Winnings from Johnny

 As most of you know, John from Johnny’s Trading Spot holds almost daily giveaways where all you have to do is follow and comment and you are entered. I won on Fridays post, and John like he always does sent a nice pwe filled with what he can find from his trade box that fits into my collection. 

My envelope arrived Thursday night and was filled with Rays, Tigers, and a certain guy I collect who shares my last name. 

I’ve been a huge fan of Brent Honeywell just because he throws a true screwball. I’m glad to see him doing well this year, but am sad that it is with the bat-flipping, showboating, drunk-spending Padre$. The Lowe Diamond King gives me his base and DK Optic cards. I may have the base and DK from the regular Donruss version as well. Next up are a trio of what I think are Atomic Refractors from 2019 Topps Chrome. Daz Cameron was a guy I hoped would do good for Detroit, especially given the fact that he is Mike Cameron's kid, and I figured the bloodlines would do him good, as the elder Cameron hit 4 HRs in a game and was a Gold Glover. Daz didn't do much with Detroit, and is now with Baltimore. The next card has the Atomic Refractor technology, but I believe it is from the Chrome Sapphire product (with the blue being the only difference I believe). Paul DeJong is a guy I collect because we share the same last name, and John usually hooks me up with his cards whenever he can find them. This time, it's his 2021 Topps Blue parallel, and his 2020 Topps Heritage Chrome Purple Refractor. Thanks for the great cards, John.

I haven't really been adding complete sets to my complete Topps project lately, but I have been inputting cards into my TCDB collection. I passed the 20,000 card mark, and all my Topps cards from NL teams are entered. I have also got them input from my favorite player, rookie card, sunset card, highlights, and special card binders. Currently, I am working on inputing all of my Detroit Tigers (even non-Topps) cards. I've finished the cards from 1951-1994, and will work on the 1995 sets once I post this.  I'll do the same thing with the Rays once the Tigers are finished, and after the Rays, I'll work on Topps sets from the AL teams, and then generate my Topps needs lists. Then input all my non-Topps cards from NL and AL teams, special binders, and then start to pull the trigger on some TCDB trades. Probably a year or so down the road, though. 

I decided to search for a cheap Topps complete set, and I figured 2007 might be cheap, and they were a little higher than what I expected on the first couple of Google pages (75-100 bucks), but a few pages down, I found a site that might be a nice one to search through every once in a while. Goodwill Finds seems like it is a centralized Goodwill selling site that ships from Colorado. I found a 2004 Topps set for 29.99, what looks like a complete 1991 Topps set for 16.00, and a binder that had pictures of 1993 Topps cards in numerical order for 26 bucks. I think it may contain the Jeter rookie, and even if not, I need many cards from that set to complete it, so it's a win in my book. There was a 2007 Topps set I might pull the trigger on in a few weeks when I get an inventory bonus, and what I really wanted to get my hands on was a lot of 3 binders that was 100 dollars. I think it's a tad high of a price, and didn't have everything I wanted, but for a guy looking to sell cards to fund other ones, it might be a good buy. It had what looked to be complete 2003 Topps and Upper Deck sets in binders, and what looked to be a complete 2001 Topps set in binders. The 2001 Topps set would've had an Ichiro Suzuki rookie as one of the final cards in the set, but the listing only showed a few pages of the binder. I could've used many cards from the 2001 and 2003 Topps sets, but I didn't need the 2003 UD stuff, and I just don't have 100 bucks to spend on cards on a whim. All of this and the fact I already had the Ichiro '01 Topps led me to pass on it. If you decide to jump on the lot and have cards from the '01 and '03 Topps sets that you don't need, please let me know and I'll try to trade something for them. 

I'll let you know how the shipping is and if the sets I purchased were indeed complete sets. You do have to wade through some junk, but I think I found some good stuff.

Thanks for checking out my latest post.

-Jeremy