Buybacks from The City of Champions

A few posts back I wrote about my recent interest in attempting to build a frankenset comprised entirely of buybacks. Now not only was it by far my most viewed post to date (thank you to everyone who took the time to read it), but it also had the added benefit of bringing me into contact with three new people to trade with. One of those being a fellow named Josh who let me know he had a couple buybacks available for trade, which I will get to in a moment.

Before I get to the cards I wanted to mention that while Josh isn't a fellow blogger (yet?) you can check out his Twitter page @JoshSamBob, either for potential trading purposes or to just become acquainted with a seemingly all around nice guy. And if you are interested in trying to work out a trade with Josh, one of his areas of interest is in cards pertaining to Jewish baseball players, so he put together this nifty spreadsheet that could definitely be helpful in that regard.

So here are the three buybacks, all from the recent 2016 Topps release:

1978 Topps Darrell Johnson #79

1983 Topps Geoff Zahn #547

1985 Topps Reggie Jackson #200

It is very neat to have Mr. October represented in the ever growing set. It's kind of weird too, in that I don't think I had ever seen this card before. I don't know if I have a mental block on '85 Topps, or if I have just never really paid any attention to this set. Either way, it's great to see and have it now.

So thank you again, Josh! I'm grateful to you for letting me know these were available, as they certainly helped the cause. And for everyone else reading this go follow him on Twitter, I can't imagine you'd be disappointed in doing so.

Thanks for taking a moment to look at my page.