Delivery Time! Trade with Charlie from Lifetime Topps Project

Today's trade post is courtesy of Charlie from Lifetime Topps Project.  Charlie and I agreed to a 30 for 30 trade of Heritage base cards - he sent me 30 I needed, I sent him 30 he needed.  Of course, like many of my trades, this one grew a bit to also include some 1985 Topps (for me) and some 2010 Topps inserts (for Charlie).

Here are a few highlights from my end of the trade:

1985 Topps:
471.  Pete Ladd

536.  Kirby Puckett

730.  Dave Kingman

Being a set collector is odd sometimes.  For me, I don't even (usually) bother looking at a checklist of which player belongs to which card.  Instead, I keep a list of the card numbers I need and trade based on the list of numbers.  As such, I'm often surprised at what card(s) I was missing!  The three '85 Topps that Charlie sent me are a perfect example.  Two of the players are scrubs (ok, Kingman wasn't a scrub per se though a .238 career batting average in 1639 games (as of the 1985 season) suggest he wasn't a superstar either).  The third player, however, is Kirby Puckett - and this just so happens to be Puckett's rookie card!  I would say that that helps to explain why it's been such a long process for me to acquire the last couple of cards I need for the set - but then that wouldn't explain poor Mr. Ladd and his missing card for all this time...


2011 Topps Heritage:
As I mentioned at the outset, Charlie sent me 30 cards I needed.  Of the thirty, here are a couple of my favorites:
34.  Ian Kinsler

Ian looks like a high school kid in this photo.  I shouldn't say anything though seeing as how Ian was born the same year I was!


184.  Kurt Suzuki

Suzuki looks so pleased to be posing for a baseball card that it's almost priceless.  For all the dour expressions in the Heritage set (see Hunter Pence, Ian Desmond, and J.A. Happ to see what I mean), it's refreshing to find a card of someone who actually looks happy to play a game for a living (and a really good living at that)!  


Thanks for the trade Charlie!  And, as always, if anyone else would like to trade - check out my want list and make an offer!