I hit the Nashville card show this past Friday. Since I had the wife with me and we had other errands to run, I was only able to spend about 2 hours at the show. That is probably for the best because I only brought a couple hundred dollars to spend.
The show was great! It was very busy for an early Friday afternoon compared to the last few shows. There was alot of post-war vintage, some pre-war vintage, and of course lots of modern shiny stuff and Pokemon too. There was one dealer who had a ton of European and non-sport pre-war vintage too.
My main goal for the day was to find a 1962 Topps Lou Brock rookie card. Lou Brock was the first baseball Hall of Famer I ever got an autograph from. I remember him asking me who my favorite team was and at the time it was the Mets since my favorite player, Darryl Strawberry, played for them. This was probably within a year or two after they won the 1986 World Series.
There were several Brock RC's at the show. I ended up buying an ungraded one in about VG condition and paid $110 which was about $100 less than the next nicest example that I found that I liked. Someday I may choose to upgrade it, but for now it fills a want that I've had on the list for at least a couple of years now. Now I can move on to some other want list targets.
I also picked up an ungraded T206 of Lee Quillen with polar bear back for $50, a couple of 1950 Bowman commons for $5 each, a 1961 Topps MVP of Al Rosen for $5, and a 1983 Topps Wade Boggs rookie card for $20. I also found up a 1938 PM8 Our National Game pin of Lou Chiozza for $10. I had never seen these before, so I figured for $10 it would be a nice addition for my collection. I finished up the day by buying a few one touch magnetic holders.
The next big-ish Nashville show is the Music City Collectibles and Autograph show (different promoter than the Nashville Sports Card Show) at the end of Sept/beginning of October. It will have several autograph guests that I would like to get auto's from including Ryne Sandberg and Steve Garvey. I may get another auto from Ozzie Smith too. Maybe even Roger Clemens.
Then right after that in mid-October is the next Nash-ional show like this one was this weekend. That may be rough to have those two shows back-to-back.
The show was great! It was very busy for an early Friday afternoon compared to the last few shows. There was alot of post-war vintage, some pre-war vintage, and of course lots of modern shiny stuff and Pokemon too. There was one dealer who had a ton of European and non-sport pre-war vintage too.
My main goal for the day was to find a 1962 Topps Lou Brock rookie card. Lou Brock was the first baseball Hall of Famer I ever got an autograph from. I remember him asking me who my favorite team was and at the time it was the Mets since my favorite player, Darryl Strawberry, played for them. This was probably within a year or two after they won the 1986 World Series.
There were several Brock RC's at the show. I ended up buying an ungraded one in about VG condition and paid $110 which was about $100 less than the next nicest example that I found that I liked. Someday I may choose to upgrade it, but for now it fills a want that I've had on the list for at least a couple of years now. Now I can move on to some other want list targets.
I also picked up an ungraded T206 of Lee Quillen with polar bear back for $50, a couple of 1950 Bowman commons for $5 each, a 1961 Topps MVP of Al Rosen for $5, and a 1983 Topps Wade Boggs rookie card for $20. I also found up a 1938 PM8 Our National Game pin of Lou Chiozza for $10. I had never seen these before, so I figured for $10 it would be a nice addition for my collection. I finished up the day by buying a few one touch magnetic holders.
The next big-ish Nashville show is the Music City Collectibles and Autograph show (different promoter than the Nashville Sports Card Show) at the end of Sept/beginning of October. It will have several autograph guests that I would like to get auto's from including Ryne Sandberg and Steve Garvey. I may get another auto from Ozzie Smith too. Maybe even Roger Clemens.
Then right after that in mid-October is the next Nash-ional show like this one was this weekend. That may be rough to have those two shows back-to-back.
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