Thrift shop fun

I went to the thrift shop yesterday and bought some cards. Nothing else this time, no bottle caps, newspapers, etc. But there were lots of baseball cards that were not there this time, looks like they bought a collection. I filled an 800-count box for $10 and was happy.

You might call the thrift shop a "fleer market" because most of the non-junk wax cards were Fleer from the late 80s and early 90s. I can really bulk up my sets with these, mostly 2001 and 2004 commons and minor stars. There was a fair amount of duplication in the 2002 set, but I learned from collating that there was a "gold back" parallel, and I don't differentiate back parallels so those will be useful trade fodder. Anyone need those for team collections, PCs, etc?

I had to make some choices about what to keep and what to leave behind - I left behind a lot of 1999 Stadium Club and 2003-2005 UD. I couldn't resist sets from my collecting era where I still need lots of cards. Still needed about half of the '87 OPC, and almost all of the '91 Bowman. The Galasso set is a 1983 50th anniversary of the first All Star Game. The Black Diamond is just a nice shiny set, even if it's more of a ruby than black or diamond.

Minor league cards! I already have the famous Comstock card (trade bait!) but I needed almost all of the rest.

Some miscellaneous cards. I love finding shiny Score inserts and parallels from the mid-1990s, I thnk they are highly underrated.