A Little Something Extra

The majority of trade I make nowadays revolve around my Time Travel Trading Project. Occasionally, some cards from those trades aren't a part of the project and end up in my main collection.

 

For example, Jeff (Wax Pack Wonders - how about a new post for old time's sake?) could have just sent some cards to complete our most recent Time Travel trade. He's a generous guy though, and included a bunch of Red Sox cards for me:

 

 

*Sigh* Raffy... I've gone back and forth about writing a post centered on his insane trade to the Giants. It's hard to compose a piece when you simultaneously agree with the trade (not a team player!) and disagree with the trade (pretty much sinks any chance of reaching the playoffs this year!). What sucks about the trade for me as a Red Sox collector is that this Heritage card makes the 6th different Devers rookie I now own. With that many rookies, I was kind of hoping the guy would go on to be a Red Sox legend. In other news, that Drago means I only need Yaz and Fisk to complete the 1975 Topps Red Sox team set!

 

Another Time Travel Trade I recently completed was with Evan through the TCDB. Along with those Time Travel cards was a swap of cards from outside the project. I was able to whittle down another Red Sox base card need from 1998!

 

 

Finally, I have trade from Gavin (Baseball Card Breakdown).  You won't see the Time Travel Trading card until next month's update, but Gavin included some extra goodies for me. Starting off with a trio of serial numbered cards:

 

 

I always appreciate the gold parallels, but the eye catcher here is that sharp black parallel of (ironically) the man who just traded away Raffy Devers!

 

But wait, there's more! Readers of Gavin's blog know he a custom card mad scientist extraordinaire, and it wouldn't be a gift from Gavin without a couple of his customs!

 

 

Man, those are sweet! If you can't figure out the left card, it's Carlton Fisk and his famous wave from Gavin's latest custom project, glow in the dark silhouettes! I also received one of Gavin's white bordered 1991 Fleer modifications! Dewey looks a lot better surrounded in white instead of bright yellow!

 

My enthusiastic thanks to Jeff, Evan, and Gavin for these great additions to my Red Sox collection! You guys are awesome!