A card show in Mansfield Ohio was mentioned in the comments of one of my previous posts. The blogger know by all of us as just the Baseball Dad or as I know him now.... Jack.... mentioned that he was planning on going to said show..... which led to the idea of hey that show is only 45 minutes or so from me.... what a great time to meet up with a fellow blogger.... and even better.... another ohio blogger.... Steve B and I had already met up went to a card show before so this would be the perfect opportunity for all 3 of us to meet. As with most everyone in the blogosphere both of us had already traded with Jack...so this was going to be cool. Hold on a little back story..... Steve and I actually only live a couple of miles from each other with the same little podunk town for our Post Office.... I mean what are the odds of that? and we had never met before and I think it took us a couple of years after trading emails to actually meet. Found out its cool to go to card shows with a fellow enthusiast. Ok back to meeting up with Jack in Mansfield......details were all arranged.... we knew when we were going up and when Jack was planning on getting there..... On our way there, we noticed signs for the show along the way...ok thats good....wait.....it says.... Toy and Card Show 10-3..... wait toy? and beckett said the show was from 9-5.....hmm...oh well..... get there and there is a $2.50 admission.... hmm beckett said $2.... and then the show..... well the building was full....I am guessing at least 50 tables.....and well maybe 5 or 6 had cards....great well at least we are meeting up with Jack.... Ahh he's the Baseball Dad... lets see if we can recognize him..... no luck.... now I had Jacks number, so ok we give in I'll call and find him...... dang.... stuff had came up and Jack hadn't left let..... really long story made less longer.... told Jack it probably wasnt worth the trip....as it blowed..... good thing because by the time he would have gotten there most of the tables were folding up by 2:30 ish...... so no big meet up..... but too make a bad situation better there was 1 seller with dime and quarter boxes..... which took up over an hour of our time.....or like 80% of the time at the show.... now these cards are not from the dime and quarter box guy..... as we were getting ready to leave... a guy who had a pathetic table that we laughed at as we walked around...flagged us down...great deals guys I need to sell something.....this guy had maybe 40 cards in top loaders on the table....that was it...with ridiculous prices on them....well he was pricing to sell....guessing he needed to either pay rent or buy lunch...or just pay for his table..... but basically he sold all of these for about $5 a card..... the one I had liked was the Rendon and after checking ebay when I got home...yep it paid for them all..... the bradshaw and stallworth are one I want to keep.... the others are up for trade if anyone is interested..... though I am giving Jack first dibs on the Piersall relic as a consolation for not being able to make the show..... I am guessing the Rendon is going to end up on ebay though....
Let's make a deal.....
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Steve let you buy that Pirate !?
Sorry I couldn't get there in time, I'll be watching for Wooster or anything else in the area !
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