APRIL 2024 CARD SHOW PART 2: BRENDA'S LAST DIME BOX

IF YOU'VE SEEN ANY POSTS ABOUT ME DIGGING THROUGH DIME BOXES AT A CARD SHOW ON HERE, IT WAS MOST LIKELY ABOUT BRENDA'S AMAZING DIME BOXES. I'D BOUGHT A TON OUT OF THOSE DIME, QUARTER, DOLLAR AND SOMETIMES EVEN NICKEL BOXES. SOMETIMES I EVEN BOUGHT THE WHOLE BOX! RECENTLY THERE WEREN'T NEARLY AS MANY CARDS ON THE TABLE AND AS I DOVE INTO A DIME BOX FILLED WITH A NICE MIX OF 80S TOPPS AND NEWER STUFF IOVERHEARD THAT THIS WOULD BE HER LAST TIME AT THE SHOW. I HAD KNOWN THIS DAY WAS COMING FOR A WHILE. BEFORE THE LOCKDOWN THE WHOLE BACK WALL OF THE MONTHLY SHOW WERE PACKED WITH A COUPLE DOZEN BOXES FILLED WITH CARDS. RECENTLY THOUGH IT WAS FIVE OR SIX BOXES, THEN TWO OR THREE AND FINALLY JUST THE ONE. I GUESS SHE JUST RAN OUT OF CARDS. HERE'S MY LAST PILE FROM THE DIME BOX, SPREAD OUT OVER FIVE POSTS BECAUSE I'M NOT POSTING SIXTY CARDS ALL AT ONCE

I'M POSTING THESE MORE OR LESS IN THE ORDER I PULLED THEM OUT OF THE BOX SO YOU CAN SEE HOW DERANGED I GET WHEN I MITTS ARE IN A GOOD BOX. MY FIRST CARD WAS A GOOD ONE, A 2020 FINEST CARD OF WHIT MERRIFIELD. I AM MILDLY OBSESSED WITH FINEST AT THE MOMENT. NOT OBSESSED ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY SORT OUT THE ONES I HAVE, ONLY OBSESSED ENOUGH TO BUY MORE. I HAVE ZERO FINEST FROM 2020 AND LIKE THE SWOOPY DESIGN. HOW MUCH WAS A BOX OF THIS STUFF GOING FOR BACK IN THE BOX HYPE DAYS?

THERE WAS A BUNCH OF ALLEN & GINTER IN THE BOX AND IF I WASN'T TRYING TO STRETCH OUT A TWENTY FOR THE WHOLE SHOW I MIGHT HAVE PICKED IT ALL UP. BUT I WAS BROKE AS HELL SO AFTER PICKING OUT A COUPLE CARDS I GOT INTIMIDATED BY THE PILE AND GAVE UP ON GINTER. THIS 2021 GIOLITO ENDED IT UP IN MY PILE AS IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CARDS I SAW OUT OF THE BOX AND I NEVER BOTHERED TO PUT IT BACK. LIKE WITH 2020 CARDS, I HAVE HARDLY ANY 2021 CARDS SO I PROBABLY NEEDED LUCAS ANYWAY

I THINK 2018 WAS THE LAST TIME I RIPPED A PACK OF GINTER?? I DON'T REMEMBER OPENING ANY FROM 2019 AT LEAST. I GAVE UP ON BUYING ALL THE GINTERS OUT OF THE DIME BOX BUT I HAD TO GET SOME BRAVES LEGENDS. DUVALL WON THE GAME LAST NIGHT WITH A CLUTCH CATCH IN LEFT

DAMN SALE IS PITCHING WELL THIS YEAR. I'M AFRAID TO SAY ANYTHING AND JINX IT. MAYBE CHARLIE MORTON PASSED ON THE OLD GUY ACE BATON TO CHRIS THIS YEAR. I HAVE NO IDEA IF I NEEDED THESE CARDS AT ALL BECAUSE I DIDN'T BOTHER TO CHECK ANY WANTLISTS FOR THESE

THE LAST GINTER CARD IS A SHORT PRINT. NOT A GREAT SHORT PRINT BUT I DON'T PASS UP SHORT PRINTS IN THE DIME BOX

ANOTHER 2021 CARD I HAVEN'T SEEN MUCH OF PREVIOUSLY. I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK OF THIS QYPSY GUEEN DESIGN, LIKE, WHAT WERE THEY GOING FOR HERE? OF COURSE THIS COULD BE SAID ABOUT JUST ABOUT THE ENTIRE PRODUCT. TREA TURNER IS ONE OF THOSE STEALTH STAR PLAYERS LIKE JOSE RAMIREZ I LIKE TO SNAP UP WHEN I SEE THEM. DON'T SLEEP ON TREA JUST BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS BEEN THE SECOND BEST PLAYER ON ALL HIS TEAMS 

YAY, ANOTHER CARD FOR THE TEAM SET BINDER. EXCEPT THIS ONE IS ALREADY IN THERE BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, I MOSTLY IGNORED THE WANTLISTS. YAY, ANOTHER CARD FOR THE SET BOX

CHROMEY ALTUVE, HELL YEAH.  I'M GLAD PEOPLE ARE STILL MAD ABOUT PHANTOM BUZZERS SO I CAN GET HIS CARDS FOR PENNIES

J-HEY IN THE DIME BOX! I AM PRETTY SURE I HAVE THIS CARD ALREADY BUT I AM POSITIVE I DO NOT HAVE A COPY WITH STRANGE TABS ON THE CORNERS LIKE IT WAS PULLED APART FROM A PERFORATED SHEET. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS HAPPENED BUT IT LOOKS COOL

FINISHING UP THIS POST WITH ANOTHER BRAVE IN THE WRONG UNIFORM. IGLASIAS HAS BEEN A PRETTY GOOD CLOSER FOR THE BRAVES SO FAR AND SINCE I ALREADY HAD 1977 TOPPS ON THE BRAIN FOR THE CARD SHOW I SNAPPED UP THIS ARCHIVES CARD OF HIM ON THE REDS. UNFORTUNATELY I WAS SO DAZZLED BY THE DESIGN THAT I DID NOT NOTICE THE GIANT CREASE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CARD. OOPS! YOU'LL SEE A LOT MORE OOPSES IN THE NEXT COUPLE POSTS, I WAS REALLY DISTRACTED THIS CARD SHOW