Waiting Til Next Year - A Trade Post

 P-Town Tom recently dropped a loaded bubble mailer on me and it hit pretty much all my collecting interests.

Plenty of prospects like this new to me Dansby, my first Team USA card of his. 

He dropped all the base cards of players in the Braves system on me from this set plus these Longevity parallels.  

Boom! This guy's cards are stupid high right now so a base plus a parallel are a big addition to my small PC of the fellow Marietta boy. 

Tom also hit my other main collecting  interest - Oddballs. Love that Justice,  I had never seen one like it before. 

Judge Justice sentencing the Merlins..? What!?

Tom sent me a good amount of '93t Braves, making me realize how few I had and that I need to finish my want lists.. the guy must be telepathic. 

The Klesko is another team set need. The Opening Day Smoltz was new to me as well. 

Closing it out with the Braves closer, thanks for all the great cards Tom!

Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Nachos Grande - A Trade Post

Happy St Patrick's Day, here's a card I fittingly got in the mail today. I won it with other cards to curb shipping cost angst. It will find it's way into a Reds collectors mailbox soon...

Getting to the point, Matt aka Bubba  from BBBOBB sent me a surprise bubble mailer full of Braves recently. I guess he's trimming the fat to make room for 2016 Allen & Ginter as I know he collects Braves too. I'll gladly take them!

I wonder if anyone actually ever plays Topps Attax. I remember seeing these on shelves at the time but I believe they've been replaced by Topps Chipz or some other wacky mispelled gimmicky product.

Speaking of gimmicky products, Matt also sent this pair of 1990 Topps Big cards. Again Topps is still up to these same tricks though under a different name and with larger cards that happen to be serial nuimbered. Things never change.

Thanks for all the great cards BUBBA!

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Chris from Nachos Grande also sent me a loaded package last week knocking 16 cards off my 2015 Stadium Club want list.

Here's three of my favorites, great shot of the Rocket in the middle even if i'm not a fan of his. Another great photo showing the classic Les Expos uniforms and a guy I'm starting to collect, Lakeland boy Chris Sale and his wacky delivery.

I don't think i'd ever gotten one of these Topps Attax cards in a trade package before and boom 2 different packages containing them showed up last week, I needed that Maddux for my team set build, 

Thanks for the cards guys and thank you fair reader for stopping by. Happy St. Patrick's Day

I Won! - Bob Walk Contest Haul

I won the Bob Walk 2 year anniversary contest recently and got a package from Matt recently containing my winnings. 

I did not know what to expect, as most of you know trading with Matt is no joke.  Let's just say I felt like I won the cardboard Power Ball upon opening this particular bubble mailer.

Tom Glavine auto folks. On card, an acetate card slab no less and hand numbered to 25... wow that's pretty much all the words I have. Thanks a ton man, you could've just sent this card and dropped the mic but wait there's more. 

Crime Dog! Again on card, I absolutely love Five Star cards but avoid searching for them because of the premium price they command. I had actually been watching a few McGriff autos recently so this was more than welcome to the old collection. 

Another sick card. Nice to have an auto to remember Miller's fantastic single season in Atlanta, thanks for the memories but most of all thanks for the great return you brought in trade!

This may look like a normal 2015 A&G mini of Kimbrel but flip it over...

Again hand numbered to 25. Thanks a bunch for all the great cards Matt you continue to amaze.

Closing this one out with a photo I took today at Braves batting practice of McGriff and the center piece of the Shelby Miller deal Dansby Swanson. I'll be back tomorrow with more pictures and my autograph haul. Thanks for reading. 

Turner Wroster Jenga PWE - A Trade Post

New trade partner!  I sent Tony Burbs from Wrigley Roster Jenga some extra J-Hey cards to congratulate him on his Cubs winning the Jason Heyward sweepstakes. I got his return package last Friday...

There were a bunch of cool cards in the PWE, how can you go wrong with a black and white photo of the late great Eddie Mathews. 

This Spahn '51 rehash makes me realize I need to put the original on my cardboard bucket list. One day Spahny, one day. 

I've passed a few of these Power Players cards onto other bloggers but this is the first Bravo I've come across, even if he is a much richer man 2 teams removed in Detroit now. Enjoy the hot streaks Julie (prepare for equally maddening cold streaks)

One of my favorite parts of Tony's blog is the mass amount of minor league issues he's constantly showing off as part of his ATCR project. He shared the love with these 3 and they were all new to me!

Tony must read my blog, he knows a good base for a trade package is by keeping up with the Joneses'. Both new additions to the PCs.

Oddballs are another frequent subject over at WRJ and these 2 are pretty cool. I have too many of those Showdown cards but this one was a newbie.

Closing it out with a base card? Well yeah it was the only one in the package but it was off my want list!  Thanks for checking that Tony and thanks for all the other great cards, this was our first trade but I'm sure it won't be our last. 

HSCA Trade Post

Recieved a PWE in the mail right after New Years from Brian at HSCA, marking my first trade package of the year.

As usual there was lots of good stuff inside with an extra vintage flair this time around. Including this 1960 Lee Maye that I needed.

In fact I think every card in this envelope was new to me. Jim Pisoni only appeared in 9 games for the club. Cecil Butler only pitched 31 innings in '62 with a 2.61 ERA then didn't pitch again until 1964 even he only made it thru 4.1 innings before the end of his major league career. So 2 short term stops but both much needed for my Topps team set project. 

I love manager cards, this is my first of Chuck Dressen. He hit .272 in 8 seasons at 3rd base with Cincinnati, won 2 pennants as the Dodgers manager and led the Braves to a 159-124 record in 2 seasons. 

Rico, both needed for the team sets!

Always liked Grissom but I forgot how red hot he was in the '95 NLDS hitting .565 then hitting .360 in the World Series before catching the final out AKA the greatest moment in my sports fandom 

It's only 31 seconds, hit play.

Brian also sent these 2 gold medallion parallels from Fleer Ultra which I'd never seen. 

Closing it out with a few of the Falcons he sent over right as his Vikings are about to kick off against Seattle. Even though I watched AP roll over my Falcons in the Dome earlier this year, I'm rooting for you guys in this Ice Bowl that's about to start. 

Thanks for all the great cards Brian and thank you for reading. 

Kevin! A Card Papoy Christmas

Kevin from The Card Papoy was cleaning out his collection recently and offered up some cards to the cardsphere for a simple comment.. Since it's Christmas I decided to pick out some of my favorites he sent and match them up with characters from Home Alone, my second favorite Christmas movie right behind Die Hard and right in front of Jingle All the Way.

If you don't like this movie  you are either much older or much older than I am. Either way if you haven't seen it go watch it now.

Just like if you haven't watched J-Hey here play much baseball you should rectify that immidiately. Kevin was nice enough to send over this refractor #'d/500

 

This Studio card of Ron Gant is great even though he's missing his hat. A much larger hat is behind him.

Much like Joe Pesci's hat is now burned into his skull.

What? You knew it was coming but still...

My daughter stole the Bieber almost as fast as Kevin's parents left him at home in the movie.

Stadium Club inserts?? Yes please, this Glavine "Quick Start" card was sadly missing from my collection for far too long.

Sorry Uncle Frank, my French friend helped me out calm down buddy. Hey check this out...

I declared these the best looking relic cards in the game just the other day and this Hudson did nothing to change that. Great looking card.

O-PEEEEE-CHEEEEEE, Lanceur Smoltz 

2 Upper Deck sets I never see in Florida but the Papoy had stashed away in France.

Again 2 Stadium Club sets I neverrr see.

Tired of Home Alone yet? Ok I promise just one more.

Flair cards are so nice, would love to find a box of this stuff that wasn't stuck together.

I didn't do a count as to see what percentage of Upper Deck cards were sent overseas to me but the majority of the ones I picked out to show were Upper Deck, we need to get a petition to get them their MLB license back.

I don't think I had any of this set.

Upper Deck for the win!

Gold vs Silver, parallel battle for the ages. I vote UD.

In addition to team/player lots, Kevin listed a bunch of sets and I almost request Collector's Choice as it one of my favorites of all time. No matter he packed a bunch of good ones in anyways.

Closing it out with a pair of the Curacao Kid. Thanks for all the great cards Kevin, I am working on a return package for you, just waiting on a couple cards to come in the mail.