The Return of the Card Show

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Today I went to the card show that I went to last month. They held another one today. A second test show to gauge interest. It was busier than the first one, which is a good sign.. They said there's one in Feb, but they're not sure of the date because the day they booked originally has something about a Superb Owl.. 

Anyway, before I went,  I had to deal with a little weather. I admit the first few times it looks nice, but after a while it can F right off.. 

EXPOS!!!!

One of the vendors that was there the first time and I talked between shows. He put together a box of Expos for me. Mainly team sets from the 80s that he has packaged up at home. 

That box of Expos was $20. Not a bad price if I do say so myself.. 

There were a few vendors that had vintage cards. Obviously I was interested in the baseball, but there was a lot of hockey and one had football, including 60s OPC CFL cards.. If I ever expanded into collecting CFL, that would be something to consider. 

Anyway, Ron Taylor! As an Astro!

I have to say I love the early Diamond Kings. Here we have Steve Rogers from 83

Some other 83s I needed for the team set. The rest are going to be housed in the Million Expos Project. 

84 Donruss. I have to say, I love this design. I feel that this would be one of the more expensive ones to try to complete. 

A 69 OPC Pete Ward. It's nice finding Canadians in the wild.. 

Andre Dawson OPC! I didn't have a copy of this card yet, so here's one now!

1983 Stuart Bakeries. I found out something today while entering them in on TCDB. There are some cards that are missing the writing on the bottom right corner of the photo. You can see that on the Wallach. These are considered error cards, as they did print corrected ones with the writing in place. 

I did end up getting one more card for a friend. He's reimbursing me for it. (Man, you got expensive tastes!) 

1973-74 OPC WHA.. He's missing three cards. Well, two now.. Bolly Hull and Jacques Plante. This one was marked at $75, but I got it for $40. 

I'm looking forward to the next one now. Hopefully it's February 1. I know the date they originally scheduled will cause nobody to be there (including vendors, I think) 

Cards from Benson

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So not too long ago, the Team Collectors Forum I'm part of took part in a "break" of a box of cards sent to one member by Beau of One Million Cubs fame. 

I've been slowly plugging away at going through the cards and I want to show a few of them here today. 

The Topps 205 cards were interesting when they came out. I don't see many of them, but here I have both versions of the Vlad card.. Clear logo and white logo.. 

A Double Jays sticker! Tony Fernandez on the sticker part, and Jesse Barfield on the back. 

I always love getting Larry Walker cards, especially when they're of his Expos years

Remember those Credit Card style cards they made in the early 80s? I got a Gold Damaso Garcia now.. 

Two Tyler O'Neill cards.. I'd love to see him on the Jays one of these years

Blink and you'll miss him. 

Dasan Brown. I think this card's rather cool. 

Two Ryu cards. I might have three separate versions, but they can be tough to differentiate.. 

Gallery was an interesting concept. 

Good ol' Mascot! Go Mascot Go!!

It annoys me that they either don't have the rights to, or haven't bothered to get the rights to use Ace's name. 

A shiny Guerrero. I really like the look of this card

I'm not sure if I got the right version of the Green card showing here.. I'll snap a picture of the card itself later and maybe we can compare.. 

Finally a shiny A&G Guerrero. I still have more cards to go through, so there will likely be another post from this pile..

So tell me what you think so far. 

Cards From Johnny

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Recently, Johnny at Johnny's Trading Spot held one of his giveaways. This one had a twist to it though. Rather than going through the photos and selecting individual cards, he was going to randomly select the page of 9 to send to people who joined in. 

Now, I admit there were cards all over that I wanted but couldn't get under this restriction, as I'm sure is the case with others, but I'm not going to complain about the possibility of getting something that fits my collections. 

A couple days ago, the envelope arrived and I took a look at the cards I won in the random draw. Most of these are from magazines from back in the 90s that would insert cards as a bonus. They were slightly thinner and more flimsy than a regular card but they were very cool to receive. 

A couple 1990 Baseball Card Monthly cards featuring Rick Reuschel, David Segui, and Chris Hoiles

A 1992 Baseball Card Magazine card of Jack McDowell.. 

I have a couple cards from this.. 

1991 Sportscards Monthly cards with Sandy Alomar and Jeff Conine

I don't remember the magazine this is from but since I don't collect basketball... It's automatically out there for anyone who'd like it. 

A card that does fit my collection though is this nice 2025 League Leaders card with Vladdy in the middle. 

Finally a Topps Hobby Rip Night card with Randy Johnson. 

Thank you Johnny for the cards! 

So since I rolled the dice and got mostly stuff not in my scope of collections, if someone would like any of these cards (aside from the 25 LL) let me know.. 

1989 Blue Jays Fire Safety

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Stuart sent me this one as well.. In fact, he sent me two. I also ended up having a number of the set already, so this allowed me to have one set, keep a Ducey (that I already had) for my Canadians binder, and have a full set to do what I want with. 

1989's theme was "On the Move" It worked for a couple reasons. First, it alludes to the action on the field. Second, 1989 was the season the Jays moved from the worst stadium in sports (as stated by Paul Beeston) to the SkyDome. 

Jesse is always nice to get as a Jay. As I said yesterday, he's on the Twitmachine and is a great person to talk to. 

For the most part I'm just showing the cards I didn't have already. 

The three catchers. The Catching B's.. Borders, Brenly, and Butera. Butera's final games were played with the Toronto Blue Jays. 

Brenly is an interesting one. He was actually on the 89 team. Butera's final season was 88.. Borders would go on to be World Series MVP in 1992 and play forever.. 

The back of the cards. Basically the same as the last ones I showed. Though this time the fire safety tips come in the way of a quiz. 

Tom Lawless was another short time Jay, playing 74 games between 89-90. 

The back of the coach cards.. 

And of course, the honourary Canadian, Ernie Whitt. 

There was something else in that package that really could be its own post, but why not just show it now? 

As you know, I'm collecting Montreal Expos cards.. I want to get the sets that came in Archives, both the non-autographed and the autographed. 

This one helps me on the way a little.. 

Steve Rogers! Who, if he pitched within the last 20 years would probably be nicknamed Captain America. Instead, he pitched in the 70s and 80s, quitetly putting together a decent career with Montreal. 

Thank you again Stuart!