Card Show Recap

The past two nights my son's soccer games have been rained out.  Usually that is a bad thing, but we are in dire need of rain in southern Illinois.  Plus it gave me some spare time to sort through a few card stacks on my desk, one of which I forgot to write about.  

Back in early August, my son and I attended a local card show on a Saturday morning before school started.  This show usually has a good mix of modern and vintage, but this time the vintage was not as readily available.  We stuck mostly to bargain boxes.  I believe most of today's cards came from one dealer who a very nice dime box.  I pulled quite a bit of trade bait along with a few keepers.

Any Pujols card for a dime is a good deal.  I already had two of these, but they will find a good home in another Cardinals' fan's collection.

I have never seen this Musial card before.  A little investigating on TCDB helped me identify it as a 2010 Topps Pro Debut Hall of Fame Stars inserts.  The Montgomery is a goil foil parallel.

You saw these two in yesterday's post also.  I have 381 Goldschmidt cards, and 214 Arenado cards.  Maybe they will be easier to acquire now that one is gone and the other is soon to be gone.

I am almost finished with my 2025 Donruss team set.  Just one more to go.  I have said it before how boring this year's design is.  I wish Panini would go back to using the Rated Rookie logo.  Rated Prospect is not right.  I doubt if Topps would ever change the Rookie Gold Cup to the Rookie Gold Trophy.

Descalso is the first 2010 Topps Pro Debut blue parallel in my collection.  It is numbered to 369.  Some fans may not realize Shelby Miller is still in the league.  He was a nice bullpen arm for the Brewers this year until he was injured a few weeks ago.  He is needing a second Tommy John surgery and will most likely miss all of 2026.