June Clearwater, FL card show.

 I am telling you (again) that it feels so good to be caught up with the blog posts and scans related to the card shows. That said the last show I attended was Clearwater on June 10th skipping New Port Ritchie, St. Pete, and Tampa. It feels good not running all over, while at the same time it feels good to be back home knowing I can always find a card show within 2 hours of me (usually two shows every weekend). I was wore slap out and I can feel the difference these past two and half weeks. I was actually going to skip the Jax show too this coming Saturday but I am thinking I'll go. I just need to keep my ass cheeks squeezed more than usual if you know what I mean. I completely blew my budget to hell and back the last few months. So that was also a well needed rest (on the bank account). That doesn't mean if I see an opportunity for a big deal, well I must oblige and try at least to make it happen. LOL!

Alright, the winner last night was: John Sharp

In Clearwater I only made two purchases, 1 from Justin which is probably going to be my last for some time. The other however the a haul. These 2 guys had monsters boxes that were unpriced so I asked and they said it depends on what you pull. We collector's don't like that, do we? I explained to him (the main guy) just how I operate. Pulling hundred of cards typically. He then said well, figure most of the cards are a buck a piece. I told him I am going to get a HUGE stack.... stacks even you'll need to get boxes for me to put them in so they don't tip over. Also I need a chair. He laughed accommodated my requests, and made it pretty clear he was going to make me a good deal. Now mind you I peeked in the boxes before I said anything and was blown away with some of the stuff in these boxes. There were 8 monster boxes and I spent about 2 hours tearing them up. I scanned them, half of them and will spread the haul over 3 posts counting this one.

Mt Braves are up first. That Freddie up top is a 3D Topps card. You will see lots of those later. Turns out I didn't need those two Bowman 1st editions, oh well. SPOILER ALERT. I got everything you see here tonight, and the next two posts at 3 for a buck. 

Now for the rest of the cards.

HMMM. Vintage Post, more Bowman 1st edition of young stars, and holy crap Batman, Holiday variation SP's.

A page full of those 3D cards, yet there are more.

See, I told you so.

Some of those Ben Ballers were first time for me seeing them. I like them. They don't resemble the regular Topps Chrome cards. Granted it is not a big change but it is certainly noticeable, and I like most of them.

Topps X Steve Aoki cards.

Greg.......Greg...... look what I found..... lol.

These truly were dollar box cards. If I were only buying a few cards I wouldn't have a problem shelling out a buck like that Buehler relic card. I paid .33 for it.  yea me.

Okay looks like we hit the Flagship Parallel section (there's more). I'll pick up right where we left off tomorrow night. Have a great night.