Trapped In Time - Remnants Of The 33rd Trade

 

No takers on last month's Viola, so off he goes into my collection.

It's not unusual that when I get a return from a Time Travel trade, a Red Sox card happens to be among them. Quite often, they are cards I don't have, and I'm tempted to keep them. Sometimes I'll make a personal trade and swap them out, while other times I'll roll the dice and keep them in the stack. If they get claimed, I make a mental note that I still need the card, but otherwise I have no regrets. It's trades like this that make it easy to see "why".

 

Trade #33 (TCDB member gwhy11)
Traded 04/18/19: 2018 Topps - Instant Impact #II-3 Nomar Garciaparra

Received 04/08/19:

• 2017 Bowman #12 Trea Turner (See Trade #147)
• 2017 Bowman #15 Buster Posey (See Trade #35)
• 2017 Topps #380 Albert Pujols (See Trade #36)
• 1996 Upper Deck #202 Alex Rodriguez (See Trade #36)
• 1981 Topps #100 Rod Carew (AS) (See Trade #51)
• 1981 Topps #210 Jim Palmer (See Trade #51)
• 1980 Topps #290 Steve Garvey (AS) (See Trade #68)
• 1978 Donruss KISS (2nd Series) (non-sport) #99 Paul Stanley (See Trade #48)
• 1978 Topps #131 Bert Blyleven  (See Trade #39)
• 1976 Topps #193 '75 NL Home Run Leaders (See Trade #47)
• 1975 Topps #310 '74 Victory Leaders (See Trade #173)
• 1972-73 Topps (hockey) #8 Stanley Cup Trophy (See Trade #58)
• 1972 Kellogg's All Time Greats #1 Walter Johnson (See Trade #41)  
• 1972 Topps #52 Harmon Killebrew (IA) (See Trade #35)
• 1971 Topps #270 Rico Carty (See Trade #85)
• 1971 Topps #374 Clete Boyer (See Trade #97)
• 1971 Topps #626 Freddie Patek (See Trade #35)
• 1971 Topps (football) #110 Floyd Little (AS) (See Trade #74)
• 1970-71 Topps (basketball) #16 Bob Weiss (See Trade #38)
• 1970 Fleer World Series #1 1903 World Series Pirates vs Red Sox (See Trade #46)
• 1970 Topps #509 Montreal Expos (TC) (See Trade #35)
• 1970 Topps (football) #135 Paul Warfield (See Trade #38)  
• 1969 Topps #66 Orioles Rookies
• 1969 Topps #412 Checklist 426-512 (Mantle) (See Trade #35)
• 1969 Topps (football) #115 Randy Johnson (See Trade #76)
• 1969 Topps (football) #175 Joe Morrison (See Trade #76)  
• 1968 Topps #209 Tim Cullen (ASR) (See Trade #35)
• 1968 Topps #222 Jim Hardin (RC) (See Trade #35)
• 1968 Topps #309 Ken Henderson
• 1964 Topps #76 Checklist 1st Series (See Trade #35)
• 1964 Topps - Coins #7 Frank Malzone (See Trade #125)
• 1963 Fleer #47 Roger Craig (See Trade #35)
• 1961-62 Fleer (basketball) #32 Willie Naulls (See Trade #41)
• 1961 Topps #273b 4th Series Checklist (See Trade #46)
• 1960 Topps #118 Bob Bruce (RC,RS) (See Trade #35)
  

Sure, I was tempted to keep that Nomar. If I had, would I have received this insanely generous trade from gwhy11? He could have just sent me a single card, but he sent a big stack of cards, filled with Hall of Famers, oddballs, and general cardboard goodness. This one Red Sox card was the springboard for multiple trades, and helped push the Time Travel Trading Project to new heights. And yet, two cards from the 1960's never moved away.

 

 

I would say this is your last chance to trade for the Orioles Rookie Stars card, but as luck would have it there is another one still in the stack. This is Henderson's last stand however. If no one want to make an offer of an older card for either of these two, then my relatively small collection of cards from this decade get slightly bigger.