Completing a Masterpiece and Getting a Little Closer to Others - Trade with Eric

I love the feeling of finishing a set. It's up there in my joys of the hobby. I still remember finishing my first set: 1990-91 Score Hockey. One of my best friends gave me a call and let me know he'd picked up the last card I needed from the new card shop that opened down the road. Talk about gratifying. Since then I've completed a set or two more, yet the thrill isn't any less fun for me.

Today a nice parcel arrived for me from the always generous and easy-going Eric Slette. It contained a bunch of deceased Presidents, some lazy Topps photography, Joba styling a cap without a bend, a beeming Pascal and the final three cards I needed for my 2007 Upper Deck Masterpieces set. Needless to say, I was pleased.

Eric - if you're reading, I've got the house to myself Friday and I'll be hauling out the boxes and getting your Yankee friends then as I pour over the list I sent and you returned.

Here's a list of the complete haul:

2007 Upper Deck Masterpieces Baseball:

61. Jason Bay

 

72. Alex Rodriguez looking a little ticked that he flew out to shallow left field.

81. Chris Chambliss

2007 Topps Updates and Highlights Baseball

18. Adam Jones

24. Brad Hennessy

27. Yusmeiro Petit

32. Russ Ortiz

 

 

 53. Randy Messenger - Note to Topps. This card is a prime reason I'm ready to move on from tradition. Let's see those eyes. This photo is UGLY. 

106. Ruben "I Wish I Had a Better" Gotay

107. Damon Easley (Looking at the stats on the back, it's quite amazing how the numbers spiked from 1997 to 1999. Player in his prime or something else?)

118. John McDonald

141. Cameron Maybin

185. Nate Schierholtz

237. Justin Verlander AS

249. Billy Wagner AS

256. Orlando Hudson AS

259. Freddy Sanchez AS

2008 Allen & Ginter World Leaders

WL31. Helen Clark, New Zealand

 

 

WL43. Pascal Couchepin

2008 Topps Historical Campaign Match-Ups

1832 Jackson vs. Clay

1840 Harrison vs. Van Buren

1856. Buchanan vs. Fremont

1924. Coolidge vs. Davis

 

 

1960. Kennedy vs. Nixon

2008 Topps Heritage Target T-205 Minis:

HTCP9. Joba Chamberlain

HTCP11. Ichiro

2008 Upper Deck

95. Brandon Lyon - Something about this pitch just seems way to realaxed.
134. Brandon Morrow
236. David Ross
493. Dontrelle Willis
626. Jim Edmonds

Thanks again, Eric!