Today I received the back half of the second piece of what so far is a four part trade. Wait…Wut? Confused? Don’t worry it’s awesome. I have a Twitter and TCDB friend who was six short prints shy of completing his own 2019 Heritage set. I learned this after I posted on Twitter that I had finally completed mine. A couple of the cards he needed, I had also just bought through Sportslots or eBay for what I considered to be really decent prices, so I knew the cards were out there. The only problem for him though is a tight budget, and with him getting ready to move into a new house, exceeding that budget isn’t really an option.

UWBone and I have tried to come together on trades before, but he has an excess of vintage and very little modern, and I have none of the vintage he needs and an excess of modern. So the math hasn’t really worked. But he has a lot of cards I could potentially use to start my set builds for those early ‘80’s years, and I was thinking it would be a shame to be that close to closing out Heritage and not being able to finish it off when you’re that close.

So I figured I would buy the cards for him to get around the budget issue. After they arrived, I just mailed the short prints to him and let him decide what and how many cards to send back my way. Today I received the first 12 cards off my 1982 Topps list that he had available. All I sent him on the front half was the Ronald Acuna Jr. from ‘19 Heritage that I managed to score for $4.00 plus shipping. This is a very fair trade in my opinion because it helps both of us, and making another collector happy certainly makes me feel like a valued member of the Hobby Community.

As I alluded up on top, this was the second such trade. We have two more to go. The Walker Buehler and Miguel Andujar cards are sitting right here on my desk, just waiting for UWBone to move in to his new digs and get settled. More on this trade sometime in December! In the meantime, today’s haul gets me started.

1982 Topps Base: 17 / 792 cards (2.1%)

More hopefully tomorrow work permitting. Until then, stay safe.

JDM