So the last we left off, I had worked my 1988 Astros Team Leaders card up to a pretty nice 1983 Eddie Murray. Well, there’s been some action since then. First off, Eddie went to a new home in exchange for a 1982 Fergie Jenkins. Part of my basic strategy in doing this whole trade-up [...]
First off, I just want to take this opportunity to wish a happy Father Day to all you Dad’s out there. To me there’s always a special connection between baseball and my Dad, so I think fathers hold a special place in the card collecting community. I’d especially like to wish a happy Fathers Day [...]
A while back, I had posted about a TTM success that I recently got back from former Red Sox pitcher and current wack-o Bill “The Spaceman” Lee. Chris from Project ’62 had contacted me about getting a copy of the Bill Lee card for his Bill Lee player collection that he started last year. Now, [...]
Last we left off, I had worked my way up to a 1985 Rod Carew. That’s a pretty good step up from a 1988 Astro’s Team Leaders, no? Well, I didn’t stop at Mr. Carew. Three more trades have been processed. First off, I sent Rod packing in exchange for an ’83 Fergie Jenkins. After [...]
As some of you may or may not remember, one of the very first cards that I got in the Topps Million Card Giveaway was a 1988 Astros Team Leaders card. I decided to see how far I could get with trading that card. Last time I reported on this, I got as far as [...]
This is the finale in the 3 blockbuster trades I made over the last week or two that did extensive damage to various wantlists. Chris from Project ’62 had contacted me letting me know that he recently came across a box of beat up vintage cards and offered me some Mets from the box along [...]
I mentioned earlier in the week that I made a couple of trades recently that knocked quite a few cards off of my wantlists. This particular one comes from Peter over at Dropped Third Strike. Amazingly, he was able to kill off all the remaining cards I needed for the 2010 Topps base set. Even [...]
Last week was a pretty good week for me trade-wise. I got three trade offers that ended up doing some pretty fierce damage to various wantlists of mine. Todays episode comes to us from reader Robert, who wasn’t ashamed to admit to being a fellow Mets fan. Rob sent me a box of Mets cards [...]
I had mentioned in the past about wheeling and dealing on a site called Sports Card Fun in the past. I guess I hadn’t really been active on that site in quite a spell as most of the trading that I had been doing of late has either been through this site of through reading [...]
As I’m sure everyone knows by now, Mark from Stats on the Back became a proud papa recently. Being the good father that he is, he’s trying to finish up the 2010 Topps set so that his boy Parker can have his own birth year set. I was able to help them out with a [...]
