SYtebyondsYte

Collecting all Topps Baseball base sets from 1956 to 2020. 

If I have something on my For Sale/Trade list that you need and you have nothing to trade me, I am more than willing to sell most cards on my FS/T list at a very reasonable price...especially to fellow set collectors!

VAR's: If it's important to you to get a specific variation in a trade, please let me know so I can be sure I have the correct one for you.

Football sets from 1970 or later: Topps, Score, Pro Set and Pacific

Hockey Sets: Upper Deck 

Teams

• New England Patriots
• Toronto Maple Leafs

Players

• Greg Lloyd
• Warren Saap
• Steve Yzerman

Current Priorities:

• 94 Topps Football
• 91 Upper Deck Football
• 2020 Score Football

Trading Note

I love trading and have no issues trading across the border to our friends down south. I don't particularly care about the dollar value of the cards in the deal and am more focused on balancing the quantity, but I will adjust if dollar value is important to my trading partner. I'm pretty easy and flexible and just ask that people are fair and reasonable. I will also happily trade football for hockey or vice versa and the era of the cards does not matter to me - I just want to get rid of my doubles for cards that I actually want. My doubles have absolutely no value to me as part of my collection. 

Buying

I am not really that interested in buying cards and would much rather trade. That being said, if something peeks my interest I still may go for it. I will not buy from outside Canada however, as the exchange does not make it worth my while.  

I collect: NBA, NHL, NASCAR, Star Wars, History, Military, DC Comics, Olympics, whatever interests me

Current project is trying to get at least one card of everyone to ever get one for NBA, NHL and NASCAR. Also working on getting at least one example of every set ever for the above sports. (Wantlists on Cardboard History)

I have some health problems that make it challenging for me to get to my trade stash. It makes me a slow trader as there are some days when I'm simply in too much pain to access the boxes. My health problems are not transferable so you do not need to fear catching anything from trading with me. I generally only can mail on Saturdays.

Trading: 

I prefer to trade 1 card for 1 card. I do not care about any made up "book value". I will gladly trade more than one card for some as well...there are a few cards on my tradelist that I do need more than one card for in return though. I only put sets on my wantlist that are close to completion, so if you have something else in any of the three sports or the Non-Sports topics I focus on, odds are I will want it. Only reason I wouldn't is if I had it already.  If you don't have anything from the topics I mainly collect, but I have something you want, I will also accept football or baseball in trade, pretty much anything to get a trade done. I would prefer not to trade with smokers. I have breathing problems and cards that come from smokers are essentially useless to me, I cannot handle them. I prefer larger trades but will do any size at all.

I have tried to make sure all the cards on my Tradelist are problem free, with no corner dings, scratches or other flaws, but I am human and it's possible I may have missed something, but all cards sent out are cards you shouldn't need to worry about ever finding a replacement for. I don't demand problem free cards in return as my theory is that a damaged card is better than no card, but writing and paper loss means to me that I don't actually have that card so please don't offer them to me in trade. 

If you don't care about condition, take a look through my "Damaged Cards" collection. These are all cards that I rejected from my tradelist for having flaws but they are available for trade. I would put them at one third a card "value" so 3 damaged cards vs. 1 of your cards. If you do want any of them, let me know and I will move them to my tradelist. I don't want to put them all there and cause matches for people expecting good cards and getting damaged cards in return. Some of the flaws are pretty big problems, some you will probably wonder why I didn't list it in my tradelist. While my collection doesn't demand perfection, I am very strict with condition on cards I send out in trade.

Trading Prioroties: (what makes me the happiest to get in trade, in no particular order)

• 1995-96 and 1996-97 NBA Cards
• 1994 NASCAR Cards
• Any NASCAR card that actually focuses on the car
• Automotive Non-Sport cards
• New York Rangers
• New York Knicks
• New Jersey Nets (and Brooklyn and New York Nets, but the NJ era is my favorite
• Elton Brand
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Henrik Lundqvist
• History related Non-Sports cards
• Attractive women (with or without clothes)
• Anything from Racing Champions I don't have
• Team logo cards for NBA and NHL
• Non-sports subjects in Allen & Ginter
• People with last names starting with Q, U, Z and especially X. 
• With that said, I will trade for anything at any time, whether it's on my wantlist or not. I prefer "quantity" to "quality" and I'm a set builder at heart. 

There are also a couple of specific sets I'm really hoping to complete some day:

• 1996-97 Ultra (NBA), my favorite set ever
• 1988 Leesley Bigfoot (the set that got me started collecting)
• 2002-03 Topps Chrome Refractors (NBA) Refractors are my favorite parallel and this is the closest one to completion
• 1994 Action Packed (NASCAR) tied for my favorite NASCAR set
• 1989-90 Marine Midland New York Rangers (just need the cover card!)
• 1993 & 1994 Skybox The Simpsons (One base card away from completion, also chasing inserts)
• 1954 Topps Scoop (my favorite Non-Sport set ever)
• 1953-54 Topps World on Wheels (my favorite automotive set ever)

I collect some of everything. Top focus are Cleveland Indians, Cavs, and Browns along with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Crew and Kasey Kahne.

Currently the top collector on the TCDB of the Cleveland Indians, Omar Vizquel, Corey Kluber, Grady Sizemore, Carlos Santana, Jason Kipnis, Michael Brantley, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Ben Curtis.  

I only collect baseball.  Here's the sets I like in priority order:

Currently Building:

• Topps Flagship & Update
• Heritage
• Upper Deck Flagship
• Stadium Club
• Bowman Chrome
• Big League
• 97 New Pinnacle
• Fleer Greats of the Game
• Ultra

Hope to Build Eventually:

• Pacific Flagship
• Topps Total
• UD 40-Man
• Fleer Tradition
• Bowman paper
• UD Vintage
• UD Choice
• Fleer Flagship
• Donruss Flagship

Prefer doing bubble mailer trades of 75+ cards.  

Trading only.  Please no sale offers.

There's junk wax on my wantlist, however, I'm unlikely to accept a trade if that's all you're offering.

Baseball:
Chicago Cubs: Looking to complete my Topps Cubs Team Sets (see my want list).

Basketball:
University of Illinois / NBA: Nick Anderson, James Augustine, Dee Brown (2006-2008 Utah Jazz), Ayo Dosunmu, Kendall Gill, Luther Head, Deron Williams.

Football:
Chicago Bears: Brian Urlacher, Devin Hester
EIU: Jimmy Garoppolo, Tony Romo

FYI: Currently taking a trading break. Thanks for your understanding!

All Seattle Mariners, SeaHawks, and SuperSonics. Pretty much all baseball, especially Topps sets and subsets. Most football and basketball, especially HOF's and RC's.

NY/SF Giants baseball cards.

I have slowed down a bit on trading because my real job has me swamped and my ebay store is taking up a lot of my extra time. I am willing to trade but it may take me a day or two to get things pulled together. 

I love trading. With that said, I don't like trading on uneven terms. If you want an autographed rookie patch of your favorite player from my collection, it's going to take more than 50 1987 Topps common cards. Like a lot more. As a matter of fact, even if you added every common card on my wantlist to the transaction for one rookie patch auto, I would hesitate. I value common cards as set builders, not collection pieces so if you look at the trade you've proposed from my angle and you wouldn't agree to it, then don't propose it.

I like to trade like for like, although I have no problem crossing sports or years (within reason --- a common from 1949 Bowman does not equal a common from 1992 Donruss). So if you want a Brett Favre rookie card from 1990, I would not have much trouble trading that for a 2017 Topps Alex Bregman.

My order of appreciation is as follows:

1) My favorite players - Alex Bregman, Robin Roberts (pitcher), Tyrann Mathieu and Joe Burrow. Any one of these is almost an automatic lock in any trade.

2) Baseball - This is my sport. This is my passion. Baseball cards will always be given top priority for trades. I am collecting sets from my birth year to present and I'm placing a priority on 1975 right now. Anything you have on my wantlist is of course desired but it sweetens the pot considerably if it is from the late 70s.

3) Football - I still like collecting/buying football cards but I have no real desire to collect sets any more. I will trade for the cards in sets that I've almost completed or cards of my favorite players listed above but other than that, I don't really care all that much. I sometimes watch college football but usually only if LSU Tigers are playing and on Sunday, I just find other things to do. The NFL has gotten old and boring for me.

4) Basketball - I don't care about the NBA at all. If the Houston Rockets make it to the playoffs, I'll root for them. But otherwise, basketball is not even on the radar. College basketball is more fun but I never watch it either. That said, basketball trades, at least those in which I'm the recipient of the basketball cards, hold the least amount of value for me. I think I'm only attempting to collect one set of basketball and I'm not even really sure why. So don't think that by adding a 1989 Hoops Michael Jordan to the pot, it's going to sweeten the deal. It will not.

5) Misc. - I'm not sure what this is but I'm putting it here just in case I find something interesting. Like maybe a Pele card or something. Hell I don't know. It's called covering all the bases.

 I hope everyone is doing great!

Cheers!

---Ford

These are the sets I am currently focusing on:

Starter Sets for 52-58 and 60-67 would be lovely.

• 1954 Bowman  (197/224 - 87.9%)    Master Set   (216/264 - 81.8%)
• 1959 Topps   (511/572 - 89.3%)    Master Set   (544/670 - 81.2%)
• 1961 Topps   (520/587 - 88.6%)    Master Set   (526/596 - 88.3%)
• 1968 Topps   (589/598 - 98.5%)    Master Set   (595/611 - 97.4%)
• 1969 Topps   (552/664 - 83.1%)    Master Set   (557/698 - 79.8%)
• 1970 Topps   (695/720 - 96.5%)    Master Set   (700/727 - 96.3%)
• 1972 Topps   (723/787 - 91.9%)    Master Set   (729/797 - 91.5%)
• 1974 Topps   Master Set   (676/678 - 99.7%)
• 1975 Topps Mini   (654/660 - 99.1%)
• 1976 Topps   (622/660 - 94.2%)
• 1977 Topps   (654/660 - 99.1%)
• 1977 O-Pee-Chee   (138/264 - 52.3%)
• 1978 Topps   Master Set   (727/728 - 99.7%) 23a Bump Willis w/ marker circle
• 1979 Topps 2   (725/726 - 99.9%)  Master Set  (726/727 - 99.9%)
• 1979 Topps 3   (724/726 - 99.7%)  Master Set  (724/727 - 99.6%)
• 1979 Topps 4   (709/726 - 97.7%)  Master Set  (710/727 - 97.7%)
• 1979 O-Pee-Chee   (363/374 - 97.1%)  
• 1980 Topps   (725/726 - 99.8%)  499 SF Team Card Also want 4 #577 Mark Lee variations
• 1990 Topps   Master Set   (792/793 - 99.8%) "No Name" Frank
• 1991 Topps   Master Set   (934/1160 - 80.5%)
• 1992 Topps Winners   (701/792 - 88.5%)    Master Set   (702/840 - 83.6%)
• 1993 Topps Gold   (805/825 - 97.6%)

I have been collecting trading cards since I was a little girl and figured out that my brothers would do my chores if i had a card they wanted and just never stopped. I lost all my card 2 years ago when my storage flooded so now im starting over. My new cards are not the greatest but I'll get there again. I collected all trading card not just sports but anything  I also collected books, and maps 

Basketball (especially Orlando Magic), Soccer (Chelsea & Australian players), NFL (Steelers), Wrestling (all promotions & eras), Australian Rules Football (Adelaide Crows, SANFL), non-sport (CCGs, Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel etc.)... a bit of everything really.

If I have something you want on my FS/T list, please send me a message & I will be happy for us to try to work out a deal, regardless of what is on my wantlist.

Not currently looking to purchase cards here, but happy to trade or sell.

If you do not have 100% positive feedback for trades, I will probably ask you to send first.  If that isn't suitable then please do not send me a trade offer.

***European Union based members, please note*** - due to continued issues with Customs returning my outgoing parcels & large envelopes to me, I will only consider trades that will fit into small envelopes (about 18 cards each) & remain cost effective, so please consider this when sending me a transaction proposal.  Large trade offers will almost certainly be declined.  I am not going to send anything that requires a customs form as it will not get through.  Send me a message if you'd like me to explain further.  Thank you for your understanding.  This does not apply to non-EU based members.

Selling only. Not currently trading. List will be updated frequently

Kind of new in collecting and trading.

Willing to trade and get some insight from experienced collectors.

- Hall of Famers

- Rookie of the year

- Montreal Expos

** Please advise if you wait to receive before sending. **

May you live long and prosper.

If you are in Canada and you want to trade, unfortunately, it would have to be an unbalanced trade in my favor depending on shipping cost.

WANTS:

Baseball:  Collecting all base sets and base set inserts from 1987 and earlier,  1988 and after, looking for Hall of Famers and Stars pre rookie year cards, rookie cards and rookie year cards/inserts/etc.

Searching for all the Topps base and update sets up to 2021.  Always looking to add Giants that I don't have!

Taking a break from trading for the next month or two. Heading into a busy season and I just need to spend my free time on other things. 

Open to trading. If I don’t have any matches just message me and let’s see if we can work out a trade. If that doesn’t work I am open to selling. 

Primarily baseball, with some special attention to Minnesota Twins and standard Topps series.

Looking to help a friend finish up his 1971 Topps Baseball set. Have quite a few 1971 dupes I am willing to offer up in trades to help him out.

Also - my preference is to try to match value of the cards in the trade (e.g. keep trades 1:1 instead of 50:1).  I have lots of opportunities to get the cheap cards and so I am reluctant to just get rid of higher value cards just to get bunch of cheap(er) cards.

Update 2023:

I've been inactive last year due to work and family but I am back where I belong trading cards with everyone here =)

Collects: 

• Basketball: Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron James
• Football: Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert
• Gaming: Pokemon, Dragon Ball Super

 Trades:

Always willing to trade and work out deals with members of this cool community. 

Small trades in PWE with penny sleeves into team bags with a card protector.

Larger trades up to 18 cards in 9-page sheet in PWE unless requested otherwise.

Bubble mailer for deals with higher volume and amount $$

Football, baseball, basketball,hockey, wrestling and my PC is Andre Reed and Andrew luck and bills and also don' mattingly

Baseball, basketball, and football set collector

11/14/23-Just added more sets that I am starting to build.

Open to trades of any size, but would definitely prefer large trades to help us both fill many wants where possible.  Does not need to be same sport or same number of cards. I am good with PWE trades. If there is nothing on my want list that you have feel free to offer and I can potentially look through what you have.

Private collection: 127k
Looking to complete sets up to 1993 and all Reggies, Jeters, and Yankees from 1994-present (no longer doing non-sport). (Still adding to my wants. Have entered all my set needs and Yankees needs up to 2006)

For trade on TCDB: 96k
Bsseball 86k
Basketball, Football, & other sports 2k
Non-sport 8K

Currently being added to TCDB: 25K


Trading, BV and card condition:
I do trades of all sizes. I can do 100 for me and 1,000 for you or the other way around. I use Beckett bv to insure the trade bv is close on both sides. Condition of my cards: 1979 and older are mostly G-VG. Some may have creasing, off-centered etc. 1978 - 1985 are VG-EX. 1986 to current are mainly in EX-MT condition. If you are in Canada please contact me before sending a trade offer. Thanks.

Largest trades (cards sent):
#1 - 3,558 (CardsInTheBasement)
#2 - 1,464 (supergajit)
#3 - 1,442 (Gasypo30)
#4 - 1,388 (basecardhero)
#5 - 1,310 (Sandman1971)
#6 - 1,165 (wvcabo)
#7 - 1,057
#8 - 936 (basecardhero)
#9 - 918 (wvcabo)
#10 - 871

2024 Goals:
*** Net reduction of 5,000 cards *** 

Yankees, Don Mattingly, Tri-City Valley Cats, Topps base sets

I enjoy collecting football and baseball sets all major manufactures Topps, Fleer, Leaf, Upper Deck, Score (that all I can think of right now) 1970's to present, 

I have also started a collection of my favorite NHL team the Nashville Predators.

Set building is my major goal condition is secondary. I do not mind a small crease or a rounded corner if a card is needed to complete a set. 

I do not grade cards but I will let you know if a card has an obvious flaw before I accept the trade. 

I do not mind PWE trades. I always ship in bubble mailers and with tracking if the budget permits. That is my personal preference I do not require or ask it to be yours.

Baseball, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Cal Ripken Jr. & Odd Stuff...

Sets working on:

• 1969 Topps
• 1979-85 Topps Baseball
• All Topps Archives sets
• 2016-2018 Topps Heritage Baseball sets
• 1986-87 Fleer Basketball
• 2017 Marvel Annual
• 2018-19 Marvel Annual
• 2020 Marvel Anime
• 1980 Marvel Terrabusi set w/ sticker set
• 1986 GI JOE
• 1990 GI Joe
• 1966 Batman

PC's and things I get excited about in trades:

• 50/60's topps/bowman
• Ken Griffey Jr Super Collector 800+
• Joe Harris (Nets) 100+
• Rey Skywalker Super Collector 500+
• Padme Amidala
• Jyn Erso
• Alex Morgan
• Alexia Putellas
• Trinity Rodman
• Sophia Smith
• Ryan Gareis
• Aitana Bonmati
• Kelsey Plum
• Sue Bird
• Caitlin Clark
• Paige Bueckers
• Any WNBA throw me a shot
• Black Widow
• Spider Gwen
• Marvel and DC comic items
• Luka Doncic
• Pat Mahommes 
• Mariners, Pilots, Rainiers, Seahawks
• Vintage football 
• Tom Brady 150+
• Russell Wilson 110+
• Richard Sherman
• Topps Heritage football
• Jordan
• Mini cards

Willing to sell if you dont want to trade

Please Please Please read my profile before making  a trade proposal!

Baseball:

(Primary Collection) St Louis Cardinals and St Louis Browns -- All years, all sets, all issues and all variations!

(Secondary) Set builder - Topps (Base Plus Updates).  Other Fun Sets that get my attention.

(Secondary)  HOFers and other misc Player Collection 

My "wants" for my Cardinals collection is accurate from 1900 - 2008.  I still have about 12,000Plus Cardinals cards from 2009-present to sort through and enter.  Please do not offer any Cardinals cards from 2009-present unless you contact me first as there is a chance I already have it amongst the multitude to still go through. 

I still have about 30K Cardinals duplicates that are not yet enterred in the database as FS/FT.  

Hockey: St Louis Blues.

Football: St Louis Cardinals 1960-1987. St Louis Rams: 1995-2015.

Rockies, Broncos, Nolan Arenado

Baseball - Football - Hockey

Collect anything to do with Chicago Cubs  

I DO NOT BUY CARDS. I trade when I can 

Rockies, Redskins, Bruins and Sacramento Kings

Football, esp. Buffalo Bills, WLAF/NFLE, Sets from 1990-1993, HOF Defense Players from the 90s

Basketball Houston Rockets 1993-1994 and 1994-1995

Cody Bellinger Super Collector ... Cowboys, Lakers, Dodgers, Star Wars 

Update:

1/13/24

Loser serving  1. This is on Starsfans page.

Shaggy69    for collecting PiF cards because he made other members believe he was hurt in a car accident. 

I  am so glad that Starsfans lives in my house to know what is going on. This is the reason I don't trust Cops. What good would it be for me to lie about being in a car wreck? This is how dumb he is. I am glad he is not a cop anymore because he could find his ass with a flash light and a road map. He is pissed off over and email that was not seen. All over 59 cards he wanted. What a child. Grow up

1/12/23

How do I say this for all the stupid people on here that are to into their feelings. I was sent a messages about trades. I didn't see that message and they got butt hurt about it. Then put me on their no trade list.  If you didn't read that past 4 month post then that is your bad.  I am still recovering from the rotator cuff tear that I have. So If you going to be a child about a message that was not seen. Then go take a leap off a building and save room in the world for better people. I don't have time for grown ass men to be children. For the people out there who don't know who I'm talking about it's Starsfan. Who now say I am on drugs because I didn't see his message he sent. What a grade A retired looser he is.

10/5/23

I just want to say to the people that have PIF me in the past couple of weeks and the people who have been send get well wishes. THANK YOU!!!! It means a lot to me.  I am working hard to get better. It's going to take some time to get back from 4 discs in my neck and lower back to heal. I am not sitting back letting it stop me from doing the hobby I love to do. So, thank you all for understanding and giving me the time to get you your cards.

9/11/23

Trades are open for a minute. I was in a bad card wreck 3 weeks ago and now I am trying to get some trades for people who ask if I am coming back soon.  And it's alot of people ask me. So please be understanding I have a back and neck injury that slows me down right now.  I am trying to help others out that is why I opened back you trading to see If I can do it.  In the past you all got your cards shipped out within the next day or two of me taking the trade.  It might take me a little longer to ship out with having so many Dr. appointments. but you will get your cards I dont have a perfect rating on here for people not getting their cards. I have done 1300 plus trades. an you can look at my feedback you will get your cards I just need some time. If you are ok with that then lets trade. Thank you for understanding.

11/4/22

FOR THE LAST TIME I AM GOING TO SAY THIS. I DO NOT BUY CARDS ON HERE AND I WILL NOT DO BIG TRADES. I HAVE A SET LIMIT OF CARDS I WILL TRADE AND THAT IS THAT. 

I will try this one more time. I will only do trades that are 20 Cards or less. If the trade is more then that I will decline the trade offer. I have lost to many card to big trades. An my no trade list is still in play.  If you keep asking for more then 20 cards at one time. You will be put on that list no question Asked.

I finally made the list this year. The Biggest Trade of The Year Tenlbpain and Shaggy69 4,247 Cards. Hell Yes!!!!! 

 Not buy cards for any reason if I need them or not.

Just to make my life alot easier, I am going to be only Shipping on Thursday's going forward. TY for your Understanding

My 11 yr old son (Now 16) has got my passion back, looking for pretty much everything and have many duplicates that I hope you can use. Check back often as I buy and trade a lot. I am not opposed to any "FAIR" trade.

PWE's welcome

Fav teams:

Football - Bills & Raiders

Baseball - White Sox & Blue Jays & Expos

Hockey - Red Wings & Maple Leafs & Jets

Basketball - Raptors & Lakers & Jazz

Nascar - JGR & really any!!!

Soccer - TFC & Man U

  Any Racing.

Fav players:

Football : All time : Bo Jackson & Reggie White            Now : Tom Brady & Odell Beckham jr.

Baseball : All Time : Frank Thomas & Cal Ripken jr      Now : Bo Bichette & Josh Donaldson

Hockey : All Time : Steve Yzerman & Ron Hextall        Now : Mitch Marner & John Tavares

Basketball : All Time : Magic Johnson & Steve Nash    Now  : Kyle Lowry & Pascal Siakam 

Nascar : All Time : Alan Kulwicki & Darrell Waltrip        Now :  Martin Truex & Kyle Busch

Soccer : All Time : Pele &  Lionel Messi                        Now : Sebastian Giovinco & Michael Bradley

Women's Soccer : All Time : Hope Solo & Mia Hamm   Now : Christine Sinclair & Ada Hegerberg

Women's Hockey : All Time : Cassie Cambell & Manon Rheaume Now : Kendall Coyne & Hayley Wickenheiser

Non Sport : All TIme : Marvel & DC                               Now : Marvel & DC

My son has deciding we are collecting any/ All Marvel D.C. and other comic cards

Jeff Shaw,  

PO BOX 81

DRAYTON, ON.

N0G 1P0 CANADA

New York Yankees, Andy Pettitte and Nick Swisher and Topps flagship sets. Everything up for trade, always looking for Yankee cards.

YANKEES!!!!! 

---Jeter

---Judge

---Torres

---And All Pinstrips from 2000 and up

Not collecting anymore. Getting rid of all my cards.

If my trading is turned back on, it's only to list what someone wants to get from me, not for trades.

It's been fun, but there comes a time for all good things to come to an end. This is my time.

Aaron Sele super collector!

I'm building these baseball sets right now. 

1957, 1961, 1965, and 1969 Topps, I am looking for vgex or better.

Thanks to many trades, my want list is much smaller than it used to be. I would be willing to trade for new or gently used 35pt one-touches, if that helps generate a deal. 

Please make trade offers that will justify the cost of shipping. 

Teams...Reds, Bengals, Celtics

Players...Rose, Larkin, Votto, Phillips, Green, Johnson, Munoz, Bird, Nowitzki, Nash,  Mattingly, Chipper,  Piazza.... Completing Sets and Trading, Period!

This database is a great place for a collector. I've had all positive experiences on here all the people are great so far. If we do a trade and seems like your cards are not going to never arrived, they will, I can be a little slow. And most of the time when it comes to trading vintage and modern I would like that to be on like a 3:1 rate. It only makes sense.

2023 - Focusing on 1971 Topps Baseball and Gill Hodges Collection

Personal Collection Priorities

Vintage Dodgers (pre 1980)

Gil Hodges

Rod Carew

Hunter Pence

Darin Erstad

Hideo Nomo

Pitchers in Batting Stance

Pre-War Track and Field

Set collecting 1971 Topps baseball, Topps Archives and Stadium Club sets, and 1932 American Caramel 

Top 10 Mets Team Collector on TCDB (#7).

I collect The Mets. Anything Mets related. All years all sets. I'm not currently doing the trademark/period/etcetc variant thing. If you are looking to trade for one of those cards, ask me and if I have time ill look.

I use prices on Sportlots to evaluate trades. If a card isnt on Sportlots, I go to COMC, then ebay. I do not think the prices on this site are too accurate, so I do not go by TCDB pricing.

I prefer to trade autos/relics/Ser #/higher value cards straight up for comparable ones on my wantlist. Comparable means close in year, relatively same caliber player and equal value. I probably won't accept a trade for 25/50/100/150/200 junk waxes/base for one of these type cards.

Check my wants and trade lists.

Also intestested in Wacky Packages, Kiss, anything Military/War. 

After a quite long hiatus due to retirement/moving to a free state from the hellhole that is NJ/starting a farm, I am back and available for trading. 

Mets = I want it.

Not Mets = You can have it.

How I collect:

Buy Product. Keep the Mets. Sell the hits. Trade the rest. Avoid questions from the wife.

updated 05March2023:

I've been dormant for awhile but still responding to emails. I was able to sell off my entire collection. It's been great experience here, but life has driven me in other directions. 

I did the unbelievable and sold off my Eli Manning collection.. yes it's sad, but its done. !!

Anything on Trade List is open for sale offers-- I also don't mind giving a few cards here and there for nothing, just ask! No trade to small!

The 2015-16 Bowman baseball sets in collection are also avail for sale or trade as a whole. There are over 400 Bowman auto's I like to dump for $425 for all them. 

I'm only looking to keep a few select cards , mostly my favorite Phils and some Rookies.

Looking for Atlanta braves topps/topps udate cards.  I have a local card shop putting together the base sets for me.  I will be looking for help with the insert cards and the short print/variation cards.  Any help would be apprecaited.  

WELCOME to my selling & trading page!  Occasionally a few rants here and there but i'm only trying to save the world. It's a hard job just doing my part. I will entertain everything except lopsided trades. You get blocked for that.

UNTIL SPORTLOTS SHOWS ME THESE 18 CENT TOM BRADY CARDS (SHIPPED) THEY SUPPOSEDLY HAVE FOR SALE   THE PRICES THEY POST MEAN NOTHING. TRASH TO BE HONEST 

If I dont respond you can always call or text me... sixonetwo-sevenfourthree-threeonezeroone  -JUSTIN

\\\*** VINTAGE & CURRENT SETS I AM WORKING ON NOW ***///   

1. BASEBALL - 1952 topps, 1960, 61 fleer, 1955-59, 67, 69, 70, 71, 74, 76 topps 1933 Goudey ANY condition*
2. FOOTBALL - 1968 topps, 1970-1977 topps, 1997 ud3, 1998 ud3, 2008 upper deck
3. BASKETBALL - 1986-87 fleer -missing stickers- akeem, bird, Jordan & 03-04 topps & chrome
4. HOCKEY - 1970-71 topps, 1979-80 topps

HELP! I'M 1 CARD AWAY FROM A COMPLETE SET: 

• 1952 TOPPS #261 W. MAYS / 2011 TOPPS HERITAGE NEW AGE PERF. #NAP-13 R. CANO
• 2012 TOPPS HER. NAP #NAP-JV JOEY VOTTO  /  2001 Topps Post cereal #16 M. Alou
• 58 TOPPS JIM BROWN / 1985 TOPPS #72 E. JOHNSON / 2019 Donruss Optic DEEBO SAMUEL
• 1972-73 TOPPS #88 KEON / 

Hall of Fame rookies, pre war cards any condition,, set builder from 1909-2019 PC is Thomas Tapeh, RANDY MOSS, Griffey Jr., Kirby Puckett, Piazza, Manny Ramirez, Vlad Guerrero, Ripken, Terrell Davis, Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Tom Brady, Drew Brees Rookies, Torry Holt, Edgerrin James, Daunte Culpepper Rookies, Tony Gonzalez  PC all in my favorites.   I ALSO SELL ON EBAY & FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE

https://www.ebay.com/sch/vintagesportscollector1981/m.html?_trksid=p3692

  Let's say we match on 100 cards. There are a fair amount of stars, commons, high value stuff. It can be definitely time consuming to add for both sides. Add what you are looking for from me and add 1 or more cards from your side and send it over to me. I can fill in the blanks to make that trade work for me. If you want to counter the trade feel free to do that so it works for you. I would hope for a fair amount of give and take dealing with common and star cards. Commons arent very valuable to me going to or coming from me. Just saying. If we can do a larger trade for more cards why wouldnt we?  This may not be everyone's ideal way to trade but I figure we get a lot more accomplished that way. if you want to do all commons on one end and all stars on another let's do that. Thanks.

AGAIN: I don't value common cards very highly whether they are mine or yours. you give me 20 i will give you 20.    I will counter 90 % of the time.  I'm a set collector working on sets. Volume trades are always welcome

I have decided to ship only 1 day a week because it's easier for me. single card trades will be the same day.

I TRADE A LOT ON HERE AND SOMETIMES I END UP TRADING CARDS THAT I DONT OWN ANY MORE. IF THIS HAPPENS I WILL LET YOU KNOW SO I CAN REPLACE IT. IF I DONT RECEIVE A RESPONSE IN 4 DAYS I WILL SEND YOU RANDOMS ON YOUR WANTLIST TO COMPENSATE AND THAT'S IT

BIG SHOUT OUT TO MY FELLOW TRADERS WHO CONTINUE TO BE FAIR, CONSISTENT AND UNDERSTANDING. YOU ALL MAKE MY EXPERIENCE HERE GREAT.

I missed the forum post about bobscardz and his banishment. I would have voted NO because he hasn't even tried to send me my end of the cards he got from me. He marked it as problem and never fixed it ever since he left his UNWARRANTED negative against me. He is a spiteful, hateful internet scammer as far as I can see. I am not perfect but I make up for my mistakes. my 2 cents.

Topps Baseball & Football and any former Mississippi State players. 

Priority of my want lists:
1 - Any and all Phillies cards (almost anything not in my collection is a "want")
2 - Various set ventures (baseball - 1972 Topps, 2016 Topps Chrome, Archives, Heritage sets, then hockey sets)
3 - Baseball HOFers (1980s)
4 - Baseball HOFers (1970s)
5 - Baseball HOFers (1990s)
6 - Baseball HOFers (other decades)

If there are any other categories of want lists, they would fall between set completion and HOFers.

I added approx. 90,000 cards available for trade in early 2023.

[The next section has been updated on 3/4/2024]

Note: Currently transactions are ON.

While I have transaction requests turned on, trade proposals will be handled in the order in which they are received. I am continuing to take it slow because I don't have the time or patience to take on too many trades at once. Additionally, I have found that it makes it easier on both sides because the cards are known to be available. And please, when we do trade, please make it so that the postage to/from your location to mine makes a trade worthwhile for both of us. Thank you.

Please also note that I am very much open to selling in addition to trading. If you see stuff you want and don't have anything in return, that's okay. We'll work out a deal that will be fair for both of us, not just me (and not just you, please). (The listings over at the SwamiLee account are in my possession and I am also selling those. The only sport left there is baseball.)

April 2024 - I've added a lot of Young Gun cards to my FS/Trade list, please don't propose a trade for these cards without being willing to offer Young Guns in return. Response A) Hate being a stickler about this but I'm really focused on wrapping up my Upper deck sets and need Young Guns cards to do so. Response B) I continue to get lopsided trade offers with folks wanting Young Gun cards, expect me to counter. 

March 2024 - I am extremely busy at work right now and have next to no time for card related items. Happy to look at trade offers when I can but the hobby is not a top priority for me right now. 

January 2024 - Over 1400 trades completed and I've owned/traded/moved over a million cards since joining the site 6+ years ago. That being said, the current state of trading on this site is atrocious. Several years back, the traders were all great to deal with but this has changed dramatically in the last few years and there's truly on a handful of traders which I feel any level of comfort dealing with. Trade offers go ignored, are countered with ridiculous offers and petty issues seem to be common anymore. I left out everyone seems to treat their cards like million dollar prized possessions. I started a No Trade list but it seemed like every few days I was adding someone to it, not worth it guys and gals. I'm finding that I can buy cards I want either from Sportlots or eBay with so much less hassle. And cheap too. 

All that said, when my current stash of postage runs out, I'm turning off trading and not sure if I will be returning. Was a fun ride while it lasted. 

November 2023 - Trade Values - I am back to using Beckett to look at card values for trade equality. 

Willing to trade to Canada again. I am though not accepting any responsibility for any losses, etc. once I drop my envelope in the mailbox. Trader beware!

October 2023 - Nothing against any of my Canadian traders but I am no longer trading to Canada due to issues with Canada Post and the USPS destroying envelopes causing loss of cards, cards needing to be resent, issues with postage, etc. It's too much folks. 

To pull, package and ship cards, only to have one of the postal systems destroy the package makes it a fruitless endeavor. It's a waste of both time and money. 

Sadly, Canadian trades make up most of my trades so this is probably the beginning of the end of my trading days.  I will probably beginning selling off most of my collection starting in 2024. It's been a fun ride but thats the way I'm heading right now. 

****1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey VAR's on my For Sale/Trade list - Highly unlikely that I have any of the oddball VAR's. These cards were entered mainly as placeholders meaning I do have one version of a given card but probably not the version you need. If time permits, I may be open to checking VAR versions but it's not something that I enjoy doing nor high on my list of things to do. ****

September 2023 - Continuing to focus on collecting one card of anyone who is the four Hall of Fame's. I'm over 90% complete on Baseball and Football. Basketball is lagging far behind. Haven't updated Hockey but I should be in good shape there as well. 

Supplies:

For anyone close to Denver, I have a large amount of trading supplies that need to find a new home. I have BCW card houses, 5000 and 3200 count boxes and a host of smaller boxes (800, 660, 550, 400, 300, 200 and 100). The latter is a mixture of used and new Collect-Save-Protect or BCW brand. 

Disclaimer on PWE trades

I'm hearing of, and personally experiencing, more and more issues with PWE trades. Mainly postal machines destroying/bending envelopes or envelopes arriving and the cards being missing. I have not seen issues like this in my prior 1100+ PWE trades. That being said, I will continue to send 25 cards or less PWE but once the envelope is dropped in the mailbox, I'm no longer responsible for damage/issues after that point. I'm not sending replacement cards or funds if there's damage once the USPS has my/your envelope or your cards are lost in the mail.

I'm very close to no longer writing "Non-Machinable" on my PWE envelopes. This doesn't seem like a makes a difference to the USPS and the financial costs for doing this quickly add up. 

I hate to take a hard stance on this but short of stopping trading (or doing larger, bubble envelope trades), I have no other options. I'm spending too much time and money on postage to send replacement cards, when the issue arises, to make trading worth it.

Happy to do larger trades (30+ cards) in bubble envelopes.

What I'm collecting for:

1)I'm primarily an Upper Deck flagship hockey collector. I'm working on completing a few remaining base sets and then chasing Young Guns and insert cards. 

2)I'm also collecting RC's (when possible) of all NBA/NHL/NFL/MLB players who have been inducted into their respective Hall of Fames. Also collecting non-players cards as well if they are in the HOF. Basically if the person is in the Hall of Fame for their sport, I'm hunting their RC or if it's a non-player, some type of card for them.

3)Finally, I'm collecting Baseball/Hockey and to a lesser extent, Football sets, of the 1970's/1980's. 

Card condition:

If your cards look like they have been manhandled, I'm not interested in them for my collection. No creases, rounded corners or teeth marks. 

Buying cards:

I've had several folks approach me about buying cards..I will rarely be interested in buying from someone and, odds are, I will reach out to you first..

Trade size:

Make it worth our time..

PWE packaging:

I am no longer using cardboard protection in my PWE trades. Historically, I've done 100's of trades with cards just in 9 pocket pages and then placed in envelopes and have had zero issues. After some issues I have seen lately with including cardboard in my PWE trades, I'm no longer spending the extra money, and time, just to have cardboard protection in an envelope. 

Postage:

Please make sure you have proper postage on whatever you are sending me. Seems to be half the envelopes I get are short on postage. Minimal postage on a PWE envelope is $1.03.

Canada trades:

Has between 9 and 25 cards or less. I can't afford to send big trades unless there's additional cards/value to compensate. Trades less than 9 or so cards don't make a lot of sense either from a cost standpoint.