White Plains NY Show This Weekend

[Donscards]

I am setting up at the White Plains 3 day show this weekend---I havent been to this show since Gloria ran it---Hope to see alot of Net 54 collectors at the show I have mostly psa graded cards pre 1968 Mayo --T205's Ty Cobb Babe Mickey etc. I have 4 nice ungraded sets 1962 1964 1967 and 1971--also picked up some nice auto cards from the 1950's all jsa---any questions, give me a email. thanks, Don Hontz

[Donscards]

Carlo the 4 sets are at least ex-mt or better the 64 set is near mint or better. See u at the show.

[bcbgcbrcb]

I'll be there on either Saturday or Sunday, see you there, Don. Good luck with your sales at the show.

[th38larg]

I'll be there this weekend. Nice show, not too far from home!

[EldoEsq]

I'll be ther Sunday...free auto of Hard-hittin Mark Whiten!!!

[Donscards]

Phil thanks I will see you at the show Don

[iwantitiwinit]

See you there on Sat.

[tombocombo]

Don always look forward to seeing you and your impressive inventory. Always fun to buy 1952 topps from Don. As for myself will be set up with mainly 1952 topps for set builders raw, signed, and graded. Please stop and introduce yourselves to Don or myself and mention of Net54
tom killeen

[joshleland]

Don
What's the name of the guy you sometimes travel with?
Josh

[bbsports]

I will also be set up for 3 days at White Plains. I have been doing the show for the last 4 years & carry over a 1000 graded T206 cards for sale, with a few extra surprises in store.

[JohnP0621]

I have been going to this show for the last 3 Years. Great Vintage and Pre-War.
I have been buying from Bill from BB SPORTS for the last several years (Hi Bill) and have always had an excellent experience. He has just about every T206 and always has new Material. Also a lot of other Great Dealers at this Show. See You on Saturday.

John P

[btcarfagno]

I may be there Sunday. I will try to be there early before the monsoon chases all the dealers away.

Tom C

[iwantitiwinit]

Just got back from the White Plains Show and it was worth the trip. In my opinion the show was very well attended, had many higher end dealers and had great merchandise. Pricing was a bit high as it usually is given its proximity to NY but not horrible. All in all I think it was one of the better shows there in quite a awhile though I can't attest to whether any cash was flowing to dealers.

Saw a few net 54ers there and had good conversations with many especially Bill from BBSPORTS he had an awesome assortment of cards especially T206's.

[Bigb13]

I am going tomorrow

[refz]

Hope all goes well. Im going to skip this one and be there in march.

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by refz

Hope all goes well. Im going to skip this one and be there in march.

Danny if you can get there tomorrow I think it's worth the trip there was a lot of inventory there. Plus it's supposed to rain tomorrow nothing to do until the games start at 3:30.

[CharleyBrown]

Just got back from the show. I went with my wife, 5-year old, and 18-month old daughter (my wife doesn't collect, but she likes going to the shows to support my interests).

I wasn't shopping for me today, as I'm tapped out for a while due to a nice purchase a week and a half ago. My son really wanted to go, so I figured it'd be a great time to teach money management. It was the first time I kind of just let him do the shopping and pick what he wanted.

He had his $50, and started with packs of Super Hero Squad and Marvel cards. He then bought his sister a pack of Minnie-n-Me cards. From there, he bought two shiny Ichiro cards for 25 cents each. He wanted some David Ortiz cards, but we couldn't find any unfortunately. He saw some other shiny cards that he liked, but he didn't really know the players, so he decided to pass on them and save his money.

With the money he had left, he started to look for other cards he wanted. He saw a Whitey Ford card he liked (Whitey was friends with his great-grandfather), but it didn't have a price, so he opted to move on. He stumbled upon a table with some raw post-war cards that were in his price range, and he got pretty excited when he recognized some names he knew that were within his budget.

He said... "Daddy, I see Willie Mays, I want that one!" At $30, he had enough so I had him ask the dealer for the card (1967 Mays/McCovey Fence Busters) and pay for it. With $11.50 left, he brought me to another table to see what else he could find.

He really wanted a Clemente or Whitey Ford card, but he didn't see any in his budget, and he knew he couldn't exceed it. He stumbled upon a 1961 Willie Mays that was listed for $12 and said, "Daddy look another Willie Mays!.. but it's $12 I don't have enough." So I said, "well, why don't you ask the man if he will sell it to you for $10?" So he took his $10 out, and offered it to the seller in exchange for the Mays card. The seller was happy to sell it to him, and my son walked away with the card he wanted, plus an extra $1.50 to save for another day.

He didn't get the Whitey Ford or Clemente card he wanted, but he was more than happy with the 2 Mays cards. I was more than ecstatic to see him opt on his own for 2 Willie Mays cards instead of all of the shiny offerings of today.

As for the show, I didn't get a chance to really look around, but in my brief glances here and there, I saw some new dealers for a change, and more graded Ruths, Cobbs, etc. than usual. That was a welcome sight. As mentioned, the prices were a bit high, but no worse than usual. I thought the crowd was pretty good, though I was only there for 1 1/2 hours or less.

[edhans]

Pretty savvy five year old.

[DHogan]

Pretty cool 5 year old.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Picked up this beauty from Don H., a pleasure to do business with......

[CharleyBrown]

Nice Clemente Phil! What time were you there?

[bcbgcbrcb]

Hey, Shaun:

I was there from around 10:15 - 1:15. We probably walked right by each other without knowing it. BTW one more pick-up from the show today.......

[CharleyBrown]

Phil,

I think I got there right around 1:15, so we might've just missed each other.

Beautiful Cey RC btw! :-D

[skelly]

I've been to this show on and off for the past few years, and Saturday around noon was the most "juice" I can remember seeing at this show. Not sure if it was people with cabin fever, knew Sunday would have rainy weather or what, but it was legitimately crowded ( at least in my opinion ) Anyway, hopefully the dealers did well and this show can build on the "momentum."