TCDB and Blog Trading

Trading for me has slowed down quite a bit the last couple months as I've had some other things I was focusing on, and I was going through sheets of stamps too fast, but then it picked up again.

I have completed 402 trades in 21 months of trading on TCDB though. Here are the latest several with a blog trade as well.

TCDB trade with wiredon65

1989 Topps LJN Baseball Talk

I wish I had paid more attention to these when they came out. They'd make a great set to chase, and I would have loved to hear all the players voices talking baseball. I could probably find the recordings on YouTube but that wouldn't be as cool as loading the card in the player and listening that way.

1981 Topps Coca-Cola Team Set Header

Topps put out eleven different team sets each with their own header/advertisement card.

I now have eight of them, just missing the Astros, Mets, and Pirates.

1993 Duracell Power Players Checklists

While most collect the player cards, I collect the checklists. For these two 6-card checklist sets, I'm now just lacking the checklist for Series I, Set 6.

TCDB trade with bleblanc74

2023 Heritage SP

Like the revolving door that is the Angels pen, Estevez is already with another team, the Phillies.

1992 Stadium Club

Though low on the priority list right now, it is football season, so I picked up some for the Patriots team set.

TCDB trade with TpocketT

1995 Bowmans Best - Refractors

A while back I posted about those animal cards found in Bear Fruit Snacks. I have a bunch of extras, so I traded a few to another collector of the set for this Salmon card.

TCDB trade with Thick McRunfast

aka Nine Pockets

Twenty-three 1989 Pro Set cards.

A few posts ago I mentioned that I was toying with the idea of collecting this set since I already had close to half of it.

I guess this means that I'm now committed.

Blog trade with Diamond Jesters

I picked these up through Time Travel Trading.

I was recently gifted a collection that included the bulk of the 1961 Topps set.

I figure I'll pick the rest of them off here and there.

TCDB trade with kcjays

The Bowmans Best Bachman is an extra throw-in. Thanks Merlin!

And the other Chrome are all Sonic cards denoted by the Topps Chrome logo in the upper left, except Rendon's card, but he has the Sonic code on back. Why did Topps even make these?

TCDB trade with RyanFrueh

Oh look, a couple more '89 Pro Set.

 

TCDB trade with Gunny Musgrove (x2)

2023 Topps Heritage - Clubhouse Collection Relics #CCR-JW Jared Walsh MEM

 2022 Topps Gallery - Next Wave #NW-10

Gunny proposed the first trade with these Angels cards for a White Border '24 Heritage Max Scherzer card he needed. I've always preferred a grey swatch to a white one.

1993 Skybox The Return of Superman

I proposed the second trade to Gunny after I saw that he had a bunch of these Superman cards I needed. I'm close to completing the base set, then I'll move on to the inserts.

TCDB Completed Transactions #5 and #6

The fifth TCDB transaction comes from kcjays who reached out to me offering this card:

What he asked for in return was for world peace, or for me to continue blogging. I couldn't deliver on the world peace, but I can definitely keep blogging. After seeking some confirmation, he assured me no strings attached. I was kind of taken aback, but not surprised, because that's the kind of community this is. Generous.

And I really appreciate it.

Transaction six comes from stevienicks77, also known as LV's TTM Autographs and Baseball Cards.

You'd think I already had a bunch of the 88T Buice cards, and I do, but I'm wanting a full 9-pocket page of them since it's one of my favorite Angels cards. I only need one other now.

The checklist card I pulled from my Checklist binder to include with the Angels team set a while back, so I needed to replace it.