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

eBay Wins #146

Today I've got a half dozen 1991 Leafs (Leaves? No, I checked. Pluralizing proper nouns doesn't work that way), picked up for a penny each on eBay.

1991 Leaf
#306 Scott Fletcher
#410 Roger McDowell
#414 Norm Charlton
#416 Chris Nabholz
#424 Dave Rohde
#431 Jamie Quirk

I always like to look up information on the more obscure Cardinals among my somewhat random eBay wins, and Jamie Quirk played just 48 games for the Cardinals, in 1983. He had an 18-year career, but only played 984 games. Over his career, he played every position but Center Field and Pitcher at least once. It seems like you don't see a lot of that anymore, backup catchers playing fielding positions. Occasionally a big hitting starter like Yadier Molina or Buster Posey will get a "day off" - at least for their knees - at first base, or a promising hitter will be outright moved for a new promising catcher, like Joe Torre or Todd Zeile's move to Third Base.

I now have 121 unique cards from the 1991 Leaf set. I already had a copy of Chris Nabholz's card, but the other 5 were new. With only 528 cards in the set, I'm over 22.9% of the way to completion.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3223
Total Spent	$50.73
Per Card	1.574 cents
Change	-0.001 cents

Baseball Cards from Bo, Part II

[Part I]

Bo from Baseball Cards Come to Life contacted me about a trade, and he even did all the work picking cards from both my wantlist and tradelist to set up the swap. Here's another part of my haul.

1984 Fleer
#323 David Green
#332 Jamie Quirk
#336 Ozzie Smith

Here are 3 of the 17 Cardinals I didn't have from 1984 Fleer. I don't really know Jamie Quirk, and I was only somewhat familiar with the name David Green, but I definitely know the gentleman on the right.

1990 Fleer #260 Ozzie Smith

Another Ozzie! The cool thing about Hall Of Famers from the overproduction era is that there are lots of cards available.

1993 Hostess #21 Benito Santiago

I sent off several of my 1993 Hostess duplicates, and got this one in return, leaving me 7 left to go in the set.

1990 Donruss

In part I, I mentioned Bo and I worked out this trade while madding was sending me a prize. So here's yet another part of this trade that got duplicated by madding. Maybe I can put together 2 full 1990 Donruss sets, though I have no idea why I'd do such a thing. I bet I would be the only guy ever to do so if I did.

Since the 1990 Donruss isn't as exciting as it originally was, the best part of this trade is left for the 3rd and final post of this trade.