My son's travel baseball season ending last weekend. I know it sounds early, but a lot of the players also swim, play soccer, and football. It can be tough asking a 10 year old to choose in between sports, so we agreed to play baseball from April-June. As a result, I now have a lot of free time on the weekends.
For the last few years, it has been a ritual to attend a minor league baseball game on Father's Day. However, this year none of the local teams were playing at home and I was not too thrilled to go sit in 90+ degree weather and watch the Cardinals struggle against the Cubs. Instead, I chose to drive to St. Louis on Saturday to attend a card show with my son while my wife and daughter went shopping. A win-win for everyone involved.
I attended the 3 day show at Machinist's Hall back in April with some decent luck at the bargain boxes. This 1 day show was advertised as sold out, so I thought why not. The bargain boxes were once again my main target. I spent the majority of my 1.5 hours at a dealer's tables who had 6 3,000 count boxes full of quarter cards. Along with about 20 cards of trade bait, I did find a few Cardinals.
It is so nice to be able to pull up my collection on the TCDB website while I am at a show. I swore I had the Grichuk gold and Sierra pink card, but I was wrong. Although all are former Cardinals, I will not pass up nice quarter cards.
I am surprised I do not find more cheap McGwire cards at shows. There are a ton of them I still need. The 1999 Ultimate Victory McEwing card was hidden with a bunch of other short print rookies from that set. I almost grabbed a stack of them, but I could not remember anyone that was collecting that set.
There were also a ton of minis from various years, but I keep my mini purchases to strictly Cardinals.
I bought these Piscotty cards from the same dealer I bought a few cards from at the Evansville show the previous weekend. He restocked his former Cardinals box, but these were the only ones I needed.
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