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Blogroll 2.0
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Blog Roll 2.0 (127 blogs)
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1970 Topps Booklets: The Pete Rose Story - Roy Carlson's research revealed that this image was based on the photo that Topps would use for Rose's coin the next year. Rose's father actually played ...
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Repack Haiku #386 (Dan Walters) - *Officer Walters* *Died from injuries received* *During a shootout* 1993 Topps #273 Dan Walters (RC) Walters joined the San Diego Police Department after...
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2024-25 Offseason - Pre-Thanksgiving Notes - 2024 Choice Reading Fightin Phils (3rd Edition) #37 2024 Choice Lehigh Valley IronPigs #15 2022 Choice Delmarva Shorebirds #18 2024 Choice Jersey Shore ...
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Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday - The junk mall hasn't had anything different in a while, so I just grabbed another pack of 1989 Pro Set, which by the way, will probably be the last pack ...
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#449 Paul Lindblad - Oakland Athletics - *Paul Aaron Lindblad* *Oakland Athletics* *Pitcher* *Bats:* Left *Throws:* Left *Height:* 6'1" *Weight:* 185 *Born:* August 9, 1941, Chanute, KS ...
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The Godfather at Blizzard Brawl 2019 - Blizzard Brawl 2024 is just over two weeks away. Great Lakes Championship Wrestling's biggest event fo the year looks to be better than ever. Promoted and r...
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Mr. 30,000 - I've been blessed with a few Dodgers-centric packages in the last month. They're most appreciated because I get distracted with other non-Dodger things ...
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A Quick Trip to the Islands - Over Veteran's Day weekend... I traveled 2,400 miles across the Pacific Ocean for Papa Fuji's celebration of life. *Ala Wai Canal* I've mentioned it a f...
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Francisco Alvarez: Mets Catcher (2022 - 2024) - *Francisco Javier Alvarez was born November 19th, 2001, in Guatire, Venezuela. His parents Jose & Yolanda had four children. Sadly, Francisco lost an old...
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The Greatest Year of the Yaz - *TRIVIA WINNER: **The answer to last weeks question was the number of players who were traded for Frank Robinson in his career was 16. * *The Prize: *1...
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Surgery update, Caminiero cards, and completed sets - It has been a stressful but nice time since I have posted last. Karen went in for one kind of surgery on Tuesday, but came out with a different one, and w...
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#313 Gene Stephens - Boston Red Sox - *Glen Eugene Stephens* *Boston Red Sox* *Outfield* *Bats:* Left *Throws:* Right *Height:* 6'3" *Weight:* 175 *Born:* January 20, 1933, Gravette, ...
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A Smorgasbord! Kraft Dinners (Hockey) - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
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Doors Of Imperception - Topps was chugging along with all sorts of esoteric non-sports issues as the odometer rolled over from 1969 to 1970. This was about year four of an inter...
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2023 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball Set Added - The Topps Allen & Ginter 2024 set of 350 cards is now part of the Baseball Card Gallery at the Card Cyber Museum. The Baseball Card Gallery at the Card C...
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November 9th Regency Mall card show: From the Penthouse, to the Dump and Back - I went to the local card show last weekend at Regency Mall. The mall itself actually used to be named Regency Square back when I was a kid and I remembe...
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Most games pitched for Twins without a start - Starters no longer pitch the innings they used too and relievers are becoming more important in MLB every year. Yes, their are a few “Ace” starters in th...1 week ago
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Major, Major Milestone - I knew it was coming but I didn't know when it would be. It was a long journey to get to this point, starting all the way back in February 1996. I knew ...
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Top 15 from COMC - In news that should surprise no one, I received another COMC order last week. This haul was a bit smaller than my usual massive (but still north of 100 ...
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SANITY PREVAILS! - It's a great day for our country. Cackles and that buffoon from Minnesota have been sent packing! (And that sad-sack Juan Williams, FoxNews' token dimoc...2 weeks ago
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All-Star Rookie Cups in the 2024 World Series - To kick off the 2024 edition of the World Series we are going to examine the series from a Rookie Cup perspective and see if that can predict a winner. ...
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Baseball TTM from Richard Billings (Dec 1972 Sport Grafica cover story) - How many of these *Sport Grafica* magazines are still around? At least one I picked up from eBay to feed my research into *Grafica *winter league photo s...
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Two huge Quisenberry acquisitions: 1975 and 1976 TCMA Waterloo Royals - I guess I'm not a very good Dan Quisenberry super-collector. I decided to start chasing all his cards almost three years ago, and I just have 45 of his 25...
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RIP - Pete Rose - Pete Rose, the all-time Hit King, passed away on September 30, 2024 at age 83. Rose had attended an autograph show the day prior to ...
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Five Random Cubs Cards - I've got 21,904 Cubs cards from 317 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past severa...1 month ago
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A Definitive Guide to City Connect Uniforms - Hi! Hello! How have you been? Let's talk City Connects. I will start with the worst and move toward the best. I have strictly organized them into descripti...
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The Little Differences - I wonder how many times I passed by a variation of card that I needed because they were so close to each other. Recently I found not one but two variat...
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There's Always A Silver Lining - This season is the worst I have ever experienced as a White Sox fan. I still love the team, but it's a tough love. It would be an understatement to say...
3 months ago -
I'm Out - *Apparently, Google has made an change that now requires a level of cookies that wasn't there before. When I try to upload a photo, I get this: * *Al...4 months ago
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My First Football Cards - I started buying football cards in 1967. But up to 3 years before that I had four cards from the 1964 NFL set. I have no idea where they came from, because...
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4 months ago -
Hello Again, I got a bobble card today. - I am still reading blogs and collecting. I started a set build, 1969 Topps football. I had two cards from the set, Brian Picollo and Gale Sayers, so ...
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1987 Fleer Baseball Stickers Mystery - Yankees in the National League? - I received an email from Jeff asking about a sticker he came across while looking through some 1987 Fleer cards he has from when he was a kid, and this s...
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Alex Bregman on Hank - This story was excerpted from Brian McTaggart’s Astros Beat newsletter. ANAHEIM – They were bonded by baseball, horse racing and, more…5 months ago
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RIP - Jim Otto - Jim Otto, the Raiders' center from 1960 to 1974, passed away on May 19, 2024 at age 86. Otto was selected by the AFL's Minneapolis franchise in 1960, but w...
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Green Bay Packers - Custom Extension Set - These are the 1966 Packers cards made by RetroCards.net. RetroCards has made 1966 cards for each NFL team. As with the Cowboys, RetroCards has 2 sets for...
6 months ago -
RIP - Roman Gabriel - Roman Gabriel, quarterback for the Rams and Eagles in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away today April 20, 2024 at age 83. In 1962, he was the first overall pi...
7 months ago -
Project Purge: COMC and Other Fun - *PROJECT PURGE:* *COMC Submission* *The Four Major Sports Groups* *Updated: 29 FEB 2024* A little background: I've been on COMC (Check Out My Cards) since ...
8 months ago -
Happy Blogiverary To Curly W Cards - *HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!* Today marks the 11th Blogiversary for *"Curly W Cards"*. I think I might have missed posting last year for the 10th Blogiversary...
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Franklin High Star Ron Santo - Fandom and it's associated collecting is a strange thing. When I first became a Ron Santo fan I was young boy. Ron was in his prime, smashing home runs...
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Recent Pick Ups - *Three great new pickups for me recently.* As some of you already know, I collect certain stamped back T206s. These purple number back stamps rarely se...
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Sunday at the National - Kellogg's Cards - I was only able to get to the National today even though it is 20 miles from my house. Next year I will hope to get to the show during the last two day...
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So this just happened.... - There was the monthly local trade night at the local shop this past Thursday evening. Frivolities were had, poor life choices were made, the usual. Fol...
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#1 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates team card - Per Topps tradition, the reigning World Champs take card #1....Beat the favored Orioles who were the seemingly invincible Goliath….upon inspection howeve...1 year ago
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#350 Mickey Mantle - New York Yankees - *Mickey Charles Mantle* *New York Yankees* *Outfield* *Bats:* Both *Throws:* Right *Height:* 5'11" *Weight:* 195 *Born:* October 20, 1931, Spavin...
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Pandemic Pretender; or, Cards for Sale! - Hey everyone - well, yeah, it has been quite a few months since I last spoke up in this space, and during that time I pretty much came to the conclusion ...
2 years ago -
'We need your stinking patches!' Showing off Topps manufactured patches through the years - I've seen some hot takes that people aren't happy with the commemorative batting helmet cards included as bonuses in 2022 Topps Series 2 blasters. I've ...
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Baseball Movies by the Kalem Company - *Kalem Kalendar* - August 1, 1912 *Kalem Kalendar* - August 15, 1913
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#82 Mickey Mantle - *#82 Mickey Mantle* 94 of 274 34.3% complete *"His Walk About" -* Mickey Mantle played in 12 World Series and won seven World Series Rings during his 18...
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The Long and Winding Road - And so, the last of my seven set blogs shuts down today. I have had a lot of fun doing this since I started in September 2009, but I must admit the last ...
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Remembering the Summer of '69 - Today is the final post to this 1969 set blog. This blog was started in 2009 by a blogger named Pack Addict (who later changed his handle to Socially Aw...
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All Good Things Come to an End - As I mentioned in my last post, I am closing the lid on this blog after 12+ years, 314 posts, and over 452,000 blog views (many probably my own - lol). I ...
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Packing Up This Blog (fittingly, into a burlap sack) - As I mentioned in my 1967 blog post today, I am discontinuing my blogs. (Many would say "I thought you did already.") When it becomes a chore rather than...
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Topps All-Star Misses: 1961 NL Outfield - The 1961 Topps "Sporting News" All Star cards were pretty close to accurate as far as reflecting what the cards purported to represent. Topps had Aaron...2 years ago
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1983 Tampa Bay Bandits - The Tampa Bay Bandits made a splash by bringing on Burt Reynolds as a minority partner and good will ambassador in 1983, something much needed by the new...2 years ago
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Truist Park - 755 Battery Avenue SE Atlanta, GA 30339 September 28, 2021 The tale of our visit to Truist Park doesn't begin where you may think - the ballpark. It b...2 years ago
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You moved. Here’s a way your TTM autographs can reunite with you 18 months later! - I moved. The United States Post Office took 10 days before deciding to forward my mail. (This isn’t counting the lost change of address card I mailed in al...2 years ago
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Winging It with Roberto Clemente - One of the most celebrated images of the great Roberto Clemente shows the outfielder gracefully leaping to catch a ball as clouds in the background fo...
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Denver Broncos - After 9 straight 4th-place finishes (always in a 4 or 5 team division) the Broncos fired their head coach and hired John Ralston for the 1972 season. They ...
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1976 Kellogg's #37 - Jim Palmer - . * *What did he do to deserve a 1976 Kellogg's card?* * Multiple Cy Young Award winner * Multiple 20 game winner * American League ERA lea...
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Houston Oilers - The 1970 Houston Oilers finished at 3-10-1, and drew the 3rd pick in the 1971 draft (Dan Pastorini). They made marginal improvement to 4-9-1 in 1971, but t...
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Atlanta Falcons - After compiling records of 3-10 and 1-12-1 in their first two seasons, the 1968 Falcons finished up at 2-12 in 1968. They replaced original head coach No...
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John Means, 2021 Topps #272 - I may have strayed far from the discipline of my early years of blogging, but I'm not so far gone that I won't check back in on the occasion of the be...
3 years ago -
Cards #1 to #310 Bindered - When it comes to my sets, I sleeve them and keep them in 3-ring binders. My 1952 set build effort is not exception. I view the Topps base set as a sort...
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Weekly Round-Up - A New Endeavor & a Legend Takes a Break - Boy it's been a rough and challenging week on the work/professional front. Glad I have cards, this blog, this hobby and this great community to keep me ...
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Why do we care so much? - I haven't posted to this blog in 1,595 days. That seems like enough of a break. Maybe I'll pick it up again, maybe I won't, but I am on Twitter all the...3 years ago
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1965 Was a Very Good Year - But the time has come to retire this blog. Several things contributed to this decision: 1. I was down to my last 4 cards to post here (Frank Thomas, Ste...
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I Had My Kicks With '66 - The time has come to retire this blog. Several things contributed to this decision: 1. I have run out of cards to post here (other than for players that...
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Time to Waive Goodbye to This Blog - The time has come to retire this blog. Several things contributed to this decision: 1. Design-wise, the 1963 set my 3rd favorite (behind 1965 and 1967),...
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Reprints: 1940 Play Ball Philadelphia A's Team Set - The Athletics left Philadelphia long ago, and the Phillies maintained their history in the city for many years through their inclusion on the Philadelph...
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#290 Jerry Lumpe - *Jerry Lumpe Kansas City Athletics* *Career:* Jerry Lumpe was a Yankee prospect who put up impressive minor league numbers but wasn't quite good en...
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Claudio Manela - Here’s an artistic rendering of the Filipino lefty Claudio Manela, who played in the Negro National League, Cuban League, and Eastern League in the early 1...4 years ago
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The Dodger Blue Zoo - On August 20, 1978, Dodgers teammates Don Sutton and Steve Garvey fought in the Shea Stadium visitors’ clubhouse. Sutton had been quoted as saying, “All yo...4 years ago
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Phillies to retire Dick Allen's #15 - From the Phillies The Phillies will bestow the highest honor a club can confer upon a former player by retiring Dick Allen’s No. 15, Managing Partner Joh...
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Happy Independence Day! - A couple of pieces for you on the 4th of July, 2020. I'm staying in. If you go out, be safe. This card is circa 1940. First Day Cover 1976 The history...
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July 2020 POBC Magazine - Here's our July issue of POBC Magazine. Please comment or send an email to pobcMAG@mail.com. This month features my recollections of the 1978 All-Star Gam...
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1978 Topps Baseball #356 New York mets - The 1978 season was a low point in the history of the New York mets. The stars of the early-mid 70s (Tom Seaver, Jon matlack, Dave Kingman, etc.) were...
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a super 1971 topps super rich allen - because rich allen's array of 1971 releases - his topps flagship card, dell's today stamp, and other issues - featuring photos taken in dodger stadium, i a...
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Placeholder for Not Blogging Enough: Various Top 10 Wantlists - UPDATED: September 2024 *Top 10 Phillies Modern Cards (non-serial numbered)* 1. 2012 Allen & Ginter Framed Relics Mike Schmidt 2. 2008 Documentary Upd...
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#68 Daryl Spencer - Spencer played 10 years in the National League with the Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Reds. He grew up in Kansas where his father was an oil field dr...
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1990 Socko Juice Orel Hershiser set - This is one of those food premiums that doesn't pop up too often for a reasonable price. I think I pulled the trigger for about $10 a few months ago. Inter...
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Tops Reads of 2018 - I’m glad to finish documenting my favorite blog reads (for myself but sharing since it may interest others). Have a Happy New Year 2019! 8. Joe’s nightmare...5 years ago
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#28, REX KERN, CB, Colts - images from COMC In college football bygones, there were teams that succeeded by running the football, then running it again. Woody Hayes’ Ohio State t...
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Bob Stephenson is Another PTBNL for Schoendienst - Bob Stephenson had just one year in the majors, spending 1955 with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played mostly shortstop, with a little second base and third...
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right on! - Welcome! This is a tribute to the 1971 Topps set, the first Topps set to feature black borders on every card, full-color action on player cards, and head...
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#140 -- Pat Dobson - Pat Dobson I guess Pat Dobson will always be known as one of Baltimore's 4 20 game winners in 1971. You have to go back to 2012 to find the last time th...
7 years ago -
Gone to Twitter - I've been doing this blog since early 2008 and I'm afraid I'm just tired of doing it. But I still want to show off cards I get so I plan to post cards on T...7 years ago
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Final Parkie Post...... for now. - So here is the final post of my recent Parkhurst purchase. I hope to find more soon. There is a big show here the last weekend of September, *fingers cros...
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#56 - Jose Tartabull of the Boston red Sox - Up next is someone who I grew up thinking of as just Danny Tartabull's father. The New York Yankees slipped into irrelevancy in 1989 and...
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#56 - Jose Tartabull of the Boston red Sox - Up next is someone who I grew up thinking of as just Danny Tartabull's father. The New York Yankees slipped into irrelevancy in 1989 and...
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Ranew survived 1966 bat attack - *Uncommon commons:* In more than 30 years in sportscards publishing I have thrown hundreds of notes into files about the players – usually non-star play...
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Royal Delivery. - Long time friend, reader, and Royals fan extraordinaire Mark sent me a small group of Rangers inserts from recent sets. Among the cards he sent my way wa...
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1965 Topps Indians Rookie Stars: George Culver, Tommie Agee - For the second post in a row we have rookie cards of players who would become Rookie Of the Year. Here is a 1965 Rookie Stars card that was ahead of its ...
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#387 Fred Stanley - *Who is this player?* Fred Stanley, infielder, New York Yankees Widely known as a defensive specialist, by 1980 Fred Stan...
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My Hall of Fame collection of custom "What-If" cards - Here is my latest card project: I am working on a Hall of Fame set, with every Hall of Fame member in the Topps format for the year they were inducted (eve...
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Done With the Hobby, and Topps Started Me Down This Road - I don’t know yet whether I will write about all the reasons why, but I have decided that I am essentially done with the hobby. It started with an incredibl...9 years ago
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will there be a final tribute? - shortly after i started this blog in september of 2008, i received an email from ben henry, creator of the baseball card blog and someone with whom i had t...
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1987 Topps - Classic Set - El Caballo87 Topps holds a special place in my heart. When I first pulled my cards out of the attic a month ago, it was 87 Topps that I went to first. I...
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Jim Bouton #470 - Jim Bouton's career spanned 10 seasons in the big leagues. After riding the bench for his time in high school, Bouton, however, secured a professional co...
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Baseball Cards: A Love Story - I fell in love with baseball cards at the Scituate, MA town dump. A little background … When I was a boy, my family traveled to Scituate a couple of year...
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#28 Vada Pinson, Hitting Coach - courtesy of tradingcarddb courtesy of tradingcarddb Vada Pinson was a young kid when he was signed by the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1956. He went through th...
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#154 Jim Gantner, Brewers - *Card Front:* If you wanted to get the chicks in the 70's you needed to look like Jim here. The hair is a little longer and feathered, the small b...
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I'm here, but not completely - Am I back? I never really left, but I wouldn't say that I'll be posting everyday. Life has been a journey lately to say the least. I have watched my son ma...
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David Carpenter - Born on today's date, David Carpenter. "If you think a guy can foul a ball off and then at the same time hit the catcher on the backswing on purpose, you...
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#658 - Lee Lacy - I really am stretching this thing out but, trust me, it’s not intentional. Too much work and other stuff. For our third-to-last card we get Lee Lacy at S...
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3 Walk-Off Wins in 3 Days? Are You Kidding ME???? - True story. Saw it with my own eyes... Even I was starting to doubt my Team a little, but this is exactly what this team and it's fans needed... Much appr...10 years ago
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484 - Ernie McAnally - *About This Player* Ernie McAnally pitched in four Major League seasons with the Montreal Expos from 1971 to 1974. McAnally was drafted originally by the...
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Thank You All!! - It wasn’t until the other day that I made the connection. I was talking to the Lovely Wife about my father passing away 3 years ago. The anniversary of h...
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#446 Rocky Nelson - Glenn 'Rocky' Nelson had such a varied and interesting career I hardly know where to start, so let's try the beginning. Nelson signed with the St. Loui...
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Happy New Year! - I decided that New Year's Day was the perfect time to feature the first card of the 1973 Topps set. That was back in 2011, and today is the first day since...
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1977 Topps Baseball #645 - Jerry Reuss - - Jerry Reuss was the #2 starter for the Pirates in 1977. He won only ten games, down from his 14 wins from 1976. - *1977 Stats:* 10-13, 4.11 ...
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eBay Loot: John O'Donoghue Seattle Pilots Autograph - I swiped this beauty off the 'Bay the other day to add it to my Seattle Pilots collection. Since there are relatively few Pilots cards to begin with, I li...11 years ago
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#525 Eddie Bressoud - Here we are at last...the end of the road. One last time, I would like to thank everyone who has read, shared, or commented on this blog over the last fi...
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that's a wrap - oh my! - well, it's time to put a bow on this blog - 'wrap' it up as one might say. i've enjoyed going through all of the o-pee-chee sets from 1977 through 1992, an...
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It's Campy...Really - This 3-inch plastic statue features Brooklyn Dodger star Roy Campanella. Really, it does: Molded in 1956 and sold through Dairy Queen stores that year, C...
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the long and winding road. - I'm not even sure where to begin with this post. I suppose it doesn't have a beginning at all, giving that it was inevitable. I have a bad habit of cycling...
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I'm Still Here - It has been a year of seldom posting here at 1974 Topps Set. Fellow card blogger Devon at *My First Cards (1982 Topps)* sent me a note checking up on me. ...13 years ago
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#640 - Harmon Killebrew - *Card fact: *This is the final Topps card issued of Harmon Killebrew during his playing career. He had appeared in just about every Topps flagship set f...
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Democratic Roadkill Delivers The Nitty Gritty Card of the Day!!! - Today's Nitty Gritty Card of the Day came to me courtesy of Duane of the Democratic Roadkill blog. It made its way from Ohio, down to Florida with many vint...
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