Group Trade highlights: The Keepers

Whew!

I used up every bubble mailer and shipping supply I had on hand (and had to run out and buy some more Sunday night), but I'm happy to say that every address I've received now has a parcel of cards on their way!

The Group "Trade" turned out very nicely for me, even before any return packages have been opened. I claimed the Twins and Athletics for myself, and in addition I am hanging on to all the unclaimed teams as well.

Before this weekend, I had zero cards from 1999 Fleer Ultra, zero from 2002 Topps Gallery, zero Fleer Greats of the Game, and zero 2003 Topps Stadium Club. Now I have a nice fat stack of a little bit of everything.

Here are some of my favorites from each box:

1996 Pinnacle:

That's quite the mullet.

1999 Fleer Ultra:

Otis Nixon with the facemask, the ridiculous PC interface on the Eric Chavez card, Tony playing a little D, and Kenny Rogers ... yeah.

How about some horizontal heroes?

2002 Topps Gallery:

2002 Fleer Greats:

Stan "The Baby Face" Musial, a great action shot of Vida Blue, and three greats of the Twins/Senators franchise.

2003 Topps Stadium Club:

Just great photos, as you might expect, from Stadium Club.

If you missed out on the trade and/or one of the unclaimed teams is of interest to you, I can still be persuaded to trade those cards for something. I've been trying to expand my "collecting goals" page to include more Players, and over the next few days/weeks/etc. I plan on building up the Junk Wax list to move beyond 1993 to start to fill in the years I missed the first time around.