Congratulations to the Red Sox, especially Jed Lowrie, who had about as clutch a hit as you can get last night, despite a less than stellar stretch run to end the regular season. I have to be honest, Tampa Bay scares the hell out of me though...
$15 Scumbucket Grab Bag 2.13
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*1990 Topps Ken Griffey, Jr.*
You already have this card, of course.
But do you have enough copies of this card?
No, of course you don't.
You need one more.
...
Time Travel Trading Update #75
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After starting this project with a single pack of 2018 Topps, it has become
a yearly tradition to add a pack of the newest base set each year. I'll
ad...
Trade Stack - Finally, some Hockey
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Card #12 finally sees a hockey card added to the stack.
It joins these 11:
If you have one of the cards on any of my wantlists, I'll trade the
contents ...
Shipping Up To Boston
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LeBron James and the Boston Celtics have had many a classic contest as the
rivals have gone at it since James entered the league twenty years ago. I
distin...
Popular sends
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Trading Card Database trade offers have come pretty fast-and-furious for me
in the last month-plus.
None of these are big trades, but there's been eigh...
Random Wax: 2021-2022 Hoops Blaster with Relic
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21-22 Hoops: We're in the throes of March Madness as well as the final few
weeks of the NBA regular season so some Hoops basketball it is. I bought
this o...
Baseball in French, Lesson 4: La Balle Glissante
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Welcome to Baseball in French, Lesson 4. Previous lessons can be found here.
Today's term is *la balle glissante*.
In English, that translates to "slippe...
Green Cards
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*Happy St. Patrick's Day! *
In honor of the day, here are a few selected green cards I've acquired over
the last six months or so. One or two of these m...
Variations and other card show finds
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The current methods used by card companies to drive collector interest are
wide and varied. Refractors, serial numbers and parallels are the most
common,...
Irish Day Updates
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Aaron Rodgers told his special friend Patty McCaffeine that he wants to
play for the Jets this season.
No trade is imminent as the two teams teams are st...
My Take On A Recent TCDB Non-Sports Ranking
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The Trading Card Database’s Twitter account recently shared a countdown of
the 60 Top non-sports sets of all time, as based on rankings by TCDB
members. It...
Baseball Cards Come from Bo!
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He was already probably the cardsphere's most prolific trader these days,
but after Bo added his dupes to TCDB, it became even easier for him to
identify...
Puck Junk Podcast: The Patrick Kane Trade
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Episode #146: March 10, 2023 In this episode of the Puck Junk Podcast, Sal
Barry and Tim Parish talk about Patrick Kane being traded to the New York
Rang...
What I've learned from TCDB
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I finished uploading all my Angels cards onto TCDB the other day, which
means I've at long last cataloged the first full team in my collection.
Obviously...
A Sticky Situation
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I've read multiple blog posts and watched several YouTubers reminisce about
the first cards they ever pulled out of a pack... like it was remembering
their...
2021 Universal Treasures Baseball Box (Part 3)
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Lots of wet snow today, so it's a good day to show off the 3rd exciting
rack pack from the Universal Treasures Box I bought previously. If this
pack i...
LINDEN CARD OF THE WEEK - Exciting Times
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Have you ever had that feeling of excitement and enthusiasm for cards of
your player that are about to be released into the hobby world? Seeing some
prot...
Incoming
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Got some free cards from Tom, of Angels in Order fame. Let's take a goose.
- Alomar and Mattingly are from a limited edition 7-11 / Citgo set.
- ...
Pandemic Pretender; or, Cards for Sale!
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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 ...
Born in 1993 - Max Power
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*You're watching the Simpsons with your daughter the other day...*
"Oh! I bet you'll like the Max Power episode." I said to my daughter.
"Let's see....
1991 Topps: the Desert Fox
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I don't think Topps made a more iconic flagship set in the '90's than this
one. And it's not just the photography, although that did take a huge leap
for...
Soup's On!
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No, not Dave Campbell -
I'm talking the good stuff!
I'm taking the blog in a new direction!
From now on, it's SOUP - All day, everyday.
Tired of...
Five Months of Mail Roundup!
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2021 and the start of 2022 has been busy for me and I've once again
neglected the blog. I've still been buying, selling, and collecting, and
I've got som...
I've Got the Willies
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First Willie that comes to mind? Gotta be The Say Hey Kid.
1967 Topps #200 Willie Mays
1960 Topps #316 Willie McCovey
1971 Topps #230 Willie Stargell
196...
A Long Line
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Hey Folks!!! Hope all is well in blogging land. Figured it was about
time to do a proof of life so my blog doesn't disappear.
Everyone managing to f...
A Thunderous New Addition, Pt. 2
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Been a while since I checked in here. Life's been busy, lots of big life
changes, figuring out this whole parenthood thing, the Cubs have been a
whole b...
Closet Discoveries
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I've been on a cleaning/reorganizing/purging binge lately and I attacked
my hobby closet earlier this week. I opened four boxes from the upper
shelves a...
Recent pickups
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Look - if I don't get something posted soon, I will never do it. I spent
the past two days organizing my desk, and sorting out more mailings I need
to g...
Top 30 NHL Players of All-time: #27
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So what you don't know is this is round 2 of this post. As a flash back to
the early days of this blog, Blogger decided to vomit out my post when I
hit pub...
Nick’s Super Stuffed PWE of Super Stuff
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It seems like Thursday is becoming my regular posting day. I hadn’t really
intended it to be that way but with work being incredibly busy right now,
it’s...
The End of the 7 Day Trading Card Challenge Road
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Here I am, I've come to the end of the line for my 7 Day Trading Card
Challenge. There have been twists and turns...planned and unplanned pauses,
but the j...
Back, With Buybacks
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It's been awhile, so who knows if anyone will even see this. I'd been
posting everything on my other site, Bean's Ballcard Blog, for awhile.
Then there w...
PWEs, Accompanied by Song
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I decided to write a post tonight comprised of recent PWEs that I've
received in the mail lately accompanied by songs that have been randomly
going around ...
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Just a quick three pack show and tell for this evenings post. Not entirely
sure why I decided to take a gamble on SPx for the second week in a row but
here...
1994 Milwaukee Wave Promo Pack
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This pack was likely received as an arena giveaway. It's one of those
things that my parents find in a shoebox when they're doing some cleaning,
and they...
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