Trade Package from Night Owl

My collecting niche is set building, but having my youth collecting during the 1970s, I am getting rather jaded about modern sets. As I have probably said eleventy times, I am downright scornful of all the inserts, parallels, and short prints that Topps is putting into their sets now. I have registered my protest by only working to complete the standard base cards from the 2011 sets that I have been working on. I'm sure Topps doesn't know about my protest, and even if they did, I am pretty sure they don't care.

Having got that off my chest (again), I completed a recent trade with Night Owl that allowed me to rid my self of hated inserts. I sent him some of the Lineage 75 minis and I was able to make progress towards completing two different base sets. Plus he sent me some other cool cards. Let's take a look, shall we?


Cap'n! Before this trade, I still had 12 Lineage base cards on my want list. After the trade, I have 5 left. Derek was part of the 7 I received.


As the youngsters say, W00T! Ichiro was the last card I needed to complete 2011 Series 2. In celebration of having the set complete, I took Night Owl's want list and scoured the vintage dollar boxes at the show this past weekend. I found two cards for him. One of which was a 1960 Wally Moon. Alack and alas, he managed to find the same card in a dollar box at the show *he* attended over the weekend. So, I'll keep Wally and his magnificent unibrow and send along the 1960 Ed Krakow with the Fleer Greats Dodger duplicates I set aside for him.


1982 Topps Stickers. He sent Dave Winfield and Tommy John (who apparently is a pitcher and not a surgeon.) I have this urge to go out and buy a Trapper Keeper to stick these guys on. I kid.


2011 Topps Chrome Robbie Cano. It was accompanied by a Lance Pendleton, who is no longer a Yankee. He was claimed off of waivers by the Houston Astros early in September. He didn't do real well with them in a scant 4 innings of work and was outrighted to the OKC Redhawks after the season was over. So, I may get a chance to see him next year.


Night Owl sent two of these Yankee Stadium Legacy cards. I think they are great looking cards. And only 6598 to go to finish the set! Seriously, if this set was more reasonably sized, I would try to put it together. I like it that much. As it stands, I'll gladly take them in trade and will certainly buy them when I find them in quarter/dollar boxes. But, I would need to get a larger house if I was going to chase this one. A 6600 card set would involve 9 or 10 large binders and would take up nearly half of my storage closet.


I do like these Topps Archive cards alot and have added them to the list of sets I'd like to put together. I'm starting to get stretched a little thin with having 3 active sets and getting ready to start another, older Heritage set. But, this is definitely a strong contender.


And finally, a Conlon Collection card. I really appreciate the simplicity of this set. Such no-nonsense design is what drew me to the Renata Galasso set that I built earlier this year. With a total of 1430 cards issued over 5 years from 1991 to 1995, this is definitely a set I'd like to work on. It is, at this moment, a leading contender for my list of 2012 set priorities.

So, thanks N.O. Definitely a great trade!

Paper Products from a Paper Product

A short time back, I worked out a trade with Napkin Doon over at The Adventures of Napkin Doon. I sent him some Lineage Rangers and a set of 2009 Oklahoma Redhawks cards (at the time OKC was the AAA affiliate of the Rangers). In return, I got the vast majority of the remaining cards off my 2011 Series 2 want list.



With this trade, I am now down to needing one card to finish Series 2 (#385). If you have that to trade, let me know. I'll make it worth your while. I'd like to start Update with a clean slate.

But, wait! That's not all!

Nap has been gracious enough to help me out with what is going on a Cleve's weekly auction.. He has reviewed the selection and sent me pictures of what is available each week that might interest me. He even placed bids for me. It's been a blast and I have managed to pick up some more 1956 cards dirt cheap in the auction. I'll try to show some of them some time, but right now I got places to go and people to see.

So, thanks Nap!

Corn Chips and Cheese

Despite being off of work this week, I have been unbelievably busy this week. I've been doctoring a sick horse and volunteering at the horse show grounds around the corner from me, helping them get ready for their big show over Labor Day weekend. Not much time for posting, but I do need to acknowledge a package that arrived in the mail today from the estimable Nachos Grande.

I had a few Series 2 sparklies and some inserts he needed and he was able to cut my Series 2 want list from 14 cards down to 6. I am not going to show all 8 cards, but I did notice that there was a number of cards with pitchers making faces as they threw. So, I'll show them:





Thanks, Nacho. Since I am at the point that buying more packs of Series 2 cards only nets me more doubles, any trade that fills in slots in the binder is awesome.