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Thrift Treasures 51: Bag of 800 cards for $4.99
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Thrift Treasures 52: Tuesday’s Gone …
“I don’t know … where I’m goin’ … I just want to be … left alone …” Words to live by … especially when you’re thrifting. After work on Tuesday I made a quick run to a thrift store just to see if they...
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Thrift Treasure 53 (Part 1): Hauls from The National (Day 1)
Here is the first installment of Thrift Treasures from The National. My bargain finds story should be on Beckett.com at some point in the next day or two. In the meantime, enjoy this video. To see...
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Thrift Treasures 53 (Part 2): Hauls from The National (Day 2)
This is the second part of the Thrift Treasures series from The National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore. In the video I make reference to this article I wrote for Beckett.com. Read that...
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Thrift Treasures 53 (Part 3): Hauls from The National (Day 3)
This is the final segment of Thrift Treasures 53. I make reference to there being a video for a 1986 Donruss box break but I’ll save everyone the time … it was bad, really, really bad. Enjoy:
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Thrift Treasures 54: Is that `Mr. Hockey’ Gordie Howe’s signature?!
For the first time in nearly half a year, I was able to get to the monthly community college flea market with my family. And, the wait was well worth it. This particular flea market is really hit and...
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Thrift Treasures 55: 120+ year-old card at antique store
Earlier this week, my wife and I made a trip to a local town to hit the antique and thrift stores. We spent six hours bouncing in and out of stores. She did a lot of spending; I did a lot of looking...
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Not exactly a Thrift Treasures post
On Wednesday I hit a few thrift stores before work in hopes of bringing in the new year with some treasures. That wasn’t exactly the case. The stores had cards and sports items, but none of them...
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Thrift Treasures 56: Micro cards and jumbo packs
While much of the east coast was blanketed in snow on Saturday, the sun was shining here on the West Coast, which of course meant there had to be some sort of garage sale of flea market somewhere. My...
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Thrift Treasures 57: A 99-year-old Mini Giants Blanket and 52 Topps card
April 6 marked the first Saturday of the month, which of course meant that one of the local community colleges was having its monthly flea market. I made the jaunt, despite the occasional sprinkle,...
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Thrift Treasures 58: Romanowski signed book, SPs, and Money Ball
It’s been three months since I’ve posted a Thrift Treasures entry. That’s not to say it’s been three months since I’ve found post-worthy items. I’ve probably got a dozen entries I need to write. But...
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Thrift Treasures 59: Game-used bat at flea market; used on two baseball cards?
Imagine, walking through a flea market held at an abandoned drive-in theater. There are loads of tools to the left, tons of kids clothing to the right. Behind you are some sketchy electronics that...
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Thrift Treasures 60: Holy Cow! Harry Caray signed book found … Returned to owner
I’m going to admit this up front, I’ve had this Harry Caray autograph for about three months. But for some reason, I never got around to actually writing about it here. Now I know why. I found this...
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Thrift Treasures 62: Oh Baby Hughie Jennings
A short, quick Thrift Treasures for you all today. On Presidents Day my wife and I decided to take a “Date Day” and head to a beach-front city about 40 miles from our home. The kids got to stay with...
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Thrift Treasures 63: Topps Sticker Packs!!!
One of the first sections I hit in most thrift stores is the toy section. Why? Because many times I find little baggies containing baseball cards … or in this case stickers. Unopened packs of stickers...
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Thrift Treasures 64: The Premiere Editions
So here’s a short Thrift Treasures post that’s been sitting in my queue for a while. About two months ago while hunting treasures in the California’s south bay cities of Campbell and San Jose, I went...
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Thrift Treasures 65: Ripken Jr. signed book for 99 cents
Still playing catchup on some TT posts, we’ll go with this one real quick. A month or so ago I was digging through the book section at one of the local thrift stores and found a paperback book...
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Thrift Treasures 66: George W. Bush signed autobiography
Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, or even Independent, you really can’t hate when you stumble upon a presidential signature. As you know I’ve a frequent thrift store treasure hunter. I usually...
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Thrift Treasures 67: 1967 Coke, Sprite and Tab Hank Aaron and Willie Mays...
The family and I went to the Alameda Antique Faire today, the self-billed largest antique Faire in all of California. Not sure if this is true or not, but I will say it was the largest re-sell...
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Thrift Treasures 68: 2014 Tri-Star San Francisco show bargain bin hauls
So last week I attended the annual Tri-Star show in San Francisco, and this time I went with a co-worker, whom I recently discovered was a card collector. I was a bit uncertain of going with the guy...
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