Card Collecting 9: Big Trade

So I traded with Leo (LO212257 on TCDB).  Sent him 45 cards (plus a few extras) and received 22 better cards.  Let's look at a few.

    

I'm usually hesitant to trade for junk era baseball, because I still have several boxes of uncatalogued cards at my mother's house.  But I can make an exception for Schmidt. 

    

The T from Run TMC. 

   

    

It's possible that I like the All-Pro cards.  Ha. 

    

    

The Brown takes slot #79 in my Club 100 frankenset.  Bo and Deion - the best multi-sport stars of the era.  I had to dump a few of my Megatron cards because the opposing team was the Eagles. So it's nice to add this Topps Valor.

    

I believe Gostkowski completes my Special Special Teamers set. I just have to double check.  I like the action shot in the first one, but it's a ho card.  So I made sure to get the second one as a fall-back option.

The Other Eight: 
1987 Topps:  Ron Brown.  More multi-sport goodness. Got his autograph at a track meet back in the day.
1990 Fleer:  Deion Sanders, Clyde Simmons, and Jerry Rice.
1990 Score:  John Elway and Rod Woodson All-Pro. 
2015 Topps Valor:  Mike Evans and Demaryius Thomas.  I prefer the 2014 design, but I got three good WRs in this trade so not complaining.

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Card Collecting 6: Fairfield Boxes

So I made another trip to Walgreen's and came away with two Fairfield baseball boxes and two Fairfield football boxes.

   

   

   

The pack in each baseball box was 1988 Score.  There were several of those Fleer Award Winners.  1988 Fleer was well-represented, with the best being Robin Yount and Lou Whitaker.  1988 Donruss and 1991 Donruss.  1981 Topps, but with bad centering and no star talent.


   


     
     
   

    

   

   

   

The pack in each football box was 2020 Leaf Draft.   Pro Set doesn't have much trade value, but I like their special cards.  A couple big-time Eagles, for the fan in me.  There was a Topps DeSean Jackson as well.  There were several good 2018 Donruss cards, but they're mostly retired players: John Elway, Tony Gonzalez, etc.  I respected Moss's game, but was never a fan. So this baby went straight to my trader / contest prize box.  Pat Thomas was a two-time Pro Bowler.

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