PAHSports PWE Trade

 As noted, another trade share today and it is a bit baseball and a bit hockey.

There are a number of variations on the Grand Slammers, which I only care about for my Jays collection which now counts three of the nine or so.

I am also getting close on covering off all the dot related variations on my 1992 Fleer base Jays.

The Bo Bo blue print is a neat insert, and the 1992-93 Score Leafs get me close on finishing the base team set there, but winner today is the one and done insert Leaf Nylander.

A lot packed into 9 cards!

A Composed Trade

 A break from the BASEball lot to see some wrestling cards. We have a trade with TCDB member ComposerMike who sent across the following:

The blue border really stands out on my fiest two 1991 Classic set cards in my collection.

The next few are 2005 Heritage cards including one who we shall not mention, though closely aligned with Eddie in their wrestling careers.

Sticking with the set, we end with a trio of sticker inserts to wrap up the solid trade. The stickers definitely stand out with the borders and are all hall of famers, a great way to end the day!

A Couple More Jays

 Continuing through 2021 Topps flagship set, we get a couple Jays along the way.

I must say, they did a good job with the tram cards which are peppered through the set.

Brandon Drury lasted for what really ended up being about a season and a half of games over 3 seasons with an average of about .200, well below his career mark of about .245. After a few stops after Toronto, he ended up with the Angel's the last couple seasons.

Nice - a couple more team cards.

Last up, another Jay, and a bunch of copies to just show how many I picked up.

Robbie Ray was another short term Jay, in for just 2020 and 2021 - the COVID years, as it was. Wasn't as great a time as I am sure Robbie was hoping for, but happy to get a few of his cards nonetheless.

Something That Screams 2021

 Let me start by showing the next bunch of 2021 Topps flagship base set keepers, and then let's discuss at the end.

There is one card up here, that I now have a bunch of which is one of the few which come to mind whenever I think of COVID era baseball....

To be honest, it is the "good" that it reminds me of - coming out of hibernation as it was, taking precautions, but starting to get back to life, and working together to do it as safely as possible. No matter your stance on vaccines, COVID, issues with how it was or wasn't handled, I like to focus on the human spirit aspect and how well, in many faucets of life, people came together to do as best possible with it.

Happy to have a bunch more of the Vladdy card, and hand sanitizer was definitely something we all became more aware of for the times. Even now, I find it amazing to think this was just a few years ago - time is funny that way, sneaks past so quickly.

Oh Lourdes

 We continue the march through 2021 Topps Baseball base set from the BASEball lot, and we hit upon another Jay/

Lourdes is no longer a Blue Jay, having spent the last couple years in Arizona after departing Toronto. He has had solid time there, and did something with the team that he wasn't able to do in Toronto - play in a World Series. Of course, Arizona didn't win in 2023, but he did get there at least. I wouldn't have minded seeing him stay - looks like he has kept strong since, but it wasn't meant to be.

Thought we may be missing Judge in the set, but we have plenty if anyone is looking for a copy!

We continue to be missing many of the rookie cards - even the ones that haven't panned out yet, but there is the odd one or two getting through as I guess no one is perfect sifting through these lots, but their miss is my gain.

Speaking of rookie cards which happen to slip through, we get to end with Marlin Monte to close the cards out today.

As you can see, we have on average more than 10 copies of every card, so plenty to find new homes for. As for the set completion here, we are chugging along at about 90% so if that keeps up, should be around 600 of the 660 in the set, but time will tell. My guess is it will be closer to 500.

Keep On Truckin'

As I close in on getting through the first 100 cards of the 2021 Topps flagship set, we'll, as it is in the BASEball lot, I wonder a bit, how am I going to trade away 20-30 copies of some of these base cards?

I'm already entertaining the idea of giving out sports card little assorted packs this coming Halloween. I mean, worst case, they get played with and thrown out, best case, they spark interest in a youngster.

Otherwise, I might be trying to sell a cheap box of assorted cards myself on Kijiji, but will figure that out later. Maybe I can trade away a few starter base boxes to others wanting a good start on the set.

Going through another 300-400 actual cards means cards numbered 55-90....trust me, there much less of series two, but here are the cards I got...

We get to play "is it a Jay card" today, so let's take a closer look...

It is obviously a Braves checklist card, but even the back references Vladdy, and he is pictured on the front which makes it hard to decide. I know TCDB has it tied to being a Toronto card as well as Atlanta so for now will treat it the same, but does begin to get to a line of whether Jays in a picture are enough. If Vladdy wasn't named on the back, or if the front didn't refer to both, I'd call it an easy Atlanta only card. Thoughts?

Those missing do seem to be rookie cards, so at least I know what I will be chasing to finish the set off later, though will have to see how many that will mean.

The Next 36

 I am sure I'll go quicker through the 2021 Topps base set once I get through the handling of 20+ doubles of some cards, but let's see how we do on cards 19-54...

I wouldn't have been surprised if we didn't see Trout as he is a big star and a collected guy by many but I did get one....and about 20+ others which are up for trade. It isn't a rare card at all, but just one I could see having been pulled aside before the lot was sold.

That being said, the missing cards continue to be the rookies. Not all of them, and some slip by, but, all rookies nonetheless.

The more I see the design, the more - it really doesn't make an impact. I am not a big fan of the diagonal design on the set this year, but it isn't super offensive, just different. As you can see when the cards are lined up, the design does bleed flawlessly from the name banner of the right of a card, to the box design finishing on the left for the card beside it. I gather this is what they were going for, so, good for them.

As suaul, a lot of standard photo work on the flagship set, with some nice ones which do stand out like Lewis at the wall - very nice capture on that one.

No Jays or errors in this section of cards, so nothing other than the base keepers shown above.