…starts with these.
Oh, and this…
See, apparently, Stubby is building this set (the green border retail parallel of 2017 Gypsy Queen), and in doing so, he’s ended up with a bunch of doubles, which I now have. The ones pictured above are the ones I’m keeping. (Especially that Koufax.) The rest? Hell, I’m never building this…I haven’t even grabbed any base Gypsy Queen yet (even though it is a nice set this year). So, with Stubby’s blessing, I’m offering ’em up for trade.
Here’s the list of what I have right now:
10 Miguel Cabrera
11 Jordan Zimmermann
16 Trea Turner
17 Dexter Fowler
23 Blake Snell
25 Michael Fulmer
32 Johnny Cueto
41 A.J. Ramos
51 Kevin Kiermaier
52 Jose Bautista
55 Corey Dickerson
57 Jean Segura
58 Jung Ho Kang
68 Alcides Escobar
85 Raimel Tapia
86 Chris Archer
90 Justin Turner
98 Adam Wainwright
99 Brandon Crawford
117 Jonathan Villar
122 Dee Gordon
124 Buster Posey
126 Justin Verlander
149 Matt Holliday
152 Wilson Ramos
159 Matt Kemp
160 Josh Donaldson
163 Renato Nunez
165 J.A. Happ
178 Dallas Keuchel
183 George Springer
190 Miguel Sano
191 Marcel Ozuna
192 Christian Yelich
202 Welington Castillo
207 Jeremy Hellickson
212 Masahiro Tanaka
213 Elvis Andrus
217 Josh Harrison
237 Jon Lester
238 Tyler Naquin
241 Josh Bell
249 Luke Weaver
253 C.J. Cron
254 Danny Salazar
255 Matt Wisler
265 Eugenio Suarez
268 Joe Panik
271 Colby Rasmus
278 Alex Colome
285 Kirby Yates
287 Tony Watson
291 Didi Gregorius
296 Jose Abreu
If you’re interested, give me a buzz. They probably won’t be around forever! If you’ve got some green border doubles you can send me to send to Stubby, those are welcome, too! Here’s his want list:
2017 Gypsy Queen Green Border Retail Parallels:
13-15, 21, 26, 33, 34, 37, 39, 43, 46, 64-66, 69, 74 (Correa), 88, 91 (Swanson), 94, 97 (Cecchini), 105, 119, 121 (deGrom), 125, 127 (Cespedes), 129, 138, 164, , 174, 181 203, 211, 218, 223, 225, 229, 230, 234, 239 (A. Cabrera), 247, 260, 261, 267, 275, 279, 280, 293, 302 (Sandberg), 303 (Jeter), 306 (Griffey Jr.), 311 (Ozzie Smith), 312 (McGuire), 316 (Pudge Rodriguez), 318 (Brett)
Stubby put some other fun stuff in the box, too, so let’s have a look at a few of the highlights…
This card was in a carefully obscured card holder, with no idea as to its identity. A mystery! I loves a mystery.
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Like hell it has no value! I needed it for my ’72-’73 set that I’ll never finish. (I do like their fries, though.)
Going back to the GQ stuff, here’s a pair of Ichiro inserts. These are keepers, because that Ichiro feller’s on ’em.
Stubby threw a handful of old wax in the box, too. (Yeah, I opened it all.) I came up basically empty on the ’90 Topps Hockey I opened (no Islanders or names I recognized), there are apparently Hall of Famers visible on 3 of the ’81 Fleer Teams In Action Football cards, but I haven’t tried to dissect who they are yet, and while there was a Dwight Evans and a Paul Molitor card in the ’91 OPC Premier pack I opened, I’d have to check to see if I have either and the cards are on a different floor of the house than I am right now. However, in my ’13 Topps Series 2 pack, there was a fun little number.
Needed it for my set! I don’t end up adding to this set enough.
This was the best of the bunch of packs he through in, though…
Someone was just talking about that Fleer collectors’ hat on Twitter the other day. I would really love to see proof that it exists. Anyway, I opened a bunch of ’86 Fleer, whatever I could get my hands on at Cumberland Farms (because it was damn tough to get elsewhere), and I eventually bought a complete set in a lot of other cards, but I never did get one of these from any of the packs I opened, until now…
Coulda used you in ’86, guys!
Thanks for the stuff, Stubby!