Thrift Shop Junk Wax - Part Two

Next up we'll go through the shoe box of junk wax that was part of the haul my daughter got for a buck at her thrift shop.

A big chunk of the cards were in heavy duty, single-card sleeves which, like the album sheets, were sticky and deteriorating. So much so that they were bricking together.

It took some pinching and prying to get the cards out of them.

After freeing them and sorting, here is the overhead of what was in the box:

The majority was 1990 and 1991 Pro Set football, 1990 Fleer baseball, 1990 Topps and 1993 Topps. There were a lot of Rangers as well which is to be expected from the local previous owner.

Here are some of the more interesting things I found:

Autographed local legend Steve Buechele card.

  

Cool 1993 Kelloggs Star Picks College Greats Postercard.

1991 Impel G.I. Joe Gold Border Hall Of Fame.

1990 Kenner Starting Lineup.

1992 Capri Sun Nicktoons decal cards.

A couple HOF rookies.

A nice stack of the Super Bowl insert cards. I've always liked these, collected them at one time, gave some away, but now again I'm thinking, "Hmmmm should I?".

And a bunch of Nolan Ryan cards including this sampling I picked out (oops Ted Williams snuck in there).

The majority of the cards in the box had been handled quite a bit and were not in the best of shape.

Still fun.

Next up are the loose 9-pocket pages.

Thrift Shop Junk Wax - Part One

My daughter recently texted me from work (she works at a small thrift shop) asking if I wanted some baseball cards. She sent these pictures:

There was a binder and shoebox full. I could tell right away that they were probably all going to be junk wax, so I said "Yes, I'll take them if less than ten dollars".  She said she'd check.

A bit later she got back with me, they sold them to her for a buck!

When she was getting ready to come home for the day someone had found another stack of about 50 loose pages full of cards, so they just gave them to her.

There might not be much there but it sure will be fun going through them.

Today we'll start with the binder.

Typical kids binder of the 90's covered in 1991 Upper Deck stickers.

One strange section of the binder had a half-dozen or so pages with 1992 Upper Deck cards in backwards.

I guess he liked the backs better than the fronts.

I think maybe this binder had been stored in a hot attic or garage for a while because

the 9-pocket pages were starting to break down and were very sticky and grimy, with some sticking together. Also, some of the pockets had 3+ cards crammed in so I decided I would tear this binder down and get rid of it and the pages.

After tearing down a dozen or so pages I'd have to go wash my hands before doing any more.

The sheets were pretty nasty.

The cards were fine, some a bit worn, but in decent shape over all.

Here's an overhead of the binder contents:

As expected, the majority was 1990 Topps, 1990 Fleer, and 1991/1992 Upper Deck.

Another thing I noted was that many pages had empty slots so I have to assume someone already pulled out what they thought were maybe the more "valuable", or maybe sentimental, cards.

Some of the more notable cards found:

A couple of gently worn Griffey rookie cups.

Some early 90's inserts and some PC guys.

The Greenwell is a Hockey Sticks Hologram Variation (Yes, I checked all the holograms!)

Some Company Store white backs which I collect.

The Kelloggs Spahn is pretty sticky too so I put it in a penny sleeve.

Probably what I was most excited to find was this Nolan Ryan ticket stub from April 8, 1991.

Ryan went 7 innings with 9 strikeouts but gave up 5 runs and lost 5-4.

He gave up a home run to Robin Yount in the 5th.

And I think I found the original owner of the binder, a local kid.

His personal info is on the back so I won't share that, but the card on the left is him in 1991 and the right 1994.

Next up will be the shoe box contents.

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Joe Rudi Again

 

Joe Rudi rounding third after a solo shot in the 7th breaking a 2-2 tie and giving the A's the eventual win in Game 5. Ron Cey is not happy about it.

Nice to add another Rudi to the PC.

And the rest of the cards in a TCDB trade with yankeefan714:

The Fleer sticker is a blank back variation.

TCDB trade with scordova:

I forget Eddie Murray was an Angel.

Jim Nance of the Patriots is surrounded by Colts on that 1972 Topps card. Interesting that the Pats logo is either not on the helmet or washed out in the photograph.

Along with the regular Topp All Star series cards, I'm also collecting the 1983 and 1984 Glossy Send-In sets. These 11 are from 1984 and I still need over half of the 40-card set (2, 6, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40).

The Ryan is from the 1986 set and is for his PC.

Giveaway Win from Nine Pockets

I won a duck race contest (excellent choice by the way), and I chose this custom Beastie Boys cards as my prize. I love it!

Man, your cards are so well done.

I'm honored to have one.

TCDB trade with wvcabo:

A nice scattering of collecting interests there.

1987 Sportfics Special Offer Cards

I recently finished acquiring the seven Special Offer insert cards found in packs of 1987 Sportflics.

I don't know if these were found one-per-pack or were more random than that.

The first four Exclusive Collector Offer cards offered 16 different Magic Motion Cooperstown cards and Superstar Player Discs that you could send away for. The offers came in four series. You could select one card/disk combo for $4.99 ($14.72 today) or the full series (4 cards and 4 discs) for $19.96. Wow, seems a bit pricey to me. I can't imagine many of these were sent away for.

Ryne Sandberg and the Cubs representing the first offer card.

A good pick to represent based on the Series 1 players, although Schmidt would have been good too.

So if you wanted all of Series 1 (four cards and four discs) it would have cost you $58.88 today.

That's insane. Is my math right, does that make sense?

Dale Murphy and Braves is next up for the Series 2 cards.

A good pick as far as I'm concerned as I have a Murphy PC.

This series however is pretty stacked with Fernando, Tony Gwynn and Ripken as well.

Goerge Brett is a solid pick for Series 3.

Kirby Puckett would have been a good second choice though.

Keith Hernandez is a bit of a surprising choice to me for Series 4.

Rickey Henderson would have been a good choice, or the young phenom Bo Jackson.

Thankfully there were no Angels offered so I never felt compelled to chase these.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure that I never opened any Sportflics back in the day. They were either too pricey or I was not interested in them.

Next up is an offer card for Team Logo Pins

I'm assuming these were small, maybe the size of a quarter, and made of metal.

The Angels logo is shown so I'll need to track another of these cards down for my team sets.

Each pin was $3.50 ($10.33 today) and again, seems a bit pricey.

You now also need to include a Sportflics wrapper when you mail in your check.

Next up is an offer for a sports card album.

It was popular in the 80's to offer up extra merch, hence the similar Topps Company Store cards.

The nice album came with 12 pages and 9 random(?) Sportflics cards for $10.00.

This might have been a better deal back then, especially with the nine cards included. I think there were five cards per pack, and packs were probably around a couple bucks each.

The last of the offer cards was for a Team Player Card.

For $2.50 you could get a 5 or 6-card mini set, or the full set of 26 cards for $10.

But wait, there's more.

Each mini set also comes with three Team Trivia cards!

Seems like the best deal yet.

Except now you also need to include five wrappers if you want the whole set.

All-in-all, I'm happy to have completed this 1987 Sportflics Special Offer cards set.