Trade With thejexican18

 Always happy to have trades to share, and today's is with another TCDB member and involves...mostly Jays.

So, you may be asking why Bernie ended up in the trade. Well, it's an error card that, on the back, notes he is a member of the Maple Leafs. Oops. He won't end up in my Leaf collection, but as it's an error card, into the error binders he will go instead. I try not to sully my Leaf binders with Montreal jerseys if possible.

As for the Bowman infusion otherwise, the bottom two Casey cards are great to be the second of two Jays cards for those respective team sets, yay.

I'd still rather not have the autograph facsimile printing, but it's not the end of the world.

The View From Galt

 Some more trade catching up as I have been busier as the fall and latter part of 2026 have taken over. I will be over 100 trades on the calendar year, though not sure how high I will actually go.

Today, some vintage help on two sets I have been slowly working on.

1978 O Pee Chee, I got enough of to start the set build a while ago, and I don't usually get a chance to add much, but here, I was trading away some early 80s Topps, so it fit well.

No "huge" gets in the trade but some Jays dupes to use in the set and a single 1982 add helps too. Appreciative of great quality cards that are now almost 50 years old.

A great trade - as is almost always the case through TCDB.

Holidays

May not quite be the time for holidays, but 2023 Topps Holiday takes up much of the post today. Traders first...

Cory Vaughn never made it to the majors, just a few minor league seasons which were enough to get on an insert, and now I have sone to spare.

As for the 2023 Topps Hokiday, looks like most cards in the set have come my way unless they have an RC or other front of card notation.

Not all bad today as, in addition to keeping one Cory we have...

Now former Jay Kevin Gausman. He was great for the Jays and I would have liked him to have stuck around longer, but it didn't work out that way.

We do get three set helpers today, though I would have hoped for more...

Still, a fun day of cards to go through, so all good or at least, all FUN for this Holiday.

An Extreme 10

Surprises today from the 2026 Lot, oh yes, and a good one at that. First surprise, a nice array of base set helpers from a number of sets.

It has been a while since I got help on the 2003-04 SPx set after getting a fair start from a previous lot, and similarly the later 2000s MVP sets see a few additions too, including...

Can't go wrong with an Iginla! Speaking of not going wrong, even dupes can work if they are Toronto related...

1991-92 Pro Set Platinum with a handful of Leaf additions for the collection - sweet. Heck, the pulls today even put in some overtime...

Though there are plenty of cards for trade....

The last lot will likely be a local sale for a few bucks if I can swing it since these don't fit my NHL-level only collection....

We have 10 different in person, on card, autographs for 2012-13 Extreme London Knights team hockey card set. I am sure these were signed in person for someone, probably all the same marker, after a game (or before). I am no expert, but the sigs all look good compared to others that I could find. Not a ton of value as most didn't make the NHL, but a great team at the time, and a couple that did go onto the big league. I looked and couldn't find someone specific on TCDB that collected the team or players as a whole, so hopefully I can move it as a lot to someone who would enjoy the addition. Very awesome find!

It's 10K!

 The baseball cards from the 2026 Lot today push us past the 10,000 mark for cards from the lot, in part because of all the traders...

The set seems to be trying to get me a bit more interested in 2022 Topps Update, but I am still not biting.

Same can be true with 1987 O Pee Chee, but what I will keep are a couple of the inserts...

With the design being the same as the 2022 Topps Update product, I can understand how the All Star Game inserts may have been "missed" when someone was going through the cards before, but my win on these keepers!

Can;t forget the Blue Jays content either...

Well, this is one way to get Verlander into my Jays collection...and don't get me started on Manoah and the star to bust turn he had in Toronto. I still don't really get how he tanked so badly here after starting so well, but it happens some times obviously.

Not a bad breakdown for the first 10k of cards. I expect to get to about 12k-13k in whole for the lot, and though I'd like t get closer to 20% for what I keep out of the lot, the trading factor easily makes that happen when considered for how many of the cards I am able to turn into keepers, and much of that is TCDB and through the blog - so thanks to all of you for that one!

The End Zone

 I can confidently say, this is the last of the football cards from the 2026 Lot, leaving hockey and baseball to reign the rest of the year as we finish through the lot. As such, the last dregs are a smattering of a number of different sets, so let's see if there's anything of intrigue to see.

The Pacific cards were inserts in the 2022 Zenith product from Panini which stand out. I don't mind the Prestige cards either as they do hold some high quality vide to go with the Prestige name.

Nice - some more inserts with the Photogenic cards, nice. 

Sweet - some CFL showing up, I'll take it. I use to watch CFL football even more than I did NFL, but again, that dropped off when I went to university and never really picked back up. As much as I want the league to grow and succeed, I don't know that it will be anything more than a 10 team (or so) league where potential NFLers may go before or after their time in the NFL.

Okay, ending with Marino and a very nice Prime Time Sanders card isn't a bad way to close out the football part of the Lot. 

A couple thousand football cards all in puts it at almost double the basketball cards, but happily behind the two sports I collect so, a nice amount to be reflective of a mixed sports lot, without overpowering and driving down how much I really get to keep out of the lot.

Worth Checking

 Hockey cards from the 2026 lot, and we get some needed set helpers to start!

I got reminded that I am not perfect (it's okay - no one is), as the Scott Thornton card was not showing as being in my collection on TCDB. I am counting this as an addition because it made me check and - the card is part of a boxed set I listed a long time ago on TCDB, adding the cards for the set, but somehow I had missed this one. No idea why it took this long to find out, and glad I do have it completed, but I do wonder what other human errors I have lurking in my TCDB records - but it's okay, as I say, no one is perfect.

The rest of the sets are ones I don't keep in mind as set builders as they are all on the back burner, getting build when I pull cards from random lots, etc....like this! Two Lindros from his time with the Rangers isn't too shabby for picking up cards though.

I don't know WHY it took me this long to figure out the Overtime sets, but it did. I have never spent the money to get these promotional related cards, and only ever really see one here or there is these lots (probably because they are promotional in nature). As such, I hadn't collected or held on to these as being "special" or "unusual" for the promotional way they are sent out, but now that I know, I may keep them like I do food issue or inserts. Not going out of my way for them, but I appreciate the unique backdrop of the sets.

Though a little more interesting than the Hat Trick inserts from early 90s Bowman, but as much as I don't really like the design, I like the insert set itself.

All the keepers accounted for, we have the cards up for trades remaining...

I wouldn't actually do it, but I do think 1990-91 Bowman would burn nicely if put in a big pile....just saying....

A couple more early Carey Price cards are a solid pick up as well making for a nice day of pulls from the lot. Still not planning to build the 2022-23 Upper Deck flagship set, but the lot keeps poking me with it.