Thursday, August 17, 2023

Small transaction roundup

It's been a while since I've done one of these. I slowed down greatly on trading when I was having post office problems. I believe now all of my ruined trades have been rectified, and cards I send through the neighboring post office seem to be getting delivered without issues. Therefore I've started trading on TCDB again, it's nice to see some cards coming in!

These came from Jdogbarkn2. Some fun photos and set needs, including a checklist card that finishes my 1995 Score set. That card of Brady Anderson makes me thirsty just looking at it. (The one where he is drinking, not the one where he is sliding.)

With the anniversary of Elvis Presley's passing, there were a few King mentions on the blogs yesterday. Here's another Elvis card, along with Marc McGwire in the river, thanks to 80s90sHoopHead.
A few varied needs from swk473. My favorite is the Sanchez, my first instant replay card.
BobbyL sent me a nice mixture of set needs and fun photos. The four 2011 Opening Day cards finish that set.

As far as the fun photos, my favorite by far is the one of the old Penn Station, torn down beginning in 1963. The photo is actually from a 1962 protest. AGBANY as you can see on the sign is not a misspelling of the NY state capital or a Hawaiian Mets outfielder, but Action Group for Better Architecture in New York, an organization of preservationists and architects who assembled to protest the demolition. The woman in the yellow dress is Jane Jacobs, a visionary in the field of urban planning and fierce critic of Robert Moses who led the successful opposition to his plan to build a parkway through lower Manhattan.




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