Friday at the National

[LuckyLarry]

Another great day in Chicago! We arrived at the Convention a little after 8, two of my roommates can get in the show at 8, I’ve got to wait until 9. So I get in line at Starbucks and before long I’m on the show floor. Spent a good amount of time at this certain table with stacks of 2 row boxes filled with mostly $1/$2 vintage sports and non sports in ex-mt condition but also some that were more. I did pull all the Gilligans Island cards (these were $10). If you want Beatles Monkees Star Wars there were a ton. Bought a neat selection of 1960s through the mail autographs where the sender made these paper baseball cutouts with career info of the player then sent them through the mail to sign. I’ll share a pic of one of these in the AM cause I really thought they were neat especially at $3 each. After handing dealer a stack of stuff he discounted off the total. It was fun digging through these boxes. Bought quite a few 1958 Hires Root beer cards from our old friend William Chappell which included an Aaron that was cut a “little” short lol. Never made it back up the escalator to the upstairs narrow walkway area. Great day wandering around all this cardboard.
Left the show at 5:45 dropped our backpacks in the car and walked over to the minor league ballgame “Chicago Dogs” a nice evening in the ball park where I also enjoyed eating two Chicago Dogs.
After the game, walk back to the parking garage and back to the Air B&B a bit after 10 with 15,856 steps recorded,