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Blogroll 2.0
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Blog Roll 2.0 (129 blogs)
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#162 1968 World Series Game 1 - Gibson Fans 17; Sets New Record! - > The 1968 World series marked the last time two teams faced off in the Fall Classic without having to first advance via a playoff series. With Major ...
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Remembering Mets History (1999) NLDS Game #4: Todd Pratts Dramatic Walk Off HR Clinches Series - *Saturday, October 9th, 1999, NLDS Game #5- Shea Stadium, New York. * *This afternoon's matinee playoff game at Shea Stadium would either be the clinching ...
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The new-to-me aspect of the hobby - One of the big reasons that I'm still in this hobby -- and still blogging about it -- is that my life is fairly boring actually. I do the same things d...
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1990 Topps Big Deep Dive: Ron Darling - "Look to your right, Ron." Mets pitcher and NYU student? Darling was a C+ student at Yale who left the school after his junior year to start his basebal...
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Setting My Next Goals - When I made a Sportlots order over the summer, I managed to complete a handful of sets that have been sitting on my *So Close!* page for a long time. Once ...
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Friend Encounters: Kevin Rahm & Troy G - Friend Encounters is a weekly series featuring friends meeting celebrities. Troy G. is a media friend, who is a part of the Geary Stein & Stevens Show po...
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Plus 5=1339 - Since Bowman Chrome came out I managed to pick up 5 signed cards of prospects. Ismael Javier-is a 20 year old from the Dominican Republic who was signed ...
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NLDS Game 1 - Offense, Bullpen Stumble in Loss to Dodgers - * Los Angeles Dodgers 5 Philadelphia Phillies 3 * *Saturday Night, October 4th* *Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia, PA* *Dodgers lead series, 1-0* *O...
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Read a Book, Buy Some Cards - Throughout the years, I've occasionally read a book about sports—be it a biography of a specific player, story about a legendary sporting event, or summary...
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Sharman Gets Squeezed - The first Topps *Basketball *set was issued to commemorate the 1957-58 NBA season. Its eighty subjects offered a gaggle of rookie cards and was the first...
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Rocco Baldelli Fired: A Turning Point in Minnesota Twins History - The Minnesota Twins have reached a crossroads. After closing out the 2025 season with a disappointing 70-92 record, the team made the difficult decision ...4 days ago
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1st Series / 3rd Series Checklist - There are a few glorious color inserts among the pages of the *The Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide (Number 4)*, first published in 1982, conta...
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New People September 2025 - September was a pretty light month for me card wise. I spent most of the month doing model stuff. The season is almost over for painting, by the end of ...
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Hanging - I've always hated hanging picture frames. It doesn't make sense because it's not hard to do and doesn't take long but for some reason i absolutely hate ...
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2025-26 Topps Basketball is being release .........without Luka Doncic in the set - It sort of ruins the wait and anticipation for this set. This set is missing one of the Top players in the world, It would be like having a set without...5 days ago
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RIP - Dave Johnson - Dave Johnson, 2nd baseman for the great Orioles' teams of the late-60s and early-70s, passed away on September 5, 2025 at age 82. Johnson played for the ...
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Quality Customs (& Customer Service) - A few weeks ago, Gavin over at *Baseball Card Breakdown* showed off some cards he purchased from a fellow custom card creator and retired blogger: Mark ...
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Wilbur of the Wood - *TRIVIA WINNER: I asked you to name two, Two-Time MVPs who twice led the majors in Total Bases with more than 400. There were three. Lou Gehrig, Jimmie...
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#132 Jesse Haines - St. Louis Cardinals - *Jesse Joseph Haines* *St. Louis Cardinals* *Pitcher* *Bats:* Right *Throws:* Right *Height:* 6'0" *Weight:* 190 *Born:* July 22, 1893, Clayton, ...
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They Still Work! 1970 Fleer Iron-Ons - I came across a video on Youtube from Rob Opens Wax opening a pack of *1970 Fleer Iron-ons*. It was fun to see Rob not only open the pack but th...
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RIP - Bernie Parent - Bernie Parent, the great Flyers' goalie from the 1970s, passed away on September 21, 2025 at age 80. I was a Philly-area kid in the 1960s and 70s, and alth...
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Upper Deck Documentary - No, don’t let the title fool you. I didn’t get cards from a boring and horribly done set from 2008. I am rather going through some fun Upper Deck rookie s...
3 weeks ago -
1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List - 1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List Last updated: 08-31-25 *Bold* = Awaiting arrival/pending trade 1. The Invasion Begins 2. Martians Approaching 3. At...
5 weeks ago -
Added Two This Week - Just two cards incoming this week. TCDB trading is on again off again. I think I have two more incoming next week. I miss getting mail. Small trade with ...
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Atlanta Falcons - Custom Extension Set - As I mentioned at the end of my Green Bay Packers custom cards post in May 2024, here are the 1966 Falcons. These complement the original set issued by P...
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Chicago Bears - Custom Extension Set - Over a year ago I posted my set of Oakland Raiders custom cards issued by RetroCards.net. A few months ago I made another purchase from them - their 1967 B...
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2025 Donruss Baseball Set Added - The Donruss 2025 set of 200 cards is now part of the Baseball Card Gallery at the Card Cyber Museum. The Baseball Card Gallery at the Card Cyber Museum c...
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2025 National Updates From Friday - I spent about five hours at the show on Friday. I am sure I missed items, but here are some things that I did see. I bought three cards including a 197...2 months ago
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1979 Calbee Japanese Baseball #5, Kyosuke Sasaki - This close-up batting portrait shows Japanese veteran Kyosuke Sasaki in the colorful, Expos-like uniform for one of Osaka's two teams of that era, the Ki...
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Brian Piccolo - RB - This is the only Topps card for Brian Piccolo. It's also the only card I've posted to this blog that I don't have. Also, his first name is spelled incorrec...
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RIP - Gerry Philbin - Former Jets' and Eagles' defensive end Gerry Philbin passed away on June 25, 2025 at age 83. Philbin was the Jets' starting left defensive end from 1964 to...
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Ben Hawkins - FL - Ben Hawkins ("The Hawk") was the Eagles' 3rd-round pick in 1966. He played every game from 1966-1972, starting all but 9 times during that span. Hawkins wa...
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A Fordham college leather from the 1910s - Hi y'all! It's been awhile since I've posted, but I haven't stopped collecting. In February 2024 I joined the collecting group Old Baseball Cards, which ...
3 months ago -
3 Contemporary Quarterbacks - Here are 3 veteran quarterbacks, at the end of their careers. These are the final cards for Ed Brown and Lamar McHan. Billy Wade's last card was in the 1...
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Draft Years: 1973 - With the first pick (21st overall) in the 1973 MLB draft, the White Sox chose catcher Steve Swisher out of Ohio University. The Sox felt they needed to...
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Pope Leo XIV - Very special Concave post and custom card albeit not from 1972….In a surprise verdict….one Robert Francis Prevost, is now AKA Pope Leo XIV from Chicagol...4 months ago
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Jersey Shore - Sure is a Mess - *I wrote this up some years ago, and just found it on my computer. No reason I'm the only one who should suffer. * I watched a bunch of Jersey Shore ep...6 months ago
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An Update of the Surviving Players from the 1952 Topps Set - Yeah, it has been a while since I've made a post. Is anyone still there? Anyhow, way back in the day, a guy named Bob Lemke had a running thread updati...
6 months ago -
February 16th Midlothian Card Show: Holliday Weekend - This past Presidents Day weekend was the nearly bi-monthly card show at the Midlothian Four Points Hotel. The last show here was way back before Chr...
7 months ago -
Test post - Hmm it seems that this blog has been hijacked. I am writing a test post to see it that makes a difference. UPDATE: (Monday 10 Feb 2025) Hmm seems to be ...7 months ago
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2025 Wallet Card Junior Ortiz - Here's the new Wallet Card for me in 2025: Ortiz was a member of the Twins' 1991 World Series winning roster, in the role of a backup catcher, and the p...
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2024 Some Sales YAY! - This past year for my card sales over at Ebay I only sold one item an Adrien Peterson relic card. In attempts to get things to sell on Ebay a few time...
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Cooperstown! - It finally happen! Richard Anthony Allen is a Hall of Famer. Images from the Hall of Fame announcement in Dallas via…9 months ago
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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...11 months 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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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 year ago
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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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#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 ...
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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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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...3 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...3 years ago
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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...
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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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#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 Curtis Granderson Collection - *Hearing the news that Curtis Granderson retired my first thought was, "Damn, I thought he would play forever." He never seemed to age or lose a step. But...
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Zee-Nuts and Zee-Numbers - In 1912, the Collins McCarthy Candy Company issued its second series of Zee-Nut baseball cards. That same year, the confectioners produced another series ...5 years ago
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Final Card - Harvey Haddix - This is the final card (and final season) for Harvey Haddix. He may be best remembered for his time with the Pirates from 1959-63, but he played from 195...
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Final Card: Dick Bertell - I already posted Dick Bertell's 1965 card, so I will dispense with the usual write-up. I recently acquired his final card (#587) and have moved several car...
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Collecting the 1967 Phillies - Wow, it's been 2 1/2 months since I've posted any baseball cards. I needed something to bounce me out of my post-season doldrums, and it came to me today. ...
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Progress on my 1955 Bowman set - I posted the other day about being nearly finished with my 1972 Topps set, so I thought I'd give an update on how I'm doing with my 1955 Bowman set as well...
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#314 Roy Campanella - #314 Roy Campanella Progress: 1st of this card 310 of 407 76.2% complete How acquired: Sent as an *extremely* generous gift from a reader Condition: Poo...
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#67 Joe Ginsberg - New York-born Joe Ginsberg was raised in Detroit and signed with the Tigers in 1944 at the age of 17. He soon found himself in the Army and playing serv...
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Jim Rooker (#222) - This is Jim Rooker's first solo card, and one of the many nice cards from the '69 and '70 sets featuring the new Royals' uniform. Although the expansion 19...
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Frank Johnson (#227) - Frank Johnson had a very short career (1966-71, all with the Giants). The record shows 6 seasons, but in three of them he only played 15, 8, and 7 games. M...
6 years ago -
3rd Series Checklist (#191) - Many of the checklist posts I see on peoples' blogs are accompanied by statements like "I hate checklists", "Checklists are a waste of a card", or even "Wh...
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Strikeout King - Like a .300 batting average, 30 home runs, and 100 RBI for hitters, 200 strikeouts in a season has always been a benchmark of excellence for pitchers. In ...6 years ago
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Dick Kelley (#203) - Dick Kelley was signed by the Milwaukee Braves in 1959, and made his major-league debut on April 15, 1964. In that game he had the misfortune of giving up ...
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Yankees v Athletics 8-31-19 - Lisa chose this game because the free giveaway was a lightweight hoodie. We assumed that the hoodie would be given to the first 40,000 guests, but unfortun...
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Citing Tim Keefe - This showed up on Twitter Wednesday: It kicked off a bit of discussion, mostly around Tim Keefe. Charlie Bevis wrote an excellent biography of Keefe for...
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A Postcard from The Pyrenees - *My main entree into postcard collecting was a gift to my wife of French scenes. Here's one I chose at random. * Pau Le Gave et les Pyrenees vus de la P...
6 years ago -
Philadelphia Eagles (bonus cards - part 2) - Here are the remaining 6 cards in the 1968 Eagles set produced by RetroCards . (You can see the other 12 cards here in part 1.) *Lane Howell* was the Eag...
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1887 Tobin Color Lithographs - Many early examples of baseball cards are actually advertisements for different retail shops. The Tobin Color Lithographs stand out from others that came ...
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Edward Vila Glicée of Orel Hershiser - 11 months ago I hit up ebay and purchased this limited edition (numbered to 50), giclée card of Orel Hershiser. It was less than half the cost of a blaste...
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Phillies Inkquest: A Re-Introduction and an Autograph Dead Zone List - The Phillies Inkquest is defined the quest to find certified autographed cards of Phillies for the following categories: World Series participant, HOFer...
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Top Reads of 2016 - This is a continuation of a list I started on Athletes with Phones. Below are some of my favorite card collecting-related reads from 2016… 5. Wrigley Wax’s...6 years ago
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239. Big Boy Kraft: Fifty-Five and Out - *This week we'll continue to go backwards through baseball history and examine the single-season home run leaders of the pre-steroid era. Preceding Tony...
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1978 Topps Baseball #350 - Steve Garvey - - Even though Steve Garvey was a Dodger, his cards were always among the most desired by the kids on my block. - Steve had a good year in 197...
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no. 752 - dick drago - *Who is the man:* Dick Drago pitched 240 innings for the Royals in 1970 as one of their starting staff mainstays. He won 20 games for K.C. in its first ...
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Italy Fails To Qualify for 2018 World Cup - with a draw today versus Sweden, Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. That is all.
7 years ago -
Joe Christopher Revisited - This time we revisit an earlier subject, former Mets outfielder Joe Christopher. We covered a previously unrecorded transaction sending him to Richmond her...
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#139 -- Tim McCarver - Tim McCarver Tim McCarver is mostly known to this generation as a national baseball TV color analyst. For about 20 years he was on all of the big games,...
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Mike Schmidt - The Wall - I'll get back to the 30-day Baseball Card Challenge on Monday, but first this... A few days ago I saw the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall" on TV. I wasn't buyin...
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#55 LA Dodgers HOFer Don Drysdale - Next up is 5 card. Topps saved their biggest star cards for cards ending in 5 or 0 and this time it's Don Drysdale whose Major League career speaks for ...
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Holmgren didn't make either the Cardinals or Topps cuts - This is the fifth in a string of "football cards that never were" that I've created in December. It's likely to be my last football custom for a while; ...
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Perhaps the best ever.... 1956 Montreal Canadiens - This is the last in the three part series of my card show team photo buying spree. Today's shows the Publicity shot given out to celebrate the 1956-57 Mont...
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Package According to the Rule. - Ruben Sierra seems happy on card 355 of the 1990 Upper Deck set. Kind of a rare thing, to see Ruben Sierra smiling. This card was part of a stack of Rang...
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Time for the Medal Ceremony - With the 2016 Paralympics set to begin September 7th and run through September 18th, but the winner of the contest decided, I thought you might like to se...9 years ago
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1972 Topps Mets Rookie Stars: Buzz Capra, Leroy Stanton, Jon Matlack - The random number generator brings a card from one of my favorite sets. The 1972 set had an over-the-top 1970's vibe to it. It had great colors, great ...
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#386 Darrell Jackson - *Who is this player?* Darrell Jackson, starting pitcher, Minnesota Twins As the 1980 season began for the Twins, Darrell...
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Buffalo Bills - Here are the 1971 Buffalo Bills, just 3 years removed from being the worst team in football in 1968 with a record of 1-12-1 (awarding them the #1 pick in t...
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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 (ev...
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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...10 years ago
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feeling complete, except for some cards that should have been that i didn't make - i certainly didn't think this would happen, but i completed my 1955 topps brooklyn dodger team set recently by adding ed roebuck's card to my collection....
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I am a Junk Wax Junkie! - When I first learned about the term "junk wax", I was actually offended. It hurt. The Junk Wax Era, as so many like to call it, was my prime collecting p...
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1927 W560 Simmons, Cuyler, Walberg, Sewell, Clark, Rhem - Today's arrival is this sweet lot of strip cards from 1927. I have plenty of old strip cards but these are the first from this playing card-like set. How...
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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 throug...
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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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Recent Collection Purchased From 1958: The Topps All-Star Collection - *1958 Topps Baseball* At Dean's Cards, we buy hundreds of vintage baseball card collections every year. These collections range from cards acquired dur...
11 years ago -
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...11 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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#526 Bob Speake - Outfielder Bob Speake had a major league 'moment in the sun' in 1955. As a Cubs rookie he was given the role as a starting outfielder due to an injury ...
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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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DickAllen15.com - I launched Dick Allen Hall of Fame here in February 2009, moving the project from a static HTML structure to a more interactive and easier to maintain bl...
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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...12 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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#27, MIKE CURRENT, T, Broncos - It only took 10 months to get to #27! Mike Current is shown here on his second Topps card, his first coming in 1970. He played just as many games in the...
12 years ago -
1976 Topps Traded - The Missing Cards! - This is something I've been wanting to do, but I lack the graphic skills to pull it off. Ben, Mike, and Travis at The Baseball Card Blog made a "second ...
12 years ago -
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...
12 years ago -
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...
13 years ago -
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...
13 years ago -
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...
14 years ago -
Kansas City Chiefs - I'm back, and with the 1972 Chiefs in tow. The Chiefs had just come off a 1971 season where they finished at 10-3-1, good for 1st place in the AFC West. Th...
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