A short trip to the LCS

I needed some supplies, as I am ramping up my collection organization.  I have priced binders online, and it's $12.00 for a "baseball" card binder.  A plain black binder at Walmart is $10.00.  The LCS had 2 "baseball" card binders, at $6.00 each.  I nabbed them up.  I also grabbed a pack of pages; 100 for $16.00, which seems to be the going rate online.  I also wanted to scan the common boxes for catcher cards, as well as buy a pack of something.  The big box stores have been desolate of any significant product that I would be interested in or interested in buying.  Here's the goodies I bought...it's not quite as much as I would usually buy.

Catchers

Player collections

Mini's

Royals Prospects

 Cubs Prospects

Cheap Packs

Topps Tribute Pack

TCDB trade with terrbear5951

I got another trade done with terrbear5951 on TCDB.  I got some PC goodies.

2018 Topps Series 2

I wasn't able to find a blaster box of Series 2, so I had to settle for a hanger box.  Not much to see here.

Base set

Foil card - What has happened to foil cards?  It seems like they are not as plentiful as they used to be in retail packs/boxes.

Iowans in the MLB

Catchers

Future player collection??

Cubbies

Royals

Boy, I sure do miss this guy in KC!

Inserts

TCDB trade with Petros56

I am behind on my blogging, and trading for that matter.  I think it's great that I get a lot of proposals, but I barely have the time to do what I would like to do with trading.  I'm "trying" to do two a week; I feel that is all the bandwidth I have right now.  This was a trade we got done awhile ago, but, again, just getting around to getting it up on the blog.  I got several cards I needed for the 2016 Topps Wrigley Field insert set.

This week's mail

This week's mail is exciting because these all happen to be people who I have sent requests to and wrote off my first attempt, and tried again and succeeded!

Juan Gonzalez
Signed 2/2
Sent c/o Home address
16 days

Mitch Maier
Signed 2/2
Sent c/o Kansas City Royals
15 days

Will Clark
Signed 1/2 (didn't return other card)
Sent c/o San Francisco Giants
66 days

Weekly TTM's

It's about time some little white envelopes started coming in.  I have been sending out quite a bit of requests lately, and they were coming in at a regular rate, but now, they've slowed way down.  

Brad Brach is currently with the Orioles.  He's their closer, and he was an All Star in 2016.

Brad Brach

Signed 2/2

Sent c/o Baltimore Orioles

42 days

This next one was a request from last year.  Corey Spangenberg is currently with the Padres.  He was sent to the minors briefly this year, but currently serves as a bench player for the Padres.

Corey Spangenberg

Signed 2/2

Sent c/o San Diego Padres

262 days

Clayton Kershaw

Quite a while back, I saw many fellow TTM'ers getting Clayton Kershaw's autograph.  Someone even commented I should try to get Clayton Kershaw.  Well, I decided to pull the trigger, and I never got anything back.  Over 2 years later, I got my card back, unsigned, with this insert.