Zistle Trade #29, Part I

Will I post all my Zistle trades before they shut down? Maybe!

1983 Fleer Main Set #3 Steve Braun
1983 Fleer Main Set #19 Mike Ramsey
1989 Bowman Main Set #435 Tony Pena
1990 Donruss #676 Cal Ripken, Jr.
1990 Fleer Main Set #276 Rich Gedman
1991 Topps Main Set #58 Mel Stottlemyre Jr.

This trade had a bunch of Cardinals, along with the Ripken All-Star card, one of the very few from 1990 Donruss I didn't have yet. I also knocked another Stottlemyre off my list, Mel, Jr., son of Mel and brother of Todd. And there were just enough players in this trade I had to split this one into two posts.

eBay Wins #240

1989 Bowman is like that kid in middle school that hit a growth spurt and became awkwardly tall. Consequently, they don't quite fit into my normal card boxes, which frustrates me as an organizer. But I still collect them, because they were the first Bowman set after a long hiatus for the brand.

1989 Bowman
#13 Jim Traber
#23 Wes Gardner
#25 Bob Stanley
#33 Jim Rice
#36 Ellis Burks
#57 Jerry Reuss
#62 Carlton Fisk
#67 Dan Pasqua
#86 Brook Jacoby

Jerry Reuss had a ridiculously long career, the first three seaosns with St. Louis.

1989 Bowman
#92 Frank Tanana
#95 Steve Searcy
#99 Paul Gibson
#105 Alan Trammell
#113 Jeff Montgomery
#120 Kurt Stillwell
#138 Joey Meyer
#146 Rob Deer
#148 Jeff Reardon

1989 Bowman
#173 Jamie Quirk
#178 Steve Sax
#203 Scott Bankhead
#207 Mike Jackson
#218 Jeffrey Leonard
#219 Jay Buhner
#254 Tony Fernandez
#265 Paul Assenmacher
#276 Dale Murphy

Jamie Quirk played for the Cardinals in just one of his 18 seasons, 1983.

1989 Bowman
#300 Jose Rijo
#205 Rob Dibble
#315 Joel Youngblood
#322 Mike Scott
#345 Alfredo Griffin
#349 John Shelby
#350 Mike Marshall
#373 Wally Whitehurst
#374 Randy Myers

This is apparently the first Joel Youngblood card I've posted. He played for the Cardinals during the first part of the 1977 season, for 25 games, the least of the 5 teams he played for.

1989 Bowman
#380 Keith Miller
#383 Kevin Elster
#386 Mookie Wilson
#388 Kevin McReynolds
#393 Bruce Ruffin
#402 Mike Schmidt
#403 Tom Herr
#412 Scott Medvin
#426 Barry Bonds

Tom Herr is a member of the 1982 World Series team whose Autograph I don't have yet. I really need to track him down at a show some time.

1989 Bowman
#429 Todd Worrell
#438 Jose Oquendo
#446 Eric Show
#454 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
#455 Garry Templeton
#458 Roberto Alomar
#459 Carmelo Martinez
#463 Don Robinson

Garry Templeton was a Cardinal for several years before being traded to San Diego for Ozzie Smith. Both were shortstops, and both wore jersey #1 before and after the trade.

1989 Bowman
#482 Checklist 122-242
#483 Checklist 243-363
#484 Checklist 364-484
#261 Mel Stottlemyre
Reprints #1 Richie Ashburn
Reprints #8 Satchel Paige
Reprints #9 Jackie Robinson

As I've mentioned many times before, I'm a semi-distant cousin of Mel Stottlemyre and his two kids, Todd and Mel Jr. I never thought to look for a card featuring all three of them before, so I had no idea this existed, and now it's a pretty cool addition to my collection.

36 of these cards came out of packs I just opened, which means 3 cards have gum stains on the back. I'm never sure what to do with cards like that. I definitely don't want to accidentally send them to anyone in a negotiated trade, where they're expecting a specific card in a decent condition, so I don't want to just throw them into my collection. Yet I have no real way to mark cards in my collection that are less than stellar condition. I'll probably just put them in with the rest of the cards and hope it never comes up.

The packs were part of a lot where they worked out to be a penny per card, but that's if I count the packs as only having 12 cards. In fact, those reprint contest cards were a bonus insert in each pack, and look enough like cards rather than filler to me, so all 61 were a total of 58 cents.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	4286
Total Spent	$57.85
Per Card	1.35 cents
Change	-0.006 cents

Zistle Trade #16 Part I

My Zistle trading binge continues, and this time I got enough Cardinals that I had to split into two posts just to tag them all. In return, I sent off some 2011 Topps Lineage cards, several of which were triples and quadruples, because I bought several discounted packs and blasters of that set.

1989 Bowman
#242 Todd Stottlemyre
#429 Todd Worrell
#437 Terry Pendleton
#440 Pedro Guerrero
#444 Tom Brunansky

Ah 1989 Bowman, the cards that don't quite fit in standard sleeves and boxes, and often get bent up when mailed in a stack of standard cards. Luckily with 5 of them they stayed pretty safe in the envelope. I didn't have very many of these, so I've still got 12 Cardinals on my want list.

1990 Fleer
#250 Pedro Guerrero
#262 Milt Thompson
1990 Topps
#82 Scott Terry
#688 Milt Thompson
#788 Frank DiPino

I still need 7 more Fleer cards, and 17 more Topps cards (including some Tony La Russa and a Derek Lilliquist) to complete my current Cardinals wantlists for these two sets. If I ever get ridiculously flush with free time, a PC I would start would be guys wearing #37, so that Scott Terry card has great things ahead of it in my theoretical future.

Tis The Season Winnings, Part III

Sometimes, I procrastinate posting and sorting some cards. Normally I don't pay too much attention to how long a particular item has been sitting on my desk, but given that this one was the Tis the Season contest from 2013, I've probably had it in my possession for a little over a year now. But, even with the long delay, I still want to throw Jeff at 2 by 3 Heroes some referral traffic while I show off my prize.
Part I II

In addition to some Allen and Ginter cards, the prize included some Cardinals, as well as some Red Sox and Yankees. Today I've got some of those to show.

1986 Donruss Highlights #47 Bruce Hurst
1988 Fleer #350 Steve Crawford
1988 Fleer #353 Rich Gedman
1988 Score #384 Tim Controy
1989 Donruss #37 Carlos Quintana
1989 Donruss #311 Jack Clark
1989 Donruss #516 Larry McWilliams
1989 Donruss #630 Dale Mohorcic
1989 Donruss #633 Dennis Lamp

Besides the obvious Cardinals that I collect, some of the Red Sox and Yankees are players I collect too, since they once played for the Cardinals, like Jack Clark and Rich Gedman. That's not to say I don't like the other cards. One of my long-term, low-priority goals is to complete all of the relatively cheap and abundant sets from about 1987-1993

1989 Topps #402 Mike Greenwell
1989 Topps - All Stars #17 Vince Coleman
1990 Kmart #4 Ozzie Smith
1990 Bowman #427 Don Heinkel

This Vince Coleman card is one I needed, so that's nice to knock off my massive wantlist. Just for fun, I found all three posts of my previous copies of the Ozzie Smith card, since I get a lot of random piles of Cardinals, much like this prize. I really like that set, though, so at the very least, perhaps it will help me eventually trade to complete the 1990 Kmart set.

eBay Wins #139

Today it's 1989 Bowman, the junk wax cards that always seems to have bent tops or bottoms due to the slightly elongated size compared to 99+% of other cards. These actually weren't bad, despite being shipped with other regular sized cards.

1989 Bowman
#305 Rob Dibble
#432 Joe Magrane
#450 Dennis Rasmussen

Since 1989 is still prior to my baseball-watching days, I did have to flip these cards over to the back to verify that I read the signatures correctly. I'd recognize Joe Magrane anywhere, and I would even have a decent chance at spotting Rob Dibble, but I don't think I could pick Dennis Rasmussen out of a lineup.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3134
Total Spent	$49.87
Per Card	1.591 cents
Change	-0.001 cents

Spring Training Giveaway, part 2

[Part 1]
I won another contest at Number 5 Type Collection. After ranking the 5 teams I wanted from what he had to offer, I tied another reader and so wound up with half the Tigers and Red Sox.

1981 Fleer Stickers #13 Carl Yastrzemski

1981 Fleer Stickers #34 Dennis Eckersley

1981 Fleer Stickers #53 Jim Rice

1981 Fleer Stickers #58 Carlton Fisk

All 4 of these Fleer Stickers have Hall of Famers on them. That's pretty awesome.

1982 Donruss #5 Alan Trammell

1983 Donruss #5 Jack Morris

It's kind of crazy that Donruss used the same Diamond King design in 1982 and 1983. I never knew that before just now.

1986 Sports Design Products Tigers #5 Mickey Cochrane

It took me awhile to track down what set this one was from. The confusion came in that the back just says 1986 Sports Design Products, but there was a league-wide set that year by that name as well.

1989 Bowman #26 Roger Clemens

This card doesn't fit in a regular sleeve. Between these and Topps Big, I need to find some more accommodating supplies.

1992 Denny's #5 Jack Clark

I'd never seen these Denny's cards before, I must have started collecting after they came out that year. I have several from later years.

2005 Fleer Tradition #141 Bobby Higginson

2005 Fleer Tradition #121 Johnny Damon

2006 Tristar Prospects Plus #21 Jason Place

2007 Topps #28 Brandon Inge

2007 Topps #87 Alexis Gomez

2007 Topps #280 Curt Schilling

2007 Topps #294 Mike Rabelo

2007 Topps #304 Kenny Rogers