Dmbkoala15

*****  042924 ****

..A set back on my ankle...I need another surgery on my ankle which I am having Friday May 3rd. I will be laid up another 6 weeks...NO WEIGHT BEARING ON FOOT...I have to turn off my trades...I have 11 trades in process and cards have been mailed out....I am so bummed but it has to be done.....

04-14-24....OK I'M GOING TO TURN ON MY TRADING TODAY. I WILL SEE HOW IT GOES...STILL REHABBING BUT GETTING BETTER...

03-30-24

SET BACK ON SURGERY...THE ROD THEY PUT IN MY LEG BROKE SINCE SURGERY ON 11-06-23...

BACK TO SQUARE ONE WITH REMOVAL OF ROD IN THE NEAR FUTURE.....

01-25-24

*****SURGERY WENT WELL...STILL NOT HOME ...RECOUPING NOW...WILL LET EVERYONE KNOW WHEN I RESUME TRADING...THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT REACHED OUT TO ME.....************

10-10-23

^^^^^^^^^^^   UNFORTUNATELY...I NEED RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY ON MY RT ANKLE. I WILL BE LAID UP FOR 6-8 WEEKS WITH NO WEIGHT BEARING FOR 6 WEEKS...I'LL HAVE TO TURN OFF TRADES FOR AWHILE..SORRY....THANK YOU..  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

*******  RIGHT NOW I AM ONLY TRADING WITH THE USA  AND CANADA....INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.....***********

********** Priority on Baseball Sets to complete....**********

2001 TOPPS ......need 2

2010 TOPPS.....need 1

********  Trying to Finish the 80-81 Topps HOCKEY set.....I'm looking for the UNSCRATCHED cards ....Any help will be appreciated  *****

Baseball and Hockey. Trying to complete sets in Hockey and Baseball from my childhood...Also collecting modern day sets..Basically a BASE SET builder..... No trade, too small or too big.....

As always, you can counter any trade I propose....I just want a FAIR trade for both parties...

Also collect PHILADELPHIA FLYER cards and PITTSBURGH PIRATE cards. 

 Happy Trading.....TOM.....

1978 #100 George Brett.  Goal is to get 78 of these and grade them all.  I also collect 

Topps Gypsy Queen - All Years

Topps Archives - All Years.  Also any other sub-sets that are "Archive-esque"

Topps Allen and Ginter - Just started in 2020, may start going backwards.

Panini Diamond Kings 

2020 Triple Threads Base 

2020 Inception Base 

Players I am chasing 

- Ozzie Albies 

- Mike Trout 

- Rafael Devers 

- Eloy Jimenez 

- Javier Baez

- Francisco Lindor 

- Nick Senzel 

- Austin Riley 

- Ronald Acuna Jr. 

- Luis Robert 

- Gavin Lux 

- Don Mattingly 

- Rickey Henderson 

- Derek Jeter 

- Chipper Jones 

Also working on building 53 Topps, 62 Topps, 54 Bowman 

Now under the username toppsguy85

12/4/2023 - Updated my PC lists, so there will be a mass of Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente & Corbin Burnes cards available for sale/trade here soon.  As I mention below, my want list is quite narrow, so I am more than willing to sell cards if we don't match up for a trade.  

Came across tcdb.com towards the end of 2019, and I have now completed over 1,500 transactions, with over 23,000 cards changing hands!  Love everything about this site.  I have met so many cool people from all over the Country, and even a few from Canada and beyond. (Just completed a trade to Finland, as a matter of fact).

Stole this from another member, but......my goal is to have zero cards in my For Sale/Trade List.  So keep the proposals comin'!

(I know my Want List is relatively small, so I am certainly willing to Sell cards if we don't have enough matches to work out a trade)

My PC list is as follows (with TCDB rankings as of 2/9/2024):

NBA: Giannis (4), Dirk Nowitzki (4), and Tim Duncan (2).  

NFL: Sterling Sharpe (3), and Don Majkowski (2)

MLB: Robin Yount (7), Tony Gwynn (6), Hal Morris (3), Mark Grace (7), Pat Listach (1) and Mark Langston (1)

Golf: Rickie Fowler (2)  & Joel Dahmen (2)

WWE: Lita (3)

UFC: Conor McGregor (4)

Non-Sport: Eddie Vedder, Judah Friedlander, Big Jay Oakerson, The Brothers Osborne (TJ & John), Rob Riggle, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Charlie Berens, Post Malone and Brody Stevens

Although I currently live in Florida, I was born in Milwaukee.....hence my obsession with Wisconsin sports teams.  Ha.

Please check out my For Sale/Trade list, and feel free to message me or send me trade proposals any time.....let's see what we can get done!  (I don't necessarily trade based on "book value", but rather the value to me, so please feel free to counter if I propose a trade that you feel is unfair.  I also have no rules about "insert for insert" or any of that nonsense, so don't be shy to shoot me a proposal)  

I've been a baseball collector since the late 80's and love to trade.  I am primarily a set collector and belong to several online trading clubs.  My never ending goal is to collect all the regular issued Topps cards from 1952 to present.

My main collecting interests are vintage cards,  Minnesota Twins,  a few newer sets and Bert Blyleven.

Vintage sets:  1952 Topps, 1953 Topps, 1954 Bowman, 1954 Topps,  1955 Topps,  1956 Topps,  1957 Topps,  1963 Topps,  1967 Topps

Newer sets: 2004 Donruss,  2005 Donruss,  2012 Cooperstown.

* I prefer not to trade vintage cards (below 1976) for newer cards.

* Before delivering or accepting a proposal please make sure you have all of the cards.

MAIN PC FOCUSES-

Baseball

- Bowie Baysox

- Trey Mancini

- Austin Wynns

- Any Orioles I don’t have

- Any players I've seen on the diamond

Hockey

- Tom Wilson

- Capitals

- All Baltimore minor league cards

- Any players I've seen on the ice

MMA

- Fighters from Maryland and Long Island

- Any I've seen fight

Other focuses

- Hofstra alumni

Finally rid of the crutches and now just a cane, should be walking on my own soon.

Still a little slow in replying cause life is busy but always looking for another trade! 

Thank You to all that helped out with my 2021 and 2022 Bowman sets, I just put the last card in my binders and I always look forward to that feeling. Just finished 2022 and really appreciate all the help, only 1 Invicta left for 2023 Bowman...getting close and any help greatly appreciated! I hope to get this finished before 24 comes out. 

Any help on 21/22/23 Topps Chrome (and Sepias)/Chrome Update(and purples), 2021 Topps/Topps Update, 2021& 2022 Panini Chronicles Baseball would be greatly appreciated. 

Any help with 2020 Chronicles FB, 2020 Select FB would be great and hoping to fill any other holes in my binders. Always looking for Julio Rodriguez, and Darrell Taylor cards to keep those collections going and keep my #1 spot, and after losing a binder of about 200 Griffey cards I had collected as a kid will always look to trade for one that I don't have. 

Favorites:

Baseball: Ken Griffey Jr (in a Mariners jersey preferably), Julio Rodriguez (as of 6/9/22 I am #1 collector on the site), Randy Johnson, Kyle Lewis, Ronald Acuna Jr, Logan Gilbert, Cal Raleigh, Bryce Miller, Fernando Tatis Jr, Kyle Seager, Jarred Kelenic, but love all my Mariners!

Football: DK Metcalf, Darrell Taylor (as of 4/6/23 I am #1 collector on the site), Kam Chancellor, Justin Herbert, Tyler Lockett, but love all my Hawks!

If you have cards of these sets/players that I don't have assume they are on my wantlist. So close on the 2021 Bowman Baseball and 2020 Chronicles Football. Any help on these two sets is greatly appreciated and thank you to those that have helped out so far!

Baseball sets I am trying to fill first: 2022 Bowman (so close and any help with the top 100 would be appreciated), 2023 Bowman Lunar Glow Refractors (65 or so left), 2021/2022 Chronicles (excited to try and finish them) , 2021 Select, 2021 Diamond Kings, 2021 Stadium Club.

Football sets I am trying to fill first: 2020 Chronicles, 2020 Select, 2020 Optic, 2021 Absolute Retail, 2021 Prizm Draft Picks, 2021 Chronicles Draft Picks.

I collect mainly Baseball/Football but have a little Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer that I have opened up and added to this site for trade purposes.  

Slowly but surely I am getting my collection uploaded and at some point would love to trade all of my doubles for cards that fill my sets and help others do the same in the process.

If I decline your trade, no hard feelings I am still in the process of uploading my collection and likely have what you offered already.

If you see something in my collection that is not on my trade list, feel free to reach out.  Collection trading would depend.

I collect alot current projects:

Pokemon Sets (Sword& Shield on Up)

Project 70/Project 2020 (Red Sox/Mets/Expos/Pardee Art)

Star Wars Living

Final Fantasy

Team Collector Of: (In Priority Order)

Boston Red Sox

New York Mets

New England Patriots

Boston Bruins

Montreal Expos

Washington Nationals

Dallas Cowboys

Hartford Whalers

Boston Celtics

Notre Dame

Boston College

Umass

Ohio State

Florida Gators

Player Collector: (In No Order)

Rickey Henderson, Dennis Eckersley,Shoei Ohtani,Nolan Ryan,Roger Clemons,Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz,Randy Johnson

Curt Schilling,Max Scherzer,Rollie Fingers,Jim "Catfish" Hunter,Ramon Laureano,Joe Kelly,Ken Griffey Jr,Vladdy Daddy & Jr

Josh Allen (Bills),Randy Moss,Daunte Culpepper,Van Jefferson,Justin Jefferson,Steve Young,Joe Montana,Jerry Rice

Deion Sanders,Curtis Martin,Tom Brady,Matt Ryan,Josh Gordon,Ladanian Thomlinson,Terell Owens,Jimmy G

Jean, Marcel, Andre Pronovost (anthony mantha)   (these are all my relatives)

Always looking for a good trade. Let me know if I have anything on your Want list. 

***CURRENTLY TAKING A BREAK FROM TRADES AS I RE ORGANIZE MY COLLECTION***

NOTE: I don't do much in the way of collecting football cards, but recently bought some boxes (I needed to rip some packs... lol). Looking to trade my 21 Optic, Prizm and Select, and 22 Sage for baseball cards. 

I am focused on the 2021 and 2022 Topps Heritage sets, the 2021 Topps 52 Redux subset, and the 2022 Bowman Scouts Top 100 subset... as well as 1971 Topps cards in NM condition.

I am not a big fan of PWE trades, as in my experience something is frequently dinged on arrival. This does not mean i won't do a PWE... I routinely do PWE if we are only trading 2 or 3 cards.

I pack all cards in penny sleeves for shipment... I am kind of a fanatic in my shipping... I use reinforcement (light or thick cardbard depending on what I am shipping), I prefer to track, so I like larger volume trades - to get a bigger bang for the buck!

I apologize, but I need a lot of SPs and can't  get them by offering commons in exchange, so I limit trades of SPs and inserts to deals in which I’m getting SPs in return…

If you are in my neighborhood I am happy to meet up for in person exchanges.

Currently working on putting together the 2020 Allen & Ginter Mini A&G Back complete set.

Things I pick up for my PC:

• Baseball (Mostly Braves), specifically:
  • Freddie Freeman
  • Ronald Acuna, Jr.
  • Ozzie Albies
  • Dansby Swanson
  • Mike Soroka
  • Max Fried
  • Ian Anderson
  • Christian Pache
  • Fred McGriff
  • Greg Maddux
  • John Smoltz
  • Tom Glavine
  • Chipper Jones
  • Austin Riley
• Hockey (Mostly Nashville Predators), specifically:
  • Craig Smith (Predators OR Bruins)
  • Filip Forsberg
  • Viktor Arvidsson (Predators OR Kings)
  • Pekka Rinne
• Topps flagship base sets
• Upper Deck Hockey Series 1/2 base sets
• O-Pee-Chee Platinum base sets; Nashville Predators OPCP rainbows

I'm T. M. Bilderback (but you can call me Michael), and I write books. You can find them anywhere that ebooks are sold...you can also check them out of the library through Overdrive.

My highest priority sets right now are any sets on my want list!

When trading, I will happily trade sports cards for non-sport and gaming cards.

Thanks.

NOTE: Trades are turned OFF for now.

NOTE: Items in my personal collection are NOT for sale or trade. Also, please check any notes I've posted for trade cards. If there IS a note, the card is NOT NM-MINT. Some will have blemishes or problems, and the problems will be listed in the notes. Photos are available of any trade card with notes if requested - you must include an email address with your request.