The East Coast National has come and gone, and I was fortunate enough to attend on Saturday. I arrived shortly after the show opened, approximately 10:30am, paid my $8 entrance fee and entered the show. There were two free autograph signers, and I was excited that Luis Tiant was one of them as I had a Fenway 100 Years ball that I wanted him to sign (already have Fred Lynn and Cecil Cooper on it!). Come to find out later, the line to get free autographs was obscenely long and I honestly didn't feel like waiting for it. Overall, the autograph signing process was terrible and the show promoters should be ashamed of the process. Despite having ticket #37 for Dwight Gooden, I waited in line for over an hour as the show promoter didn't announce the numbers for any of the signers except Patrick Ewing and Dennis Rodman. People were upset about having to stand in line for so long, no one knew which lines to stand it as they were very long and it was time that I could have spent walking the floor buying things so I can't imagine dealers would approve of this process.
Anyways...rant over...I decided to build my '80s collection and got autographs of Dwight Gooden and Jose Canseco ($25 each) on their signature rookie cards. I'm psyched to have added these to my collection. Gooden was super nice and was interacting with people. Canseco was kind of disinterested in interacting with people, but I'll give him credit - he's still jacked and looks like he could still play (even though we know he can't). I never made it to get Luis Tiant's autograph as the line was super long and I wanted to spend time walking the show.
I dug through a pretty good $.10 box and found a ton of cards that I needed for sets, almost completed my 2013 Panini Golden Age set. The only other purchase I made were three autographed cards that were $10 each or three for $25. Not a bad group of autographs for $25. Overall, the show was ok. The autograph process was horrible. The selection of stuff was either vintage or new mojo rookies etc. It's funny to see boxes set up with 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's (well, through 85T). I wonder when the 90's cards will become popular again. Definitely not enough of the $.10/$.25 boxes, most only had new stuff (2013-2014) for set builders. I'd go again, especially if there were some decent, low-cost autograph guests.
Anyways...rant over...I decided to build my '80s collection and got autographs of Dwight Gooden and Jose Canseco ($25 each) on their signature rookie cards. I'm psyched to have added these to my collection. Gooden was super nice and was interacting with people. Canseco was kind of disinterested in interacting with people, but I'll give him credit - he's still jacked and looks like he could still play (even though we know he can't). I never made it to get Luis Tiant's autograph as the line was super long and I wanted to spend time walking the show.
I dug through a pretty good $.10 box and found a ton of cards that I needed for sets, almost completed my 2013 Panini Golden Age set. The only other purchase I made were three autographed cards that were $10 each or three for $25. Not a bad group of autographs for $25. Overall, the show was ok. The autograph process was horrible. The selection of stuff was either vintage or new mojo rookies etc. It's funny to see boxes set up with 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's (well, through 85T). I wonder when the 90's cards will become popular again. Definitely not enough of the $.10/$.25 boxes, most only had new stuff (2013-2014) for set builders. I'd go again, especially if there were some decent, low-cost autograph guests.
