I Finally Caught The Skunk

This is the second to the last card I need to complete the 2022 Bear Amazing Animals set and it came in a TCDB trade with JBozofsky, who also sent these great cards:

Now, who's got the Crested Gecko?

 

TCDB Trade With Vnbball

Angels team sets, a couple PCs and set needs in there. Down to needing five base cards (which includes the Griffey of course) and a handful of ERR cards to complete the 1989 Upper Deck set.

The two Ryans are period or no period variations.

Those five 2002 eTopps knocks out the 6-card promo set I was after.

TCDB Trade With sspeegle

Not sure why Garret Anderson as a Brave was on my wantlist, he certainly does not look happy about it. I needed those 94 Fleer for the checklist set, but I'm just now realizing that that's Jim Abbott and I'll need another for the Jim Abbott PC.

TCDB Trade With drew-engquist

Shiny-heavy trade here with some nice relics.

TCDB Trade With plevin

Stupid green version of a 2007 Topps checklist. They were considered inserts and came in blue, green or red.

TCDB Trade With Parzival42

TCDB Trade With Robert08

Taylor Ward hitting bombs this year, he's up to 29 with 90 RBI.

Even With My Eyes Closed

 Take a look at this:

1993 Score Select #77

Did he?

Phew! Snow-coned it.

End of Week Recap

Now, on to the most recent PWEs.

TCDB Trade With JBozovsky

Nice trade for a bunch of those Bear Fruit Snacks Jeff needed to build a set for his kid.

Still have lots of dupes if there's any other interest. Just two more cards to go for the Conlon Color Inserts, Ruth and Feller. The Feller had a lesser print run and is a bit pricier.

Time Travel Trading From Diamond Jesters

Some set needs. I started pecking away at 1960-1962 Topps after an old friend gifted me his collection last year. A little more than 1/3 of the '60 set was there and the '61 set was about 130 cards short of a full set. For the '62 set I'm less than 100 cards to go.

Matt also included this nice Angels media guide that he found in a box of Red Sox media guides at a local Goodwill. Thanks Matt! I'll read this too, you'd be surprised how much cool information you can find in a media guide.

TCDB Trade With mattyb87

For the Trout Heritage Chrome and regular I'd have to say that the regular card looks better.

Five Hundred Plus

Moving on from the 500th TCDB trade, here are the next batch of incoming PWEs.

TCDB Trade With matthienz23

Someone please enlighten me, why is company founder Frank H. Fleer's name on Eddie Murray's card? Just part of the design? A tribute?

Giveaway From Bo Rosny

Bo was celebrating a new job and had a giveaway so I was able to pick out a few cards.

That Glamour Shots of Anderson, Edmonds, and Salmon is really something.

TCDB Trade With dobby9

Dobby needed about an equal amount of 2018 Topps Update for these Angels cards.

TCDB Trade With mfreeman

I'm now down to needing just 2 cards for the 2022 Bear Fruit Snacks set.

TTM Return

Not one of my better returns: small, light ink, smudged.

Don Rose signed these in 15 days from his home in San Diego.

TCDB Trade With Rooty10

That black blob is a Metal checklist.

Well That Was A Doozie

As mentioned earlier, I recently completed my 500th trade on TCDB, and for the 500th it was a nice, big trade. I'll get to that in a minute. First let's look at some of my TCDB trade statistics up to and including that 500th trade.

I signed up for TCDB on January 27, 2012.

My first trade however was not until February 14, 2023 (borosny) I wish I hadn't waiting that long!

My 500th trade was made on July 25, 2025, less than a year and a half later.

I've had 334 different trade partners from 2 countries: USA and Canada.

I've traded the most with jsteved (10x).

I've Withdrawn 57 proposals (usually after 2 weeks with no response) and have had 40 Declined from other traders for various reasons.

I've received 5,395 cards and traded 4,900 cards (and I thought I was doing great at giving away extra cards. Guess you can't outgive these folk).

There was only 1 trade where I never received the cards in return, and the guy disappeared.

I have 100% positive feedback.

At the moment I have 5 trades In Progress, 1 in Offers, and 1 in Proposed.

And I'm loving it.

Now the 500th, a very nice trade from Balzer with whom I've traded 5 times.

That's 66 cards right there, thanks Balzer.

Now let's see how fast I can get to 1000!

Inching Closer

Getting closer to a TCDB milestone, if you want to call it that, my 500th trade. But first, here are some other cards.

Return Fire from Thoughts and Sox for a BAG I sent him.

TCDB Trade #496 and #497 With Golden Eagle555

Boy I love those Bowmans Best, what a nice design.

One of the cards offered in the original transaction came up missing so Steffan offered these five as a replacement, under a separate transaction number.

TCDB Trade #498 With somnus2

No longer a high priority set build but I still pick up cards here and there when I can.

TCDB Trade #499 With Elway744

Focused on promo and game cards in this trade, got some beauties.

Next up is my 500th TCDB trade.

An Elephant Never Forgets

I'm not calling Bo an elephant, but like the saying, he didn't forget (although I did) that I sent him some stuff a while ago, so he's now returning the favor, starting the weeks mail off with a nice little package.

Return Fire From Bo (Baseball Cards Come To Life)

Lots of nice little gems in there.

And I'm calling Polonia safe.

TCDB Trade With jamestagli

A couple Jordan Walden autos for the All-Time Angels collection.

Down to needing just 3 cards now for the 1993 Ted Williams base set.

TCDB Trade With jweech

Not a fan of over-sized cards, and definitely not a fan of Rendon, but sometimes you have to.

  

TCDB Trade With cory79

Collecting Patriots in the middle of Summer kinda bothers me.

TCDB Trade With ryanvantol

I wouldn't mind if True Value put out cards again.

More Summer Patriots, which were offers, not asks.

Bought Myself A Little Treat

I used to be a big-time Hot Wheels collector. Most of those are now gone, I think I have maybe a box of them left, less than 50 pieces still on the card, and several of those carrying cases of loose cars. I will admit though that I still check the Hot Wheels aisle from time-to-time, but now I only look for Sharkruisers, the one model I still collect.

Today I was in Dollar Tree getting some stuff, and although I didn't find a Sharkruiser, I did see this:

A fun pack with a mystery car!

Although not a COMPLETE mystery, I wasn't too impressed with the 10 cars that were available to pull, but hey, for a couple bucks why not?

Comes with a little comic book full of games, and two pretty cool sticker sheets.

I'm sure I can find somewhere to stick these.

And the mystery car?......

Lethal Diesel

Okay, not too corny like some of the other ones.

I'll keep it.