Trading With Rob M.

Lately, there has been a lot of calls for Mets cards. I'm not sure why the sudden influx of interest in trading for New York's NL team, but I am pretty much cleared out of Mets for awhile.

Reader Rob M. and I agreed on a trade. White Sox for Mets. I wasn't able to keep all the cards after 2000, but I will start setting aside new Mets cards for you. When I have a good stack of them, I'll send another package out.

Rob was pretty thorough with my want list and he hit a good chunk from the junk wax era. You'd think I'd be done with those by now, but no. All the pesky little oddball sets and inserts keep eluding me.

Let's see what Rob sent over!

1975 Topps
480 – Carlos May

1983 Topps
541 – Britt Burns

1987 Fleer League Leaders
12 – Joe Cowley
42 – Greg Walker

1988 Fleer Star Stickers
16 – Ozzie Guillen

1988 Fleer Superstars
42 – Kenny Williams

1988 KayBee
42 – Bobby Thigpen

1989 Woolworth
13 – Carlton Fisk

1992 Classic I
T45 – Roberto Hernandez
T89 – Frank Thomas

1992 Classic Best
258 – Brian Boehringer

1992 Conlon
579 – Tommy Thomas

1992 French’s
8 – Robin Ventura (Matt Williams)

1992 Stadium Club
535 – Joey Cora
586 – Greg Hibbard

1993 Flair
180 – Wilson Alvarez

1993 Hostess
31 – Jack McDowell

1994 Pinnacle
164 – Roberto Hernandez

2001 SP Top Prospects
40 – Joe Crede
41 – Aaron Rowand

2001 Upper Deck Pros & Prospects
35 – Magglio Ordonez
36 – Carlos Lee

2002 Upper Deck Piece Of History
35 – Magglio Ordonez

2004 Topps Chrome
293 – Magglio Ordonez


And some for my player collections!

Harold Baines
1987 Boardwalk & Baseball #16
1988 Fleer Baseball’s Exciting Stars #1
1993 Leaf #249
1995 Ultra #251
1996 Topps #357
1999 Upper Deck #44


Mark Buehrle
2002 Diamond Kings #81
2003 Topps #47
2006 Topps #90


John Cangelosi
1988 O-Pee-Chee #328
1988 Topps #506

And some for my eventual surprise for my friend!

Ryne Sandberg
1987 Boardwalk & Baseball #30
1987 Fleer League Leaders #39
1987 Ralston Purina #15
1988 Chef Boyardee #11
1988 Fleer #628 (with Ozzie Smith)
1988 Fleer Baseball’s Exciting Stars #32
1988 O-Pee-Chee #10
1989 Woolworth #21
1991 Fleer #709 (with Cecil Fielder)
1991 Jimmy Dean #6
1992 Classic I #T79
1992 Pinnacle #617
1992 Upper Deck #145
1993 Hostess #2
1993 Leaf #224
1993 Triple Play #10

Thanks, Rob! You were very generous with your trades. I sent out your package today. I filled out the rest of the box with 80s and 90s after post 2000 cards were spent, but like I said, I'll be setting aside new Mets cards that come into my possession and sending out another package. Hopefully, what should arrive in the mail next week will tide you over until then.