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On hiatus from TCDB right now. Currently traveling cross-country for work and will not have time to do much other than move and work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I collect 1952-Present Baseball cards (Mostly 1980-2022), 1990s Basketball cards, 1980s-Present Football cards, 2000s Wheaties Soccer cards, 1985 Topps Wrestling cards, Pokémon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards, Stamps, Coins, you name it, I probably collect it. Baseball, however, makes up the majority of my collection.

My entire Wantlist is cards that my second cousin destroyed in an escapade up into my room. I now store my cards up high where he can't get to them when he visits, which is kind of hard seeing that he is 6'3.

I have been part of the filming of the Ally Challenge Golf Event since its inception. I haven't met any of the pros through the filming, though...

I also have dyslexia, so I will tend to mix up my letters a bit. Please excuse me for that.

Thank you to tgreer for helping me finish my 1991 and 1990 Topps Baseball sets.

If you want to trade, please contact me. I will accept basically anything as long as I'm receiving a card(s) that I don't currently already own.

04-14-24....OK I'M GOING TO TURN ON MY TRADING TODAY. I WILL SEE HOW IT GOES...STILL REHABBING BUT GETTING BETTER...

03-30-24

SET BACK ON SURGERY...THE ROD THEY PUT IN MY LEG BROKE SINCE SURGERY ON 11-06-23...

BACK TO SQUARE ONE WITH REMOVAL OF ROD IN THE NEAR FUTURE.....

01-25-24

*****SURGERY WENT WELL...STILL NOT HOME ...RECOUPING NOW...WILL LET EVERYONE KNOW WHEN I RESUME TRADING...THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT REACHED OUT TO ME.....************

10-10-23

^^^^^^^^^^^   UNFORTUNATELY...I NEED RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY ON MY RT ANKLE. I WILL BE LAID UP FOR 6-8 WEEKS WITH NO WEIGHT BEARING FOR 6 WEEKS...I'LL HAVE TO TURN OFF TRADES FOR AWHILE..SORRY....THANK YOU..  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

*******  RIGHT NOW I AM ONLY TRADING WITH THE USA  AND CANADA....INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.....***********

********** Priority on Baseball Sets to complete....**********

2001 TOPPS ......need 2

2010 TOPPS.....need 1

********  Trying to Finish the 80-81 Topps HOCKEY set.....I'm looking for the UNSCRATCHED cards ....Any help will be appreciated  *****

Baseball and Hockey. Trying to complete sets in Hockey and Baseball from my childhood...Also collecting modern day sets..Basically a BASE SET builder..... No trade, too small or too big.....

As always, you can counter any trade I propose....I just want a FAIR trade for both parties...

Also collect PHILADELPHIA FLYER cards and PITTSBURGH PIRATE cards. 

 Happy Trading.....TOM.....

Set Building and New York Mets

All trades under 12 cards are shipped PWE unless we discuss differently. 
 

I have a 3 year old so I apologize for any slow response time in sending or just answering a trade proposal. I will respond to everyone. 

ROBERT KIMBLE
3701 CONCORD ROAD
APT B 8
ASTON, PA  19014-1214

Looking to build PHILLIES team sets, Complete Topps and Topps Heritage Sets. made trades from  1 card to a trade of 800 cards. I will trade with members in Canada & Australia, even worldwide.

Any and all Braves cards from 1954 - Present (RIP Hank Aaron).

I have decided to scale back from trying to collect every Braves card ever made and concentrate on the sets I like. Lately it seems to be next to impossible to collect team sets since there are so many inserts, VAR, SP, and just all to many brands. Topps has once again turned collecting into $$$ for them by making so many different brands. The cost to collect is getting to be very expensive and making me question the hobby again. I still plan on trading and looking for the cards I am still missing.

Willing to trade just about anything for Braves cards......

I have been trying to do the impossible and collect the entire 2016 Topps and Update Sets. Any help would be appreciated!

2016 Topps - (Last Updated 4/25/24)

Base Set - Complete!

VAR - a ways to go!!!

100 Years at Wrigley - Complete!

All-Star - Complete!

All-Star Game - 63.7%

Amazing Milestones - Complete!

Amazing Milestones Gold - 40%

Back-To-Back - Complete!

Berger's Best - Complete!

Berger's Best (Series 2) - Complete!

Celebrating 65 Years - Complete!

Changing of the Guard - Complete!

Chasing 3000 - Complete!

First Pitch - Complete!

First Pitch (Series 2) - Complete!

Gold - 83.1%

Hallowed Highlights - Complete!

MLB Debut Bronze (Series 1 & 2) - Complete!

MLB Debut Silver (Series 1 & 2) - Complete!

MLB Debut Gold (Series 1) - 75%

MLB Debut Gold (Series 2) - 55%

MLB Debut Medallion (Series 1) - 20%

MLB Debut Medallion (Series 2) - 17.5%

MLB Wacky Promo - Complete!

Perspectives - Complete!

Pressed Into Service - Complete!

Purple - 4.9%

Rainbow Foil - 76.1%

Record Setters - Complete!

Rookie Variations - Complete!

Spring Fever - 94%

The Greatest Streaks - Complete!

Tribute to the Kid - Complete!

Walk Off Wins - Complete!

2016 Topps Update -

Base Set - Complete!

3,000 Hits Club - Complete! 

500 HR Futures Club - Complete!

500 HR Futures Club Gold - 10%

Chasing 3,000 - 83.3%

Fire - Complete!

First Pitch - Complete!

Gold - 31.3%

MLB All-Star Game Access - 56%

Rainbow Foil - 14%

Target Retail Exclusive Rookies - 0%

Team Franklin - Complete!

Walmart Retail Exclusive Rookies - 40%

Complete sets

• Football (1950's-1990's)
• Hockey (1970's-current)
• Baseball (1970's-1990's)
• Basketball (1970's-1980's)

Teams

• Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders (1960-2003)
• Pittsburgh Penguins (1967-current)
• Minnesota Twins (1961-current)

***I have stopped trading indefinitely.***

Will mail PWE for trade of 9 cards or less. I don't buy on TCDb. Only U.S. trades.

NOTICE: I've decided to make a slight change my trading approach.   I really don't have any interest in doing these large "player collection" trades anymore.  I'm a set collector and all my traders are stored by set (in nearly 100 3,200 count boxes).  It sometimes takes me hours to pull cards where someone is only looking for certain players.  What's worse, I recently had a guy screw me on a trade after I pulled 120 random cards.   Going forward, I will be rejecting these types of trades.  I'm looking to help people complete their sets and vice versa.  Sorry, but I hope you understand.  Craig

I’ve been collecting cards for over 47 years and have over 503,000 unique cards in my main collection, including some nice vintage stuff.  I collect older cards of the four major sports but lately I've been expanding to some more recent sets.  I'm primarily a Set Builder and I’m looking for other like-minded set builders to trade with.   I’ve accumulated tons of extra cards that I would like to trade away with almost 250,000 cards in my current For Trade list.  Big trades don't bother me. I have a huge Want List, so hopefully you have something I need.  Feel free to make me an offer. 

For Canadian Traders: It's expensive for me to trade across the border.  Going forward I would like to limit cross border trades to two (2) PWEs. That's about 54 standard-size cards.  Thanks.

For Anyone Outside US/Canada: The increased postal rates have made it impossible for me to trade outside North America cheaply.  So going forward I will have to decline trades from outside US/Canada.  Sorry about that.

Update on Donruss/Leaf * Variations and Upper Deck Holo Variations:
I can't guaranty the junk wax era Donruss/Leaf cards and the UD holo variations are listed with the correct variation.  Going forward I will no longer check the variations on these cards.  If you want these cards regardless of the variations, feel free to request them in the trade.  However, If you want a specific variation of these cards, I'm no longer your guy - please don't put them in the trade request.  For all other cards that have variations, I will continue to check and make sure you get the correct one.

Note on Vintage Cards:
I have over 6,000 vintage cards listed for trade (I consider vintage to be 1977 or earlier).  For each card I've noted a condition grade and if you check closer, a note on each regarding any condition issues (be sure to select the correct one if multiple cards are shown).  Please note that I'm by no means a professional grader and if you're hyper-sensitive on card condition, please message me first and I'd be happy talk about it.  In exchange for these cards, I have three priorities:

• 1) similar vintage cards that I need (any sport)
• 2) inserts for my 90s sets that I need (any sport)
• 3) or non-junk era base cards that i need as a last resort (any sport)

Note on Card Condition: A card noted as Pr, Fr, Gd, or GdVg will have some obvious condition issues such as creasing, corner wear, or marks.  I would consider them place holders in a collection at best (I've listed them because some people do want place holders).  A VG card will usually be a clean card with some corner wear or a centering issue.  For me, VG would be the bare minimum for my personal collection.  EX will be nice sharp card and VgEx will be something just between VG and Ex, still a nice card with a small issue that prevents it from being EX.  NM in vintage is a tough find.

Atlanta Braves, my main PC is Chipper Jones, Austin Riley, Dansby Swanson, Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuna Jr., Michael Harris II, and Vaughn Grisson. Trying to complete Braves team sets (Topps) 1990-2020.

I'm always working on my Chipper Jones collection, especially base cards I don't already own. I'm looking for as many of his 1991 Topps #333 RC cards that I can get! Shoot me and offer and lets see what we can work out.

If you don't have anything on my want list offer me some Braves, Bryce Harper, Ken Griffey Jr, Trevor Bauer, or Nolan Ryan cards and lets see if we can work out some sort of trade!

If variation/error cards are important please have me double check prior to confirming the trade. Often times there are so many small nuances its difficult to properly catalog everything.

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.

 I am looking to trade or buy for Phillies or anything on my want list. So trade with me please . I am adding new cards to my for trade list every day. I have my Phillies collection listed from 1887 to 2023

Sports: Seattle Mariners. Especially Police issue and oddball/food sets. Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Kraken

Vintage Sports sets I am currently building: 1960 Topps Baseball, 1960 Topps Football

Building 1995 Collector's Edge football , 1995 Collector's Edge Gold Label football

Non Sport: Batman sets, James Bond sets

Willing to consider all types of trades. 

Note I am not usually interested in sale offers as I prefer to trade on here, so unless it is a really good deal or for a special cause please avoid sending me offers to sell me cards. Thanks

Please note transaction ID somewhere on or in your trade and if you are a new member with limited or zero feedback I usually ask that you send first.

Jim Kotthoff

705 Willard Ave

Richland Wa

99352

Note: I always pull before accepting a trade so please give me time when you propose a trade.

Baseball.  Mainly sets of Topps. Topps Archives, and a few others.

Completed sets (date, final card purveyor):

1993 Topps Baseball (12/14/2018, 49ants)

1992 Topps Baseball (3/23/2019, Mark 1010)

Near complete:

1994 Topps Baseball (2 more to go)  [32, 777]

2018 Topps Baseball (4)  [524, 582, 695, 700]

2008 Topps Baseball (6)  [168, 181, 330, 375, 384, 393]

Other Topps sets getting close: 1985 (16), 2007 (36), 2015 (42), 1991, 2004, 2017

Numerous others well over half... check out my want list any time.

NOTE: I recently moved. Make sure you mail cards to 137 address.

I first started collecting in 1990, took a long break (20+ years) and started collecting again in 2020. I primarily collect my favorite Astros players (past and present) and Topps Houston Astros team "sets".  I am also collecting Houston Astros pocket schedules.

My favorite atheletes are:

1. Nolan Ryan
2. Jeff Bagwell
3. Craig Biggio
4. Earl Campbell
5. Hakeem Olajuwon

I love to trade and want to help others who enjoy collecting as much as I do, build/complete their collections, while collecting every different card of my favorite players.

Seattle Mariners

Collecting:

I am in the process of collecting MLB award winners from the year they won MVP, CY, or, ROY between the years of '82 through current.  Other things I am into collecting

-->Gary Carter, Carlton Fisk, Kerry Wood, Wilson Contreas, Jon Lester, Yadir Molina, Joe Mauer, Carlos Zambrano, Frank Thomas, Mike Piazza,  Brett Favre, Donald Driver, Reggie White, Gilbert Brown, Charles Woodson

-->2013 Panini Team USA ChampionsLate 80s Early 90s Fleer Team stickers

--> Packers and Cubs

  If you are looking for set completion I have alot of 93 Topps baseball (still inventorying (not Jeters)) and 97 Collector Choice baseball.

I love trading of course match up and we can see what works.

I am down for Selling also, I am always gonna be fair and prefer PayPal friends and family.

I ship everything PWE, unless it's a larger transaction then I will ship in ridgid container/bubble mailer

* note, if you are interested in the 1990 Score on my S/T List keep in mind that set, is a little beat up they would probably be 5-7 graded.

i am set builder mostly in baseball and football at this time but open to the basketball i have cards listed

With my work schedule and family time.  I pull most of my trades on Sunday and mail them out on Saturday. You can make the offer during the week. 

Hello: I joined this site in March 2021. 

The trades that I have done have gone very smoothly. Shipping has usually been PWE (Plain White Envelope). I have made trades where the value of cards is less than the postage. Sometimes a person (trader) just needs that last card to complete a set, so I've learned to make trades were the Post Office gets the better end of the deal. 

I still have cards that I need to upload onto this website. (2003 to 2019) hoping to get those cards loaded into the data base soon. 

I'm a set builder:

If you are a buyer check out my "For Sale Only Cards". All the cards in this collection are for sale. I'm still organizing my cards to put in this collection.

The following complete sets are for sale:

1987 Topps 

1987 Topps - Glossy All-Star

1988 Donruss - Stan Musial Puzzle

1989 Donruss - Warren Spahn Puzzle

1991 Ultra (Fleer)

1991 Ultra Team (Ultra Gold)

1991 Upper Deck - Baseball Heroes: Nolan Ryan

1991 Upper Deck - Team Logo Holograms

1992 Donruss - Rod Carew Puzzle

2007 Topps -All Stars

Down the road I'm looking to sell all my cards. At my age (70) it's about the that time to sell all my cards. Hopefully there are people on this site that buys cards.

Have a great day. 

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.

Generally a set builder, trying to focus on one set at a time (mainly 70s-90's now). Some player specific focus (Tommy John, John Franco, Rusty Staub, Jim Abbott). Haven't traded since 2019 (too busy with work), and can probably only handle 3-4 trades per month (again, work, family, etc), but I want to get it 100% right when I do trade.  If you think a trade is fair, I'll most likely agree because I'm not out to hustle anyone - I collect for fun (and to feed my OCD tendencies). 

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

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.

I am set set builder strictly with baseball any and all sets are wanted.

Due to the limit on how many cards that can be placed on the wantlist, if you don't see it in my collection then I want it. 

I DO NOT trade from my Collection unless there are two of the same card that you are needing.

As of right now My Trade list is turned off while I try and finally get organized 12/04/2023. 

Thanks,

Baseball, Hockey and Football

Hi gang, just a couple of notes:

1)  I don't sell on this website.  I rarely buy.   Probably better off not asking me.

2)  If you don't have more than 24 hours to wait on a response to a trade that you proposed, please don't send it to me.   Patience is a virtue.  I generally give people a week to respond if I make an offer.

3)  Have fun when trading.  

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

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

TLDR for below…you don’t gotta read the whole rambling mess below for us to put together something. Suffice to say this is a diversion thru a tough stretch. Baseball, hockey, weird non sport cards are what I’m after. I’m less about teams and players than assembling certain kinds of strange action shots you may pick up on looking at my wants. I’m also building sets, especially the Topps Heritage and Archive lines, but also the last 2-3 years. And the 1996-7 Metal Uniiverse baseball and hockey.  Any card from a “Randy” goes into my pc like a black hole. I don’t necessarily actively search them but always interested. HOF Johnson to the 2 late 70s obscure Johnson’s, Ato z.  Soft spots for Ernie Banks, Shawon Dunston, Andre Dawson, CJ Edward’s jr. Any member of the Cubs, Red and White Sox and Nats World Series winning teams, especially the role players. Satchel Paige and old Negro leaguers. And certain Autographs will interest me for the style of The signature rather than player. Nick Madrigal or Franklin kilome for instance. I’m the number one collector of Jahmai Jones who has my fave Autograph that evolved significantly over 10 years that I can’t get enough examples to study. If you have an interesting auto let me check it out. I may want to trade for it too, even if they are an obscure never was cuppa coffee prospect who spent more time practicing his auto than double play turn. This wasn’t much better in terms of disjointed ramblings. So let’s just talk trades. In theory I’ll trade anything for anything else across brands, eras, type, material, volume so long as we are both happy. Generally it’s on a case by case basis depending on everything. 
 

Confessions of a rambling Scatterbrain trying to find order sorting cards. 

I’ve collected a lot of things over the years, stamps and Coins a a kid, records for most of the last 40 years, zines, comics, musical and studio gear just to name a little bit.  Circumstances have led to multiple liquidations several times in my life, often time that collection(s) was a literal lifesaver.  Cards are certainly a much smaller lighter easier subject matter until they aggregate from small little piles and repack boxes stacked all over to…..

As we all came out of the catastrophe of covid and the lock downs I took a look around me and found myself to be unemployed and recently homeless newly located back in an old city and then suddenly a widower.  All a few years before I turned 50.  It has been a tough journey, one I slowly continue literally 1 step at a time wandering the neighborhood at night.  Somewhere along the way I picked up one of those blue baseball repack hanger boxes at Walgreens.  I’m not sure what made me do so, but I enjoyed seeing old faces from my youth in Chicago where we had 2 middling baseball clubs.  I got another one, found some cards thrifting and pretty soon found that through all the grief and sadness, the loneliness and uncertainty organizing cards was about the only thing I really enjoyed.  I started putting together some small sets of my fave teams and players, continued in enjoying the new old time reissue programs of Topps Archives and Heritage.  Now I’m working on my own league of teams  based around odd similarities like Team Chew (tobacco), team Afro, Team biker mustache and so forth. 

I have watched precious little baseball this year, but briefly enjoyed hockey the last couple years so as the cold kills the grass this year I may start the same for the NHL.  I’ve also found non sports collections to be increasingly enticing.  Things like Bone comics, Mad Magazine, and the Bloom county collections.  Rat Fink hot rods and tasteless precursors of GPK like Baseball’s Greatest Gross-outs, Toxic High, Awesome All stars.  In many ways I’m “Stumbling through the dark” and found some comfort in the simplicity of youth when things made sense: Baseball and comic books.  

I’m interested in trading as much as I am just meeting people to chat with here.  Maybe I can find my way back to some kind of actual community or group of real people too.  

I start by set building off of whatever is handy and cheap. I’ve got large chunks off  a couple off the last few Topps Heritage sets and a couple of the Topps Archives sets.  Getting ever closer to the base Topps 2023 set and a couple hockey sets that will become this winters projects.  I’m also slowly starting to pull things out of these sets to build my own Frankensets based upon my own personal criteria, like how far along can I get to a full set under the rules and conditions I hold only myself to.  It’s not really about getting full sets built for the most part, but much more about justifying the process that I’ve found helpful.  

So I think I’ve got my FS/T and collection visible.  For the vast majority of things I’m willing to entertain offers on.  Even if I’ve almost got a set done, you might have something I need more. I’m willing to trade tons of nickel cards for 1 vintage or single equal card for card out of the exact same set and just about any scenario in between.  I occasionally buy things if I have a few bucks, but I’ve been unable to work for a while and don’t have much.  I’m willing to sell as a way to build up a small nest egg for cards.  Make me an offer of cash, cards, or barter.  Please keep in mind that I have very good days and very bad days, sometimes in the same 24 hour period.  Sometimes I’m gung ho and sometimes I can’t do anything but stare at the wall for hours.  I don’t get things packed up and mailed right away, everything usually takes me a few days.  So please be patient and maybe offer a reminder.  If you happen to be in Milwaukee or maybe Chicago and know of gatherings (aside from card shows) or just wanna get together in a small group to talk about, show off, trade cards or whatever it is that is done at such events I’d be interested in checking it out.  

To My Trading partners:

For starters please know that I take care of my elderly mother in her home. Sometimes this gives me a ton of time to sort and fiddle (our in house term for my  card activities). But sometimes there are health issues that flare up and dealing with sudden Dr Visits or even trips to the ER can take up my time and energy and that can cause delays in my getting cards pulled and mailed out. Something’s I may have to hold small packages until I have the money to pay for non PWE postage. 

I really do try to get things out quickly but if I can’t I always try to include a little something extra, be that one of your “guys”, something that was dropped from a larger deal and especially an item that I have from your want list. 

When I mail binder pages I will put the cards with PS into the pocket upside down to protect the top edges from tape, dirt, etc. I’ll use old wrappers to cover the open edges of PS rather than taping across the top of the card. I’m constitutionally unable to just throw away wrappers for some reason so if you are looking for or collecting any wax junk or foil packs I can stuff a few in with a trade if I got em, but I don’t have a comprehensive list. 

I am willing to trade anything for any other thing if it works for me. I’ll trade across sports, junk for rare, rare for commons, sports for non. Nothing it to weird for me to consider. 

I generally wil list most of anything from this 21st century fairly quickly. I’ve got times of stuff from before that. Rather that trying to list all of Donruss 87-92, fleer 88-92 base, Leaf etc etc I’ve picked a few things to list a small section of. So if you find a few of your wants on a given set you are building please ask if I got more. For example I recently put up Some Leaf Studio 91 & 92, Fleer Ultra 92, tops TSC 90-92, etc. I would give very favorable terms to anyone who needed dozens or hundreds of these cards to fill your holes. Same with the aforementioned junk wax. I’m also interested in the idea of accepting less defined trades, like you want XYZ and have a bunch of set ABC that I’ve had some curiosity of or there is an a line I haven’t explored that looks cool I could just agree to a pile of random things from whatever. I also have some limited Football and basketball of unknown years that turned up in larger collections I bought. There is some junk wax and some more recent flashy sparkly ones but nothing particularly special afaik. I’m trying to put up a few things little by little just in case someone’s set needs them. If this is of interest ask and I can take a look at it for you. 

I do have some guys and teams in Baseball and Hockey. I grew up in Chicago and have been a die hard Cubs fan since 1976 when Mr Wrigley the Gum Magnate opened the bleachers for kids to come see the game after the 7th inning stretch. 

Ernie Banks is my Fave all time player, the 2016 team (and I’m interested in assembling players cards from before that and where they went after, not necessarily every players every card from all stops but a nice representation of where did they come from and how were they spread to the winds after.) I’m similarly interested in slowly getting this type of set for 2005 White Sox, 2004 Red Sox, the 2019 Nats, the Chicago Blackhawk 2010-2015 dynasty, the Colorado Avs and Washington Caps Stanley cup teams. 

My guys (besides the obvious god like stars of various teams above) are Ernie Banks, Andre Dawson, Shawon Dunston, Carl Edwards Jr/CJ Edwards but known and loved in our hearts always as the “Stringbean Slinger”, Sean Doolittle, Rick Reuschel, guys in old timey uniforms, guys who look like they are dancing on the card (but not really), Negro League players, Satchel Paige, pictures where the bat or ball seems to just float in the air for no reason largely unconnected with the player around it, balls (or pucks) caught just before or after it was caught or even better still on the bat. Love mascots, ballparks and the landmarks that make them special, Wrigley field, old Comisky park, defunct teams (not moved unless they took on a whole new identity like Pilots/brewers. As for Hockey I’m fond of the not quite star players like Brooks Liach, Johnny Oduya, Mike Greir, Mike Marson, Val James, cards with partially undressed skaters, those with recent stitches or blood on the sweater, WHA, defunct teams, old time sweaters, the same general absurdities as baseball. So let’s see what you got and tell me what of mine you need. If you know of trading meetups or events that are more social and less business than usual card shows in Chicago or Milwaukee please invite me. And finally my name, Randy, is just obscure enough but not so uncommon that i pull any card of any sport and put it aside. For what exactly I’m not sure, but generally i try to find them in the wild or have them show up, but there are occasional things that end up on wantlists too. 

COLLECTING

• Sets: 1954-1968, 1977, 1997-2023 Topps Baseball sets, including updates. Here is my Topps Set Completion Status List
• Teams: Baltimore Orioles, Washington Capitals, Baltimore Ravens, and a few Baltimore Colts.
• Players: Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, Alexander Ovechkin, Dale Hunter, Chris Simon, and Olaf Kolzig.

TRADING

Overview

• Trades only. I don't buy or sell cards on the TCDB.
• U.S. TRADES ONLY. Shipping outside of the U.S. is expensive.
• I have 50,300+ different cards listed for trade (I don't list multiples). Fair, base-for-base, trades are welcome, especially in bulk. As a set collector, there are a lot of base cards on my want list. Having a large number of base cards on my want list makes it difficult to line up one-for-one trades for requested inserts, stickers, or non-base cards, especially in bulk. If you're asking for inserts or non-base cards, please offer cards that are similar.
• Let's communicate to make sure both parties have all cards available and in acceptable condition BEFORE either of us commits to hitting the "Accept" button. It's a mess trying to fix errors for damaged or missing cards after accepting.
• I'd like to stay within the same decade for vintage trades: 50s for 50s, 60s for 60s, and 70s for 70s. For 80s and later cards, it's not as important. Also, I'm OK with trading across sports or for non-sport if you are.
• I love to trade, but if I have more than 10 transactions going at once, I will momentarily turn off my incoming trade proposals to let the queue clear before turning it back on. I thank you for your patience and understanding.
• If you are a team or player collector and we have a large trade going, please take into consideration that it will take me a longer amount of time to pull your cards spread out over many different boxes and locations, especially if variations are involved, as opposed to pulling cards all from the same set located in one box.

Condition and Variations

• For trades involving pre-1980s cards, expect to exchange images of cards to verify condition. Everyone's standard varies on what is acceptable condition. Exchanging photos solves this so both of us can determine if the condition of the cards being exchanged is preferred by both parties.
• For 50s-70s vintage cards coming my way, I'd prefer cards without tears, heavy scuffs, surface damage, writing, heavy creases breaking the surface, severely rounded corners, holes, wax stains, or part(s) of the card missing. Everything later than 1980 I'd expect to be near-mint or mint condition. Again, I'm open to exchanging images of cards to verify condition, especially for vintage cards.
• If offering cards with dark borders such as 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Topps cards, please ensure that they do not have surface damage from bricking (snow) or edge chipping. Thank you. 
• I make every effort to enter the correct variations. If you are a variation collector, please ask and I will verify that the variations are correct. For me, the only sets that I'm concerned about receiving the correct variations for are the 1981 Fleer, 1991 Topps, and 2012 Topps sets that I'm trying to complete master sets of.

Trade Sizes and Shipping

• The bigger, the better! I'm trying to complete sets while helping you to complete yours, so large fair trades are welcome! My biggest single trade so far has been 3,509 cards: 2024 TCDB Site Award: Largest Trade. We can top that, right?
• I use the Trade Matching feature often to propose large trades. If you're on the top of my match list, don't be surprised if you get a large trade offer from me. I'm trying knock out sets while helping you with yours.
• For Plain White Envelope (PWE), I prefer to trade 15 or more cards to make it worth the postage unless the cards involved are of higher value or vintage cards.
• 15 to 24 Cards: PWE, unless you prefer otherwise.
• 25 to 48 Cards: Two PWEs (because getting TWO envelopes full of cards in the mailbox is better than getting only one!).
• 49+ Cards: Team bags in a plastic bubble mailer, or a 200ct to 500ct card box. All larger trades will have a USPS tracking number sent to you in a transaction message.
• I try to mail out as soon as possible. When work is crushing my soul, I will let you know my mailing is delayed. Apologies in advance.

Thank you for reading my profile and stopping by!

SET BUILDERS, UNITE! HAPPY COLLECTING!

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I am first and foremost a set builder, though I'm always happy to get cards from my favorite players and teams.

I prefer to work on 1 or 2 large trades at a time, but will entertain smaller offers.

I do a pretty good job of keeping up with the VAR's, but I am sometimes behind on the most up-to-date ones.

Collection Rankings:

Overall - 97

Baseball - 162 (205 complete sets)

Basketball - 152 (39 complete sets)

Boxing - 34 (2 complete sets)

Cricket - n/a

Football - 188 (41 complete sets)

Gaming - not in top 250

Golf - 138 (2 complete sets)

Hockey - not in top 250 (22 complete sets)

Misc Sports - n/a

MMA - 81

Multi-Sport - 131 (4 complete sets)

Non-Sport - not in top 250 (11 complete sets)

Racing - not in top 250 (4 complete sets)

Soccer - 213 (2 complete sets)

Tennis - 142

Wrestling - 231 (5 complete sets)

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.

Topps sets & Detroit Tiger team sets. HOF & ROY winners

Orioles

Star Wars

Coast Guard

Goals for 2024:

Complete 80 transactions -   51 / 80

Send / receive 800 cards in transactions -   491 / 619

(Complete 1976 Topps set - 281 / 660)

Complete 1978 Topps set - 671 / 726

(Complete 1979 Topps set - 31 / 726)

Complete 1954-2023 base Orioles:

Donruss - 6 / 27

Fleer - 4 / 44

Score - 3 / 6

Upper Deck - 18 / 62

Increase Orioles collection to 15,000 cards - start 13,238 - currently 13,931

Increase Star Wars collection to 5,500 - start 4,699 - currently 5,211 - 5,000th card was 2023 Topps Finest Star Wars FN-2 Hera Syndulla

Goals for 2023:

✔️ Complete 80 transactions -  171 / 80

✔️ Send / receive 800 cards in transactions -  2433 / 1557

Complete 1976 Topps set - 

Complete 1978 Topps set - 

Complete 1979 Topps set - 

✔️ Complete 1954-2023 Topps base Orioles - received 32 / 32 needs 

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 13,000 cards - 12,000th card was 2022 Panini Prizm - Illumination Bronze Donut Circles Prizm #IL-9 Cedric-Mullins

13,000th card was 1995-Leaf-Limited-70-Mike-Mussina

✔️ Increase Star Wars collection to 4,000 - 4,000th card was 2023 Topps Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi   #6 The Grand-Inquisitor

Goals for 2022:

Complete 100 trades - 91 / 100

Send /receive 1,000 cards in trades - 722 / 777

✔️ Complete 1977 Topps set - received 16 / 16

✔️ Complete 1980 Topps set - received 10 / 10 needs 

Complete 1954-2021 Topps base Orioles - received 35 / 67 needs 

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 11,000 cards - currently 11,027 - 11,000th card was 2022-Topps---Gold-Star-579-Ryan-Mountcastle  

Log all cards in my collection into TCDB

Log all trader cards into TCDB
 

Goals for 2021:

✔️ Complete 50 trades

✔️ Send /✔️ receive 500 cards in trades

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 9,000 cards

✔️ Orioles collection rank top 5 on this site

Log all cards in my collection into TCDB

Log all trader cards into TCDB

Tim Castle

724 Spruce Hill Way

Charles Town, WV 25414

Thanks for reading my profile. I enjoy trading cards I don't need for those that I do. I've been in this hobby for many years (I remember opening 1955 Bowman packs at our local candy store)! I usually don't pull my end before making a proposal; most times, I'm trying to get a feel for how doable it is, and it saves me from having to refile cards if things fizzle out or if I'm countered.  I will, however, (usually) pull before accepting a trade.  Please counter, if need be!  Communication is key to good trading!   I have some physical limitations..it may take me a bit to pull cards so your patience is appreciated!  

1.  My top priority is completing sets.  

2.  Recent Phillies teamsets and inserts.  I do multiple teamsets to help local Philthies Phans!

3. Older Phillies teamset needs..all brands.

As mentioned, I love to trade, will reluctantly sell ... cheap, if we cannot swap!  PLMK what I have that you can't live without!  Phillies is my team, through thick and (mostly) thin!  PWE trades are great and assumed unless we agree otherwise - bubbles used if worth the shipping costs!  Slowing down though - the old body won't let me hoss those 5000 count boxes too much - thanks in advance for your patience with me!!