Trading With The Great 1965 Topps Project

This deal has been in the works for most of the year. I know, we're only 17 days into the year, but this has happily taken most of those days. This is not to say that this was a difficult trade to pull off. It was the sheer size of the trade that was a little prohibiting.

I didn't have any 1965 Topps doubles to trade, but as luck would have it, Kevin was trying to complete sets. I have a lot of cards from past uncompleted sets on hand, so it was days of going through his massive want list and matching up his wants with my trading stock. It sounds a lot easier than it actually is.

After the 300th 1988 Topps back, you start to hallucinate by seeing these faded orange blobs and the numbers all start to look alike. It's actually comforting and a bit scary at the same time. Especially at 3 AM. Anyways, enough rambling. Let's see what this massive trade netted for both parties.

What I got:

1994 Collector's Choice - 150 Lance Johnson

1995 Collector's Choice - 507 Roberto Hernandez

1996 Collector's Choice - 96 Roberto Hernandez

1989 Donruss - 384 Dave Gallagher

1991 Donruss 315 Robin Ventura

1992 Donruss - 509 Melido Perez

1992 Fleer - 85 Mike Huff

1988 Score - 139 Fred Manrique

1994 Score - 41 Frank Thomas, 220 Wilson Alvarez, 320 Team Checklist (Comiskey Park)

1995 Stadium Club - 71 Darrin Jackson, 88 Ron Karkovice, 132 Wilson Alvarez

1986 Topps - 14 Julio Cruz, 64 Floyd Bannister, 139 Daryl Boston, 239 Joel Skinner, 346 Bryan Little, 447 Jerry Don Gleaton, 493 Gene Nelson, 531 Tony LaRussa, 552 Marc Hill, 679 Britt Burns


1988 Topps - 132 Donnie Hill, 321 White Sox Leaders (Baines and Fisk), 409 Joel McKeon, 437 Fred Manrique, 559 Ken Williams, 585 Ozzie Guillen

1990 Topps - 569 Ivan Calderon, 612 Dave Gallagher

1991 Topps - 8 Bobby Thigpen Record Breaker, 33 Barry Jones, 121 Eric King, 219 Jack McDowell, 326 Ken Patterson, 364 Dan Pasqua, 499 Melido Perez, 609 Jeff Torborg, 768 Donn Pall

1993 Topps - 286 Ron Karkovice, 582 Shawn Abner

2003 Topps - 397 Esteban Loaiza, 523 Paul Konerko, 636 Team Card

1993 Upper Deck 555 Frank Thomas, 738 Craig Grebeck, 775 Bo Jackson

What Kevin got:

1986 Topps - 450, 677

1987 Topps - 228, 386, 424

1988 Topps - 71, 106, 244, 263, 288, 358, 366, 411, 431, 454, 511, 541, 548, 564, 595, 612, 642, 688, 726, 748

1989 Topps - 68, 207, 269, 291, 330, 592

1993 Topps - 78, 213, 244

A bunch of Orioles cards ranging from 1977 until present.

Now you see why it took so long. We both got slightly closer to completing those sets with a few pesky missing cards. I actually completed my 1990 Topps White Sox set, so I am very happy about that. I'm hoping the cards I sent out arrived. If they haven't gotten there already, they should be there very shortly.