I am going to polite-fully borrow a very fitting quote from fellow trader FSCGrad777 - "my want list is quite narrow, so I am more than willing to sell cards if we don't match up for a trade." additionally, I am (SOMETTIMES) willing to dig through your (basketball, football, and non sport ONLY) FST cards to see if I can come up with something I like to trade for.
UPDATES:
5/18/24 - As a need to focus on certain PCs, I have decided to either sell (preferably) or trade (not card for card, but perhaps for larger dollar/graded card/s , etc) ALL my 100+ Josh Allen (QB) PC, so, even if I don’t have something on my want list, I may be open to suggestions, I could easily pop these Allen’s on my FSTs, but figured this might be a quicker way of getting the word out 😎✌🏻🏈
4/4/24 - trading is turned BACK ON, let the offers being (once again 😎✌🏻)….BUT … pls, pls, PLS, allow me to reiterate this, with peace and love, although I DO realize my waitlist is fairly smaller compared to some of yours, try to avoid sending me smaller (less than 5 cards per side) deals if at all possible, thanks!!!
3/13/24 - I 'think' I am going to embark on working on ALL non numbered variations of the 22 and 23 NBA Prizm Monopoly sets, it is WAY more involved than I anticipated it would be with the original thought, but easily my favorite sport and board game growing ups, so why not...
3/12/24 - my son and my Pacers/Magic game experience was a GREAT success, not so much autographically (?), although HE was able to pull down 8 different players' autos (pics to be posted in the forum, hopefully), but the luxury seats were 1st class...access ALL around the court, through each team's tunnels before/during/after games, and all you can eat food/drink...we strongly recommended this experience to anyone willing to fork out a few 'extra' bucks who wants a close to the game action!
On that note, I am going to begin PCing former Arizona and now Pacers PG TJ McConnell, he is the epitome of hard work, a scrappy player who honestly just doesn't look like he belongs on the court with these other giants, but is a BEAST (he had 16/7/7 that game we went to), and oozes confidence, but in a professional way....he was extremely kind to my son after the Pacer win, so that goes a long way to me
2/4/24 - This may be common sense, but I have begun paying more attention on the scarcity/availability of cards on my FST list when comparing each side of the deal - many times, if I have THE only card on the site, I will use that as 'value' in consideration to what I am seeking in these trades - it may not be the most valuable card, but if its the only one available for trade and (for example 50+ people have it on their wantlist, to ME - it holds more value...and again, I am probably not breaking any new ground with this statement, I just wanted this to be here for when members read my profile on reasoning behind these proposals and counter offers
1/23/24 - My 13 year old son and I are fortunate enough to have 2nd row seats for the Pacers @ Magic game on 3/10, and we will have access to the player tunnel before and after the game, SO, my goal until then is to obtain as many RCs of players from those 2 teams to attempt to get autographed!
6/23/23 - I have began branching off beginning PCs of lesser known hoopers that had much relevance to me during my playing days in the 90s:
-Eric Piatkowski (I wore his jersey # 52 my Jr/Sr years, he was a caucasian, 6'7'', 215ish, SF/PF - the EXACT same specs of myself as a player around the same era)
-Tommy Kleinschmidt (Similar to Eric P's backstory, I began wearing a sleeveless shirt underneath my game jerseys bc of him, AND he has a small part in Hoop Dreams, one of my favorite docs)
-Arthur Agee and William Gates (stars of the aforementioned doc Hoop Dreams)
-Chris Herren (maybe the most confident caucasian hooper I have ever seen in person, his BABC AAU summer league performances here in Jax in 1994 were E P I C...)
6/10/23 - I am beginning to find/look for/be told abt more and more NBA and NFL trivia cards/set.....again, I am not a huge set collector, but I am a HUGE trivia guy, so I am open to new sub sets (?) with any years trivia from these 2 leagues, pls don't hesitate to let me know of one that you are aware of that maybe I'm not, thanks!
FELLOW COLLECTORS - I LOVE my late 80's-mid 90's basketball and football cards, 89 nba hoops being my favorite to rip as a 11-12 yr old hoops junkie...now that i have completed my sets for 89 AND 90 nba hoops sets, i am on the hunt to find the announcer/special checklist cards card for these same years, as well as finishing up my (innagural years) 90 skybox basketball and 91 upper deck basketball sets, I also started putting together my birth year’s 1977 Topps basketball and my son’s birth year 2011 NBA Hoops basketball sets
(current TCDB ranking, as of 1/2024)
Former NBA players I collect:
Magic Johnson ( 55 )
Larry Bird ( 32 )
Chris Mullin ( 10 )
Hakeem Olajuwon ( 28 )
Jason Kidd ( 29 )
Pete Maravich ( 60 )
Eric Piatkowski ( 6 )
Chris Herren ( 7 )
Arthur Agee ( 2 ) - William Gates ( 2 ) <Hoop Dreams>
...and current NBA players I collect:
Anthony Edwards ( 5 )
Boban Marjanovic ( 3 )
Bol Bol ( 8 )
University of Kentucky (UK) basketball players only in UK uniform ( 17 )
Former NFL stars I collect:
- Barry Sanders ( 48 )
Ed Reed ( 8 )
Larry Fitzgerald ( 9 )
...and current NFL players I collect:
*DERRICK HENRY* aka The Yulee Bulldozer (#1...and always my #1 priority)
Patrick Mahomes ( 23 )
Travis Kelce ( 3, and will probably never get any higher thank this, as # 1 has 626 and # 2 has 564 )
Josh Allen ( 16 ) ***looking to SELL all of these cards!
Tyrann Mathieu ( 3 )
DK Metcalf ( 4 )
Justin Tucker ( 4 )
Johnny Hekker ( 13 )
Taysom Hill ( 4 )
- University of Kentucky (UK) football players only in UK uniform ( 5 )
AND, local athletes I collect:
Jeff Cox (…ME! Well, not really, but a baseball player with the same name...) ( ONLY 29th, but I need that # 1 spot! )
James Collins ( 1 )
Andre Cooper ( 9 )
Doug Sessions ( 2 )
Marlyn Tisdale ( 4 )
My 13 year old son also dabbles in collecting, so I trade for him as well, as he is a basketball junkie like his pops:
he LOVES/LOVED Kobe Bryant (his personal GOAT)
also - Lebron James, Anthony Davis, Giannis, Dame Time, The (3, yes, even good ole Dell) Curry's, and other current NBA super star
I prefer to do trades of 18-27 (ish) cards or less (please, no deals smaller than 4-6 cards each, to BOTH get our money's worth on postage) to allow me to safely place 2-3 cards (max) per slot on a 9 slot folded, sleeved page to be sent between 2 pieces of (painter's) taped cereal board in a long PWE, to be able to use a standard stamp and avoid large shipping cost, however, we can do larger trades if need be, no problem, as this is just what i have found works most efficiently since i have been on this site...i am always game for shipping tricks, so please feel free to share them wih me anytime!
