Long beach expo meetup
 

I plan on heading to the Long Beach Expo sometime over its weekend run (Feb. 4-6)
would love to meet some fellow Net54er's::::feel free to PM me if interested in meeting up

I plan on going.

Would be fun to meet up but looks like the show is mainly coin and currency. Am I interprting this correctly?

I drove down this time last year and it was 95% coin and currency. There were a handful of sports card dealers. I was specifically looking for CJ's and there wasn't one in the house.

Precisely what I do not want to get into. Traffic to get there can be bad on a weekend and if there is no chance of finding anything then why bother.

Will be there
 

Setup with Andy Madec sop by and say hi.

Does anyone know if PSA does onsite grading?

PSA will be there. Booth 1231. Dunno if they're doing onsite grading.

PSA will not be grading onsite.

I'll probably swing by to drop off a submission- there is never more than a few tables so it's not really a card show.
Jason, Adam and I were talking about putting on another show in the Valley sometime before summer.

Long Beach Expo
 

I went last year. Very disappointed. It's really a coin show trying to become a combination card/sports show. There were very, very few booths. Wasn't worth a plane ticket and hotel room :(

Will be set up as part of Amazing Adventures... The show could use more support from sports dealers. Amazing that a region with 20 million people can't have a sports show. Anthony, if you set a date on your show you're welcome to drop off flyers for it at the table

hope someone can bring back a nice annual show to LA

Back in the 90's, the expo had equal amounts of baseball card dealers and coin dealers. Nowadays, it 97% coin dealers.

Drove down from the office after work today. I was pleasantly surprised that there were a few more card dealers set up vs. last year. Still 98% coins. Passing booth after booth of coins in holders I would get a massive headache if I was a collector!
I was able to spend a couple hours talking to the various dealers and purchased a N162 Caruthers and traded some dup 14 CJ's to a super nice dealer named Jean for T206 Becker, 33 Goudey Lindstrom and two T3's raw (Chance and Stahl).

I went today. Mark McCrae has over 100 Raw T206's. Lot's of vintage. Maybe a dozen card dealers. I'm going tomorrow also.

I plan on going tomorrow. If anyone wants to meet up, feel free to send me a pm.

I wasn't going but my wife wants to pick up a new pet in Torrence so will be close. Why not in this case.

Ken

Just finished the show. Lots of coins, little baseball. Did pick up 9 T205 cards including 3 HOF cards. Good haul for not much there. Met Mark MaCrae

Ken did you buy the raw T205's from the dealer on the right of the PSA booth? And was the Mathewson one of the HOFers?

AJ,

The answer is yes, I bought 6 T205 cards from the gentleman that you mentioned. However, I did not buy the Matty card as I was only looking for Cubs with different backs. I did buy a Morticai 3 fingers Brown with Red Sweet Caporal Back and a Frank Chance with a Polar Bear back. His cards were overpriced at first but he did negotiate and ended up being fair.

Also bought 3 T205 from Mark MaCrae so added a total of 9 cards and found 1 back/ front varieties that were not listed in my original 151 cards so now the set will end up being 152 different card types for the Cubbies.