Huge Purchase via Sports Card Forum

For the 2nd time since creating on account on the site about a year ago, I successfully negotiated a large purchase through "SportsCardForum.com."  This purchase was from a user named "Bobby."  If your serious about buying large quantities of cards, he asked me to go ahead and give out his email, so contact me if you want to send him a need/want list.  I found him to be reasonable with his prices, easy to communicate with, and quick to ship.

This purchase ended up being for 1,096 cards (135 different).  I never really know what to expect when making a purchase like this.  I'm always surprised by something.  In this case, it was the '88 Leaf Canadian Great card.  For whatever reason, it's been very elusive to me and I only had 3 copies, until 19 additional ones arrived with this group of cards.  The Canadian Greats are probably the high point of this purchase for me.  There was also a Near Mint copy of the 1994 Upper Deck Electric Diamond, a card I previously only had one copy of and my copy had a significant crease(s) running through the middle.

 

These cards arrived in one flat rate box, with three rectangle boxes and an envelope of '89 Bowman neatly packed inside.  Thankfully they were already sorted by year/brand making my job of integrating them with the rest of my Wallach collection much easier.

 


There were a handful of statistical milestones reached with the arrival of these cards.  Which probably doesn't mean much to anyone besides me, but my love baseball cards is rooted in the love of the numbers on the back as much as anything else, so for the purposes of this site and my collection, I find them to be very important.

10,000 Total Cards - This is going to get it's own post, but it's a huge milestone for me
1988 Donruss 540 copies - '88 Donruss has moved past '87 Topps for the most abundant card in my collection.  '87 Topps had been my most abundant card for over 20 years.  Both cards also became the first ones to break the 500 copy threshold with '87 Topps coming in at 506.
400 Club - The 1988 Topps base card broke the 400 mark, upping my total to 401.
200 Club - The 1985 Topps base card reached 218 copies.
100 Club - The 1989 Score card came in at 100 on the nose

Updated Totals for all Cards in the purchase:
1982 Donruss x2: 138
1982 Fleer x4: 56
1982 Topps x8: 377
1983 Fleer x6: 68
1983 Topps x3: 158
1984 Fleer x10: 77
1984 Topps x8: 152
1985 Donruss x14: 66
1985 Fleer x4: 44
1985 Leaf x8: 21
1985 Topps x26: 218
1986 Donruss x20: 96
1986 Fleer x18: 90
1986 Leaf x8: 11
1986 Topps x6: 138
1986 Topps AS x26: 294
1987 Donruss x31: 254 
1987 Fleer x3: 87
1987 Leaf x5: 13
1987 O-Pee-Chee x3: 8
1987 Topps x10: 506
1987 Topps Stickers x3: 4
1988 Donruss x70: 540
1988 Donruss AS x6: 16
1988 Donruss Baseball Best x2: 11
1988 Fleer x14: 168
1988 Fleer Baseball AS x5: 8
1988 Fleer Star Sticker x 11: 40
1988 Leaf x15: 26
1988 Leaf Canadian Great x 19: 22
1988 Score x16: 169
1988 Sportflics: 4
1988 Topps x11: 401
1988 Topps AS x36: 336
1988 Topps Glossy Send-in: 3
1988 Topps UK mini: 11
1989 Bowman x31: 77
1989 Donruss x17: 179
1989 Fleer x11: 149
1989 Score x11: 100
1989 Topps x12: 325
1989 Upper Deck x4: 73
1990 Bowman x13: 43
1990 Donruss x13: 189
1990 Fleer x33: 171
1990 Score x9: 116
1990 Topps x14: 199
1990 Upper Deck x8: 120
1990 Leaf x3: 24
1991 Bowman: x10: 27
1991 Donruss x14: 91
1991 Donruss MVP x9: 81
1991 Fleer x12: 64
1991 Leaf x11: 46
1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier x3: 15
1991 Panini Top 15: 4
1991 Score x10: 79
1991 Score Franchise x20: 66
1991 Stadium Club: 32
1991 Studio x4: 32
1991 Topps x13: 94
1991 Ultra x3: 27
1991 Upper Deck x27: 127
1991 Upper Deck Team CL x5: 86
1992 Bowman x2: 22
1992 Bowman Gold: 20
1992 Donruss x9: 86
1992 Fleer x12: 41
1992 Leaf x5: 27
1992 Pinnacle x4: 23
1992 Score x14: 30
1992 Stadium Club x2: 8
1992 Studio x4: 14
1992 Topps x14: 90
1992 Topps Kids x15: 25
1992 Triple Play: 41
1992 Ultra x5: 78
1992 Upper Deck x10: 136
1993 Donruss x2: 43
1993 Flair x2: 16
1993 Fleer x6: 20
1993 Leaf x16: 34
1993 Panini x4: 9
1993 Score: 14
1993 Score Select x6: 16
1993 Stadium Club x3: 22
1993 Studio x5: 21
1993 Topps x12: 62
1993 Topps Gold: 22
1993 Triple Play x7: 22
1993 Ultra x10: 21
1993 Upper Deck x11: 44
1994 Collector's Choice x4: 19
1994 Donruss x5: 22
1994 Fleer x8: 23
1994 Leaf x5: 22
1994 Pinnacle x7: 19
1994 Score x12: 38
1994 Score Select x2: 14
1994 SP x3: 22
1994 Stadium Club x4: 18
1994 Studio x3: 13
1994 Topps x7: 46
1994 Topps Gold x4: 11
1994 Triple Play x8: 24
1994 Ultra x12: 23
1994 Upper Deck: 47
1994 Upper Deck Electric: 2
1995 Bazooka x6: 17
1995 Collector's Choice SE x3: 14
1995 Donruss x3: 20
1995 Flair x2: 10
1995 Fleer x3: 13
1995 Leaf x4: 12
1995 Leaf Limited: 3
1995 Pinnacle x4: 16
1995 Score x3: 22
1995 Stadium Club: 12
1995 Studio x2: 14
1995 Topps x4: 22
1995 Topps Cyber Stats: 7
1995 Topps D3 x5: 10
1995 Topps Embossed x3: 6
1995 Ultra x7: 25
1995 Upper Deck x2: 17
1996 Collector's Choice ser.1: 9 
1996 Collector's Choice ser.1 Silver x2: 3
1996 Collector's Choice ser.2: 7
1996 Donruss: 12
1996 Flair Gold: 2
1996 Ultra: 3
1997 Collector's Choice x7: 13
2003 Topps Fan Favorite's: 9
2005 Topps Rookie Cup: 32