It's the day before the card show, and, yeah, for me, this is as close as it comes to being a kid on Christmas Eve. The card show I'm going to comes around three times a year and it's a fairly good-sized one. I try to hit each of the shows, although travel can be iffy around here in January so sometimes I skip that one. During the last show, I picked up 74 cards. Two-thirds of them were new cards and one-third were upgrades. That's about average for me when I go to shows of this size. I thought I'd display some highlights of what I purchased the last time. (Warning: I'm a vintage guy. Although I plan to expand my horizons with tomorrow's show, everything until this point has been vintage, vintage, vintage. So, if you like only the latest and greatest, you'll have to dazzle yourself with something shiny until I'm done). 1956 Topps, Karl Spooner. I love the 1956 set. I have about a third of it, but I'm lacking just about every major star in the se...
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