A Few 2008 Stragglers

Yes this is a begging post. I have a few straggler team sets form 08 that I would love to finish off before we get too deep into 09. I am one Chrome short and 2 Goudey short of a team set. I have a few different sets like the A&G Minis, Chrome Refractors, Topps Heritage, Topps Base, and Heroes Black that I am only 3-5 cards short on. I would really like to get these ones knocked off. The other sets I am not so close on but I liked the cards so much that I would really like to build a set. If you have any of these to trade please let me know.

2008 Topps A&G Mini
55 Josh Beckett
134 Jason Varitek

2008 Goudey
294 Josh Beckett
303 Wade Boggs

2008 Topps Chrome
235 Clay Buchholz

2008 Topps Chrome Refractors
6 Daisuke Matsuzaka
20 Mike Lowell
66 Dustin Pedroia
90 David Ortiz
235 Clay Buchholz

2008 Topps Heratige
409 Jon Lester
474 Kevin Youkilis
477 Julio Lugo
486 Mike Lowell
498 Josh Beckett

2008 Stadium Club
21 Jacob Ellsbury
45 Josh Beckett
63 Kevin Youkilis
84 Daisuke Matsuzaka
99 Ted Williams
105 Chris Carter
138 Justin Masterson

2008 Stadium Club 1st Day Issue
11 David Ortiz
19 Jason Bay
55 Dustin Pedroia
84 Daisuke Matsuzaka
99 Ted Williams
138 Justin Masterson
145 Clay Buchholtz

2008 Timelines
108 Creig Breslow 92 Minor
176 Clay Buchholtz 94 All-Time Heroes
222 Jacoby Ellsbury 04 Timeless
223 David Ortiz 04 Timeless
226 Clay Buchholtz 04 Timeless
227 Jed Lowrie 04 Timeless
288 Jason Bay 04 Timeless
315 Clay Buchholtz 93 SP
340 Clay Buchholtz 94 SP
346 Justin Masterson 94 SP
365 Clay Buchholtz 95 SP
385 Johnathon Van Every 95 SP

2008 Topps
174 Julian Tavarez
232 Clay Buchholz (RC)
295 Tim Wakefield
379 Hideki Okajima

2008 Upper Deck Heroes Black
21 David Ortiz
26 Curt Schilling
27 Josh Beckett
28 Daisuke Matsuzaka
196 Boggs/Mattingly
177 Fisk/Yastrzemski

2008 Upper Deck - RED SOX
429 Josh Beckett
435 Jacoby Ellsbury
437 Sean Casey

2009 Cards added to my want list.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately I will be fixing that shortly (hopefully). I also have a few people (Aardvark, Junkie, & Blue jay Cards) to get back to about some trades that were (are still I hope) in the works.

I added 2009 to my want list. To access it either go from the link on the right side labeled Modern Red Sox Want List or use this one here. I have a bunch of 09 Heritage, Upper Deck and a few Topps to trade off. Maybe I'll post my extras after I get all caught back up on posting every trade I have received in the last few months. (Yes you see that correctly I have a looooong overdue trade post to publish that I got back in January, four months late isn't too late is it?)

Aardvark Pictures

I hope you are not here to see pictures of some furry animals because if so you are going to be disappointed. What you are looking at instead is some cards scans that were requested by Aardvark Trading. So without further ado...

Tiny crease in the top-right corner and someone liked him better for the Orioles, but it is still a 49 year of card of HOFer, Frank Robinson.



That isn't a cresase running down the middle it is a lack of ink on th ecard. Looks like a hair was in there when it got pressed.

Those are some kind of chip marks across Don's face.

Albie has a slight crease in the middle of the top of the card and niddle fo the right side.

Mays is in pretty good shape.

Vic is in the best shape of all of these cards.

Small crease by Gino's elbow in the small picture.

Fading, wrinkled, and wrote on. This card is in the worse shape of any on my 1960 Topps.

Let me know if you are still interested in these now that you have seen the scans.

1960 Topps Red Sox

I didn't have any takers for Phillie cards so I'm going to post the Red Sox. These are all doubles for me so hopefully I can trade them for some cards I don't ahve yet. I hope there are some other Red Sox fans out there that have some doubles to trade or that will make me a good offer.

1960 Topps Red Sox
15 Pete Runnels
38 Jerry Casale
54 Mike Fornieles
68 Dave Hilman
94 Leo Kiely
111 Vic Wertz
117 Tom Borland
184 GaryGeiger
203 Sammy White
232 Jim Busby
249 Earl Wilson
267 Jim Marshall
280 Frank Sullivan
296 Nelson Chuttum
317 Pimpsie Green
403 Ed Sadowski
439 Tom Brewer
487 Tom Sturdivant

1960 Topps Phillies for Trade

Since nobody has requested me posting any certain team I just grabbed one at ramdon and here it is. These are the 1960 Topps Phillies that I have for trade. I will trade them for any vintage Red Sox. If there are to trade offers I will take money offers. FYI: All of the Cardinal and Dodger cards are now spoken for.

1960 Topps Phillies
13 Wally Post
17 Johnny Callison
52 Dave Philley
64 Jack Meyer
103 Dick Farrell
130 Frank Herrera
167 Valmy Thomas
194 Bobby Gene Smith
211 Taylor Phillips
293 Gene Conley
302 Team Card
319 Joe Koppe
347 Ed Bouchee
384 Don Cardwell
438 Jim Coker
451 Curt Simmons
466 Phillies Coaches
486 Bobby Del Greco

Goose Joak, Penny and Carter

These guys nabbed the last two roster spots earlier this week.

It was a close race but Chris Carter got the roster spot over Jeff Bailey. Chris however is only on loan from Pawtucket untill Kotsay returns from back surgery.

Brad Penny got the nod to takethe ball in the 5th spot over young phenom Clay Buchholtz. Penny is coming back from an arm injury and if he can return to his old form he will be one heck of a guy to have in the 5 spot. Reports say he hit 96 on the gun in his last spring training game.

Just a few more days...

Trade with The Pettitte Pursuit

I recently dropped a surprise package on The Pettitte Pursuit. Luckly enough I sent him his first Pettite of 09. It turned out to be a really good thing I sent them because what I got in return was awesome.

One more 08 Red Sox A&G Mini to take off of the checklist. Hopefully I knock these out before the 09s get here.

A Red Back Mini Bucholtz. This is my 3rd 08 Goudey mini card. It makes me want to start collecting them, but I will be strong.

Be strong, who am I kidding; does anyone have some 08 Red Sox Goudey Minis to trade? Doesn't matter to me what color the backs are though. Card back papallels do not exist here at Thoughts and Sox.

A gold 08 Topps. This is actually the first gold card I received like this all the other gold cards I have are not gold bordered just gold foil.

Three 1/1 cards if I was a Bull $hit ebay seller.

These are actually 1/29, 29/29, and 150/150

2009 Yaz insert I didn'thave.

A Red Sox Auto of a guy most people never hear of. But here at Thoughts and Sox not only have we heard of him I was overjoyed to receive this auto. Jonathon got his cup of tea last year and I get his auto this year. Works for me.

Thanks for the cards Slette.

1960 Topps Cubs for trade

Here is the list of 1960 Topps Cubs that I have for trade. Steve has dibs on cards first since he was the one that asked for Cubs to be posted in the first place. I was going to post Indians next but Cheap Seats aleady nabbed every one of them so I'm open for sugestions on what team to post next, anybody...

1960 Topps Cubs
27 Dick Drott
39 Earl Averill
74 Walt Moryn
95 Frank Thomas
125 Dick Ellsworth
162 Sammy Taylor
217 Charey Grimm
233 Don Elston
248 Del Rice
259 George Altman
277 Harry Bright
337 Cal Neeman
357 Al Schroll
412 Bob Anderson
444 Jerry Kindall
457 Cubs Coaches
476 Lou Johnson
489 Steve Ridzik
504 Seth Morehead

1960 Topps for trade

I figure that there may be some set collectors out there that my not want to look at what I have to trade team by team. I'll trade them for vintage Red Sox from these two lists.

Editors Note: I will be deleting card number off of here as they are traded so this should be an accurate list of what I catually have. Grey means the cards are unavailable because I have trade in the works

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73 (paper loss), 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 99, 100, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 125, 126 (paper loss), 130, 133, 135, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180, 183, 184, 186, 188, 189, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 229, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 252, 253, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 286, 288, 291, 293, 296, 298, 299, 301, 302, 304, 306, 307, 311, 312, 313, 314, 317, 319, 320, 322, 328, 330, 337, 341, 345, 347, 351, 353, 354, 355, 357, 361, 364, 369, 370, 372, 378, 379, 380, 381, 383, 384, 388, 392, 393, 394, 396, 397, 398, 399, 401, 403, 404, 406, 407, 408, 409, 411, 412, 415, 417, 418, 419, 421, 422, 425, 427, 428, 430, 432, 434, 435, 438, 439, 440, 444, 446, 447, 449, 451, 454, 455, 457, 458, 460, 462, 466, 468, 469, 470, 471, 473, 474, 476, 479, 481, 482, 483, 485, 486, 487, 489, 490, 491, 495, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 503, 504, 506, 522, 542 & 538

1960 Topps Dodgers for trade

Because Night Owl was the first to respond yesterday I'm listing all of the 1960 Topps Dodgers I have for trade first. He has promised me a 57 Topps Red Sox so he gets first pick. The rest are "on the block" for Vintage Red Sox to whoever wants them. My want lists are here and here. (I would consider trades for current auto cards also but don't figure I will get any of them offered)

Here is the lineup.

1960 Topps Dodgers
5 Wally Moon pending
88 John Roseboro pending
105 Larry Sherry pending
128 Bill Harris Aardvark
155 Charlie Neal
191 Johnny Klippstein Night Owl
202 Fred Kipp
212 Walt Alston MGR pending
234 Don Demeter Aardvark
278 Stan Williams Aardvark
354 Bob Lillis pending
388 1959 WS Game 4 pending
391 1959 WS Champs GRCL
394 Norm Larker
408 Carl Furillo
425 Johnny Podres pending
442 Joe Pignatano Night Owl

Editors note: All Dodger cards have been claimed.

The next team I'm posting up is the Cubs.

A gift

I have the best group of guys/girls that work for me. At Christmas this year they all pitched in together and bought me a leather Red Sox Jacket plus my secretary bought me a Red Sox lamp. I came to work this Monday and got this suprise from one of them:


The guy that works for me had a friend who went to Cardinals Spring Training and asked him to get some Red Sox autographs when they played each other.

When his friend got home he gave me the ball. It has a total of 5 signatures.

The autos are:

12 Jed Lowrie

63 Justin Masterson

64 Michael Bowden
75 Hunter Jones

95 Tye ______ I can't read this one and I haven't been able to figure out who it might be.

How luucky I am to have such great employees.

Free 1960 Topps Cards

These are the real thing too, not some new set set put out by Topps with current players. Real Forty-Eight year old cardboard.

Free you say??

I say, "Yeah, what day is it"?

Seriously, someone out there knows the real purpose of this post. Everybody else just enjoy some original 1960 Topps cards.

I have about half of this set for sell /trade. If anyone is interested in some real 1960 cards please let me know. I figure I will post what I have team by team in hopes someone offers me some Vintage Red Sox or the money to get some more Red Sox. Are there any teams out there someone wants to see me start out with?

Here is the list of the Cardinal cards by part number.

1960 Topps Cardinals
16 Ernie Broglio
40 Joe Cunningham
73 Bob Gibson
120 Duke Carmel
124 Jim Donohue
149 Bob Nieman
168 Alex Grammas
197 Ron Kline
236 Dick Ricketts
263 Darrell Johnson
291 Bob Keegan
307 Gene Oliver
355 Bill White
383 Leon Wagner
401 Bob Duliba
446 Ellis Burton
419 George Crowe
468 Coaches
485 Ken Boyer

All Cardinal cards have noe been claimed.