Chillin' In The Lot

Keeping on track to wrap the 2026 Lot in the 2026 year (if all works to big picture plan), we have a day of hockey card pulls from the lot today which really come from a couple sets (almost), and have a couple keepers for the collection...

I am not a fan of the early 2010s Pinnacle sets - no stats on the back, a design on the front I personally do not like, but Jonas is a Leaf and a Leaf is an addition no matter what, so....yay?

We also get a single Parkie card in the bunch today, and that nice Parkie gold stamp on the bottom front means it's a parallel so, insert addition it is for me. I preferred the Parkhurst green/emerald parallels from the early 90s, but this one is alright in the grand scheme of parallels.

As for "the rest" - plenty of mid-90s Donruss and more early 2010s Pinnacle up for trade...

1996-97 Donruss was a set after my collecting time as a kid, and well before I got back to the hobby, so as much as I know the players and watched still, I didn't collect and didn't have any of these cards. Now, I don't have an attachment to the set, and it's not one I am looking to start so....no thank you.

Still, a fun day of pulls to add to the totals....

Recent Jays

 Another day, another great trade to share. This one with TCDB member sgill08 who sent a 2 PWE trade my way which saw me change a bunch of basketball cards into Blue Jays - recent Blue Jays actually, so let's take a peek!

We are covering ONLY 2025 and 2026 with these cards and this may be my "biggest / soonest" trade of picking up a large number of recent year cards in a single trade.

Scherzer as a Jay I love because I enjoyed Mad Max, so having an opportunity to pick up some of his cards to add to the team collection is great.

As you all know, I also will not be upset picking up any more Vladdy of Bo cards for the collection.

A shame there won't be much opportunity for more Jays cards for Gausman, but I am able to get the full 6 card base team set from 2025 Topps Holiday all in this single trade to be done with that one - sweet!

Hoffman is another "no longer Jay" card to get, though his departure was needed.

We end with some more 2026 Topps flagship set additions and a couple Heritage Jays too - Springer always makes for a good card.

Definitely a helpful trade and really a quick boost for recent year Jays that I am not use to doing - usually it's a couple more years past before I start clocking in this many "new" Jays cards so - awesome!

Back That Trade Up

 A trade today from TCDB member ravishingrick which I can only assume is a throwback to the WWF days of the 80s and 90s and Ravishing Rick Rude. I automatically go to his feud with Jake The Snake Roberts and the paintsprayed tights Rick wrestled in.

I digress as today, we are talking trade, and we start with baseball.

Chrome cards which don't quite complete the team sets for me, a 2021 Bowman Draft Camo parallel and some A&G. I will say, of the different options for parallel, I am not a fan of the camo - it just doesn't blend anything in usually, as odd as that seems to be.

The A&G from 2024 are my first Jays, and now 4 of the 6 base card Jays for the team set - sweet.

Oh, but the best card is for last, and ties back to wrestling...

Nice! He may have done it for The Rock, but I liked him most with Too Cool. His signature is pretty nice and it might be a sticker auto, but a good card design for it, so I am all thumbs up.

Getting the card, I was curious and had to check - it's my 17th wrestling autograph. I know there are people out there with hundred or more of autographed cards, but I look at it as, that's 17 I never thought I'd have when I was starting collecting, even getting back into the hobby 12 or so years ago.

If I had a "wish list" card that I'd love to pull but would never put the money to individually buy - a Kiss card. I thought these were a cool idea, and the fact they had Goldust do them - just awesome.

Wrestling With Trades

Rare I get a just wrestling card trade, but here we are with a great offering from Ehoff01 over at our friendly neighbourhood TCDB.

2018 Topps WWE Road to Wrestlemania is a set I don't think I ever opened a pack for, so all the set build has been from trades. We are now up to 61 cards of 100 - fantastic! Looking back, I can't believe this was about a decade ago! Roman looks so young, and so - not comfortable compared to where he is now.

Speaking of set help...

I had a couple (or was it a few) blasters of 2022 AEW which helped get this set going, and now with the additions here, over 80% done on the base set. I still rarely watch AEW, but I appreciate it as an alternative and look for their stars to eventually cross to WWE in most cases. Will be interesting to see if someone like MJF ever does.

It wasn't just base cards though, as we get some of the parallels including a bunch of gold which look great, but the best card in the bunch...

A sweet red parallel SN to only 100. Wow. Was never lucky enough to pull a card that good in the boxes, but very much appreciate the addition to the collection from this fantastic trade!

JCD Cards For Me

 We have some more trades in the hopper to share, and a quick single PWE today from TCDB member JCD with some hockey cards that came my way.

The 1994 Missing Links set is a beautiful "remake" set that does the old time feel and look of the cards right. I have the Toronto team set done on it, but want dupes to work on the full set which is why the Leaf cards here.

The other, newer cards help move along some additional Leaf related sets, and most importantly, getting the 2025-26 O Pee Chee base team set to a remaining two cards left to finish off. This is quite quick for me getting a newer release Leaf team set moved along this far since I do most of my collecting on the secondary market.

A great and much appreciated treade - thank you JCD!

Under 100

Another TCDB trade to share today. A great trade to knock off another 30 cards for my 1982 Topps baseball set build. Brando7288 sent along the following...

Can't complain getting a Pete Rose, George Brett and Rollie Fingers to start.

With this trade, I am just under 100 cards remaining on this 792 card set. I think we are another 50-75 cards away from getting a bit harder to collect. Cal, I expect, will be the last card I need for the set unless I preemptively go out and get one, but I really want to avoid spending those dollars on a card if I could trade a bunch for it. I don't need a high quality version - I'm fine with rough condition for this build.

One thing about this set, and others of the 80s - centering can be hit and miss, with lots of variation. I know it's can always be an issue with sets, but very noticeable for many of these - Summers isnt too bad but a bit to the right, the other two more obviously high on the front.

Honestly though, on a build like this, those imperfections just build card character!

Thank you again for the trade!

Set To Help

An amazing trio of PWE trades for share today, all smaller, but all useful.

First up a trade with dugoutdeals (at TCDB - as are ALMOST all of my trades)...

The first two cards are the only two Jays for the 2025 Bowman Chrome Prospects inserts, so cool to get them both and be done, while the final is a second copy of Arjun's Bowman Draft Chrome parallel.

Next trade is with MichiganFan9...

Continuing to chip away at the 2020 base set, I am down to 61 cards to go with these 5 now in hand. I don't think there are any real big rookies left to get per se, but I do have to double check. The work on it's been fast enough in trades, I haven't worried about how to get any last few cards just yet.

Last up, a couple older hockey cards...

Pennytendencies sent me a couple vintage Leaf cards for half a dozen base basketball and hockey cards from more recent times. I would do those trades any day for non-star vintage cards and am thankful for the opportunity and trade. We have my second O Pee Chee Leaf card from 1972-73, and my first from 1973-74. I have some Topps cards for both years, but first O Pee Chee ones believe it or not.

Jim was almost, only a Leaf, with his final season being all of 10 games with Minnesota. Before that, a Leaf from 1965-66 through 1977-78. Just shy of 600 games for the Leafs, and a solid time indeed - at least he was able to win a Stanley Cup here....which was, well, a long time ago.

Thank you for all the trades!