Card Show Report 2010 07 24 - Concorde Mall, Wilmington DE

The Concorde Mall has skylights throughout which I am sure are wonderful for letting in the tons o light most of the year. Unfortunately the AC in the mall cannot compete with the 100 degree heat and the sun just keeps baking down on you while your trying to sort through dime bins.

But that is my only complaint about the show - A couple of vendors I enjoy seeing were not there, and the $1 Vintage guy wasn't there so there were some disappointments. Still I manage to spend $53 mostly at dime boxes. Here are some examples of things that were selling.


There was a guy that had a bunch of the cards that were thrown out by someone, probably me - during my various moves during the crazy years during and surrounding college. He had plenty of 1976-79 Topps cards for a nickle a piece. I splurged for about 160 of these including the 76 Tony Perez above. I think I only found 3 HOFs including this Perez and his 1977 card (Expos) as well as a Goose Gossage card.

The other 3 cards came out of a dime bin. Congrats to Andre Dawson on his Hall of Fame induction. This card is a BBC magazine cutout. It actually looks really good. The Blanton card goes into the 2008 WSC Phils in other unis box. It is interesting that this is an early card of Blanton and he is in a position you frequently see him in for many cards and pictures. The Miguel Cabrera is the short printed no sig variation - nice find for a dime.


This is partially the Trade Deadline Group. Both the A&G cards were in dime boxes. The Oswalt card is a short print (#333). I would like to see the Phils land either pitcher, but if they don't start hitting, I am not sure either pitcher would make a difference. There were plenty fo the A&G This Day in History cards in the dime bin. At 1/pack this is no surprise. I picked up about a half dozen of the SPs which I was happy to find in the dime bin.

The Zorro/Zoilo Versalles card is a Rookie Card of an MVP player (1965) - nice find for .50 cents. I doubt that you will find an older rookie card of a future MVP any cheaper than that. Finally the Chrome Sandberg card. For most Hall of Famers if you find a Chrome Card from their playing days for a dime, there is no reason to not have the card in your personal collection.

Phungo Game Report - 2009 08 20 - Diamondbacks 1 @ Phillies 8

At the outset the D-Backs Phils matchup which featured Aces Dan Haren and Cliff Lee appeared to be a premier pitchers duel. In the end only one of the Pitchers lived up to the billing. Cliff Lee threw a 2 hit complete game allowing a single unearned run as the Phils cruised to a 8-1 victory. Haren gave up 6 runs over 5 innings. 6 of the 7 runs came on a trio of homers by Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Jayson Werth. Werth added a second homer in the 7th inning. Jayson Werth is running away with the 2009 Phungo HR chase as he has homered 6 times in Phungo games so far this season.

It was a hot humid and muggy night in South Philadelphia, but a dominating win from the Phils new Ace plus a bunch of dingers from the Phils biggest sluggers made for a great evening. Here are some pictures and comments from the evening.

Over at Phillies Room, Jim was mentioning that there was not yet a starting lineup card for Pedro Martinez. Well this one is for you Jim, the Phils did have a Cliff Lee Starting Line Up card:

They also had one for mid-season acquisition backup catcher Paul Bako.

Cliff Lee demonstrating his dominant form on the mound:

Dan Haren tossing for the bad guys:

Good Guy Awards go out to several Arizona Diamondbacks including this Guy:

Yes the Bench Coach for the D-Backs is Kirk Gibson who signed about a eight to ten autos - at the top of the frame you can see a pen that Gibson is tossing back to a fan. Other D-Back GGAs go out to Max Scherzer, Daniel Schlereth, Doug Davis and Stephen Drew (just 2) who all were spotted signing autographs on Wednesday night. I didn't see any Phils signing last night and they have been far less visible pregame this season.

In a time honored baseball tradition the bullpens newest member is honored by his D-Back brethren:

Yes that is former NFL player and current ESPN talkie Mark Schlereth's son, Daniel, sporting the pink backpack.