A trade with Tim

So I was able to swing a trade with Tim, one of the loyal followers of the blog, that gained me 11 totally new autos and Mike Boddicker on an O's card, a major upgrade over the Red Sox signed card I had before!

Thanks for helping me out Tim and I'm glad I was able to boost your collection too. Just to remind everyone else; I'm always up for a trade!

Here are the new autos Tim sent me:

Benny Ayala 79-84


Don Baylor 70-75


Marty Cordova 02-03


Jim Dwyer 81-88


Glenn Gulliver 82-83


Terry Kennedy 87-88


John Lowenstein 79-85


Luis Mercedes 91-93


Carl Nichols 86-88


And here is the upgraded Boddicker:

Mike Boddicker 80-88

Tim also had a cool idea to create his own index card for Bob Boyd
Bob Boyd 56-60 (d.04)

And he made an O's Crown replica for Robert Machado

And finally he sent me a Lenn Sakata, which I thought I needed
but I found one in a box after we made the trade...

Thanks again Tim, I hope we can make another trade in the future!

My Dad's O's autograph collection

This is something that I should have written about well before this, but my dad has been trying for the few years to put together an entire autographed set of (preferably Orioles and/or '83 Topps) cards from the '83 Orioles World Series Championship team. He is trying to get the entire roster of players, not just those who were on the field for the last out. Many of the guys don't have '83 Topps cards, so he is substituting them with (in order of preference, at least I think I have this right) an '82 or '84 Topps, an '83 card by another card manufacturer (Donruss, etc.), or a Minor League card from 1983.

I know that he is getting close to his goal and just received a signed TTM Dave Huppert card today. That is actually what motivated me to blog about his project since it was his first successful TTM autograph. He also was sending requests to Mike Boddicker, Bobby Bonner, Leo Hernandez, John Lowenstein, Dan Morogiello, Allan Ramirez, John Stefero & Bill Swaggerty. I will be able to get his Stefero & Swaggerty autographs thanks to the O's Alumni Autograph series at OPACY, but if anyone else might be able to help him out, please let me know. He also still needs an Aurelio Rodriguez autograph, but that is tough since he died in 2000.

Let's hope the O's can take another game from the Rangers tonight in that bandbox of a ballpark in Arlington! Three series wins in a row sounds really nice to me...