Chicago SunTimes Show March 16-18

jswieton

I will be attending the Chicago SunTimes show next month. If anyone needs help getting their items signed at the show, I would be happy to take cards, photos (11x14 and smaller), pucks, and baseballs. If you need something signed at the show please feel free to send me a PM.

FB HOFers
Charley Trippi - any item $29
Billy Shaw - any item $29
Dave Wilcox - any item $29
Joe Delamilleure - any item $29
Jan Stenerud - any item $29
Jim Langer - any item $29
Elvin Bethea - any item $29
Larry Wilson - any item $29
Willie Brown - any item $29
Larry Little - any item $29
Ron Yary - any item $29
Jackie Smith - any item $29
Don Maynard - any item $29
Charlie Sanders - any item $29
Dan Hampton - any item $35
Jim Otto - any item $39
Carl Eller - any item $39
Paul Krause - any item $39
Bob Lilly - any item $39
Joe Schmidt - cancelled
Chris Hanburger - any item $40
James Lofton - any item $49
Sam Huff - any item $49
Tom Mack - flats $29
Jack Youngblood - small flats $39
Paul Hornung - cancelled
Paul Warfield - small flats $39
Y.A. Tittle - small flats $39
Marv Levy - small flats $39
Bobby Mitchell - small flats $40
Fred Dean - small flats $49
John Hannah - small flats $49
Randall McDaniel - small flats $49
Dan Dierdorf - small flats $59
Bob Griese - small flats $59
Earl Campbell - small flats $79

Other FB
Ronnie Bull - any item $15
Jim Kiick - any item $29
Terry Hanratty - any item $29
John Huarte - small flats $55
Joe Theismann - flat/mini $59
Jim McMahon - flat/mini $79
A.J. Green - flat/mini $49
Frank Gore - flat/mini $59
Dez Bryant - any item $69
Brian Cushing - any item $49
LeSean McCoy - flat/mini $59
Matt Stafford - flats $89
Ndamukong Suh - flats $69
DeMarcus Ware - small flats $69
Ray Rice - flat/mini $69
Mario Manningham - flat/mini $69
Ahmad Bradshaw - flat/mini $69
Hakeem Nicks - flat/mini $89

Baseball HOF
Jim Palmer - flat/ball $29
Juan Marichal - flat/ball $29
Pat Gillick - flat/ball $49
Carlton Fisk - flat/ball $59
Mike Schmidt - flat/ball $59
Joe Morgan - sm flat/ball $69
Barry Larkin - flat/ball $79
Dave Winfield - flat/ball $79
Cal Ripken - sm flat/ball $129

Other Baseball
Maury Wills - any item $25
Doc Gooden - any item $39
Bucky Dent - flat/ball $39
Pete Rose - flat/ball $39
Darryl Strawberry - any item $39
Tim Raines - flat/ball $39
Frank Thomas (White Sox) - flat/ball $79
Glenn Beckert - any item $15
Frank Howard - any item $15
Jerome Walton - any item $15

Basketball
Kareem Abdul Jabbar - sm flat $99
John Havlicek - sm flat $89
Dennis Rodman - any item $79
Elgin Baylor - any item $69
Meadowlark Lemon - any item $59
Scottie Pippen - sm flat $149
Walt Frazier - flat/mini $49
James Worthy - flat $69
Artis Gilmore - flat/mini $39
Rick Barry - any item $15

Hockey
Niklas Hjalmarsson - any item $39
Mike Bossy - flat/puck $59
Marian Hossa - flat/puck $59
Andrew Shaw - any item $25
Bobby Hull - sm flat/puck $49

Other
Hope Solo - flats $59
Adam West (Batman) - any item $99
Burt Ward (Robin) - any item $69
Mike Tyson - sm flat $129

jswieton

The SunTimes show is in a couple of weeks, if anyone still needs something signed at the show please send me a PM. I would like to have all the items by Tuesday 3/13.

daddymc

PM sent. Thanks for the offer to help everyone out again John!

halosfan

Still no Dr. J ... GRRRR that is the one I need to find

NHLfightguy

Anyone going. Some cool guest.
Meadowlark Lemon would be cool to get. Can't wait for his Ginter auto this year.

I bet Mike Tyson does big numbers.
Does Pippen do many signings?

Foo3112

Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry together! That would be a cool photo to get them together.

cadets68

I will be there tomorrow. Anybody else going on Sunday?

Shawn

Tomi

How on earth does a Marian Hossa and Mike Bossy autograph cost more than a Bobby Hull autograph? Just don't get it.

VitoCo1972

<< <i>How on earth does a Marian Hossa and Mike Bossy autograph cost more than a Bobby Hull autograph? Just don't get it. >>



Bossy isn't signing much and you can get Hull once/week if you want. Supply/demand.

Bosox1976

Anybody go yesterday or today? I was thinking about going over tomorrow.... love to hear if it is worth the trip.

Dty

Just got back from the show with my 10 year old son.

Best thing at the show was all the signers. Not much on the vintage unopened (No BBCE). A lot of really nice people set up at the show....
We saw a great deal of new cards being traded or being bought by dealers- although I don't collect new stuff.

Very few graded basketball cards for sale. Crowds seemed pretty heavy in the auto area. Kind of cool to hear names like Scottie Pippen, Karem Abdul Jabbar, and Meadow Lark Lemon being announced over the louder speaker.

BTW, my son had a blast picking through tons of different table's "dollar boxes". He actually picked up a ton of cool cheaper deals.

Bosox1976

Thanks for the report!

leathtech

<< <i>Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry together! That would be a cool photo to get them together. >>



I hope to be able to post mine tomorrow... John was nice enough to take my SI cover print of Straw and Doc.

jswieton

- 1969 Topps Kareem
- NBA 50 Litho Kareem
- NBA 50 Litho Elgin Baylor
- NBA 50 Litho James Worthy
- NBA 50 Litho Rick Barry
- 1967 Philly Chris Hanburger
- 1959 Topps Sam Huff
- 16x20 Marian Hossa
Here is my haul from the SunTimes show on Friday and Saturday. I have decided to take on a new project and started the NBA 50 greatest player lithograph. I passed on getting Havlicek and Pippen because their fee was ridiculous IMHO. I also added Marian Hossa to my Stanley Cup photo. It kills me to pay his fee but I didn't want to take the chance of not being able to get him in the future. His autograph is an absolute joke and he should be ashamed to charge people for that chicken scratch. He might possibly have the worst autograph in all of sports. It is almost comical how bad it is.

epatmythes

Went to the show Friday & Saturday... was going to go back on Sunday morning to drop another sub off with PSA, but decided not too. Sure, it's conveinent to drop off right to them, but I can ship this sub cheaper than the $10 admission to get into the show again.

Overall, I thought this show was better than the November show... Auto lineup was stellar as usual and the dealer selection was a bit better. Still a lot of the same guys, with the same setup, and the same stuff... I bet at least half of them don't sell anything all weekend and spend more time buying to feed their eBay stores. They're generally easy to spot... either they have a bunch of crap stuff listed at "book" or they have all the shiny stuff with 4 and 5 figure price tags... and the only people at their tables are the ones having the dealer look through their stuff to see what they can buy.

I went with four goals in mind...

1) Pick up more 1956 Topps Baseball to round out a 100 minimum March $4.50 special... This was successful, even a little too successful! Got great deals from three different dealers and had to shuffle my sub around 3 times. Went to the show only needing to pick up 13 cards to hit the 100 minimum... ended up buying 46 more 1956 cards and dropping some of the modern stuff from my originally intended submission. Ended up subbing 122 cards on the special (83 of them from 1956). I sold off my 95% complete raw 1956 set back at the National in 09... always told myself I'd pick it up again one day but do it in PSA 5-6-7... this $4.50 special finally got me to get on it!

2) Work on my set list from 2012 Topps Heritage (since I busted 5 boxes last week)... This was mildly successful. I say mildly successful because I was able to cut my SP need list down by about 60%... but mildly, because I literally only found 1 dealer in the entire convention hall that had 2012 Heritage singles for sale. Sure, the product was only on the street for a few days, but I expected at least a few dealers to have some!

3) Pick up some PSA 9 1986-86 Fleer Basketball cards for my set and/or some PSA 10 1988-89 Fleer Basketball cards for my set... Total fail. Wasn't squat to be found outside of a handful of dealers that had a card or two of one of the bigger name 86 RC's in PSA 9... and then wanted stupid prices.

4) Pick up some nice high grade singles (raw-to-be-graded or graded) for my Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre, Albert Pujols, and/or Hank Aaron sets. Almost a total fail, but not quite. Couldn't find a single table with the Aaron Rodgers or Pujols rookie cards I'd be interested in (which is odd for a Chicago show). The saving grace... I stopped by a dealer who had a 1959 Topps Hank Aaron in PSA 8... picked it up for $320 (roughly $50 below VCP, so I was thrilled)

This was probably the first show I went to since, my God I don't know if I can think that far back, that I didn't make an impulse wax purchase just to have something to bust... I was oddly happy about that. Then again, I think the time spent nitpicking through the different dealers stacks of 56's for crease/wrinkle free cards with decent centering helped curb that urge.

Plus, I saw Kevin Burge set up at the show... it's always fun to check out his stuff and just wonder.... and I always love walking right past the huge 707 set up (which is generally pretty vacant given the enormous inventory they have on display) knowing it's not worth stopping because I have no interest in paying what they're asking (something learned from experience over the years of asking what they were looking for, only to "always" walk away shaking my head).

MBMiller25

Nice Auto's John. Kareem looks great.

How hard Is it to find a Fully spelled out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar cards?

MBMiller25

Eric, I have always had trouble finding 87-87 fleer myself t shows. I usually end up finding them raw and having to sub them myself.

Sounds like a good show for you, thanks for recap. It always surprises me that with all the crap Kevin Burge pulls on EBAY, someone does punch that guy at a show.

brianwintersfan

<< <i>Nice Auto's John. Kareem looks great.

How hard Is it to find a Fully spelled out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar cards? >>



My cousin who is 10 years older than me and also I life long resident of Milwaukee has some good stories about the big man and trying to get his autograph back in the day when he played for the Bucks. Most of the time he would just hit the exit at the old Milwaukee Arena after the game and wouldn't bother to stop and sign for anyone. If you were lucky you might get an "Abdul" or "Jabbar" but never the full name. I think Kareem has mellowed a lot since those days and was even doing TTM a few years ago.

cardsnbeads

I got Jabbar (Lew Alcindor's) 1969 Topps Rookie Signed at the show as well. Waiting on it. Havlicek's prices are insane. Bought his 1969 Topps Rookie signed for $50 on Ebay. Definitely the Real Deal. I got Walt Frazier last month from Collectors Showcase's Edison Show for $35 and he is $49 here. I wanted to get my Baylor 1969 signed but not at $79 . I wouldn't even pay $79 to get his 1961 Fleer signed. Somebody has to get Earl Monroe and Willis Reed, Billy Cunningham, and Hal Greer at a show.

NHLfightguy

anyone go Sunday. Did Tyson draw big numbers?

jswieton

Tyson's line was nowhere near as long as it was at it was at the Nationals. If I had to guess I would say they sold somewhere around 250-300 tickets for Tyson. I was really surprised how long the Frank Thomas line was considering he did 5-6 free signings out here in Chicago at the end of last year.