ANYONE GO TO THE NATIONAL TODAY?

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Posted By: Jay Miller 

If so, how was it?

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

I was there,looked like a great show and met some people from the board.Leon with all of his cards,he let me hold the 4 base hits Kelly very nice guy. Scott Brockelman was also a cool guy,as well as Dan McKee,Pete Calderon,Steve Lucas and Michael Wentz. BMW's table is unreal.TIK's table is something to worship for 19th century collectors.Wayne from shoebox cards is also a great guy to talk to,and he has some real nice cards....The only thing i bought,which cost exactly what i brought there to spend(lucky for me), was a very nice Dave Orr old judge.Couldnt pass up a card of the man with the 3rd(tied) highest average among Old Judge players

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Just got in from my trip to the Atlantic City National. Although the drive from Cape Cod to Atlantic City and back is not something I would ever conceive of doing again, I'm happy to be home safe and sound. Glad I avoided going through NYC, especially after I learned there was a horrific fatal tractor trailer wreck on the George Washington Bridge.

Other than the drive, the trip was a very memorable. Was really nice to finally meet many of the board members face-to-face. "A cast of characters" to say the least. Regret I bailed early before the diner, but I was out on my feet. Sold off many of my duplicates. Traded for an awesome Roger Bresnahan Novelty Cutlery Postcard as well as a EX+ Chief Meyers (Fielding) T206, and came home with over $300.00 in my pocket. Unfortunately, I didn't see any inexpensive 1956 Topps for Ben. Saw just expensively priced HOFers from that Topps set. Did find a T222 that Fatima Bill needed...Can't wait to hear if anything else turned up after the first day of the show.

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Posted By: ockday

I was there Thursday and thought from my perspective it was a great show. I went specifically looking for T205's especially Joss, and Leifield (A.P.)in vg-ex or better condition.
Well as fate would have it ..just about the 1st table I came to there was a teenage kid with a bunch of graded T205's and sure enough there was A.P. Leifield in PSA 6 . I asked how much..he looked in SMR..saw it wasn't listed(they only list hall of famers i think) and said $200 (I wouldve gladly paid twice that!)I grabbed it along with a couple of other nice commons .I've been looking for a nice copy of this card for quite a while and this is a VERY tough card to find this nice..so back I went on my T205 hunt and saw Leon and Scott Brockelman who sent me to Mark Irodenko's table where I found a couple of other nice T205 commons and was told that Bill Goodwin broke up a set of T205's so I went to Bill looking for Joss..but it was in pretty rough shape.
BUT..Bill sold me a real nice T205 Walsh in PSA 5 along with a decent ungraded Evers. Well I never found the Joss but enjoyed walking around and seeing all the great stuff. I hope to get back maybe on Sunday.