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| 1992 Fleer #596 Todd Zeile 1997 SkyBox Metal Universe #230 Ron Gant 1997 SkyBox Metal Universe #231 Brian Jordan 1997 SkyBox Metal Universe #232 Ray Lankford 1997 SkyBox Metal Universe #234 Tom Pagnozzi 1997 SkyBox Metal Universe #235 Todd Stottlemyre 1998 Fleer Ultra Main Set #295 Todd Zeile |
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
2017-06-15
Zistle Trade #31
With this trade post, I'm all caught up with Zistle, because I've been extremely inactive there for the last few months.
I liked the sparkly set that was 1997 Metal Universe, and bought several packs when it was new. Before this trade I only had one uniformed Cardinal, John Mabry, which came in a prize package. Now I've got 6 with the addition of these 5, leaving me Alan Benes, Andy Benes, and Dennis Eckersley to complete the team set. I also picked up 2 Todd Zeiles, one featuring his time with the Marlins, where he arrived with a much higher-profile star, Mike Piazza. Piazza of course was quickly sent to the Mets, and Zeile would go to the Rangers at the trade deadline, and the following season, rejoin Piazza on the Mets. I guess I never realized before they played together for both of those teams and Los Angeles.
2017-04-07
Zistle Trade #30
Today's Zistle trade was just a small handful of cards that filled some random needs in my collection. In return, I sent a few Reds, all from 2011.
Tony La Russa was my favorite non-Cardinals manager as a kid, so I was thrilled when he came to St. Louis. Even when a lot of the local fans turned on him, I was a supporter. Of course, winning 2 World Series helped get him back on everyone's good side, and he left his managerial career on top.
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| 1989 Topps #224 Tony La Russa 1991 Topps #58 Mel Stottlemyre Jr. 1991 Topps #171 Tony La Russa 2012 Topps Archives #24 Lance Berkman 2012 Topps Update #US44 Jeremy Hermida 2012 Topps Update #US68 Fernando Rodney |
2017-04-03
Zistle Trade #29, Part II
Today's the rest of the Zistle trade I started on Thursday. It's all 1989 Upper Deck, and all Cardinals.
However, we can play the old game of "One of these things is not like the other". The first five all show the Cardinals in BP gear, most likely in spring training. Tom Pagnozzi, on the other hand, is in full game uniform, and almost looks like a painting. I can't really explain it, though. He was on the team in 1987 and 1988, so surely would have been at 1989 Spring Training, since they bring in a whole lot of catchers to work with all the pitchers.
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| 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #281 Luis Alicea 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #306 Pedro Guerrero 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #348 Tim Jones 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #514 Jose Oquendo 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #531 Greg Mathews 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #602 Tom Pagnozzi |
2017-03-30
Zistle Trade #29, Part I
Will I post all my Zistle trades before they shut down? Maybe!
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.
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| 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. |
2017-03-25
Zistle Trade #28
While we're all mourning the seemingly inevitable loss of Zistle, I've still got some trades to post from it. This was a pretty small addition for me, but it only cost me 1 card in return.
I don't have a whole lot from the early 80s, so two Cardinals, and eventual Cardinal Lee Smith were good to knock off my want list. I've got plenty of 90s cards, but a sparse amount of insert cards, which is where the Stottlemyre and Jefferies come in. The front side of Jefferies shows his 1B counterpart in the American League, Frank Thomas.
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| 1982 Donruss #404 Ken Oberkfell 1982 Topps #452 Lee Smith RC 1984 Topps #310 Willie Mcgee 1994 Score - Gold Rush #149 Todd Stottlemyre 1995 Fleer - All-Stars #2 Frank Thomas / Gregg Jefferies |
2016-07-24
Zistle Trade #27
I'm not very good with keeping up a First-in-first-out system of stuff to post, because when this trade arrived in the mail I thought, here's a group of cards I can scan and file away quickly. First, because there were only 6 of them, and second, because they are all from the same 1993 Studio set, making the steps to sorting them much shorter.
This trade knocked out about half of my remaining needs for this set, which was mostly just the Cardinals in the set. Although, upon further reviewing the set, I missed Bobby Bonilla, Will Clark, Vince Coleman, Royce Clayton, Larry Walker, Andy Van Slyke, Delino DeShields (Sr.), Willie McGee, Lance Johnson, and Tino Martinez. I must not have ever looked through it exhaustively, but added cards while searching for specific players. So, the net effect of these trade is 4 more cards on my want list. This is actually a set I really like, and I may try to finish it at some point, but for now I'll just try to get at least the rest of the Cardinals.
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| 1993 Studio #47 Jose Canseco #73 Chris Sabo #117 Terry Pendleton #119 Mark Whiten #147 Lee Smith #188 Joe Girardi |
2016-07-04
Zistle Trade #26, Part II
[Part I]
This half of the trade has a lot more Ozzies.
I'm continuing to chip away at 1990 Donruss, and I'm down to error variations for the most part. This Rick Reuschel card is the corrected version. Donruss printed a bunch of the all star cards with All Star stats but with a header implying they were regular stats, and the corrected versions say All-Star stats. It's a subtle and mostly meaningless difference, but I figure, the cards aren't rare, so why not track them all down? Mike Aldrete's card is another error card, which says he's #25 on the back. As you can see from the photo, he was #24. Mike was the assistant hitting coach and then bench coach for the Cardinals a few years ago, so I've decided to collect his cards even though he never played for St. Louis.
The big cards from this trade are at the top of that scan, though, a nice 1982 Ozzie Smith, and 3 1983 Topps Cardinals. I collected every Ozzie Topps flagship base card many years ago, but it's good to start filling in the other brands.
Also, I was sure I've posted a Paul Coleman card before, but I don't have any post tagged with his name. He might be one of the Cardinals worst draft decisions. They chose him one pick ahead of Frank Thomas, yet he never made it to the majors.
I really like these 1993 Leaf cards, so I'm not sure why I didn't have them yet. Now, I do. I was also glad to get a one of the modern Ozzie inserts, the 1972-style mini from 2013 Topps.
This half of the trade has a lot more Ozzies.
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| 1982 Fleer #582 Ozzie Smith 1983 Topps #24 Steve Mura 1983 Topps #74 Julio Gonzalez 1983 Topps #650 George Hendrick 1990 Donruss #663 Rick Reuschel 1990 Donruss - Bonus MVP's #BC-14 Julio Franco 1990 Score #220A Mike Aldrete 1990 Score #662 Paul Coleman 1992 Donruss #423 Ozzie Smith |
The big cards from this trade are at the top of that scan, though, a nice 1982 Ozzie Smith, and 3 1983 Topps Cardinals. I collected every Ozzie Topps flagship base card many years ago, but it's good to start filling in the other brands.
Also, I was sure I've posted a Paul Coleman card before, but I don't have any post tagged with his name. He might be one of the Cardinals worst draft decisions. They chose him one pick ahead of Frank Thomas, yet he never made it to the majors.
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| 1993 Leaf #229 Brian Jordan 1993 Leaf #297 Ray Lankford 1993 Leaf #328 Ozzie Smith 2013 Topps - 1972 Topps Mini #TM-99 Ozzie Smith |
Labels:
1982 Fleer,
1983 Topps,
1990 Donruss,
1990 Score,
1992 Donruss,
1993 Leaf,
2013 Topps,
Brian Jordan,
cards,
George Hendrick,
Julio Gonzalez,
Mike Aldrete,
Ozzie Smith,
Paul Coleman,
Ray Lankford,
Steve Mura,
trade
2016-07-02
Zistle Trade #26, Part I
In my neverending quest for more Cardinals, I made another Zistle trade that knocked some out from multiple sets. I'm still a long way from even finishing base cards from common sets, partially because I want cards like Will Clark on the Giants, Todd Worrell on the Dodgers, and John Mabry with the Rockies.
I also picked up two more 2010 Turkey Reds, and I still need 62 of 100 from Series 1 and 2, and 12 of 50 from Update.
I ran out of space to tag all the cards in one post, so the rest are in part 2, but luckily for ease of scanning I stuck both horizontal cards in the same post. I still remember when Gregg Jefferies came to the Cardinals. I was skeptical, but he made it to the All-Star game. It seems like his career peaked around that time though, and he never really turned into a superstar. Albert Pujols was a pretty good first baseman for the Cardinals, too.
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| 1990 Fleer #54 Will Clark 1998 Score #128 Todd Worrell 2007 Topps Opening Day #214 Fredbird 2007 Upper Deck #675 John Mabry 2008 Upper Deck First Edition #53 Troy Percival 2010 Topps - Turkey Red #TR34 David Wright 2010 Topps - Turkey Red #TR57 Jimmie Foxx |
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| 1995 Fleer - All-Stars #2 Frank Thomas / Gregg Jefferies 2008 Upper Deck First Edition #54 Albert Pujols |
Labels:
1990 Fleer,
1995 Fleer,
1998 Score,
2007 Opening Day,
2007 Upper Deck,
2008 UD First Edition,
2010 Topps,
Albert Pujols,
cards,
Fredbird,
Gregg Jefferies,
John Mabry,
Todd Worrell,
trade,
Troy Percival,
Will Clark
2016-06-26
Zistle Trade #25
This was a small trade on Zistle where I think I got the better end of the deal objectively. But, the trader was a team collector of another team and needed some 1994s I had to spare, so I got these 1981s in return.
I must admit I don't really know much about John Urrea or Bob Sykes; they were on my wantlist because they are Cardinals. And I even forget Bobby Bonds was a Cardinal every time until I'm reminded by seeing a card of his. A lot of that is because these cards are a bit older than I am.
I now have 5 Cardinals from this set, but there's still 21 more to go. That's probably a team set I won't ever finish without purchasing the cards individually, but they'll stay on my wantlist just in case someone offers another trade like this one.
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| 1981 Topps #152 John Urrea #348 Bob Sykes #635 Bobby Bonds |
I now have 5 Cardinals from this set, but there's still 21 more to go. That's probably a team set I won't ever finish without purchasing the cards individually, but they'll stay on my wantlist just in case someone offers another trade like this one.
Labels:
1981 Topps,
Bob Sykes,
Bobby Bonds,
cards,
John Urrea,
trade
2016-06-12
Zistle Trade #24
I made another smallish trade on Zistle, for some needs from the overproduction era. A few are base cards, but 6 of the 9 are either from traded sets or inserts, so they're a little harder to track down.
I've long been working on the 1990 Donruss set, and Ryne Sandberg was one of the two Bonus MVPs I didn't have yet. I've got the other on the way in another trade, too, so that insert set is nearly complete along with the base set, which I think is almost complete except for some errors and variations. I have a lot of 1989 Donruss base cards, but not many bonus MVPs, so the Ripken is a good get for me. The two Todd Stottlemyre cards are just because I collect Todd Stottlemyre, much like the Ozzie, Todd Zeile, and Jose Canseco cards. I put the Team USA cards from 1991 Topps Traded on my list after getting a few of them in the past and liking them, and finally there's a 1993 Topps Gold, also of Ryne Sandberg. I've still got over 780 of those to go to complete that set.
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| 1988 Fleer #276 Jose Canseco 1988 Fleer Update #U-68 Todd Stottlemyre 1989 Donruss Bonus MVPs #BC-15 Cal Ripken 1989 Score Young Superstars II #20 Todd Stottlemyre 1989 Upper Deck #674 Ozzie Smith 1989 Upper Deck #754 Todd Zeile 1990 Donruss Bonus MVPs #BC-10 Ryne Sandberg 1991 Topps Traded #83T Phil Nevin 1993 Topps Gold #3 Ryne Sandberg |
2016-02-27
A Trade With Mr. Haverkamp
Thanks to a post I made about Turkey Red a few weeks ago, a reader by the name of Mr. Haverkamp contacted me with some more Turkey Reds from my wantlist. You've probably seen his name a few times on other blogs, as he's a pretty active trader.
2005 isn't the main Turkey Red set I'm focused on right now, so my wantlist is only the Cardinals and retired players, hence why I've got 5 players who played for the Cardinals, and Wade Boggs.
2010 Topps' Turkey Red insert set is my big target, and I knocked 6 more off that list. I still need 76 of the 150 total cards in flagship and update, so I'm almost at 50%.
This was a nice surprise thrown in with all the Turkey Red, also off my want list. Lineage is a set I really liked but didn't seem to be a big hit, only lasting a single year. I have the entire mini parallel set on my wantlist, but I'll likely never finish it. This Matt Holliday brings me up to just 15 out of the 200 cards.
Thanks for the trade, Mr. Haverkamp!
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| 2005 Topps Turkey Red #54 Chris Carpenter #94 Mark Buehrle #129 Kip Wells #156 Jake Westbrook #229 Dmitri Young #309 Wade Boggs |
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| 2010 Topps - Turkey Red #TR13 Yovani Gallardo #TR20 CC Sabathia #TR29 Gordon Beckham #TR35 Stephen Drew #TR38 Rick Porcello #TR55 Aaron Hill |
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| 2011 Topps Lineage 1975 Mini #9 Matt Holliday |
Thanks for the trade, Mr. Haverkamp!
2016-01-20
Zistle Trade #23
This Zistle trade was mostly from the junk wax era, but I haven't quite filled all those gaps in my collection, so there's a smattering of them on my want list. Oddly enough, my trading partner wanted some "junk" in return, so I figured, why not. I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I think it was mostly 89 or 91 Donruss.
One of these things is not like the others, and that is Bobby Dernier. The others are all Cardinals, and actually mostly guys I remember playing for the team during my childhood, except for Frank DiPino. As for Bobby, I added that to my list awhile back because he was the favorite player of a good friend of mine when he was growing up. I was looking through my collection for a card of his to perhaps try to get autographed through the mail, but I didn't have any, and thus I added a few I should be able to get cheaply to my want list. Now I just need to track down an address for Mr. Dernier, or figure out who he's working for.
I recently purchased a 1992 Donruss Series 1 set, which actually quashed the first trade this particular trader proposed to me. He did it the day after I bought the set, before I thought to remove the series 1 cards from my want list. Luckily my oversight didn't frustrate him, and we worked out a deal removing those cards. Here are the series 2 cards I still needed. If you're not a Cardinals fan, you may have forgotten that Smoltz and Bonilla both finished their careers in St. Louis. It wasn't very long for either one, but I still consider them players I collect. I've waffled about whether I should start collecting Deion Sanders cards. He'd go well with my other two-sport-star collection target, Bo Jackson. He was also a part of the very first baseball game I ever attended. I'll probably complete this base set eventually anyway, so I went ahead and added it to my wantlist, and now I have it.
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| 1988 Topps #642 Bob Dernier 1990 Score #233 Ken Hill 1991 Fleer #633 Bernard Gilkey 1991 Fleer #636 Felix Jose 1991 Fleer #640 Jose Oquendo 1991 Fleer #645 Lee Smith 1991 Topps #112 Frank DiPino 1992 Fleer #589 Gerald Perry 1992 Score #544 Bernard Gilkey |
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| 1992 Donruss #427 Bobby Bonilla 1992 Donruss #442 John Smoltz 1992 Donruss #564 Deion Sanders 1992 Donruss #610 Bobby Bonilla |
Labels:
1988 Topps,
1990 Score,
1991 Fleer,
1991 Topps,
1992 Donruss,
1992 Fleer,
1992 Score,
Bernard Gilkey,
Bobby Bonilla,
cards,
Felix Jose,
Frank DiPino,
Gerald Perry,
John Smoltz,
Jose Oquendo,
Ken Hill,
Lee Smith,
trade
2016-01-08
Zistle Trade #22
As I've said before, my Zistle trades always seem to come in bunches. Here's the second in a rapid-fire group of 3 that were proposed to me.
This card covers an interesting Cardinals fact I didn't know before, which is increasingly rare. Rogers Hornsby won the "1920s Triple Crown", that is, his 10-year totals for 1920-29 were better than anyone else in Home Runs, Batting Average, and RBIs. Another Cardinal, Albert Pujols, completed the feat for 2000-2009. The other two players to do so were Honus Wagner in the 1900s, and Ted Williams in the 1940s. Hornsby and Williams both won 2 single-season triple crowns during their decades of dominance, letting them slack off a little the other 8 years.
The end of 2010 was when I started collecting cards in earnest again, so 2011 was the first time I got to get excited about new set released. I immediately took a liking to the Kimball Champions set, and added them all to my want list. I haven't gotten very far, but this took 3 more off the list. After these three, all from Series 1, I still need 26/50 from Series 1, 44/50 from Series 2, and 45/50 from Update.
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| 2010 Topps - Peak Performance #PP-46 Rogers Hornsby |
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| 2011 Topps - Kimball Champions #KC-41 Pablo Sandoval #KC-45 David Ortiz #KC-49 Jose Bautista |
2015-12-31
Zistle Trade #21
This trade was proposed through Zistle, but was with a fellow blogger, Mark Kaz, of This Way to the Clubhouse. Here's his post on my half (or I guess it's now his half) of the trade.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
The old cards in the trade were a 1986 Topps Traded of Jose Oquendo, the secret weapon, who also played for Mark's New York Mets. The regular 1986 cards seem fairly easy to come by, but the traded sets, as usual, are a bit less common to find. The only other card from that set on my wantlist is Todd Worrell, though a quick look tells me I never went through and exhaustively added all the Cardinals. That would cover the two in uniform, but I collect all Cardinals in any uniform, so I'll be adding Will Clark, Dane Iorg, Joaquin Andujar, and more to my want list. You can see how it balloons so easily.
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
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| 1986 Topps Traded #82T Jose Oquendo 1990 K-Mart #12 Joe Magrane 2011 Topps Opening Day - Superstar Celebrations #SC-12 Matt Garza 2012 Topps Update #US185 Donovan Solano 2012 Topps Update #US285 Ian Kinsler 2012 Topps Update #US319 A.J. Pollock RC 2012 Topps Update #US322 Jordan Danks RC 2012 Topps Archives #134 Chris Carpenter 2012 Topps Opening Day - Elite Skills #ES-2 Alex Gordon |
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
2015-10-29
Zistle Trade #20
I've now successfully completed 20 trades on Zistle, and this one was with a frequent trading partner, who seems to be a Marlins collector for the most part. Every time I add some relatively common cards to my want list, he's usually got a trade for me within a few weeks. I'm certain most of these were added recently, especially the 1993 Studio cards I added when I got the Gregg Jefferies in my last trade.
I like these Studio cards, but I really started collecting Studio in 1997. I liked the design that year and bought a whole box, which was tough to do on the budget of a teenager. Those cards made me appreciate the Studio brand, so through the years I've sought out at least the Cardinals from other years, including those not pictured on the team, as I always do.
The other 3 cards also feature out-of-uniform Cardinals, including rookie cards for Heathcliff Slocumb, who played part of 1999 with the team, and Steve Kline, who played here 2001-2004, and was the league leader in appearances each season 1999-2001. Then there's my long lost cousin, Todd Stottlemyre. I always forget the exact relationship; I think technically it's 2nd cousin once removed. Now I've got to call my mom and maybe grandma tomorrow to sort this out.
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| 1993 Studio #45 Scott Cooper 1993 Studio #62 Todd Zeile 1993 Studio #88 Ron Gant 1992 Donruss #334 Heathcliff Slocumb 1993 Bowman #111 Todd Stottlemyre 1995 Topps #635 Steve Kline / Herb Perry |
The other 3 cards also feature out-of-uniform Cardinals, including rookie cards for Heathcliff Slocumb, who played part of 1999 with the team, and Steve Kline, who played here 2001-2004, and was the league leader in appearances each season 1999-2001. Then there's my long lost cousin, Todd Stottlemyre. I always forget the exact relationship; I think technically it's 2nd cousin once removed. Now I've got to call my mom and maybe grandma tomorrow to sort this out.
2015-09-03
Zistle Trade #19
With today's trade I've filled in 7 more Cardinals cards in my collection, even though only one is actually pictured in uniform. I think I added the Fleer cards to my want list recently, possibly when I got the last of the uniformed Cardinals I needed in another trade. I should really just put the full sets from junk wax years on my list to make things easier, and pick and choose from the more rare sets.
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| 1990 Donruss #697 Mark McGwire 1990 Fleer #7 Mike Gallego #67 Ken Oberkfell #77 Pat Borders #84 Tom Henke #207 Gregg Jefferies 1993 Studio #90 Gregg Jefferies |
2015-08-07
Zistle Trade #18
It seems like anytime I accept a trade on Zistle, one or two more offers come right away, so here's my second trade post this week. I got the higher volume on this trade, sending just two Mike (pre-Giancarlo) Stanton cards for these 10. Looking at the names in the trade offer, I was expecting to see a bunch of Cardinals, but in 1992, only Jose Oquendo was on the team. The rest became Cardinals later in their careers, except Lance Johnson who started in St. Louis
In the background of Jose Oquendo's card, there are clearly two more Cardinals, Andres Galaragga and Ozzie Smith
These are the first cards I've posted of Les Lancaster, Mike Gallego, and Rick Honeycutt, by my reckoning.
It's fun to see a group of cards like this, all with players who were Cardinals, but on lots of different teams. My style of collecting means my "team set" completion takes a bit longer, but the result is more complete, too. I've still got 31 cards on my want list from 1992 Donruss.
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| 1992 Donruss #259 Larry Walker #267 Lance Johnson #269 Rick Honeycutt #277 Delino DeShields #280 Jose Oquendo #295 Jeff Brantley |
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| 1992 Donruss #296 Les Lancaster #314 Mike Gallego #325 Mark Whiten #372 Gregg Jefferies |
These are the first cards I've posted of Les Lancaster, Mike Gallego, and Rick Honeycutt, by my reckoning.
It's fun to see a group of cards like this, all with players who were Cardinals, but on lots of different teams. My style of collecting means my "team set" completion takes a bit longer, but the result is more complete, too. I've still got 31 cards on my want list from 1992 Donruss.
2015-08-03
Zistle Trade #17
Zistle has allowed me to whittle down my want list bit by bit, while helping others do the same with my doubles. I've got a lot of overproduction-era Cardinals still missing from my collection, so every now and then someone finds me and can knock off quite a few of them. This particular trader just wanted a Joe Carter card in return, and as a Blue Jays fan, had a few Todd Stottlemyre cards for me, too.
As I've mentioned before, Todd Stottlemyre and his father, Mel, are distant cousins of mine, which is why I started collecting his cards in earnest. Now since I've widened my collecting net to anyone who has suited up for the Cardinals, I've got two reasons to collect his cards, so I'm glad to have 3 more off my list. The sender wrote a note saying he figured he'd have more Stottlemyre cards I needed, which caused me to check my list and see my want list was far from containing every card of his I don't have, so I've rectified that now. Thus, the net result of this trade for me was my want list increased by several dozen cards. Hooray progress?
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| 1990 Topps #591 Todd Stottlemyre 1991 Topps #348 Todd Stottlemyre 1992 Topps #607 Todd Stottlemyre |
Labels:
1985 Topps,
1990 Fleer,
1990 Topps,
1991 Topps,
1992 Topps,
Cris Carpenter,
Denny Walling,
Joe Magrane,
Ken Hill,
Scott Terry,
Todd Stottlemyre,
Todd Worrell,
trade,
Vince Coleman,
Whitey Herzog,
Willie McGee
2015-05-24
Zistle Trade #16 Part II
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.
Part I
Chris Sabo card twice. But, I'm not too upset about it. The main draw in this trade was the Hostess cards. I'm not sure how many Hostess Baseballs I ate in the summer of 1993, but I feel like it was on the order of dozens. Before these two, I had 25 unique cards from the set, and 9 duplicates. A quick blog search indicates I've received 4 in trade, and sent off a few, so that probably means I got at least 30 from eating the baseball cakes. Most importantly, I now need only 5 more to finish the set.
I found it surprising that these are the first cards I'm posting of Andres Galarraga, Brian Hunter, and Kent Mercker. I'd especially expect a card of Galarraga to have come up by now.
Another nice card in the trade is the Gary Gaetti rookie card. He first played a few games in the majors in 1981, and in an era before the modern Bowman, he didn't get a rookie card until he completed his first full season in 1982.
Part I
Chris Sabo card twice. But, I'm not too upset about it. The main draw in this trade was the Hostess cards. I'm not sure how many Hostess Baseballs I ate in the summer of 1993, but I feel like it was on the order of dozens. Before these two, I had 25 unique cards from the set, and 9 duplicates. A quick blog search indicates I've received 4 in trade, and sent off a few, so that probably means I got at least 30 from eating the baseball cakes. Most importantly, I now need only 5 more to finish the set.
I found it surprising that these are the first cards I'm posting of Andres Galarraga, Brian Hunter, and Kent Mercker. I'd especially expect a card of Galarraga to have come up by now.
Another nice card in the trade is the Gary Gaetti rookie card. He first played a few games in the majors in 1981, and in an era before the modern Bowman, he didn't get a rookie card until he completed his first full season in 1982.
2015-05-23
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.
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.
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.
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| 1989 Bowman #242 Todd Stottlemyre #429 Todd Worrell #437 Terry Pendleton #440 Pedro Guerrero #444 Tom Brunansky |
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| 1990 Fleer #250 Pedro Guerrero #262 Milt Thompson 1990 Topps #82 Scott Terry #688 Milt Thompson #788 Frank DiPino |
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