tjhorak

Currently focusing on baseball. Mainly trying to build up my Braves team sets.  But am open to any baseball I don't have. 

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! 

Delegating myself to "Lurker" status
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2022 Goals / Milestones

- Hit 50% on all Star Wars sets ✓

- 500 Tony Gwynn cards ✓ - A huge thanks to OraInPA, who once again, graced me with a tremendous PIF!

2021 Goals / Milestones

- 500 Greg Maddux cards ✓ - Thanks to OraInPA for a big bump towards the goal, and also BobbyL for getting me over the hump.

- 400 Dwight Evans cards ✓ - Thanks to Nowhereman317 for getting me to my goal!

This site has been amazing in helping me rekindle my love for trading cards. I prefer baseball but do have some moderate interest in basketball and football.  I love to trade! If I send an offer and it's not quite right feel free to counter.

I do PC a few players but am mostly focused on building sets right now.  I'm currently working on:
2022 Bowman Chrome Prospects
1995 Leaf: 95%
2002 Upper Deck: 40%
1997 Fleer: 30%
2002 Donruss Originals 85%
 

Players I PC are:

• Carlos Baerga - currently #1 on the site. Trying to get one of all of his cards
• Chipper Jones - my favorite player
• Jose Canseco - my first favorite player
• Rickey Henderson
• Tim Hudson

I ship most things PWE though bigger trades will go in a BMWT. 

Sweet Lou Piniella.  David Niehaus.  Jay Buhner.  All Mariners 1993-2002.  All Managers.  Dibble.  Myers. Charlton.  Kruk.

My main collection is Heritage . Will trade any size and the 93 Pinnacle and 94 Upperdeck would like to keep trades in 80's and 90's era for these 2 sets . My Topps and Archive sets will slowly be sold on ebay and if interested in trading for any set if the offer is right I will trade for it ,  due to health issues i will not be trading for a month or so 

Thanks 

Baseball. Rickey Henderson, Johnny Damon, Albert Pujols and Mike Trout are some of my favorites to collect.

BASEBALL
Current Players:  Mike Trout, Fernando Tatis Jr., Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Juan Soto, Ronald Acuna Jr., Manny Machado, Josh Donaldson, Freddie Freeman
Past Players:  Barry Bonds, Jeff Bagwell, Joe Mauer, Kirby Puckett, Ken Griffey Jr., Alex Rodriguez, Justin Morneau, Lew Ford, Mike Boddicker

BASKETBALL
Current Players:  LeBron James, Ja Morant, Kevin Durant
Past Players:  Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan

FOOTBALL
Current Players:  Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, George Kittle
Past Players:  John Elway, Peyton Manning, Colin Kaepernick, Dallas Clark, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Tim Dwight

I’m happy to trade, but please be patient with me.  It’s my busy season!

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

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

Who/What I PC:

• Ryne Sandberg
• John Kruk
• Ron Santo
• Topps Living Set - Cubs & Hall of Famers (PC is complete to date)
• 2016 Topps - 100 Years at Wrigley
• Wrigley Field & Clark the Cub cards

Wantlist is pretty much up to date. Lately I've been intermittently adding some cards from players I watched during my childhood, so the list is updating slowly.  All other PC wants are up to date. For those Donruss, Fleer, & Score sets with all the stupid punctuation variations (Inc. vs Inc, *Denotes vs **Denotes, etc) I will only have one VAR on my wantlist, but I will accept any variation.

For sale/For trade list is up to date. Variations have all been verified, but I will check again before accepting a trade if you are looking for a particular VAR.

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.

The ALS has advanced enough that I'm no longer collecting or trading. It's been fun guys! 

• 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.

3/9/23 Update >>> Reorganization is going well and I'm adding lots of cards.  But I'm going to need another two weeks or so to complete.  Thanks, Craig

2/20/23 Update >>> I need to take a break from trading to better organize my collection.  I hope this will only take 2-3 weeks.  I'll be back trading soon.  Craig

I’ve been collecting cards for over 46 years and have over 443,000 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.  Howver, 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 contniue 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.

 Late 80's to Late 90's Baseball, All Toronto Blue Jay's Cards and Minor League Affiliates, Ottawa Redblacks, Ryan Tepera.

Came across tcdb.com towards the end of 2019, and I just completed transaction #1,200!  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'!

My PC list is as follows (with TCDB rankings as of 3/15/2023):

NBA: Giannis (4), Dirk Nowitzki (4), and Tim Duncan (3).  (I also unofficially collect MJ , Kobe, & Larry Bird).

NFL: Sterling Sharpe (5), and Don Majkowski (2).

MLB: Aaron Ashby (1), Roberto Clemente (1), Jackie Robinson (2), Robin Yount (7), Tony Gwynn (7), Hal Morris (3), Mark Grace (7), Ethan Small (1), Pat Listach (1), Corbin Burnes (1) and Mark Langston (1). 

WWE: Lita (6).

(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)  

Not accepting trades at the moment. Too busy these days. Please check back later.

Topps Pittsburgh Pirates, 1952 - present. Always looking to trade for these cards in EX / Mint Condition. Also looking for Topps Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers. Please check my trade list.

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.

Set Collector.

2023 goal. I'm going to start a slow overhaul. Realization set in and I have over 100k cards and no room to organize. My daughter isn't interested in my cards, just her shopkins and mlp cards. So nobody to pass them to. So I'm going to focus on completing sets and selling them. 

12/11/22- completed my first set from scratch! 2018 Donruss with all variations! I still have a lot of sets to work on. Current ones I'll work on are 2013 Topps Chasing History- all three series. 1998 spx finite, I have a few thousand to start working with. 1984 Donruss, already working on it. 2014 Topps color series except for red. If you see anything you want to trade, send me a message! 

I'm willing to trade but I don't have all my duplicates listed on this site. I'm slowly adding them. 

I have over 12,000 cards in my eBay store and I'd be willing to trade any of those for cards on my wantlist or any White Sox cards I don't have. You can find a link to my ebay store below.  If you see anything that catches your eye send me a message. 

I'm focusing on collecting White Sox. 

Seattle Mariners

I am sorry but not at this time doing any trading. This is due to a lot of my  trade stock and collection is in storage at a family members home 2 hour drive from were I live now. I do have some trade stock but not all of it. Thank you.

Willie Mays, Will Clark, Barry Bonds and all the Topps base sets from the beginning of time.

Mostly Topps baseball , O-Pee-Chee baseball 1971-1991, Kelloggs , Oddball 70's and 80's ,Topps Football 1971 to 2015 , 1971-1992 Topps Hockey , Topps Star Wars

Doing more selling than trading lately just because my wantlist is rather small.  Feel free to reach out to me if interested in cards especially in bulk as i am looking to downsize and giving great deals on all cards.

Looking for any  Comic Cut Panels from X-Men, Captain America, Avengers, Spiderman, etc! whether on my wantlist or not.

All cards in the FS/FT list are for sale all Years, commons, semistars, stars, teams, inserts, etc. just ask!

Also, willing to sell in bulk for team collectors across all of the years.

2012 Topps Baseball - Priority

2014 Topps Baseball

1978-1979  Topps Baseball 

1990 Leaf Baseball

1994-1995  Leaf Baseball

Player Specific - Dansby Swanson, Ty Cobb

*** Anything Godzilla ***

Complete Sets For Sale/Trade

Baseball - 1990 Fleer Baseball

Football - 1991 Pro Line Portraits 

Football - 1991 Score Supplemental

Football - 1995 SP

Football - 1991 All World CFL

Basketball - 1989 Converse

Basketball - 1990-91 Hoops

Basketball - 1994 Classic Draft

Basketball - 1998 Press Pass Double Threat

Unopened Material For Sale/Trade 

Baseball - 23 Jumbo Packs of 1989 Donruss Baseball  (39 cards + 6  puzzle pieces per pack)

Basketball - 1992-93 Upper Deck High Series (20 Jumbo Packs - 27 cards per pack)

Football - 1991 Pro Line Portraits - Signet Series 

Currently mailing Monday thru Friday .... next day almost always 

--- Trade offers will be deleted after 3 days if unresponded too. 

--- Please - if variation is important to you,  ask me to verify. 

Private collection: 120k
Looking to complete sets up to 1993 and all Reggies, Jeters, and Yankees from 1994-present, and some non-sport. (Still adding to my wants. Have entered all my set needs and Yankees needs up to 2006)

For trade on TCDB: 72k
Bsseball 61k
Basketball, Football, & other sports 2k
Non-sport 9K

Currently being added to TCDB: 20K


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

Largest trades (cards sent):
#1 - 3,558 (CardsInTheBasement)
#2 - 1,464 (supergajit)
#3 - 1,442 (Gasypo30)
#4 - 1,388 (basecardhero)
#5 - 1,165 (wvcabo)
#6 - 1,057
#7 - 936 (basecardhero)
#8 - 918 (wvcabo)
#9 - 871
#10 - 826 (rpiesla5305)

2023 Goals:
*** 1000 trades ***  (Hit 821 on 12/31/22)
*** Net reduction of 10,000 cards *** 

baseball, minor league, food issue/oddball

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). 

Player collections of: Eduardo Perez, Garret Anderson, Alex Rodriguez, Ted Williams, Jim Rice, Dustin Pedroia and Andrew McCutchen

2022 represents an anniversary of collecting trading cards for 70 years. I spent 50 years as a set builder of baseball cards, but now I just collect cards of the above players with an occasional small set collection. At one time, I had an collection of complete sets of Topps and Bowman baseball cards (plus others) from 1954 forward plus quite a few cards from the 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps and Bowman sets. During the late 1980s and early 1990s I sold off the majority of those sets but still continued completing sets until 2002.  

I've been trading online since 1994 and welcome any trade offers.  If I offer a trade, the cards normally have already been pulled prior to an acceptance, counter or decline. It is not a problem for me to re-file or exchange cards in a trade if needed.  I do keep records of my trading with my partners addresses and occasionally recheck those traders for future trades or sometimes just send along a PIF (pay it forward).  My one major disappointment with this site is that I did not find it many years before I did.  I will usually mail cards out promptly with tracking, however letely I have used PWEs for relatively small value trades.  Saying this, I welcome trade offers.  I do not expect to ever wind up with compete collections of any of the players I collect, nor do I want to.  I try to just enjoy my collecting habit and strive to make new friends in the hobby!

Last but not least, I do not sell cards, trades only.

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

Mostly baseball.  I'm working on completing my 1968 set that was left unfinished from my youth.  I have a few parallel/inserts I'd like to find to finish up collections from the 90's.  

Next up will be a choice between going for the 67 set of diving into Hertiage cards from the 2000 ...

I am set set builder strickly 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 10/1/2022. 

Thanks,

Baseball - Football - Hockey

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.

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

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!!

I like the Cincinnati Reds and I PC Joey Votto.  I collect sets, particularly focusing on Topps flagship.

Lately I've taken an interest in building some insert sets. Currently working on

• Cards Your Mom Threw Out (both base and original back parallels) from 2010 Topps
• All-Rookie Cup from 2017 Topps Update
• Iconic Card Reprints from 2019 Topps
• History of Topps from 2021 Topps
• Topps Through the Years from 2021 Topps