Let's trade!

Have I really not posted a trade list yet?  Geez...

Here's what I have that I'd trade. Condition varies and I can offer up scans of any. Looking for anything I'm missing for my sets!

1987-88	Pacific	1	Tatu
1987-88	Pacific	2	Krys Sobieski
1987-88	Pacific	2	Krys Sobiesk (Error)
1987-88	Pacific	3	Victor Moreland
1987-88	Pacific	4	Willie Molano
1987-88	Pacific	4	Willie Molino (Error)
1987-88	Pacific	5	Kevin Smith
1987-88	Pacific	6	Wes McLeod
1987-88	Pacific	7	Eddie Radwanski
1987-88	Pacific	8	Mark Karpun
1987-88	Pacific	10	Mike Powers
1987-88	Pacific	11	Doc Lawson
1987-88	Pacific	14	Preki
1987-88	Pacific	15	Bernie James
1987-88	Pacific	18	Ralph Black
1987-88	Pacific	19	Bill Crook
1987-88	Pacific	20	Peter Ward
1987-88	Pacific	21	Gary Heale
1987-88	Pacific	22	Godfrey Ingram
1987-88	Pacific	26	Kevin Kewley
1987-88	Pacific	30	Al Smith
1987-88	Pacific	33	Marcio Leite
1987-88	Pacific	49	Slobo Ilijevski
1987-88	Pacific	51	Redmond Lane
1987-88	Pacific	52	Tim Schulz
1987-88	Pacific	56	Fernando Clavijo
1987-88	Pacific	63	George Katakalidis
1987-88	Pacific	71	Charley Greene
1987-88	Pacific	72	Dale Mitchell
1987-88	Pacific	73	Jim Schwab
1987-88	Pacific	79	Chico Moreira
1987-88	Pacific	81	Teddy Krafft
1987-88	Pacific	83	Alan Willey
1987-88	Pacific	91	Hector Marinaro
1987-88	Pacific	93	Chico Borja
1987-88	Pacific	104	Richard Chinapoo
1988-89	Pacific	5	Branko Segota
1988-89	Pacific	6	Fernando Clavijo
1988-89	Pacific	13	Cacho
1988-89	Pacific	17	Gus Mokalis
1988-89	Pacific	19	Zoran Karic
1988-89	Pacific	24	Branko Segota
1988-89	Pacific	37	Homer Screws
1988-89	Pacific	41	Alan Mayer
1988-89	Pacific	53	David Doyle
1988-89	Pacific	55	Scott Manning
1988-89	Pacific	64	Rusty Troy
1988-89	Pacific	76	Jean Willrich
1988-89	Pacific	77	Terry Nicholl
1988-89	Pacific	78	Victor Moreland
1988-89	Pacific	80	Chico Borja
1988-89	Pacific	81	Kevin Kewley
1988-89	Pacific	96	Hector Marinaro
1988-89	Pacific	98	Gordon Jago
1988-89	Pacific	101	Mike Powers
1988-89	Pacific	102	Doc Lawson
1988-89	Pacific	104	Willie Molano
1988-89	Pacific	108	Krys Sobieski
1989-90	Pacific	11	Rene Ortiz
1989-90	Pacific	12	Zoran Karic
1989-90	Pacific	25	Doc Lawson
1989-90	Pacific	36	Scott Manning
1989-90	Pacific	46	Victor Moreland
1989-90	Pacific	58	Dale Mitchell
1989-90	Pacific	84	Fernando Clavijo
1989-90	Pacific	88	Diego Mandagaran
1989-90	Pacific	90	Thomas Strunk
1990-91	Pacific	11	Branko Segota
1990-91	Pacific	13	Mark Mettrick
1990-91	Pacific	19	Bruce Savage
1990-91	Pacific	25	Tom Soehn
1990-91	Pacific	33	Chico Borja
1990-91	Pacific	35	Daryl Doran
1990-91	Pacific	43	David Brcic
1990-91	Pacific	50	Billy Powers
1990-91	Pacific	54	Doc Lawson
1990-91	Pacific	55	Rod Scott
1990-91	Pacific	65	Hector Marinaro
1990-91	Pacific	79	Ted Eck
1990-91	Pacific	80	David Doyle
1990-91	Pacific	100	Freddie Thompson
1990-91	Pacific	108	Victor Moreland
1990-91	Pacific	127	Terry Woodberry
1990-91	Pacific	128	Mike Powers
1990-91	Pacific	132	Otto Orf
1990-91	Pacific	146	John Hamel
1990-91	Pacific	151	Doug Neely
1990-91	Pacific	162	Victor Moreland
1990-91	Pacific	163	Marty Templin
1990-91	Pacific	164	Gino D'Ippolito
1990-91	Pacific	165	Kelly Mock
1990-91	Pacific	167	Herb Silva
1990-91	Pacific	168	Brian Hall
1990-91	Pacific	169	Esse Baharmast
1990-91	Pacific	176	Dallas Sidekicks All-Stars
1990-91	Pacific	181	Victor Moreland
1990-91	Pacific	186	Doc Lawson
1990-91	Pacific	187	Fernando Clavijo
1990-91	Pacific	211	Billy Phillips
1991-92	Pacific	5	Branko Segota
1991-92	Pacific	11	Alex Golovnia
1991-92	Pacific	14	Jacques Ladouceur
1991-92	Pacific	15	Glenn Carbonara
1991-92	Pacific	17	Savva Biller
1991-92	Pacific	25	Willie Molano
1991-92	Pacific	29	Walter Schmetzer
1991-92	Pacific	31	Nikola Ristic
1991-92	Pacific	34	Dick McCormick
1991-92	Pacific	36	Todd Strobeck
1991-92	Pacific	44	Brad Smith
1991-92	Pacific	48	Victor Moreland
1991-92	Pacific	49	Jimmy McGeough
1991-92	Pacific	50	Vincent Beck
1991-92	Pacific	51	Tom Soehn
1991-92	Pacific	55	Roy Turner
1991-92	Pacific	61	Rusty Troy
1991-92	Pacific	71	Scott Manning
1991-92	Pacific	72	Hank Henry
1991-92	Pacific	74	Dominic Feltham
1991-92	Pacific	80	Terry Woodberry
1991-92	Pacific	81	Doc Lawson
1991-92	Pacific	82	Bruno Ferretti
1991-92	Pacific	85	Mike Uremovich
1991-92	Pacific	88	Mike Powers
1991-92	Pacific	90	Lynn Venable
1991-92	Pacific	91	Krys Sobieski
1991-92	Pacific	92	Gordon Jago
1991-92	Pacific	93	Roderick Scott
1991-92	Pacific	100	Doug Neely
1991-92	Pacific	103	Jim Schwab
1991-92	Pacific	104	David Doyle
1991-92	Pacific	106	Doug McLagan
1991-92	Pacific	108	Mike Dowler
1991-92	Pacific	109	Chris Duke
1991-92	Pacific	110	Tony Glavin
1991-92	Pacific	117	Daryl Doran
1991-92	Pacific	120	Fernando Clavijo
1991-92	Pacific	127	David Eise
1991-92	Pacific	134	Zoran Karic
1991-92	Pacific	135	Hector Marinaro
1991-92	Pacific	146	Bernie James
1991-92	Pacific	149	Joe Koziol
1991-92	Pacific	150	Otto Orf
1991-92	Pacific	159	Borja & Clavijo
1991-92	Pacific Inserts	4	Daryl Doran

My want list is...

1987-88 Pacific: 12, 27, 29, 36, 38, 40, 48, 57, 59, 61, 74 (black name), 75 (both versions), 77 (both versions), 88, 96, 107, 108, 110

1988-89 Pacific: 2, 3, 8, 12, 25, 26, 33, 36, 40, 46, 48, 49, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 75, 86, 87, 91, 92, 95, 97, 100

1989-90 Pacific: 2, 6, 9, 17, 26, 33, 34 (error signed by Stanisic and Manning), 34 (corrected version), 47, 52, 66, 67 (error "Kevin" signed by both Hundelt brothers), 67 (corrected version with "Chris"), 71, 76, 87, 100, 103, 108

1990-91 Pacific: 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 37, 39, 47, 48, 53, 58, 59, 74, 75, 76, 78, 84, 87, 88, 98, 102, 104, 111, 114, 115, 126, 133, 135, 144, 145, 147, 150, 156, 158, 159, 161, 166, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 180, 183, 189, 192, 196, 199, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 213, 216, 217

1991-92 Pacific: 2 (Hirmez), 2 (Claudio De Oliveira), 3 (Preki), 8 (Preki), 9 (Gabarra), 20, 21, 24, 37, 40, 41, 42, 47, 56, 57, 68, 69, 78, 79, 83, 84, 87, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 113, 118, 125, 126, 128, 132, 137, 140, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 160

1991-92 Soccer Shots: ALL

1992-93 Pacific: ALL

There also are a bunch I wouldn't mind trading for from some Dallas Sidekicks team sets (1986-87 and 1987-88 Coca-Cola; 1988-89 Fox 33/KOJO 94) and any Cleveland Force or Crunch team sets. Always looking for all sorts of Crunch and Force memorabilia really, not just signed stuff.

Got any you want? Got stuff for trade? Leave me a comment and we'll see what we can do!

Patience pays off!

I'm looking at making another big push soon on some of the ones I have left.  I'll buy some of the unsigned cards I'm lacking via SportLots in November and start getting to writing to finish out the year. I'll have a large lot of postage coming next week.

In the meantime, a few more have rolled in since my last update here. It's a slow trickle really, but a couple of them were long waits which has gotten me excited again to send more out. Plus a few friends of mine have started mailing with cards I gave them and had some successes from Tatu, Wes McLeod, Preki, and Hector Marinaro. And of course, I'm seeing successes from various boards I post on.  So it's time for a big push here, I think; see if I can at least get a couple more big needs knocked out.

I've gotten a few back over the past few months: Jimmy McGeough, John Hamel, Brad Smith, Denny Vaninger, and Dick McCormick all came back pretty quickly (two months or less). Vaninger and McCormick each took two tries. Vaninger's MYSA address didn't work but his home did. The Seattle Sounders are following in the footsteps of their American Football counterpart Seahawks and not accepting fan mail-- even for coaches of their youth organizations. Fortunately McCormick's home address worked for me after they returned their "Not Signing" note.

Two lengthy ones that I feared were gone came back in the last month.  I sent to Ron Fearon in the UK and got it back with a California postmark (and US postage added over the UK stamp). He also added a short note on an index card. It took a year, but after thinking it was gone, it was great to get it-- huge sigh of relief there! I had forgotten that the 1990-91 Wichita All-Stars card was in there signed by Borja. It'll go to Dale Ervine next, and then to Victor Moreland to finish it off.

The second long-awaited return came from my second batch of mailings since I started the project. My first group was sent on September 5 and 7 of 2015. Of those, I'm still waiting on seven of the 32 that didn't get RTS'ed. The second batch went out on October 6 and I got 23 of 27 back-- a much-improved rate. Let's up that to 24/27 now as Andy Chapman's four cards found their way into my inbox yesterday after a brief 744-day trip (two years and 13 days, for those counting at home).

So, to update the tracker a bit...

TRIED, NO LUCK
Beto, David Hoggan, Brian Quinn, Erik Rasmussen, Mark Frederickson, Steve Kinsey, Dennis Mepham (zero for two), Scoop Stanisic, Nenad Zigante, Kai Haaskivi, Preki, Paul Wright, Jim Gabarra, Kevin Hundelt, Pasquale Deluca, Greg Ion, Iain Fraser, Desmond Armstrong, Waad Hirmez, Victor Nogueira, Joe Papaleo, Gregg Willin, Wes Wade, Ted Krafft, Mike Brady, Poli Garcia, Marcelo Carrera, Bobby Joe Esposito, Hugo Perez, Juli Veee, Ed Anibal, John Klein, Arturo Velazco, Keder, Frank Klopas, Greg Muhr, Angelo Panzetta, Chris Simon, Danny Pena

NOT YET TRIED
Mark Kerlin, Heinz Wirtz, Dale Mitchell, Carl Valentine, David Byrne, Frank Rasmussen, Chris Hundelt, Bill Crook, Bobo Lucic, Damir Haramina, Joey Kirk, Claudio De Oliveira, Stan Terlecki, Brian Schmetzer, Omar Gomez, Chris Haywood, Eloy Salgado, Rick Snyder

HAD SUCCESS, NEED TO SEND AGAIN
Steve Zungul (with correct address this time), George Fernandez (one success, one non-return), Cris Vacarro, Scott Manning, Dali, Pato Margetic, Chico Moreira, Michael King, Bernie James, Mike Sweeney, Kia, Zoran Karic, George Fernandez, Kevin Crow, Kim Roentved, Bruce Savage, Jan Goossens

NEED TO TRY AGAIN WITH NEW ADDRESS
Beto, Preki, Brian Quinn, Scoop Stanisic, Nenad Zigante, Paul Wright, Jim Gabarra, Mark Frederickson, Majid Jay, Paul Peschisolido, Mark Moser, Terry Rowe

Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to trade for a few somewhere along the line.

Sad news as well from the Dallas area: as I'm sure many/most/all have heard by now, we're going to be without a team in the 2017-18 season.  Plans right now are to re-open in time for the 2018-19 season. So unfortunately, there will be no Alumni game this year for me. Better hit the mailing hard then, I guess.

A quick update and recalculation

Well, it's time to make a call...

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm getting three of my multi-signed attempts back.

On March 7, 2016, I mailed off my 1990-91 Tacoma All-Stars card to Preki. Already signed by Brian Schmetzer and having seen some Preki responses via his home address, I tried, and hoped for the best, and have gotten nothing now 17 months later. So, we'll chalk that one up as a loss. Hopefully I can grab an unsigned copy, mail it to Preki FIRST, then get Schmetzer, and finish it off with Kia.

That same day, I mailed the 1991-92 San Diego All-Stars card to Paul Wright. Kevin Crow had signed it for me, and I assume Nogueira, Hirmez, and Quinn will be tough since I haven't seen (m)any TTM successes from them. So I figured I might as well try Wright and then see if someone can help me on the others... and then found out his business address had changed.  So, we'll try him again once I get another copy.

The one that hurts most though is the 1991-92 Kansas City All-Stars card. That one had been to the Netherlands and back for Jan Goossens, to Kansas and back for Kim Roentved, and to Oregon and back for Jim Gorsek. I figured I'd try Iain Fraser next, then finish it off with a shipment to Canada for Carl Valentine... and it never came back from Fraser after nearly 15 months (sent May 31, 2016).

So, I had to scratch five sigs from my count.

On the more positive end of things, I did at least get David Banks back after a previous RTS (two-week turnaround, signed in red), and Guy Furfaro via the school he coaches at after a 6-week wait (also including a signed note).

I also won an eBay auction this week for a Preki I need, and am waiting on a Brian Quinn one to end as well.

Lastly, I mailed out another small batch this week-- Brad Smith, Denny Vaninger, Danny Pena, Jimmy McGeough, Dick McCormick, and John Hamel.

I also have in my notes that I mailed to Mark Frederickson on May 16 (second attempt, this one being via his home address), but yet I'm finding an envelope with his address on it, making me wonder if I actually tried him or not. I may have to see if I still have the cards or not-- that will be my best evidence.

Speaking of cards, SportLots.com now sells soccer cards! A couple dealers have some I need at 18 cents each, so I probably will try to pick some up soon.  I might also stock up on any Sidekicks Alumni that I need. There are still a few I need though that no one has on there yet.  Trades/cheap sales are welcome if someone can help me out.  Here's what I need...

1988/89: 36 Alan Hinton, 69 Nenad Zigante

1989/90: 34 Scoop Stanisic (CORRECTED VERSION ONLY!), 67 Chris Hundelt (CORRECTED VERSION ONLY) - seems these two are tough to find!

Once I buy up the ones I need, I plan to send off to Wright, Quinn, Preki, Zigante, Dali, Joey Kirk, Beto, Andy Chapman, Pato Margetic, Bill Crook, and David Hoggan. Possibly a few others, but unfortunately I'm hitting a point where I think I may have done all that I can via mail!