Monday, November 30, 2020

Where were you on August 11, 2018?

I went to a card shop the other day and I browsed for a while before deciding on one particular card. I paid for the card and turned around and saw a "discount" bin that I had been looking through earlier. I had looked through this bin earlier and had set a side a few things that weren't priced because I wanted to ask for a price. So I grabbed the three items I had set aside and took them to the counter to ask for pricing. One of the items had a price, but the other two did not. 

The one that was priced was a 2018 National Baseball Card Day set, or so I thought. It was marked at $2 and then was supposed to be 25% off. As you will see it ended up being one card short. I wasn't expecting it to have the two bonus cards (Aaron Judge and Rhys Hoskins), but card #6 (Jose Altuve) was also missing from the set. I'll have to track that down. 

I'm not sure what I was doing back on August 11, 2018, but it doesn't appear that I went to the card shop because I don't think I had any 2018 National Baseball Card Day cards. Well now I do.





Do you collect the National Baseball Card Day sets? Do you have the Jose Altuve available for trade?

6 comments:

  1. I don't collect the NBC Day sets, with no card shop anywhere near me, that stuff is out of sight, out of mind.

    One of the benefits of a blog is when someone throws out a random date, I can look up what I was doing. I didn't post on Aug. 11, 2018, but I do know the next day I went to the last baseball game with my daughter before she went off to college. And now I'm sad.

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  2. No idea what I was doing on that day, but I didn't go to a card shop. I did participate in 2019. Went to a card shop in Southern California with SumoMenkoMan. We also hit up a couple of card shows that day.

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  3. I was in Singapore for NBCD in 2018. Got back a few days too late. I did go in 2019, but most of the places in my area which Topps said were participating didn't actually know about it. This year I sat out because COVID. Maybe next year.

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  4. I do not collect the whole set but I have been able to get the Indians cards from the various sets for National Card Day.

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  5. Definitely did NBCD here. One of my kids' favorite days.

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  6. I haven't been at the LCS for NBCD till this past year, and that was only because I had won an auction they were doing on Facebook so I went in to pick it up. Nice get for less than 2 bucks!

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