When only spending a dollar at the card shop is a good thing.

What's the least you can spend at a card shop or show? Personally I've gone to a shop before and not spent anything. It's disappointing, but I've done it. Multiple times. Sometimes nothing jumps out at me.

One of my boys joined a new club baseball team. This club has its own facility across town from us. Right now he is doing one workout a week on our side of town and then one at the team facility. The team facility happens to be less than 10 minutes away from my favorite card shop.

A couple weeks back his workout was at 5 o'clock on Friday. The card shop closes at 6 so I dropped my wife and son off and headed over to the card shop for a quick look around. 

I only spent a buck. Sometimes it's good to tell the wife that you went to the card shop and only spent a dollar. Am I right?

This was the big purchase of the day. This 1960 Topps Don Zimmer card cost me 50 cents. Zimmer had a decent playing career. Enough to stick around 10+ years in the big leagues. In fact, he was an All-Star in 1961. But I best remember Zimmer from his coaching days with the Yankees dynasty in the late 90's and early 2000's.

These Tiant cards were just a dime each. I know some of you might not consider these vintage, but to me they qualify and will end up in my vintage binder.

I've seen these puzzle cards before, but didn't remember having the Clemente, so I grabbed it for a dime. I've always wondered where these "cards" came from, but another recent purchase answered that question for me.

The last two cards I picked up were these 1994 Pinnacle Power Surge cards. I thought these were inserts, but turns out they are from a 25 card boxed set. They will still make it into a binder I have set up for 1990's inserts and parallels.

Hall of Fame Rookie Card: Orlando Cepeda

Last weekend I went to two different card shops. My purchases consisted of mostly bargain bin cards, although I feel like I got some great cards. I did however, make one substantial purchase. It was this 1958 Topps Orlando Cepeda rookie card that I bought for $10.

Hall of Fame rookie card from the 1950's for just $10? Yes, please. Do I mind that it has a crease? Nope. I'm really happy to add this card to my collection at this price.

The crease is right where the price tag is and goes all the way across the card. In the case, it's actually not that noticeable. The color on this particular card is fantastic and the centering isn't all that bad.

To be honest, I might already have this card. I'm not sure, but at just $10, regardless of the crease, I had to grab it. 

This card also works for my Rookie Card of players that won the Rookie of the Year Award, as Cepeda was the 1958 National League Rookie of the Year. The 11 time all-star was also the 1967 NL MVP. He was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee in 1999. 

15/$1 or 6.7 cents each!

The 2012 Topps Chrome cards I featured a couple of days ago weren't the only 15/$1 cards I picked up at the card shop a week or so ago. 

Check out the other cards that I got for 6.7 cents each.

Let's start with four Mantle cards from his time with Panini.

I grabbed some Heritage inserts from various years in hopes that I will need some of them in connection with all of the Heritage cards I got off Facebook recently.

I can't pass up cards numbered to 99 when they are just 6.7 cents apiece even when they aren't fully licensed.

Speaking of cards that aren't fully liscenced, here are another trio of Panini insert cards.

Next up are some fully liscenced inserts. Again, at 6.7 cents I am probably going to pick up most insert cards that I come across.

Let's finish up with two rookie cards of a Hall of Famer. 

Including the 18 cards from 2012 Topps Chrome, all of these cards set me back just $3 bucks. Not too shabby. 

I did pick up one additional card during this trip to the card shop. Another rookie card of a Hall of Famer, but this one is from the 1950's. Tune in tomorrow to see that card.

FB Find - 2018, 2019, and 2020 Topps Chrome

Yesterday I shared some 2012 Topps Chrome cards I got at a card shop recently. Today, let's take a look at some Topps Chrome cards I got off of Facebook recently.

There were just 3 cards from 2019. I will set these aside for now, but I'd prefer to get some other cards for my 2019 Topps Chrome sample page.

There was a nice stack of 2019 Topps Chrome and I was able to pick out these 9 cards for a sample page.

In addition to these 9 for a page, there were a couple of cards of players that I collect....

...and a couple of Diamondbacks cards that I set aside.

Here are the refractors and inserts from 2019.

Next, let's take a look at 2020 Topps Chrome.

Here are the 9 cards I chose for my sample page.

Only one D-Backs card and no other player PC cards from the 2020 stack.

There were more refractors and inserts though.

After seeing so many of the 1985 Topps Baseball insert cards, I have to say that the Chrome version look pretty awesome.

That's it for the Chrome from the FB Find. Two full sample pages, couple of cards for my player collections, a few D-Backs and some nice inserts to use as trade bait and for care packages. 

How many make the Hall of Fame? 2012 Topps Chrome

Last Saturday I went to a couple of cards shops. I already showed off my purchases from on of the shops, but today let's look at some of the cards from the other shop. I found a 3000 count box on their 15/$1 shelves that was filled with 2012 Topps Chrome baseball.

I picked out these 18 cards for a couple of sample pages. Lots of big names. Some have already retired with a couple already elected to the Hall of Fame, but most are still playing. It will be interesting to see in the end, how many of these 18 end up in the Hall of Fame.

My guess is that just under half of these 18 will end up into the Hall of Fame. With 2 already in, that means I think just 6 of the remaining 16 will end up in the Hall. Of those not in yet I think Ortiz, Cabrera, Verlander, Greinke, Sabathia, and Rodriguez will eventually get in. Not sure how long it will take some of them, cough...cough, Rodriguez...cough, to get in, but those are my picks. 

Agree or diaagree? Let me know who you think makes it into the Hall of Fame?

FB FInd - 2020 Topps 1985 Topps Baseball

Yesterday I showed a 2020 Topps 1985 Topps Baseball card of Shohei Ohtani that I picked up for a quarter at the card shop this past weekend. I grabbed it because I knew I had a stack of these cards from the cards I got from Facebook recently. 

Here is a visual of what I was talking about.There were 129 of these cards. The problem that between Series I , II and Update, there are 250 of these cards. These are all from Series II and Update.There were also some duplicates, so I need 55 out of the 150 from Series II and the Update series.

Here is my current checklist. If you have any I need, let me know. I will post pictures below of the duplicates I have.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75
76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
AS1	AS2	AS3	AS4	AS5	AS6	AS7	AS8	AS9	AS10	AS11	AS12	AS13	AS14	AS15	AS16	AS17	AS18	AS19	AS20	AS21	AS22	AS23	AS24	AS25
AS26	AS27	AS28	AS29	AS30	AS31	AS32	AS33	AS34	AS35	AS36	AS37	AS38	AS39	AS40	AS41	AS42	AS43	AS44	AS45	AS46	AS47	AS48	AS49	AS50
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50

At this point I think I'll just focus on the cards from Series II and the Update Series, so again, if you have any of those cards that I need, please let me know. Thanks!