Zistle Trade #5

The Baseball season may be over, but my card collecting season doesn't stop. Here I've got another small trade made through Zistle, acquired for some of my 2012 Gypsy Queen duplicates

1986 Topps Mini League Leaders #59 Jack Clark

I was surprised to find I didn't have any cards from this set, yet, but now all of the Cardinals are on my want list.

2008 Allen and Ginter #263 Yadier Molina
2007 Upper Deck Future Stars #87 Scott Rolen
2009 O-Pee-Chee #493 Yadier Molina
2011 Topps Finest #100 Daniel Descalso

Offering a Molina or two is a good way to get your trade accepted by a Cardinal fan. Descalso and Rolen are good 3B pickups too, but I actually had this trade in progress the same time as the last one, and I didn't realize both traders had offered me the Future Stars Rolen. It's a nice enough card, but I don't really need 2, so it's now back on my trade list unless/until a Rolen autograph opportunity comes up and I need a duplicate to get signed.

Group Break Results from JABOs

Kyle at Juuust a Bit Outside held a group break of 2011 Lineage and Finest back in January. Since I'm nearly 3 months behind now, here were my results, with which I was pretty pleased. I bought 3 teams because I can't resist the Add-a-team-for-a-few-more-dollars deal. The third team, assigned randomly, was the Blue Jays, but I managed to trade it for the Tigers. That turned out very well for me as you'll see.

2011 Lineage - 75 Mini Relics #75R-AJ Austin Jackson

2011 Lineage - Diamond Anniversary #135 Tim Lincecum

2011 Lineage - Cloth Stickers #TCS40 Tim Lincecum

2011 Lineage - Refractors #192 Willie McCovey

2011 Lineage - Rookies #11 Brandon Belt

2011 Finest - Refractors #12 Miguel Cabrera #155/549

2011 Finest - Autographs #99 Eduardo Sanchez #454/499

Base Card Listings:
2011 Lineage:
4 Buster Posey
9 Matt Holliday
38 Chris Carpenter
40 Stan Musial
43 Victor Martinez
47 Lance Berkman
57 Willie McCovey
83 Adam Wainwright
85 Al Kaline
105 Ty Cobb
119 Matt Cain
135 Tim Lincecum
141 Ozzie Smith
155 Bob Gibson
156 Austin Jackson
162 Brandon Belt
176 Miguel Tejada
178 Albert Pujols
187 Justin Verlander
189 Jaime Garcia
192 Willie McCovey

2011 Finest:
3 Buster Posey
22 Justin Verlander
83 Brandon Belt
99 Eduardo Sanchez
100 Daniel Descalso