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Trade Stack 3: When Statisticians Write Baseball Card Text

Here is how this works:

Every so often (i.e. whenever I feel like it), I will add a card to a "Trade Stack".  Whenever the stack becomes appealing enough to someone, that person needs to comment on the post saying they'd like to claim the stack AND tell me which card they are sending off of my want list.  That's all you have to do - trade me ONE card (or more, of course) card from my want list for the entire stack of cards that I'm offering.  Each time, it will be first come, first serve...so act quickly (unless of course you are a gambler and hope to wait it out until there are 10+ cards in the stack that you want in exchange for a single 2004 UD Vintage card that I am looking for)!

The Stack:
Last update:  1/7/11

Many baseball card sets have a certain niche or quality that people expect.  For example, Allen & Ginter has quirky cards, Pacific sets have crazy die-cuts, and Upper Deck loves it some colored parallel goodness.  Stadium Club also has a quality that most expect - great photography.  The next card added to the trade stack is indeed a Stadium Club card with a nice photo (not superb, but still better than many photos) but what really makes it stand out is something that the 2000 Stadium Club set had - "The Bottom Line."


The Bottom Line was usually a sentence or two about the player in question, often citing some obscure statistic or accomplishment.  For Kevin Brown, the Bottom Line was the following:  "Kevin's 18- season was more impressive in context.  While he was victorious in 66.7% of his decisions, his team was winning only 43.7% of the rest of its games."  As a math instructor, I love it - and I wish stuff like this was still on today's baseball cards instead of crap like "Photo Fun Day" or "Merry Strasmus"!


In trade stack news, we are now one card away from tying the record for most cards before a stack is claimed.  Today's card is number seven - and this stack even has a Hall of Famer in it!  I've got to figure at some point soon I'll hit some card that someone out there wants!  Remember, the whole stack goes to the first person who agrees to send me any one (or more) cards off my want list.


2000 Topps Stadium Club:
52.  Kevin Brown




1991 Topps:
13.  Mariano Duncan




1997 Upper Deck Collector's Choice:
219.  Roberto Alomar (Post-Season Celebration)




2009 Allen & Ginter:
43.  Koji Uehara (rookie card)




2009 Topps Heritage:
59.  John Maine




1997 Upper Deck Collector's Choice:
371.  Steve Sparks




2009 Upper Deck:
Star Quest - Blue Uncommon

SQ-47.  Justin Morneau


Want the card(s) in the stack?  Act fast - tell me which card you will send me off my want list in the comments below!  If no one claims this card within a reasonable amount of time (a few hours up to a few days, depending) - I'll add another card to the stack and the process will start again!

Previously Claimed Trade Stacks:
Stack 1:  2 cards by dayf
Stack 2:  8 cards by Justin
Stack 3:  ?? cards by ??

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