To quote a recent Baseball Card Breakdown post, this ties for the lowest number of cards I've gotten in a trade. Ben, who does not have a blog but has a TCDB page, reached out to me after seeing me comment on Night Owl's blog. He PC's Cal Ripken and Barry Sanders and is working on the 1993 Topps Football set. We ended up doing a one-to-one swap. I sent him a Chipper Jones card he needed to compete his '97 Topps set, and in return he sent this beauty from Derek Jeter's first major league stint. It's a really nice photo of the future Yankee captain when he was brand new to the team, signing autographs in front of the Yankees dugout (you can see a bit of the dugout roof at the top right; the photographer must have been inside the dugout). By the time this card came out in 1996 he was taking the baseball world by storm in his rookie year, but at this time he was still just another prospect. Fun card.
That's a pretty card.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a great trade both ways.
ReplyDeleteJust another great example of fantastic photography on Upper Deck flagship from the 90's.
ReplyDeleteA one-card envelope is better than a no-card envelope.
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