TCDB Weekly Recap: So Many Packages!

Another week has flown by, and with it, the mailman visited multiple times with baseball card packages from TCDB trades!  I've got quite a few cards to show off, so let's not waste any more time.

First up, TCDB user LoQtus (who you may know from The Collective Mind) and I swapped a bunch of Allen & Ginter cards.  We'll start with the minis and inserts:

I'm still plugging away on the mini sets (those are always a slow go), but I'm also still working on some of the full-sized insert sets, which I'd normally have done by now.  Unfortunately, card box prices went out of my range, so I bought way less A&G than I have in years.  Luckily, trading is still an option, so I plan to try to finish all of my A&G needs via TCDB (and maybe eBay if I have to).  

In addition to the above cards, I was also able to nab several of the Silver Portrait parallels.  

I decided to challenge myself and also collect the full Silver Portrait parallel set.  I don't know why I decided that was a good idea, I guess it gives me to stuff to look for on TCDB trade matching lists!

Next, from user fowler279 comes five more 2026 A&G cards:

Nope, your eyes are not betraying you...I do, in fact, still need regular base cards for my 2026 set build.  That's how little A&G I was able to buy this year!  The Benge mini is my third mini from the N34 set that I've traded for this week alone, but I still have a long way to go to complete that set as well.  

Let's keep the trades going, with a swap from user hooters571 up next:

I landed another nice chunk of base cards that I was missing with this swap, along with one more of the 50 Ways to Say Hello minis.  

We'll stick with mostly base cards with the next trade, this one from user Hatcher14:

Another big chunk of needed base cards (and it should be noted that there are no short prints in the 2026 edition of Allen & Ginter).  In addition, I was able to grab one more card from the Career 250 insert set.  

Next, a quick break from all things Allen & Ginter for  a single non-Ginter card courtesy of user peach_was_here:

That's a 2020 Stadium Club Black Foil parallel of Barry Larkin.  I fully admit that I think the Stadium Club foil parallels are stupid, and yet, I keep collecting of Barry's versions.  I guess that makes me the stupid one, but hey, that's the life of a player collector!  If you think I'm exaggerating about how many dumb Stadium Club parallels there are, here's the full list of Barry's cards in the 2020 Stadium Club set (and remember, I ignore anything with a stated print run of under 25 copies):

The rows with a "yes" are cards that I own, while the "no" rows are cards that I'm still looking for.  As you can see, I still need a lot from this particular set!

Finally, we return to more A&G cards.  My last trade of the week was with user JobuNeedsMinis - and you can guess from the username that this particular swap did, in fact, involve lots of A&G minis!

Phew!  That does it for the past week of trading on TCDB.  Now that all of the above cards are scanned, sorted, and tucked away in my binder, I'm able to update my want list - and yes, it's now back to TCDB to try to swing some more trades!