Tradin' Time in Portugal

Every once in a while I used to see a random comment from someone who called herself Ana Lu.

I didn't think to much about it because there are a lot of folks who read some of our humble blogs.

Recently, I discovered that Ana Lu has her own blog now ! She does  a great job of analyzing cards and has a very interesting outlook on collecting. You can read her words of wisdom at Hobby Cards of Europe.

We had a few conversations via email and decided to work out a trade.

Here are some of the goodies that I received in her package !

 

 

 

 

She has followed my meager blog enough to know I collect wrappers.

I received a nice little stack including a couple I can use in my collection !

 

There was also this interesting piece.

 

 

 

A  "You Crash the Game" checklist

 that I have never seen before.

 

 

Ana Lu was worried that she didn't have many Cleveland Indian cards to send

 but picked some nice ones.

I needed the Jason Donald rookie card, and she also

included my favorite player, Jason Kipnis!

 

Next she touched on my love for the history of the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this set !

 

I have some others to go with them.

 

Even a wrapper in my collection ! 

 

 

Situated right next to the 1995 Denny's wrapper is the

1995 Comic Images

Phil Rizzuto's

"The National Pastime".

 

 

Thanks go out to Ana Lu,

for a great trade package !!

 

 

 

 

 



2012 Want List

I have cards listed in red.  (Still working on list from Topps Chrome on down!)

2012 Bowman

 43 Casey Kotchman
      Gold

 58 Justin Masterson
      Gold

 126 Carlos Santana
       Gold

 150 Shin-Soo Choo
        Gold

 167 Asdrubal Cabrera
       Gold

 177 Ubaldo Jimenez
        Gold


2012 Bowman Prospects

 BP3 Francisco Lindor
 BP91 Dillon Howard


2012 Bowman Chrome

 43 Casey Kotchman
      Refractor

 58 Justin Masterson
     Refractor

 126 Carlos Santana
       Refractor

 150 Shin-Soo Choo
        Refractor

 167 Asdrubal Cabrera
       Refractor

 177 Ubaldo Jimenez
        Refractor




2012 Bowman Chrome Prospects

 BCP3 Francisco Lindor
 BCP91 Dillon Howard


2012 Bowman Platinum

 40 Ubaldo Jimenez
      Gold
      Green
      Red
  41 Carlos Santana
      Gold
      Green
      Red
  95 Asdrubal Cabrera
      Gold
      Green
      Red


2012 Panini Triple Play

 22 Asdrubal Cabrera

 23 Carlos Santana

 24 Grady Sizemore

 242 Asdrubal Cabrera - Focus

 278 Bob Feller - Hall of Fame

  Stickers
      22  Grady Sizemore


2012  Topps

 6 Nick Hagadone RC
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 96 Grady Sizemore
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 130 Asdrubal Cabrera
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle
   
182 Michael Brantley
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 205 Justin Masterson
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 216 Jason Kipnis
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 306 Ubaldo Jimenez
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 314 Matt LaPorta
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 436 Chris Perez
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 469 Vinnie Pestano
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 541 Jack Hannahan
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 566 Jason Donald
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 569 Travis Hafner
   Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 570 Zach McAllister RC
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 582 Shin-Soo Choo
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 583 Josh Tomlin
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 603 Lonnie Chisenhall
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 638 Derek Lowe
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 656 Carlos Santana
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

2012 Topps Update

 US17 Joe Smith
     Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US31 Esmil Rogers
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US48 Asdrubal Cabrera
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US81 Lou Marson
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US94 Kevin Slowey
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US97 Shelley Duncan
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US121 Johnny Damon
   Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US146 Casey Kotchman
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US200 Chris Perez
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US228 Aaron Cunningham
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle

 US287 Dan Wheeler
    Gold
    Blue
    Red
    Black
    Gold Sparkle


2012 Topps Archives

 48 Grady Sizemore  ('54 Topps Design)
      Gold

 128 Shin - Soo Choo ('80 Topps Design)
      Gold

 147 Justin Masterson  ('80 Topps Design)
      Gold

 156 Ubaldo Jimenez  ('84 Topps Design)
       Gold

 168 Carlos Santana  ('84 Topps Design)
       Gold

 174 Asdrubal Cabrera  ('84 Topps Design)
        Gold

 193 Lonnie Chisenhall  ('84 Topps Design)
        Gold

 198 Casey Kotchman  ('84 Topps Design)
        Gold

  88    Bob Feller

  243  Larry Doby

          Topps Pennant


2012 Topps Chrome



2012 Topps Finest

        Finest Moments
            FM-UJ    Ubaldo Jimenez


2012 Topps Gypsy Queen 


 15 Asdrubal Cabrera

 64 Jason Kipnis

 97 Ubaldo Jimenez

 128 Grady Sizemore

 162 Shin-Soo Choo

 215 Lonnie Chisenhall

 225 Albert Belle

 241 Larry Doby

 267 Bob Feller

 274 Justin Masterson

 285 Carlos Santana


2012 Topps Heritage

  14 Justin Masterson

  36 Jason Kipnis

  48 Manny Acta (Manager)

  72 Carlos Santana

  103 Michael Brantley

  129 Chris Perez

  152 Nick Hagadone

  170 Lonnie Chisenhall

  187 Shelley Duncan

  219 Shin-Soo Choo

  227 Ubaldo Jimenez

  239 Cleveland Indians Team Card

  248 Kosuke Fukudome

  266 Travis Hafner

  317 Jason Donald

  392 Tribe Thumpers - Asdrubal Cabrera & Carlos Santana

  435 Asdrubal Cabrera SP


2012 Topps Opening Day

 54 Asdrubal Cabrera

 58 Justin Masterson

 111 Carlos Santana

 124 Grady Sizemore

 148 Shin-Soo Choo

 157 Ubaldo Jimenez

 216 Jason Kipnis

Oh No ! P-Town Tom and Brad

More current trades keep coming in and packages keep going out!

Ah, the life of a baseball card blogger. ( or maybe lack of ! )

Ryan, over at  Oh No, Another Orioles Blog, and I made a small but quick PWE trade.

He had some new Bowman Indians I needed. So I sent him a package about the same time he sent me one. The only problem was.... I didn't know he had moved !  He said he didn't think he would have any trouble getting cards, so Ryan, if you haven't yet, I hope you do soon or I will send some replacements.

 

Actually, the Gold Santana was the key to the trade.

The Cabrera and Topps Kipnis came along for the ride.

 

I love Kipnis.

I hope he will be one of the very few who spend a career with one team.

I'm almost ready to start a separate binder for him.

 

Thanks, Ryan

For the great cards!

 

 

BTW

Ryan is also running a 2013 Topps Minis break and has a link to

an A&G break. You can get a discount for joining both !

 

check it out !

 

Now it just so happens,that P-Town Tom over at Wait 'till Next Year , also had some Bowman for trade. So naturally we struck a deal also !

 

 

 

More Gold !!

Cabrera, Swisher  and Reynolds

All in golden glory !

 

 

 

       But there's more !

 

Danny Salazar  Chrome prospect

Bauer and Bourn base cards.

 

 

And more....

 

 

 

 

I got Iced !!

 

Dorssys Paulino

 

A top prospect for the future.

 

 

And just for good measure,

 

A few seasoned veterans

from 2001 Topps Archives.

 

Thanks Tom, for the great cards !

 

 

The following cards came from Brad over at, where else ?,  Brad's Blog !

 

Actually I requested a dual Bagwell/Biggio bat card that Brad offered for trade.

I wanted it for my son who collects Bags.

Brad also included some extra Astros for Josh and a few Indians for me !

 

 

 

More Bowman !

Shiny chrome.

Howard and Cabrera....nice !

 

 

More Cabrera.

Not sure if he is long for Cleveland or not,

lots of local trade talks.

 

Francona thinks Chisenhall's  bat is still going to really come alive

 so he may safe for a while

 

 

Now Topps Chrome !

 

More Cabrera, really like that shot.

 

And Kipnis, my favorite.

Hopefully they will sign him long term.

 

 

 

Oldies but goodies !

These were pretty high tech cards at the time.

 

 

More Bowman !

 

Nice Santana!

 

Nice Lindor !

The main reason Cabrera may be traded.

 

And...wait.. didn't we already see Howard ?

 

Let me go back and check...

 

let's see, Upper Deck, Topps Chrome,

Topps, Bowman Chrome.

 

Yep, two Dillon Howards!

No problem, I can always use dupes !

 

 

I like these cards too.

They bring back the good old days!

 

 

Thanks for the great cards Brad, oh, and here's the card

I'm sending you for the Bagwell !

 

 

 

 

Now the embarrassing part.

 

My desk got petty cluttered for a while.

 

Some things got mixed up and lost.

( no Brad, not your card! )

 

I lost a note.

 I think one of these guys sent some wrappers...

but I'm not sure who !

 

Thanks !!

 

 

These are nice.

Especially the Hobby Version Archives.

 

 

I had the 7-card retail pack.

Now I have the 8-card Hobby version !

 

 

And these, I have not found anywhere yet.

 

Thanks Guys,

 

for everything !!

 

 

 



No Cards Tonight for Baseball GrandDad

That's right !

As of  2:40  CST this afternoon, I am a proud Grandfather !

Meet  Miranda Jane Harner

 

 

 

 

Born in St.Louis, she is the daughter of my son Andrew and his beautiful wife Liz.

They live in Vandalia, Il. where Andy is the sports editor/writer/photographer

for the Vandalia  Leader-Union.

 

She is our first grandchild and we are all very excited!

 

 



Night Owl, NE Red Sox, Lost Collector - Before They Become LTPP

 LTPP

Lost Trade Package Posts

I still have 5 of those to do.

So I'm trying to keep up with current ones so I don't get way behind again.

Unless you are the sender or the receiver of the package, most of the time, trade posts are boring. But I feel it's something that should be done, as a courtesy to the sender. That way, you know the cards you sent got to the recipient, that they like them and other bloggers, especially newer ones, can see how the system works.

Sometimes, it seems that trades is all I post about. When I first started this blog, I was very good at posting trades as I received them and it didn't seem so bad. Hopefully I can get back to that system.

So now I'll get off my soap box and get back to this boring trade post!

Of course, it's not boring to me !

First is a quick trade with Metallattorney from Red Sox Fan in Nebraska

 

With the blue border and the colors of the uniform,

 this is a really sharp card!

Plus I got rid of a pesky (not Johnny) Red Sox card.

Win, win for both of us !

 

Thanks for the trade !

 

Next up is everyone's favorite nocturnal fine feathered friend,

 Night Owl

 

Night Owl and I, as is with many bloggers, don't often request cards from each other. We know what each other is interested in and randomly send out care packages.

 

 

2010 Topps curled up chromies.

He, very understandably, has no use for this product.

I don't think there is any  way to flatten out these cards.

 

I will hang on to this Santana refractor rookie card though.

 

 

There was also this Ginter back Choo mini.

 

But the best part was these.

 

 

Maybe Greg was blinded by all the chrome

when he stuck these ' 75 Topps in my package.

But there's even more!

 

 

1975 Topps minis !

 

I have 8 minis now.

I still need four cads to complete my team set.

Steve Arlin

Gaylord Perry

Frank Robinson

Team Card

 

Most are readily available on ebay at reasonable prices.

But I would love make trades for them !

 

 

There was also some newer Tribe cards in the package.

 Gold Chris Perez

Holographic Santana Chasing History.

 

Thanks for the great cards!

 

 

And last but not least,

The Lost Collector.

 

 

I haven't had any dealings with The Lost Collector for quite awhile but I just received a PWE from him. With PWE's you just never know what might be inside, but it had been so long, I wasn't expecting a lot.

 

First,

 

 

1990 Topps Big Candy Maldonado.

(which I actually needed in my collection!)

 

Next,

 

 

a terrific 1997 Pacific Collection Omar Vizquel.

This is from the "Liga Americana" insert set.

Another, very sharp card, which I also needed.

 

But, were not done yet.

 

 

 

1977 Topps team card !

 

Another hit for my collection !

 

For being "The Lost Collector"

you sure found what I needed !

 

Thanks all of you for the great cards!

 

 

Best of all, while I was writing this post,

The Tribe whipped the Twins 7-1 !

 

Go Tribe !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trading Purple for Blue as in Shin-Soo Choo

Matt, over at Red Cardboard, had some Tribe cards up for trade.

Everyone knows I'm always looking for Indian cardboard !

When I saw this card, I knew I needed to strike up a deal.

 

 

 

I had an Opening Day Purple Choo ,as a Red. which didn't fit in my collection,

 but this blue one sure does!

 

I received a nice assortment of Tribe cards.

Here are some of the highlights.

 

 

A very nice gold Josh Tomlin.

 

 

 

Some hard to find Heritage Tribers.

 

 

 

More gold !

Carlos Santana and Bob Feller, Chasing History

 

 

 

Finally, a couple of oldies but goodies.

Tomorrow I'm going to come up with

 a want list for for Documentary.

I would like to complete the Indian set.

 

Thanks for the great trade, Matt.

 

We are only about 100 miles apart on I-71,

Maybe we can get together with the other bloggers

down the interstate!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Poppin' Up Jimmy Piersall

I try to read as many posts from as many bloggers as I can.

I probably don't comment as much as I could, or should, but I am trying to improve on that.

Obviously catchy titles catch your attention.

Now what could catch my attention better than
  " Trading Thursdays - Cleveland Indians Edition ".

That's the title Bert, from Swing and a Pop-Up  had posted.

I jumped right on that, and one item in particular caught my eye right away.

I emailed an offer, which was accepted, and was informed that I would also be receiving some extra cards from my favorite teams or players. Cool ! Who am I to turn down more Tribe cards.

When the package arrived, it was just stuffed full !

Here are some of the extras.

 

 

1989 Topps Big for my Jim Abbott binder.

 

 

The huge stack of cards ranged from a 1980 Eric Wilkins to a 2013 Michael Brantley.

 

 

A very nice Eddie Murray for my Masterpiece Collection.

 

 

 

I realize these don't have the allure and charisma they once had but I still enjoy them.

Some of the designs do make very good looking cards.

 

 

I'm not sure if Bert knew what this was or not,

but I definitely needed it in my Thome collection.

 

From the front it looks like a plain Jane,

 2002 Fleer base card.

 

But, flip it over....

 

 

......and you'll see it's an elusive Gold Back version.

The card #, stats and "Did You Know" notations are all in gold foil.

 

 

 

This was part of the original deal.

1990 Topps Coin Tom Candiotti.

These were an interesting concept at the time,

but never really caught on with collectors.

 

 

Getting back to what caught my eye....

 

 

 

 

1962 Salada- Junket coin.

 

This is actually #88a, 88b depicts Piersall as a Senator.

Another blogger sent me a Bubba Phillips once, so I now have two of these.

 

Thanks Bert, for the great cards and collectibles !

 

 

 

Miggy and Pokey Growing Up

Sometimes I get so hung up on trying to find every Indian card, I don't take time out to smell the
roses  cardboard.

This evening I was searching for some cards to fill a few trades and came upon a box of odd, but interesting material, I had been saving for some time.

Hence, the title, and these two cards

 

 

2001 Royal Rookies Miguel Cabrera.

Signed at 17 for $1.9 M.

Card says he has great eye, compact swing and power plus.

Yeah, pretty much !

 

1996 Classic Five Sport Calvin Reese.

First round draft choice.

Rated best defensive SS and best infield arm

by Baseball America.

Considered Cincinnati's top prospect.

right again !

 

 

And here's another guy with a reasonably bright future.

 

 

1987 ProCards

He was 4 years old when I graduated from HS.

 

 

Well, how about a real Cracker Jack card ?

 

 

 

 

This is a normal sized card.

I assume  it was a stadium give-a-way.

 

 

 

Evan the Oil companies got involved.

 

 

1984 Cramer Sports Promotions

.305 ave. in 4 minor league seasons.

 

Courtesy of Pacific Trading Cards

 

 

Now I need a little help.

 

 

I acquired these two stickers but know absolutely nothing about them.

 

They both measure about 1 5/8 x 2 1/8.

 

Has anyone ever seen any like this before?

Do you know where they came from?