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Last post I wrote about the sets from the Junk Wax Era I didn't care for or outright disliked. Today is the opposite. I'm writing about sets from the Junk Wax Era that I like.
As with yesterday these are in no particular order
Hello Friends!
Last post I wrote about the sets from the Junk Wax Era I didn't care for or outright disliked. Today is the opposite. I'm writing about sets from the Junk Wax Era that I like.
As with yesterday these are in no particular order
Hello Friends!
I watched a video earlier by Baseball Replay Journal on YouTube about the 10 ugliest sets from the junk wax era. Some of the usual suspects were there.. 91 Fleer, 90 Donruss, 88 Donruss, 90 Topps.. But there were others that I do like that they considered ugly. Part of it was the mass overproduction, but some of them I just feel different about.
I did voice my enjoyment for some of the sets they posted, but I also mentioned a few of my own. I don't get upset or attack people for their opinions on things like card asthetics.. Opinions are like assholes, afterall... We all have them.. (And I'll let you fill in the rest)
So I wanted to take a look at the timeframe they used, 1986-1993. And I picked out my own...
So let's take a look. These are in no particular order.


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After a little bit of a break to get away from the weather, the card show happened yesterday. It was probably the busiest it's been. There were even vendors in the lobby..
I found one of the vendors I've built a rapport with that missed last show due to the weather. He handed me a box of 80s OPC to look through. Since I'm working mainly on 88, that's what I was looking at.. I also have 87 pretty far ahead. I'll try to get those next show.
Anyway. the box was not organized by any stretch. It was slow going to find anything, so I asked the guy if he minded if I organized it for him. (I got the 88s mostly done)
He said sure if I could find an open table somewhere.. So I holed myself up in the coatroom and sorted, pulling needs and Expos as I went. Did that until it felt like my head was cement.
Went back in and handed the box back, told him what I got done and the stack I wanted to get. He asked what my price was for sorting services.. My reply, "How about the cards?" So I got 70 cards for the price of an hour sorting.
I wandered around the show, trying to not run anyone over with my chair. A task made very difficult because, and I may be wrong with this, but it seems like people's spatial awareness goes out the window at places like this..
Found one other vendor I've purchased from before and got a few cards that I'll be showing..
Also had an interesting interaction with one of the vendors while I was sorting. I told them how I was surprised the vendor I was dealing with let me take the box of cards out.. She replied "It sounds like you built a rapport with them.. Come by my booth! Build a rapport with me!" That booth was Hogtown Cards
I didn't buy anything from them, mainly because the only thing I might have been interested in was a 1954 Bowman set for probably a month's rent for me..
Anyway, I guess I should stop rambling and get to showing cards, eh?