Mall Card Show

Northeast Ohio usually has a Mall Card Show somewhere, at least a few times a month. Generally, it's run by one of three people, and everyone who is a "dealer" there also works the other shows. Basically, it's an exhausting circuit for both buyer and seller due to lack of change in product. And I bet for the sellers, it must get real annoying when nobody wants to buy stuff. Either way, I go to all of these expecting to see different things....(I should learn by now that I won't). 


By far my favorite thing about Southpark Mall's shows is the dude who trots out over 100 McFarlane figures. Whenever I see his stand I say to myself, "shit, i really need to buy all of these and put them on my walls. Immediate thought after is when I have to explain to someone why I have plastic figures of dudes all over my wall....I'd like to try and steer clear of that situation, as much as possible. Unless a Drazen figure is ever made, then it's game over. Best figures ever made are the NHL Goalie figures, so good. 


Most of the tables have a mixture of current and vintage product, along with the game used and autographed cards for sale at Beckett prices. No thanks. Give me the single cards for $0.10 all day....which is exactly what I had spent my money on today....for a total of $1.00. 


My purchase was 12 of the greatest (if not greatest, top 5) basketball sets ever made. 1990 Hoops. I've been trying to complete this set for about three weeks now, ever since I bought 3/4 of the set a few weeks back for $1. I had no sympathy to the card shop owner at the bazaar who tossed away a National treasure for $1. I came out of there feeling like Pat Riley when he signed Lebron and D. Wade (Bosh is worthless). 


Picture time:

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siah! Great player, completely inept front office worker. How he can still get a job with the Knicks is beyond me. More power to ya dogg.

 

Did not know his middle name is Lord. Pretty legit if you ask me.

 

Dude was a baller in my video game world in the early 90's. Enough said.

 

KJ was really fast in NBA Jam for Super Nintendo. Other than that, I got nothing.

 

Larry the Legend. Never forget when the Celts played the Yugoslav team in the 80's and Drazen and Vlade tore them up. I pulled a solid base card of him a few years back where he looks like a total hick. Made me like Bird even more.

Patrick Chewing. Greatest Snickers commercial ever. Would love to have a Knicks 33 jersey someday.

Hot Rookie card comin' thru!

Basketball God. Greatest player to ever play (in Europe, sorry Sabonis). Any time I find a Drazen card, it's going to be purchased, end of story. I will visit Zagreb within the next 2 years to see his Museum.

Problems arise when you think you need cards for the set but don't have your checklist. Said problem is usually called "doubles". In this case, these are doubles. Whoops!

Karl and Clyde also happen to fall under the "doubles" category. Still great cards though!

Four More

I purchased these awhile back but never got around to showing them off. Adding these to the collection puts me at a total of 10 autographs from the 93 card set. For those keeping track (lol nobody) that's 10.75% of the autograph checklist done.


Cool Photo. Shitty signature. In total fairness, I couldn't careless, he's just another dude I need for my set. Also, a short print (/600).


El Presidente. When I first saw this card I had to have it. I love and miss Montreal, and Dennis was a former Indian.


I grew up loving this dude. Cubs games in the early years of my life were a staple and this guy played a prominent part. I also had never heard of a guy named Andre before and thought it was the coolest name.


Cleveland Legend/God. Sad he passed away last December. I had the pleasure of meeting him several times. He could talk for hours and all I could do was listen. A lot of people said he was a grumpy old man, and I'm sure they were right. But for all the shit he had seen in his life (not to mention fighting in WWII), he had every right to be short with some people. I'm really sad I never got to ask him about his barnstorming days, eventually I'll get my chance.

Pretty Paper

I don't know when this card was made. I'm assuming the 60's. Doesn't really matter much. How was Robin able to get away with fighting crime in the most homo-erotic outfit ever? I'm certain this is why kids grew up liking Batman and forgetting who the Boyhood Wonder was. Card would be good for some shaved leg commercial though.


One of my favorite movies. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any JP cards with Jeff Goldblum on it. I really hope such a card exists.

Can't tell if who the caption of the card is talking about, dinosaur or Ellie.

Help the Aged

Help the aged,
One time they were just like you,
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue. Help the aged,



Don't just put them in a home,
Can't have much fun in there all on their own.



Give a hand, if you can,
try and help them to unwind.
Give them hope & give them comfort 'cos they're running out of time.



In the meantime we try.
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever. No big deal so give us all a feel.
Funny how it all falls away.
When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby. Teach you stuff
although he's looking rough.
Funny how it all falls away.



Help the aged
'cos one day you'll be older too
- you might need someone who can
pull you through
& if you look very hard
behind the lines upon their face you may see where you are headed
and it's such a lonely place.

Diiiinnnnaaamoooo

Lately, going thrifting has been a horrible decision. Nothing really worthwhile to purchase (lol surprise surprise!). Absolutely zero retro basketball jerseys, unless you want a Shareef Abdur-Raheem Hawks shirt, which was found twice in two days. I suppose the lack of jerseys is due to hipsters/hoopsters who are finding them and getting paid off ebay. Granted, it's not like I'm [i]not[/i] trying to do that either.

What I did find was a real sick jersey of Croatian soccer club Dinamo Zagreb. Now known as GNK Dinamo Zagreb (nod to their rich history within the Balkans), this club is currently in Champions League qualifying rounds and are up against Swedish club Malmo FF.

BBB forever, Mamic out.



In other Cro soccer news, Hadjuk is out out of the Europa League. Stoke and their anti-footy bullshit sucks.

Oh andddd uhhh Happy Croatian Victory Day today to all Hrvats everywhere. :) :) :)

Happy Birthday Hajduk

100 years old this year. Earlier this year torcida around Split celebrated by showering the coastal city with red flares. Watch the video below.




da života iman dva ja bi oba tebi da :)

10 years ago....

It was 2001. Holy shit, it really was 2001. I'm 14, most likely watching Baseball tonight in my room with no air conditioning. Aside from the tv, the only light comes from a desk lamp situated on my massive desk. this light also doubles as flood lights for a baseball game. My room is dark and very humid, which to me always added to the darkness of the room.

I honestly didn't care to ever turn on a light. I was too busy playing MLB Showdown with the 2001 Base Set. A 462 card set broken down into 400 commons and 62 foils. And yeah, I completed sets. And this month 10 years ago marks the release of 2001 Pennant Run.

Pennant Run was a set composed of 175 player cards and 25 Strategy cards. I'm gonna turn back the clock with the rest of this month and breakdown this set.

Even if you didn't play Showdown, there's some really fantastic names that make you go "did this guy really play pro baseball?"

Hope you enjoi