Trade Pile 001: Dusting Off The Pile With A Bazooka

Trade Pile 001:

Card 6: Dusting Off The Pile With A Bazooka

27 Aug 2026

Here is something I attempted back in 2022. I modeled it after what others bloggers had done. A trading stack/pile/lot. I tried it for a few months, I tended to add a new card at the end of each month. It sort of fizzled out, but then again my blogging fizzled out for a while there. I figured I would try to do this again for a second effort. I realize that it might take a while and possibly create a large stack before getting a bite.

For card number six, well this one is not a standard card, it is more like one of those paper tattoos or "magic" rub offs. They are simply called "comic cards". They are in a similar style of the old Bazooka Joe Comic strips, but with a star player featured. This one I'm adding to the Pile is comic card number 4 Rafael Palmiero Baltimore Orioles.

Top of The Pile:

2006 Bazooka Baseball - Comic Card Insert:

04 Rafael Palmeiro Baltimore Orioles

The rest of the Pile:

2015 Topps Chrome Baseball:

59 Kevin Kiermaier Tampa Bay Rays

1989 Topps Baseball:

373 Tracy Jones Expos

1991 Topps Cracker Jack Mini (Micro) Baseball:

17 Mark Langston Angels

Yes this one is creased some. 

(image obviously not to scale)

2011 Topps Opening Day Baseball:

ODS-3 Alex Rodriguez Yankees

2016 Bowman Draft - Chrome Baseball:

BDC-29 Justin Dunn Mets

The concept is simple I will post a card or cards I have up for trade and the first person to claim the "pile" in this post's comments will receive them all. The golden rule with this is that you must offer at least one card off of my wantlists. See My Master Want List on this blog and My Wantlist at TCDB (Collection -> Main Collection -> scroll to Wantlist, select sport category) If you don't have a card off of my lists I will also accept cards for my Niche collections or Pre 1987 Vintage Baseball or Football (NFL) same years. Please let me know what you intend to send if it is a card not from my lists. If it is a card on my lists you don't have to identify the card, just claim the pile and say you have a card on my list.

After awhile a month, or maybe even just a week, whenever, I will add another card or two to the "Pile" (or "Stack") of unclaimed cards until the pile gets claimed. 

Steven Jackson Rookie Gum Card

 For this post I was going to talk about a sub-set of Team Checklists that I had gotten fairly recently from my May Sportlots Spending Spree from their Seller's Stores (no Auctions). I used to have a huge list of cards that I was "watching" for several months and ended up purchasing 100+ cards (120 some or 140 some?) from 15-20 different sellers, averaging at roughly the 18¢ starting price. I ended up completing a few little sub-sets or making a dent in some others, plus I got a few cards for my Strive for '65 Set Build. I have enough to make a few posts on this blog and on my Curly W Cards blog. I have tons of other cards in my collection/hoard so don't worry about me not having any post content. It is more a matter of wanting to post about it and how easy it will be to do the scanning, or when I can do the scanning in relation to how close the end of the month is. Anyway I didn't feel like scanning the 20 some almost 30 cards for the post I was planning. Fortunately for my usual cutting it close to the deadline for the month I had this card available to yack about.

So here is the card I decided to talk about a 2004 Bazooka Football Rookie Card for Steven Jackson. Well one of the 100zillion Rookie Cards of his. Now days a single player has more dang RCs from just one of the dozens of sets from just one of the dozens of brands ironically made by only a handful of manufacturers than most players had total cards for their lifetime of cards back just a few decades ago.

Enough of the Yakety Yak here is the young super running back.

2004 Bazooka Football: 215 Steven Jackson RC St. Louis Rams

Stand-Ups 2003 Looks like 1964

Got this 2003 Topps Bazooka Stand-Up card (based on the 1964 Topps Stand-Ups) for a steal from sportlots for 25¢ plus shipping 95¢ Considering the player it is a super steal.

2003 Bazooka Stand-Up 9 Alex Rodriguez - Rangers

I do want to collect this set of 25 cards, plus probably the set of 4 red versions. I am also looking for the original 1964s in decent shape, preferably complete even if it was "folded".