When I first started the
Time Travel Trading Project, I initially had the idea
of keeping a "family tree" of all the trades, allowing myself and others to
see which original card led to each card I currently have. That proved to be
too difficult, in thanks partially to the generosity of my trading partners.
With over 300 cards in the trade stack, my card/family tree looks more like
the ivy-covered wall at Wrigley at this point. It's quite tangled, my friends!
After
receiving the oldest card in Time Travel stack, I thought it would be
fun to at least take a moment and relive the journey of how this card ended up
in my possession.
It took 4 trades, but I essentially did this:
How I Did It
As with most of the cards in the project, it all began with that initial pack
of 2018 Topps. Braun was one of the last cards remaining from that first pack.
A month after I first showed off the pack, Ryan Braun was sent in a trade
through the
TCDB. In return, I received 3 basketball cards, including a great
looking card of one of the sport's all-time greats.
 | 2018 Topps
#180 Ryan Braun
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Traded
For
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 | 1981-82 Topps #20
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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This card of Abdul-Jabbar quickly became the first card outside of the 2018
Topps pack to be traded. AJ (
The Lost Collector) generously gifted me 10
cards in exchange for just this one. Most of the cards were from the 70's ,
but there were also a few newer cards as well. One of those newer cards was
a rather green insert of baseball Hall Of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter.
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1981-82 Topps #20
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
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Traded
For
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2008 Upper Deck First
Edition - Starburst Common
#SQ-42 Derek Jeter
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That lone Jeter was enough for another
TCDB member named Gary. I sent
Jeter off to Baltimore and Gary blew me away with a generous bounty of 13
cards, all of them from 1974 or earlier. Among the bunch was a great 50's
football card. (This is probably a good place to post a disclaimer - I
didn't have the foresight to take pictures of each card individually, so
what you see here in this post are images from the
TCDB. My copy of Joe
Perry had a stamp of the word "TRADED" on the front)
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2008 Upper Deck First
Edition - Starburst Common
#SQ-42 Derek Jeter
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Traded
For
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1959 Topps
#80 Joe Perry
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All of these trades so far occurred in the first few months after I launched
the Time Travel Trading Project. The Perry card had sat, unclaimed, since
April 2018. Almost 3 years in the trade box, until this year. Another
TCDB
member named Chad rescued him, and in the process made Time Travel
history!
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1959 Topps
#80 Joe Perry
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Traded
For
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1910-11 Flags of
Nations (T59) #NNO
Hurricane Warning
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So there you have it! It took 4 trades involving 28 cards over the course of roughly 3 years, but one card from the 2018 pack netted me a card 108 years it's senior. There is no way I could have pulled this off without the generosity of my fellow traders - thanks again to Pete, AJ, Gary, and Chad!
