2/7/15 card show report: winter Wolverines

In what's become something of a monthly habit I made the 30-minute drive east to the Taylor Town Trade Center this afternoon for some card showin'.  Though I spent a measly (but not measles-ly because I was vaccinated--thanks mom!) $17, with a good chunk of that going towards trade bait, I did have some luck in some quarter boxes to go with a few dollar cards.  Some of those are in this evening's TMV post while the rest are right over here:

Barry Larkin 2000 Topps All-Topps

I grabbed a pair of Larkin inserts this time because even though I might have already had them it's not like I don't have other people that would take them off my hands.  Of the two this one was new, though I have a few others from the set in my collection.  Topps overdid it a bit on the border but this is otherwise a nice looking card to own.  According to the back, Barry topped all active (through '98) NL SS in a group that included Rich Aurilia, Alex Gonzalez, Rey Ordonez, and Walt Weiss; not exactly stiff competition, eh?  In case you were wondering, the retired NL SS All-Topps group includes, in order:  Ernie Banks, Luke Appling, Pee Wee Reese, Ozzie Smith, and Honus Wagner.  Mr. All-Topps here now has 246 cards in his PC.

Next I grabbed a few things for my Michigan Football inserts PC:

Todd Collins 1995 Sportflix Rookie Lightning

A trade with Doug last month netted me Collins' '95 Sportflix RC and now a month later I have an insert of the QB from the same set.  You never know how these'll scan so I'm fairly happy with how Todd's card turned out.  Now I kinda want to get his fellow rookie (and new Michigan RBs coach!) Tyrone Wheatley from the same set.

Chad Henne 2014 Prestige Extra Points Silver Holofoil (#18/25)

The most expensive card in this post at a cost of $1, this Henne card surprised me when I found it in the dollar box until my eyes finally took notice of the hard-to-see serial number in the upper-right.  I'll gladly throw down a buck any day for a Chad Henne limited to just 25 copies!  The 2014 Prestige design isn't exactly exciting but a rare card is a rare card, plus it helps that it happens to be one of my favorite Michigan QB.

Leroy Hoard 2000 Score Scorecard (#1733/2000)

Hoard doesn't get a lot of face time on this blog, but the MVP of the '89 Rose Bowl was a pretty good RB for Michigan, and he had a solid NFL career as well.  Early on with the Browns he was an effective receiving back and caught 9 TD passes in '91, and then he went on to pick up 9 and 10 rushing TDs--career highs each time--for Minnesota in his final two seasons.  Here he is with the Vikings in his farewell campaign on a cool Score parallel numbered to 2000.  Hopefully I can find more stuff of his to show off here!

Mario Manningham 2008 Donruss Classics School Colors (#0300/1000)

Hey, this guy's name sounds familiar!  I actually started using a "Michigan uniform" tag not too long ago for just such cards.  I thought it was interesting that this was a Classics card because the School Colors insert is usually associated with Elite.  Since the design is pretty much the same I can't say it really matters to me because either way I get a really cool Manningham insert out of the deal!

Since it is winter and all I don't suppose I could have left the show without picking up at least one hockey card:

In the end it literally was one because that was as many cards as I could find featuring Michigan players, though at times I was ripping through handfuls of cards pretty fast because there was a ton to get through.  Anyway, I plunked down a quarter for this 2014-15 OPC Rainbow parallel of star forward Mike Cammalleri, a guy who's actually part of a four-way tie (as of this writing) for the league lead in game-winning goals with 7.

I headed home with most of my money still in my wallet and now I'll put that to good use elsewhere, and hopefully next time I'll have even better luck!