Dirty Box! My Last Goodwill Post

I think that I have finally exhausted by local Goodwill’s supply of cool baseball cards. My last visit there turned up nothing but junk-era basketball and a bunch of stuff I’ve already passed over a few times. But there is one last big batch I picked up that I thought I’d share.

But first! A few other items I forgot to mention earlier.

A box of unused Treat brand 9-pockets. 100 for just $3!!! This was a hell of steal for an old page-hound like myself.

And this box, half 1993 Triple Play (with the Gallery of Stars set) and half 1993 Topps Gold. If anyone is working on that Gold set, lemme know.

It was one of those mail-carrying boxes, about half full of stuff. It was a wide mix: baseball, football, and basketball. I’d had such a hot streak at Goodwill I thought it was worth a chance at $8. Unfortunately, it was mostly a bust.

First off, the cards were kind of dirty. It’s hard to explain, but they had a film on them that was heavier than dust. And they were tossed in the box with such abandon, that most were warped or damaged. I ended up pitching about a hundred of them right into the trash. 

 

Here is a stack of Topps base cards that I needed for my various sets. You can see they all sit a bit crooked in the stack.

Here was the “hit” of the box, in the Fairfield sense. I think I already sent this one along to the Million Cubs Card project, but I’m not sure.

One commonality of everything I found at this Goodwill was that the sets had all been stripped of Derek Jeter cards. So it was a bit of a surprise to find this one, which is one of those throw-back stock cards that was a retail exclusives if I recall correctly. Anyway, it has a pretty huge dent in the lower left corner. 

 

Thumbs up to this Deion Sanders, the coolest card of the bunch. Here he is, about to chopper from a Braves game to a Falcons game.

I dig this one. Looks like Bags is about to tackle himself. IN 3D!

This is the variation of this card found in later-issue packs that actually lists the date of Rickey’s record-breaking steal. Part of that brief period in 1991 where cards with players in tuxedos were hot snot.

A weirdo minor league card! I’d never say no to one of these. Looks like the dude has only one arm. Tom Ealy never made it past AA, although he debuted in pro ball at just 17 years old.

T-PLUSH!!! One of my all-time favorites for his electrifying 2011 season in Milwaukee and his constant annoyance of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Hey! Some old-timers, part of the Topps “card history” or whatever insert set from a while back. A cheap pair of HOFers is always fun.

And… that’s about it. There were maybe 1,500 cards in the box, about half of which were basketball and football. Maybe I’ll show those here someday… but probably not.