Card Show in San Francisco Part III

This is the third part about my trip to San Francisco for the TriStar Sportscard show.  At the card show, after looking at thousands of dime cards, it was good to get a break and look at what other dealers had for sale.  Although finding a great dime card is pretty cool, there were a lot more cards at a show to look at and buy.

At this show, I began a search for cards that cost up to a dollar.  There seemed to a number of cards to choose from and I had planned to set aside time to look at and to buy dollar cards.

Sometimes I get really lucky and find vintage cards for a buck and in my next post I will share some of the one dollar vintage cards that I got this past weekend.  But with this post I want to show some of the more recent issued cards, mainly from the 80s and 90s, that I brought home with me.

1983 Donruss    

 

The 1983 Donruss set is one of their earliest issues and these cards are similar to the cards from the 1981 and 1982 sets.   There are some nice cards in the set and I was able to find a Julio Franco and an early Cal Ripken Jr. card.  The Franco card is his rookie card and shows him as a Phillie.  Is Franco still playing?

 

 Cal Ripken, Jr.  #279 & Julio Franco #525

  

1994 Upper Deck SP Previews

 

Here are a couple 1994 SP Preview cards, from the second year that Upper Deck issued a SP set.  I don't think I have any of these preview cards and reading in my Beckett Almanac I found out that they were distributed as inserts in the Upper Deck regular set 2nd series product. 

  Barry Bonds WR1 & Ken Griffey Jr. WR3

 

Topps Museum Collection

 

The Topps Museum Collection card is a nice card and I have a few of them.  I am not sure what a pack of Museum cards sell for as I don't remember seeing any of these in the local card shop.  The thick card stock give these cards a good feel.

 

 2012 Topps Museum Collection Joe DiMaggio #81 & 2013 Robert Clemente 2013 Museum Collection Canvas Collection CC-14

 

A Couple Superstar Card

 

Here are a couple of cards of superstars that I got.  You can't call everyone a superstar, but these two guys would definitely be superstars.  I am always interested in any Michael Jordan baseball card and this 1994 Upper Deck Electric Diamond card is sweet card.  The Derek Jeter card comes from the 1996 Metal Universe Platinum set and is an early Jeter issue.

 

 1994 Upper Deck Electric Diamond Michael Jordan #19 and 1996 Metal Universe Platinum Derek Jeter #87

 

Yankees Greats

 

Here are a Babe Ruth and Don Mattingly card.  The Babe Ruth card comes from the Conlon Collection.  The Conlon Collection offers some great photographs from an era gone by.  This Babe Ruth photo is from the 1933 All-Star game, as he is nearing the end of his great career.

 1992 Conlon The Sporting News 13th National Collection Sports Collection Babe Ruth #663 & 2005 Zenith Artist's Proofs Silver Don Mattingly #242

 

Pinnacle Museum Collection Cards

 

Here are a couple of 1990s Pinnacle Museum Collection cards of Hall of Famers.

 1994 Pinnacle Museum Collection Ryne Sandberg #6 & 1995 Pinnacle Museum Collection Pedro Martinez #235 

 

1996 Ultra Inserts

 

1990s Ultra product had numerous insert sets.  If I remember correctly Ultra said that you would get one insert in each pack of cards.  Although at the beginning of the 90s, other card companies had insert sets, but it wasn't until when Ultra started the practice of having many inserts, that by the end of the decade, Upper Deck and Topps began issuing many of their own insert sets. 

 

 1996 Ultra Call to the Hall Barry Bonds #1 & 1996 Ultra Rawhide Cal Ripken Jr.  #9

 

Greg Maddux Rookie Cards

 

Here are two Greg Maddux cards from 1987 update sets during his first tenure with the Cubs.  When these were issued who would have thought that he would become one of the greatest of all time.
 

 1987 Fleer Update Greg Maddux U-68 & 1987 Topps Traded 70T

 

Some Shiny Cal Ripken Jr. Card

 

It was during the 90s when card companies started to issue, what the owner of the local card shop here in my hometown call "Shiny Cards".  It still continues today with Topps products, like Chrome and Finest cards.  Here are a couple of "Shiny" Cal Ripken Jr. cards issued in the 90s. 

 

 1994 Pacific Silver Prism Cal Ripken Jr. #15 & 1997 Pinnacle Shades Cal Ripken Jr. #5

 

A Relic Card

 

I don't normally collect relic and signature cards.  The last signature card I acquired was last year when I got a 2011 Bowman Sterling Sonny Gray card and I did get some relic cards earlier this year in the 2015 Heritage product.  At the show the only relic card I got was a Chipper Jones Game-Used Bat Card for my best friend. 

 2000 Upper Deck SP Game Bat Edition Piece of the Game Chipper Jones #CJ 

 

 

    

Card Show in San Francisco Part II

This is Part II of my blog about purchases of cards from this past weekend at the card show in San Francisco.  I arrived in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon.  The weather was nice so I took a trip to the ocean and visited Baker Beach.  It was a sunny and warm day, well it least for the coast of Northern California, and there were a lot of people out enjoying the day. 

Here are a couple of pictures I took while I was there.

 

 

What a sweet day in the city by the bay.

 

More Dime Card Deals

Cards of Mike Schmidt

I was able to get a Mike Schmidt from 1979 and 1980 and a couple issuances from this century.

 

1979 Topps Mike Schmidt #610 & 1980 Topps Mike Schmidt #270

 

2004 Topps Mike Schmidt All-Time Fan Favorites Mike Schmidt #20 & 2013 Topps Archives Mini Tall Boys Mike Schmidt #MS-MT

Billy Hamilton cards

I was looking thru some 2012 Panini Cooperstown cards and came across a card of the Billy Hamilton.  I didn’t know who he was but the back of this card said that “Sliding Billy Hamilton set the all-time record by scoring 198 runs (in just 137 games) with Philadelphia in 1894, a mark that only Babe Ruth has sniffed since with 177 in 1921.  He won two batting titles, and finished first in steals five times, including four season with 100- plus.  Hamilton ranks fourth all-time in on-base percentage (.455) and seventh in batting (.344).  In 1892, he turned the rare trick of hitting a leadoff and a walkoff homers in the same game.”  Billy Hamilton was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1961.

The present day Billy Hamilton first full year in the major leagues was last year when he stole 56 bases, finishing second in the National League to Dodgers Dee Gordon.  Hamilton did lead the league in being caught stealing when he was thrown out 23 times.  On June 15, 2014, in the Reds 13-4 win over the Brewers, Hamilton hit a leadoff home run.  I was able to get his 2013 Topps Finest Sterling card. 

2012 Panini Cooperstown Billy Hamilton #70 & 2014 Topps Finest Sterling Billy Hamilton TS-BHA

Some Don Mattingly cards

I was able to get these Don Mattingly cards from the early 90s and others since he retired as a player.

 

1990 Leaf Don Mattingly #69, 1993 Flair Don Mattingly #249, & 1994 Ultra Award Winner Don Mattingly #2

 

2002 Fleer Greats Don Mattingly #74, 2012 Topps Heritage Don Mattingly #154, and 2013 Topps Heritage Don Mattingly #101

Cards of Sean Doolittle

I got some minor league issues of A’s reliever Sean Doolittle.  These were from early in his career when Doolittle played first base.

 

2007 Upper Deck USA Baseball Sean Doolittle #14, 2008 Donruss Threads Sean Doolittle #84, and 2008 Tristar Projections Sean Doolittle #78

 
 

2002 Topps Gallery

I was able to pick up these retired players from the 2002 Topps Gallery set

  

Warren Spahn #146 & Brooks Robinson #147

 

 

Al Kaline #149 & Bob Feller #150

Leaf 1993

Here are some inserts from the 1993 Leaf set.

1993 Leaf Heading to the Hall Set

 

Nolan Ryan #1, Robin Yount #3, & Ryne Sandburg #8

 

1993 Leaf Gold All-Stars

 

Card #6 featuring Cal Ripken, Jr. & Barry Larkin 

 

 

 

 

Card #19 featuring Nolan Ryan & Greg Maddux

1994 Donruss Special Edition

 I was happy to get these three 1994 Donruss Special Edition cards. 

 

Nolan Ryan #1, Cal Ripken, Jr., #40, & Don Mattingly #60

 

2001 Fleer Premium Inserts

Here are some cards from the Decades of Excellence inset set which were part of the 2001 Fleer Premium set.

 

Eddie Mathews #11 & Pee Wee Reese #14,

 

 

Phil Rizzuto #15 & Frank Howard #18

Topps Heritage New Age Performers

Here are three New Age Performers cards from early Topps Heritage sets.

 

2001 Topps Heritage New Age Performers Nomar Garciaparra #NA9, 2002 Topps Heritage New Age Performers Ichiro #NA5, and 2003 Topps Heritage New Age Performers Alex Rodriguez #NA4

More Topps Heritage cards

I was able to grab these short prints from recent Topps Heritage sets.

Topps Heritage 2012

 

Troy Tulowitzki #453

 

 

 Topps Heritage 2014

 

Dustin Pedroia #447 & Miguel Cabrera #500

 

Yu Darvish #444 & Matt Harvey #490

 

Expos Prospect cards

Here are three cards of Montreal Expos prospects who later made names for themselves with other franchises.

 

2000 Bowman Chrome Brandon Phillips #347 & 2000 Bowman Grady Sizemore #109

 

2002 Topps Gold Jason Bay #326