P-Town Tom Strikes Back

Tom from Waiting Til Next Year wasted no time sending me a return package for the group trade from last week.

Check out the awesomeness that is this package:

 

This is how it is done, folks. Despite my love of vintage and of 1965 Topps in particular, I to this day had never picked up a single one of the Gold Embossed insert cards. No better place to start than with the Twins - 1965 MVP Zolio Versalles and Harmon Killebrew:

And a little faux vintage (those were also my first Obak cards!)

Some more cool vintage (including a Toledo Mud Hen, long time farm club for the Twins)

A pack of cards commemorating the plans for the new Twins Stadium that eventually became Target Field (note that there's a retractable roof on the design - we opted to skip that feature for the final version):

But even though it was a pit, a roller rink, an industrial nightmare, I still miss the old Metrodome from time to time. It's nice to see the way it makes every game look like a night game on the cards, like this Rick Reed:

Two nice stacks of Topps Total and 2001 Topps, both of which were new cards to me.

And what's this? A Sega Card Gen Card of Carl Pavano?

I assume that the back talks about the powers he gains from his epic moustache. No translation needed for that!

Thanks very much Tom, packages like this are exactly why I thought the Group Trade would be a big win for everyone!