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!!!

I bought a Panini card

Not just any old Panini card but a Dave Stieb 2013 Hometown Heroes Hometown Signatures card No HSDS, and it just so happens to be my first autographed card of my all time favorite Blue Jay Dave Dave Stieb.   I would have never even had know that Mr. Stieb was in a current set if not for reading about all of Dayf's Heywards. Yes, once again reading a post at the blog Godfathers site led to a purchase of cards, something tells me I am not the only person that has that happen.  I can never say it enough finding The Cardboard Junkie oh so many years ago is one of the main reason I returned to collecting cards and in turn getting inspired to write a blog--- not a very good blog--- but a blog nonetheless.

Seeing as how I dont plan on buying any packs of this Panini issue if anyone has any other cards of Dave Stieb or any other Jays in all their logo-less glory, I would be glad to take them off your hands!  Or any other Stieb autos actually.

I hit this one on ebay on a BIN/OBO almost as soon as it went up, offered the seller $6.00 shipped and he took it.  Not bad for an auto of a favorite player, but I am sure not a steal.

As always I am looking to trade for your Ginter minis and at this stage I am getting anxious to get these 2013 sets finished.

Let's make a deal!

Joy of a completed page--2013 Ginter black mini edition 20 mini page style

My first completed page from the 2013 Allen & Ginter Black Border mini set features cards 141-160.  I don't have much to say, you can take in all the cards in all their glory as they are featured in this page.   This is the first year that I have used 20 mini pages versus the 15 mini pages, I have to say I like way the 20 mini pages work out, they compact the sets enough that I can use 1.5 inch binder to hold all 3 mini sets.  It is a nice group of cards with a nice mix of retired HOFers and current rookies and oh yeah AL BUNDY!!!!

If you have any black minis (or any minis actually) to trade, check out my want list and lets make a deal!!

Quick trade with a Rangers fan

Much thanks to Spiff of the quite simply named Texas Rangers Cards for a simple trade that knocked a couple of Kimball mins off my want list, or so I thought.  Turns out, Spiff wasn't satisfied sending me just 2 kimballs so he included about 30 assorted Blue Jays cards as well.  Nothing wrong with that especially when the loot includes a Terminator Tom Henke card and Mr. Tomorrow I'll be Perfect - Dave Stieb and of course the smooth swingin' John Olerud.  I tend to not  play favorites when it comes to Jays cards but if I had to pick an all time favorite player, it is without a doubt Dave Stieb.  I have no idea why beyond the fact that in the early 80s he really was the only good player the Jays had.  Oh well doesnt matter I guess.  The moral of the story is that receiving  Dave Stieb cards makes me happy and that you really can't go wrong trading with Spiff.

Oh and he covers the trade much better than I do, so he has that as well.

Thanks for the trade!!!