My National experience

[john1170]

Just got home from the National in Atlantic City and it was quite an adventure. First of all I just want to note that the show was not crowded at all. Suprised me as it was a Saturday afternoon. Anyway, I noticed that Kiss had the biggest lines for autos, go figure. A lot of vintage stuff and tons of unopened newer stuff. Very good buys were to be had. Wish I had more money but set my budget at $600 for the show. This is what i got:

2 1975 Topps Mini Packs $50 each
2 1986 Topps Football Cellos $15 each
1 1981 Topps Football Rack $20
1 2003 Timeless Treasures baseball Tin $88
1 2002 Bowman/Chrome Draft baseball Box $140
1 2003 Bowman Chrome baseball Box $69
1 2003 UD Foundations Hockey Box $33(Great price)
1 2002 UD Prospect Premiers Box $26(another good buy)
1 1970 Kelloggs PSA 9 Tom Seaver $15
1 1970 Kelloggs PSA 9 Frank Robinson $15
I just started building the Kellogg's set in PSA 9 so these came in handy.

I will post box breaks later on.

[sportscollector03]

Nice Buys! i cant wait to hear what in the timeless treasures

[Hot Sauce]

seems like you got a lot of money over there. let me know how the breaks went. as long as you were happy with what you got that's all that counts.

[john1170]

Originally posted by Hot Sauce
seems like you got a lot of money over there. let me know how the breaks went. as long as you were happy with what you got that's all that counts.

Not really, I just put away money for this for a while. I will post my breaks under the Break the box thread since it is different sports.

[john1170]

All my breaks are now under the Break the Box thread.

[podstock]

2 1975 Topps Mini Packs $50 each

are you planning on opening this?

I'd be interested to see if you get a George Brett or Robin Yount. I have their RCs from the regular size

[john1170]

I already opened them and came up short on anything good. Got a Yaz and a Jim Hunter. I am going to get the Yaz graded along with one of the commons that looks really really good. I took a shot with them and didn't work out.

[IggyWH]

Damn... dudes a ballah up in herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre. John, did you happen to see eTopps at The Nationals? Also, was there any good giveaways?

[john1170]

To tell you the truth, I didn't see any etopps stuff. It might have been there but didn't notice it. As far as the giveaways I believe they were giving away Lebron James promos if you opened packs at UD's booth. There were others but didn't pay too much attention. The only booth i visited was PSA's as I wanted to get a look at the T206 Honus Wagner card. This was the one that Gretzky used to own. Was weird looking at a 1.2 million dollar card. Spent about 3 hours there and then hit the casino for a bit.

[Ichiro]

man nice stuff hope you get some good stuff in the boxes so did the honus wagner have a good crowd you should have snatched it and ran for canada lol jk