!  Go ahead - be greedy!

As always happy hunting!