rmpaq5

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.

I'm a set collector. The sets that I work on are fairly random, and have a lot to do with whether I like the general look of that year's card.

In addition to the base sets, I like working on parallel and numbered parallel sets.

I gravitate toward these three products:

Topps Flagship Series 1, Series 2, Update   (working on 1967, and then primarily 2011 - present)

Topps Chrome:  (2016 - present)

Topps Tribute (2013 only, base and numbered parallels)

Currently focusing on baseball. Mainly trying to build up my Braves collection. But am open to any baseball I don't have.  My want list is not all inclusive cause I can’t add all the Braves I want, so if I don’t have it I am willing to trade for it.  

P.S. Please DO NOT send busted up cards (banged up corners and sides or markings beyond normal wear.) I DO NOT SEND out cards in that condition so I expect not to receive them in that condition, unless previously discussed. Thank you! 

I trade cards to build baseball, hockey and some miscellaneous sports / non-sport sets. I also PC Felipe Alou, Derek Aucoin, Steve Begin, Jennifer Botterill, Kevin Dineen, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Bob Kudelski, Manon Rheaume, Gabriela Sabatini and P.J. Stock as well. I do not buy cards. I also have a sweet spot for oddball / food issue / regional sets. New cards are regularly added to my FT/S list and all the cards I list here are NRMT or EX unless specified and I expect the same of you.

I don't collect micro-variations (dots, stars, copyright marks, holograms, printing plate codes...), they're not fun to search and I dislike the incessant frequency with which new ones are added. Seriously, what's the point if you gotta need to use a magnifier glass to check out if there's a dot on the back of a 1991 Fleer? However, I do all my best to check all my cards and to keep my lists up to date, but please ask me first, if micro-variations matter to you. The site really needs some way of opting out of micro-variations (just a default / any var. / unverified option for each card).

Besides helping to complete our collections one step closer each time, the opportunity would be nice to have traded with all the states, provinces and territories of North America. On this site only, I traded with members in 46 states, D.C., 9 provinces, N.W.T. and overseas. I can't wait to have a trade in Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, Wyoming, Manitoba, Nunavut and Yukon. However, if you don't live in the above jurisdictions, you're still more than welcome to trade with me. No trade to Russia, Belarus and Iran.

I'm an easy going, helpful and patient guy, but here's now my turn to announce that my NO TRADE LIST is growing due to an increased lack of civility on the forums and the full site. If (1) you nitpick and/or always have an opinion on anything and/or act like you own the site and you're not Admin or (2) you do not respond to counters or decline without expressing a reason or don't PM me to ask more time after several days of wait or (3) you send me ridiculous off-balanced offers or (4) you accept the trade and you can't mail your cards in a timely manner or you send me loose or severly damaged cards or (5) have a brand new (empty) account without info / feedback and ask for valuable cards or (6) you clearly didn't read my profile (ask first, at least) and ask me to buy your cards, then chances are that you just won a place on my NO TRADE LIST regardless of how much I may want what you have.

I am fine with shipping cards in single or multiple PWEs, if the cards are properly packaged. Also, I don't mind large or small transactions, but I currently prefer trades with 10 to 20 cards going each way or at least that the cards carry more value than the postage. I am working 12 hour shifts, but I always try to ship the same or the next business day. Just remember that Canada Post doesn't pick up or deliver on Saturday and Sunday.

International shipping is very easy, but it costs more for BOTH traders (not just from the U.S.). Here are some tips to save on shipping costs to Canada: use PWEs (Plain White Envelopes) and avoid bubble envelopes, plastic boxes and big stacks of cards. Ship as flat as you can (cut 9 pocket pages in 3 rows and insert 4-5 cards in each pocket). The more it looks like a greeting card or documents mailed in a regular letter instead of a package, the more it tends to be cheaper to ship. Current U.S. to Canada first class postage rate (up to 2 oz) is $1.40 and if non-machinable, $1.79. If you don't have Global Forever stamps handy, three regular Forever stamps work as well. There's also no need to pay $14.85 for shipping with international tracking, because it is just too expensive, it will be way slower to arrive and Canada Post won't track your postal item anyway. Overall, postal service tends to be slower in Canada and at times a bit harder to predict, but it is as reliable as in the U. S.. Lastly, no cross-border shipping by Fedex or UPS: they charge $40.00+ custom brokerage on each and every package they handle no matter if it is duty free or not.

A.S.

In honor of my dad, going to try and complete the below listed sets. He gave me his collection before his death, and I decided on these sets.

Baseball

• 1955 Bowman: 194/326-60%

Non-Sports

• 1952 Topps Look 'n See (R714-16): 104/135 77%
• 1952 Topps Wings Friend or Foe (R707-4): 179/200  90%
• 1953 Bowman Antique Autos (R701-1): 5/48  10%
• 1953 Topps Who-Z-At Star? (R710-4): 53/80  66%

PC Person:

• Britt Baker           
• Halle Berry (#5 Collector on TCDB)                       
• Ray Bourque (#4 Collector on TCDB)  
• Christy Hemme (#1 Collector on TCDB)    
• Ian Laperriere (#1 Collector on TCDB)              
• Fred Lynn  (#9 Collector on TCDB)               
• Maryse (#1 Collector on TCDB)              
• Jenny McCarthy              
• Peter McNab (#1 Collector on TCDB)              
• Valeri Nichushkin (#2 Collector on TCDB)              
• Jeff Odgers (#1 Collector on TCDB)              
• Scott Parker (#2 Collector on TCDB)              
• Jason Pominville (#1 Collector on TCDB)              
• Manon Rheaume              
• Velvet Sky (#4 Collector on TCDB)
• Tim Thomas           
• Kendra Wilkinson (#1 Collector on TCDB)

NHL Trophy Card PC

• Art Ross Trophy         
• Calder Trophy              
• Conn Smythe Trophy              
• Hart Trophy              
• James Norris Trophy
• Stanley Cup    
• Vezina Trophy         

Team PC

• Colorado Avalanche  (#2 Collector on TCDB) 
• Boston Bruins

Goals for 2024

• Organize my collection, I cannot find anything and need this fixed. 
• Reach 700 unique Jason Pominville cards have 649 (updated 673)
• 100 PIF's
• Increase my Ultimate Hockey Card Project to 7000+ unique cards. Have 5956 (Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert and related sets, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc. sets produced for Hockey including multi-sport sets)
• Scan all the missing images in my collection.
  • Football 9 images
  • Hockey 297 images
  • Multi-Sport 21 images
  • Non-Sport 157 images
  • Racing 1 images
  • Soccer 15 images
  • Wrestling 1 image
• Organize PC to better enjoy my collection with soft sleeves and top loaders. Validate and store.
  • Avalanche PC
  • Bruins PC
  • Ultimate Hockey Card PC
  • PC Sets in card house done.
  • Organize my Sportscaster set 2184 cards in set, need 625. 

I am suspending trades for a while so I can re-input my collection and to correct some counting errors but will be ready after that. 

Please do not submit trades.  

Hockey Cards one card all sets, Jason Pominville, All the Vault cards

Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert, parallel, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc. Sets produced for Hockey. Been an interesting project.

Multi-Sports- Sportscasters Cards-Trying to one of variations for all cards. US Series. My want for these series shows all variations.

Baseball Sets: Trying to complete the below listed sets lost in a divorce. 

• 1965 Topps: 410/598   69%
• 1974 Topps: 656/678   97%
• 1975 Topps: 141/660   21%
• 1976 Topps: 556/660   84%

Hockey Sets: Trying to complete the below listed sets lost in a divorce. 

• 1965 Topps: 15/128     11%
• 1972 Topps: 133/176   76%
• 1974 Topps: 150/264   57%
• 1975 Topps: 316/330   96%
• 1976 Topps: 175/264   66%
• 1979 Topps: 230/264   87%

5956/41737 is the total for one card per hockey sets 7%

1/1 Cards 98//_ _ _ _ different sets so far for %.

3332/52725 different Hockey Players so far for 16%

My main collection is Heritage and will trade anything for all types of Heritage needed also collecting 1984 , 85 donruss sets 1990 Leaf set 1993 Pinnacle and 1989 and 94 upper deck . would like to keep all trades for the 80's and 90.' set in that era will trade Heritage for rookies .

Hockey (1990-2020), Baseball (1981-2010), Football (1990-2015), Basketball (1991-2010), Racing (1995-2000); Majority of collection is Upper Deck but also have Fleer, Topps and Donruss

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)

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.

I've been collecting since 1984.  My mom graduated high school with Andre Dawson

I am a big Tigers fan, main collection is Miguel Cabrera.

Also Looking for:

Mike Trout

Ronald Acuna Jr.

Bo Bichette

**TRADING TURNED OFF**

Love the card collecting community on here too, so helpful, honest and generous!

Goals:

Top 20 collector of Miguel Cabrera cards - currently #25 as of  12/9/23

Top 10 collector of Bo Bichette cards - currently #3 as of 12/9/23

Top 10 collector of Juan Soto cards - currently #18 as of 12/9/23

Top 25 collector of Ronald Acuna Jr. - currently #30 as of  12/9/23

Top 20 Collector of Fernando Tatis Jr. - currently #30 as of 12/9/23

Top 20 Collector of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - currently #33 as of 12/9/23

Top 50 Collector of Mike Trout - currently #62 as of 12/9/23

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 4/12/24)

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 - 20%

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) - 72.5%

MLB Debut Gold (Series 2) - 52.5%

MLB Debut Medallion (Series 1) - 15%

MLB Debut Medallion (Series 2) - 10%

MLB Wacky Promo - Complete!

Perspectives - Complete!

Pressed Into Service - Complete!

Purple - 4.9%

Rainbow Foil - 75.6%

Record Setters - Complete!

Rookie Variations - Complete!

Spring Fever - 92%

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 - 13.7%

Target Retail Exclusive Rookies - 0%

Team Franklin - Complete!

Walmart Retail Exclusive Rookies - 40%

My main Interest is in trading for Toronto Maple Leaf cards first.

Willing to trade Inserts, Memorabilia Cards and Y G Rookies  but please try to offer the same in return. If you are going to offer multiple commons your offer will probably get turned down.

Will trade my Baseball for your Hockey as I no longer collect baseball.

Prefer trades with 8 to 10 cards or more  just to make postage worth while.

PWE are fine with me for smaller trades. I usually get the cards mailed the day I accept the offer or the following day

Positive feed back after a good trade is always appreciated.

Canada and U.S.A trading only.

TRADING TEMPORARILY ON HOLD

2023 Goal:
  ☐ rid the world of asinine * ** . and invisible light spectrum
       variations
Mainly Collect:
  • Oakland Raiders, 1960-2003
  • New York Mets, 1962-1994
  • Buffalo Sabres
  • Syracuse alumni, NFL & NBA

Baseball: Astros, Cardinals, Dodgers. Nolan Ryan, Bo Jackson, Cody Bellinger 

Football: Dallas Cowboys and The Patriots, OU. Emmitt Smith, Dak Prescott, Dez Bryant, josh Gordan, Kenneth Murrey and Tanner Schafer

BASEBALL/FOOTBALL- Dodgers & Raiders 

Hello all.

Well it's been quite a while since being on here. Thought I would come back and see if I can't find some treasures. Still building up my Gretzky collection. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I have something you want but don't have any cards to offer feel free to make me a money offer. I will sell anything I have on my sale trade list

To all the members -  I hope you are all doing well and being safe and to those that sign in and can’t be bothered to reply with a simple acknowledgment to a trade offer (accepting or declining, or a simple I’m looking it over, then you are on my no trade list for no communication etiquette. If you are on here to trade then trade. Don't waste peoples time by claiming to wanting to trade and then ignoring peoples proposals. It's rude and just ignorant. I have no use for people like that. 

#1 JJ Watt Collector on TCDB

• Houston Texans
  • JJ Watt
  • Deshaun Watson
  • DeAndre Hopkins
• Houston Rockets
  • Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Clyde Drexler
  • Sir Charles Barkley 
  • James Harden
  • Russell Westbrook 
• Houston Astros
  • Craig Biggio
  • Jeff Bagwell
  • Lance Berkman
  • Justin Verlander 
  • Jose Altuve
  • George Springer
  • Carlos Correa
  • Alex Bregman
  • Yordan Alvarez
  • Kyle Tucker
  • Yuli Gurriel
• Houston Oilers
  • Warren Moon
• University of Houston cards
• Pete Maravich
• Chris Mullin
• Frank Thomas
• Will Clark

CURRENTLY NOT TRADING. WILL BE BACK SOON

NY Yankees, NY Rangers and NY Jets..

Collecting Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Maple Leafs, Magic The Gathering Artifact Cards, Wrestling Cards and unopened packs of the above - Looking to trade to collect.

Though not on my want list - happy to trade for any Boston Bruins cards as well, for a friend.

My first love is for my favorite local Minor League team the MidWest League Cedar Rapids Kernels and past team monikers.

I like trades for items on my Want List, and I’m interested in items not in my list like: Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (USHL),  Nolan Ryan, Mascots & other Iowa based teams from any sport.  70s & 80s TCMA MiLB team sets, Other MidWest League teams and artifacts.  University of Iowa Hawkeyes any sports.  Cedar Rapids Team Photos, looking for 2022 (may), 2016, 2015, 2004, 2002 and older.

I have all Cedar Rapids minor league team sets and most variations from 1972-2023.  I think I have them all, but always looking for rare or scarce Team Set variations.  Starting in 2020 I began adding all MidWest League Top Prospects and Allstar sets that include players in a Cedar Rapids uniform or logo.  Also collecting singles, Parallels, SN, Variations, and Patches from the big card producers (Mostly Topps).

Most Wanted List:  complete factory sealed sets for the following:

• 1996 Best MidWest League Allstar
• 2010 Grandstand MidWest League Allstar 

Forsale/Trade: Here are some Team Sets and Unopened Material, click on to see details,

• 1988 ProCards Cedar Rapids Reds
• 1989 ProCards Cedar Rapids Reds
• 1992 Fleer ProCards Cedar Rapids Reds
• 1993 Fleer ProCards Midwest League All-Stars
• 2007 Perfect Game Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
• 2008 Perfect Game Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
• 2011 DAV Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
• 2016 Choice MidWest League Top Prospects
• 2017 Choice Cedar Rapids Kernels Update (Twins)
• 2018 Choice Cedar Rapids Kernels Uncut Sheet (Twins)
• 2019 Choice Cedar Rapids Kernels Update (Twins)
•  
• 1990-91 ProCards CBA Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets CBA Basketball
• 2014-15 Choice Iowa Energy D-League Basketball (Grizzlies)

Thanks for looking. 
 

Detroit Tigers, Red Wings, Real Madrid, Spain and Topps Oakland A's, Autographed Cards, Jerseys, Pucks, Vintage Lions

Any trade offer should be reasonable and make sense, anything crazy will be a No Go at this station. prefer small PWE Trades of at least 2  up to 20 cards due to time constraints. I travel alot for work and might not be in your country at time of request. 

Condition of Vintage cards are identified in how they are. 

Using this site mainly as tracking collection, TRADING ONLY, ANY request for selling will be replied with a 20% over Beckett price.

Trades will also depend on status of my mood as well as yours

No Trades to Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Arizona, so called "Patriots", MAGA, Israel, China, Cuba, Haiti, Liberia, Iran, Mauritius, Belarus, Hungary, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Russian Fed., Serbia, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Afghanistan, North Korea, Venezuela

Thank you for your offers. I typically only package/mail on weekends....please be patient if offering on weekdays. I am working to revise my wantlists and FS/FT. There may be circumstances where I don't have a card you ask for and if so, I always communicate to accommodate our trade. 

I am Canadian - I ship from Ontario

Baseball ! 

In 2013, I founded the Ottawa Champions Baseball Club and was a co-owner and President from 2014-2018. I also co-founded the Miracle League of Ottawa, our community sport hub for children, youth and young adults with special needs. i am President and Chair of the Ottawa Sport Council.

My 2024 trade priorities are:

- Luis Robert Jr (he played against the Champions in Ottawa in 2016 !) 

- Edgar Martinez 

- Gary Carter (Expos only)

- Roberto Clemente (in top 20) 

- 2022 1987 insert set and All Star 

- 2024 S1 1989 insert set 

Plus Archives, Minor League Heritage many yrs. Please approach me about a trade !
 

NY/SF Giants baseball cards.

Ott, Gwynn

November 1 - Trading turned off at the moment.  Feel free to send a message. 
 

Wake Forest Basketball alumni (Muggsy Bogues, Tim Duncan, Chris Paul, John Collins, Josh Howard, Jeff Teague, etc.)

Jose Canseco, Ichiro

Atlanta Braves, Carolina Panthers  

Basketball and baseball sets from 1988-1995

The Panini sticker complete sets in my collection are for trade or sale - baseball, basketball, football, hockey
 

• Working on low to mid grade 1970 through 1972 complete Topps baseball sets, but I'll take any condition just to complete these sets. I'm focusing on these right now and I hope to trade as much for these as I can. I will buy if the price is right. I'm over halfway on 1970-1972 with HOF and High #'s remaining.

• Detroit Tigers Topps Team Sets, including SP (Complete 1958 to present)

• Detroit Lions Topps and Donruss post 2015 Team Sets, including SP (Complete 1956 to present)

• West Michigan Whitecaps Team Sets (Complete 1994 to present)

• Topps Flagship Baseball Sets 1970 to present (Complete 1973 to present)

• Topps Flagship Football Sets (Complete 1981-1992)

• Topps Traded/Update Sets (Complete 1974 to present)

• Topps Pro Debut Sets (Complete 2010 to present)

• MLB Mascots

• Any other local teams of interest - Grand Rapids Griffins, Muskegon Lumberjacks, Grand Rapids Rampage, Traverse City Beach Bums, Traverse City Pit Spitters, etc.

I've been very blessed in my trades and transactions here on TCDB. Thank you to all. I will trade vintage for modern and vice versa as long as there is roughly equal value felt on both sides. I am a set builder and collecter. I do not speculate on my cards for future value. I do this for fun, not for profit. I will sell, but only to build a small bank of money to use for buying cards I can't trade for. I've traded hundreds of cards each way and I've done many 1 for 1 trades, so no trade is too big or small for me.

In packaging, I use painter's tape ONLY. I try to use a photo mailer for small trades of about a dozen or less.  I use #10 PWE for trades up to about 2 dozen cards and maybe 2 PWE for 4 dozen.  After 50 cards, I typically will use a bubble mailer with tracking.  If it is 200 or more cards, they will likely be in a box well padded.

Michigan Wolverines (all sports), Detroit Tigers, Griffey/Gwynn/Maddux/Ripken
#1 collector of Rich Hill!

*Cards in my collection are not available for sale or trade, only those on my For Sale/Trade list are available in deals*

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)  

I am currently just shipping via PWE transactions of 3 ounces or less to limit my exposure/costs. Multiple PWE transactions will be acomodated,if applicable. I am turning off trading for a little while to organize my cards for a better trading experience in the near future-Thanks to everyone for your trades-I love this site and look forward to more trades soon.

Mainly Hockey and Soccer with a touch of Formula 1, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Wrestling, Marvel cards and comics, Doctor Who, MST3K and all kinds of recipes.

My Collections:

• Gunny's Main Throng Not Thong - Stuff for my personal collection not fer sale/trade. (5 Boxes complete)

• Gunny's Small Boxes of Stuff - PC Stuff stored in Small Boxes. (31 Boxes complete)

• Gunny's Buncha Binder Books - A buncha cards in Binders (7 Binder Books Complete, now working Book 8)

• Want List & For Sale/Trade List - Pretty much explains itself.

Set collector first & foremost. I also like to work on PCs of various Angels: Wally Joyner, Mike Trout, Reggie Jackson, Rod Carew, Tim Salmon, Jim Abbot (Angels only). I also collect Bo Jackson, Jeff Huson, Rod Woodson, Steve Alford, & Martin St. Louis.

Quite happy with PWEs.  Please avoid scotch tape on anything.

I come and go with the seasons in the hobby.  If my status is set to not accept trades it's because I tend to get burned out from time to time.  Don't be shy though, please feel free to message me especially if it's that last card you might need to complete a set!

Cincinnati Reds Team Set Collector - 1909 (T206) to current Base, Inserts, and Traded sets, Food Issues, SGAs, and various Odd Ball Reds cards

I LOVE TO TRADE!  Big, small, any years--I am not too picky as long as both sides are happy. Will also SELL and buy. Typcially do PWE trades of 30 cards or less but am usually up for just about anything. Happy to review what Reds you have on your trade list if you are not seeing something on my Wantlist.  

****Hebron Reds Fan is also becoming a Hebron FC Cincinnati Fan!  So feel free to offer up FC Cincinnati soccer cards for trades!******

2024 Goals (as of Jan 1, 2024)

• Keep growing my Cincinnati Reds collection (currently #3 on TCDB with 16,341 unique Reds cards).  
• Collect as many Nick Castellanos 2021 Topps (#365) and Topps Chrome (#205) parallels and variations as possible.  If you have one I don't have--I want it! 
• Complete my 1400th trade on TCDB (currently at 1169).  
• Get my For Sale/Trade list to under 7000 cards (currently at 8043).  I would actually love to be under 6000 cards--but I always seem to fail miserably at this goal.  
• Perform more random acts of kindness (send some cards someone's way to help them out or celebrate a birthday or just because!)
• Keep having fun collecting!  This is not my retirement nest egg.  It is not my job.  Just here to enjoy a hobby, celebrate my Redlegs, and feed my OCD tendencies.

Trading/Selling all non-Cincinnait Reds cards. 

I am very open to trade proposals and also happy to SELL.  I also buy cards from time to time if you have Reds I need.  I welcome counter offers for trades that I initiate--so please feel free to review my lists and come back with an offer that works for both of us.  My sincere wish is that every trade is a win-win for all.  Let's help each other out and have fun!  

Let's make some trades!  Go Redlegs!

Baseball football basketball hockey racing

PRIMARY COLLECTION GOALS:
Baseball: Complete Sets, Topps Base and Archives, New York Yankees.
Football: Topps 1969-1974 & 1972 Sunoco
Basketball: Topps 1969-1972
Hockey: Topps 1972-73: (I only need 10 cards from this set, with 55 cards for trade)

MY WANTLIST HIGH PRIORITY ITEMS:

1. pre-1960 Topps baseball
2. 1960-1969 Topps baseball inserts (base set)
3. 1995-2009 Topps baseball inserts (base set)
4. Everything else

NOTHING FROM MY WANTLIST?
If you don't have anything on my wantlist, try offering some of these:

• New York Yankees: any card not in my collection
• Complete Baseball Sets: any complete baseball set I don't have in my collection. I like the junk-era small sets and Topps mail-in sets.

NOTE ON TRADING FOR VARS (variations)
Please be willing to verify or send images of VARS offered in trade.

PERSONAL PREFERENCES
Just guidelines, not absolutes. I prefer the following:

• Trade within the same sport. Baseball for Baseball. Football for Football.

Seattle Mariners

I am buying pre 1987 Non Sports

Don't go by my want list.  

Let's discuss if you have any for sale, even if they are not listed in the database. Vintage Misc. Sports as well.

Restarting account to Concelho:

https://tcdb.com/Profile.cfm/Concelho

Priorities:

1) Cincinnati Reds- Topps flagship, building a Reds master set of base cards and SP's 1953-present.

Like many, I got back into the hobby during COVID after not collecting since youth. Have used this site since July 2021, met a lot of great folks, made several trades, and am having a lot of fun.

Thoughts on Trades:

I want to get to yes- If we are working through a trade, I'm willing to communicate and counter back and forth until we come to a deal. I don't mind trading across era's, sports or types (base, insert, auto, etc.). If a card is on my "for trade list" then it's available for trade as long as we can come to agreement on a reasonable matching value for cards coming my way. 

Value- Seems like there are a lot of different methods- Beckett, Ebay sold comps, listings on various websites (comc, sportlots, etc.). I'm flexible and will take a look at a few of these sources, but am not married to any. If you are, let me know and I will consider that data. At the end of the day if you send an offer that fits a priority of mine, I will work to an agreement because I want to close on that set, player, etc. 

Proposals- If you get a proposal from me and you feel I missed the mark, let me know and we can discuss. If it happens it's due to ignorance and not due to ill intent.  Send me a note and/or a counter and we will work through it. 

Shipping- PWE is totally fine for incoming items to me and my preferred method for outgoing (for 15 or less). If you prefer something else or if the order is larger then we can discuss factoring that into the trade.

No matches on my want list?

- If you see a card that you want on my trade list but we aren't trade compatible then shoot me a message. I'd be more than willing to take a look at your collection to see if anything looks interesting to me. If I don't find anything, I'd also be willing to sell any item on my trade list. 

- Along those same lines, I have cards listed in my collection that do not fit my priorities. Mainly star rookies from other teams, auto's, SN's, etc. If you are interested in adding one of those to your collecition, I will consider letting them go for the right card in return. 

Response time- I try to respond to any and all messages and proposals within 24 hours. If life is in the way I'll drop you a note and give you a ballpark for when I'll respond. 

Cricket, Wrestling, Football, misc.

Baseball, Football, and Hockey

My favourites to collect are the big 4 US sports, that's becoming increasingly expensive so I'm always happy to find some boxes and packs from the overproduced era which may be more my price range.

Being UK based, Soccer and Cricket are easier to find but, and lets be honest, I'll collect anything really if it means I can open some packs!

I am looking for people in Toronto Canada to trade with and add as friends and anyone so if anyone interested get back I have hockey and baseball from 1980 to president in both baseball and hockey only is what I collect. I looking for anyone who has any cards in my want list if I have anything any one needs get back to me and we can find a way to trade if it meet or send them to each other and if any one looking for anyone player or team I be willing to save that player or team for that person 

*** trades  CLOSED at  this time**

Will listen to small sale offers if I have something you need a lot.*******

Cardinals Baseball any year any brand

Some Vintage Topps Baseball Set Building (in any condition).....

Also doing 9 page project of John Riggins (Football/Redskins), see want list, can use dupes of some.

Memphis Grizzlies basketball added to want list past few years

I have NOT separated my traders into dot and no dot variations (or letter variations).  If this matters to you, I do not mind checking for a particular one for your want list...

I do expect nm or better condition on 81-present cards (unless agreed upon lower condition in messages)  On vintage, I collect any condition except on upgrade lists.

If you do want to trade vintage, please be clear on what your condition requirements are....many of my extra vintage are in lower conditions..

Oddball/Food Issue/Magazine/insert cards- Typically these have a much smaller print run/population than regular set cards like topps, fleer, upper deck etc.    When trading for these, I like to get similar for similar.  I will likely not accept a trade offer of oddball card for regular issue set cards.

Completed 2812+ trades with 641 different traders (in multiple groups) since 2005

Have lots of wants on my web page, not on this database

Everything in dupes collection is available for trade even if not in trade/sales list

I can only ship on weekends ....

Some of you may be frustrated that I turn off trades, but here is why:

I am in multiple trading groups, and simply do not have time to do more than 1 or 2 trades at a time

I am open to offers if you want to buy although my primary focus is trading.

baseball, minor league, food issue/oddball

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

Detroit Tigers

I usually wait to ship on the weekends.  During the week I teach all day, then either work with sick kids online from 5-9pm or work at the farm with our horses.  PLEASE BE PATIENT!!!  It might take me several days to respond, I try my best to not "ghost" anyone.  

Current Top Priorities: I am neck-deep in a 2021 Bowman Draft Pittsburgh Pirates TEAM rainbow. Any help would be appreciated!! 

Due to shipping costs, I will no longer be shipping internationally unless my Canadian friends have a bunch of OPC trade matches.

#1. Pittsburgh Pirates (mostly team sets)

#2. Baseball Subsets: Ray Lankford PC, Keith Williams PC, Denny's Holograms, Topps Glossy Rookies, Topps All-Star Rookies, Topps Multi-Rookie cards from the 70's, Upper Deck Star Rookies and Prospects

#3. Football: Steelers, Topps Super Rookies

#4. Basketball: Upper Deck Rookie Standouts and Draft Picks, early Sky Box Draft Picks

#5. Hockey: Claude Loiselle PC

***** AS MUCH AS I HATE TO, GONNA HAVE TO SUSPEND TRADING FOR A WHILE. HAVE A MOVE COMING UP SOON. HOPE TO BE BACK IN THE GAME BY SPRING TRAINING! ****

Texas Rangers, Adrian Beltre, Ivan Rodriguez, Tony Gwynn, Ernie Banks

Thanks to all the great trading partners that have made it possible to reach 300 completed transactions!

Allen Browning

6708 Hardisty St

Richland Hills, TX 76118

I ship on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Bill Ranford cards exclusively, Oiler Rookie Cards (listed as oilerRCguy)

Curating a collection of basketball cards with referees in the background. Attempting to 1) acquire two copies (one base and one parallel if available) of every basketball card with a referee's face visible and 2) identify each referee.

Love P.W.E. trades. ***Warning*** am a ssslllooowww processor and transactions may take a long time because most card work happens over the weekend.

Happy collecting :)

- Randy

PS Started a Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis side PC.

Baseball - Football - Hockey

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.  

Rockies, Redskins, Bruins and Sacramento Kings

UPDATE 10-7-22 

• Pausing the trade and one-off sale of cards for now as I just don't have the time.
• Please do continue to message me if you are interested in purchasing the entire collection though.  

Selling my entire collection and memorabilia.  Here are photos.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/VDqYixW4faBWwncr9

In bits and pieces or all together. Take a look if you want and make me an offer for all of it or the parts you want.  I'll probably take you up on your offer.  You can always revise your offer after you see the scans/pictures.  I've been working hard to use TCDb and earn good feedback for 100% of my transactions.  In some cases, I have added extra cards just because I know some folks are passionate about a team or set or something.  I am happy to send these cards to collectors filling their pages or set boxes!  I know you will enjoy them!

Right now, I am only interested in selling what I have or trading for or buying Aston Villa (English Football/Soccer) cards from beginning of time to present.  Especially interested in earlier cigarette/tobacco Aston Villa cards.

If any card is not NrMt-Mt from 1990 to present, I will let you know and will send a picture of it.  For older cards, most are Ex.  I'm going to be fair and honest with anyone I transact with.  Pictures sent upon request.  I am motivated to help my cards find a new home where they'll be loved.

Topps flagship sets: MLB (1976-present); NFL (1976-2015); NBA (1977/78-1981/82)

Seattle Mariners: Topps Master Team Sets; Food-Issues

Seattle Seahawks: Topps Team Sets, others

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Topps Team Sets, others

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

No trades right now. Only selling cards for the time being. March 2024

No PWEs ever! I won't send them and won't accept them. I only use BM's or boxes for shipping and only accept the same in return.

MLB - St. Louis Cardinals; NFL - Panthers/Packers/Patriots; NASCAR - Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, Bubba Wallace, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Davey Allison, Ricky Rudd, Jennifer Jo Cobb

YANKEES!!!!! 

---Jeter

---Judge

---Torres

---And All Pinstrips from 2000 and up

Arizona State University (All Sports and Non-Sports)

Nolan Ryan, Derek Jeter, Cal Ripken, and other HOFers and Rookies. . First come first serve trades so if you were the first person to send me a trade you will be the first person I will agree or counter offer the trade. 
I will trade football for baseball

I live in the Piney Woods ( East Tx) and I work in the Permian Basin (West Tx and South Eastern NM). When a away at work i am usually gone 14-19 days and over 500 miles away from my cards.  There are many times i maybe sleep deprived so what i may type may look like a jumbled mess and I apologize for that.  May next days off are April 8-20. The following days off i may not be able to trade much getting things ready for my youngest daughters graduation.  On the other hand while I am at home I also run my ranchett. I am up before daylight and stop working when the sun goes down. (I only have about 2 more miles of a 5 stand barb wire fence to replace by myself) also attending Beefmaster cattle, and a rabbitry, and a Pine Harvest that i must maintain and still cleaning up from the 2021 freeze.  During the summer i ask to bare with me for they are longer days and harder hours.  Now on Saturdays ( both of them) i relax playing catchup on trades that i havent gotten to respond to or got a pole in the water drink beer listening to the radio and just unwind

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.

Not sure when I will be back to trading. I am still collecting Detroit Tigers, Detroit minor league sets, and Topps Now Detroit Tigers. Top player collection is Miguel Cabrera. Updated 07/05/22

-----  HOCKEY -----

Équipes / Teams (Including Bases)

• Nordiques de Québec / Quebec Nordiques (PRINCIPALE PC)
• Canadiens de Montréal / Montreal Canadiens (PRINCIPALE PC)
• Remparts de Québec / Quebec Remparts (PRINCIPALE PC)

Joueurs / Players (Including Bases)
PRINCIPALE PC

• Simon GAGNÉ
• Dale HAWERCHUK
• Vincent LECAVALIER
• Martin BIRON
• Dmytro TIMASHOV

SECONDARY PC

• Anthony DUCLAIR
• Adam ERNE
• Mikhaïl GRIGORENKO
• Jonathan MARCHESSAULT
• Marie-Philip POULIN
• Alexander RADULOV
• Nick SORENSEN
• Marc-Édouard VLASIC

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

----- NASCAR -----
(Including Bases)

• Alex LABBÉ
• Raphaël LESSARD
• Richard Petty
• Jeff Gordon

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

We are a husband and wife who collect cards together! Our collection is mostly baseball with a little football and basketball. We have a long ways to go to get our full collection up. We love trading cards and helping other collectors complete their sets or PCs. We are willing to listen for trades or purchases for anything in collection if the price or trade is right! The # of cards and era doesn't always have to match for it to make sense.

SHIPPING - We try to send out cards within 1-3 days of accepting a trade. Lately, we've been a little busier so I may be shipping mostly on weekends. I use PWE with lots of protection and sometimes use bubble mailers.

MAIN PC's

#1 - Jonathan India

#9 - Joey Votto

Ted Williams

Roberto Clemente

Jackie Robinson

Ichiro

Outside of those, we enjoy collecting many players..

Other Current Reds Players & Prospects such as Elly de la Cruz, Allan Cerda, Matt McClain, Jay Allen, Andrew Abbott, Luis Castillo, Tyler Stephenson, Hunter Greene, Austin Hendrick, Rece Hinds, Nick Lodolo, and so on!

MLB Rookies, Future MVPs, & Prospects such as Luis Robert, Fernando Tatis Jr, Juan Soto, Bo Bichette, Jazz Chisolm, Andrew Vaughn, Vlad Guerrero Jr, Bryce Ball, Peyton Burdick, Triston Casas, Cal Conley, & Brady House.

Other Sports/Colleges:

• Tennis - Novak Djokovic & Serena Williams
• Football - Dak Prescott, other Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals
• Colleges - Players that attended Clemson or Tennessee (hence the name TigerVol)

Baseball: Hall of Famers, Sandy Koufax, and Blue Jays / Expos .... 

‘53 Topps

’84 Topps

’87 Topps

Basketball: Raptors, Penny Hardaway, Shawn Kemp, and Hall of Famers

COMPLETE REBRAND IN PROGRESS

Step 1: Re-verify all the Twins cards are inputted correctly. (End of November?)

Currently up to: Brian Dozier

Step 2: Re-verify all the Twins FS/T cards are inputted correctly.

Currently up to: 900 cards added

After these 2 things are done trading should be back in business. I appreciate your patience.

________________________________________________________________

What I collect:  All cards Minnesota Twins and New York Mets, and Kevin Tapani.

US Army Combat Vet. (Iraq x 3, Afghanistan x 1) Originally from Brooklyn, NY. Older than I look.

Trades were officially shut down as of 8:30 PM (PST) on 9/19/2020...

UPDATE: Made it to NC. Health makes things interesting but I can work through it. Have completely wiped out my TCDB collections as I have no idea what I have or where it is. More to follow... (11/5/23)

Collecting since 1984.  Everything baseball that I don't have--I want. Cards listed under the "For Trade" collection are available for trade. 

Set collector. Trades only...  Not in this to make or spend money.

-Baseball: 1948 Bowman and everything from then on in Baseball. PC: Don Mattingly, Rick Cerone, David Cone, Cal Ripken Jr, Tony Gwynn, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Ozzie Smith, Nolan Ryan, Derek Jeter, Aaron Judge, Anthony RIzzo, Ichiro, New York Yankees

-Football: 1977-2011 Topps, 1986-1995 for everything else PC: Tiki Barber, Saquon Barkley, Jerome Bettis, Blake Bortles, Terry Bradshaw, Brett Favre, Jeff Hostetler, Brandon Jacobs, Daniel Jones, Jim Kelly, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Phil Simms, Michael Strahan, Lawrence Taylor, Thurmon Thomas, New York Giants.

-Basketball: 1977-78 through 2009-10 Topps, 1986-1995 for everything else. PC: Charles, Barkley, Stephen Curry, Patrick Ewing, Walt Frazier, Allen Iverson, Karl Malone, Shaquille O'Neal, Pat Riley, David Robinson, Detlef Schrempf, John Starks, New York Knicks.

-Whatever Hockey I happen to come across. Focus on Topps and Upper Deck. PC: Mark Messier, Chris Kreider, Mika Zibenajad, Adam Fox, Mike Richter, Marc-Andre Fleury, Brian Leetch, Dylan Larkin, Steve Yzerman, Igor Shesterkin, Henrik Lundquist, New York Rangers.

-Various Non-Sport sets including: Marvel, 80's Batman, Jurassic Park, GI Joe, 80's movies, Desert Storm, etc. 

-Multi-sport sets if they include baseball.

-Mattingly Doubles PC collection are doubles based on my main collection. (If it's not in the main, collection I don't own it.)

Happy to be here and excited to find a tool to catalog my cards. I have wanted something like this for 38 years.  

Joe

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.)

Matt Williams (#1 TCDB)

Still in the long process of uploading my current collection of baseball cards.

New to the site since 1/25/23 after a 20-year break in collecting and have just completed 450 trades on 3/8/2024!

ALWAYS looking for 1998 Topps Tek Diffractors Patterns for card #44!

Most wanted items:

1987 The Bon Pocatello Giants Team Set

1990 Phoenix Baseball Magnetables #54 Matt Williams

1991 O-Pee-Chee - Pre-Production Sample Sheets #NNO

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.