Smarch Swaps

One good thing about being home every day is that I don't have to wait until the evening to open my mail. Three PWE trades and a box from COMC arrived at Collector HQ last week.

The first trade in was from TCDB user gatorsportscardart:

I sent 18 basketball dupes (17 from 1990-91 SkyBox) out to Gator and got 12 cards in return, including two Lance Parrish issues and Mark Belanger's sunset card. I knew he was a very light-hitting shortstop but I had no idea his all-time great fielding was enough for him to stick around into the '80s.

The Francona card was not in the initial trade; I'd asked for a 1982 Topps Al Oliver but Gator couldn't find it so I asked for Tito instead. No, I'm not building the 1983 Topps set. Even after this trade I've only got 29 of the 792 cards.

Got a couple basketball cards in return for the 18 basketball cards. Also an off-center Jim Zorn and a couple newer cards in Porzingis and Kershaw - which is from the National League All-Star team set, though it looks exactly like the base card. Whatever.. different card number, different card I guess.

Here's a minor trade I made with JDStinz, sort of a 'bottom-pair defenseman for future 4th rounder' deal:

I sent three Stranger Things base cards and two 2015-16 Donruss basketball dupes to JD for these four. Classic Images is not one of my favorite sets at all, but I can't pass up a Brodeur, a Pronger(listed as a Whalers card on TCDB) and an Arnott. Wasn't easy finding an active user who needed my Stranger Things dupes, so I took what I could get. Lucas definitely jumped to the forefront in the most recent ST season. I really enjoyed his character arc and relationship with Max.

Do any of you watch Quantum Leap? Did you watch the original? My wife and I have been watching the reboot, which is funny to me since she had Quantum Leap nights at her college dorm back in the day.
 

I mention this show because the spoils of my most recent Time Travel Trade arrived last Thursday. It had been a while since I swapped cards with Matt, and I'm already preparing for the next one.

Royals and Red Sox here. Tazawa and Hanrahan are extras for my Red Sox binder.

You probably can't read the names on most of these (except for Hubie Brooks) so I'll list them for you: Jim Abbott, Roberto Alomar, and Gary Sheffield are pretty recognizable by photo. Then we have Brooks, Will Clark(also a familiar face), and Marcell Ozuna. Then at the bottom we have Charles Johnson and Josh Bell.

Clark reminds me that there was a Quantum Leap episode where Ben leaps back to the Bay Area right before the 1989 Earthquake.

 

 

And we'll finish with some football Hall of Famers. I was a little too slow on claiming a Scott Rolen card, so I added Moon as a substitute. He's joined by a 2019 Donruss Dan Marino I had to grab quickly because anyone could have offered anything 2018 or older. Michael Strahan rounds out the swap. I'm sure Matt will cover what he received in a future post at Diamond Jesters.

On the same day these arrived, I received my latest COMC order. Here's a preview:

 

I'll show off the rest of my order after the 100 Greatest Non-Hall of Famers Countdown concludes later this week.



Thanks for reading!



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