Trades, Trades, and More Trades

I am in the process of completing another trade for 150 Blue Border cards and 15 Emerald cards and I have another person interested in trading 12 more Emeralds. I am very excited as to how much fun this has become and how easy people are to deal with. I am sure that not all trades are executed perfectly and that not all trades are fair for both parties, but I am very satisfied with the ones I have made so far. I was asked to put together a list of all of my Jersey Patch cards for trade and I thought this would be as good a place as any to put out a list.


2001 - Upper Deck Pros & Prospects - Rafael Palmero & Jim Thome Dual Bat
2001 - Upper Deck - Garry Sheffield - Big League Challenge Jersey
2001 - Sp Game Used - Ivan Rodriguez Jersey
2002 - Stadium Club - World Stage Jersey - Kazuhisa Ishii
2002 - Upper Deck - Luis Gonzales Jersey #117/275
2002 - Upper Deck - Eric Chavez Jersey
2002 - Upper Deck - David Cone - Stars of 89 Jersey (with Pinstripe)
2002 - Sweet Spot Classics - Fred Lynn Bat
2003 - Topps Finest Jersey - Randy Johnson (with pinstripe)
2003 - Fleer Ultra - Shawn Green - Moonshots Jersey
2003 - Flair Greats - Dennis Eckersley Jersey - Cut of History
2003 - Upper Deck - USA Jersey - Steven Register
2003 - Fleer - Splendid Splinter - Miguel Tejada Bat #338/425
2003 - Fleer Platinum - Edgar Martinez Jersey - #68/400
2004 - Topps Finest Jersey - Rich Harden
2004 - Skybox Autographics - Mike Schmidt Bat #15/350
2004 - Topps Heritage - Clubhouse Collection - Eric Chavez Jersey

2004 - Topps Heritage -Clubhouse Collection - Kazuhisa Ishii
2004 - Skybox Jersey Graphics - Jason Giambi #67/250
2010 - Bowman USA - Red Jersey - Chris Chinea #44/50

2012 - Gypsy Queen - Mini Jersey - Y. Gallardo x2
2012 - Gypsy Queen - Mini Jersey - Z. Greinke
2012 - Topps - Golden Moments - David Ortiz Jersey



I also have 21 Football Jersey Relics and 20 plus Autograph cards for trade. I don't think many are worth much and I will get them listed next. Thank you and if you see something you like let me know. Follow me on Twitter @brianhuens.


Bubba

Blue Border Is Rolling!!!!

Today has been a wonderful day. My wife surprised me this morning with a couple of blaster boxes of Topps 2013 along with a very funny card. When I checked the mail today I noticed several packages which all contained... you guessed it Baseball card. One of which was 140 different Blue Border parallel cards for my set. Fortunately 90 of the cards were useful and only 50 were cards that I already had. I am now trying to resell my blue doubles and purchase some more of the cards I need. I also received the cards that I traded for a few days ago. I was very happy to see the agreed upon cards and I cannot wait to trade again. Trading is one of the great things that have always been done with Baseball cards, and I am glad to see that it continues to this day. I am now up to 40 Emerald parallel cards and about 150 of the Blue parallel cards. It has been less than a month since the release and I am well on my way to accomplishing my task. Please keep reading and if you want to trade just let me know.

Happy Valentines Day,

Bubba

Buying and Trading

Today was a very good day in terms of chasing down these cards. I won my first auction for 140 Blue Wal-Mart parallel cards. I paid approximately $0.29 per card and will most likely have a few duplicates, but I think the price was pretty good considering how many packs it would take to get those cards. I have also completed my first trades via Twitter. I will let you know how it went when the cards arrive, but I am very optimistic that the people I am trading with are genuine and honest. I look forward to doing some more trading and posting more pictures of my progress. Here is a link to my Photo bucket where you will find more cards for trade. That is all for now, I will update again and I will keep on working towards my goal.

http://s1265.beta.photobucket.com/user/bhuens/library/


Thanks,

Bubba

The Chase Has Begun!!!

The theme for the 2013 Topps Baseball cards this year is "The Chase" and I am starting to understand exactly what they mean. On Wednesday night I headed over to Target in hopes of getting a few of the blaster boxes that I just knew they would have. It turns out that they do not update their card isle daily and would not be putting out the new Topps cards until the weekend. I wanted Target because I thought the red border would look better than the blue border that Wal-Mart cards would have. I ended up at Wal-Mart and purchased two blaster boxes, 4 regular packs, and 1 rack pack. When I arrived home I quickly went to our sports room and started ripping open my new obsession. I was very happy with the overall product and I really was surprised at the value that each blaster box contained. Here are a few of the cards that I pulled form the blaster boxes.

The first card here is a blue parallel card of rookie pitcher Dylan Bundy. The blue
parallel cards are only available at Wal-Mart. I currently have more of the blue cards than any of the other colored parallels, so it makes sense to complete that set also. The two cards below are the emerald parallel and gold parallel versions of this year's set. I really like how the emerald cards look, they really stand out and are noticeably different than the other parallel sets. The gold parallel cards area all numbered out of 2013 which makes them a bit more difficult to find in packs than the emerald cards. I will most likely work on the gold set along with the others, but I  am more concerned about finishing the emerald and blue sets first.

The last card that I scanned is one of the 25 SP (short print) cards that Topps put out this year. The theme is "out of bounds" and all of the pictures on these cards depict players catching or attempting to catch a ball that is out of bounds. I was very excited to have pulled one of these cards from my blaster box at Wal-Mart.

Here is where I currently stand on set completion. I have one possibly two complete base sets, 25/330 emerald parallel cards, 14/330 gold parallel cards, 43/330 blue parallel cards, and I have a single pink (breast cancer) parallel. I am looking to buy some lots on eBay if the price is right and I am really looking at trading for a lot of these parallel cards. I will post some more pictures next week of the autographs I pulled from the two jumbo boxes I purchased. I will also be posting more cards that are for trade. Please send me an email if you want to trade for any of the cards I put in my previous post or if you have a lot for sale. I am sure I will be going back to Wal-Mart to get some more blaster boxes later this week.


thank for reading,
Bubba