Card Show Finds - The 25 cent table Part 1

Early in June I went to a card show in Houston put on by Tristar. They usually do two big shows a year in the area and I hadn't been to one since 2010. I had 4 main goals: 1. beef up my collection of 1960s Phillies; 2. buy some cheap relic cards; 3. buy a box of early 1990s wax for not a lot of money; and 4. add to my collection of inserts.  I was pretty successful on all counts. I'm going to take a break from Summer Clearance Trade posts for a few posts from the show.

I had accomplished the first 3 goals, was running out of money and endurance when I found a table with boxes and boxes of 25 cent cards. I bought 60 cards which included a lot of inserts I didn't have, some inserts I did have but of players I collect and some Phillies cards I didn't have. I managed to only end up with two cards I already had.  I'll show these cards over a series of posts, breaking up the Summer Clearance Trade posts over the next few weeks.


1991 Stadium Club #270 Ken Griffey Jr.

Certainly not an insert card but 1991 Stadium Club is one of my all-time favorite sets and I was pretty sure I didn't have this card. I was right. Pretty good deal for a quarter.

1992 Ultra Gwynn #10

Early 1990s Fleer and Fleer Ultra did a lot of this, insert sets dedicated to one player. I found that I already had two cards from this set, but not this one.

1993 Flair #128

Also not an insert but another favorite set of mine. This was an ultra-premium set produced by Fleer through the mid-1990s. It featured full bleed photography, high gloss, gold foil and a thick card stock. I don't have many from this set and I didn't have this card.

1993 Fun Pack #197 Frank Thomas

I thought this was an insert card but it's a subset card from Upper Deck's set aimed at kids in 1993. This is a peel off sticker. I have a few cards from this set but hadn't seen this subset. The back is blank.

1993 Pinnacle Home Run Club #2 Fred McGriff

This looks like an insert but it's not. This 48-card set was available as a numbered (to only 200,000!) boxed set.  The card is printed on foil board, front and back with holographic foil printing on the front. It's a very attractive card. I will probably feature more from this set later as I just bought the entire set on eBay for a pretty good price.

Now for something completely different. While I'm writing this post, Venus was transiting the sun. I was following it on a couple of web sites. Here's what a live streaming site from a telescope in Norway was showing. Cool.

1993 Pinnacle Cooperstown #24 Frank Thomas

Another boxed-set from Pinnacle. Frank was in his 4th year in 1993. He batted .317, hit 41 home runs and batted in 128 runs. A future candidate for the Hall of Fame? Sure.

1993 Stadium Club Inserts Series 2 Frank Thomas/Ryne Sandberg

1993 was the first year that Stadium Club included inserts. This set only had 4 cards. I knew I already had one but how could I pass up a card with Frank Thomas on one side and Ryne Sandberg on the other?

1993 Studio Frank Thomas #2

In 1993, Donruss featured Frank Thomas insert sets in several of their sets. There was also on in Leaf. I knew I had a card from one of the sets but I couldn't remember which one. It turns out I had a card from both the Leaf and Studio sets. The Studio set only has 5 cards but I got lucky. This is card #2, I had card #1.

1993 Upper Deck On Deck #10 Dennis Eckersley

This was a 25-card insert set to 1993 Upper Deck. I already had the Cecil Fielder card but I don't mind having Eckersley as well.

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Blue Jays Taken!

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I've got 169 Blue Jays cards. This is another team that went unclaimed last year. Here's a sampling of what's available.

1992 Topps #777 John Olerud

1994 Pinnacle #85 Devon White

1993 Stadium Club #59 David Wells

2011 Topps Heritage #68 Travis Snider

1988 Donruss #148 Dave Stieb

1993 Fleer #330 Roberto Alomar

1997 Pinnacle #114 Alex Gonzalez

 

1998 Topps Chrome #54 Carlos Garcia

2009 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions #48 Joe Carter

 

 2012 Topps Heritage #404 Adam Lind

Song of the Week - Look Around Any Corner by Quantic and Alice Russell

This song is from the album Look Around Any Corner by Quantic and Alice Russell. I downloaded another song from the album but didn't see it on YouTube. This one is just as good.

They remind me a bit of the 1960s group The Brian Auger Trio with Julie Driscoll. 

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Angels Taken!

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I have 64 Angels, including the fabulous 1984 Topps Steve Lubratich card I posted a few weeks ago. Here's some others.

2011 Topps Update #184 Tyler Chatwood

 

2012 Topps Gypsy Queen #148 Dan Haren

2008 Upper Deck First Edition Update #378 Ervin Santana

 

1990 Donruss #35 Mike Fetters

2011 Topps Lineage #14 Kendrys Morales

1992 Upper Deck Minors #314 Clifton Garrett

2012 Topps #250 Jared Weaver

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - A's Still Available

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I have 185 Oakland A's card to offer. I think nobody has asked for the A's the past two years so I've got a bunch. Here's a selection of Oakland A's cards.

2012 Topps Heritage #311 Brad Peacock

1988 Topps #641 Rick Honeycutt

Before photoshopping there was air-brushing.

2009 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions #17 Rollie Fingers

2008 UD Masterpieces #67 Eric Chavez

1988 Topps UK Minis #10 Jose Canseco

2002 Topps 206 #264 Carlos Pena

1990 K-Mart #32 Mark McGwire

1989 Topps #475 Dave Parker

2011 Topps Heritage #291 Bobby Cramer