Burchjohn

I collect mainly Ripken, 1991 and earlier Topps sets, and Pre-WW II when possible. 

Interested in acquiring Ripkens from 2001 and earlier and actively completing Topps baseball sets from 1976, 1975, 1971, 1966, 1965, and 1956.  Looking for 1975 in at least NM condition, 1976 in EX, 1966, 1965, and 1956 in VG-EX, and 1971 in G-VG.

For trades, I have 1974, 1973, 1972, and 1971 Topps baseball (generally G or VG) and 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 Topps baseball (generally VG or EX) available, plus tons of Ripken base and inserts.

Set collector. Slowly getting cards entered. Oakland A's and San Francisco 49ers fan.

Main sets I'm looking to complete are Topps baseball, 18-19 Prizm basketball, 18 and 19 Prizm football.

As the nice weather is slowly creeping away, I'm hoping to have more time to work on this hobby again. As of October 22, I currently have 25 pending trade offers. Will try and get to them all as soon as I can. If you're in a hurry and can't wait, I apologize. But life and work comes first, and a good possibility that I'll be busy with work in the near future with this mandated vaccine. Thanks for you're time and offers. 

Chris

I collect vintage graded cards n trying to just put sets together.

Recently joined T.C.D.B, and must say I am not tech savy but am finding this site very easy to navigate through.

I have quite a large collection of cards covering all the 4 major sports and am looking to trade with other members of the hobby.

I also feel it's worth noting that any of my cards are open to cash offers.

Novenber 4 2022. 
My sincere apologies to anyone whom has tried to reach out to me. I'm not even sure of the time frame that I have been away from the site. Part of me feels like it has been for the better part of 2 years, but I am really uncertain. I feel like months have just ran into years because of all that we have faced over the last several years. 
I feel like an explanation is neccassary. When I joined I had loads of free time as I was a person whom had multiple employment in the same field and had been mandated to choose one employer. I chose an employer in which I worked part time weekends for, which allowed me at the time to assist my son with virtual schooling, which was the only option at the time.

Fast forward to a little over a year ago and I was permitted to resume working for all employers. As it turned out I accepted full time employment from my part time employer as well as keeping my full time employment with my employer whom I had worked for, for over 25 years. Reason, I had lost over 120,000 in wages over the 2 years ( we all had to make sacrifices as a society ). Leaving me with zero time to be on this site. However, because stress causes health issues and collecting is my meditation, I have made a point of returning and setting aside time in my day / week to ensure that I'm active on here , to support my mental health. 
 

Without writing to big of a novel, I hope that gives some clarity of where and what I've been up to 

All the best

Michael 

• Main PC: Tony Gwynn
• Looking to build Justin Turner PC right now
• Also PC: Mark Trumbo, Steve Garvey, Andre Ethier, Stephen Vogt, Clayton Kershaw, Sandy Koufax, Max Muncy, Chris Taylor, and Roberto Clemente
• Vintage cards: condition generally not a big issue, just looking for cards w/o writing or creases
• Always offering modern for vintage
• Open to considering all trades, even for cards not on my For Trade/Sale list 
• Only consider trading to Canada on the right deal. If you are in Canada, please express such when offering a trade.
• Trading similar cards for set builds. Not interested in receiving trade proposals offering me a quantity of set building commons for a few of my star/HOF cards.

Open to trades or sales of my cards, but please look up the values on Beckett or Sportlots before you propose a trade to me. I will decline offers that are heavily weighted in your favor. If they are close I'm more likely to accept, or at least counter. I prefer larger trades versus smaller ones in order to offset the time and cost required to find the cards and ship them.

I started on a great endeavor at the beginning of the pandemic to complete Topps baseball sets from 1975 to 1985. I got about halfway through it and got burnt out on it. I'm going through my wantlists now to flip the uncompleted sets (1982, 78, 77, 76, and 75) to my 'For Sale/Trade' list

I will send most trades through Plain White Envelope (PWE), but for larger trades I'll send packages instead. Please let me know if you would prefer a different shipping arrangement when proposing a trade.

*** I just added many 1991 Topps Desert Shield to my FS/T and want list.  This is a new set build and I prefer to trade dupes for needs in the same set.  If you offer regular base cards of almost anything else then I am likely to decline.  Thank you for your interest! *** 

Hello!  I bought my first packs in 1973 and found a card of my favorite player Mickey Lolich.  I was hooked and started building sets each summer.  Took a few years off now and then but always found my way back.

PC baseball set builds I'm enjoying right now:

• 2024 Topps Series 1  331/350   94%
• 1991 Topps Desert Shield  349/792   44%
• 1959 Topps  555/572   97%
• 1960 Topps  502/572   87%
• 1962 Topps  436/598   72%
• 1965 Topps   330/598   55%
• 1970 Kellogg's  70/75   93%
• 1971 Kellogg's  54/75   72%
• 1972 Kellogg's ATG  12/15   80%
• 1973 Topps Team Checklists  21/24   87%
• 1972/73 Topps Hockey   174/176    98%
• Plus many more sets on my want list...

I love trading so please don't hesitate to initiate a transaction.  Not much of a seller, really prefer to trade.

Trading Guidelines:  1)  Looking for EX or better in 1966 and earlier, need NRMT or better in anything newer as these are likely upgrades.  2)  I'm open to trades of all size, from 1 card to 1,000+.  3)  The number of HOF/Superstars and key rookies should be fair, not looking to trade my HOFs for commons.  4)  I try to accurately identify variations but check with me if you seek a specific version of a card.  5)  Condition of cards:  1979 & newer are mostly NRMT, 1978 and earlier include childhood cards and vary in condition.  I am in the process of entering grades for all cards in these years.  Feel free to ask about specific cards.  I always pull cards before accepting a trade and will inform you of any condition exceptions.

🇨🇦 I Welcome trades from my friends in Canada 🇨🇦 

P.S., I still have the original Lolich card from the summer of '73 and that dupe is not for trade.

Vintage Baseball

• Just got done with my 65 set
• Completed my 70 set
• 80% done with a VG 66 set; wow those high numbers!
• starting a 60 & 64 set
• need a few more for my 74, 76, 2 77 and 3 79 and 80 sets
• need 87 Topps Tiffany stars
• Have lots of cards to trade just haven't put them on TCDB, all Topps: 74,83,84,85,86,87,89,91

I am a set builder 

Most of my want lists are now inserts

Filling sets from the Late '80s and '90s and  2021 to present

New here and I am slowly organizing my collection. Good thing I am a widower because my kitchen table is a disaster.

If you offer a trade please give me some time so that I can locate the cards - I don't have a really good filing system yet! It is a work in progress.

will also trade #' ed cards that are in my PC so if one catches your eye or a need you may have, shoot me a trade proposal

also have some unopened packs from 1987 and more for trade including silver packs from 22 and 23 that I can include to trade for higher value cards.

I still have more to post in my collection and cards to offer in the next few weeks, so check back often

I  am currently working on Master sets of Topps from the early 90s and most of those needed are VARs

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IF I AM REQUESTING "VAR" OF CARDS FROM A SET, BE SURE THEY ARE CORRECT! BUILDING A MASTER SET REQUIRES ALL VAR OF A CARD ( "dot", "no dot", Different Print Codes, ETC...)

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Since joining TCDB, I have completed the master set of 1986,1987,1988 and the 1992 Topps ,92 Stadium Club (1800cards) sets as well as the 1983 Fleer!  Only 40 years later...LOL

My Favorite BB team is the Mets and have been since 1976 many tough years and hopefully, this season will be good!!

Any size trade will be considered!

I don't pull cards until a transaction is suggested, but rarely can I not find all the cards to trade

I will purchase if need be but really enjoy trading, will do any combo of cards and cash as well

I ship cards, 99% of the time, on the same day Trade has been agreed upon. Unless it is a weekend. I would like the same courtesy. If possible- THANKS and happy trading! 

A day without a proposal is NOT a Good day for me

J. Buhner, A.Rhodes, C.Bosio,  D. Wilson, J.Nelson, J.Kruk, R.Dibble, M.Blowers, R.Myers, D.Boyd, M. Blowers, M. Fidrych, B. Blyleven, D. Parker.

DISCLOSURE:

My Topps 59' 60' 61' and 62's are all Ex or Ex+ and looking for good homes.

My OPC/Topps 70's vary widely.  I hesitate to grade, but I do  know the parameters.  Ask for condition and I will put eyeballs on the card and let you know.

My Topps 79' and 80' are weathered.  Some dings, soft edges. Pesentable. Handled by me as a child.  If its creased, it isnt listed here

Everything else Ex+/Nm or better.

3/1624 Ive come to a tough decision to take a break with trading. HS season/Work/Travel is gobbling up my time for the next few months. All offers/trades before this will be finalized,as quick as I can.

I will still send out trades (usually whatever I am sorting) from time to time.

3/10/24 HS Fastpitch season starts Monday. I will do the best I can to respond to any proposals as fast as possible. With 4 games a week some weeks, it may take some time. As always, thanks for looking!

building sets of my favorite cards

this is my doubles account, so feel free to message me!

I coach High School/Travel fastpitch softball, so its a busy time of year. So if you don't hear back from me, I'm prolly at a game or practice

my main collection is @ odrivero

I will trade hockey/soccer/racing for baseball/football/basketball

I will use prices here as a guideline to a fair/ reasonable trade and will always tell you the condition of the cards your asking for. If i wouldn't want it, i wont trade it to you.

concentrating on 

1979 topps

1995 Emotion

1995 Flair

turned off trading for a while...

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Bo Jackson collector...  and his unusual cards including errors, variations, misprints, trivia cards, board game cards, etc

Also a Roy Campanella collector... they moved into the L.A. suburbs 4 houses down at the corner, just when I went away to college :(

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My extra cards need to be where they belong, out of hibernation and into your collection.  Large, small, pwe, any size trades.

If you've found needed cards in my traders, and can't find matches in my wantlist to trade away, please send me a message and I'll look to find something...

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Mostly vintage cards from my childhood. I have a large selection of cards from the 1970s for sale and/or trade. I am adding those cards to my for sale/trade list on a weekly basis. 

Completing series from the 1970s in baseball, basketball and football are my main priorities. Condition desired is usually EX but am willing to discuss other options to complete sets. 

I am particularly interested in completing basketball sets from 1969-70, 1970-71 and 1971-72. 

Moved recently and thinned out my collection by about half. Cards are all packed away, my inventory is not accurate and I will not have time to do anything with my cards for the foreseeable future. Hopefully someday I'll have time to get back on the horse!

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.