2022 trade package #4: It's Like Having My Own Card Shop

This evening I have another trade package from a well known blogger that happened with an assist from TCDB. I talk to a number of guys on the site who handle IRs (inaccuracy reports) and a few of them are really cool so I've also begun trading with them. While at a show late last year I came across a nice Robin Yount relic for $5 that I knew someone would like, and once I looked over this member's tradelist, we were able to make a quick deal around this card (future TCDB trade post to come).

That deal was mainly centered around a card I knew a certain someone might like: Paul Goldschmidt collector Daniel of It's Like Having My Own Card Shop. In December Daniel confirmed in a Twitter conversation that he'd like the manurelic seen in this post here and that he'd be able to send some stuff back that I could use. That was good enough for me since we've done some deals in the past I was plenty happy with.

He ended up coming up with "a few cards from [my] want lists and a couple of Tigers cards" which ended up being quite the understatement. Just check out all the cool stuff I got back:

The Miggy you see up top is a Pink Refractor from 2019 Topps Chrome, and with the owners finally done with preventing fans from seeing baseball in 2022 it's a great reminder that he's just 13 hits away from joining the exclusive 500 HR/3000 hits club! Right now the membership includes Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Albert Pujols, Eddie Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, and Alex Rodriguez. Pretty good company!

Daniel did promise "a couple Tigers" and ended up making good on that with two more Cabreras: relic cards from 2015 Topps Heritage and 2018 Topps. Score! I now own 15 relics of the future HOFer to go with a manurelic and three autographs. I really appreciate Daniel's generosity here.

A bit of the aforementioned wantlist help came in the form of a pair of J.J. Putz cards. J.J. played for Daniel's Diamondbacks for the last four seasons of his career, 2011-14, and saved 45 and 32 games for Arizona over his first two campaigns there. Daniel sent me his 2011 Diamondbacks Topps team issue card as well as the 2012 Target Red parallel from that year's flagship set. Two more down!

That wasn't nearly all when it came to my wantlists, though, as he also sent me these six from 2007 Ultra's Iron Man insert that focuses on one of my top PC guys, Cal Ripken Jr. The 50-card set has a design I can't help but like--black with Orioles orange accents and silver foil--and I hope to put the whole thing together eventually. For now it looks like I have 14 of them so I've got my work cut out for me.

Now if that had been everything Daniel had sent my way I would have already been very happy. He had other plans, though:

...in the form of three very nice vintage cards of Hammerin' Hank! I know Daniel's a pretty avid vintage collector but I most definitely didn't expect these and I'll be happy to add them to my paltry collection of classic cards. They include the well known 1968 Topps Game as well as two league leaders cards from 1972 Topps. In 1971, 37-year-old Hank put up a career high 47 homers (one less than league leader and fellow star Willie Stargell) plus 118 RBI--third behind Torre's 137 and Stargell's 125. That year was just one of seven campaigns where Aaron hit 40+ homers and yet he still managed to set the record with 755. He remains the game's career RBI leader with 2297 while only leading the league in that category four times as well, a testament to how great he was for such a long period of time. Just wow!

Daniel, once again I thank you for all the amazing cards you sent my way, all of which were surprises and better yet, new to my collection! I hope we can trade again relatively soon if I can find more harder to track down Goldschmidts (or other needs).

Looking over on my card desk I currently see five blog trade packages left to cover, plus a crazy 24 from TCDB that I'd like to show off in some way, shape, or form. That's in addition to two shows' worth of pickups. So look for lots more posts from me, if not in a timely fashion.