What is the best card you ever traded for?

[tjv815]

Cool thread. I was 12-13 years old. Back in the fall of 1984, maybe spring of 85, I traded two Don Mattingly rookies away. Both were heavily off-centered. I let the pair go for a 1955 Ted Williams. I still have that Williams card and I love it!

[egri]

This wasn't exactly a trade, but when I was in fifth grade I was really in to the Topps Heritage sets (that year's design was based on the 1957 set) and when my neighbor's son got in to card collecting as well, I fixed him up with some of my duplicates. A couple days later, my neighbor came by with what was left of his card collection from when he was growing up, as a thank you for what I'd done. They were mostly 1967-68 Topps, with a 1957 Wilmer Mizell thrown in. There were maybe 10-12 cards total. Fast forward about a decade, after I had been out of the hobby for a few years, and I decided to send off some of those old cards to be signed. That got me back in to collecting, and I haven't looked back since.

[CurtisFlood]

Traded a Bench Rookie for a 400 count box of Sandberg, Boggs, and Gwynn rookies. I have no idea where the card fairy sent that man from, but that was a time when those three had some value. I told the guy it was a bad deal for him but he said he didn't care, he wanted that Bench Rookie. I can only assume the man bought large lots of rookies when they were ten cents apiece or something. I've never figured that one out.

Traded a 90 Upper Deck BB Wax Box for a very nice 1966 Mantle.

Traded a few mid grade Mantle cards for a beautiful 1953 Jackie Robinson.

My worst was as a twelve year old. 1961 Mantle for a 1961 Bob Nieman. I had two Mantles and did not have that Bob Nieman and I had to have it.

[HappyJack41]

Late 80's as a kid, traded a 1986 Topps Jerry Rice rookie for a 1966 Topps Mantle.....over time now, I won the trade

[Hot Springs Bathers]

In 1986 I got lucky when McDonald's put out their football cards. There was a different color scratch off each week for four weeks if my memory serves me correctly?

We had the Dallas Cowboys and the All-Star sets each week in our area. I went to the two local stores and the managers allowed me to actually take home cases, sort out team sets and return them??? I put together many set of Cowboys and All-Stars. I then responded to ads in the Sports Collectors Digest for trades. It was pretty easy though I remember the Saints having a tough color, maybe blue?

I took some of these free to me sets to a card show and traded for a 1953 Topps Mantle, a 1953 Topps Paige and a 1951 New York Yankees yearbook.

[JTysver]

Traded some mid 80s Donruss, Fleer and Topps rookie stars (Mattingly, Boggs, Gwynn, Sandberg etc.) for a 1952 Topps Mays.

Contrarily, I traded a 68 Ryan Rookie (before it went up) for a 68 Mantle game card.