Saturday, April 27, 2013

Dime Box Adventure - Part 1 of 3

I recently landed 150+ cheapy new Reds cards. The ticker in the sidebar has been working pretty hard this month. Landed a bunch of 80's and 90's goofiness like Fleer Glossy, Upper Deck Electric Diamond, and Collector's Choice Silver Signature to fill the ol' binders. I've chosen the highlights and will show them off over the next three days. Leading off, just to give you an idea of the variety we're dealing with today and the future problems with proper storage I'm about to face...


Nice. Shown here are 1985 Donruss Action All Stars, 1987 Boardwalk and Baseball Dave Parker (the only card here that is standard size), 1984 Topps Rub Downs Gary Redus/George Foster/Gary Gaetti, Bobby Gric, 1983 Kellogg's Dave Concepcion, 1981 Topps Scratch Offs Tom Seaver, 1991 Topps Cracker Jack Jose Rijo, 1992 Topps Micro Barry Larkin. Time to invest in special pages I suppose. Worth it. Next up...

1984 Topps Glossy All Star Mario Soto, I didn't care for these as a kid, but I like them now for some reason. Soto is looking very regal on this card. In my huge new pile, I keep getting drawn to this one. Just looks good. Soto was lights out for a time back in the day. I wish I was alive to see it. Next up...

1982 Squirt Dave Concepcion. Un-perforated! Love oddball stuff like this. Card design is pretty weak, but I suppose it fits the theme of the pop cans. Speaking of weak card designs...

1980's Fleer insert sets. Yeesh. Fleer had the lamest desgins in this decade. Each individual card is deliciously hideous. Yet, somehow, when thrown into a collage like this, I'm kind of liking em. Cheap card stock. Childish, simple designs. Screaming 1980's. Fan. Tastic. Pictured, in order, are 1987 Fleer Baseball All Stars John Franco, 1989 Fleer Heroes of Baseball Danny Jackson,1989 Fleer Exciting Stars Chris Sabo, 1987 Fleer Record Setters Bill Gullickson, 1986 Fleer Limited Edition Dave Parker, 1987 Fleer Sluggers/Pitchers John Franco, 1988 Fleer Superstars Eric Davis, 1989 Fleer Baseball MVPs Eric Davis, and 1988 Fleer Hottest Stars Eric Davis. More, more, more...

1988 Donruss Baseball's Best Bo Diaz and 1990 Donruss Baseball's Best Jack Armstrong. I just always find it weird to see issues like this in the 'wrong' color. I had a flobbityjillion '88 and '90 Donruss regular issue. They're supposed to be dark blue and red, respectively. This just ain't right. Next...

Wax box cards! All the brands that put pictures of cards on their wax pack boxes not only had the excellent idea to print stats on the inside of the box, creating a de facto bonus card, but some even went so far as to use a different photo than the base card issue, like the Sabo above. A most excellent turn of events for weirdos like me. Pictured are 1989 Fleer Wax Box Cards Chris Sabo and 1988 Fleer Stickers Wax Box Cards Mark McGwire/Eric Davis. Sweet. And finally...

Underpants cards. That's right. 1993 Fleer Fruit of the Loom Jose Rijo and Rob Dibble. Not even our britches were safe from the card boom of 80's and 90's. Part 2 coming tomorrow. Go Reds.







2 comments:

  1. Nice dime box finds! Love the '81 Scratch-Offs Seaver and the Squirt Concepcion.

    And, you're right, those mid-80s Fleer inserts are kind of awful, but they grow on you after a while. I recently found a bunch of them in a dime box and found myself liking them more and more with each passing stack.

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    1. Yeah, i liken '80s Fleer to listening to terrible pop songs from when you were a kid. You still find them annoying, yet you know all the lyrics and you're humming along.

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