More Trading With The Dollar Store

A few weeks ago (ok, actually it was close to a month ago) I started doing my Trading Tuesdays posts (which has now been changed to Trading Thursdays). The very first post I did involved a selection of California/Los Angeles/Anaheim Angels. The first person who claimed it would receive all of the Angels cards I had listed. You can see it here. The only stipulation was that they had to trade me at least 1 card off of my want lists. Very quickly, Doug from the blog "Sportscards From The Dollar Store" claimed the lot of Angels. As you can see by this picture, he went waaaaaaaay beyond what was required to receive the cards.

And for those of you who've never traded with Doug, he lives in Canada. I live in the United States.

This was not cheap to send to me.

It was an assortment of set needs. Here they are in stacks.

He always throws in some hockey cards for me. I do collect hockey cards as well, so these are always welcome.

 

Now on to a few scans of the baseball cards.

 

Some assorted Red Sox along with some 1986 Donruss, 1989 Score, 1994 Collectors Choice and 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen.

 

1991 Fleer Ultra, 1989 Donruss and 2008 Upper Deck Goudey.

1990 Donruss!! He sent me a lot of this. That's good because I need a lot of this. I should be pretty close to completing the set by now....I hope.

Is it wrong to be this excited about 1990 Donruss?

Some 2007 Upper Deck and a lone 1985 Topps.

Disturbing fact about that '85 Gary Carter. For a brief second, I thought that was from 2013 Archives.

That's not cool.

 

2010 and 2012 Topps. Two sets that I still have not finished yet.

 

More 2012 and 1985 Topps with some 1989 Upper Deck thrown in.

 

1993 Donruss. With all of the cards I've accumulated from this time period, you would've thought I have more sets completed than I do.

 

1992 Leaf.

New sets were popping up all over the place around this time and it was getting quite difficult (and expensive) to collect them all.

 

He also sent me some 1992 Donruss...

 

...as well as 1993 Leaf.

But that wasn't the extent of his generosity.

Also included was this nice David Ortiz relic.

 

 

 

This was way more than I expected and of course greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, Doug!

 

Looking forward to trading again!

 

Trading Tuesdays - White Sox Edition

As I've mentioned on this blog before, one of the things I enjoy most about the blogosphere is trading with other bloggers. I don't make it to too many card shows, and it's often times very tough to find the cards I need to complete the sets I'm working on.

I've gotten closer to some sets thanks to the trading I've done, and hopefully I've been to help other bloggers with their collecting goals as well. So I've been thinking for a while about how I can help initiate some trading with other collectors/bloggers that I may not have connected with yet. Of course, I'm certainly up for trading with collectors/bloggers that I've traded with before.

So every Tuesday I post a collection of items representing a specific team. It will generally consist of mostly cards from that team, but it could also include a media guide, a yearbook, a pack of cards with a player from that team on the wrapper, etc.

If you are interested in it, either comment on the blog or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com, with what you want to trade for it. No reasonable offer will be refused, however it does have to be off of my want list. I need to finish these sets! Trade me a dozen cards, trade me a hundred cards, trade me one card, but help me finish these sets!

I only have a small percentage of my "wants" uploaded. This is a huge work in process, and I am adding new want lists up weekly. I also keep track via a sidebar on my blog letting readers know what lists have been added in the past week. There are also some "junk wax" sets on there that I haven't finished. I know some of you are sitting on some '89 Score, 92 Donruss, etc., and this could be a chance to unload some of it to someone who needs it!

This week I feature the Chicago White Sox. However, nobody claimed last week's lot of Padres, so if someone claims the White Sox lot, they will get the Padres lot as well.

So here's what up for trade this week:

1996 Collector's Choice Tim Raines

1976 Topps Jerry Hairston

1980 Topps Ralph Garr

2004 Topps Opening Day Frank Thomas

2005 Topps Update Orlando Hernandez

2007 Topps Update A. J. Pierzynski

1990 Donruss Harold Baines AS

2008 Bowman Draft Picks Clayton Richard

2008 Donruss Threads Luis Aparicio

2008 Topps Update Orlando Cabrera

2008 Upper Deck First Edition Paul Konerko

2008 Upper Deck X Die-Cut Jermaine Dye

1989 Score Ivan Calderon

2009 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts Jim Thome

2012 Topps Wal-Mart Blue Border Adam Dunn

1993 Edition Starting Lineup Frank Thomas

If you are interested in trading for all of this, either leave a comment or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com with what you wish to trade. First person to contact me wins the entire package of White Sox and Padres.

Thanks for reading and let's trade!