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!

Tucha Trade

 Hello and welcome to another post about awesome trade partners, with tucha being the trade partner of choice from TCDB for today's share. We get baseball, hockey and wrestling, all in one!

Before the trade, as a Jays fan, a thank you to the Brewers for the little baseball revenge on the Dodgers. Can joke about karma but really - for the series, the Brewers were the better team and the result was what it should have been. Not like the Dodgers will be hurting, and this run is great for Milwaukee.

A few more 2020 Topps flagship baseball cards helping the cause on completing the set. Hockey gets to focus on Marner and Matthews with one team completion with all 3 pure base 2020-21 SP cards now in my possession.

Always love getting wrestling cards in trades as they don't happen enough, and here we get a variety of cards with sets that I still have a ways to go on.

Definitely an old school theme as even the newer cards are for older stars that I grew up on. Fantastic cards and sets - love it, even the tribute to Warrior is a great card about a sad moment. A shame he passed when he did, but at least it was after reconciliation with the WWE.

Chronicling Some Chronicle

 Like Prizm a couple days ago, we have a bunch of (mostly) Chronicles cards for football from the 2026 Lot today. I don't mind the set when the design is consistent, and some of the years are pretty nice, so let's see what we have today.

A single Warner for 2002, then a few cards for 2021 before slipping into some Contenders from the same year.

Mahomes and Kelce - the couple big names for KC for the times.

Some Playoff cards to boot...

Then into some Donruss...

Solid variety of newer sets, most we have seen to some degree and most of these still being new to my trades list for getting out there to the TCDB community through trades hopefully.

We do get back to Chronicles for the 2022 design which may be my favourite of the three years shown here. They are not very drastically different, but enough to see the change year to year. Honestly, I like the slow progression in changes for a set over years instead of the full revamping where you can't even recognize it.

Too Many Variations

If you get into the details of the late 80s and early 90s, and microvariations - this isn't nearly as bad (in my opinion). In the early 90s though, you had Upper Deck using different hologram stickers on their sets creating a microvariation for those sets. Include that the sets in the early 90s also had French versus English versions, and you have something else to look at as well.  

I did get a few keepers from the 2026 Lot and these early 90s Upper Deck cards. At least looking at French versus English, it's easy to tell on the front of the card, like Luke above. THe Euro-Star Jarmo was a nice surprise to see - but I can see how these end up in bulk buys as the design is very much identical to the base set.

I do try to sort and separate the cards of course by language - I am not a monster - and also log the hologram variations correctly - I know it matters to many on TCDB - but it does make for a slightly more tedious process.

Thankfully it's something we don't see (as much), these days. I am fine with different language sets - I get it, it makes sense, but the microvariations of holograms.....I could have done without those.

Prizms

Definitely winding down on the football cards in the lot, but today, it's all about the Prizm set.

It will only be the big names that resonate with me - plus some Buffalo bias. Peyton is always a good card to get, even just a base card.

I feel like I need to start a Travis Kelce collection from the number of cards of his I have pulled in this lot. Maybe I am just noticing it more given his bigger role in main stream news these days, but either way, I definitely notice it more.

 I actually like the set up of the back of the 2021 Prizm cards, just two fixes - a different picture, and shorten it to at least add a few more stat years and you would have a near perfect back for a football card.

To go with the multiple Kelce cards today, we even get multiple Josh Allen cards too. Wonder if he will be just another quarterback in Buffalo to which hopes are pinned, and then dashed. Unfortunately to date - kind of looking that way, though hopefully I am speaking too soon.