Grand Salami Of Trade Bait - San Francisco Giants Edition

Hey everybody,

Since baseball season is about to start, let's get the party started with getting some trades underway.

In the coming days I'll be posting trade bait from just about every team in The Show.
Why not EVERY team, you ask?  Unfortunately, there are one or two that I don't have cards for. 

The levels of trade bait will vary of course, dependant upon what I'm currently holding.  Some teams will feature a hit or two, some will have vintage, and others not.  I'll certainly try to not list any bench warmer scrubs.

If you like any of the cards, feel free to ask for one, a few, or all of 'em.  

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I'll be posting teams in no particular order, but let's get the hated ones out of the way quickly.  Leading off the Grand Salami...

THE EVIL ONES FROM THE BAY

BOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!

RC Shield and one of those special A&G "code" cards

RC Shield

Old-time Giant rockin' his cap fonky style!

'Nother RC Shield

Marichal BOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!

I always hated to see Matt Williams come to the plate against the Dodgers. 

That's it for today.  Tune in tomorrow for more Grand Salami of Trade Bait! 

Pop Up One Trade And A Chunter Trade May Come Down

Hey everybody,

Like many of you, I've been falling a bit behind in trade posts.  However, that's due to good reasons, 

1.  I've been making enough trades to have a backlog, and

2.  I've had a surplus of additional topics to write about. 

This post is a combination of two trades.  Let's start with my first ever trade with Chunter, who is behind the cool blog, Chipp 'n' Dale.  Chunter really did me right in this trade because he sent over a bunch of Hall of Famers that I just cannot collect enough cards of.  Sure, they're tribute cards, but I love 'em when they have a great design or they are reprints of cards I could never own otherwise. 

This first card is a great example. Here we have a Topps 2011 reprint of a beautiful card, the 1933 DeLong.  I have a couple of these DeLong reprints, and they are always welcome in any trade package to me.

 While I'm not a huge fan of cards from the short-lived Ted Williams Card Company, this is from a great player whom I collect, and the chosen photos absolutely work with this design...

Harmon "Killer" Killabrew. 

I think you all know how I feel about this guy.

More Rickey Henderson?  Yes, sir.  My first Blue Jays issue of Rickey.

I recently watched that "Cobb" movie starring Tommy Lee Jones.  While I'm not sure if I liked the movie enough to ever watch it again, I'm pretty darn sure Tommy Lee didn't look anything like the real Georgia Peach...

Above is a card which goes right into my Mike Schmidt collection.  It seems one day in the Houston Astrodome Schmidtty crushed what looked like a three run HR - but the ball hit a public address monstrosity hanging 300 feet away and 100 feet up.  Scratch one home run, pencil in a single.

Next up isn't technically a new trade, rather it's a continuation of generosity from Bert over at Swing And A Pop Up.  Bert had a fistful of extras from the Hy-Grade set which I'm chasing, and he sent them over to me.  This batch got me to less than 23 cards to completion of the set, so I'm stoked.  Here's some of the baseball greats that I caught...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 The guy below knows a bit about beanball wars with the Dodgers, and ironically, Dodger Stadium lurks in the background...

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Enos here holds a special place with me because the first mitt I ever owned was an Enos Slaughter model.  

THANKS for the great cards, Chunter and Bert. 

THANKS for reading, everybody! 

Something About The Enemy? Here? WTH?

hey everybody,

whilst bouncing around the blogs, i came upon inspiration for this post from brother blogger arpsmith
over at Arpsmith's Sportscard Obsession.  he mentioned his memories of candlestick park, and although i never attended a game there, as a lifelong Dodger fan i have lots of baseball memories of the stick.

when i was a kid, ESPN didn't exist, and your team's every game on cable wasn't an option - heck, cable itself wasn't an option.  But good ol' channel 11 always broadcast games for us here in L.A. when the Dodgers played up in S.F.  i remember watching just about every game.  some of my favorite memories from my youth are watching the game on our black & white tv with my dad.

i remember Vin Scully always talked about the swirling bay winds turning the act of catching an innocent pop fly into a daring adventure. 

back in those days - the LA/SF rivalry was deeply felt from the players to the managers, to the fans.

the scene from above was before my time, but it epitomizes that rivalry.  juan marichal is shown here parting Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro's hair with a bat.  Sandy Koufax is in there too.

they say candlestick was notorius for Dodgers/giants fan fights, but the new park is much more peaceful.  i've been to quite a few games up there, but never to a Dodgers game. what do you think. arpsmith?

the S.F. fans love to hate the Dodgers, and they really loved to hate Tommy Lasorda.  at the stick, Tommy would have to take a long walk along the stands from the clubhouse to the visitors dugout, and the frisco fans just loved to shower him every step of the way with a healthy portion of BOOOOOOOO !!

the Dodgers were the visitors again at the last baseball game ever played at the stick.  even though Tommy was no longer the Dodgers manager, he was invited to walk that gauntlet one last time.  (that's the picture shown above.)  which brings me to the memorabilia portion of this post.  at one of the games i attended in S.F.'s park with the giant soda bottle, i bought this...

this is a cool connection to old, personal baseball memories.  also cool because it says 'FINAL' game.  finally, extra cool because the Dodgers gave candlestick a great farewell present.  yup, the Dodgers won that game 9 - 4.  

THANKS for reading!