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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)

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%

• 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.

Phillies and Yankees

If there is a Phillies card I do not have, I want it. :) 

07/01/23 CURRENT UPDATE: I need to take a break from trading to get myself caught up, thanks for understanding!

Teams: Atlanta Braves, Carolina Hurricanes, Carolina Panthers, Charlotte Hornets, NC State alumni (all 3 sports), Marvel & WWE

Players: Ray Durham, Jeff Francoeur, Freddie Freeman, Tom Glavine, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., Tony Gwynn, Tim Hudson, Brian Jordan, David Justice, Rey Ordonez, Cal Ripken Jr., Tim Salmon, John Smoltz, Darryl Strawberry, Dansby Swanson, Frank Thomas

Sets: 1995 Pinnacle Museum Collection, Anything WCW/WWE, 90's Comic Sets

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)  

Boston Red Sox Only!!! 

Team collector, always looking for other team collectors that are currently buying new boxes to trade with.

High Priority------SP or SSP's I don't have.  Anything Rafael Devers RC.

Always looking for inserts and parallels that I don't have, even cards that I haven't put on my wantlist.

Sometimes I travel out of state, so please be patient when you offer me a trade. Thanks!

 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

Topps Baseball, Stadium Club All Sports

Alex Caruso 

Former Texas A&M Basketball Players

Seattle Mariners

Sets, Cardinals, S/N cards, auto's

Baseball

I primarily collect Royals cards.  I have completed most of the base set Royals cards and have been focusing lately on oddball sets and inserts. Sometimes I work on vintage sets (50's through '72).  I have completed most of the base sets from '73 through '89.  I also collect Kansas City A's cards ('55 - '67).

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Jack Squirek (RIP) is my profile picture only because he is my cousin!   

Hi All,

I have a 20+ year history of trading in various online groups since the early 2000s including the former sportscardfun, tradingcardfools, Trading Bases, TheBench, Beckett, and the amazingly-difficult-to-navigate Facebook.  My spreadsheet indicates that I've completed just under 4,000 trades with over 1500 different trading partners in 12 countries and all 50 states.  I hadn't checked that in a while... that's nuts!.  With one trader (not here), I've completed 100+ trades and there are 20 other traders with over 25 trades... it's been like having the old neighborhood back together.

I'm still adding cards to the database to improve my trade options and increase the size of trades to take advantage of postage costs.  It's a HUGE undertaking with inventory dating back to the 60s and I'm limiting my trades here to some degree.  At the bottom of this message you can find my baseball and football websites for my wants (these represent the cards I'm loading into the TCDb wantlist database).  

I currently have a handful of active trades and 30+ offers in the backlog with most having cards tied up in other trades.  I will follow up as soon as I can.  If you need to withdraw, no worries and please no hard feelings.  I'll save your offer and try to complete something down the road as we obviously had something to offer each other.

This is my hobby and "free time to play" is precious as I have a busy career, family life, and too much yard work.  Appreciate your patience... I will get back to you! 

I'm open to any and all trades, but particularly motivated to move my non-baseball for baseball in an effort to focus my overall collection a bit.  I have a dozen 3200-count boxes sorted by NFL team, year, so if you are a team collector, I can very likely fill some holes. 

If you are trying to move your baseball for either football, hockey, or basketball... I'll drop everything to make that happen next.

If you are football only, I'd look at Steelers and Panthers in return.  Tell me your team and I'll let you know what I have, then get the best stuff listed here.

For hockey, I primarily have a Penguins collection that I'd like to move, with a spattering of singles for other teams.  For basketball, I primarily have a Cavaliers collection to move, with a mix of other teams.  Yes, I have Lebron RCs available.  Hockey and basketball collections are not in my future... please take it all!

My favorite trades are the ones that include a fat envelope/box of hits and are at least $50 in BV to take advantage of postage.  This is why my focus is on getting the 50+ years of inventory updated here.  The expectation is that these are sent in padded mailers with tracking both directions. 

Quick, smaller PWE trades can work well, too, and this is the majority of what I've completed on this site thus far.  I've sent 500+ trades via PWEs (most not from this site) and have had very few issues.  Using top album plastic pages, trades of around 27 cards seems to be the safe maximum.  To be successful with PWE trades, you cannot use top-loaders, so GU/relics and similarly thick items are out of consideration for PWE.  Stiff, cardboard mailers are required at a minimum but the post office is trying to make these "packages" if too thick. 

Also, if you put a layer of clear shipping tape around the paper envelope it helps with anything that goes through the machines.  It doesn't stop the occasional crumple, but generally will allow for a delivery in a postal body bag.  Choose the "rigid" option and pay the extra quarter to get the hand cancel and sortation.  USPS is a mixed world of technology, so none of this is an exact science or guarantee.

Let's trade our unwanted singles for better homes!

Michael

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My TCDb player collection rankings...

Jim Thome (#2)

Robin Yount - still loading my collection.

Dean Palmer (#1)

Jake Peavy (#1)

Brook Jacoby (#1)

Jimmie Foxx (#2)

Adam Wolf (#1) - local kid

Buddy Bell (#1)

Dave Dravecky (#4)

Larry Fitzgerald (#1)

Tony Gonzalez (#1)

Steve Largent (#7)

Donovan McNabb (#1)

Richmond Webb (#2) - born the exact same day as me and I'm three hours older than him (yes, I asked him!).

Ben Watson (#1)

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Baseball:   Tribe HQ (google.com)

Jim Thome, Robin Yount, Jimmie Foxx... see my players collections for more local favorites.

Cleveland Indians (etc.) Team Sets, parallels, everything....

Football:    Steelers HQ (google.com)

Not as strong or organized collection as baseball, but chasing my Steelers and favorite players:  Larry Fitzgerald, Ben Watson, Tony Gonzalez, Steve Largent,... others.

Due to some space constraints and needing to down size, I would love to sell off some of my cards listed on my For Sale / Trade List.

I have completed hand collated sets, tons of base cards and a lot of inserts and parallels.

Let me know what you would be interested in .

If you do have something from my wantlists I am interested in trading in your favor.

Still looking for Mike Sweeney & Bobby Murcer I don't have.

If you have any Mike Sweeney or Bobby Murcer cards to trade, please click on my separate collections to see what I have and what I am looking for.

Thanks

Colin Mercer

35615 25th Pl. S.

Federal Way, WA 98003

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

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.  

Looking to buy cheap lesser quality vintage baseball and football lots.

I'm a collector, NOT an investor, and I deal solely on that premise.

I have my valuations and ANYTHING vintage (i.e. up through 1979) is considered more highly than anything newer.

I have tons of Wants from the overproduced late 1980s to early 1990s and I am looking to trade within that era for those, but I will go cross-sport, and will try to match HOFers, Stars, or Commons as much as possible in a card-for-card trade.

Mostly I'm a "You got gaps; I got gaps; together no gaps" type trader, BUT because I have plenty of oddball wants, I do not trade those for base cards (or even inserts in most cases). For example, I have plenty of Kellogg's cards, but I prefer trading them for other Kellogg's cards (or other food issued cards) from similar eras.

I ACCEPT lower conditioned creased and worn cards, but I wish to be told about them. The only flaws that I'll decline would be significant paper loss on fronts, markings or doodles that are excessive, or severely cut/torn cards. In those cases I'd still like to see scans to determine if they're acceptable. (I do NOT expect your condition requirements to be like mine.)

I vow to send securely and economically with VARs confirmed and condition issues noted or explained:

1. At least 18 cards going each way in a PWE.
2. Trades involving up to 90 cards will be mailed in medium to large business envelopes without tracking.
3. Larger trades will be sent in most economical way possible (obviously with tracking).

Focusing on These for Now (And the only ones which I'll consider in trades smaller than the 18 minimum from above):

• BASEBALL
  1. 1975, 1978, & 1980 Topps
  2. 1989 & 1991 Donruss Grand Slammers (master sets)
  3. 2001 Upper Deck Decade 1970s and Upper Deck Vintage (base and related inserts)
  4. Any Topps Heritage New Age Performers
  5. Any food issued sets
• FOOTBALL
  1. 1966 Philadelphia
  2. 1968 Topps
  3. 1987 Topps
  4. 1994 Ted Williams Roger Staubach's NFL (base and related inserts)
  5. 2009 Philadelphia
• HOCKEY
  1. 1971-72 & 1978-79 Topps
  2. 1987-88 & 1988-89 Topps
  3. 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92 Kraft sets
  4. 2001-02 Topps - 1971-72 Heritage
  5. Any food issued sets

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.)

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!!

Frank Thomas