Pasadena Card Show this weekend Sept 6-7
 

https://frontrowcardshow.com/collections/pasadena

Is anybody going?

I plan to be there early-ish on Saturday.

I’ll be wearing a gray Star Trek DS9 (white logo) hat, will be early-ish Saturday too.

Also going early Saturday. Will be wearing the Net54 shirt. Good luck to all on the hunt! Mainly going to get some cards graded.


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I'll be there Saturday afternoon

I walked in the room at 11:02 am, looked at every table, walked out at 11:24 am.

A few tables kept my attention longer than the rest, especially the guy with the Jackie Robinson stuff and the guy with the old Hebrew team photos.

Covering 530 tables in 22 minutes.. You move fast..

I was in by 915 and done before 10- when you skip the Pokémon tables it doesn’t take long to see the remaining 15
By contrast it took me over an hour to cover the front section of the Anaheim show 2 weeks ago and I’d barely scratched the surface. It felt as big as the National shows 2009-2019. They announced a show next year just before the National, barring an economic meltdown that one should be huge.

Wow. So, how many Pokémon tables were there ? 500 ?

A solid show with some very good vintage if one took the time to walk the aisles and bypass all the Pokémon tables.

I scored a nice common (Jack Quinn) T206, a Bobby Wallace E92 Nadja caramel, and a 1916 PSA Mint 9(OC) Famous & Barr card (Earl Hamilton).

My carpool buddy (not a N54 member) scored a large variety of vintage material, he was super happy.


We spent 4.5 hours there and will definitely return in November.

Just doing my best to make the our favorite opinion seller look slow and deliberate by comparison.

In defense of the show, there were a lot of tables with older cards, I just don't do older cards anymore, my current tastes tend to run larger are more eclectic.

My Son was stoked. He found and bought a rare pokemon card case and some assorted pokemon singles. Pokemon continues to be the hottest ticket in town. After scouring the show for any Cracker Jack's and finding none...I broke down and bought this Roman Anthony. Pasadena is a nice local show. Think it will continue to trend towards Pokemon and non sports. Anaheim is the larger cousin and had far more dealers and sports related material. Def room for both in the market.

I looked for Cracker Jacks too but there were none to be found. But then again I only rarely see those cards at any of the West Coast shows.

"I scored a nice common (Jack Quinn) T206,"

Steve - when you study it a bit you may change your thoughts on Jack Quinn - this guy pitched in the big leagues in 4 different decades and won 247 games with a lifetime 3.29 ERA. In addition, he has the amazing distinction of appearing in both the T206 set AND the 1933 Goudey sets as a player! Unless you count Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins (+ others?) who were finished as active players by 1933, he was the only player to do so. Pretty uncommon I'd say - nice pick up!
Chris

Chris, thanks for the info on Quinn (I didn’t know that). It’s a beauty SGC 5. :)

Our Man Quinn

Love it! Great looking card. Maybe someone would be kind enough to put an image of the '33 Goudey up. It is a very similar pose. Congrats again!

Your wish is my delayed command!


Brian (scan absconded from internet)

Thanks Brian! Other than the brim of his cap, old Jack's appearance didn't seem to change much in 25 years. The timelessness of baseball!

Chris