Over the years, I have shown off many cards from Trading Bases member Ron B on my blog. We exchange cards three or four times yearly, with Pirates headed his way and Cardinals and Altuve cards coming my direction. Last year, he took the plunge and joined TCDB with an id of Ronsolo1. He was very busy with almost 400 trades in his first year. I highly recommend trading with Ron, as he is easy to deal with and is a great spot to send all those unwanted Pirates cards other than Paul Skenes.
Ron and I have been accumulating cards for each other for a couple of months. Last week, we decided it was time to ship them out. My end included over 50 cards, making it my largest trade package in quite a while.
My son gained 10 new Altuve cards for his push to 800. A nice variety of colors, shiny, and a Topps Heritage cloth parallel.
These were the only two base cards out of the 50 different Cardinals I received. Mize left me one card short of finishing the 2023 Topps Chrome Platinum teat set. That set should get done soon. The 1959 Topps set will not. Bob Gibson's rookie card is a little pricey. I will keep adding cheap cards like Cunningham.
There was a nice mix of 2024 parallels from Chrome and flagship. The Liberatore team border parallel was my favorite. The Contreras red foil is also pretty sharp.
A handful of other 2024 cards.
2023 cards were mainly of the Panini variety. The Walker orange flash prizm is a great looking card.
Back to all Topps brands for 2022. The A&G cards are the silver portrait parallels.
The second orange parallel of the package is from 2022 Mosaic. This one is reactive orange. The second Carlson card is my second relic of his. He is still a free agent. I hope he signs with an American League team and has a rebound season.
A couple from 2022 and a nice dual from 2023 Topps Update. How can you go wrong with a card featuring Musial and Pujols?
I will finish things up with cards from the last decade. Of course the 2011 black border Pujols is my favorite.
How close is your son to his goal of 800 Altuves? I've been collecting him for since he won his first batting title a decade ago... but I don't think I have even crossed the 300 mark. At some point, I'll probably just seek out one or two large lots on eBay to boost the PC.
ReplyDeleteHe sits at 774 as of today. We are going to a card show the next 2 Saturdays that will hopefully get him over the mark.
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