For those about to scroll - we salute you.

This is a long post about some trades and freebies I have received.  But it might be worth the read, see you at the end!

First up is a trade I made with Matt over at Sport Card Collectors.  I send him a variety of basketball inserts from the later 90's and he sent me a ton of McGwires and one player to be named later!

There is a reason these are sorted by year, and it has more to do with than just sorting my McGwires.  That reason will come in another post later this week.

2013s.  Patriotic.

2014s.  Classy and clean.

2015s.  Getting shiny and a double mini.

2016s. More A's than Cardinals.

2017s.  Parallels galore and another mini.

2018s.  Some nice stuff, serial numbers and another mini.

2019s. Hodgepodge.

2020s.  My first 2020 McGwire!  Also serial #d.

In all honesty, I only had 3 or 4 McGwires from after 2005, so almost all of these were new to me.  A big addition to my McGwire numbers!


But there were 2 more cards in the bunch...

Graded 9 with a piece of bat!  Very cool.  It says it is from the Hidden Treasures Diamond Collection.  Not sure what that is.

And McGwire's partner in crime (in more ways than one!)  Jose!!  This was the 'player to be named later'.  Looks so young...

Thanks a bunch Matt!!


Next up is a group of cards from Free Card Friday at Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary!

So much color!!  Right up my alley.  My favorites are the Barry Sanders Finest and the Ripken 3000 Club.  But the rest are awesome too.  Thanks Brian!!!



And now, if you got this far, I noticed that a couple of our very generous Free Card Friday folks have decided to take this Friday off for various (good) reasons.  So I thought I would fill that void a little.  Now I have extremely little current stuff in my collection, so these cards are all a little older (but not OLD!). But still, free is free right?

Like most of the other Free Card Friday posts out there, please pick by page and card number from top left to bottom right.  So of you wanted the Matt Cain die cit, claim page 1 - #8.  Only the cards below are free today, not the stuff up above!

Let's go for a max of 6 cards per claimer today.  Thanks!

Die cuts.

Sideways cards.

Miscellaneous.

More misc.

And the rest.  If your name is Joey, then the Hale Irwin should work for you!  The Larry Walker is an O-Pee-Chee card with a 'special offer' on the back, not part of the regular set.

Go to town!