Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I stuffed myself at noon and again at 6. Good thing we planned a Black Friday shopping trip to walk a few of those extra pounds off. I did most of my shopping online early Thursday morning. The only baseball related items were a few posters from Topps.com that I hope to get autographed in January at the Cardinals Winter Warm Up. Friday we hit up Menards which was a total zoo. It opened at 6 in the morning, but was still packed at 10 when we arrived. Parking was non existent and the check out lines were long, but we managed to be in and out in about an hour. That left plenty of time to hit up the local card shop. After I dropped the wife and daughter off at Bed & Body, my son and I headed to the card shop
This card shop posted a few of their card deals on Facebook the day before, so I had a good idea of what I planned on getting. The best deal for my budget was buy 2 packs of 2018 Topps Update and get a third one free. Sure the packs were a little overpriced at $3.50, put with the free one the 9 packs were got were about the same price as a blaster. I will spare you the base and just show the inserts.
The only Cardinal I needed from the break was this Lou Brock. It almost looks like a Donruss card with the missing logo on the helmet.
The 1983 inserts were nice with a blue Kinsler and World Series champ Martinez. Both are available for trade.
I have never heard of Bieber, but the Acuna was a nice find. Both of these are also available.
The box we picked the packs from was a Bieber hot box as I got 2 base cards to go along with the Salute and this foil card.
I like the looks of these. Shame I pulled a Cub, but the Betts is nice. Both are up for grabs.
I already trade the gold card, but Cal is still available.
I chose the 6 picks in order to get 2 free packs of Bowman Holiday. We only pulled base cards, but did get some nice ones.
Judge and Soto were nice to see. All of these are for trade. I also have a large stack of base cards if anyone is working on the set.
I have picked up a few packs of the Update cards over the last week or two. Not bad looking cards, I like that there is a Cardinals card of Will Clark.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to see Clark have an Archives auto in a Cardinals uniform.
DeleteThe Lou Brock card is very cool, not sure why his helmet has no logo though. I hadn't heard of Bieber either until this year. For Players Weekend he wore a jersey that read "not Justin"
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in trading for the Red Sox cards you pulled. I'll check your TCDB page and let you know if I have any Cards you need.
I will put the Sox aside for you. My wantlist should be current other than some newer sets like Gallery and Topps Holiday.
DeleteI like those Don't Blink inserts. Cutch was included but the only version I got is the red /10. Still need base, blue, gold, black.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to see something different. I am going to a show this weekend and will keep my eyes open for the Cutch parallels you need.
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