Tonight I can't sleep, so here is a quick post about a little (yet awesome) trade with jim of gcrl (the man has a lot of ee cummings in him). I find his main blog a most excellent read (I am a huge Ron Cey fan), but my trade query regarded his side project, oh my o-pee-chee! (oh mon o-pee-chee!), which is a fantastic salute to one of my own obsessions, the variations on O-Pee-Chee cards. Now, I had recently found a nearly complete 1986 OPC set amongst my piles. It was missing six odd cards; I can't figure out if they were pulled out of the set by someone (or even myself once upon a time) or if these really were the actual six cards that helped this set evade completion. Knowing the cards he had on his site were all his, I figured if anyone in the blogosphere had these six cards, it would be him, or he would know someone who would. After a quick email exchange, I was tickled to know that he had the dastardly six I needed:
Odd combination, don't you think? Jim also found a few of my rookie all star needs. In fact, he emailed me that he had a 1964 Jimmie Hall and I ignored it at first, figuring he had emailed me this information by mistake. But nope, it was on my wantlist and he had read it and found it for me. The man knew my wantlist better than me...much like Henry Jones Jr., this is why I write things down, so I don't have to remember. And once again, it is nice to know the system works! I hope I can find the time this week to get to the post office to drop his cards in the mail. Plus, his generosity is being rewarded by an all out insomnia driven search for a few of his nebulous nine.
Jim also put a little note in with the cards, always a wise decision, since sometimes packages get misplaced or worse, get to the bottom of the pile...
...no jim, thank you!
I dabbled in baseball from '79 onwards, but 1986 OPC was the first baseball set I really bought in earnest. Nice to see it posted.
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