bhk5150

Player collections of: Eduardo Perez, Garret Anderson, Alex Rodriguez, Ted Williams, Jim Rice, Dustin Pedroia and Andrew McCutchen

2022 represents an anniversary of collecting trading cards for 70 years. I spent 50 years as a set builder of baseball cards, but now I just collect cards of the above players with an occasional small set collection. At one time, I had an collection of complete sets of Topps and Bowman baseball cards (plus others) from 1954 forward plus quite a few cards from the 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps and Bowman sets. During the late 1980s and early 1990s I sold off the majority of those sets but still continued completing sets until 2002.  

I've been trading online since 1994 and welcome any trade offers.  If I offer a trade, the cards normally have already been pulled prior to an acceptance, counter or decline. It is not a problem for me to re-file or exchange cards in a trade if needed.  I do keep records of my trading with my partners addresses and occasionally recheck those traders for future trades or sometimes just send along a PIF (pay it forward).  My one major disappointment with this site is that I did not find it many years before I did.  I will usually mail cards out promptly with tracking, however lately I have used PWEs for relatively small value trades.  Saying this, I welcome trade offers.  I do not expect to ever wind up with compete collections of any of the players I collect, nor do I want to.  I try to just enjoy my collecting habit and strive to make new friends in the hobby!

Last but not least, I do not sell cards, trades only.

Pete collects Hall of Fame baseball players, retired HOF candidates and active superstars.

- Pittsburgh Pirate cards (looking to trade for those that I don’t have).  Ideally I can match up with other Pirate collectors and we can help each other out.  I have tons of Pirates items to swap: vintage, modern, parallels, inserts, odds ‘n ends.

- Vintage baseball from 1950 - 1978 (want lists and “to improve” lists…… my condition requirements / requests vary from set to set; I will list the condition of the vintage I’ve got on my trade / sell lists as my time allows)

-Select modern sets and singles (need some that are listed on my website, and others that aren’t listed; need others / have many listed on my website under “Available to Trade” and many others that aren’t list….. a work in progress)

-Most of my wantlists / upgrade lists are posted on my website.  Many other wants aren’t listed.  Over time I hope to transition all card wants and all trade lists to the Tcdb site.

Good communication, effective packaging, prompt mailing, and above all……a mellow “fairness” are what I’m hoping to find with trade partners

Matt Williams (#1 TCDB)

Still in the long process of uploading my current collection of baseball cards.

New to the site since 1/25/23 after a 20-year break in collecting and have just completed 450 trades on 3/8/2024!

ALWAYS looking for 1998 Topps Tek Diffractors Patterns for card #44!

Most wanted items:

1987 The Bon Pocatello Giants Team Set

1990 Phoenix Baseball Magnetables #54 Matt Williams

1991 O-Pee-Chee - Pre-Production Sample Sheets #NNO