The first one of these I did was over two years old (shame on me!), luckily, this one is only a year old. Wes of Jaybarkerfan's Junk is one of the most generous and prolific traders I have come across during my blogging. He straight trades, he holds contest after contest, he organizes card drafts that have quality stuff, and sometimes, he just plain gives shit away. Back in the winter of 2014, he declared that if you sent him a SASE and a team, he would send you as many cards as he could stuff into it. Pretty sweet deal and of course I couldn't resist because free stuff.
He included a very shiny and see-thru Todd Hundley - one I didn't have - and a recent Gary Carter insert that I had yet to procure (and one that I have received a couple times since, but Wes was first). There is some junk wax (Mookie is never junk, though) and some Mets cards from one of my all time favorite sets, the 1981 Topps. All this for nothing more than .69 worth of stamps.
I really wish I could remember why I scanned the back of that Elliott Maddox card. I haven't a clue, to be honest. I do see he played for the Senators back in 1971, which to a six year old in 1981 would have seemed like some kind of dark age, but I digress. I also see that Wes stuffed that envelope so full, the post office machines tried to eat it. Damn you USPS but thank you, Wes. It's nice that this post came up today since yesterday I mailed out the scratch off from 2015 Topps I pulled to Wes because he asked for it. Enjoy!
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Since this was designated a Mail Call, there is stuff from Listia as well. I recall picking up these Mariano Rivera cards to finish off his page (or maybe to start a second?). Mo is now long gone now; these old posts are gonna make me sad.
The other cards in this scan were an odd Mets lot, one with a Ron Swoboda card I had never seen before:
Ron Swoboda would have been just another vague Mets outfielder, but he made the wise decision to make an amazing catch in the World Series. Ask Sandy Amoros or Al Gionfriddo if this is a good idea or not. Anyway, this oddball card commemorates the catch and I had to have it.
Last but not least is a card that probably should have its own post, but it was included in this one and it is a shame but hey, I may as well cover it since it is here. I do remember very vividly the odyssey of this card.
Yes, that is a brutally miscut 1994 Upper Deck card. The front is half Frank Thomas and half Cliff Floyd and the back is all Alex Fernandez. When I saw it on Listia, I immediately became obsessed with it. I had to add it to my collection, both for the big error and the Big Hurt. I watched it, I bid on it, I nursed the bids, and in the end, I won it. Then began a two pronged issue. One, right after I won the card I got an email from some other dude saying he wanted the card. He really really wanted the card. Would I relist it for twice as many credits? I turned him down. He offered me $10, then $20 for it. I still said no. He must has emailed me 50 times with different scenarios and reasons begging me for the card. It got so bad, I eventually had to block him. Then after all that, the card took weeks to show up. The seller had an impeccable feedback rating, so I found this odd. Turns out, though, he tried mailing it in a PWE in the screwdown you see in the scan. Seriously. Somehow, it found it's way to me in a mangled envelope in the (in)famous USPS 'oops' plastic bag. Now that I think of it, that might be why I included it with this post since Wes' SASE got eaten by the hungry machines as well. Let this be a lesson to you kids, pack your cards securely and wisely because those evil sorting machines show no mercy.
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