This is not my most valuable card, but definitely one of my favorites.
I had just posted my first ever FT thread, and things were going great. I had made around 5 trades up to that point, and was beginning to get a better feel for the site's trading. Then, someting odd happened: I had a yellow banner near the middle of my computer sceen telling me that I had something called a "private message". I opened it up, and to my surprise, was a picture of this card and someone telling me they could move this for the right deal. So, we set up a trade, and we were both happy with our ends. I followed the tracking every day, just waiting for my new favorite piece to my Pedroia collection to arrive. Since then, this card has slipped through the top tier of my collection thanks to the wonderful traders on this site, but I will always remember it as the first big card I ever obtained through a trade:
I had just posted my first ever FT thread, and things were going great. I had made around 5 trades up to that point, and was beginning to get a better feel for the site's trading. Then, someting odd happened: I had a yellow banner near the middle of my computer sceen telling me that I had something called a "private message". I opened it up, and to my surprise, was a picture of this card and someone telling me they could move this for the right deal. So, we set up a trade, and we were both happy with our ends. I followed the tracking every day, just waiting for my new favorite piece to my Pedroia collection to arrive. Since then, this card has slipped through the top tier of my collection thanks to the wonderful traders on this site, but I will always remember it as the first big card I ever obtained through a trade:
Also collecting the top prospects for the Sox.
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. — Satchel Paige
Special thanks to jbel for the sweet sig!