What I Got at the Card Show: 6/10/06

Site: Hamilton Mall; Mays Landing, NJ

England just beat Paraguay 1-0 in the World Cup, the Phillies game is blacked out (me and my brother are pulling a roadie and going to D.C. to see the Phils on Sunday), so it was either watch Trinidad get its ass kicked by Sweden, or go to a card show. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

One box of 2006 Ultra baseball (Paid $59)

Box break forthcoming.

One big ol' stack o' singles (Paid $105)

All of these were on my checklist as set fillers. Not looking for anything in particular, but I was happy to find the '02 TT&R SPs and all those cheap '05 Donruss-Playoff inserts.

In 1994, I actually pulled the Michael Jordan Diamond Collection card and immeediately sold it back to the dealer I bought the pack from for $50. This particular dealer wanted $12 for it.

1991 Bowman Bret Boone RC
1992 Pinnacle Slugfest Mark McGwire
1994 Upper Deck Diamond Collection Central Michael Jordan
1997 Donruss Franchise Features D. Jeter/P. Reese (# to 3000)
1997 Flair Showcase Row 0 Curt Schilling
1999 Stadium Club Never Compromise Sammy Sosa
2001 E-X Adrian Hernandez RC (# to 499)
2001 Fleer Platinum Reprints "That J.D. Guy"
2001 Fleer Tradition Stitches in Time Monte Irvin and Bill Perkins
2001 Topps Through the Years Reprints Juan Marichal
2002 Diamond Kings Roberto Clemente
2002 Donruss Elite Series (insert) Carlos Delgado (# to 2500)
2002 Studio Classic Jackie Robinson (# to 1000)
A stack of 11 2002 Topps Traded and Rookies veteran short-prints (Gary Sheffield and 10 other commons)
2003 Diamond Kings Hall of Fame Heroes Reprints Duke Snider
2003 Donruss All-Stars Derek Jeter
2004 Topps Heritage Kyle Sleeth SP
2005 Diamond Kings HOF Heroes Roberto Clemente
2005 Diamond Kings Timeline Aramis Ramirez
2005 Diamond Kings Team Timeline N. Ryan/R. Johnson
2005 Diamond Kings Heritage Collection Duke Snider
2005 Donruss Rated Rookie Angel Chavez SP
2005 Donruss "2004 The Rookies" Jorge Vasquez
2005 Donruss "2004 Studio" Scott Proctor and Livan Hernandez
2005 Donruss Elite Series (insert) Jim Thome (# to 1500)
2005 Donruss Power Alley Red Miguel Tejada (# to 2500)
2005 Donruss Longball Leaders Jim Thome (# to 1500)
2005 Donruss Craftsmen Greg Maddux and Ken Griffey, Jr. (# to 2000 each)
2005 Leaf Home Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, and Miguel Cabrera
2005 Leaf Road Ivan Rodriguez and Mike Piazza
2005 Leaf Clean Up Crew J. Bagwell/L. Berkman/C. Beltran
2005 Leaf Picture Perfect Mike Mussina and Randy Johnson
2005 Leaf Cornerstones P. Molitor/R. Yount
2005 Leaf Fans of the Game Tony Danza and Taye Diggs
2005 Leaf Gamers Alfonso Soriano, Greg Maddux, Jim Thome, and Vladimir Guerrero
2005 Leaf Gold Stars Alfonso Soriano
2005 Studio Portraits Eric Chavez, Carl Crawford, Kerry Wood, and Kirk Gibson (# to 20, 35, 20 and 20 respectively)
2005 Studio Stars Vladimir Guerrero, Joe Mauer, John Smoltz, Larry Walker, and Omar Vizquel
2005 Studio Diamond Cuts Sammy Sosa, Greg Maddux, and Jeremy Bonderman (# to 1250 each)
2005 Studio Heritage Darryl Strawberry (# to 1000)
2005 Topps Dem Bums Reprints Ed Roebuck and George Shuba
2005 Topps Grudge Match J. Posada/P. Martinez
2005 Ultra Follow the Leader Mark Prior

Total Spent on Cards: $164
Atlantic City Expressway Tolls: $4
Parking and Admission: FREE
Grand Total: $168

OBTW, Sweden and T&T played to a pretty exciting scoreless draw, (that's not sarcasm) and I was able to get back in time to see Ivory Coast nearly come back to tie Argentina. The World Cup really begins on Monday afternoon.