Julie and I have become frequent trade partners over the last few months. This time around I received a big box stuffed full of Pirates. While this is just a small sample it will go to show that Julie wasn't messing around. Lot's of current Buccos and a few blast from the pasts. Overall it was probably close to 300 cards. Here are a few of my favorites.
It was fun hunting through this box of cards, because cards like this popped up. A beautiful gold relic of Pops.
I'm not an authenticator, but this looks like Maz's signature. Either way it is a cool piece of vintage.
A rookie of the Cobra!
I'm a Donruss apologist. Maybe it just reminds me too much of my childhood and puts blinders over my eyes, but I'm looking forward to busting some 2015. I told myself I was going to limit myself to Stadium Club and Donruss for my own personal breaks this year. So far I've been good.
Julie was nice enough to send a long a nice chunk of the team set.
Everyone knows how I feel about Polanco. He is one of my favorites so any cards of his are greatly appreciated.
The Stadium Club Marte is a gold parallel.
So many McCutchen's!!!! Nice to get the Classics Cutch since that was a very high end brand. Julie opened up a box of that stuff and pulled an awesome Bucco triple relic. Now if only she could find somebody to trade it to.....:)
Cutch overflow.
Some Walmart blues.
Young Bucs.
A couple of legends to end the post!
Thanks for all the great cards Julie. I pulled some other cards a side from the box for future posts as their was just too much cool stuff in the box. I'm on the hunt for some Tigers to keep the momentum going.
Thanks for reading.
300 cards? You're too generous, Matt. ;) Glad you found some good stuff in there. There are a few goodies I held back for the next round.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lot.....maybe not 300, but significant. Now I'm going to go home and count them just to prove a point. :)
DeleteI think Parker's rookie might be his best card. Great package from Julie!
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun group of cards. I held back some of the mid 90's cards for future posts.
DeleteI'd like the Donruss a whole lot more with just one change -- make the "d" logo smaller, like on the early 1980s Donruss. Then, those new versions would look at least a little better.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that's nitpicking with such a great package!
It would be nice if they learned more creative ways to make the licensing issues not so apparent, but that is not enough to stop me from buying it. I'm sick.
DeleteI'm with you as far the Donruss product goes.They made too much of an impact on me as a kid for me to just overlook their valiant comeback efforts.As long as they don't try to revive 1990's design.
ReplyDeleteAs far as box opening goes, Donruss makes a fun break too. The price is reasonable, 2 autos and a relic, parallels and sps. Lot's of trade bait!
DeleteThat Stargell relic is really cool. Love the yellow!
ReplyDeleteI liked it too. The gold swatches are hard to find.
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