SumoMenkoMan

Vintage (all sports), michael jordan, jim brown, julius erving, walter payton, bo jackson, frank thomas, joe montana, jerry rice, ken griffey jr, muhammad ali /cassius clay, zion williamson, vince carter, luka doncic 

• MAIN FOCUSES
  • Indianapolis 500 / IndyCar related cards, postcards & match books
    • 1911 T36 American Tobacco Co. Auto Drivers
    • 1954 Stark & Wetzel Indianapolis 500 Winners
    • 1960 Parkhurst Indianapolis Speedway Winners
    • 1960s Marhoefer Indianapolis 500
  • Dale Earnhardt - specifically autographs & relics
  • T210 - Fort Worth, Galveston, Dallas and Birmingham
  • 1935 National Chicle Football
• OTHER PROJECTS
  • James Bond actors autographs
  • former WVU Mountaineers
  • Topps Buybacks
  • basketball players - Charles Barkley, Jason Williams, Bob Sura, Michael Jordan
  • baseball players - Will Clark, Dale Murphy, Russ Davis, Chris Enochs, Darrell Whitmore
  • hockey players - Andrew Shaw & Jeremy Roenick
  • racing - Dale Earnhardt, Lloyd Ruby, Jim McElreath
  • wrestling - 80s and early 90s
  • Fort Worth & Galveston baseball
  • T206
  • 1955 All American Football
  • T37 - Turkey Red Automobiles

I collect: NBA, NHL, NASCAR, Star Wars, History, Military, DC Comics, Olympics, whatever interests me

Current project is trying to get at least one card of everyone to ever get one for NBA, NHL and NASCAR. Also working on getting at least one example of every set ever for the above sports. (Wantlists on Cardboard History)

I have some health problems that make it challenging for me to get to my trade stash. It makes me a slow trader as there are some days when I'm simply in too much pain to access the boxes. My health problems are not transferable so you do not need to fear catching anything from trading with me. I generally only can mail on Saturdays.

Trading: 

I prefer to trade 1 card for 1 card. I do not care about any made up "book value". I will gladly trade more than one card for some as well...there are a few cards on my tradelist that I do need more than one card for in return though. I only put sets on my wantlist that are close to completion, so if you have something else in any of the three sports or the Non-Sports topics I focus on, odds are I will want it. Only reason I wouldn't is if I had it already.  If you don't have anything from the topics I mainly collect, but I have something you want, I will also accept football or baseball in trade, pretty much anything to get a trade done. I would prefer not to trade with smokers. I have breathing problems and cards that come from smokers are essentially useless to me, I cannot handle them. I prefer larger trades but will do any size at all.

I have tried to make sure all the cards on my Tradelist are problem free, with no corner dings, scratches or other flaws, but I am human and it's possible I may have missed something, but all cards sent out are cards you shouldn't need to worry about ever finding a replacement for. I don't demand problem free cards in return as my theory is that a damaged card is better than no card, but writing and paper loss means to me that I don't actually have that card so please don't offer them to me in trade. 

If you don't care about condition, take a look through my "Damaged Cards" collection. These are all cards that I rejected from my tradelist for having flaws but they are available for trade. I would put them at one third a card "value" so 3 damaged cards vs. 1 of your cards. If you do want any of them, let me know and I will move them to my tradelist. I don't want to put them all there and cause matches for people expecting good cards and getting damaged cards in return. Some of the flaws are pretty big problems, some you will probably wonder why I didn't list it in my tradelist. While my collection doesn't demand perfection, I am very strict with condition on cards I send out in trade.

Trading Prioroties: (what makes me the happiest to get in trade, in no particular order)

• 1995-96 and 1996-97 NBA Cards
• 1994 NASCAR Cards
• Any NASCAR card that actually focuses on the car
• Automotive Non-Sport cards
• New York Rangers
• New York Knicks
• New Jersey Nets (and Brooklyn and New York Nets, but the NJ era is my favorite
• Elton Brand
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Henrik Lundqvist
• History related Non-Sports cards
• Attractive women (with or without clothes)
• Anything from Racing Champions I don't have
• Team logo cards for NBA and NHL
• Non-sports subjects in Allen & Ginter
• People with last names starting with Q, U, Z and especially X. 
• With that said, I will trade for anything at any time, whether it's on my wantlist or not. I prefer "quantity" to "quality" and I'm a set builder at heart. 

There are also a couple of specific sets I'm really hoping to complete some day:

• 1996-97 Ultra (NBA), my favorite set ever
• 1988 Leesley Bigfoot (the set that got me started collecting)
• 2002-03 Topps Chrome Refractors (NBA) Refractors are my favorite parallel and this is the closest one to completion
• 1994 Action Packed (NASCAR) tied for my favorite NASCAR set
• 1989-90 Marine Midland New York Rangers (just need the cover card!)
• 1993 & 1994 Skybox The Simpsons (One base card away from completion, also chasing inserts)
• 1954 Topps Scoop (my favorite Non-Sport set ever)
• 1953-54 Topps World on Wheels (my favorite automotive set ever)

Ken Griffey Jr., Jay Buhner, Steve Largent and Ryan Bader

NFL:

Baltimore Ravens

MLB: 

New York Yankees

Seattle Mariners

Ichiro

NBA:

San Antonio Spurs

NHL: 

Montreal Canadiens

NPB:

Yomiuri Giants

Foreign Players

Soccer:

Liverpool

Panini World Cup Stickers

Brazil and Japan national teams

I have close to 1,500 give or take UNIQUE John elway cards. All in all with dupes, I probably have close to 3,000 Elway cards.  I have not actively persued any of his cards in over 9 years. My main focus of my collection are baseball cards.

I build all of the major brands sets. I collect ALL Braves as a separate collection, and I also have Player Collections with apx. 1,500 different PC guys. I have a baseball card blog on blogger (Johnnnystradingspot).

I also collect Wacky Packages. Especially the originals.

Cricket, Wrestling, Football, misc.

Mark Buehrle, Lee Seung-Yuop, Shigeo Nagashima, Masaichi Kaneda, Katsuya Nomura, Korean cards (KBO), vintage Japanese menkos, Dominique Wilkins, Sterling Sharpe, Herman Moore, Cris Carter

My goals: I'm trying to complete a few sets from the 1980s and early 1990s. Please have a look at my goals list for details.

Your goals: If you need any cards from my trade lists, feel free to send a trade proposal. Even if you don't have anything on my want lists to send in return, let me know anyway. I'm always willing to try to work out a trade.

About me: I blog about trading cards and also create and sell custom cards and other sports-related items. If that piques your interest, please have a look at the following sites:

My trading card blog: Nine Pockets

My 8-bit sticker shop: redbubble

My custom card store: eBay