Night Owl Cards

  I've been going to the card shows at the New York State Fairgrounds since before I started this blog. My guess on the year I first went is possibly 2007, maybe 2006. I wasn't seriously back into the hobby until then.   For many of the years that I attended, the shows were in the Horticultural Building, which I think is the biggest building at the fairgrounds (I only go to the fairgrounds for card shows, have never been to the state fair).   That building can fill a whole bunch of tables and it feels like home to me. But for a number of years now -- I'd say a good decade, it's been in the smaller Science & Industry Building -- which is around the corner. I sound like I know what I'm talking about here, but I don't have a good handle on the names of these buildings, as Angus of Dawg Day Cards found out Saturday when we drove to the show.   We got an earlier start than we usually do. The show was closing an hour earlier, at 3 p.m., because the building was h...

  I went to another card show yesterday with Dawg Day Cards blogger Angus. It'd been a little more than a year since we were able to go to a show together. I think the last one was the mall show in October of last year.   I'll get to everything that went down at the show probably tomorrow, but I wanted to focus on one thing that I received from Angus before we journeyed down.   He showed it on his blog a week or two ago and I knew it was coming my way.     It was a nice, wrapped stack of 1982 Fleer stamps. I've mentioned this set on the blog a couple of times this year, specifically during the "Elusive '80s cards, really?" series I do (another one of those on the way in the next few weeks).    Angus picked it up at a card show in Detroit and assumed it was the whole set. I did, too. But something in the back of my mind thought something was a little off.   This set was issued in strips of 10 cards. I remember buying one pack of them. After seein...

  So as mentioned in the  last post , it had been a year since Angus and I had gone to a card show together. We're both busy guys with super-hectic jobs and other issues that rudely won't get out of the way for leisurely pursuits.   He had been saving up some collectibles for me all the while. When we met at the Buffalo Wild Wings parking lot, he unloaded what I'm sure had been taking up too much space for too long.   There was a variety of stuff and all the card items were full of variety, too. Let's start with a legends set that I've always enjoyed.   This is a decent stack of 2001 Fleer Greats of the Game. I own all the Dodgers in this set already, but the purpose of this was to get me started on another set chase I believe.   I do like my legends -- and I now have more than half of the set. It'll go on the back-burner, but someday I may be up to pursuing it. Here's another legends set -- 1994 Ted Williams. The base set is complete. But there are some ni...