If I Do Nothing Else Today . . . Trade With Democratic Roadkill

It's going to be posting my trade with Duane from Democratic Roadkill.

I sent Duane 9 A&G Code Cards from my failed attempt at the code this summer. Silly me, I thought I'd need the actual cards to pull it off, so I started pulling together some of the cards that were deemed important. Well my folly is Duane's gain. In addition to those code cards I sent over a pair of Goudey base cards to help him complete his set, a pair of A&G back 09 minis, and a pair of regular back A&G 09 minis. One of which was The Mick, who I still needed for my mini set, but I was happy to oblige Duane being that he pulled together some much needed Goudeys for me.

Here was the haul. To start, we've got 3 Goudey Heads Up cards that I needed for my set, plus 6 4-in-1s. I really do enjoy the Heads Up cards. I think the design is neat with the various stats or nicknames plastered all over the front of the card. I'm also digging the Yount and Fielder (and Schmidt and Howard) card. All Fielder needs to do is win an MVP this year and we can call that an MVP card.



There were 6 more 4-in-1s needed for my set:



And finally, for some reason, Duane had the Bill Hall Goudey Graph. Very recently I had a $1 bid rejected on eBay and I felt sad about that. I shall feel sad NO MORE. I've not got the Gallardo, Hall, and Gamel Goudey Graphs. Still yet unaccounted for are JJ Hardy and Prince Fielder. If you see either of these Goudey Graphs, please let me know.




Also, I'd be willing to take on, via trade, any Goudey Graphs you just don't want to hold onto. Even Wade LeBlanc ;)

Looking For A Good Home For Some Leftovers

I have some leftover 2009 A&G cards that didn't make it into anyone's home this summer after trying to trade for the minis, and I'm putting them up for adoption.

I'm not asking for anything in return, but if you have a few cards to throw my way off my needs list that would be fantastic. And again, totally unnecessary.

There are 40 base cards:

10,21,31,42,43,44,52,65,70,77,87,88,89,94,97,110,113,120,134,158,165,172,180,186,190,223,226,228,227,234,241,243,245,249,251,258,262,270,277

The bigger baseball names are Youkilis, Utley, Cano, Crawford, Hill, Markakis, and Helton.

There are 7 National Pride cards:

NP35 Manny Ramirez, NP48 Jorge Cantu, NP49 Max Scherzer, NP59 Miguel Cabrera, NP60 Stephen Drew, NP61 Mark Teahen, NP71 Josh Hamilton

Nine code cards from my failed attempt this summer!

#69 Loney, #52 Hill, #77 Liriano, #215 Lowrie, #62 Uggla, #59 Reynolds, #70 Ankiel, #1 Bruce, #147 Crisp

And finally 2 SPs in Dominique Wilkins and Curtis Granderson.

Allen & Ginter Mini Set Builders Unite!

An A&G minis flea market? I'm going to give this idea a whirl even if it's a tad self serving. Hopefully it can serve a lot other 'selfs' as well.

I've now gotten to the point where I've collected approximately 100ish minis from the A&G set and I'm planning to post my 'For Trade' and 'Want' lists.

I've been scanning any blog I could get my hands on recently to see who is attempting to do the same thing and I know there are a number of you. So if you happen to stumble across this post, please leave a comment with a link to your 2009 A&G mini needs or up for trade lists. If you're just someone that needs to find a home for your minis, go ahead and link or post what you've got up for grabs as well. My hope is to get as much of these lists as possible in a central spot will facilitate more trading among everyone.

To get the ball rolling I'll post my availability list tonight. I think I've decided I can part with the mini insert sets and I have 10-15 from the various Hoaxes, Myths, and Heroes subsets. I'm going to keep a few that I like, but the rest will go up for trade to try to pull back other minis - maybe some black minis since they're just so cool looking.

My list of A&G minis available for trade:
13AG,94,144,154AG,174,229,320

LMT14 (Griffin), NH3 (Toussaint L'Ouverture), HHB17 (Reavis)

Make an offer on my list of black bordered minis if you can help me more quickly finish the base mini set:

6 (Eaton), 20(Jones), 49 (Jiminez), 144 (Soria), 164 (Bedard), 174 (Lannan), 266 (Cueto),

My list of A&G minis need:

1,2,4,5,7,8,10,11,12,14,16,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30
31,32,33,34,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,44,48,50,51,52,53,54,55,57,58,59
61,62,63,64,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80
81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,90,91,92,93,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102
103,104,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,118,119,120,121
123,124,125,126,127,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138
140,143,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,155,156,157,158,159
160,161,164,165,166,167,168,171,172,173,175,176,177,178,179,181
183,185,186,187,189,191,194,195,197,200,201,202,203,208,209,210
211,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220,221,222,224,225,226,227,228
230,231,232,233,234,235,,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246
249,250,251,252,253,255,256,257,259,260,261,263,264,265,267,269
271,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,281,282,283,285,286,287,288
290,291,292,293,294,295,297,298,299,300,301,302,303,305,307,308
309,310,311,312,314,315,316,317,318,319,321,322,323,324,325,326
327,329,330,331,332,333,334,337,338,339,340,342,343,344,345,346
347,348,349,350

Today Was A Good Day

Oh boy, it's Carlos Gonzalez Goudey day.

I stumbled across an outstanding card collector over at Shot Not Taken named Raymond.

He had just busted open some A&G cards and was very excited to find a framed relic of Ichiro. It was a jersey relic, and I had the matching bat relic to pair up with it. So I offered it up in a trade.

And just as karma would have it, he happened to have bought "only a handful" of Goudey packs this year, but without those few cards happened to have Carlos Gonzalez. After a bit of negotiating (really just more like "I dig your A&G minis"), he agreed to send over a few of his black bordered minis with Carlos to complete the trade.

Little did I know that he'd send over all the minis he had. And due to an outstanding evening I once had in Seattle approximately a year ago that oddly enough, involved a unicorn, I was stoked to pick up the A&G Unicorn Creates of Legend, Myth, and Terror. If only I could have landed that relic. I'd give anything for that relic!

Well I won't spoil the surprise for Raymond, but I did include another card in my trade for him after finding out a little more about what he collects. I'll let him show it off on his site once it safely arrives in New York (and sorry for the delay over the holiday weekend).

I was also happy to find out that not just one person, but two people had the Bob Gibson and Kevin Slowey cards I needed to fill out my base Goudey set. Mr. Collective Troll - I apologize but you were beaten to the punch by my good friend Alex, my friend's 5 year old son, who oddly enough tucked them away in a binder earlier this summer, only to lose the binder somewhere in his room, only to have his dad happen across said binder. Alex then offered up the final cards I needed for my set in exchange for a Joe Mauer relic I received earlier this season from Ryan at Card Cache.

I don't think Alex could be more excited to get the Mauer jersey card. He'd been telling me all summer how bad he wanted it and I told him if he could finish my Goudey set, I'd do it. And I'm a man of my word. Little did I know what fate had in store for me, however . . . (to be continued in my next post)

The Great Ginter Tradeaway

Although I'm very slowly posting the results of my Allen & Ginter box break for the Gint-A-Cuffs contest, I would like it to be known that I'm looking to trade off all the standard sized cards from my box for minis. Hopefully there are some set builders out there in need of the cards.

I'd love to send a couple of good sized chunks out in some bigger trades, but if you need a card I'm listing below, contact me and we'll work something out. I'm also trying to finish off my Goudey set as well and will welcome trades for those cards.

In fact, I'll include a prize to the person to either finish my Goudey set for me (whoever contacts me with the last card(s) I need) or whoever sends over the most minis in trade. The prize shall remain undisclosed for now, but will definitely be one of the hits from my box.

11/24/09 - ALL CARDS GONE TO A GOOD HOME!

Gint-A-Cuffs Box Break Part 2

I wasn't very satisfied with only posting the Josh Hamilton N64 box topper, so I'll throw some more points your way as well.

Here we have Mr. Rickie Weeks - get well buddy - and JJ Hardy. +2. That brings the overall total to +27.

Tomorrow I shall bring to you what I collectively call "The Turds".

Allen & Ginter Ripoff

Yup, I'm implying exactly what the title of this post says. I, well we, were ripped off. Unless of course I'm overlooking something super awesome in my pack of Allen and Ginter cards that was gifted to me by a friend.

Here's the deal, I got the pack as a gift, but I'd still enjoy it if Topps played by the rules, so to speak:



So here's my main issue. 8 Picture Cards. Packs with a framed insert contain 7 cards.

I implore you to show me where it says "Random packs to contain only 6 cards".

And just in case you're thinking about picking up some hobby packs at your local hobby shop, and you're also thinking "wow, that was a fluke!" . . . guess again. All three packs, purchased from the same hobby box at a local card shop contained only six cards. 2 packs contained 5 base cards and one mini, and then there was my pack:




That's Equestrian Champion Will Simpson and Archie Bunker #228



Next up was Negro League All Star Art Pennington #97



Followed by everyone's favorite Padre Rookie, Edwin Moreno #120. If you're counting along at home that's 3 cards thus far.



The fourth card finally pays dividends for me, CC Sabathia Baseball Highlights #AGHS20. CC you'll always be a Brewer in my heart. Thanks for the ride last year.



No one could match the next card I pulled. A mother fsk'n Dominique Wilkins Slam Dunk Champion card #346. I really loved 80s basketball.



And finally, my 6th card of the 8 I was promised, leaving two cards to be named later in this deal on Topps' side, was Nick Markakis [American] National Pride #NP34

Now I'm off to see who else is experiencing this rob-job from Topps.