Delivery Time! Trade with Chris from The Call of Cardboard

NailTamie Eylül 09, 2022

One of the side benefits of hosting group breaks is that it provides a great chance to trade with new people - Chris, known as CardSplitter, from The Call of Cardboard is one such person. Many people have fairly basic blog names, but Chris' is a little more unique once you see why he chose it. According to his blog bio:

Why cardsplitter? Half of the packs I buy get put in a box for my son, born in March 2009, to open when he is older.

If that isn't just about the coolest idea ever, I don't know what is. Imagine the treasure trove of packs that kid will have to enjoy as he gets older. My only advice would be to slowly dole the packs out - otherwise they'll lose their luster!

Now, Chris claimed the Red Sox in my latest group break, so he sent his payment plus a few cards off my want list. In return, I'll be sending Chris all the Red Sox I pull in the group break (obviously) plus a few cards off his want list.

The only downside to this trade is a bunch of the cards are now duplicates thanks to another trade I recently received. You see, I recently decided to stop graying out promised cards on my want list because I was having too many of the proposed trades fall through (or take way too long to complete). As such, I now figure that worst case scenerio is I'll end up with some extra trade bait - which is exactly what will happen to some of these cards!

Here's what he sent:

2010 Topps:

Tales of the Game:
TOG-1: Ty Cobb
TOG-17: Wade Boggs
TOG-23: Manny Ramirez