The Darryl Strawberry RC that Got Away
Day 43 of the 2025 Spring Training Challenge -- A Card You Traded Away
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1984 Topps Darryl Strawberry (#182) - Card of the Day
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Welcome to Day 43 of the 2025 Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge, wherein I regale you with a card I traded away. It’s Sunday, tough, so I’ll keep my (soft) promise of “only light reading” on the weekends during this challenge and just leave you with the always splendid Darryl Strawberry rookie card here. See you tomorrow!
Check out the entire series of 2025 Spring Training Challenge posts here.
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I had a knack for trading away cards at peak value, which would be awesome if I had ever gotten something good in exchange. I remember trading the 1987 Fleer Bo for 40 bucks of store credit. I got some Braves cards I wanted and a box of '92 Donruss. I'd definitely prefer to have the Bo now: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71y6OmcM+nL.jpg
I once traded a Topps 1968 Hoyt Wilhelm card for a 1968 Mike Shannon card. This was sometime during the late summer of1968. I didn’t know a thing about Hoyt Wilhelm - other than he was wearing a White Sox uniform on the card. I knew Mike Shannon from the 1967 World Series and from seeing him in games against the Cubs. I still have the Shannon card and I eventually got another Wilhelm card for my ‘68 set.