Trade with Nachos Grande

I feel bad that we don’t have scans for this one. Chris at Nachos Grande sent over a box of Cardinals in exchange for a few A&G minis and a stack of “awesome” Reds cards. Isaac liked the cards so much he put them straight into his binders before I could see them. Consequently, no scans! Thanks again Chris! Isaac has come to love mail days through all of these trades.

Belated kudos to Chris for breaking the 2009 Topps black border blaster case. It helped us ID a box yesterday at Wally World. Gotta admit they’re pretty cool.

Trade With Blue Heaven

A by product of Jawdy’s Basement Heroes January Break was a trade with Ernest at Blue Heaven: a stack of Cardinals for a stack of Dodgers. I returned from a trip to Guadalajara to find Blue Heaven’s very generous package. He sent a mix of 80’s & 90’s Cardinals, a smattering of vintage cards and then some really, really vintage cards.

Isaac loved the Ozzies, especially the action shots.

Two current Cardinals. Ankiel’s story truly is amazing and I’m reminded of it every time I see his older cards as a Pitcher.

A few vintage cards… plus four 1972 Topps not pictured.

 

Three interesting Victorian cards from the 1800’s. Check out these links from Blue Heaven for more info: Victorian Baseball Cards, Merchant’s Gargling Oil Cards. Click on the cards for larger images. I doubt we’ll go search these out but, like Japanese cards, they’re fun and interesting.

       

And finally a pin for Isaac’s jean jacket.

Thanks again to Blue Heaven for a great trade. I only hope the cards we sent in return came close in offering the sheer enjoyment with these cards. Check out his blog for Dodgers info and vintage baseball card and memorabilia information. It truly is a great resource and has pointed us to several items of note we would not have known about.

Trade With Fielder’s Choice

Another day, another package for Isaac. Dave from Fielder’s Choice sent a package in exchange for some 2008 Heritage High and some U & H’s. Here are Isaac’s favorites:

David Kopp – 2008 Bowman Chrome Auto. Never heard of him so I told Isaac to look him up in his Cardinals prospects book. He said, without looking, that he wasn’t in the book. I told him to check the book… sure enough he wasn’t listed. The kid has a memory. He loves autographs since the Winter Warmup.

Albert – 2008 Masterpieces

Grady Sizemore – 2008 Target Chrome Insert & 2008 Topps Finest Refractor

Amazingly, he may have been more excited about the Sizemore’s than the Pujols. I’m chalking it up to having a ton of Albert in his binder and only a few pages of Sizemore. How excited? Between the Sizemore & the autos he wanted to site down and write a thank you note to Dave!

Trade With All Tribe Baseball

Isaac loves coming home and seeing a package in the mail. I was out of the country last week and it was nice hearing how excited he was each evening as he told me what state the package came from, opened it up, and told me about each card inside. It felt like we were opening the package up together… almost like I was home.

This was our usual trade: a stack of your favorite team for a stack of Cardinals. This time, All Tribe Baseball sent a box of Cardinals our way along with a nice note about collecting with his sons for 16 – 17 years. He sent a ton of nice cards. These are Isaac’s favorites.

Brian Barton – 2007 UD Timeline. More on one of Isaac’s favorite players here.

Two Jim Edmonds Mini’s – Another of his favorite players, even if he wore Cubbie blue last year.

Two Musial 2004 Diamond King Variants

Two Brocks & one Gibson

Grady Sizemore – 2008 X. Not sure when he became a fan of Sizemore, not to mention Ryan Braun, but he’s started pages for both of them in his Favorite Players binder.

Thanks again, Jack. We’ve filled up the box with Indians and will be sending them tomorrow!

Jawdy’s 2008 Heroes Break

I decided to treat Isaac to a slot on Jawdy’s January 2008 Upper Deck Heroes case break to see if we couldn’t get lucky and get the Cardinals randomly. At the very least, I hoped he’d get a decent team for cards to trade for Cardinals. We didn’t get the Cards but I thought we’d did pretty well pulling the Mets. I was  wrong.  We got five numbered parallels and two shared hits. The good news is that we shared one hit, a Carlton / Santana parallel, with Dave at Fielder’s Choice and the other, a Jeter / Reyes dual relic, with Ernest at Blue Heaven. I gotta say that he REALLY cleaned up having both the Yankees and Red Sox in the break.

Dave was nice enough to let us have the Carlton as part of an ongoing trade while Ernest let Isaac keep the Jeter in exchange for some modern Dodger cards. In addition, we worked out a mass Dodgers – Cardinals trade that Isaac was thrilled with, more on that later.

Here are the non-base cards from the break. If any Mets fans are interested in these or any Mets base cards from this set let us know and we’ll work something out.

Thanks again to Jawdy, Dave & Ernest for making this break and resulting trades so enjoyable for the little guy.

 

 

Trade with Project 62

In addition to sending the Pete Rose auto set, we worked out a trade with Chris from Project 62. Turns out we both bought our kids boxes of Sportflics for the holidays so we sent each other any doubles we had plus all of our Cubs for all of his Cardinals. Chris was also nice enough to send a few extra Cardinals for Isaac’s team binder.

2008 UD Masterpieces

Ozzie Sportflics, Mitch Boggs Bowman Chrome, Carp UD GU

Isaac loved the cards and has started a Masterpieces page in his Cardinals binder. The Carp GU will join his only other GU card: a Bazooka Mark Grudzielanek bat card celebrating April 27, 2005, the day he hit for the cycle in old Busch stadium. Coincidently, I was at that game and he’s been on me about finding my ticket stub. Thanks again, Chris.