Best Trade

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Posted By: peter chao

Guys,

What is the best all trade deal that you have ever made. What happened to the good old days when we went to school and pulled off a great trade in the schoolyard. What is the best trade that you ever made.

I traded a Nolan Ryan Rookie in VG condition and an '85 Mark McGwire for a mint 1955 Topps Hank Aaron. Remember, this is the Aaron card with Willie Mays sliding into home in the background.

Peter

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Posted By: boxingcardman

1979. I was trading cards with a guy in my neighborhood. We had a multicard deal going with the main piece being a 1968 Clemente. Since he had the better of the deal I asked for him to throw in a goofy looking card of a nobody. A 1958 Bell Brand Gino Cimoli. I wish I still had that short printed regional.

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Posted By: Chris Counts

When I was 14 (in 1975), I traded a bunch of steel pennies and buffalo nickels for a baseball signed by the 1939 Cleveland Indians. It was still white and wrapped in tissue paper inside its original box. I still have it over 30 years later ...

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Posted By: Neal Kane

*I traded a Nolan Ryan Rookie in VG condition and an '85 Mark McGwire for a mint 1955 Topps Hank Aaron. Remember, this is the Aaron card with Willie Mays sliding into home in the background.*

I think you meant the 56 Topps ... either way, that is one helluva trade.

In 2000, I traded three 1997 GSV Masters Tiger Woods PSA 7, a 91 UD (?) Chipper Jones, and a Josh Hamilton RC PSA 9 (forget the year, but who cares) for a 33 Goudey Ruth #53 PSA 3.

Hey, the Woods were on fire at the time ... easily fetching 250 each

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Posted By: jeffdrum

Around about 1998 or so I traded the SI with Jordan/Perkins on the cover (North Carolina) for a T206 Nap Lajoie Portrait that graded a 6 years later.

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Posted By: Anthony

In junior high, about '75, I traded a '28 Pirates signed ball for an uncut '49 Bowman sheet. Seems one sided now, but at the time it was the deal of the century. The ball had cost me $20, I sold the sheet for just under $400. a few years later.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Back around 1987 after McGwire had his stellar rookie season his cards were HOT - I had about 50 of them that I had put away as I was really into the speculation side of rookie cards - anyway I would take 2-3 at a time down to Merle's, the local card shop and he would trade me old Topps cards which he couldn't sell. I picked up a 1957 Frank Robinson for 2 McGwire's...I traded 3 or 4 for Al Kaline's 1954 Rookie. I loaded up on 1950's and 60's rookie cards of Hall of famers because he just couldn't sell them and the McGwire cards were flying out the door. Too bad he never had anything older than 1948 Bowman in that shop or I would have discovered the joys of Prewar back in the 1980's when they were much more affordable.

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Posted By: peter chao

Neal,

Oh, oh...now that I think about it, I got a second year Aaron in return. My memory is starting to slip. It seems like you guys have gotten some great deals. I'm wondering if the guys you traded with are still around, maybe I can make another trade or two.

Peter

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Posted By: Mike

I recall trading my entire stack of Twins players, about 50 cards, for one mantle and one ruth card. It must have been the two cards from 62 set, because of the Ruth cards in that set. many regrets, but it was spur of the moment. I wish I had them back now. Only because I live in Minn. I would love to see those old obscure cards (players) once again.

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

I traded 6 1980's rookie cards for a Black Cap Matty that ended up in a SGC 60 holder.

Traded cards:
1. Gooden 85 Donruss
2. Clemens 85 Donruss
3. Canseco 86 Donruss
4. Eric Davis 85 Topps
5. Eric Davis 85 Donruss
6. Gooden 85 Topps



All of the "rookie" cards were aquired from rack packs for less than 10.00... The Matty, priceless....

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Posted By: Ed Hans

I once traded a 1989 Upper Deck factory baseball set for an E97 Meyers. The owner of the store, who is now one of the largest dealers in the country, threw in $35.00 to make the trade even. I sent the Meyers to PSA. It came back a seven.

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Posted By: cmoking

In 1984, I traded a 1984 Topps Craig Nettles for an unknown rookie - Mattingly. I agreed to do the deal with my friend, but I had the Nettles card at home. That night, I accidentally sat on the Nettles card, and killed the card. My friend was no longer interested in completing the trade for a creased Nettles. Even then, us 12 year olds cared about the condition of a card (this was before the go-go years of the late 80s).

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Posted By: David Kern

In 1990 at the height of the Griffey UD Rookie card hype, I traded 6 Griffeys (I had about a dozen, all from packs) for 3 53 Topps - Mantle GD, Paige VG/EX and Robinson VG/EX. I still like that one.

On the flip side during my first year of serious collecting, 1957, as a rabid White Sox fan and Yankee-hater, I would routinely trade off any Mantles and Berras 1:1 for White Sox immortals like Sammy Esposito and Jim Rivera. In retrospect, I wouldn't mind a couple of do-overs on those.

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Posted By: Marc

I traded about 25 Series 1 Garbage Pail Kids for a handful of cards from the 60's and 70's including a second year Nolan Ryan, Brett RC, etc. This trade actually occurred on the playground at recess. Considering this was the mid-1980's, and we were both about 10 years old, I can only assume this kid raided his unsuspecting parents' collection. Funniest thing is how he made fun of ME for the rest of the year for getting the short end of the deal.