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As a child, I was obsessed with baseball cards, to the point that I could look at a card, any brand, any year, and tell you exactly the year and the best cards in that set. Now I'm 39 years old and the obsession is even worse (or better, depending on how you look at it).  Working for Topps would be a dream job at this point. 

Things I collect:

• Darryl Strawberry Cards (Currently Ranked #7)
• Current and Past Year Topps Sets 1, 2 and Update base cards & certain inserts (priority to the 35th Anniversary Cards, Redux cards, Stars of MLB, All-Star Updates and Black Gold, but there are others that I like)
• Current and Past Year Topps Chrome and Update base cards & inserts (again, priority to 35 Anniversary & Redux cards)
• Other inserts and parallels that look cool.

Right now I’m mostly focusing on adding to my Darryl Strawberry Collection, but also looking to complete the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Topps Main Sets & Updates, as well as Chrome. 

My preference is to trade duplicates from 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 for cards that I need from those sets, but I’m willing to trade any number of them to get parallels and serial numbered cards. 

All cards in my collection are available in the right deal! Every day, I'm adding more cards to my For Sale List, most of which are in great condition.  Any cards you might be interest in, I'll check out before finalizing a deal.

I prefer sending cards through PWE, so that I can make more trades, but will send in a Bubble Mailer if there are more than 20 cards, or a higher value card that is being moved.

I check this site a lot, so send trade offers away!

 Below are a couple links that were shared to me when I first started trading a few years ago that I found very helpful: 

How to ship up to 4 cards PWE

How to ship 4-27 cards PWE

Hey guys! My name is Jason Rogers and my two primary collections are Ryne Sandberg and Grant Hill. I'm a huge Cubs fan, so I also collect Cubs cards, specifically numbered cards. 

I use TCDB to log Sandberg and Hills only for now, but may start entering the rest of my collection as time permits. 

Don't hesitate to hit the friend request!

Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @CarolinaCardEx1

NOTE:  Current set building focus is 2024 Heritage.  I am looking to trade 24 Heritage for 24 Heritage.  All cards in inventory are pack-fresh and come with possible factory defects or imperfections.  

Favorite Teams:  Atlanta Braves, Miami Hurricanes

PC Braves Focus:  Ronald Acuna (currently #12 on TCDB)

**Current Braves ISO: Harris II, Strider, Albies, Riley, Olson

**Legacy Braves: Freeman, Chipper, Maddux, Andruw, Dale Murphy,

**Braves team cards, Rookie Stars (multi-panel), Team Stickers

Other PC focus:  Ohtani, Kershaw, Verlander, Walker Jenkins

Current Set Builds:  2013 Panini Cooperstown, 1970 Laughlin World Series

Collecting Focus:  Shifting away from vintage to modern except in targeted situations e.g., my next endeavor is to collect every Braves team card and Braves-specific Future Star cards from 1955 onwards.

Trade Strategy:  I believe in trading value for value and when in doubt I will overpay in trade to get what I want.  I keep my want list minimal so if you see something on my trade list, send me a proposal even if we don't match all that well.  

Favorite Set Builds:  1957 Topps, 1962 Post Cereal, 1978 Topps

ACCURACY:  I strive to enter the cards accurately, but as has already happened I make mistakes.  Just let me know and we will work it out.  Sometimes I misenter 2 of the same card when I only have 1, or a card has a ding or nick I didn't see.  Other times maybe I just cannot locate the card.  I will not pull cards before I make an offer, but I will pull before I accept one from you.

CONDITION:  All modern cards (2010 - current) should be NrMt. Junk Wax cards listed should be ExMt-NrMt unless otherwise noted (1981-2009).  Vintage (1980 and older) are generally Vg+ unless noted.  

SHIPPING:  I will ship PWE (either standard white or larger yellow envelopes).  I will generally look to visit the post office on Mondays and Fridays. 1 to 6 cards I will ship in smaller envelopes generally with penny sleeves between two pieces of card stationery.  Up to 12 cards in a white PWE envelope with cardboard backing - I pay the extra .25 cents and have them hand-sorted.  13+ I will ship in a larger envelope.  

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING:  I will ship PWE (15 cards max) to Canada; and PWE (1-5 cards max) to other locations on a case-by-case basis.

BACKGROUND: I grew up in the 70s/early 80s in South Florida attending Spring Training games at old Miami Stadium (Baltimore Orioles) and West Palm Beach (Braves/Expos).  Big Yankees fan originally especially Reggie and Thurman but with the TBS SuperStation migrated to the Braves in 1982.  Have visited 19 MLB stadiums:  Atlanta (Fulton Co and Turner), Camden Yards, Yankees (old and new), Mets (old and new), St. Louis (old Busch), Texas (Arlington), San Diego (PetCo), Oakland, Wrigley, Fenway, Tropicana, Joe Robbie (Marlins), Toronto Skydome, Coors Field (Rockies), Wash. Nats, Comerica (Detroit).

FAVORITE BASEBALL MEMORIES:

1.  1992 NLCS - Sid Slid

2.  2021 - Soler hits it out of the stadium

3.  Visiting Cooperstown in 2019 with my father and youngest son a few months after my mom passed away.

• Rickey Henderson (14.9% - 15th - 2,056) 
• Juan Gonzalez (19% - 2nd - 1,365)
• Jason Varitek (9.8% - 6th - 266)
• Trot Nixon (22.9% - 4th - 282)
• Boston Red Sox (1% - 213th - 3,349)
• Indiana Pacers (1.4% - 71st - 789)
• Indianapolis Colts (0.2% - 831st - 225)

Open to all trades. Rather trade than buy. Prefer to mail in PWE. 

I respond and ship quickly.

Happy to make big and small trades.

Phillies and Yankees

If there is a Phillies card I do not have, I want it. :) 

12/4/2023 - Updated my PC lists, so there will be a mass of Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente & Corbin Burnes cards available for sale/trade here soon.  As I mention below, my want list is quite narrow, so I am more than willing to sell cards if we don't match up for a trade.  

Came across tcdb.com towards the end of 2019, and I have now completed over 1,500 transactions, with over 23,000 cards changing hands!  Love everything about this site.  I have met so many cool people from all over the Country, and even a few from Canada and beyond. (Just completed a trade to Finland, as a matter of fact).

Stole this from another member, but......my goal is to have zero cards in my For Sale/Trade List.  So keep the proposals comin'!

(I know my Want List is relatively small, so I am certainly willing to Sell cards if we don't have enough matches to work out a trade)

My PC list is as follows (with TCDB rankings as of 2/9/2024):

NBA: Giannis (4), Dirk Nowitzki (4), and Tim Duncan (2).  

NFL: Sterling Sharpe (3), and Don Majkowski (2)

MLB: Robin Yount (7), Tony Gwynn (6), Hal Morris (3), Mark Grace (7), Pat Listach (1) and Mark Langston (1)

Golf: Rickie Fowler (2)  & Joel Dahmen (2)

WWE: Lita (3)

UFC: Conor McGregor (4)

Non-Sport: Eddie Vedder, Judah Friedlander, Big Jay Oakerson, The Brothers Osborne (TJ & John), Rob Riggle, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Charlie Berens, Post Malone and Brody Stevens

Although I currently live in Florida, I was born in Milwaukee.....hence my obsession with Wisconsin sports teams.  Ha.

Please check out my For Sale/Trade list, and feel free to message me or send me trade proposals any time.....let's see what we can get done!  (I don't necessarily trade based on "book value", but rather the value to me, so please feel free to counter if I propose a trade that you feel is unfair.  I also have no rules about "insert for insert" or any of that nonsense, so don't be shy to shoot me a proposal)  

Mark McGwire

Complete Sets

Trades will be mailed out on Mondays and Fridays. 

I've been a baseball collector since the late 80's and love to trade.  I am primarily a set collector and belong to several online trading clubs.  My never ending goal is to collect all the regular issued Topps cards from 1952 to present.

My main collecting interests are vintage cards,  Minnesota Twins,  a few newer sets and Bert Blyleven.

Vintage sets:  1952 Topps, 1953 Topps, 1954 Bowman, 1954 Topps,  1955 Topps,  1956 Topps,  1957 Topps,  1963 Topps,  1967 Topps

Newer sets: 2004 Donruss,  2005 Donruss,  2012 Cooperstown.

* I prefer not to trade vintage cards (below 1976) for newer cards.

* Before delivering or accepting a proposal please make sure you have all of the cards.

Willing to sell anything on my trade list so feel free to put an offer out there. Typically will sell any common (1980 and after) for 5 to 7 cents each plus shipping, with good prices on stars, inserts, and rookies, too (usually 10 to 25 cents each). I'll try to give you a price you can't find anywhere else online.

TRADING 

U.S. trades preferred. Will trade to Canada if cards are harder to find ones.

Prefer trades of at least a few cards or a single higher value card to make it worth the time/stamp. 

Trades will ship in PWE unless other arrangements are made. Will send a maximum of 8 cards PWE to Canada.

Always happy to trade my newer baseball rookie cards in exchange for junk wax era rookie cards on my want list.

If you aren't going to list a condition for your cards, please know that I expect cards from 1987 - present to be EX-MT or better.

For vintage cards (and any newer card that isn't at least NRMT), I have conservative estimates of condition listed for most. Feel free to ask for more info on condition for specific cards. Generally, I look for VG or better for vintage coming my way, though will go to the Good range in some cases. Mainly try to avoid writing, major creases, and paper loss. 

Willing to trade across eras and sports if deal is a good one.

My blog:

http://waxpackwonders.blogspot.com

My book ($2.99 for eBook on Amazon):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01BTM58B8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1674697424&sr=8-1

Trading on pause while on vacation

Still working on completing Topps Baseball sets 1960,1969, and 1970.   I have complete sets from 1971 to 1981 But I need to upgrade some as I sort through them.Trying to complete Reds team sets from any year, have most of the 70s covered and am working backwards.  Have a good start on the 60s.  Partial Reds sets from 1980-2020 are sitting in boxes waiting to be sorted.  I have alot of reds duplicates including specials/inserts for former reds stars (Bench, Morgan, etc,)

Also working on modern base sets and some inserts as they catch my interest.

Still working on updating my collection in the database.

Trading on pause while on vacation

Still working on completing Topps Baseball sets 1960,1969, and 1970.   I have complete sets from 1971 to 1981 But I need to upgrade some as I sort through them.Trying to complete Reds team sets from any year, have most of the 70s covered and am working backwards.  Have a good start on the 60s.  Partial Reds sets from 1980-2020 are sitting in boxes waiting to be sorted.  I have alot of reds duplicates including specials/inserts for former reds stars (Bench, Morgan, etc,)

Also working on modern base sets and some inserts as they catch my interest.

Still working on updating my collection in the database.

Proud dad and husband. Priority: family and work, then cards.

Please send reasonable trade offers. I won’t send rare cards for base/common cards.

Please disclose any noticeable card damage before sending it to me so I can decide if I want it or not.

Sorry to my Canadian friends - no PWE trades to Canada. 

PC: Greg Maddux, Jacob DeGrom, Ronald Acuna Jr., Kemp Alderman, Noble Meyer, Eury Perez, Cole Caufield, Cale Makar, Josh Norris, A&G minis, Pokemon

Almost any card in my main collection is FS/FT. I don’t want to bulk move all cards in the collection to my traders, but feel free to ask if interested in a card in my Main Collection.

Always looking for a good trade. Let me know if I have anything on your Want list. 

My collecting started in the 1950's and has grown through many ups and downs.  I became discouraged in 1980 when all the card manufacturing companies started creating numerous sets and subsets with so many variations.  The New York Yankees have been my collecting interest.  As a young boy, it was my goal to collect every card issued for a Yankee player.  Much like my stamp collection that I inherited from my grandfather, I knew that some items would be out of my price range yet never was there a time when the volume of the collection became a question.

When I attempted to pick up my sports card collection in the 1990's, I was struck by the people who were speculators in the sports card buying side of the collecting.  Those who stop in a card shop, purchased a hobby box manufacturer's brand, opened the packages, removed only the cards listing in the Beckett monthly pricing magazine as value cards, and left the remaining cards on the counter.

Recently, returning to all the sports cards I have accumulated over the years, I discovered a yearning to reduce my collecting to an enjoyable level and try to do something with all the other cards.  Searching the internet lead me to Trading Card Database.  I signed into the program and was very pleasantly surprised by the database.  I am a new user of the database and still learning.

My collecting interests are as follows:
Baseball: New York Yankees - Topps base set {all years}
Football: Jacksonville Jaguars - Cards of all manufacturing brands {1995 thru present}
 

I will consider trades for cards of either team.

Thank you for viewing my profile and hope we can create a trade!!!

Trading: A minimum of 12 cards going each way unless there is a true gem / vintage in the trade. PWE acceptable but prefer large trades of 250+ cards in each direction. Please confirm that you actually have the cards before Accepting a trade; I always do the same at this end. Vintage for vintage; HoF/stars for same; inserts / parallels for same, all as much as possible. Priority are vintage, OPC and sets on my UserLists. Having tried to offer cards from these lists will increase the chances of my Accepting a trade; totally disregarding these and offering me 12+ commons from a set that I am so far from completing that they do not make the list is more prone to being Declined, especially if I see you have cards for trade that are on my lists.

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Stats: As of 31 December 2023:

Wants OPC Baseball: base sets 1965-1994 + 1981 Grey Backs and 1990 white stock test issue parallel - 295/13,896 cards (2.12%).

Wants Topps Baseball: base sets 1951-2022 + 1952 Black backs, 1954 Canadian, 1975 mini parallel, 1993 & 1994 Gold parallel - 2,348/49,189 (4.77%). Breakdown by decade: 1951-60 - 1,087/3,816 (28.49%); 1961-70 - 854/6,135 (13.92%); 1971-80 - 313/7,721 (4.05%); 1981-90 - Complete; 1991-2000 - 31/7,856 (0.39%); 2001-10 -  61/6,986 (0.87%); 2011-20 - 2/6,841 (0.03%); 2021-23 - Complete.

Trading/PIF/Purchases on TCDb:

2023 - 195 + 5 still In-Progress; Cards Sent - 11,877 / Cards Received - 9,527

Total since being a member: Cards Sent - 84,113 / Cards Received - 73,209 (# of trades really doesn't matter to me as it can be misleading to the quantity of cards have come and gone).

Sets completed through Trades/PIF/Purchases in 2023 - 85 sets; 170 sets since Dec 2021 when I started tracking this.

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2024 Goals:

1. Reduce my OPC Base set needs to 250 (presently 295);

2. Reduce my Topps Base set needs to 2100 (presently 2348); by decade - to 1960, 1000 (1087); 1961-1970, 750 (854); 1971-1980, 250 (313);

3. Complete all 3 years of Donruss Triple Play (1992-1994) including inserts. Presently missing 45 cards, all inserts and the 1992 & 1993 Promos.

4. Complete all Leaf Studio Base sets (currently missing 30 cards - 1995 (12), 1997 (6), & 1998 (12)).

5. Complete 80 sets / insert sets.

6. Complete all of the Topps Glossy All Star, Rookies, & Send-Ins sets from 1983 to 1991. By year: 1983 Complete; 1984 AS Insert Complete; Send-In (4); 1985 Complete; 1986 Complete; 1987 Complete; 1988 Complete; 1989 AS Insert Complete; Send-In (22); Rookies (3); 1990 AS Insert Complete; Send-In (3); Rookies Complete; 1991 AS Insert (10); Rookies (24). Total missing - 66.

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Mailing address: 

Bruno Paulhus

506 Weese Road
Carrying Place, ON
Canada, K0K 1L0

Boston Red Sox

TL;DR: 

• I will always default to PWE trades (up to ~30 cards or 3.5 oz), unless we discuss other shipping options first.
• I prefer trading over buying/selling. 
• Feel free to trade anything for anything else, such as cross-sport, vintage for modern, baseball for Star Wars, etc. If you want it and you have something I want, propose it.
• Sometimes it takes me a few days to get trades approved and out the door, but I do try to be prompt.
• I am open to all sizes of trades.
• This is a hobby - HAVE FUN :)

I'm always down for PWE trades. If there's not a lot that I match with, send it anyways and I'll take a look at your For Trade list to see if we can come to a deal. Same with my proposals, please feel free to counter with something that works for you. Or sometimes there's not a good trade at the time, no big deal. 

I've recently picked up sports card collecting as a hobby to help deal with my stress and mental health. I've collected as a child and had some of my best memories around baseball and cards. Thus, my approach is laid-back and easy. If you have an issue with any part of a trade, please drop me a note and allow me to work it out with you. Maybe I forgot a card, or sent you the wrong thing, or I missed a corner or something - just let me know and we'll fix it. Again, NO. BIG. DEAL.

I do work so I don't always have time to pull cards and take them to the Post Office right away. I do take them into the Post Office since we have drop box thieves running around in my area, so I can only go during business hours. But I don't like people waiting on me so I'll get the cards out within a few business days.

The fun part:

All-time favorite and main target is Cal Ripken Jr - my childhood hero that I modelled my entire work ethic after. I have ~350 different variations (no duplicates) of his cards in my personal collection.

I'm also really big on Shohei, I'm a huge Manchester United fan, and I live in Fort Worth so I support all the DFW teams (TX Rangers, Dallas Cowboys/Stars/Mavs/etc).

Here's a list of players I look out for:

• Cal Ripken Jr
• Shohei Ohtani
• Ed Belfour
• Paul Scholes
• Kirby Puckett
• Ty Cobb
• Buster Posey
• Ichiro Suzuki
• Tony Gwynn
• Hope Solo
• Rickey Henderson
• Marty Turco
• Jamie Benn
• Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez (TX Rangers only)
• Brendan Morrow
• Wayne Rooney
• Ryan Giggs
• Marcus Rashford
• Nolan Ryan
• Mike Schmidt
• Lou Gehrig
• Bryce Harper
• Mickey Mantle
• Javier "Chicarito" Hernandez 
• Ruben Sierra/Julio Franco (TX Rangers only)
• Current TX Rangers players and prospects
• Current Women's US National Team Soccer Players

Favorite Teams:

• Manchester United
• Dallas Stars
• Texas Rangers
• FC Dallas
• Dallas Cowboys
• Dallas Mavericks

I also have a fascination with old-school cigarette cards of many topics, not just baseball.

GO RANGERS!!

Today is very special for me, the city of Arlington, the entire DFW Metroplex, and all Rangers fans. I grew up in a trailer park JUST south of the of the Ballpark in Arlington (the pretty stadium, not the current one). My home was nestled up against a creek, and we had a well-beaten path through the creek directly into the South parking lots. EVERY big play, EVERY home run we would hear the crowds roar, we would hear the fireworks, we would hear the announcers. And of course we would hear it all on the radio (no TV for home games back then). The radio had a small delay, so the crowd would tip us off to a home run before the radio would call it. As kids, we would mow lawns, do physical labor around the neighborhood to earn a few dollars to go to the games. If we had no money, we would go up there during the 7th inning and walk in for free for the last few innings. I can still hear the home run music, still hear the roar of a Nolan Ryan strike out. Still remember the smell of the ballpark. The grind of making that extra money for dollar hotdog night. Still remember sitting in the stands, scoring the game in the program (or bringing my own paper to score with). Last night brought that all back to me, allowing me to relive it all again today. Thank you Texas Rangers for allowing me to experience that kind of child-like joy and for bringing back those good memories again.

Updated 03/28/2024
In the process of clearing my Wantlist. If I have something you want please send an offer as I'll most likely move any cards that are not Padres.

My collecting focus is on any Padres player with them in their Sunday Military Appreciation Uniforms (Camo).  Also Camo relic cards. Which are found from 2006 on.  

I'm willing to trade singe card for single card or if you need any bulk I have I'm ok with shipping.

-US Navy Combat veteran 2002-2012

 

Topps Red Sox Team Sets, PCs Jim Rice, Jazz Chisholm, Rafael Devers, anything Red Sox food issue (including postcards),1980s Food Oddball Baseball Issues, Red Sox minor league cards, off-condition vintage, 1950s thru 70s Topps Baseball inserts or oddball issues, Allen & Ginter minis, Topps 206 minis.

Ranked #7 Jim Rice Player Collection on TCDB

Ranked #3 Jazz Chisholm Player Collection on TCDB

A card noted as Pr, Fr, Gd, or GdVg will have some obvious condition issues such as creasing, corner wear, or marks. At best, I would consider them placeholders in a collection (I've listed them because some people want placeholders). A VG card will usually be clean with some corner wear or a centering issue. For me, VG (1950-79) would be the bare minimum for my collection projects. For Pre-War, GD and cards with ink/stamps on the back but with good eye appeal are acceptable. EX will be a nice sharp card, and VgEx will be just between VG and Ex, still a nice card with a minor issue preventing it from being EX. 

I started collecting baseball cards as a kid in the mid to late-80s and collected them through the early 90s. I started out collecting them with my old man, and I look back on those days wistfully. We'd sit up at night and put together sets and lists of our missing cards and that was a great thing to share with him. At some point, though, I outgrew wanting to share that experience with him, choosing instead to share the hobby with my friends. Then I started to notice girls and found other things to spend money on. I boxed up all the cards and traded the innocence of collecting baseball cards for other, less wholesome pursuits.

At some point over the course of the next 2 and a half decades, I somehow outgrew the nomadic life, became an adult, got married, found a permanent place to live, and jumped on the wildest ride of my life: fatherhood. In a fit of cleaning out my old room to make space for her new grandkids (my sister's kids at the time), my mother transported all of the cards from my childhood bedroom and brought them to live with me. To the attic they went, and in the attic they stayed for the better part of the last decade, hidden away and silent.

While working from home during quarantine, I repurposed the attic into a makeshift office to hide from my two kids, who were also at home, and who, despite my and my wife's best efforts, have no conception of privacy or quiet, and care very little for anyone else's productivity--especially when it comes at the expense of their most immediate desire. Stuck in the attic, armed with a laptop, and facing long days of working in solitude, there sat my baseball cards staring back at me, summoning me from a place and time long since gone. In a moment of sports deprived weakness, I answered their call and opened up a couple of boxes to look at my old collection. Glorious!

Within days of our local economy's soft reopening, I found a local card shop, escaped my attic, drove to it, donned a mask, and walked in to buy some new cards. I quickly learned that the days of the $0.50 pack had passed me by--quite a while ago it seems. Undeterred by the effects of what seemed to be hyper-inflation in an economy I had ignored for some 27 years, I left with not one, but two BOXES of baseball cards. Upon opening up the many packs of new cards, I discovered the advent of the insert card's prevalence, and that, unlike unicorns, autographed cards actually DO exist in packs (helllooo Pete Alonso!). Fascinated, and in need of boxes in which to store the cards and toploaders in which to protect them, it was back to the card shop for me. A couple of carboard boxes, a few bags of penny sleeves and some toploaders just couldn't be the extent of my second excursion. So, much like an addict in search of a fix, it was another box of cards for me. 

But, this new lifestyle of big spending on cards I knew nothing about would prove to be unsustainable as my wife and I are also tasked with feeding, clothing, and sheltering (in place) these two children we created. Alas, it was back to the attic for me, and back to shuffling through all of my old cards, sorting out the commons from the hall of famers, sorting out the steroid users from the clean players. Thus, a new collection was born. Hall of Famers. Those are the cards I want to collect.

But, I needed a mechanism for organizing what I had, and what I wanted to get. When I bought my last pack of cards as something other than a novelty back in 1993, the internet was not yet a thing, at least not one to which I had access. I thought: Surely there is some mechanism online to help me organize these cards, and give me reason to continue sorting through this mess. And, after minimal searching on the worldwide web, I discovered TCDB. What a brave new world this is.

I look forward to getting back into the hobby. But, for now, I am going to stick to trying to collect Hall of Famers, mostly vintage (which, I have learned, is now a word in this industry that describes me). I'm less concerned with a card's grading, centering, corners, or condition than I am with the name and face on it. I'm not in this as an investment; I'm in it for an escape. Hopefully when this little 2 year-old ages a few more years, he'll begin to enjoy collecting baseball cards as much as his old man did once upon a time. If so, I hope to bequeath to him a worthwhile collection and to share the experience with him for as long as he'll have me.