Trade Mail From A Cracked Bat

Received some really great parallels and numbered cards in a stash of Angels recently from A Cracked Bat.  Here's the highlights:

2016 Topps Heritage Chrome #40, 491/999

2016 Topps #159, Black 43/65

2016 Gypsy Queen Mini Purple #41, 139/250 and Mini Variation #41

2016 Topps Berger's Best #BB-60

I wonder how many of these are being passed off as "2011 Mike Trout Rookie, Rare Gold Version!"

2016 Bowman Platinum #TP-TW and #TP-NS

1994 Collectors Choice #94 Silver Signature

That chunk out of DiSar's cheek is not the result of a hunting accident.

Its just from my scanner.

1995 Topps Cyber Stats #355, #364, and #387

2016 Topps Bunt Program P-10

2015 Topps Mini

2016 Diamond Kings #73
2016 Gypsy Queen Blue Framed #41 and #55

1995 Pinnacle Museum Collection #215 and #220

Gotta love Museum Collection,

and all the other cards above for that matter.

Thanks Julie!

Johnnys Trading Spot Trade Mail

I received a nice PWE from John containing a bunch of, what else, Angels cards.

2004 Donruss Team Heroes #441

Sometimes you can forget who played for your team.

I saw this Bartolo Colon card and thought, "Oh yeah, forgot he played for them".

And if I recall, I got another card of him early last year and thought the same thing.

Colon was an Angel from 2004-2007. He won 21 games for them in 2005.

So why don't I remember that.

Nice variety of cards.

1994 Donruss #83 Special Edition
Another gold foil edition done right.
I'm toying with doing a box break of 1994 Donruss Series 1.
I'm about 6 cards short of the team set and there's a lot of good Salmon's in there.

1988 Donruss Baseballs Best

I didn't care for the blue base set, but I dig this orange version.

Thank for the PWE John.

I Love The Smell Of Cardboard In The Morning Trade Mail

Regarding a handful of team bags full of cards, in a padded envelope, Tim hoped I could "find some cards I need". 

Boy did I.  

I also found cards I want, and cards I just altogether dig.

2003 Topps #41 Gold Parallel 0931/2003

2007 Bowman Sterling #BS-BW

1999 Pacific #7 Red

Came one-per pack.

1999 Fleer Ultra #36G Gold Medallion

Could have been centered better, but I love the gold background.

2016 Allen & Ginter #122 Mini Black

2016 Topps Spring Fever # SF-1

Tim Salmon selection

1997 Score #494 Goin Yard (center)

Can't identify this foil parallel, no Premium Stock stamp.

2003 Donruss Diamond Kings #155 Bronze Foil

One of the greatest card ideas ever: framing.

2015 Topps Heritage A Legend Begins #NR-2

I will definitely have to work on this Nolan Ryan subset.

2016 Topps Walmart Holiday Snowflake #HMW59 and HMW119

Snowflakes on baseball cards...ho-kay.

2000 Upper Deck Collection Sweepstakes Cards

Lou Gehrig 1927 Road Jersey

This is awesome because it's another variation that I didn't have.

My card is on the left, Tim sent me the card on the right.

The difference is that Tims card has a line on the back to enter your email address.

Mine doesn't have that.

Subtle variations, gotta look for those subtle variations.

Baseball Checklist Cards

Random sampling of a bunch of checklist cards included.

Hopefully I can complete a couple sets out of them.

Drew Bledsoe Rookies

Gotta list these, they are so cool, and I didn't have any of them yet.

1993 Classic Four Sport Acetates #6

1993 Playoff #295

1993 Upper Deck Rookie Exchange #RE2

1993 Classic Four Sport Tri-Card #TC2

1993 Classic Four Sport Power Pick PP8

Really great cards Tim, thank you.

Infield Fly Rule Trade Mail

Heres just a small selection of the two bricks of cards I received from Infield Fly rule.

I picked out some of my favorites.

1992 Classic Best

Nice selection of Angels Rookies.  Look at that great Jim Edmonds card!

1981 Fleer Star Stickers #50

Angels Great Bobby Grich contemplating his next diving stab, double play.

1993 Triple Play #103

A very young Damion Easley in my favorite Angels uniform.

1994 Upper Deck

The crotch shot I can do without, but the Jorge Fabregas chasing a pop-up action shot is awesome.

1997 Fleer Update

Almost the whole update Angels Team set.  Just short of the Duane Buice card.

I'm sure I have a dupe somewhere.

1994 Upper Deck prospect cards

Ryan Hancock - cool, Jorge Fabregas - SWEET!

And a couple "Angels in the Background" cards.

Looks like Damion Easley on the left.

On the right I'm not sure.

Oh wait, it too is Damion Easley.

His uniform number changed from 46 to 1 in 1993.

Thanks for the package Adam, much appreciated.

Mike Trout National Baseball Card Day

Chose a bunch of cards to show off from a box of cards sent over from P-Town Tom.

Tom let us know that he had bags of cards available for trade, so I took him up on some Gold Topps Angels, and whatever Frank Tanana he had available.

All the rest were a nice bonus he included.

2016 Topps National Baseball Card Day #4

1994 Upper Deck SP Holo View FX #15

A bunch of nice Tim Salmon

And a bunch of nice Erstad's

1998 Upper Deck Starquest, Student Of The Game SQ61 and SQ62

One of the 1992 Topps Gold, #629

And one of the 1993 Topps Gold #633

A Sampling of the handful of Frank Tanana, 1992 Donruss #111

1996 Fleer Emotion-XL

Almost a complete set, and I already have the Abbott, Edmonds, and Anderson, so this may actually make the complete set.

Really great cards Tom, thanks!

Trade Post Of Crooked Cards

Well, actually, most of these cards were scanned crooked, maybe a result of being on Benadryl.

Regardless, I selected a handful of the cards sent from The Lost Collector to show off.

1998 Ultra Gold Medallion Edition #164G Darin Erstad

1997 Pinnacle Museum Collection #PP46

1990 ProCards Palm Springs Angels #2593

1994 Pinnacle The Naturals #9

1997 Topps Gallery #102

1997 Topps Baby Boomers #BB5 Darin Erstad

2016 Topps Bunt #138 Albert Pujols and #1 Mike Trout

1999 Upper Deck HoloGrFX Launchers #L5 Mo Vaughn

1995 Signature Rookies B-1 Bomber #B2 Darin Erstad

2014 Gypsy Queen White Framed #41 Jered Weaver

1968 Topps #252 Angels Team

2004 Upper Deck Power Up #8 Troy Glaus

2012 Topps Update #US138 Ernesto Frieri

AJ sent me the card on the left, I included the other to show you how off-set the gold foil is.

Love printing errors!

2001 Private Stock Game Used Gear Bat Relic #1 Garret Anderson

The All-Seeing Bat-Eye

1998 Sports Illustrated Schedule Poster Tim Salmon

Didn't know about these, very cool.

Super great stuff AJ, thank you.