Trades From the Family

Family is a good thing.

Usually.

Oh, sometimes there are some members who present  a problem, like Charles.

But I'm talking about my blogger family. Yeah, that's how I think and feel about all you guys and gals out there. I can almost count the ones I've met in person on one hand, but I feel like I've known many of you forever. You are always there to talk to and I know, sometimes, you are even listening !

This is a group trade post that covers some of the great cards I have received over the last couple of weeks while I was a little under the weather.

This first item is actually a purchase I made, at a Good Will store, in Lake Orion, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't resist this "Little Slugger" bank !

He stands about 8" high.

The small label on the left reads National Potteries Co.

Cleveland , Ohio.

So he's even a local boy !

I do have the plug for the bottom.

I paid $.99 !

 

 

 

These cards came from Mark, over at battlin' bucs.

 

 

 

Mark had picked up some of these 1992 RBI prototypes.

I needed one for my sample collection

 and he kindly sent me this Nolan Ryan.

 

 

Topps Ultimate 1954 Series

Red Kress

 

 

Coke/Sunoco

Dream Team Feller/Boudreau

 

 

And this 2002 Topps

Limited Edition Tribe card.

 

 

The next batch came from P-Town Tom

over at Waiting 'till Next Year.

 

 

 

First, some badly needed 2013 Hobby Wrappers!

A&G, Cooperstown and Pinnacle.

 

 

1990 Sportflics Steve Olin

2013 Cooperstown Lou Boudreau

 

 

2more Tribe HOFer's

Nap Lajoie

Tris Speaker

 

 

Plus a Golden Steve Olin.

 

 

Next up :  Brad, from

 Brads Blog !

 

 

First some mini goodness !

Black-border  Bob Feller

A&G back Swisher

 

 

From 1994 and the Ted Williams Card Co.

 

Rocky Colavito !

 

 

A little rainbow action.

Dillon Howard purple

Carlos Santana Chrome Refractor

Michael Bourn red border

 

 

More base chrome !  Shiny !

 

Bourn, Kipnis,

Santana and Cabrera.

 

 

And a couple X-fractors.

Jason Kipnis

Trevor Bauer

 

 

And now it's  BREAK TIME !!

 

No, no, no....... don't go after coffee.

 

Box break time !

 

Chris, over at Nachos Grande, held a multi-box break

that looked pretty interesting so I bought into the Tribe cards.

 

There were 5 boxes involved.

 

 

2002 Fleer Maximum

1993 Upper Deck Series 1

 

 

 

2000 Topps Gold Label

2004 Fleer Tradition

 

 

and 2000 Skybox Dominion

 

An odd but interesting mix.

 

So, as in most breaks, I also received the cards from a random team.

 

Oh, the dreaded Randomizer !

 

This time I got Texas !

 

Not as bad as usual !

 

And when does a Tribe fan become ecstatic when he has Texas ??

 

 

When this card get pulled !

 

 

 

 

 

 

A freakin' Frank Howard auto !

 

Frank was on the Senators team that move to Texas in 1972.

 

 

 

And then another hit !

 

Hank Blalock  game worn jersey card !

 

 

 

Plus the usual Rangers from that era.

 

 

Maybe these players shouldn't really be grouped together.

Just the way the cards fell.

 

 

This was a very interesting part of the break.

 

This is a Double-Play insert from Dominion.

 

Ranger on one side, Indian on the other !

 

Take that Randomizer !!

 

But there's more....

 

I received two of these inserts !

 

There were 10 cards in this insert set.

 

Each came in three versions :

 

Std.  Double Play

Double Play Plus Parallel

Double Play Warp Tek Parallel.

( also called "Time Warp", wrapper says  Warp Tek )

 

The two I received are different,

 

 I have the Standard and Plus.

 

 Warp Tek  came 1/900 packs ! 

 

OK !

 

On to the Tribe cards !

 

 

Some of my favorite base cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I almost forgot !

 

There was also a box a Zenith packs with 2 8x10's per pack.

 

 This was the only Zenith Tribe card I got.

and there was a duplicate !

 

 

I also got this "Juan Gone" Dufex parallel 8x10. 

 

Enough for this time !!

 

My cold drugs are kicking in and it's getting late here  in Ohio !

 

 

Thanks for reading !