Knocking Down The Stack

 Typically I like to give the larger packages I receive from bloggers thier own posts, but I've been inundated with trades and packages that I need to clear up some space, so I'm combining you all.

This will be all over the place as you will see: Angels, checklists, headers, set needs, PC needs.

PIF from Johnnys Trading Spot

I was the recipient of one of Johnny's flat rate boxes stuffed with cards. On the right are about 110 Garret Anderson cards. Johnny must have closed down his G.A. PC or bought out a collector. In all there are about 250 Angels cards in those 2 stacks. It's going to take me an afternoon to input these all into TCDB. For now, I'll pick some out to highlight.

Josh Hamilton on the Angels. Oh what could have been if he wasn't so unhappy to be there.

I was a huge Todd Greene fan back in the day, even when he left the Angels. Glad to have this gold version of his Bowman card.

Tons of Montgomery Angels.

Always helpful when Johnny leaves a note, and glad he noted the glossy. About a year ago I went to check on my 1987 Fleer Angels and noticed several glossy in with the regulars. I had to go dig the replacement cards out of my dupes box.

I knew about the factory version of those Donruss cards but was avoiding them as part of the Angels team sets. Since Johnny gave me almost a complete set, I now have to go get the ones I'm missing to complete the Factory Set team sets. He gave me a bunch of '90 Donruss Factory cards as well.

This will be Adell's big year, I can feel it.

PIF from Night Owl

Greg saw I was collecting the 1983 Glossy's and sent a bunch.

Thats 21 of the cards that I needed. When I went to TCDB to input these I realized I needed a lot more than I thought. I still need 16 for the 40-card set.

TCDB trade with Johnsogr

Mostly hitting up Angels minor league team sets in this trade, and a few more for the 1992 Upper Deck Minors set.

TCDB trade with BaltOrioles

Team collectors got to have the full panel too, like this 1987 Key Foods with Wally Joyner.

The larger card is a 1985 Inteleisure Whoozit? trivia card. Pretty cool Jim Fregosi oddball.

Who can name the other photos on the card?

TCDB trade with bravefan1

Traded a bunch of Braves for a bunch of random Angels.

TCDB trade with kskillman42

That "D" is the last letter I needed to spell out "DIAMOND COLLECTION".

Ken threw in the 1970 Checklists and '89 UD stickers. Super nice.

TCDB trade with cardboardjones (The Card Chop)

Just the one cool National Baseball Card Day card in this trade.

Return Fire from GCRL (Cards As I See Them)

Interesting in that I had missed that Carew on my TCDB wantlist and just added it the night before this came in the mail. I thought the Woodruff was a mistake until I turned it over and saw the #444.

TCDB trade with Chemo

It was kinda hard to believe that I didn't already have this ProCards Tim Salmon, and I'm happy to get this sweet Studio header card.

TCDB trade with Yeahsox

The Ryan is the 5,000K's/King of Kings variation needed for the PC.

TCDB trade with hawkking

The red-bordered Legion Field checklist card is from the 1990 Pan Am Team USA set. Jim Abbott has a card in that set as well.

Thats all for now but there's another stack to get to scanning.

Last of the TTMs For Now

 

Lachemann was a coach for the Angels from 1984-1992, and 1997-1998.

He managed the Angels from 1994-1996

Marcel signed these cards in 14 days from his home in Nipomo, CA.

He is 83 years old.

Joe returned these cards in 66 days from his home in Johnson City, TN.

Joe is 91 years old.

He has the first win in the history of the expansion Washington Senators (now the Texas Rangers).

I do have one other TTM out to Thad Bosley, he's had it since December 12th, and he usually takes about month to return according to SCN. It's been almost two now, and his backlog is building, so I'm not so sure about it.

Padrographs Unopened Packs

As I mentioned previously, Rod included 4 unopened packs of cards for me to rip and enjoy myself.

The first two packs were 1996 Pinnacle Denny's Holograms cards.

There are 28 cards in the set, Tim Salmon being the only Angels representative. Let's see what I get.

Jeff Bagwell, good pull. The set is loaded with stars so you really can't go wrong.

Each pack includes this blank-back info card, which is also cool, but I already have one in my Info Cards Binder. It's interesting that Coca-Cola is a sponsor, but the only indication is a small Coke logo on the back. 

Not Salmon (it's okay, I already have one) but another star in Wade Boggs is a good pull although I'm not a Boggs fan.

It might be a nice little set to collect. I'll have to think about that.

The next two packs were 1992 Upper Deck Minor League which is great because it's a set I'm collecting, so this will be really fun. My money is on that Rod somehow knew that and this is not just a coincidence. I'm down to needing just 11 base cards, the two PROMO cards, six of the Top Prospect Holograms (1:18) and most of the Player of the Year inserts (1:9). Hopefully I'll get a hologram card which is a tough pull.

PACK 1

Off to a great start, I needed two out of this pack: Mitchell and Mieske. Also pulled two Angels which is always nice.

PACK 2

Unfortunately, I have all of these, but that's what happens when you're down to needing just nine base cards. Still enjoyed the thrill of the rip though.

Thanks for thinking of me Rod.

Padrographs Passes It On

Living every collector's dream, Rod ripped a ton of stuff over the Christmas break (like 20 blasters or something crazy like that) and was nice enough to send me the Angels he didn't need (probably all of them!). Enough leftovers to fill a box.

He even included four unopened packs of cards for me to rip myself. More on those in a future post.

Rather than scanning and showing every card (which I started to do but got overwhelmed) I'll just pick out some of the highlights.

This design still makes my head spin, but I have never, in my life, found a pack of these out in the wild, so I'm glad to have them.

Some samples of some of the shinier stuff included in the box.

Always fun to get a prospect autograph, with the hopes that he'll make it in the Big League someday.

Rod had to Bip me with a dozen or so Victor Mederos rookies.

I always get a kick out being Bipped.

About a week after the box came, Rod hit me with a PWE containing three more Angels cards, including another prospect autograph, and two of my favorite current Angels.

I'm very thankful that I seem to be Rod's Angels go-to guy.

They Accumulate Like Snow, or Not

Just when I think things have slowed down on TCDB, trades seem to accumulate like snow, in the Northeast at least. Around here if we get a snow, it typically doesn't accumulate or is gone by the next day. 

Here are the latest TCDB and other trades that have come in recently.

TCDB trade with TimR

Interesting that the Gold Medallion edition of the Joyner card is a completely different photo. I don't know the exact issue that Ultra changed from just adding the Gold Medallion logo to the base card.

Happy to fill in Angels and PC guys whenever I can but I think that this year on TCDB I'd like to concentrate more on knocking out the odd subsets I like to collect, like those below.

1998 Pinnacle Performers - Swing for the Fences Players/Points

Fifty cards in the Player set (I only have 16), and fifty in the Points set (I have 14).

1999 Upper Deck - MLB 2000 Contest Game Pieces

Even though you only need to spell out "MLB 2000" with the seven cards, there are 33 cards in the set, each one having a different Game Tip (that tiny font on the bottom). I have 12 of the 33.

There are silver (PR200) and gold (PR10) versions of the "2" card which are scarce, meaning another set I may never complete.

TCDB trade with Vnbball

The two Pacific Legends are the misspelling errors. I just need the Don Larson error and the checklist variation for Set I. I need six cards for Set II.

The last two Glow Stars I needed to complete the 1993 Fun Pack set.

The Company Store is a white-back variation and the last I needed to complete both the gray and white-back 1990 sets.

I love Fleer Stickers.

I'm now down to needing just one Blue Jays variation to complete the 1983 set.

TCDB trade with njavgjoe

Some Angels and miscellaneous needs. 

The Fleer stickers and gold parallels were a throw-in, thank-you-very-much.

My 2008 Timeline set build hasn't been much of a focus lately, but I'm glad to get a little chunk of them added. This might be the year to focus more on that set, I'm down to needing 80 cards, mostly high numbers of course, of the 385-card set.

TCDB trade with wayoutwest

Shane is in the Armed Forces Europe, and I've traded with him before for Bear Fruit Snacks Animal cards. He had a lot of Angels needs for me also.

And he threw in some extra football cards as well.

TCDB trade with Yardbird38

Richard had a bunch of odd-set needs I wanted, and of course I found some Angels there as well.

TCDB trade with alanskontra

The 1981 Topps Coke header card was the draw for this trade.

The Joyner and Cimber are two extras Alan threw in.

TCDB trade with billwill305

The goal of this trade was to get caught up with Angels in 2025 Update.

Trade with Diamond Jesters

I picked up this 1966 Topps I needed for the Angels team set from Matts Time Travel Trading series.

Freebies from The Diamond King

This PWE of "Thanks for Reading" cards kept getting RTS back to Kevin. 

Glad it finally made it here.

Not My Kind of Pack

A second trip to Target shortly after the trip when I bought the Archives I posted about, found me in the card aisle where all they now had left was a single pack of Stadium Club. I bought it of course because I love to inflict pain upon myself. Let's see how frustrating this will be.

Not a bad start, but I am always hoping to pull an Angels card. I do like Joey Votto but it's not a card I'll keep.

Three Marlins in a row. It's going downhill fast.

Followed by three Cardinals in a row. Nice collation Topps. Keep an eye on the Goldschmidt.

ANOTHER Goldschmidt, chrome version. The Paige red parallel is kinda cool.

Then this pack went straight to hell.

Of all the teams, of all the players on those teams, these three.