When I first moved to Phoenix there was a blog called Pack War ran by a guy that went by Corky. Since he lived on Phoenix he sent me a list of all the card shops on the area that he knew of. The very first one I visited was called the Hot Corner in Mesa. It's kind of far away from where I live so I haven't been back there for probably 10 years. I was in the area this past week though so stopped in.
Really what I was looking for were three row PSA height boxes. (Evidently these have been discontinued because I can't find any except for a guy in ebay that has them for ridiculous prices) The thing is I don't want them for graded cards I only want them because the dividers that I use between years don't fit in a regular size box because they have to be taller than a top loader. I can use two wide but the wide fits better in an Ikea cube shelf without wasting a bunch of space.
What they had instead of the boxes was a couple monster boxes of vintage. I searched through two whole monster boxes and I only found two cards I needed, both high numbers.
This Reggie Smith In Action card was the first card in the 1972 section of the box. An easy score like that got my hopes up but it wasn't to be tar was the only 1972 that had that I needed.
Those monster boxes went from 1962 to 1975 and there only other card I found that I needed was this 1965.
Since they were both high numbers I was kind of scared to ask how much they wanted for them. The Jay Ritche is in exceptional shape so I figured for sure they were going to add a premium to it. But when I asked the guy he said only $1 each. Yes please! If only they had a bunch more I needed.
There was a time when I thought about building the 1972 Topps set. I started with just the A's team set and was quickly introduced to the crazy prices those high numbers commanded. In the end, I cheated and just bought a complete set. I was also able to complete the team set (which is hanging up in my office) with the help of some fellow bloggers.
ReplyDelete