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03-15-2024, 02:27 PM
Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
Baseball Banger Bros,
There's an antique store in town that has a small corner of cards and memorabilia and what not.
The stock doesn't change often, but every once in a while I find a good deal (Wade Boggs Fleer rookie for $3 a couple of months back, for example).
Today I walked in and a saw an opened set of the 1992 Fleer Update set on the shelf.
For $20.
I assumed the Mike Piazza RC had been removed, so I asked the lady at the counter if I could check the set quickly to see if it was still in there.
Lo and behold ...
![[Image: Piazza.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/16fM9sT/Piazza.jpg)
Four sharp corners, slightly off center top to bottom ... for $20 for the set I will take it!
I have wanted this card for a long time but never seemed to make it a priority over stupid retail blasters and what not.
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03-15-2024, 02:36 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
actually pretty crisp for a card that was from a box set 30 plus years ago! Nice pickup
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03-15-2024, 04:30 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
Great work. That is a very nice card. Congrats
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03-15-2024, 04:58 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
You can find gems if you take the time to look..sometimes in obscure places..great find..congrats!!!
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03-15-2024, 05:14 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
(03-15-2024, 02:36 PM)mistral38 Wrote: actually pretty crisp for a card that was from a box set 30 plus years ago! Nice pickup
And opened as well ... I was shocked to see it still in the box!
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03-18-2024, 01:24 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
Very nice find. I'm still missing that one myself and I have close to 2000 different Piazza cards.
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03-18-2024, 02:00 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
I wish they had flip-flopped the photos on the front and back.
I'm not a big fan of running photos, LOL
(AKA every Trout flagship card for like 6 straight years)
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03-18-2024, 03:24 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
cool find, that set also I believe has the jeff kent rc and tim wakefield rc of which they don't have many rcs.
Selling my org out
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03-18-2024, 03:29 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
(03-18-2024, 03:24 PM)leadmetogreatness Wrote: cool find, that set also I believe has the jeff kent rc and tim wakefield rc of which they don't have many rcs.
Indeed! As well as very early cards of Tim Salmon and Kenny Lofton.
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03-21-2024, 12:37 PM
RE: Antique Store Find - Not Bad for $20! PIAZZA GRAIL
Not related to this post, but yesterday afternoon when the Shohei news broke, I pulled his 1988 Topps throwback card from a random blister pack of 2023 Topps Series 1.
Was kind of funny listening to sports talk radio on the way home, knowing I had pulled his card almost at the extact time the news broke.
