Regular Feature: What Do you Expect for a Dollar?

Another regular feature!

I went to the Dollar Tree today, and I was pleasantly surprised at the selection of cards they had. They had 2010 Topps Update packs, but they were only 5 cards to a pack, and the packs do not say "look for relics," or "look for inserts," etc. This made me think that there was no shot to pull anything decent, so I passed on the 2010s.  Plus, only 5 cards for a dollar...and odds are they were all commons...I'd rather buy a rack pack for $4.99 and get 36 cards, a shot to pull a relic, and/or a Million Card Giveaway code.  Anyway...

In glancing over the display, they had something I've never seen before: "Packs from the Past" by a company called Cards One. The Packs from the Past card display was right on top, and it consisted of old wax packs wrapped in plastic. The packs were all from the bad wax era: '91 Donruss, "88 Topps (ugh), '87 Topps, etc. Clearly you're not going to pull anything of real monetary value, but they are unopened packs for a dollar, nonetheless. I looked through all of the packs to see what was there, and I happened upon a few packs of '89 Fleer.

Who doesn't love '89 Fleer? With the horrible awesome looking gray background and white vertical stripes. I bought three packs of these, thinking somewhere in the back of my mind that I'd pull a Griffey Jr. or a Ripken F Face.  It wasn't to be, and just as I thought I would, I pulled a whole lot of commons. The best card I got from this batch was a Barry Bonds.

So of course three packs weren't nearly enough to feed my addiction, so I bought more! All in all, three packs of '89 fleer, and one pack each of the other two packs seen here:

My favorite is the one in the middle, with all the money on it. Riiiighhhhtttt..."Trading Card Investment Series." They try to make it seem like the cards you can pull from that pack would allow you to retire. Unless '87 Topps and '91 Donruss have suddenly gone up in value exponentially, I'm out of luck. I did pull a Barry Bonds '89 Bowman. $Cha ching?$

Moving on, the pack on the left I had never seen before, so I bought it.  "The Baseball Enquirer" pack has artist rendered drawings of players from the bad wax era, with no names on the cards, but a "fake" interview on the back with the player pictured. More on this in a later post. I might need some help figuring out who all ten players are on the cards. 

All in all, today was a five pack day.  I will frequent the dollar store to feed the addiction on the cheap, and to see what they have new in stock.  Odds are I will only ever get commons, but What Do you Expect for a Dollar?