So, anyone here used to be a member of the West Coast Card Club here in Los Angeles? We used to have meetings/card shows in the San Fernando Valley. One of the features of these early card club meetings was the auction. Live, no commission, take the card home with you, auctions. I won these signed 1953 Bowman cards at one of them, must've been some time between 1977 and 1979:
I also got this Musial at one of the meetings:
Had it signed a decade later at a show in the Moscone Center in SF while I was in law school.
This is the best insert I've ever pulled from a pack:
