TCDB Trade week #3: althib

Finishing off the trade week with another repeat trade partner, J.F. (TCDB ID: althib).  J.F. reminded me why I enjoy trading with my brethren to the north.

I get hockey.   Lots of hockey.

I sent J.F. some early to mid 80's Topps baseball commons + an early 90's Gretzky Score card, and in return I got some PC help, and the start of a couple more OPC sets.

The Keith Tkachuk PC is starting to grow nicely.  Part of the reason is that I took time a few weeks ago to add a bunch of cards to the want list.  These 5 bring the total up to 179, and what's nice is I still have a lot of base card needs for the PC.  Shouldn't be too hard building it up more without breaking the bank.

I don't know what happened for these two releases, but I could title a post for each of them "the dead zone".  Both 2010-11 (Top two rows) and 2016-17 (bottom row) I am virtually starting from scratch on both of the sets.  I must have went on hiatus or what I don't know, but both of these sets were virtually non-existent when I added them to my TCDB OPC want list.  Needless to say, I need hundreds of cards for both of these sets, so if any of you hockey collectors have any doubles lying around, just hit me up.

Thank you for the trade J.F., the cards are really appreciated!  Look forward to the next one...

Enjoy the hobby.

Robert

TCDB Trade Week #3: rl16

Fellow blogger Ray (TCDB ID:rl16) approached one day under the guise that we share a common birthday.  We do, so it really wasn't a guise, but he decided that we had enough on each other's want list that a trade was in order.  

I can honestly say that this trade was more than well worth it on my end.

 Continuing on with yesterday's theme of Allen & Ginter, this trade starts off with a trio more cards from the '19 A&G set, all household names for sure.

2 player collection cards, both of which taught me something.  The Andrew McCutchen is a red bordered card, so I know now that brown is the new red.  The Jim Thome isn't the old Pinnacle, it's a new Pinnacle card.  Even though I'm a year older as of last week, I learned something new.

Ray also included a trio of Serial #'d/99 cards.  He asked if they needed to be stars; no is the quick and easy answer to that.  Just looking to add cards that are serial #'d to 99, and the more names I can add, the better.  These are all new names to the list and the PC is at 78 cards.  

Finally, Ray asked if I'm still collecting T.Y. Hilton.  Even though I really haven't got a whole lot of cards in lately, I said that I'm definitely interested in anything Hilton related (not the hotel).  Boy was I floored when I received this...

Ray said he had received this autograph of T.Y. Hilton before a minor league baseball game last year (assuming it was the Indianapolis Indians), and had it sitting in his room.  He believed it belonged in the hands of a fan, and I can say that I'm very grateful that he sent it my way.  I will have this framed and hanging in my office in the near future.

Thank you Ray for the cards and the autograph, they really are appreciated!!

Enjoy the hobby.

Robert

TCDB Trade Week #3: Thunderfoot

I get a lot of trades come in from guys on the TCDB website that have what I lacked several years ago:  creativity.  There are a lot of great names on the site and I was fortunate to complete a trade recently with John (TCDB ID: Thunderfoot) that sports a name that could represent a football kicker that has some good distance.

I thought of football immediately when I saw the trade that John proposed; he took a few Larry Fitzgerald doubles off my hands, plus some inserts from recent sets that I'd have no need for and in return he sent me back some player collection pieces for both my wide receivers.

I really haven't focused much on adding to both the Fitzgerald and T.Y. Hilton PC's lately, as I've been more in a set building frame of mind.

This isn't to say that I'd turn down a good offer to get some of my player collection cards in hand though!  I've been very partial to the colorful parallels that I've obtained of Larry Fitzgerald since I started his collection, and even though its hard to tell, the Playoff Absolute green parallel in the lower left corner looks really nice in hand.  

While this post doesn't contain much of Hilton, tomorrow's post features a very nice add to the T.Y. collection from a fellow blogger who also shares my birthdate.

Thank you very much for the cards John, they are appreciated!

Enjoy the hobby, 

Robert 

TCDB Trade Week #3: NachosGrande

 I don't consider myself the voice when it comes to the TCDB website, even though I promote it frequently here on the blog thanks to all the trading I've done since the beginning of 2019.  But every time I see a blogger start on the website and start enjoying it, I take a little bit of pride, hoping that my voice was one of many to encourage them to join.

The most recent blogger that I've seen "join the ranks" is Chris from the Nachos Grande blog.  I've known and traded with Chris since early in my blogging days back in 2011 and our trades have always been beneficial to both sides.

Chris offered me up a few cards for my 2019 A&G want list and I snapped up the offer right after I made sure that I had the cards that were going in his direction.

I've recently decided that my one modern set per year that I'm going to build is going to be the A&G set.  I've come to enjoy it more than all the other sets that Topps releases, including the flagship.  Because of this, I've undertaken the project of putting together each of the A&G sets from 2006 to now, similar to the modern O-Pee-Chee hockey release as far as timeline.  I have 4 of them done so far, I'm close to completing 2017 and 2008/2012 both have a good start so I'm looking forward to having these done sooner rather than later.

Thank you for the trade Chris, looking forward to more on TCDB in the future.

Enjoy the hobby!

Robert

TCDB Trade Week #3: fordwaters

 I returned today from a much needed vacation in South Carolina to a mountain of mail.  Not complaining of course, but there's a lot of stuff to go through.  Because of this, I decided to do another trade week on the blog, also because I've been really slacking on the writing for the last month and trade weeks usually get me going for a few days.

One of my favorite TCDB ID's belongs to Ford, a 2nd time trade partner.  His ID is quite simple, it's his name, fordwaters.  It reminds me of someone who should either be on the radio, or writing/performing country music.

Never the less, I managed to add 8 cards to my 1986 Topps football set with this trade.  There's still quite a long way to go, but its still nice to add some cards to the set kind of quickly...

I divided the post of 8 cards into 3 scans.  On the first scan, I remember 2 of the 3 players pictured, Schroeder and Fred Marion.  I couldn't remember Robert Jackson of the Bengals, but he'd been playing for a handful of seasons with the club by the time the '86 set rolled around, so apparently I wasn't paying enough attention to the AFC Central at that time.

Now these 3 Hall of Famers were a welcome addition on the trade front, as I'm usually getting commons to start sets and wind up finishing the sets with purchases of rookies or high end stars.  Let's mark off LT, Payton and Allen shall we?

Bills and Oilers together instantly remind me of the great comeback by the Bills in the playoffs, down 35-3 only to win the game in overtime 41-38.  Moon passed for 4 TD's in the first half, while Andre Reed scored 3 consecutive TD's to turn what was a 35-17 deficit into a 38-35 lead for the Bills.  The rest as they say, is history.

Big thanks for Ford for the cards, he actually was on his way out of town when I sent him the trade offer and still got them out in the mail the next day.   

Enjoy the hobby!

Robert