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So, the first card show of my unofficial season was disappointing. Some of my favourite dealers were MIA and in their place were dudes with crummy cards from the past year. I was ready to go down there and spend some cash but instead only picked up a handful of things. Blah. I would have thought with Brad Park signing autographs, the show would have lots of hockey, vintage or otherwise. Oh well, I did manage to pick up a few things.

Down to only four for this set. The picture they used for Helios is terrible; could they not find something a little less pixelated? Obviously Dionysus is the bee’s knees of this lot.

Three down, three to go. I’m starting to cool on this set. It’s not like I’m crazygonuts about Virgil, Billy Shakespeare, or John Bunyon. In my opinion the only killer card is the Dostoevsky.

These four complete my set. Wait, what? Yeah, COMPLETED SET ALERT! Also, I like Drake and his snack cakes.

I bought all of these from one dealer and in his binder, he had some of last years A&G minis and the National Heroes set intrigued me. I didn’t pull the trigger on any singles, but now I am wondering if I want to build it or not. These minis are so damn addicting.

Also from that dealer was this random card…

He actually had a stack of vintage non-sports cards and this was my favourite of the bunch. I had no idea who Chiang Kai-shek was, but after reading the blurb on the back, he sounds like a HARD dude. I mean, it takes a lot to be compared to Hitler and Mussonlini; just ask G.W. Bush *eyeroll* Anyways, I really dug the colour on this card and the artwork is pretty cool in that wartime, propaganda sort of way. This was the least bloody one of the bunch and I’m sort of regretting not getting some others. Oh well.

Now, onto some of the bigger purchases of the show. These all came from a dealer I have bought from before. He usually gives me a decent deal and today was no different.

1981-82 O-Pee-Chee #106 Wayne Gretzky

A third year OPC Gretzky in great shape for $40? You betcha!

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1995 Signature Rookies Miracle on Ice #25 Mark Pavelich

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1995 Signature Rookies Miracle on Ice #44 Craig Patrick

These two put me at four to complete my version of the set. Just need Silk, Broten, Suter, and Brooks.

The best thing I picked up was also the last thing I saw and it was this…

I have been wanting this for a while and a guy had one for $14 so I scooped it up. I will crack it open tomorrow and put it on my desk at work and then have high school students wonder who the hell it is.

So that was the show. One (barely) vintage card, some Miracle autos and a bunch of A&G minis. Oh, and I picked up some tobacco sized semi-rigids. Not exactly what I was hoping for or wanting in a show, but what can you do? Overall, I give it a…

The big Shriners show is in November and I’m just going to save up all my card money for that and go bananas foster all over it.

Today my family had a big yard sale and while going through years of stuff, I stumbled upon some old autographed sports things that I had forgotten about.

First were these…

The story on these is that my aunt used to work in Hartford as a social worker and some of the Whalers came in for a children’s event. She had them sign these paper pictures for me and that was that. I think these were signed somewhere between 1985 and 1987.

Steve Weeks was a journeyman backup goalie who lasted for 13 years in the NHL. Unfortunately, his talent never matched his awesome penmanship! He get’s an A+ in my book for wishing me well and spelling my name correctly, unlike…

Ulf Samuelsson! Ugh. If I had known then that he would go on to essentially ruin Cam Neely’s career, I would have torn this up when my aunt gave it to me. Add to the fact that he misspelled my name as Cacy and I dislike him even more. I suppose it was nice of him to sign this for me but he still deserved to get sucker punched by Tie Domi.

Next up is this little treat from a Mr. Kenny Mayne (click to enlarge):

I wrote to Kenny Mayne back in 1998 because I was bored and he was my favourite ESPN anchor. I asked him a few questions about EPSN’s lack of soccer highlights, if he played fantasy baseball, why Jeff Gordon seemingly won every NASCAR race, and what his favourite highlight to cover is. I also asked him for a signed photo. Exactly one week later, I got a giant ESPN envelope which included a short note and a signed phot. Kenny Mayne will forever be my favourite sports personality ever.

Lastly, I went to the card shop today and the owner had another stack of Allen & Ginter minis for me. Check it out…

Four closer to the set. And dude, Cronos looks like a HARD ASS guy! Heh, Uranus.

These sailors got them shifty eyes.

Fact: Dostoevsky is the coolest cat in the Wordsmiths set.

Tomorrow is the Brad Park card show and I’m taking my newly acquired yard sale money and hope to pick up more A&G minis, vintage hockey, and perhaps an autograph or two. Updates soon!