Here are a couple of trades that knocked a bunch more stuff off my wantlist. I love it when that happens.
2. 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter What a Day Pedro Martinez. This card celebrates Pedro's 17 strikeout game against the Yankees, one of the defining games in the Hall of Famer's career.
3. 2017 Topps Fire Monikers Blue Chip Roger Clemens. Technically, this card does not appear on my wantlist as it is a parallel. But still, nice to have it. I still need the base version though.
4. 1980 Burger King Jim Rice. Man, I miss food issues.
5. 1959 Topps Bill Monbouquette. Monbo was the Red Sox de facto ace for several seasons in the late 50's/early 60's. I am making some decent progress on my 1959 Topps team set suddenly.
6. 2017 Topps Chrome 1987 Andrew Benintendi. He has been slumping a bit of late, but Benintendi is still having a terrific season.
7. 1995 Score Greg Blosser. Blosser was one of the first big busts I remember. The former first round draft pick hit .077 with no home runs in his brief stints in the Majors.
8. 1997 Upper Deck Troy O'Leary. I always liked this set. I love the caption from where each photo came from.
9. 2017 Topps Archives Xander Bogaerts. Xander is a player that I seem to have difficulty pulling from packs, so I have to trading for them.
11. 2007 Upper Deck David Murphy. I love this photo. He looks like he is having a blast. Murphy was traded to the Rangers in the ill-fated Eric Gagne deal in 2007.
12. 2010 Upper Deck Season Biography Tim Wakefield. Wakefield is one of my all-time favorite Red Sox pitchers. He had so many great moments throughout his career. This was one of a few near no-hitters he pitched. Bonus, the picture is from Jackie Robinson Day.
13. 2016 Bowman Chrome Prospects Yoan Moncada. I am still a little disappointed that Boston moved Moncada, but if Chris Sale can help them win a World Series, it will be worth it. Just like Hanley Ramirez.
14. 2016 Stadium Club Nomar Garciaparra. Nice action shot on Nomar here.
15. 2017 Bowman Mookie Betts. Is this the year he will be the MVP?
16. 2017 Bowman Craig Kimbrel. Kimbrel will be a free agent after this season. It will be interesting to see what happens there.
17. 2017 Bowman Jackie Bradley Jr. JBJ has been playing much better of late.
18. 2017 Bowman Chris Sale. Sale's chances at winning the Cy Young Award have been diminished due to his time spent on the DL lately. Hopefully he can come back strong.
20. 2017 Bowman Prospects Roniel Raudes. Raudes has taken a big step backward this season unfortunately.
21. 2017 Stadium Club Drew Pomeranz. Throwback jersey photo. This is from the late 1970's teams. Still one of my favorite uniforms.
22. 2017 Stadium Club Chris Sale. Interesting photo here.
23. 2018 Bowman Prospects Travis Lakins. I was disappointed to see that Lakins was not called up. Boston could use some relief help and Lakins has been great this season in Pawtucket.
24. 2018 Bowman Prospects Chrome Travis Lakins.
25. 2017 Topps Chrome Update Mookie Betts.
The last two cards came from a separate trade:
26. 1974 Topps Dwight Evans. This is Evans's second-year card.
27. 1958 Topps Billy Consolo. It does not help my 1959 set, but I am thrilled with this Consolo card. Consolo was signed to a big bonus, but never came close to reaching his potential. Most of the reason for that was the rules with the high bonus players. They had to be on the Major League roster for two years before they could be sent to the minors. Many of the players were not close to ready for the Majors and so they rode the bench instead of playing and developing in the minors, which stunted their development.
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