Street trading in a hurry

Neither Al nor I had a lot of time to meet this week, but he wanted to make time to do so as he needed all the Joe Torre cards I could give him. Torre's charity is right by where he sets up, and I guess he's been in town lately, so people want cards for him to sign. 

I gave Al the cards and he gave me one of his 800-count boxes to look through. He told me to just take the box and bring back what I didn't want, but I was able to quickly go through most of it. 3/4 of the box was 1984 Topps, but I could see some white-backed cards mixed in - more '84 Traded! There was also a large run of 1990 Topps I could quickly discount. So I grabbed just the mixed group in the back of the box, knowing there wasn't much I would need, though Al did say there were some gold cards in there.

Here's the cards I could rule out right away. Junk wax sets I've already completed, and I have all of the 1990s Topps base cards and all of the Collectors Choice base cards. These will all go back to Al next week, unless any of you readers claim any of these cards! The sets may not be the most exciting but it is all stars and HOFers. The mixture here gives you a good sense of what the majority of cards in most of his boxes are like.

Most of the '84 Traded were cards I had already also, partially from a TCDB trade I'll show in the next roundup. Let me know if you need any of these. I'll probably hang on to them as trade bait if there are no claims.

There were cards that I did need! I needed four of the five '92 Topps Gold, a random Fleer Tradition card, and best of all two of the '84 Topps Traded. That Saberhagen was a big deal in the 80s, though it's little more than a common now.