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As of 11 August, these are the total cards for Kirby Puckett (selected randomly) and Kevin McGonigle on TCDB. That's Puckett with 6,304 (from 1983-2026) and McGonigle with 25,364 (from 2022-2026). Who knows, but now McGonigle could have 12,000 more. (Actually, he's already grown a couple of hundred and that's likely from 1 set with 130 parallels). One could Super Collect Puckett. There probably…
Another TCDb trade which yielded a single card in exchange for a single card saw this Andrew McCutchen card enter my collection. The member with whom I traded seemed concerned that I offered him a card for nothing in return. I was happy to send it; but decided to take a look at what he had. So many users do not want to do little PWE trades, so when I find someone willing I kind of have to take…
In the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, there was a rash of unlicensed cards produced. They are all terrifically boring where design is concerned. Broder cards are the most famous, perhaps, but other makers included Scott Cunningham, Barry Colla, and Pacific Cards & Comics, to name a few. They are all rather quite alike, so determining what you have and what you may need (as opposed to want)…
Another TCDb single card trade. It was my preferred method when I was actively trading. My overall stats are overwhelmingly in favor of me giving up more cards than I got back. Which I was and am happy about. I had tried several times to give the 1987 Our Own Tea Roger Clemens away on BlueSky, but to no avail. But I found someone on TCDb who wanted it and who had a card I was on the fence about…
This post is primarily aimed at eBay sellers who don't know their own ass from an anthill. If you have even the slightest interest in collecting parallels of Topps cards, then you may have been had by their complete stupidity: and that is unfortunate. Topps does very, very little to help its customers differentiate between its parallel cards. But, because I am a super nice person, I'm going to…
I got another nine different foils and parallels of Andrew McCutchen's 2026 Topps card. Because why not. Top row: Rainbow, Gold (SN2026), Confetti Middle row: Holiday Polka Dots Purple/Blue, Team Border, Holiday Chicks Bottom row: Opening Day, Topps Foil, Spring Training In case you need reminding, the first nine are below and you can read about it, if you dare, here : Top row: Base, Holo Foil,…
One of the guys and cards for my Last Topps Cards of those players in the Hall of Fame that I never thought I would own in the 1958 Ted Williams. And as I try to go after some of the older and hard-to-stomach-buying cards, it was getting to the point where the said stomach ache might have to be a reality. After all, I'm down to needing four. This card barely barely barely fits my vintage criteria…
A couple of cards came in via trades over on TCDb, but this post will just show one of them. This is the 2013 Panini Select Prizm Darryl Strawberry card. The difference between this one and the base is that in certain angles, the stripes in his uniform appear silvery or gold. I'm not sure which and I'm not going upstairs to check. For comparison purposes, here is a scan of the base card. I got…
I had a few reprints in my Last Topps Cards of Hall of Famers collection because at one point in time the card in its original issue seemed out of reach, for whatever reason. The 1956 Phil Rizzuto was one of them; but I recently started watching items on ebay and checking out sold items to try to ascertain if, in fact, I could actually afford them. Condition is perhaps the main factor in a vintage…
Sometimes when I visit my parents, my dad has bumper cards for me and I try, mostly in vain, to trade or give them away. My want list is small on TCDB, and it's focused really on Strawberry and Kruk. Which might make the potentiality of trades even smaller. But recently I upgraded from a reprint of the last card of a Hall of Fame Player to The Real Thing; and I was able to move the reprint via a…
