Barter: Care of No One’s Going to Read This Blog

A couple of weeks ago, Jeremy from No One’s Going to Read This Blog contacted me to see if I wanted to swap some ’09 Topps. I’d been wanting to start trading online but I never initiated any for lots of dumb reasons, but now I had no excuses! This trade was exactly what I needed to get my trading feet wet. Jeremy send over a nice stack of Series 1 and 2 for my set in progress. These are some of my faves.

This home run might be the most thrilling moment I got to see of the post season last year. Great pinch hit home run! I didn’t know this card existed so this was a surprise!

This is the view you get from the ground if you actually lose a brawl after charging the pitcher who beaned your helmet off.

Loot: Care of Stats on the Back

Last month, Mark over at Stats on the Back generously gave away thousands and thousands of cards to dozens of collectors. Everyone had their own wants and needs, and Mark even found some cards that I wanted. He sent me a stack of Strawberry, most of which I didn’t have yet since my collection is still young. He also sent over several Trail Blazers cards, which is the only team collection I have, from any sport. And to top it off, he included a 1969 Topps card to go towards my set I’m putting together. Sweet 40 year old card. Check it out here on my other blog. Even though Mark really doesn’t expect anything in return, I’m sure most of us had no problem expressing our gratitude by returning the favor by sending something back. I never seem to have more than a few cards off of people’s want list, but I managed to find some needs for his Allen & Ginter collection and Hall of Famer collection. Thanks Mark!

Project ’62’s Junk Wax Group Break

This group break is the bees knees.. it has me pumped! The thought of 20 wax boxes ranging from ’81 to present along with some possible sponsored wax and maybe a few more packs piled on top of that has me salivating. If you a team collector, player collector or even a just a boring ol’ regular collector, check this out! This needs more participants for this to happen!

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1992 TNTL 1919 Black Sox Team Set Reprint

Wow. I scanned these in over a month ago and forgot all about ’em. This is a cool little set. I picked it up off of ebay when searching for the cheapest “buy it now” boxes, and someone had a bunch of these for like a buck-fifty! The 2″ by 3″ deck of cards features the historic “Black Socks” team that threw the World Series! Beckett lists these as “1992 Manning 1919 Black Sox Reprints”. On the bottom of the box it says, “TNTL Studios, Toms River, NJ”. Did this company produce any other sets? Nothing more on Beckett…

Most of the cards in the set feature a plain black and white cutout picture with a white, borderless background and a blank back.

The cards with the black border feature the players which were banned from baseball. The backs tell their individual stories.

Buck Weaver tallied a .324 AVG with 11 hits in the series, which supported his claims that he had nothing to do with the fix. He was still banned in the end for knowing about the fix, but failing to tell officials.

Williams went 0-3 with a 6.63 ERA in the series.

This is the only color card in the set which is just like the other Shoeless Joe, but with grass and corn. After he started playing with two shoes again, Joe had a cane fashioned to look just like a bat that he took everywhere with him.

Blue Jays GM Confirms There Never Really Was A ‘Roy Halladay’

Here’s some fake quotes from the fake press conference the Blue Jays had concerning the fake Roy Halladay. Funny stuff courtesy of The Onion. Click here for the full story. Warning for Blue Jay fans.. some harsh humor ahead.

“Roy’s my uncle’s name. And whenever we needed a face, like for his baseball card, we just used a picture of our UPS guy.”

“Roy Halladay is just the latest in a long string of completely fictitious Blue Jay greats, a list that includes Dave Stieb, Jesse Barfield, and Joe Carter, whose home run to win the 1993 World Series was actually just a two-run single in the seventh inning by Paul Molitor.”

“Those first couple of years you can’t really control [playing in Toronto], but then you demand a trade and get out of there,” ex–Blue Jay Orlando Hudson said.

When asked if he remembered playing with a Roy Halladay, Hudson said, “I don’t remember any of my Blue Jay teammates.”

“Baseball is built on little deceptions: the curveball, the hidden-ball trick, the existence of Stan Musial. And we’re not the only team who bends the truth. The Padres played 212 games last year just to make a little extra money. Just slid by and no one noticed. Milwaukee doesn’t even have a third base.”

Contest over at Voice of the Collector

The last time I posted a link to a contest on another blog, I ended up winning! Twice in one day! My luck is good right about now so go on over to the Voice of the Collector blog and enter! Enter all you like, I don’t care!

Australian Baseball League cards

I love oddball cards. So, I couldn’t resist picking up a pack of Australian Baseball League cards off of eBay. This 110 card set highlights players in the ABL for the 1993-94 season. The packs also had randomly inserted redemption cards for a “high quality picture card” of either David Nilsson or Mark Ettles, some of which were autographed. The ABL started in 1989 and disbanded in 1999. In 1999 David Nilsson took the helm of Australian baseball and created the International Baseball League of Australia which lasted for 3 seasons. Australia has yet to see a national league since then. Just last month though, MLB, the Australian Baseball Federation and the Australian government announced intentions to create a new national league which could be running as soon as October 2010.

Mississippi born Jay Powell had a good MLB career starting in 1995 with the Florida Marlins. You might remember him as the winning pitcher for the Marlins in game 7 of the World Series. He played for 5 other teams and suffered a career ending injury while on the Braves in 2005.

Kevin was an infielder for the Phillies from 1995 to 2001.

Scott Tunkin competed in the 1996 Olympics for Australia in which they placed 7th. Adrian Meagher played in 2000 in which they placed 7th again! Australia went on the win silver in 2004.

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