Repack Haiku #248 (Chris Sale)

Red Sox All-Star ace

Celebrates birthday today

Today is mine too!

 

2018 Topps #20 Chris Sale

 

Happy birthday to Chris Sale! Here's hoping his rib fracture heals smoothly and he can get back on that mound!

 

Source: I've known this for years... ;)

First Impressions - 2022 Topps

It's almost like it was planned. The day after MLB announced the end to the lockout and that the baseball season could officially begin, I found a sizable amount of 2022 Topps at My local Wal-Mart! There were no individual packs, just boxes and hangers. I grabbed one of each, and joyfully ripped into the hanger box, just so I could give you my first impressions!

 

The official first card of 2022 goes to...

 

#258 Andre Jackson (RC)

 

Thanks to a recent Night Owl post, I looked back and discovered that my first card for the past three base sets have all been Dodgers (Tony Gonsolin in 2020, Julio Urias last year). That's an odd streak, and I have no idea who this guy is!

 

#275 Ketel Marte

#256 James McCann

#12 Gavin Sheets (RC)

#27 Mike Trout

#226 Josh Donaldson

#66 Connor Wong (RC)

 

Wong is my first Red Sox card of the pack, and since I've already traded for him, my first Red Sox double.

 

#236 Freddie Freeman

#101 Clint Frazier

#61 Jackson Reetz (RC)

#4 Travis d'Arnaud

#139 Omar Narvaez

#186 Jake Burger (RC)

#200 Ronald Acuna Jr.

 

We haven't talked about the design yet. From the moment the design was first released to the public, I've dubbed this the "Wrench set" since that what the bottom banner reminds me of. I like that Topps is using some curved lines in the design, and the partial baseball logo works well. Names are more readable than last year, but the team name is still too small and the position is so faded I wonder why they even bothered. It's better than what they've put out the previous two years.

 

#92 Avisail Garcia

#158 Riley Adams (RC)

#115 Austin Riley

#292 Kyle Higashioka

#231 Ronnie Dawson (RC)

#46 Raimel Tapia

#183 Ji-Man Choi

#252 Victor Reyes

 

Here's a look at the back. I'm genuinely happy my old eyes can read the card numbers! For all the good stuff, however, I need to break out my reading glasses.

 

#322 Joey Gallo

#313 Brady Singer

#150 Juan Soto

#237 Albert Pujols

#220 Gerardo Parra

#36 Jorge Alfaro

#244 Shane McClanahan (FS)

#HRC-3 Mike Trout

 

I'm digging the design of this year's Home Run Challenge cards, with the exploding baseball in the background.

 

#26 Devin Williams (blue parallel)

#T87-43 Jesse Winker

 

I get it. Everyone is sick of the 1987 design, it's been used again and again until it's become cliche. You know what? I still love it. No other design takes me back to my childhood quite like that wood-grain border. Give me all your unwanted  '87 Topps redesigned cards!

 

#SMLB-25 Nolan Arenado

#SMLB-13 Jacob deGrom

#SMLB-2 Ronald Acuna Jr.

#SMLB-28 Clayton Kershaw

 

These remind me too much of the "Stars Of The Game" inserts from 2019. 

 

#WTTS-2 Mike Trout (Welcome To The Show insert)

#203 Wade Miley

#246 Mauricio Dubon

#282 Carlos Rodon

#89 Jorge Mateo

#174 Hunter Renfroe  

 

Another Red Sox player, this time in the yellow "city" uniform. I've seen less than half of the set, yet I'm convinced no other set has ever show as  many distinct uniforms. It almost feels like every player is wearing something different. (Hmmm...might make an interesting blog post...)

#162 Spencer Howard

#130 Tyler Gilbert (RC)

#94 Cedric Mullins

#249 Zack Wheeler

#85 Rodolfo Castro (RC)

 

Am I the only one who looked at this card and thought he had three consecutive o's in his name? A failure of fonts!

#87 Nolan Arrenado

#315 Pete Alonso

#298 Drew Ellis (RC)

#321 City Of Walk-Off Love (CL)

#181 NL RBI Leaders (Duvall/Riley/Albies)

 

The top 3 league leaders are all from one team. I wonder if this has ever happened before?

#127 NL Strikeout Leaders (Wheeler/Scherzer/Burnes)

#109 Toronto Blue Jays (TC)

#260 Trevor Story

#318 Josh Reddick

#49 Brett Gardner

It's always cool when you catch something when cards are back to back. In this case, we have two players in mid flight!

#211 Cristian Javier

#177 Carson Kelly

#247 St. Louis Cardinals (TC)

#136 Houston Astros (TC)

#124 San Diego Padres (TC)

#274 Tampa Bay Rays (TC)

 

Add this to the list of things that annoy me about the Rays: 100 games won last season, without a single pitcher qualifying for the ERA title? 

#255 Chicago White Sox (TC)

#210 Oakland Athletics (TC)

#167 Daniel Bard

#289 Nate Pearson

Overall, I'm liking the set. It's not fantastic, but it's solid and more memorable than most of the designs they've pushed out recently. This may be the last Topps set we see without the Fanatics logo squeezed in somewhere, so if so it kind of marks an end of an era.

Trapped In Time: Remnants Of The 15th Trade

 

As far as these posts go, this one seems pretty much pointless to me. I have strong doubts this month's featured card will get traded, and yet I've already come to the decision that if it doesn't, I'm not going to remove it from the trade stack. Still, you never know, so let's look at this trade from April 2018:

Trade #15 Chad (TCDB)
 

Traded 04/11/18: 

• 1956 Topps Davy Crockett Orange Back #54 The Alamo's Answer

Received 04/19/18:

• 1938 Church & Dwight Useful Birds of America Tenth Series (J9-6) #2 Black-throated Green Warbler

 

This was the first time in my life I had ever traded away a card from the 1950's. At the time, I sincerely thought this Church & Dwight issue would remain the oldest card I ever acquired. It's not even in the Top 5 oldest now. In regards to its fate, I decided that any cards older than 1950 should stay in the stack. It adds character to the stack and shows the possibilities to what this project has achieved. Besides, there isn't a single member on the TCDB with this card on their want list.

 

Poor little Warbler, no one wants you! *queue sad Sarah McLaughlin music* Only you, loyal readers, can rescue this tiny little birdie from a lifetime of purgatory...

(Oh, since I've only shown cards over 60 years old so far in this series, I promise next month's Trapped In Time remnant has a decent chance of actually being wanted/traded - it's actually a card from 80's, Tune in next time...)

Repack Haiku #247 (Jim Eisenreich)

Missed two full seasons

To treat his Tourette Syndrome

Kirby took his spot

 

1991 Score #154 Jim Eisenreich

Eisenreich temporarily retired between 1984 - 1987 to treat his mental neurological disorder. The Twins replaced him on the roster with Kirby Puckett. Eisenreich became the first recipient of the Tony Conigliaro Award in 1990.

 

Source: Wikipedia

Time Travel Trading Update #63

 

A couple points of order before I show off the some cards. Neither the Clyde Vollmer nor the Jordan card generated any claims. Vollmer gets retired and added to my collection. As for Jordan, the response was pretty much unanimous that I should waive the "older card" requirement and trade it for something that might be more appealing. I'm going to be honest with you - I did not like the suggestion. It defeated the whole purpose of this project. Without the older card stipulation, this is just normal card trading, plus I got nervous at the thought of trying to pull off a fair vintage trade. However, since I sought your counsel I decided to try my best to trade the Jordan card. On the TCDB, there were 3 members who had this card on their want list. I started out with a trade proposal to a member who just joined in January and hasn't made a trade on the TCDB yet, but actually had a few baseball cards that were older than 1956 on his For Trade/Sale list. I sent an open offer trade, explaining my project and leaving it up to them what to send in return. No response, and after 10 days I withdrew the proposal. Then I proposed a trade to that member who had another Flags Of The World card. They responded the next day, telling me that they were interested, but not only did someone else express interest in their card recently, but they didn't know where any of their Flag cards were at the moment. I told him I'd rather have him have it than let it sit in my box, and told him to make a counter-proposal. He never responded after that. The third collector seems to only log in every couple of weeks, which is why he was the last one to be offered a trade. He hasn't logged in since I offered the trade, but I'll keep the offer up for a little while longer. If I don't hear from him this week, the Jordan gets retired with the Vollmer and added to my collection. I'm sure I'll think of something to do with it.

The second point of order - I found 2022 Topps! The day after the lockout was announced, my local Wal-Mart had numerous boxes of the product. No individual packs however, so I took one from the retail box I bought and have made it available in the trade stack (sorry, no Wander Franco!)

 

On to the trades! I'm excited to say that I mailed out PWEs for 8 Time Travel Trades since our last update - that's a new high for me!

 

Our first card is from Greg (Night Owl Cards). This was one pending return I was awaiting from last time, and not one of the 8 new trades (although Greg has one of those too!) He claimed a 1970 Topps Angels player, and sent another Angels player from the year before:

 

Next we have Jeff (Wax Pack Wonders), who took a nice selection of 70's and 80's cards and returned fire with his normally great selection of cards!

At this point I would like to state that I using my position as the manager of this project to claim one of these cards before any of you get a chance to. That 1978 Topps Keith Hernandez was one of 15 cards I needed to complete the set, so I'm snagging it and putting this card in its place:

Long time blog reader Ken returns to the Time Travel Trading action. He claimed a dozen cards, including all those O-Pee-Chee hockey from last time, and sent back 2 dozen football cards in return!

Anyone collecting 1977 Topps football?

 

I'm excited about this next one! A TCDB member named James offered up a cool card in exchange for one I had here. Unfortunately, he wanted one of the OPC hockey cards Ken had claimed. Still, I was eager to add this card, and there were a few other Time Travel cards on his want list, so made a counter-proposal and luckily he accepted. The Time Travel Trading project can now add a vintage Japanese baseball card to its ranks!

Bo (Baseball Cards Come To Life!) must have had the Dodgers on the brain for some reason, because his monthly contribution is a bunch of Dodgers, plus a particular Kellogg's card I thought might generate some interest here.

Chris (The Collector) makes Time Travel Trading history by sending me cards from 5 different sports! The big 4 sports are frequently seen here, but Australian football? That's new to me!

Next up we have Hal, who made a TCDB trade with me to add some more 70's baseball to the stack. Strangely enough, that's the 3rd 1970 Carlos May currently in the trade stack. I never thought I'd get to a point where I'd have triples of a card here!

Our last trade of the day comes from Brendan (The View from The Third Floor). He picked up a few cards, including an autograph, and sent back a relic card plus a few others:

This month adds over 70 new cards to the project, and I have 2 trades still in progress!

 

As always, these cards are all available in exchange for an older card! You can claim your cards below, or through the TCDB (Kep75). Let's make some trades!

The Time Travel Trade Stack:

2022 Topps

#12 Gavin Sheets (RC)

#36 Jorge Alfaro

#39 Andrew Miller

#93 Isiah Kiner-Falefa

#161 Jon Gray

#230 Jonah Heim

#242 Anthony Rizzo

#244 Shane McClanahan (FS)

#256 James McCann

#258 Andre Jackson (RC)

#275 Ketel Marte

#306 Andrelton Simmons 

2022 Topps - Home Run Challenge

#HRC-14 Mookie Betts

2022 Topps - Stars Of MLB

#SMLB-26 Gerrit Cole

 

2019 Topps
#313 Robinson Cano

2019 Topps Opening Day
#93 J.D. Martinez
#197 Felipe Vazquez   

 

2018 Donruss - Dominators (football)
#D-21 Julio Jones

 

2017-1018 Pocket Schedule
Carolina Hurricanes

 

2016 Donruss - Rookie Threads (football)
#37 Sterling Shepard (MEM) 

 

2014 Panini Absolute - Retail
#14 Steven Jackson 

 

2013 Panini USA Champions
#56 Randal Grichuck

  

2010 Bowman - Prospects Black
#BP51 Chase D'Arnaud
#BP56 Rolando Gomez

2010 Bowman Chrome
#13 Brian Roberts

2010 Bowman Chrome - Prospects
#BCP178 Nathan Adcock
#BCP186 Jhan Marinez

 

2010 Bowman Platinum - Prospects
#PP38 Brian Johnson  

 

2009 Bowman - Chrome WBC Prospects
#BCW18 Tao Bu    

 

2009 Bowman Draft Picks (football)
#78 Randy Moss

2009 Donruss Rookies & Stars (football)
#32 Calvin Johnson 

2009 Team Zone AFL Team (Austrlian football)
#50 Dale Morris
#148 Jason Akermanis

 

2008 SPx - Rookie Signatures Gold
#141 Bill White (AU)

 

2008 Upper Deck First Edition - StarQuest (football)
#SQ4 Ben Roethlisberger 

 

2007 Press Pass SE - Gold (football)
#R35 JaMarcus Russell

 

2004 Topps
#203 Bo Hart (ASR)

 

2001 Fleer Greats Of The Game
#77 Lester Lockett 

 

1996 Fleer Update
#U238 Tim Salmon (ENC) 

 

1995 Topps
#215 Mike Greenwell 

 

1994 Stadium Club
#448 Erik Pappas 

1993 Leaf
#271 Jay Buhner

1993 Classic Draft Picks (basketball)
#33 Will Flemons
#67 Bennie Seltzer

 

1992-93 Humpty Dumpty I (hockey)
#NNO Troy Murray

 

1992-93 Ultra (hockey)
#164 Jaromir Jagr 

 

1992 Score - 90's Impact Players
#65 Ron Gant

 

1992 Triple Play - Gallery Of Stars
#GS-1 Bobby Bonilla  

 

1991-92 Upper Deck McDonald's All-Stars - Holograms (hockey)
#MCH-02 Chris Chelios

1991 Leaf
#174 Roger Clemens (CL)

 

1991 Stadium Club

#327 Terry Pendleton

 

1991 Topps Desert Storm (non-sport)
#147 Working Together  

 

1990-91 Hoops (basketball)
#18 Earvin Johnson (AS, SP)

  

1990 Donruss
#437 Dan Quisenberry (UER, VAR: Pack border, no dot after INC)

#712 Wade Boggs (AS, COR, VAR)

1990 Fleer
#125 Jim Abbott

#271 Roger Clemens

 

1990 Leaf
#16 Hubie Brooks 

 

1990 Score
#3 Dwight Evans

 

1990 Upper Deck
#626 Frank Viola

1990 Pro Set - Theme Art (football)
#10 Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers / Dallas Cowboys

 

1989 Score
#495 Larry Parrish

 

1988-89 Frito-Lay Stickers (hockey)
#NNO Cam Neely

 

1988 Score
#657 Mike Schmidt (HL) 

 

1988 Topps (football)
#233 Eagles Team Leaders - Randall Cunningham (TL)

#363 Christian Okoye (RC)

 

1987 Fleer Game Winners
#37 Cal Ripken Jr.

1987 Topps
#313 Roberto Clemente (TBTC)

 

1986 Sportflics
#30 Jose Cruz 

 

1986 Topps - Glossy All-Stars

#13 Steve Garvey

 

1986 Topps (football)
#229 1985 NFL Interception Leaders (Daniel/Lewis/Walls)

 

1985 O-Pee-Chee

#366 Ron Cey 

 

1985 Topps
#7 Nolan Ryan (RB)

 

1985 Topps - Glossy All-Stars
#18 Chet Lemon
#22 Hank Greenberg (CAPT) 

 

1984 Donruss

#376 Charlie Lea

1984 Fleer

#482 Bill Scherrer (RC)

 

1983 Fleer
#45 Ted Simmons 

1983 Topps Drake's Big Hitters
#14 Dave Kingman

 

1983 Topps (football)

#82 Mark Lee

#109 George Rogers (TL)

#264 Rich Karlis (RC) 

#278 Archie Manning

#337 Mark Van Eeghen

1983 Topps The A-Team (non-sport)
#20 Pretty as a Picture!
#49 Heavy Traffic!
#50 Crashing the Gates!

1982 Donruss
#239 Dwayne Murphy

#NNO Checklist 545-653

 

1982 O-Pee-Chee E.T. The Extraterrestrial (non-sport)
#15 Among Elliott's Toys

1982 Topps

#237 Rusty Kuntz 

#303 Bill Caudill
#399 Pat Zachry  
#462 Dave Chalk
#754 Joe Morgan

 

1982 Topps Kmart 20th Anniversary
#43 Hank Aaron (HL) 

 

1982 Topps (football) 

#82 Craig Morton (IA) 

1981 Donruss  

#215 Jerry Remy

#374 John Candelaria
#383 Jose Cruz

#386 Doc Medich 
#409 Carney Lansford
#421 Charlie Leibrandt (RC)
#427 Leon Durham (RC)
#496 Mickey Rivers
#531 Jerry Koosman
#565 Ken Landreaux

1981 Topps

#82 Astros Future Stars (RC)
#98 Clint Hurdle
#121 Larry Harlow
#151 Claudell Washington
#182 Bob Grich
#194 Rod Scurry 

#323 Jim Morrison 
#350 J.R. Richard

#354 Mario Soto
#365 Graig Nettles

#374 Tom Hutton 
#402 NL Championships
#414 John Pacella  
#465 Bill Russell
#477 Luis Gomez
#494 Bob Walk 

#530 Steve Garvey (AS)
#569 Al Williams
#632 Alan Bannister

#645 Rick Reuschel 
#695 Kent Tekulve
#726 Rick Monday

 

1981 Topps Coca-Cola Boston Red Sox
#4 Bob Stanley 

 

1981 Topps (football)
#18 Frank Lewis 

 

1980 Topps 
#90 Manny Trillo
#143 Bruce Bochte
#145 Darrell Evans
#157 Willie Wilson

#271 Dick Drago 

#290 Steve Garvey (AS) 
#325 Dan Driessen 

#510 Ron Cey

#516 Hector Cruz 
#572 Jerry Morales

#595 Don Money 
#642 Ken Forsch
#655 Tug McGraw

1979 Topps  
#214 Boston Red Sox (TC)

#255 Tommy John 
#465 Reggie Smith

#465 Reggie Smith 

#558 Jay Johnstone  

1978-79 Topps (basketball)
#12 E.C. Coleman
#18 Steve Mix

#21 Steve Hawes

#46 John Shumate

#62 Anthony Roberts

#64 Leon Douglas (RC) 
#66 Lonnie Shelton
#76 Brian Winters

#93 Ricky Sobers 

#105 Jim Chones 

#118 Kevin Porter 
#129 Ray Williams (RC)

1978 Topps  

#22 Charlie Hough

#148 Andre Thorton
#373 Jim Willoughby
#385 Tito Fuentes

#412 1977 NL Championships (NLCS) 
#424 Boston Red Sox (TC)
#482 Rick Miller

#562 Glenn Burke (RC) 

#601 Gene Mauch (MGR)

#631 Danny Ozark (MGR)
#706 Rookie 1st Baseman (Cage/Cox/Putnam/Revering)

 

1978 Topps (football)
#41 John Ebersole

#521 Eagles Team Leaders (CL, TL) 

 

1977-78 Topps - White Backs (basketball)
#78 Richard Washington (RC)

 

1977 Topps

#67 Joaquin Andujar (RC)

#164 Tug McGraw

#535 Cesar Geronimo

#565 Mickey Lolich 

#607 Larry Demery

#648 Jim Spencer 

 

1977 Topps (football)
#310 Monte Jackson (AP, RC)
#317 Paul Seymour

#350 Bill Bergey (AP)
#367 Golden Richards
#397 Vince Papale (RC)
#406 Bill Simpson (RC)
#408 J.K. McKay (RC)
#409 Pat Fischer
#413 Don Strock
#419 Brent McClanahan
#427 Harvey Martin
#430 Isiah Robertson (AP)
#450 Ken Houston (AP)
#464 Howard Twilley
#477 Neil Clabo
#492 Don Nottingham
#494 Otis Sistrunk
#516 Butch Johnson (RC)
#525 Brian Baschnagel(RC) 

 

1976 Funky Sales Corp Funky Facts Baseball
#2 In A Trance
#3 Fans Vs Players
#5 Baseballeese

 

1976 Kellogg's
#55 Pete Rose 

 

1976 SSPC
#7 Elias Sosa 

1976 Topps

#101 Pete LaCock 
#196 1975 AL RBI Leaders (Scott/Mayberry/Lynn)

#567 George Stone  

 

1976 Topps - Traded
#28T Dusty Baker 

#58T Ron Reed

#380T Bobby Bonds

1975 Topps
#41 Cesar Geronimo

#66 Willie Horton 

#79 Gary Matthews 
#310 '74 Victory Leaders
#378 Derrel Thomas
#402 Bob Tolan

#445 Felix Milan  

#574 Tony Taylor

 

1974 Topps  
#84 Rick Wise

#107 Alex Johnson  
#158 Jack Billingham
#158 Jack Billingham  

#305 Tito Fuentes 
#349 John Vukovich

#461 John Odom

#512 Joe Lahoud
#519 Bill Sharp (RC) 
#534 Eddie Watt

#583 Marty Pattin
#660 Larry Dierker

1974 Topps - Team Checklists (1 Star)
#NNO Montreal Expos

 

1974 Topps - Team Checklists (2 Stars)
#NNO Los Angeles Dodgers
#NNO Pittsburg Pirates 

1974 Topps - Traded
#43T Jim Wynn

#270T Ron Santo
#458T Jim Ray

#485T Felipe Alou 
#496T Tom Murphy

#585T Merv Rettenmund 

 

1974 Topps (football)
#63 Gene Washington
#513 Bill Lueck (RC)

 

1973 Topps
#4 John Milner 

#12 George Hendrick

#14 Sonny Siebert

#22 Ted Abernathy 

#102 Rudy May  

#155 Sal Bando
#349 Dick McAuliffe
#492 Pedro Borbon

 

1972 Topps  

#12 Jose Cardinal
#24 Ted Ford

#36 Jerry Johnson (IA) 

#40 Bob Barton (IA)

#42 Tommy Davis (IA) 

#44 Rick Wise (IA)
#48 John Ellis (IA)  

#54 Bud Harrelson (IA)

#54 Bud Harrelson (IA)
#55 Clyde Wright  

#56 Rich Chiles (RC)
#57 Bob Oliver

#58 Ernie McAnally

#83 Dalton Jones

#94 1971 AL Pitching Leaders
#96 1971 AL Strikeout Leaders

#99 Ross Grimsley (ASR, RC)

#109 Jerry May

#113 Rogelio Moret 

#137 Dick Williams (MGR)  

#138 Mike Kekich

#174 Clay Kirby (IA)

#192 Chicago Cubs (TC)

#196 Mel Queen 
#197 Johnny Briggs
#225 World Series Game 3 - Manny Sanguillen
#231 Casey Cox
#239 Tom Timmermann

#262 San Diego Padres (TC)
#266 Bobby Bolin

#276 Gene Mauch (MGR)
#289 Syd O'Brien 

#312 Clay Carroll (IA)

#334 Rangers Rookies - Bill Fahey / Jim Mason / Tom Ragland (RS, RC) 

#344 Dave McNally (BP)
#363 Ron Klimkowski
#373 John Mayberry

1971 Topps
#16 Ken Singleton (RC)
#63 AL 1970 RBI Leaders (Howard/Conigliaro/Powell)
#71 AL 1970 Strikeout Leaders (McDowell/Lolich/Johnson)
#80 Bill Melton  
#105 Tony Conigliaro
#123 2nd Series Checklist #133-263 (CL, VAR)

#141 Frank Quilici 
#146 Ralph Houk (MGR)

#178 Dave Duncan 
#195 AL Playoffs Game 1 - Powell Muscles Twins!

#237 Cesar Cedeno (RC) 

#491 Jim Hardin 

1970 Brooke Bond North American Wildlife In Danger (non-sport)
#32 Polar Bear

1970 Topps
#3 Darrell Chaney

#12 John Hiller

#12 John Hiller

#16 Charlie Metro (MGR)
#18 Carlos May
#18 Carlos May

#18 Carlos May 

#31 Marty Pattin 
#38 Mack Jones

#39 Mike Nagy (ASR, RC)

#39 Mike Nagy (ASR, RC) 
#47 Bob Miller

#59 Dick Ellsworth 

#81 Dave May

#93 Rick Renick 

#115 Alex Johnson 

#123 Don Gutteridge (MGR)

#125 Deron Johnson
#206 Clete Boyer

#222 Jim Rooker 
#238 Jose Laboy (ASR)

#252 Lowell Palmer (RC)

#287 Fred Talbot  

#324 Tony Taylor

#390 Willie Davis  

#445 Vada Pinson

#457 Rico Petrocelli (AS)

 

1969 Globe Imports Playing Cards Gas Station Issue
#6Spades Tommy John 

1969 Topps
#32 Sammy Ellis

#66 Orioles Rookies

#72 Ron Taylor   
#80 Norm Cash  
#182 Bill Rigney (MGR)

#317 Bruce Look (RC) 
#484 Joe Gordon (MGR)

#516 Earl Weaver (MGR) 

1969 Topps - Deckle Edge
#13 Mel Stottlemyer

 

1968 Topps

#15 Ron Hunt

#202 Adolfo Phillips 
#208 Willie Davis

#217 Turk Farrell 

#292 Art Shamsky
#309 Ken Henderson
#449 Gene Oliver
#519 Jerry Stephenson

1967 Topps
#1 The Champs (F. Robinson/Bauer/B. Robinson)

#7 Don McMahon 

#18 Gene Oliver

#27 Bob Saverine

#60 Luis Aparicio 

#116 Herman Franks (MGR)

#118 Bernie Allen  

#119 Wade Blasingame

#192 Fred Gladding

#206 Dennis Bennett

#214 Tom Kelley 

#227 Paul Lindblad 

#272 Dick Lines (RC)

#281 Bob Rodgers

#399 Al Worthington 

1966 Topps
#46 Howie Koplitz

#47 J.C. Martin 

#56 Sandy Valdespino  

#76 Red Schoendienst (MGR)
#104 Alex Johnson
#154 Chuck Hiller

#189 John Roseboro  

 

1965 Topps
#17 Johnny Romano
#27 Dick Bertell  

#108 Don Mincher
#111 Lee Thomas

#149 Wayne Schurr 
#307 Barry Latman

1964 Topps 

#5 NL Strikeout Leaders (LL)

#95 George Altman

#255 Lee Thomas

#421 Camilo Carreon 

1962 Topps

#19 Ray Washburn (RC, RS)

#79 Ed Hobaugh

#364 Ken Hunt 

1961 Topps

#38 Bob Lillis
#83 Bob Bruce
#96 Billy O'Dell
#98 2nd Series Checklist 89-176 (CL, VAR)
#111 Jack Meyer

#212 Haywood Sullivan

#258 Jack Sanford
#399 Cliff Cook (RC)

 

1960 Topps

#61 Eddie Kasko  

 

1960 Topps (football)
#28 Jim Ray Smith 

1959 Topps
#245 Ned Garver (VAR; grey/darker back)
#251 Cletis Boyer (VAR: grey/darker back)

#424 Ken Aspromonte

 

1958 JCM 30a Doyusha Team Name Back (solid front w/o borders)

#1472954 Hasegawa

1958 Topps

#6 George Zuverink
#23 Bill Tuttle (VAR)
#36 Ted Kazanski

#59 Dave Sisler

#65 Von McDaniel (RC)

#73 Pete Daley

#124 Bobby Usher 

#147 Don McMahon (RC)

#208 Cal McLish 

#273 Hal Smith

#274 Rocky Bridges 

#290 Dick Donovan

#336 Bert Hamric 

#380 Charley Maxwell

#447 Ray Monzant
#473 Bill Renna (UER)
#474 Roman Semproch (RC)   

1958 Topps Zorro (non-sport)
#83 Rude Awakening

1957 Topps
#68 Ray Crone

 

1956 Topps (football)
#42 Tom Fears
#51 Ted Marchibroda

 

1955 Topps
#45 Hank Sauer

 

1955 Bowman (football)
#9 Don Stonesifer
#29 Bucko Kilroy

1955 Topps All-American (football)
#46 Arnie Lassman

 

1954 Topps

#124 Marion Fricano 

#215 Ed McGhee
#222 Bill Wilson (RC)

#238 Al Aber

1954 Bowman
#73 Don Mueller

1954 Bowman Power For Peace (non-sport)
#91 USS Coral Sea (CVB43)

1953 Topps

#101 Ted Wilks (VAR)

#213 Ray Scarborough

1938 Church & Dwight Useful Birds Of America Tenth Series (J9-6) (non-sport)
#2 Black-throated Green Warbler

1937-38  Diamond Matchbooks Tan 6 (hockey)
#NNO Glenn Brydson

 

1935 Church & Dwight Useful Birds of America Eighth Series (J9-4) (non-sport)
#10 California Jay

1933 Church & Dwight Useful Birds of America Fifth Series (J9-1) (non-sport)
#5 Indigo Bunting 

1922 Church & Dwight Useful Birds Of America Third Series (J7) (non-sport)
#7 Prothonotary Warbler

1915 Church & Dwight Useful Birds Of America First Series (J5) (non-sport)
#1 Quail

 

1890 N245 Sweet Caporal Actors & Actresses (non-sport)

#NNO Frankie Raymond

The Time Travel Trading Project is simple in concept. I started out with a random pack of 2018 Topps Series 1 baseball cards. My aim was to trade every card in that pack for something older. Each card I receive in turn is then made available for trade, with the goal to get the oldest card I can get.

Number of trades completed: 153 (2 pending!)
Unique trading partners: 59

Number of cards mailed out: 620
Year of oldest card mailed out: 1910-11

Number of cards received: 958
Year of oldest card received: 1890