Mark Macrae's June 26th show.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

I wrongly contributed to the "card show from nowhere" thread that Mark Macrae was only doing a Thanksgiving show this year because of the national. HE'S ALSO HAVING ONE THE 26th OF JUNE. As he just pointed out to me in no uncertain terms (one of them there lurkers, you know).

Mark has stuff from virtually every decade, and specializes in California stuff for his own collection (which isn't to say that he doesn't collect almost everything else). Many unslabbed as well as some slabbed cards can be found at his show at St. Leander's Church, San Leandro, CA, across from the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in San leandro--just south of Oakland and across the bay from San Francisco.

I have personally bought from him (these just come to mind) : a T206 Plank, a 1885 Harper's Woodcut of "The Baseball Champions of 1885," (12 individual portraits--a big one)a W504 Ruth, many Colgans of all kinds, a Texas Tommy Mack, a Cleveland Fatima, a T206 McGraw with sweater, and from others at his show, a signed photo of Roy--gorgeous, and a rookie Lemieux, a Batter-Up Greenberg (mint) and a Lawrie's catcher (1884), a 1997 Calbee Matsui, many T202s from John Spaulding (now retired), photos of Jackie Robinson, "The Glory of Their Times,"--lots more of course.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I can vouch for the fact that the shows Mark puts on are top notch. I had a table every year from 1986-91. It was always one of my better shows for both sales and buying. Mark takes great care to make sure that there is mostly dealers with mainly vintage inventories. If you are anywhere near the area, it is a must go to show. And as Julie pointed out, even if you fly in, getting to it is very since BART (the train system) stops almost right across the street from the show location.

Jay

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Posted By: BcD

San Pablo Blvd! Wowa !!!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

It's not in San Leandro--runs the length of Oakland, Berkeley, etc. through Richmond. Maybe even further. But not as far as San Leandro. High class restaurants, bars, antique stores, Good Vibrations and prostitutes--I can't tell prostitutes from ordinary girls for the most part. In Paris they (used to) all wear hennaed hair and stand in one place, or walk back and forth looking at their watches.

NO baseball card stores--oh yeah--Dave's Dougout in Albany. Stuff there keeps getting newer and newer. Last time i was there, I was looking at one of those machines where you press a button and the thing slowly spins to show more cards; Dave was standing at another counter talking about --real estate?--with someone else. After a while, he said "Are you finished listening, Julie?" HE SHOULD LIVE SO LONG! I haven't been back since. Mainly because of the all-new stuff, though. But why should i go to a baseball card shop to listen to two guys talking real estate? Or maybe it was stocks--but i think real estate.
Anyway, sorry I appearerd to be eavesdropping. I DID buy a card there in January--a Diamond Star Bucky Harris.



(Didn't buy this at Dave's, but it's one of the newsest cards I have scanned.)