Here's this month's Time Travel Trade with Diamond Jesters.
Usually my first cards of the new year come from these, though this year Kerry beat Matt by a day with his pack. I'm still liking the shiny best of all. Maybe it doesn't come out in a photograph but they look pretty good in hand.
I should also correct Night Owl - I didn't actually grow up with foil cards. I grew up buying cards in packs from stationery stores and drug stores from 1986-1993. I only knew the major brands - Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Score, UD, Sportflics. I wasn't aware of the high end cards like Stadium Club and Elite until later on. So I actually got out right before foil started hitting the major brands. By '93 Score was fading out and there weren't too many packs around, so that set still has lots of holes for me. It's UV coated but otherwise no more shiny than a 1970s card. Some old-time HOFers in there too, though Slingin' Sammy was a football HOFer, not baseball.
He's a good segue to the football cards that came from this trade. The only vintage this time around came from football. I was collecting football cards in '88 (again, nothing shiny other than the coating) but I still only have about half the set. I didn't have any Pro Set as a kid (I had shifted to only baseball by '90) so still lots of needs there too.
I sent five of those in. Might send more Pro Set if people actually want them.
ReplyDeleteFarris pulls off the upset, due to the condition of the Morton card. Farris's middle name was Speed. Then he became a Guard. Ha.
UV coating means it's not a '70s card (or '80s card in many cases). I don't have trouble photographing cards for most things pre-'90s. Also foil was around in the early '90s for Topps and Upper Deck. Maybe you didn't see those. ('92 Topps gold, etc.)
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