4 Cent Finds: 1990 Score Ryne Sandberg Highlights Error Card

I added a few more cards to my Sparkly Lyle RC contest, so be sure to get your daily entry by commenting here.

My favorite LCS, The Batter's Box has a great dime box. It's a 3200 count box with 4 rows. One filled with baseball, one with basketball, one with football and one with hockey. The baseball row is always full. The others vary from time to time.

They also have a 5 cents or 25/$1 box. Again, it was a 3200 count box, but this one isn't separated out by sport. Mostly baseball though. I went on Friday and this box was no longer there. It was replaced with a shoebox, so just two rows. Same price; 5 cents or 25/$1, but it now stated it was all stars. There was always some good stuff, but a lot of commons as well.

I ended up grabbing 38 cards from the box. If you get 25 or more, they are 4 cents each. You don't actually have to get increments of 25 which is nice. 

I won't show all 38 cards. Most of them aren't all that exciting, but I do want to share one of the cards I got for 4 cents.

It's the 1990 Score Ryne Sandberg Highlights error card. 

To be honest, I knew that this was potentially an error card, but when I was flipping through the cards in the 25/$1 box I didn't look closely, so I wasn't sure if this was the error or corrected version. After getting home I realized that it is the "3B" error variation.

This card was hot back in the early 90's. Looking back at some old issues of Beckett, this card was priced as high as $10 for a period of time, so I was happy to find it in for a mere 4 cents.

Do you collect error cards?

1991 Fleer Factory Set Pro Vision Set

I posted about the 1991 Fleer Pro Vision insert set here. I mentioned in that post that there were 4 additional 1991 Fleer Pro Vision cards with a white border issued in factory sets that I needed to pick up.

I found several listings on eBay for the set. I could get one set shipped for about $5 or I could get 5 sets for about $7.50 shipped. I went with the 5 sets.

All the cards are badly centered, but they are still great! I cropped the photos so they look good.

If you are interested in a badly centered set of these 1991 Fleer Factory Set Pro Vision cards, let me know. Next up I need to track down the 1992 Fleer Pro Vision subset cards. I know I have some of them, but I don't think I currently have all of them.

Blaster Break - 2009 Goodwin Champions

The blaster box that I bought last week while I was in California was a 2009 Goodwin Champions box. 12 packs per box. 4 cards per pack. Here are some of the highlights.

Ted Williams - The Greatest Hitter who ever lived

Ryne Sandberg Jersey - Cubs Pinstripe

Ryan Howard - I like the World Series trophy on the Phillies cards.

Citizens of the Century - Ronald Reagan

Chuck Liddell - Big UFC fan, big fan of Liddell!

Michael Jordan - This was the 1st card I saw out of the 1st pack I opened. Does it get any better?

Black Bordered Gypsy Queen Giles Mini

Guerrero, Jurrjens, and Hamels Minis

Garciaparra, Samardzija, and Oswalt Minis

Other cards I got, in no particular order:

133 Joba Chamberlain

51 Carlos Beltran

125 Chris Johnson - in college jersey (East Carolina)

121 Dustin Pedroia - Boston Red Sox #1

23 Kevin Youkilis - Boston Red Sox #2

86 Brooks Robinson - Gold Glove emblem in the upper right hand corner

2 Derek Jeter

15 Dick Allen

170 Chris Perez

24 O.J. Mayo - basketball

67 Josh Beckett - Boston Red Sox #3

56 Ozzie Smith

54 Kosuke Fukudome

77 Manny Ramirez

150 David Ortiz - Boston Red Sox #4

123 B.J. Upton

17 Rollie Fingers - No mustache, what's up with that?

82 Justin Morneau

108 Tim Lincecum

71 Adrian Gonzalez

96 Paul Molitor - holding 2 bats (this will go into my theme collection)

43 Cole Hamels

135 Tony Gwynn - Sr. not Jr.

4 Jorge Posada

78 Jason Varitek - Boston Red Sox #5 (5 Red Sox and not a single Diamondback)

28 Brian McCann

14 Donovan Bailey - 1996 "World's Fastest Man"

141 Bobby Orr - hockey

111 Kevin Garnett - basketball

55 Chad Reed - Supercross Champion

30 Al Kaline

99 Ben Rothlisberger - in college jersey (Miami, OH)

24 O.J. Mayo - basketball