A one-for-one baseball-card experiment
One dumb card,
Repeatedly upgraded.
I started with a 99-cent baseball card. Now I’m trading it, one for one, until it becomes something less dumb – documenting the trades and collectors I meet along the way.
Approx. value: 99¢
One card at a time
Trade one baseball card for a better one. Repeat.
Every trade replaces the current card and adds another collector to the story. No cash, no extra inventory, and no shortcuts. Just continually better trades. Hopefully...
Best case? Honus Wagner. Worst case? Oil Can and I get comfortable.
The complete chain
The trades.
Every card, every collector, and the story behind each trade.
Narvy Goes Home. Skubal Comes to LA.
Narvy heads home to Boston while Skubal follows his real-life deadline route west to Los Angeles.
Someone Said Yes!
Spencer in Boston made the first trade happen: Oil Can Boyd for an autographed Carlos Narváez rookie.
The Starting Card
The whole project begins with one ordinary 1991 Donruss Oil Can Boyd worth about a dollar.
Have something slightly better?
Make the next bad decision trade.
Send the card details and why the trade makes sense to you (good stories help) and we can talk more.
NOTE: card may have changed as trades can happen quickly