I made a bunch of trades recently for base cards towards completing my Topps complete sets and for current (and former) prospect autographs in my Prospects binder.

TRADE #1

Two 1990 Topps Traded cards

- FOR -

15 1987 Topps cards

Thanks Charles!

TRADE #2

2009 Topps Career Best Autographs #CBA-PN Pat Neshek (Autograph)

- FOR -

2008 Upper Deck Inkredible #INK-CP Corey Patterson (Autograph)

Thanks Rhubarb_Runner!

TRADE #3

2011 Topps Glove Manufactured Leather Nameplates #MGL-NR Nolan Ryan (Serial#80/99) (Manufactured Glove Relic)

- FOR -

2008 Upper Deck Premier Signature Premier #SP-LH Luke Hochevar (Serial#30/45) (Autograph)

2009 Ultimate Collection #102 Colby Rasmus (Serial#107/135) (Autograph)

Thanks Jose!

Although I’m still too busy to pay much attention to my card collection, I managed to squeeze in a trade with Paul.  He sent me some 90′s Topps cards I needed in exchange for a some 2009 Upper Deck cards.

Thanks for the trade Paul!

Thanks to Carah H. for sending about 75 1986-1989 Topps base cards that I needed for my sets in exchange for about 30 (mostly) Brewers cards that I didn’t need.

Another thanks goes to Justin M. for giving me 3 2008 Topps base cards that I needed for my set in exchange for a Thomas Diamond rookie card.

Here are some special shout-outs to people and entities who helped me acquire some awesome new cards…

Special shout-out to Topps Million Card Giveaway for sending me this 1958 Topps #151 Ken Lehman along with 15 other pre-1979 cards:

Special shout-out goes to Steve D. for trading this 2001 Topps Traded Dual Jersey Relics #TTR-MR Manny Ramirez (Dual Jersey Relics), a Randy Johnson Upper Deck rookie card, and 24 base cards I needed for 20 Yankees cards:

Another loud shout-out goes to Plaschke, Thy Sweater is Argyle for trading this 1989 Topps #206 Roberto Alomar along with 138 other cards I needed for completing my sets, in exchange for a John Ely autograph and 7 other Dodgers cards:

And finally, a shout-out goes to eBay Bucks for letting me pick up this beautiful 2010 Topps National Chicle Autographs #NCA-JF Juan Francisco certified on-card autograph for about $5:

Well I finally got around to adding a bunch of base cards that I needed into my card database.  About 5 months ago, I received many Topps base cards that I needed from Mr. T. Anderson and Mr. S. Drennan, but hadn’t had a chance to acknowledge it here or add the cards to my collection until today.  So Mr T. and Mr. S., if you’re reading this, thanks for the trade!

The cards have been officially added to my collection.

This post is just a quick shout-out to “é rayhahn, rayhahn”.  We just completed a trade of 8 Minnesota Twins insert cards that I had for 32 Topps base cards that I needed for my sets.  Thanks for the trade, and I’m liking the blog name… very Tolkien-esque.

I got about 50 cards in the mail last week from someone named Lynette who was packing to move and couldn’t bear to throw her nephew’s baseball cards away.  They are junk wax, but I promised to find a good home for the cards if she decided to send them over to me instead of discarding them.  She chose to send them, and true to my word, most of the cards are 1994 Topps that will go towards completing my set.  Other cards included a 1988 Donruss Jose Mesa, a 2002 Nestle Ice Cream Ichiro, and four 2002 Post cereal cards.

You might wonder, what do I do with junk wax?  Well Topps base cards go towards completing sets.  I hope to eventually own complete sets of Topps 1979 to present.  Other cards go into my junk wax boxes where I hope to eventually give them away to whoever will take them.  They also might make good Geocaching treasures (sometimes I put unopened wax packs into geocaches).

Either way, there were quite a few 1994 Topps cards that I needed in this package.  Thanks Lynette!

I just entered 96 cards that I needed to build my sets into my card database.  The cards came courtesy of Crinkly Wrappers.  Since they were all base cards, I won’t bore you with the details, but here’s the breakdown of the new cards in my collection:

7 of 1985 Topps

22 of 2008 Topps

1 of 2008 Topps Update

1 of 2009 Topps

3 of 2009 Topps Update

62 of 2010 Topps

That means I only need 24 more cards to complete my 2010 Topps Series 1 set.  For the record, I’ve never completed a set before, but with the new cards and the 2010 Topps Series 2 jumbo box I bought, 2010 Topps might be my first.  Thanks Crinkly Wrappers for helping me out!

In return, I sent him all 8 of my 2010 Topps Gold cards, a 1987 Topps card he needed to complete a set, and as many Blue Jays as I could muster.