Tec87

Baseball

'53 Bowman (both sets, any condition)

59 Topps (Ex and better)

71 Topps (any condition)

76 Topps (Ex+ and better)

Hockey

55/56 Parkhurst (any condition)

77/78 Topps (vgex or better)

84/85 Topps (ex+ or better)

Football

54/55 Topps All American (any condition)

Non-sport

34-36 National Chicle Skybirds (any condition)

Lifelong Twins and Killebrew fan.

I started collecting as a kid in 1971. Walking up to the milk store about 10 blocks away, plopping down my 10 cents for a wax pack and 5 cents for a bubs Daddy. First card I remember seeing in a wax pack was Tom Tiimmerman - still have the card in my collection.

I really got hooked in 1972 when I saw a rack pack with the Roberto Clemente in Target. In 1975 My aunt bought my brother and me a complete set of Topps cards which took what seemed forever to arrive. I got the Dodgers cards, my brother got the Reds cards (we had to hate something about each other) and I think we divided up the rest.

Started collecting for complete sets in 1976-1979. Stopped in 1980 cuz it wasn't cool as a HS Senior.

Then back chasing the complete set dragon in 1981 and enjoyed the dawn of the junk wax era. Limiting my PC to 1980 and older. No new stuff.

Completed sets: 1968-1987

Listing a lot of my 1960s and 70s dupes on my eBay page to fund my quest for 1954-67 set builds.

Trading: I try to propose or trade similar value cards, PWE if it works.

if conditions aren’t listed, assume my cards are VG, VGEX or EX.

Looking to obtain VG-EX cards for my sets, with no major creases, paper loss or marks on the front. O/C is fine.

I have tons of mid to late 70s cards I haven’t listed here so if you need them, let me know.

looking forward to doing some trades toward completing my sets!

Thanks for checking out my profile page! 

I grew up collecting in the junk wax era, starting in the mid 80s through the early 2000s, and picked up the hobby again in 2022. My goal is to build some of the sets I started collecting with my Dad (63 Fleer, 67 Topps, 68 Topps and Game), have a living set run of 1976 Topps - present, and then as complete of a Cubs team set as I can from 49 Bowman through 75 Topps.

My PC players are Tommy Holmes (no relation), Ducky Medwick, and Ron Santo. I will very likely send you odd trade offers or accept odd trade offers if any of those three are involved.

I am slowly working on adding conditions to my vintage FST and am good with like for like condition in vintage trades. Anything modern went from packs to storage and should be NM+ unless otherwise noted.

** Currently Building **

• 1967 Topps: 527 / 609 (86.5%)
• 1968 Topps: 573 / 598 (95.8%)
• 1973 Topps Master Set: 672 / 685 (98.1%)
• 1973 Topps Blue Team CL: 17 / 24 (70.8%) &  Master Set: 25 / 48 (52.1%)
• 1978 Topps Master Set: 727 / 728 (99.9%)
• 2018 Topps Heritage: 420 / 725 (57.9%)
• 2022 Topps Archives: 328 / 380 (86.3%)
• 2022 Topps Allen & Ginter - Mini Inside the Park: 23 / 32 (71.9%)
• 2022 Topps Allen & Ginter Chrome - Mini Inside the Park: 21 / 32 (65.6%)
• Cubs Bowman & Topps Team Sets 1949 - 1975

** Completed Sets **

• Fleer: 63
• Topps Base: 73, 76-81, 83 & 21-23
• Topps Traded & Update: 76, 81 & 21-23
• Topps Misc: 51 RB, 64 Giants, 68 Game, 22 GQ, 22 Heritage, 22 Heritage MiLB

** Personal Collection **

• Tommy Holmes #1 on TCDb: 15 / 56 (26.8%)
• Joe Medwick #T2 on TCDb: 50 / 404 (12.4%)
• Ron Santo #1 on TCDb: 192 / 1655 (11.6%)

Trading on pause while on vacation

Still working on completing Topps Baseball sets 1960,1969, and 1970.   I have complete sets from 1971 to 1981 But I need to upgrade some as I sort through them.Trying to complete Reds team sets from any year, have most of the 70s covered and am working backwards.  Have a good start on the 60s.  Partial Reds sets from 1980-2020 are sitting in boxes waiting to be sorted.  I have alot of reds duplicates including specials/inserts for former reds stars (Bench, Morgan, etc,)

Also working on modern base sets and some inserts as they catch my interest.

Still working on updating my collection in the database.

J. Buhner, A.Rhodes, C.Bosio,  D. Wilson, J.Nelson, J.Kruk, R.Dibble, M.Blowers, R.Myers, D.Boyd, M. Blowers, M. Fidrych, B. Blyleven, D. Parker.

DISCLOSURE:

My Topps 59' 60' 61' and 62's are all Ex or Ex+ and looking for good homes.

My OPC/Topps 70's vary widely.  I hesitate to grade, but I do  know the parameters.  Ask for condition and I will put eyeballs on the card and let you know.

My Topps 79' and 80' are weathered.  Some dings, soft edges. Pesentable. Handled by me as a child.  If its creased, it isnt listed here

Everything else Ex+/Nm or better.

6-27-23 Update:

I have had to turn off trades for a while, I am a full time art show artist, and this is my busy season. I simply do not have time to pull trades and give them the time that they deserve. I will be back when my season slows down late fall. I appreciate all of the wonderful trades I have made and look forward to doing so many more!

MY PC:

Yogi Berra #1 on TCDB. I have almost all of Yogi's vintage playing days cards with only oddball cards left. So I am going after his modern cards too. I have all of his cards on my want list minus 1/1's, autographs, and multi player memorabilia cards but am always interested if anyone has them. 

Roy Campanella #1 on TCDB. I am in the same boat with Campy. I have almost all of his vintage cards with very few oddballs left. I am going after his modern cards with the same exceptions as with Yogi. 

Pee Wee Reese #1 on TCDB. Same as with Campy and Yogi, my Pee Wee Vintage needs list is short with only oddballs left. So I am doing the same with him. 

Jackie Robinson. Jackie is primarily for my daughter, she is a bigger Ernie Banks fan but we get Jackie for her too. 

 Satchel Paige #1 on TCDB

 Ty Cobb #3 on TCDB

George Brett

Salvador Perez

My 10 year old Daughter Marley Collects:

Ernie Banks: #6 on TCDB. Marley's Heaven Daddy passed away when she was 6 months old and his favorite player was Ernie. During Covid, I got back into cards and Marley's Mom pulled out her Heaven Daddy's cards. He had a handful of Ernie vintage cards so she wanted to collect more of them. She has his complete base career run and several oddballs, but we are trying to attain the rest. She sells and trades her own cards to get more Ernie and has sold some of her toys to buy vintage cards as well. She has been given cards from several of our friends on Twitter and if you want to see her collection look at my pinned tweet on my account. @Passion4Baseba1. 

Jackie Robinson

Salvador Perez

Nico Hoerner

Anthony Rizzo as a Cub

Javy Baez as a Cub

Marley has decided that she wants to finish her sets from when we first started buying her cards up to 2023 Topps. If you have any of the commons she needs for these sets feel free to propose a trade. 

I collect vintage Topps. I will only trade, I do not buy on TCDB.

Getting back into the hobby after ~30 years, which means the bulk of my current collection is junk era wax that includes a good number of HOF players as well as commons. I'd love to trade those to people that are looking to complete sets or collect their favorite team and/or player. 

My personal collection is focused on Andre Dawson, Kirby Puckett, Dylan Cease, and any other White Sox (current or retired) players.

I have also started a new project to collect the 1975 Topps Chicago White Sox cards and added a few players with smaller card runs to my PC: Julio Cruz, Ron Karkovice, and Rudy Law.

Prefer to do smaller trades via PWE but am open to bigger trades too. Not looking to buy cards right now until I reduce volume on cards outside of my PC.

TCDB Rankings as of April 11, 2023:

• Andre Dawson - #9
• Dylan Cease - #3
• Julio Cruz - #1
• Kirby Puckett - #527
• Ron Karkovice - #1
• Rudy Law - #1
• Chicago White Sox - #799

*** Update - April 11, 2023 ***

I have now initiated the quest to begin set building and my focus will initially be on completing the Topps Flagship sets from the 1980's that I began collecting as a kid.

When proposing or reviewing trades, I am mostly looking for base for base trades. Trade offers skewed towards requesting parallels, inserts, SPs, etc. for a larger quantity of base will most often be countered or declined. I am open to cross-decade trades too, meaning I will send newer base for junk era base or vice versa depending on what we each need. Open to trades of all sizes that meet these criteria.

For vintage cards (pre-1980 for my purposes), I only trade vintage for vintage.

Thank you for reading and look forward to trading!