Remnants Of A Yard Sale Breakdown Part 2

Yesterday I posted my first round of my latest yard sale find and today I am posting the rest of it.

Up to this point and even today's post is focused on 90's inserts and rookies. So let's see more of it!

More Gold Medallions. These may be one of the sharpest parallels of at least 1995. Later on they made the Gold Medallions not so obvious.

Score inserts and more gold finds!

More inserts/parallels. The Philly Phanatic was just a cool card and the Topps Laser was just awesome.

Fleer Inserts. I did find a few double inserts in this box but some were new. I really like the Golden Memories Inserts and the Viola.

Team 2000. I feel like I have 2000 of these.

Some NBA inserts. The Kidd Stick Um I liked finding.

And to finish it out, some early 90's baseball cards including Lou Brock.

 

Overall, a very solid $5 find in my opinion. Like I said I didn't post them all as there were some other inserts and even 6 Rodney Hampton's. I am pretty sure they are all doubles, but they were in there at least.

I would be surprised if you guys didn't agree that I got my money's worth. But, I am going to ask anyways, do you think I got my money back?

Remnants Of A Yard Sale Breakdown Part 1

Yesterday, I posted a new round of yard sale boxes that my mother-in-law picked up and now here is what I was able to save. There were a lot of damaged cards with corners and rubber band marks, but there were also some really good saves. I think this yard sale find overall was my best of the year.

But, I will let you guys help be the judge of it.

So out of probably one or two thousand cards, this was all I was able to keep. The rest will be donated, some trashed and some given to kids at my yard sales.

 Once again there were way too many cards to take pictures of , so I only took the best of the best.

Up first, Collect A Books of LT and John Elway. I didn't have either so they were nice adds for this 90's guy.

Older SI For Kids cards, a Johnny Damon Minor League card and an Al Leiter rookie.

Some football inserts. I was always a fan of the MVP's out of Collectors Choice. Even got one of my favorite players in TD.

Star Quest and a couple more nice Collectors Choice inserts. The Star Quest came in many levels but I only found the basics here.

More football inserts. The Wilkinson had some weird numbering on the back.

Minted In Canton parallels. Sapp was a nice find.

I like GOOOOOOOOOOLLLD.

Gary Payton rookie was a nice find. The Gold Ultra Medallion hockey card was the only hockey card of the bunch.

Not sure what these Reggie Miller cards are. They were small and torn apart like out of a magazine. I am sure one of you will comment and let me know!

And to end today's part, our once Presidential Leader. Dig finding oddballs like this.

 

This is just part one of the finds and like I said, I didn't post all. I feel today's allotment above alone is worth the $5 to me. Maybe not to everyone. 

Part 2 is posting tomorrow and thoughts on today's part are welcomed in comments!

Yard Sale Find:Boxes Of Joy

Oh man, my mother-in-law has been on fire this summer when it comes to finding cheap cards on yard sales.

This find comes in 3 jammed-packed boxes for only $5!! Yes, $5!

I haven't even looked to see the contents, but you gotta at least know $5 has gotta be in there.

From a distance however, seems as if there are some damaged cards, some rubber-banded ones, but also some from every sport and a variety of years. It should make for a fun breakdown and hopefully I will discover something that was forgotten in here by a previous owner who was more than likely just trying to ditch em by that price.

Stay tuned as I will unravel what I find in here along with what was in that garbage bag of Yard Sale stuff of before.

For now, let me know in comments if you think I will discover anything or will this just be a dud?

$1 Yard Sale Boxes Breakdown Part 5

I showed off a garbage bag containing some cards a couple weeks ago and said I would break down what was in there, well, here we go.

I finally saved the best box for last, well, this one isn't really a box like the rest. It's a boxed set of 1989 Topps. There were some good and bad with this part.

 

The good, well, the gallery of rookies. They were all in there.

Biggio:

 

Smoltz. His face still cracks me up.

 

Johnson:

 

And I pulled this out as I believe it's the error card with the pink on the corner.

The bad, 2 cards from the set were missing. But, with the set only costing new around $5 I guess to lose out on a couple of cards is fine. I like that all of the rookies and error card was still in there and for my PC, that's what matters most. However, with my hobby OCD, I will still need to find a way to fill the set which I am sure I have those cards kicking around somewhere.

Overall, the best $1 box and there is no argument on that. I was a bit disappointed overall hoping to find a hidden gem within the whole lot with so much success in past yard sale finds. But, overall still worth the $5.

I will tell you guys this ahead of time, my mother-in-law did hit up another yard sale a week after with more finds that were much better than these. That first post and parts afterwards coming up soon so stay tuned.

Thoughts on Part 5 are welcomed below!

$1 Yard Sale Boxes Breakdown Part 4

I showed off a garbage bag containing some cards a couple weeks ago and said I would break down what was in there, well, here we go.

1 more post to go in this 5 part series for you will see what I found. Of course, I saved the best for last tomorrow.

Today, we still must continue on this time with a box of 1992 Fleer Ultra baseball

Inside the box, there were 4 big stacks of 1992 Fleer Ultra and to my surprise this time, some of the good players were actually in there. A good amount of them.

Here are some rookies. Well, not what I would call rookies but what the card companies call rookies. Yes, I am one of those collectors.

Moose! Not a real rookie or a true rookie as I call it, but still a nice find. The photos on these are really sharp and crystal clear. Something just like Stadium Club was known for.

Ripken Jr! Found 3.

And a bunch of other stars from Jeff Bagwell to Craig Biggio to John Smoltz to Greg Maddux

 

Overall, the best $1 box so far. But, I still saved the best for last so guess you will have to comeback tomorrow and see.

Thoughts on Part 4 are welcomed below!

$1 Yard Sale Boxes Breakdown Part 3

I showed off a garbage bag containing some cards a couple weeks ago and said I would break down what was in there, well, here we go.

2 more days you will to see what was found.

Today, we continue on this time off a box of 1991 Leaf baseball

 

Inside the box, there were 4 big stacks of 1991 Leaf and as I expected, some of the good players were pulled leaving behind a few stragglers that I will use for my PC.

 

Once again, no Jr. But, just like with the last box, a few more star stragglers were found.

 

And out of all of these, there is simply something about the Oz here that stands out. I think it's the red of the Cardinals uni and the photo being different than the rest.

 

 

Overall, a better box than the first just because more of the bigger names found. But, still not as good as I was hoping and still no diamonds in the rough.

Thoughts on Part 3 are welcomed below!

$1 Yard Sale Boxes Breakdown Part 2

I showed off a garbage bag containing some cards a couple weeks ago and said I would break down what was in there, well, here we go.

3 more days to go in this 5 part series for you will see what I found.

Today, we continue on with a box of 1993 Leaf baseball

Inside the box, there were 4 big stacks of 1993 Leaf and as I expected, some of the good players were pulled leaving behind a few stragglers that I will use for my PC.

The best of the vets come here. Sosa and Bagwell. Sadly again, no Griffey Jr. Not that I needed this one.

I used to just toss this kinda card to one side, but now I pause a second as it makes me think of a blogger...(which if you need this one, let me know)

And finally, Mr. Hall Of Fame Mike Piazza.

 

Overall, a better box than the first just because of the bigger names found. But, still not as good as I was hoping.

Thoughts on Part 2 are welcomed below!

$1 Yard Sale Boxes Breakdown Part 1

I showed off a garbage bag containing some cards a couple weeks ago and said I would break down what was in there, well, here we go.

Over the next 5 days you will see what was found.

Today, we kick it off with a box of 1991 Fleer Ultra baseball

 

Inside the box, there were 4 stacks of the infamous  Fleer Ultra and as I expected, the good players were pulled leaving behind a few stragglers that I will use for my PC.

Rookie cards here. The Garces is a odd photo lol.

 

It's Garces again! Also an actual Denny Neagle rookie card. How many of us remember he was a Twin? I know I didn't.

 

And the one vet, Ken Griffey. It's actually a new one for my pops end of my Griffey PC so it works.

 

 

Overall, $1 for the box. Tons of base, 4 rookie cards and a Griffey. Still worth it to me.

Thoughts on Part 1?

Yard Sale Finds:$1 A Box

This is no normal trash bag, this has the contents of yet another mother-in-law yard sale find.

 

I haven't had a chance to fully search the contents within, but I do know there are 5 boxes of baseball cards (mostly in the boxes the packs came in along with one set) and that she only paid $1 each which she was surprised by.

Like I have stated before on here, the hobby is not alive where I am and sometimes you can just find some good bargains.

 

Hopefully I will be able to dig into this soon and breakdown what I find in here with you guys.

So for now, have you ever found $1 per box bargain at a yard sale before?

2016 Yard Sale Find Part 4: Grand Finale!

A baby wipes container. Who would have thought of using that as a place to store baseball cards?? I will say that it's pretty durable and it can hold many cards, but corners however, don't survive that well. And I found that out the hard way.

Kicking this off, tons of 2007 Topps baseball. Most had some to significant corner damage. That's what storing them in this will do along with those black borders. I remember how excited I was when I pack pulled that Kei Igawa rookie, then it quickly went away. This time that excitement came back for a bit but left fast. Still a Yank's PC find however.

Tons of 1992 Stadium Club Draft Picks and Team USA cards. Nobody I knew besides Yanks awesome pick Brien Taylor (feel that sarcasm)

Sp rookie of Quilvio Veras. Always loved these rookie cards and surprisingly this one survived the corner massacre.

Nice gold parallel finds especially in Ichiro. Just wished it didn't have a couple of very small corner issues.

Even more baseball inserts from a variety of years. Some in good shape, others not. But players include, Bonds, A-Rod, David Ortiz (what a year he is having) and Ryne Sandberg.

Mickey Mantle Homerun inserts. These were luckily in great shape.

KGJR! I believe this is a new one as well. And it's shiny, bonus!

Derek Jeter SI For Kids card. Not bad at all.

And finally, to my biggest surprise, a jersey card. I think the jersey card itself was surprising to. It's player worn. Not something you hear of that's not a rookie card.

 

Overall, I would say $20 well spent. Pretty solid list of players, some sets, inserts and even a jersey card.

Now that you guys have seen it all, $20 well spent? Would you have rather spent it elsewhere? Best find of my cards?