Thursday, May 28, 2026

Street trades are still hanging on

It's been getting harder and harder to fill Al's player needs, and he's been running out of boxes. Still, we've both got a long way to go before we run out of cards. We both agreed today that it's getting harder and harder to buy collections. I know this year there seem to be very few yard sales except for the usual suspects. I guess maybe the real estate market is slow these days, not too many people moving.

The box he brought for me today was full of just 1986 Topps and 1990 Fleer. Still, mixed in with the 1990 Fleer were a couple of World Series inserts I needed:

I then went through one of the boxes Al always keeps, with cards from some of the more popular out-of-town teams - Red Sox, Dodgers, Tigers. I managed to find a few promising cards.

Luck was with me - only the mini Pedro I had already. That card is available for trade.

As I was flipping through, I noticed the gray back of a 1981 Topps card. It was an OPC! A good one too, Alan Trammell. I flipped through the rest of the cards backwards, and found two '84 Topps Tradeds, but I had both of them so they're available, I'm sure they won't last long! And in the light the gold hologram on the back of this 1992 UD Mo Vaughn card caught my eye. I've got a few copies of this card already and hardly need more, but I figure the gold hologram will appeal to the magnifying-glass set over at TCDB.


 

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