I've been logging my collection on Trading Card Database for four years now and have been trading on the site for around three-plus years.
It's taken me that long to reach 100 trades because I rarely have the time or motivation to make my own offers. But I hit that milestone last week with the largest total number of cards I've received in a single TCDB trade.
It was also the greatest difference in cards received and cards sent-out for one trade. My trade partner, Thebradford16, wanted just three cards (I threw in a handful more). In exchange, I added 167 cards to my collection.
Admittedly, this is a benefit of being a well-known blogger in the hobby. My trade partner was just looking to deal with someone he had read and helped him get back into the hobby. And my reward came in the form of a whole bunch of 1983 Donruss for the collection!
A cross-section from that stack. Love seeing my guys on new-to-me cardboard.
Some more very well-known names from childhood. I've written about this before but it is such a rush to still be pulling unfamiliar cards of familiar names 40-50 years after I first heard of them. This is why I need to get 1983 Donruss complete and in a binder, it's about the last of those kind of sets for me (to a lesser extent, so are 1985 Donruss and 1987 Fleer, which I'm still trying to finish).
So that was quite the welcome avalanche from the year of my high school graduation in which I bought maybe 2-3 packs of Donruss.
But amid the TCDB 100 celebration I can't gloss over another generous send of '83 Donruss that arrived around the same time.
You all know mr haverkamp, he nicely sent some Diamond Kings from the set (I confuse these with the '82 DK cards All The Time).
And here are some superstars, with a definite Giants flavor. Hmmmm.
A few others. The moment I pulled that Niekro Brothers card out of the envelope was the first time I ever saw that card. That almost seems criminal for someone who 1) Was still such a card collecting fool at the time and 2) Has interviewed both of those guys.
So ...
After owning, at most, around 40 cards of 1983 Donruss all through the rest of the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, I now own 518. Or 78.5% of the set, according to TCDB.
I probably couldn't have gotten here without TCDB, or this blog, so hat's off to the online collecting community again. Now ... where the heck is that binder going to go?
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