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Previous commenters only.
PWE of cards for the winner, as determined by the random number generator. Go ahead and pick your sport in your comment. Football is strongest, but all four major team sports are available.
Entry deadline: October 23 at Noon Pacific time, so I can get people their prizes by Halloween hopefully.
Let's peruse their respective applications, because I don't know how to do accents over the internet.
RED SOX
Founded: 1908
World Series Titles: 8
AL Pennants: 12
AL East Division Titles: 10
Regular Season: 9,718 wins - .519
Most Famous Players: Babe Ruth and Ted Williams
Miscellany: Fenway Park is iconic, with the Green Monster. The team went 86 years between WS titles. Red Sox fans are annoying, but not as much as Dodgers fans or Yankees fans.
Founded: 1901
World Series Titles: 3
AL Pennants: 6
Division Titles: 6
Regular Season: 9,411 wins - .503
Most Famous Player: Shoeless Joe Jackson
Miscellany: They're the #2 team in their own city. The team is best known for a scandal. One of the best basketball players of all-time played in their minor league system. Their uniform history has to be the strangest and most fascinating in major North American sports leagues. The team went 88 years between WS titles.
First, a TCDB trade with Joe. I sent him 18 baseball cards and received 6 that fit my collection better.
- Carew as a Twin.
- Juicer covering his face in shame.
- The back of a Cal Jr card with a streak reference.
- The back of a Cutch card. "Little girls weep". LOL
- David Wright and Jose Bautista were the other two.
- All 6 filled team page slots.
Then I traded a few cards to my dealer for store credit, which turned into these:
- Fake auto card. But it's a 1959 card of a player who had 8 All-Star seasons.
- A Hall of Famer, but the cheapest of the 3 cards.
- So now I have Ryan as a Ranger, Astro, and Angel, but not Met.
- All 3 are now in team pages.
- So my computer keeps crashing. I keep trying possible solutions but they don't work.
- Thought I had a trade worked out with somebody, but when he replied to my email I didn't see an address. So I don't know if he decided to send first or what.
- Another TCDB trade: I sent 15 cards to Bob and got back 3 that I wanted.
- Another Time Travel trade as well:
Diamond Jesters (diamond-jesters.blogspot.com)
- I have an 18 for 6 in process. So I should be able to post those soon.
- My beloved Eagles need to get better on defense.
- Bumps Kevin Mack from the Browns team page.
- Keeper box.
- Bumps Mike Haynes from the Raiders team page.
- Keeper box.
- Bumps Kyler Murray from the Cardinals team page.
So a good haul for moi. I think this was a thank you for a contest prize, but I doubt I sent him anything as nice as this.
Card images from TCDB.
(Props to you if you recognized Claudia Cardinale, one of Ray Manzarek's favorite actresses.)
Three TCDB trades recently.
I sent MarcoD70 eighteen 1982 Topps football cards and got back six cards I wanted.
- 1977 Silk
- Kemp's RC
- Olajuwon with a David Robinson guest appearance.
- 2009 Upper Deck
- The Human Highlight Film
- My first Colorado Rockies hockey card, from 1978.
I sent sixteen baseball cards to engine614 and got back eight that I wanted. Two were 2020 Bowman base cards, so let's just look at the other six.
- 1958 Topps
- MVP collection need.
- Pinch runner.
- A's team page.
- First Pitch page.
- Not sure why I got this one.
I sent a nine-card mix to fordwaters and got four basketball cards that I wanted.
- I grew up in NorCal. The other three should speak for themselves.
