[Keith H. Thompson]

is complete without someone saying that, sure we go to socialize, ogle some big time stuff, have dinner with big time spenders, but also because there is the chance that you might be able to buy something that you might not have known you even wanted had you not seen it. This can happen at any card show, of course, but the National brings out the best with some dealers. I know I dropped 5K on a Players League cabinet card of Sam Thompson (identified only as "Malarial Thompson") which I otherwise would have missed.