1955 Topps to trade and current want lists!

Lets swing a deal!!! Well that makes somes 54s and 55s posted for trade now....  lets see how long it takes to get some 56s posted!  Condition is what it is....  for 60 year old cards they look pretty darn good.

Vintage to trade:

1954 Topps: 48 58 61

1955 Topps: 23 72 76 81 82 83 84 86 88 101 102 106


WANT LIST:


1955 Topps: 1 2 4 5 6 11 15 18 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 30 31 34 36 38 41 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 54 55 56 57 58 63 65 66 67 68 69 73 74 75 77 79 80 87 90 91 92 94 96 98 99 100 105 107 108 110 111 112 113 114 115 118 119 120 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 114-169 172-176 178-183 185+

1956 Topps: 1 4 5 8 10 11 12 15 16 20 23 25 28 30 31 33 40 45 69 79 81 83 88 93 94 95 98 99 101 103 107 110 112 113 118 120 125 126 128 130 135 142 145 146 150 151 154 156 159 161 164 165 166 172 174 176 178 180 181 183 186 187 188 189 190 191 193 194 195 196 197 198 200 201 207 208 209 212 213 214 215 216 220 223 226 227 228 229 231 233 234 235 236 238 240 245 249 251 252 253 254 258 260 261 262 263 266 268 270 275 282 285 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 295 300 306 308 309 310 311 312 313 315 316 318 319 320 321 324 329 331 332 333 335 337 340

2013 Ginter mini inserts want lists---

Bicycles-   FINISHED!!!

All in a Days Work: Clergy, Firefighter, Paper boy, Pilot, School teacher, Soldier

I have lots of inserts from the last 3 years to trade....just let me know and we can work out a deal.

2013 reg mini:

  353 357 378 382 388 391

2013 A&G back mini:

 302 308   

2013 black mini:

2  128  236 328 332 335 337 340 345 348

TO TRADE:

2013 reg mini: 5 23 33 37 39 41 47 62 70 107 118 119 125 128 142 147 154 177 183 203 205 231 242 247 278 294 315 320 329 334 335 336 340 way more than listed here....

a&g back: many more than just what i have listed

4 16 18 24 26 29 31 33 66 69 73 81 85 88 92 93 94 96 100 106 109 112 116 119 131 138 139 147 148 183 191 194 203 204 205 208 211 216 217 222 223 225 227 231 232 236 243 245 249 260 267 270 273 279 291 294 318

OTHER WANT LISTS-----

1960 Topps wants:

  316 332 480 509 522 547 550  (some of these are upgrades-- really only need 316, 343, 480---otherwise known as McCovey RC, Koufax and Yogi)

2008-09 UD Masterpieces HOCKEY Brown Border needs: ALL DONE!!!!!!

2008-09 UD Masterpieces HOCKEY Brown Border cards I have to trade: 1 5 8 9 13 23 24 35 38 39 40 42 43 51 56 60 62 68 69 72 79 86

2012 Ginter Gold:

1 7  9 12 14 40 49 79 87 90 128 137 157 197 200  203 211 232 237 313 325 328 348

2012 Ginter Ext mini: 352 354 363 364 365 367 371 374 376 391 392 395

Kimball mini want list:

  66 72  

Kimballs to trade:

3 4 5 6 8 12 15 20 22 24 25 28 29 31 33 34 35 36 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 56 58 67 68 73 84 89 91 102 112 114 116 119 120 121 122 130 132 136 137 139 142 144 145 146 148 149

2011 Ginter reg back mini:  372

2011 Ginter A&G back: DONE 

2011 Ginter Black mini:  327 

2010 Ginter black minis: 346 347

2011 Ginter base insert needs:
        Floating Fortress: FFF-5
        Ascent of Man: AOM-8
        Minds that made the Future: MMF-1, 9, 14, 17, 18, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 36, 40

2009 Ginter black minis:17 30 43 53 66 67 76 101 102 110 114 136 144 160 196 231 246 252 271 276 303 307 308 310 311 314 317 320 323 333 335 339 340 342 344 346 347 350

2008 Ginter black minis:  DONE!!!!

2010 Ginter reg back mini: 12 46 108  375 

2010 Ginter mini Worlds Biggest: 7 10 11 14 16 17 19 

 2009 Ginter extinct animals mini: 3 5 

 2006 Ginter Base cards: 5 285 305  

 2009 Goudey 4n1(Red): 22 33 81 

08 Masterpieces Baseball Navy /125 : DONE!!!

 08 Masterpieces Baseball Brown /100: 7  96

1978 Topps want list:

 21 36 102 109 155 180 273 320 360 375 400 407 412 460 500 614 670 708 709 721

PENDING ARRIVAL

Wooster OH card show haul 12/14 edition COMC blaster style

    The long anticipated card in Wooster Ohio came on a morning in which we got coated in a couple of inches of snow.  A more sane person might think well it's not a great show and so it's not worth the 45 minute drive considering the conditions, I however do not think like that!  Of course with my mini wantlists the way the are there is little chance that I would even knock something off them at a card show and that was the case once again.  That, of course, did not stop me from making some purchases and my choices,  I think were better than those at the last show I had went to.
     I have noticed people referring to their purchases from COMC as COMC blaster box buys....I love that thought and would like to have a post like that, except my COMC purchases end up more like hobby boxes in that I spend a whole lot more than $20 on those shipments.  I can however refer to this card show haul as my version of a COMC blaster box with tax I suppose as the following cards ended up setting me back $22.

First up are these pair of Edward Vela drawing/sketch cards I suppose.  I had never seen or heard of these things before.  They didnt set me back a whole lot, they looked cool, 1 is a 5/25 print of Bob Feller( I mean, how can I pass that up) and the other is a card of Ray Chapman.  I figured worst case scenario I know an Indians collector or 2 who might like to get their hands on 1 or both these.  Does anyone have any thoughts on these?  Am I crazy for finding them cool?   

Next up is the most expensive card I bought on the day dropping $8 on the 1956 Don Mossi, which is a 56 that I needed which gets me 1 step closer to 50% of the set and means a want list may soon be posted though I am not sure if it matters seeing as how I was able to pull off 0 trades towards my 1960 set with a posted list.    Oh and I am pretty sure that Mossi is also the nicest condition card in my 56 collection as well.  The rest of the cards are all hauls from a .50 box that got rounded down to $8 for the bunch.  Most are pretty self explanatory HOFers and all  but I should point the Bruce Smith while seemingly out of place-- he is a Hokie so you know I had no choice but to pick it up.  The Reggie and Fisk 08 Masterpieces looking things were picked up because they didnt have the canvass texture like the Masterpieces I know as they were glossy.  After checking with the king of the masterpieces  turns out they were from some special Yankee and Red Sox team sets or some shit.  Paid me a buck to find that out...  I suppose the 75 Dewey is not a HOFer but I think of Dewey as a HOFer soo there is that.

Yep another football card but a 71 Jurgensen can not be passed up for .50.  Same goes for the Bob Lilly down below as well.   Oh and yep I did pick up a Jim Rice card even though I dont consider him a HOFer, most overrated worst HOF selection in many years.  The 65 Rick Wise, well you throw a no hitter and hit 2 HRs in that same game.... well I am gonna buy your card

I guess to some up.... this would be why I don't think I will ever be buying another actual blaster of cards... how could a blaster ever match that haul?  

thanks for reading and as always-- Let's make a deal!!!!

A Sushi Platter disguised as baseball cards.....

Now I am not normally a fan of Sushi or even the idea of a sushi platter, but if it's served up by Nomo's Sushi Platter well I gotta say its all good.  Michael and I pulled off a trade a few months back with me sending him some glorious ginter mini inserts and him sending me this platter of Jays sprinkled with a few ginter inserts along with the Awesome 2013 ginter NNO mini of Chris Davis!!!   A great trade all around and I am hoping we can swing another deal at some point....I always got me some ginter mini inserts to trade!!!  Thanks Michael!

As always lets make a deal!!!!

trade bait?

Any of these of any interest to anyone????  Let's work out a deal!!!

The Hanley goudey, the Yunel Escobar auto, the AGON relic, Tulo Relic and both  Helton relics have all been claimed

Current want lists....

Reposting because I am an idiot and don't know how to get my sidebar with links back.....

2013 Ginter mini inserts want lists---

Bicycles-  Messenger,  Quad for two

All in a Days Work: Clergy, Firefighter, Paper boy, Pilot, School teacher, Soldier

I have lots of inserts from the last 3 years to trade....just let me know and we can work out a deal.

2013 reg mini:

 92 173  263  353 357 365 378 382 388 391

386/400

2013 A&G back mini:

 2 44 302 303 306 307 308 309 323 338 347  

339/350

2013 black mini:

2 14 34  69 99 120 128 130 162 194 217 236 282 287 305 309 313 315 317 319 328 332 333 335 337 340 345 346 348 350

230/350

TO TRADE:

2013 reg mini: 5 23 33 37 39 41 47 62 70 107 118 119 125 128 142 147 154 177 183 203 205 231 242 247 278 294 315 320 329 334 335 336 340 way more than listed here....

a&g back: many more than just what i have listed

4 16 18 24 26 29 31 33 66 69 73 81 85 88 92 93 94 96 100 106 109 112 116 119 131 138 139 147 148 183 191 194 203 204 205 208 211 216 217 222 223 225 227 231 232 236 243 245 249 260 267 270 273 279 291 294 318

OTHER WANT LISTS-----

1960 Topps wants:

102 115 160 316 332 343 361 381 394  480 509 522 547 550  (some of these are upgrades-- really only need 316, 343, 480---otherwise known as McCovey RC, Koufax and Yogi)

2008-09 UD Masterpieces HOCKEY Brown Border needs: ALL DONE!!!!!!

2008-09 UD Masterpieces HOCKEY Brown Border cards I have to trade: 1 5 8 9 13 23 24 35 38 39 40 42 43 51 56 60 62 68 69 72 79 86

2012 Ginter Gold:

1 7  9 12 14 31 40 49 74 79 87 90 108 110 128 137 156 157 158 163 177 188 197 200  203 211 229 232 237 261 270 271 301 313 318 325 327 328 348

2012 Ginter Ext mini: 352 354 363 364 365 367 371 374 376 391 392 395

Kimball mini want list:

  66 72 80 95 

Kimballs to trade:

3 4 5 6 8 12 15 20 22 24 25 28 29 31 33 34 35 36 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 56 58 67 68 73 84 89 91 102 112 114 116 119 120 121 122 130 132 136 137 139 142 144 145 146 148 149

2011 Ginter reg back mini:  372

2011 Ginter A&G back: DONE 

2011 Ginter Black mini:  327 

2010 Ginter black minis: 346 347

2009 Ginter black minis:17 30 43 53 66 67 76 101 102 110 114 136 144 160 196 231 246 252 271 276 303 307 308 310 311 314 317 320 322 323 333 335 339 340 342 344 346 347 350

2008 Ginter black minis:  DONE!!!!

2010 Ginter reg back mini: 12 46 108  375 

2010 Ginter mini Worlds Biggest: 7 10 11 14 16 17 19 

 2009 Ginter extinct animals mini: 3 5 

 2006 Ginter Base cards: 5 285 305  

 2009 Goudey 4n1(Red): 22 33 81 

08 Masterpieces Baseball Navy /125 : DONE!!!

 08 Masterpieces Baseball Brown /100: 7  96

1978 Topps want list:

 21 36 102 109 155 180 205 273 310 320 360 375 400 407 412 460 500 614 670 708 709 721

PENDING ARRIVAL

2013 RIP card part deux --- the double RIP edition

Yep new for this year are the double RIP cards, and it is tough getting used to the fact that these are going to cost a good bit more than the plain RIPs to become a part of my collection.  I was able to nab each of these for around $10 shipped which is more than double what i usually spend on RIPs, I tend not to go over $5 shipped for most all of my other RIP cards.    These all present quite nicely and it looks like none were ripped by some of the fools that destroyed some of the cards in my previous post.... must be the ripping a picture that makes folks a bit more careful.  

I like the Smoltz/Kimbrel card, though not a Braves fan I can respect the greatness of both of those guys.  The Cueto/Latos card is about as blah as you can get, meanwhile my favorite of the 3 is the Profar/Olt, and well really any card with Profar is going to be tough to beat.  I like the double RIPs especially if it makes people more cautious when ripping so as to keep the cards fully intact...now I just have to see about breaking out the real cash and buying myself an unripped double.

2013 RIP Cards

Thanks to this discussion over at home of the Play at the Plate, I figured I should go about showing off some of the RIP cards that I have.  It is safe to say I probably have more RIP cards than any sane person should, but well I may not be all that sane!

As you can tell by the front of these cards they all look like nice normal regular cards, well until you hold them as they are much thinker than normal cards.  Turn them over and that is where it gets interesting because as you can tell not all people who rip RIP cards are of equal talent or skill or competence.  I mean look at this variety of how this process is handled.

It is a shame to see how some of these cards are just destroyed.   That said I still love them all and so long as you just pay attention to the fronts of the cards they still display nice, but really there is no excuse for ripping the whole back off of one of these.  As folks who follow ginter know there was a new wrinkle added to the RIP cards this year and in my next post I may just show you what the new wrinkle is.  

Now thats a TRADE!!! real world MLB edition

WOW!!! The Tigers and Rangers decided to pull off a fantasy baseball trade.... Prince Fielder for Ian Kinsler straight up-- well not quite there is also $30 million going along with Prince to Texas to help pay for the massive contract Prince has remaining.  A big trade like that requires some big cards to be shown.. so here are the 2013 Rip cards of Prince and Ian along with the Prince Fielder ext mini....  Oh and there is an example of a less than ideal RIP card back on the Fielder RIP.  If only the ripper would keep in mind to just stop and not rip the whole middle strip off.  Of course there are much worse looking backs out there and someday I will show some of those.  Nothing more to add...but dang that is a big trade for this time of the Hot Stove season.

1954 Topps doubles up for trade

I am going to go through my vintage stuff and post my dups by year and put them up for trade.  Hopefully they will fill the bill for someone out there as they need a good home.  All I am looking for in return is something of comparable condition and year and well something that I need, but we can work that out.  I don't have many 54s and I am not helping out much by not listing who I have, but let me know who you want to trade and I will let you know.  I only have 30 of these 54s so its likely I need whatever you have to trade.

Thanks for looking and lets make a deal!

Card Show haul 11-17-12 @ Newark OH edition

Yep I went to a card show today and man oh man was it a waste of my time, but rather than make the drive and leave empty handed, I decided to spend some money with  only dealer that had a vintage cheapo box. We can call this haul the 3 protected by holder amigos and assorted older junk.  I pretty much bought the 3 cards and took some lower quality vintage off this guys hands.   The 56 Dick Donavan is a pretty nice card and it was a card that I needed for my fledgling 56 Topps collection.  The 66 Killer is another card I needed for a an aspirational attempted set and then that leaves the glorious 53 Topps Al Rosen.  What can you say about that card other than when looking at in the holder it really looked not so rough, but man the scanner pulled out all the flaws that are quite evident when taking it out of the holder.  I still like it though for a 53-- it looks just fine for my collection.  Not much to say about the other cards other than it sucks that my scanner decided to hide the bottom of that Milt Pappas card.

No real rhyme or reason to why I picked these cards, well other than I picked up all the 60s cards that weren't completely trashed.  That and the Bobby Grich and Bobby Bonds just spoke to me... the Bonds I have no idea why, while I must admit a soft spot for all Bobby Grich card.  

So thats what I picked up at what will probably be my last trip to that lame show in Newark.  The whole lot cost me $12 so not bad for card show prices in my mind, obviously all the value is in the first 3 cards.  If you happen to desire any of the well loved cards let me know I may be able to trade them away.

Check out my want lists and lets make a deal!!!