A short time back I mentioned that in my rips of 2013 Topps, I have pulled 4 die cuts of two players. Offered my extra Darvish and Adam Jones for trade, and the waxcaptain emailed me about the Darvish. A quick PWE later and the captain has his Darvish and I get these to enjoy in return.
Oh minis, how I love thee! Two years worth of Konerko minis crossed of my list. Gotta like that.
And the captain loves to deal in color. I have neither insert - now I do!! Victoriano also included a couple Sox '13 base as well as two Linage cards that I needed - well selected from the blind, Captain!!
Thanks a bunch for the quick trade and for padding out my binders with more needed White Sox. Go hit up Victoriano for a great and quick trade. BTW - still have the Jones if someone wants it.
Over the past week, I have received 4 mailings. One is an eBay purchase, which I'll get to later. The other three are from bloggers. Wouldn't really call them trades though. Here's what I mean:
Good ol' Jaybarkerfan hit me up with yet another power of the stamp mailing. Nine glorious White Sox in the envelope. Here's three that span 10 years and 3 uniform changes for the south siders.
We have here an 1982 Fleer Trout, a 1986 Topps All Star Guillen and a 1992 Topps Hough. Winners!
Next up we have Underdog Card Collector, doing a little unbeaten in regulation Blackhawks dump on me. It's nice that I have an envelope ready for him to go out with me basically doing the same thing to him - he just beat me to the mailbox. Must have been the pill in his ring. The goodies?
STICKER!!!! I had forgotten about those 1989 Topps stickers so it was nice to see one again. Pair that with UD Vintage Amonte (and more), Crown die cut Daze and a funky feeling (think UD Canvas) Topps Premier Thibault and you have a nice package. Watch your mailbox, UD.
Last up is a trade I am calling a dump (on my part). Fantastic Catch Weston and Andrew's Baseball Card Andrew inquired about any 2012 series 2 and Update doubles. Holy moley - do I have doubles!!! I was more than happy to dig through and fill their lists as best I could. I cleaned out about one row in a 2000 count box. Weston made me an offer I couldn't refuse in exchange for all my doubles...
MMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSS! These are the first 2012 minis I have received. Weston sent me darn near a complete White Sox set, along with that Aparicio Golden Moment and a beaut of a gold Beckham, numbered 29/61. Weston also sent a few regulation sized cards as well.
Every Thursday, I post a card showing a ballplayer wearing a throwback uniform from my collection. Hopefully, he will be wearing it well, with proper pants blousing. I'll try not to duplicate a uniform. The picture may be from the front of the card, or the back. Enjoy the uniforms from years past.
Usually when you think of "5", at least in the musical sense, it kinda sucks. Oh sure, the Dave Clark Five is great. So is the Jackson 5. I'll even fight for the Osmonds. But, for all the good groups of 5, you are stuck with crappy fivers, like here, here, here, here and here. Who wants those?
Anyway, I want to focus on the super cool side of 5, that being 5 great trade packages I have received over the past....let's just call it 5 days. Makes the whole five thing wrap around like a warm burrito.
With only half the diarrhea.
Let's start off with the large stack I received from TJ at Junior Junkie. TJ has posted a couple times about some Griffeys I have pulled and posted over at APTBNL. Heck yeah you can have them, TJ. I did a dig through and pulled all the Juniors I have that I am willing to part with (only kept a couple I just love too much to part with), but dropped all the rest in TJs lap. In return, he sent me a STACK of White Sox. A good hundred plus. If I was short on team sets, TJ filled the holes. I am still sorting them, but I pulled six to scan and share.
There's one for the throwback binder. And I have never seen that "Little Dawgs" insert set before. Like I said - a stack from AJ, and I appreciate them all. Thanks man.
Next up, we are heading over to the site Underdog Card Collector, run by Zach. Zach set his eyes on a couple cards from the PWE trade page, and in return sent me a few Blackhawk reprints.
Ten in total. I never knew these existed. These are quite sweet and great additions to my collection. Cuz really, can one have too many Blackhawks cards? You know what I mean. Zach and I are gearing up for trade two, and if you check out his site, he is very game to trade with anyone, so give him a look and send him an email.
Trader three is the partner team of Chris and Kyle from Old Foul Cardboard. Chris is the older dude always cracking the reigns on the cooler Kyle. It's a father and son thing. Chris started with the Christmas giveaway, and it then blossomed into some cards for both Chris and Kyle. Chris was interested in some relics, and I was quite happy to flip a few into this.
Manufactured or not, I think it's mighty cool, and glad to get one into my collection. Chris added in a nice stack of hockey and a dang near complete 74 White Sox team. Again - I gotta get sorting. Kyle then stepped up with some 2012 White Sox cards I needed. I didn't want to pull the ones I had in my set for the Sox group (soon to be binder), but Kyle nailed it with the cards he sent. A blind picking from him gave me most of what I needed. And to sweeten the deal, these two were added.
How I don't have that pre-roid Sosa is beyond me, but now I do. And I am firmly thinking of starting a PC of Addison Reed, so this nice Bowman Platinum makes for one less I will need. You all really need to get trading with Chris, and especially Kyle, a 10 year old collector of Bruins and Yankees.
Two more quick ones I received today. First is AJ at The Lost Collector. I have no idea why I never reached out to AJ before, but he also found a card on the PWE trade and was able to send me a gold in return. And for added measure, put in a few extra cards. Three cards towards my '08 Ginter and then these babies.
There's the gold PWE swap. Then we have a shiny Danks from Lineage. And BAM!!! Magglio relic! That bat was the surprise of the package for sure. I own zero Ordonez relics while he was a south sider. Now, I have one. Thanks a bunch, AJ. Again - check him out. Great blogger and an easy trade.
If you read this far - thanks. We finish off with the Night Owl. Greg is a wonderful nightly read, and always a trade package you will like to receive. I think this envelope was just a return for a couple PWEs I have sent over the past month, as well as a bribe for a certain green sparkle I pulled from a 2013 pack. Yes, you can have it!!!! Cuz really, who would want a Kershaw greenie when you can put cards like this in a binder.
Another great Reed RC card - X refractor to boot, a white parallel Turkey Red of Javier Vasquez and then a killer '52 White Sox. That is a pen mark on his shoulder - who frigging cares!!! That card is all levels of awesome. Thanks as always, Greg.
So there are five great trades from five great bloggers:
Every Thursday, I post a card showing a ballplayer wearing a throwback uniform from my collection. Hopefully, he will be wearing it well, with proper pants blousing. I'll try not to duplicate a uniform. The picture may be from the front of the card, or the back. Enjoy the uniforms from years past.
Love them or hate them. Deal with the possibility a fair amount of them may be fake. Accept that while they are called "game used", they are really more event used, or even used who the heck know when, relics are a part of the hobby. While I remember the first autograph I ever pulled from a pack of cards (Jose Vidro), I can't recall the first relic I ever pulled. It just wasn't that memorable an experience. I have pulled a ton since. Some are really nice, and others....well....um.... they do have a piece of material or wood on them, right??
The only classic relic cards I own are a couple bat relics, one of Al Kaline and the other of Nellie Fox, and a jersey of Griffey Sr. (which I display on my wall with a jersey of his son). But I really love the relics put out in Allen and Ginter. Not just because of the mini, but because of the frame.
Topps seemed to take the time to understand the older A&G cards, and not only did they do the card design well, but they made the framessurrounding the relics and autographs a homage to the Ginter of old. Just go to eBay and search Ginter N4 or Ginter N5 and you'll see what I mean. The frames, prior to 2012, really captured the beauty of the tobacco cards. As with other of my favorite relics, I hang 3 A&G cards on my wall.
As you can see, we have an Ichiro jersey from 2008, a Konero bat from 2007 and a Morel autograph from 2011. Three beautiful framed relics.... in a frame.
If I squint like this, it appears to be six cards.
I am fortunate to have a relic from each year of A&G.....but one. I own no 2006 Ginter frames. Maybe someone has a White Sox framed mini they would love to part with??? (Hint Hint). And maybe I just updated my trade bait page? And maybe.....just maybe, I would be more than willing to do a two for one swap, or even a 3 for 1 swap, to get my hands on a 2006 White Sox relic?
We are probably all on overload with Topps 2013 release. I finally got a chance to get a few packs, and from here on out, it's probably a pack or two here and there. Yeah - I am probably full of crap saying that, but it sure sounds nice. Anyway, after the bank account damage done today, let's look at the final totals of what I consider are my hits. This comes from a blaster, a rack pack, 2 jumbos and 5 retail packs.
MIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSS! I know I will suffer the wrath of the Night Owl, but I like these more than the full sized vintage '75. I can say something mean like that because I am fairly confident a package he is sending me has already left his possession. If not, ummm...er...
You want to collect One Direction cards, Owl.
Four die cuts. And yes - it is exactly like you see it. Two different dang players. My dumb luck. So if any of you have a die cut of a White S....what. There are none? Dammit. Ummm.... if you are interested, let's talk.
From my blaster. Everyone contain your excitement. Make a single, orderly line. Yeah - this is also available for trade.
There are 4 Twinkies in the whole set. I pulled one. I am calling this a frigging hit. (Note to Topps - enough with the Yankees.)
Nick said it best - that is a killer photo of Feller. There is such an incredibly large library of images in the world from older players. Topps should work on finding those odd pictures and get them on cards.
"Game day bucket g..." Hell if I am saying that about this. However, that black border was a great pull from a jumbo pack. Now I just need the red, blue, pink and cammo to get the rainbow of Kotchman. Oh yeah - I forgot. I don't give a crap about him.
Ok - there's my final take on 2013 Topps for a few months.
