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Buying Hobby Boxes: A Fallacy
A few months ago, Topps let us know they were releasing a WWE Heritage Set this year. Even better, in the sell sheet, they showed Michael P.S. Hayes of the Fabulous Freebirds as one of the autograph...
View ArticleWhat Do You Get for Five Dollars at Five Below?
No pictures today, since I am working on setting up my new computer, as the old war horse no longer wants to take a charge after three years. However, I'm not sure what a picture of a 1988 Topps UK...
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Daily Dimwit Group Break - 1 in 4,200 Hit
Group breaks tend to be difficult for me. My allegiances are not to a specific franchise, but instead to players, mostly players long retired. I like the camaraderie and the stack of organized cards,...
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Home of the Toddfather Groupbreak - Dbacktastic
Sometimes you don't get around to scanning your cards. Perhaps you scanned cards the day before and another package arrives in the mail in the mail the next day. Or you take your new cards, flip...
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Houston Astros Dugout Lineup Card - Pickup of the Year
It is fitting to close the year with the best addition to my collection in 2012. In the past two years since I returned to collecting, my best pick ups each year were T206 cards with a Black Cap...
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Where to From Here?
I feel I am at a collecting cross roads. I am waiting for the cards I need to finish my T206 set to arrive from various states of the union, which was brought me back into collecting about two and a...
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Wahoo Sam Crawford and Breezy Point
I was going to post about the Johnny Evers Portrait I purchased a few weeks ago, but realized it was part of a group of cards I had yet to scan into my computer. Suffice to say, the card is very nice...
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Completing the Monster - 518 T206 Cards in Hand
Over the last week or so, I've hinted at the fact that I had completed purchased to complete my T206 set to 518 cards in just under 31 months. After waiting for a money order to make its way to...
View Article10 Packs, 12 Dollars, How Could I Go Wrong?!?!? (Part 1)
I was at Target for legitimate purposes, like the acquisition of paper products, when I stopped in the card aisle. To be fair, I stopped in the card aisle twice. Once for a quick pass over of the...
View Article10 Packs, 12 Dollars, What Could Go Wrong?!?!? (Part 2)
So, I opened more packs. We all know that opening packs can be very soothing. There is something to sort, a small amount of excitement and the knowledge that something new is awaiting us. With that...
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Cam Neely's Knee
With hockey returning sooner rather than later, I decided it was time to show off some cards of the greatest game on ice. To be honest, hockey, up close to the ice is the best spectator sport there...
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Packing the Hall: Frankie Frisch
With today's unsurprising results in the Hall of Fame elections, let's look back to the late 1960s and early 1970s when Frankie Frisch and his cronies packed the Hall of Fame with Giants and Cardinals...
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1973 Topps Ron Cey Rookie Card
If you bid on a card enough times, eventually one of them arrives at your doorstep. You bid, you get outbid, you lose interest, you come back, you bid on another, so on and so forth. With the Ron...
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2012 Leaf Memories or How Much Did I Pay for Leaf to Put Two Foil Stamps on a...
Nothing says sportscards quite like someone purchasing previously sold cards which have limited value, buying them in bulk, putting a stamp on them and charging 50 times the price they paid....
View Article10 Packs, 12 Dollars, What Could Go Wrong?!?!? (Part 3)
(Now with Part 4 erasing Part 3!!!)With only four packs left, I am starting to feel that perhaps this was not the wisest purchase I have ever made at a Target. Let's look at two more packs that I've...
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"Listen Mister, No Man Alive Can Throw Harder Than Smokey Joe Wood"
There are a variety of similar quotes attributed to Walter Johnson, part of the lineage of great fireballers, which indicate that Smokey Joe Wood was the hardest thrower of them all. The quotes are...
View Article10 Packs, 12 Dollars, What Could Go Wrong?!?!? (Part 4)
With only four packs left, I am starting to feel that perhaps this was not the wisest purchase I have ever made at a Target. Let's look at two more packs that I've opened and sat on for the last two...
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Saving a T206: A Card Show Report
There is little sadder than showing up at the end of card show, especially if another, larger card show is in driving distance, taking away a number of key dealers. However, I only felt like driving...
View Article10 Packs, 12 Dollars, What Could Go Wrong?!?!? (Part 5)
We've hit the home stretch here. Only two packs from the box are left to list, as review might be too strong of a word. Pack 9 - 1991 Fleer Ultra (Pack 2)12 - John Smoltz63 - Les Lancaster94 - Mariano...
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Pin Me!
Not every tobacco premium was a baseball card. In addition to cards, they sometimes inserted discs with pictures of baseball players on the front and domino pieces on the back. Or if not a card, they...
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