Through this blog I was contacted by a member of The Bench, an awesome trading website that I knew nothing about. It turns out that there are quite a few big Rickey Henderson collectors over there, all of them willing to trade to increase their collections.
I was able to add 13 new cards to my collection (6 from my 1980-1995 want list) and traded away a similar number of cards in return. What a deal. In an even bigger milestone, these cards increase my total Rickey collection to over 1,500 different cards, I feat I'm quite proud of!

The top cards are the first three cards from the 1990 Star set. Not particularly rare, but I made the mistake of only buying cards #4-11 when I first got them about 15 years ago, and I refused to buy a complete set just to get the remaining three. But, I now found someone that would trade them to me as singles. As an added bonus, he even through in an unopened complete set! The rest of the cards are a few base cards and inserts that I missed out on while away from collecting.

The first card above may be my favorite of the lot, a 1987 Topps Tiffany Team Leaders. I always enjoy getting early Rickey cards that I'm missing, especially those from my favorite set of all time! The card on the right, a seemingly normal 1990 Topps Sticker, is actually a blank back, which are always fun to add to my oddball collection.

This last picture includes two more items off of my priority want list. I had a copy of the Pepsi disc on the left, but mine was missing the entire back portion, and I was finally able to find another one. I remember running around during a Little League All-Star game collecting these from the snack bar, but I never was able to find a complete set.
The Seven-Eleven disc on the right has actually been pretty elusive. In 1991 there were many different regional sets produced, and I always seem to come across only the Northern California version (identified with an "HG" for some unknown reason), which has a blue background. This disc is from the Northwest set (identified "SM"), and has an orange border. There are still three more out there that I'm missing, and I know I'll come across them eventually.
6 comments:
Glad I could help your collection! And I thank you for helping with mine! I look forward to our next dealing which should be in the very near future!
Thanks again Brad!
-Brian
The star cards are novel because Rickey is wearing #22. He only wore that number for the first few days upon his return to the A's in June of 89. I think that he only wore the number for three days before switching to #24 for the rest of his Oakland days.
Great catch Ernest, thanks for the comment! I knew about Rickey wearing #22 for only a few days, but never noticed that he was wearing them in this Star set.
Do you collect cards of other players with Rickey on them?
I saw today the 1991 Score No. 127 Alvaro Espinoza shows Rickey sliding head first into second. If you need a scan let me know. I should have some doubles.
The 1991 Score is not one of Rickey's "guest appearance" cards that I knew about. I've been planning to a blog post about the ones that I do have, which I'll get around to eventually!
I have two full sets of the pepsi disks sealed in glass and never opened since 1991. If you wold like them you can reach me at james@adart.com
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