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Posted By: boxingcardman

"does American Memorabilia really need to do a catalog/sports magazine where scantilly clad women wear game used uniforms?"

--Yes, absolutely. In fact, Mastro should follow suit and have models in lingerie fondling the slabs in their listings.

I had a really nice time at the show, despite the 7-11 prices at many tables. The dinner was a blast and quite impressive, with over 100 people there. And anyone who didn't hang out at the bar in the hotel every night missed a lot of fun. Prices were high but people were paying them. I grotesquely overpaid for a T card I needed, after 2 days of procrastinating. You had to have quite a bit of flexibility in terms of what you were searching for to avoid being frustrated. While I'd gone there to chase cards for my Exhibit and boxing sets, plus a few T baseball cards, I picked up quite a few obscure items, including a Diamond Dust punchboard Joe DiMaggio, a 1967 Topps Venezuelan Stan Musial, some W590 boxers, a 1950 Drake's Warren Spahn (literally as I was leaving on Sunday for the airport), some nice 1933 and 1934 Goudey, some nice strip cards, a chunk of a T68 set, etc.

Did anyone here get busted for bringing outside food or drinks into the IX? I watched quite a few people have their coolers emptied or their water jugs confiscated.

Ebay casts a huge shadow over the show; everyone was talking about what the cards go for or would go for on ebay. I found myself frequently calculating what I'd pay for something versus ebay and also deciding whether to purchase items I don't really collect based on their resale value on ebay.

The rumor I heard is that the National's board was negotiating for 2009 in Cleveland during this show.