To trade or not to trade?... need your help

I was fortunate to pull a diamond die cut of Hank Aaron pictured below...got two trade offers that are very tempting...one more so than the other...one was for a diamond die cut of Jackie Robinson and the other is a diamond die cut of Ernie Banks...leaning more toward the Robinson if I do make trade more so than the Banks...looking for opinions....

                                        









         



      

More Wolverines for the Collection

picked up some great UM autos and a "59 Bowman from a local ebay dealer...great to work with...here's his ebay store..check it out...jasonscardsandcollectibles

Topps Gridiron Giveaway Cards Have Arrived

They arrived the other day...they are : 

'82 Al " Bubba" Baker...traded for this one

'89 Bubba Paris...played at UM....traded for this one

'74 Jess Philips (RC) ..played for Moo U  ( MSU)   :) ....was a redeemed card..tried trading for a Lion from the same year....no takers

'68 Ron Kramer...traded for this one

'59 Lions pennant card...decent shape for a '59 card...was redeemed by code

'69 Bill Munson...great conditioned card for the year...redeemed by code

'78 Lary Hand...also in great condition...redeemed by code


No problems with the football redemptions compared to baseball...hope all went well with others who redeemed theirs and got what they were supposed to.

Oh, so close again, Mr. Verlander!!!!

What a way to start the series with Cleveland....Verlander throws a no hitter for 7 1/3 innings and finishes with a two hitter...Tigers win 4-0 and claim first place...here's a couple of recent Tiger ebay pickups

Cardshow shopping Part 2

While browsing a table and striking up a conversation with the dealer, I noticed a small showcase that had cards and oddball sets for 50% off....I asked him if he had any UM sets or players and he took some cards off this set and said I could have it for $5....it was a team set of the 1989 UM NCAA championship basketball set.  I had seen a couple of these a few years ago but had not really thought of them till now...anyhoo, here they are:

Looking through this set brought back some great memories of that run...from Frieder getting told by Bo " that a Michigan man was going to coach a Michigan team" after he took the coaching gig at Arizona State....to Glen Rice's "amaizing" shooting.... to tremendous Final 4 wins over Illinois and Seton Hall in OT....may have to dig out my DVD's of those games and watch them again.....

Cardshow shopping Part 1

My good friend Larry over at Sewingmachineguy On Cards informed me of a cardshow at a local mall this past Saturday....It has been a while since I got to a show (for one reason or another) but this time I had a couple of hours to check it out and see Larry's recently completed Artifact auto set....it was very impressive, believe me....KUDOS for completing that set.

Anyway, I brought my checklist of the TK Legacy Michigan auto set that I am trying to complete as well as looking for any different UM players in their college uniforms...well, we struck out in getting any Legacy cards but we did find some UM singles that were pretty neat as well as a pretty cool set that I had seen on a couple of different occasions but not for quite a while....here's what I picked up for about $13 total.

I had not seen the Upper Deck SP or SPX cards before...thought they looked pretty cool...I'll have to check them out to see if there is anything on ebay as far as autos or jersey cards are concerned....the Anthony Thomas was from Pacific's Private Stock from 2001...actually got that card for free as the dealer gave me  his card and asked to check in with him from time to time about UM cards...thought that was neat of him.


My next post will have my surprise pickup that I was very happy to find....I'll try to get that out later tonight.

Ebay pickup

  been looking for one at a reasonable price....$3.99 BIN  seemed very reasonable !