2 DAY SHOW REPORT

     

I didn't want to take a picture of the cold weather. I prefer to be at a ballpark in weather suited for a game. 

       Last week Friday & Saturday I was in the town called Midland which is located near the Flint & Saginaw area its also home of the Great Lakes Loons of the Class 'A' Midwest League team whose parent ballclub at the time of this posting is the Los Angeles Dodgers basically where Clayton Kershaw started his climb to the majors for a set up for a 2 day show. It was held at the Dow Chemical Ballpark in freezing temps outside we were under the cover a great concourse level inside the weird thing is this is the first show I have ever been to as a dealer setting up that had 2 different levels of dealers I was happy to be on the main level cause how slow the elevator would run & having to make multi-trips to the car to get all my boxes & without anyone assisting me either day & plus dealing with the weather snowfalling on the Friday my cart didn't want to budge rolling into the slushy snow. The show had 2 signers both didn't sign long only for an hour they were former Tigers Relief Specialist Mike Henneman & former New York Giants Running back Tyrone Wheatley they were there on Saturday.

That's Mike Henneman from my view of my table in the green hat.

Again a view from my table catching Tyrone Wheatley signing for some scabs of fans of his college.....I mean preschool. 

            I was all set to surprise a great friend in the blogging world Matt aka Cards Over Coffee by maybe if Tyrone wasn't too expensive to get his signature & razz him about this years THE GAME & see if he was retained to work next year at the preschool with the new coaching staff by getting his autograph.....well Matt sorry Tyrone was too much for this guy at $30 for a flat & $75 on a mini helmet which I would have gotten a Mini Giants helmet along with a card for your Giants collection even though I know ya prefer the Bulldog guy of a certain Mr. Rodney Hampton over Tyrone & plus his he would inscribed the Helmet saying something about coffee for you but the inscriptions were limited 3 words at an extra $45 add it all up & I know ya wouldn't been able to reinburst me right away for the surprise so I had to do a hard pass so I tried Matt again I need my money for my coffee. I wasn't sure how much Henneman was charging but I didn't want to risk it if he also was $30 as well so I had to time it right to get the pics for you my lovely readers. 

            On Friday I was limited to the main level of the show so I saw a few tables had some possibilities of getting things from my lists or make some trades with my stuff for newer stuff lucky for me I found 2 dealers that helped me with some of my `25/`26 Topps Basketball inserts leaving me with 3 cards to find still which is better than having nothing. I know I made 1 kid very happy with a box of 1991 Series I Donruss I had an unopened box that I got for free from a customer at work when he saw that the price was $3 he begged his dad for the money the father 1st told him oh that guy is asking too much for it until the son spoke up & said no dad he's asking $3 not $300 the father asked me if it was $3 I shook my head & said its his for $3  the father handed him the money which the kid relayed it to me I told the kid Good luck I hope ya can pull an exclusive Elite insert & if ya do you'll have better luck then I did back in 1991 when it was released. So the kid left happy & then another kid noticed I had a gravity feed box of 2023 Topps Series I for $20 & he too went home happy with a new box to crack open.  Then around 7pm I packed up my stuff back into my car for the cold ride in the winter night back home & get ready for Saturday.

                    On Saturday I finalized my deals for my inserts then made a few deals with the stuff I selling then around 2:30 packed up my stuff headed back toward home but made a slight detour to the local casino on the Indian Reservation to play video poker since I don't want to play regular card games cause I count cards & I don't want to be banned from the casino so I stick with the video poker & keno games after being there for an 1 hour headed home to catch the end of the Broncos Vs Bills game. Overall it was a good weekend however one thing I forgot to pick up was a dealer had a binder of `81/`82 Topps basketball singles labeled if not stickered $1 per card to whatever was labeled so I counted them & there was like 42 out of 66 cards needed unfortunately I didn't realize my mistake until I was loading the last of my boxes in the car when I went back to that dealer he was long gone well maybe next show I might get lucky again one can only hope.  Anyways I hate to leave ya fellow readers but I have yet to unload my boxes back into my Man Cave basement but I leave ya in words of the Great Rogers Horsnby once saying about signing autographs for little kids "Any ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."