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Tag: Trades

CollectingPosted onJanuary 3, 2019July 8, 2019

The First Trade of 2019!

There’s plenty to post around these parts – it’s time for another State of the Blog entry, a couple fun finds, some Twitter sale highlights…

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AutographsPosted onDecember 29, 2018July 8, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Just the Hits

It’s time to officially put July to bed before the year’s end (note: this will bring me caught up on trade posts through August). Back…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 27, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Highly Belated and Completely Neglected

Yowza, time to get back to the good ol’ trade backlog. I’m determined to get through July before year’s end – there are only two…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 22, 2018July 8, 2019

Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you’re having an excellent day. For us, we’ll be hitting two of the three families today, with the third to…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 13, 2018July 8, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Sticking To It

I’m going to see just how “productive” I can be here across the next couple weeks. I’ve got my Brubaker’s Dozen Finds of eBay kicked…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 11, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: A Superb Surprise!

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I hit the score of the year last week, rather unexpectedly. I’m itching to post about…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 11, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Feeling (Dodger) Blue

Time to keep things moving around here. Like these cards that came in from another TCDB trade back in June. Yup, that’s a lovely pair…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 10, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: A Little of This, A Bit of That

Alright, I’m officially the king of cranking out three to five posts in a couple days, then letting this thing go dormant for at least…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 6, 2018July 10, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Johnny’s Trading Spot

Whoa. I’d forgotten all about this one. Back in May, Johnny sent me a whopper of a package filled with fantastic new Astros cards. Get…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 5, 2018July 8, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Going Jake

I’m trying to power through the overdue trade posts as quickly as possible so that I can get as close to caught up by the…

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Moonshots

A somewhat crazy list of cards and ephemera I want most.

  • A Jeff Bagwell printing plate
  • A Bill Brubaker on-card autograph (’39 or ’40 Play Ball)
  • A Nellie Fox autograph
  • Any of the original 1962 Phillips “Here Come the Colts” magazines
  • An uncut sheet of the twelve 1967 team issued cards
  • A Colt .45s bobblehead
  • The “Streaking Orbit” bobblehead

Top Targets

A quick list of cards which are most desired at the moment, as dictated by random collecting whims.

  • 2018 Big League Gold Parallels: 86, 104, 304
  • 2019 Topps Chrome Refractors: 28, 62
  • 2019 Topps Fire Inserts
    En Fuego: Gurriel Gold Minted parallel
    Fired Up: Correa (+ Gold Minted parallel)
    Flamethrowers: Cole Blue Chip
    Max Velocity: Fisher Blue Chip parallel

Flagship Needs

One of my goals is to finish off all the Colt .45s / Astros team sets – let’s say by the end of 2023, since there are some dang ol’ high numbers in there.

Topps Needs

  • 1962 Topps #126 Al Cicotte (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #156 Merrit Ranew (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #177 Bobby Shantz (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #526 Hal Woodeshick
  • 1962 Topps #536 Dick Gertner
  • 1962 Topps #556 Al Spangler
  • 1962 Topps #568 Jim Golden
  • 1962 Topps #598 Rookie Outfielders (Ed Olivares)
  • 1963 Topps #312 Colt .45s
  • 1963 Topps #338 Russ Kemmerer
  • 1963 Topps #442 J.C. Hartman
  • 1963 Topps #491 Harry Craft
  • 1963 Topps #538 George Brunet
  • 1963 Topps #544 Rookies (Rusty Staub)
  • 1963 Topps #553 Rookies (Brock Davis)
  • 1963 Topps #576 Johnny Temple
  • 1964 Topps #544 Steve Hertz / Joe Hoerner
  • 1966 Topps #530 Robin Roberts
  • 1966 Topps #539 Bill Heath / Carroll Sembera
  • 1966 Topps #548 Gary Kroll
  • 1966 Topps #557 Felix Mantilla
  • 1966 Topps #566 Mike Cuellar
  • 1966 Topps #576 Dave Nicholson
  • 1966 Topps #586 Claude Raymond
  • 1966 Topps #596 Nate Colbert / Greg Sims
  • 1967 Topps #337 Joe Morgan
  • 1967 Topps #447 Bo Belinsky (incomplete stat line)
  • 1967 Topps #543 Dan Schneider
  • 1967 Topps #564 Alonzo Harris / Aaron Pointer
  • 1970 Topps #672 Leon McFadden
  • 1971 Topps #583 Ron Cook
  • 1972 Topps #679 Bob Fenwick / Bob Stinson
  • 1972 Topps #716 Jesus Alou
  • 1972 Topps #732 George Culver
  • 1972 Topps #747 Jimmy Stewart
  • 1972 Topps #770 Jim Wynn
  • 1973 Topps #613 Bob Boone / Skip Jutze / Mike Ivie
  • 1973 Topps NNO Astros Checklist

Donruss Needs

Fleer Needs

  • 1963 Fleer #36 Joe Amalfitano

Score Needs

Upper Deck Needs

Set Killers

A non-exhaustive list of cards that will finish Astros team sets for me. Assassins are most appreciated.

  • 1988 Donruss Baseball’s Best #150 Billy Hatcher
  • 1988 Fleer Star Stickers #88 Nolan Ryan
  • 1989 Topps Big #291 Scott Servais
  • 2000 Upper Deck Hitter’s Club #4 Craig Biggio
  • 2001 Topps Traded – Chrome #T96 Tim Redding
  • 2012 Allen & Ginter #345 Nolan Ryan
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