I spent a week on a family vacation (a cruise on Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas). As such, I have quite the backlog of mail packages to go through from two weeks' worth of TCDB mailings! Let's get right to it.
As you can see, there are four parallels of this card that I still need to track down - and given how long it took me to get the base insert, I'm guessing I'll probably never find all four parallels! That said, I'll keep them on my want list, and, who knows, maybe I'll find a willing trade partner in the future!
We'll begin with a swap with user jc645, a friend of the blog and a great member of my baseball card Discord channel!
It's always fun to trade with people that I know (virtually)...and it's even more fun when that trade nets me some sweet Barry Larkin goodies! The card on the left is from the 2025 Topps Archives set (it's a Black Foilboard parallel) while the card on the right is from the 2023 Topps set (it's another black parallel, this time numbered out of 299).
Next up, we'll stick with black-bordered Barry Larkin cards (this time thanks to user Eggbert60):
That's a 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter X base card of Barry. I don't typically purchase the A&G X set, so I'm always happy to land a Larkin card from that particular set via trade (that beats buying a pointless card from a pointless set)!
Sticking with both sets from 2023 and pointless sets, how about this 2023 Panini Chronicles Contenders Optic card, thanks to user mntcry:
So much of what Panini produces seems pointless to me, and the Panini Chronicles set has always struck me as both pointless and super confusing. Barry isn't in the regular Panini Chronicles base set, but he is featured in five of the insert sets (most of which have many parallels). Maybe I'm just getting too old to keep up?
Next, I have another trade with a user from my Discord: Tastybrisket10!
We are going more "old school" here, a 1998 Pinnacle Plus card of Barry Larkin (and some guy named A-rod on the other side of the card). This is the base Team Pinnacle insert. Unfortunately for me, this is only my first of the 1998 Pinnacle Plus cards that I need!
As you can see, there are four parallels of this card that I still need to track down - and given how long it took me to get the base insert, I'm guessing I'll probably never find all four parallels! That said, I'll keep them on my want list, and, who knows, maybe I'll find a willing trade partner in the future!
It was a busy couple of weeks trading for Barry Larkin cards, and I'm not done yet! Next up, from user Genokz comes three new-to-me Barry Larkin cards:
The Revolution card is now my second card from the 2023 Panini Chronicles set (the first card that I acquired from that set was shown a couple of trades ago)! The other two cards are both from 2025 (the Prizm is a Green Prizm parallel, while the Stadium Club is a Sepia parallel). So. Many. Parallels.
Finally, we end with not a trade but rather a purchase that I made from user RockyCola:
I was able to grab a few older Barry Larkin cards, including a 1996 Select Certified red parallel and a 1997 Donruss Elite Gold Stars parallel. The more modern Panini Select Holo parallel card is from 2022, and finally, the Green Chrome Mojo parallel is from the 2023 Topps set.
Phew, that was a lot of scanning and sorting! It was a good vacation, and a great couple of weeks' worth of mail packages. Here's to many more mailings as the summer goes on (unfortunately, I think I'm done with family vacations for the year)!
Welcome back from the deep blue sea. Always nice to have mail when you get home!
ReplyDeleteNever been on a cruise, but I hope to experience one at some point. Glad to see that you're making a bunch of trades this summer.
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