Trade Post #2

This second mailer came courtesy of Brian over at Highly Subjective and completely Arbitrary.

Brian had posted these (among others) up for grabs recently. The Civilizations is for me, The Ken Jennings is for brother a Jeopardy Junkie, and the Bowden, althoug my brother would like it too is going to my cousin Pat (short for Patricia) who is a Georgia girl who just happens to be a Seminole Fan. A year or two ago, I had picked  up an autographed Bowden 8x10  for her so this can go with it.

Brian just so happened to surprise me with these additions inside the package. This is the 2nd time he nailed my 65 want list with a 3 pack.

Brian and I have been swapping boxes, mailers, and PWEs quite a bit since he came flaming into the blogosphere.

At first I thought "why in the world would a Twins guys send me a Twin?", but then I remembered that HE had sent me a partial 93 Leaf set (one of the series), and then I picked up a box of the other that weekend, and found myself needing the card above. Brian graciously told me I had sent one to him in that huge Twins "dump" I did on him. So he sent it back to me. That Chipper was needed in the Hall Worthy binder. Gattis goes into the RC Cup binder.

Brian as always, thank you.

A few Trade Posts

It has been a rough couple of days here, and although I had planned a separate daily post for each of these trades. I am needing to get them done, so I will post them separately, but back to back to back.


First up is a mailer from Junior Junkie's most recent mailbox bombardment.

TJ hit me up with these two Justice cards along with another 19 Justice cards.

But the real excitement in the package was this 30 card team set. It was sealed, but I just had to open it, you know.

1994 Classic Durham Bulls. I recognize a couple of names here that made it onto official MLB sets.

Makes me think about watching the Kevin Costner film (again)!

Thanks TJ for including me in that trip to the POST OFFICE.

HOLIDAY BOYS

A long time ago I gathered up a some Holiday cards (Cards whereas the players were born on a Specific Holiday). I chose one Holiday for each month (other than September which is marked for MY Birthday Binder). I even have one for St. Patricks Day, but forgot to post them. So, as my April Fools Day joke, we will be showing you those few cards from my St. Patty Day collection (just the birthday boys, not the green hats, although that would have been cool to include them here). Then, I will show you the Birthday Boys for April 1st.

Ha Ha, gotcha. There isn't any St. Patty's Day cards here today. And there are two Holiday showings for April....

 Yep, some footballers too.

A vintage.

Even a B-baller.

There are the April Fools Day boys!

The Lincoln Files

Today just one for the Lincoln Files. No not one card..... one set. 1992 Donruss The Rookies set. 132 cards in the set. I won't show all of them but I did scan 6 of the cards plus the checklists front and back.

I like the green design on the Rookies set compared to the Blue of the base set. Back in 92 I must have opened 4 boxes of 1992 Donruss.

His Happy Days.

I had to throw in a Miller.

Surely, you didn't think I would pass on the only Brave in the set.

This Kent is cool. 1) In a Jays uniform, 2) bunting and , 3) sporting some hair out of the back of his helmet (kind of looks a lil curly too going down his jersey.

Lastly, Pedro.

I had this set delivered for a grand total of $2.30. (The seller actually paid $3.69 in postage, plus the bubble mailer. That comes out to a smidgen less than .0175 cents per card.

Cards from The Card Chop

This past week Steve from the blog The Card Chop, reached out after seeing a duplicate Aaron card I had, so I offered it up, and told him to just send what he thought would be fair from my want lists. I actually do like trading blind, most times. But then again, most of you already know that. These are what he sent me, with a note (at bottom).

 Lovin the color!

Some 94 Fleer I needed.

Oh look, The SP Maddux from 2015 Donruss. I guess Freddie isn't going to be alone now is he. (retorical question). Of course now I only need card #2 (Freeman DK), but because I need two of them, yesterdays' post is still spot-on, need two cards. LOL!

1994 Pinnacle Museum Collection.

1995 Pinnacle Museum Collection.


Way more than I expected for the 2015 Aaron baseball History card.

Steve threw this note in with the cards.

I like the sound of that! If you haven't checked out Steve's blog you should, some good reads there even if you're not a Braves fan. 

Thanks a ton Steve, I look forward to a lot of back & forth.

Just Commons pick me ups!

I mentioned yesterday that I had gotten two mailers in, the first one came from JC. Really getting into the 2015 (so far). But the first cards of this post are from 2014 Stadium Club!

How awesome is that card?

And a great throwback uniform.

Already had one of these, but wanted two more, no one. This one is going into the Hall Worthy PC. the next one is for the T-shirt mini collection. 3 for 3 in awesomeness!

HOFer!

Pretty sure that is another throwback.

Scooped up two of these, one fo rthis team set, and the other for the Hall Worthy PC. Needless to say I was definitely happy with the 2014 Stadium Club.

Superman! Oh yeah, i don't collect them anymore, lol. Anyways 2015 Opening Day base set complete! Simmons also makes for a Shadow Shot card too! What do you see?

All but two of the Blue parallels, I may just finish my first colored parallel set this year (not counting 1993 Topps Gold). I didn't see Blue listed on Beckett, they did show an Opening Day Edition parallel. Does anyone know if this is it?

After seeing these on Nicks (dimebox) blog the other day, I was so stoked because I knew I had them on the way. I didn't know what they looked like until Nick put them out there.

Now Topps could take a NOTE here, lose the Franchise Flashback wording, and this would have made for an awesome set to be designed for every base card. That is creativity! Then again, if the entire set was of that design it may not seem as nice, but wither way it would be different from the flagship design, and that would be cool in itself!

How about some 2015 Donruss? A little similar to 2014, but different enough. The SP Freeman is a reflection on the 1981 Donruss set, but looks better for some reason. Now I only need two #2 (Freeman DK) and #493 Maddux 81 SP ..... or do I? Wait til tomorrow to find out.

While browsing around JC, noticed he restocked his 2015 Topps Gold, so I grabbed two more. I had also picked up another Yount I needed (2014 Stadium Club), but you will see that whenever I show off my Birthday Boys, as least Yount anyways.
Great mailer for sure!