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Fauxbacks And Throwbacks: Rays And Indians On 1978 Customs - This past weekend, the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians had a game which threw back to some unspecified year in the 1970’s. Of course, the Rays only go...
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How I spent my National Baseball Card Day - This past Saturday was, as you may have heard, National Baseball Card Day, and I participated as best I could. Dad and I were able to carve out a good ch...
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Lights....Camera..... - Hey. Yo. How you doin'? So, I am sure youse has heard about the latest and greatest way to promote youse bizness? So like, all the rage right now? Baseba...
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Let's Open a Pack of 2002 Donruss Originals - Time to dip into the rainy day pack stash. Up to bat today is 2002 Donruss Originals. Nothing like a newer set that paid tribute to sets that weren't tha...
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The best Dodger card for every year I've collected - Here's a fun exercise if you don't mind scanning and cropping until your eyes bleed. As a team collector, I have been accumulating Dodgers from the Topps...
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NOW We're Talking! - First card of Bartolo Colon as a Minnesota Twin. Unsurprisingly, it's from Topps Now. Colon is pitching again tonight for the Twins. Keep up the good wor...
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2017 Topps Heritage WWE - Another Topps WWE set and its the Heritage brand. Summerslam is coming up and there's bunch of inserts related to 30 years of the event. Here are the 9 ca...
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Dropping Hamiltons? I'm your guy - I like Billy Hamilton. Exciting on the basebaths and many awesome catches in the outfield (which in turn means he has many neat looking cards). His hitting...
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Dime Box Buy: 1993 SP #276 Carl Everett - 1993 SP #276 Carl EverettIf you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out. I also use it on eBay to get money back from p...
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July 2017 Trade Recap - I'm really slacking on this one...I normally try to post my monthly trade recaps on the last day of the month or the first or second day of the month after...
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And In This Corner #2 - Thanks to the deluge of old school footage recently uploaded on the WWE Network over the past few weeks, I've been binge watching a lot of it, from early 8...
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Kryptonite - Baseball Reference is one of my favorite websites to hang out and kill time. I can spend hours looking up statistics and finding pieces of trivia about bo...
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2017 Adventures in Repacks - Part 22 - Once, Twice, Three Times a Repack - A trio of $1 hanger bags from the Dollarama. And they all had cards from 16-17 UD flagship as one of the visible cards. Repack #1: 2016 UD - Brandon Sutter...
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A Target story, and a Penguin repack - Earlier today I went to Target to pick up a card for my nephew, and some bubble mailers to ship out the first wave of 50/50 trades. (If you missed that pos...
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LaDainian Tomlinson Enters The Hall of Fame! (So Here's A PSA/DNA Signed Mini Helmet To Celebrate!) - My favorite football player of all-time, LaDainian Tomlinson, was recently enshrined in the pro football Hall Of Fame where he rightfully belongs. I'm supe...
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no. 691 - bob heise - *Who is the man:* Bob Heise appeared in 67 games in 1970, his first year in the majors when he wasn't a September call-up. But by the time this card was ...
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Buyback Franken-set: Angus Goes Shopping - Part II - Time to wrap up the batch of buybacks I received recently from Angus of Dawg Day Cards (you can find part one here). Today's edition will be slightly larg...
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Joe Knows - Got a neat package in the mail late last week for Joe Shlabotnik. He knocked off five of the remaining dozen or so 1970 Topps cards I needed. I threw them ...
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National Baseball Card Day - Last year, I missed the much-ballyhooed return of National Baseball Card Day due to the lovely exchanging of vows between a pair of close friends. Priorit...
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Some Vintage Set Help from mrhaverkamp - I have two major regrets about missing this year's National Sportscard convention. The first was not being able to search for some reasonably priced vinta...
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If You Caught It, It Was Never a "White Whale" to Begin With, Right? - In my experience whenever the subject of a literary classic comes up in conversation there's almost always a reference to high school or college: "I had ...
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Completed insert set – 2000 Topps MVP redemption set - Unlike the redemption set from 1999 – which can be found on occasion for less than 30 bucks on eBay – the second of the two Topps MVP redemption sets is a ...
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Bacon Spam - It's Real and It's Good - Bacon Spam. It is a real thing and I’m here to tell you it is good. Is it good for you? Probably not but that hasn’t stopped me before. It contains r...
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Hidden Behind a Wealth of Talent - Kasperi Kapanen - With the exception of a few random successes in the past 20 or so I would best describe the Toronto Maple Leafs as nothing short of a mess. As a devout hoc...
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Movie Review: Kings Ransom - August 9, 1988 was arguably the single most important day in hockey history. On that day, the biggest trade in professional sports took place when the Ed...
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The Amen Break Featuring Cards from Angus - Over the course of about three weeks, I got several packages from my Canadian friend Angus of Dawg Day Cards. Angus first introduced himself to me about tw...
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2017 Bowman Platinum Baseball - Canadian Edition - Awhile back, in true Topps fashion, they declared that 2017 Bowman Platinum would be a WalMart exclusive product. No hobby shops. No sales to Canada. Epic ...
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BEHIND THE MASKS - Leaf Masked Men - Well.....two in two days. I'm pretty sure this trend won't continue. But let's enjoy it. As I mentioned yesterday, I've been scanning some of the stuff o...
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Welcome To The Family - Just a few flea market pickups from this afternoon. Really like the Jagr and |Subban card, it's probably my favorite from the lot. The Mill...
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Christmas In July - No, this doesn't mean that I'm celebrating Christmas in July. It means I'm finally getting around to posting something that I got for Christmas... in July....
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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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A look at some at some Topps Archives - June is coming to an end and hockey season is over. So, with the exception of Free Agent Frenzy on July 1st, this infrequently updated website turns its e...
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1988 Topps Cello - Last year I opened a wax pack of this stuff, hoping to find cards for my then-unfinished 1988 Topps set. Time has passed, and there's still a huge empty sp...
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Pull the Trigger 19.4 ($60) - *Jason Giambi Patch-Jersey-Hat (12/35)* Know any Giambi collectors who might want this? Tell them to pull the trigger on this lot for $60. *THE PILE* *20...
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My Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2016: The Runners-Up - *[Note: I cut this list short because I want to post these great cards but never had the time to finish it as I originally planned. Still, here's most of w...
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30-Day Baseball Card Challenge - Day 4 - It's been a while, but I'm back on track and tackling the day 4 topic: a rookie card of one of my favorite players. I went back and forth about which playe...
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Caleb Joseph, 2016 Topps Orioles Team Set #BO-2 - I swear that I wasn't going to do the baby thing again tonight, but then Caleb Joseph tied a career high with four hits in as many at-bats, helping spoil ...
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Another Box Of 2017 Topps Tribute - Absolutely. Speechless. - Just about 2 weeks ago I broke my first box of 2017 Topps Tribute and it did not disappoint. I pulled a 1/1 to go along with autographs of both Trea Turner...
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Braves Minor League ST 3.18.17 - Went up to Lakeland yesterday to catch the Braves A ball teams play the Tigers affiliates. Disclaimer: I had my 2 year old son with meso I wasn't able to k...
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Starting a New PC - Well things have not settled down as much as I thought they would. We moved in early December, and two months later, it is still chaotic around here. I hav...
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Custom 1941 Goudey Al Flair - 1941 Goudey Baseball Al Flair #34 Custom Card 1941 Goudey Baseball marked the final product from the popular, but short-lived, vintage brand. After not rel...
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The top 100 (soon to be 110) Leafs of all time - It’s centennial time! (Not really.) (Well, sort of – if you’re feeling kind of generous with your definitions.) (The 100th anniversary of the first game in...
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Moving On - Sad to say, but the sands in my blogging hour glass are dwindling. I've barely got the time to sit down and compose anything worthwhile, and I've become...
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The What Was I Thinking Files - 1994-95 Be A Player Autos - Have you ever forked over your hard earned money for cards you don't even really like? Odds are if you're a player or team collector you're familiar with ...
My Pack Rips
- 1977-78 Topps Hockey
- 1978-79 Topps Hockey
- 1982 Donruss The Dark Crystal
- 1982 Topps Baseball (Rack Pack)
- 1982 Topps Football
- 1983 Topps Football
- 1984 Topps Masters of the Universe
- 1987 Topps WWF Wrestling
- 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 1989-90 Topps Hockey
- 1990-91 Topps Hockey
- 1991 Fleer Football
- 1991-92 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey
- 1992 Upper Deck High Series Baseball
- 1993-94 Fleer Ultra Series 1 Hockey
- 1995 Topps Embossed Baseball
- 1996 Upper Deck Collector's Choice
- 1996 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball
- 1997 Topps Stadium Club Series 2 Baseball
- 1997 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball
- 1998 Topps Stadium Club Baseball
- 1998 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1 Baseball
- 1998 Upper Deck Series 3 Baseball
- 2000 Skybox Metal Baseball
- 2002 Donruss Originals Baseball
- 2002 Topps Ten Baseball
- 2007-08 In the Game Between the Pipes
- 2008 Goudey Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck A Piece of History Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck Heroes Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum Baseball
- 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Hockey (Rack Pack)
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Champs Hockey
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey
- 2009-10 Fleer Ultra Hockey
- 2011-12 Upper Deck Victory Hockey
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If you check in here frequently (and my thanks if you do!), you might be under the impression that all I collect is buybacks. For better th... -
Time to wrap up the batch of buybacks I received recently from Angus of Dawg Day Cards (you can find part one here ). Today's edition w... -
Angus, who blogs over at Dawg Day Cards, has got to be one of the most generous folks in our online community. Recently he did a little sho... -
Today's buybacks come courtesy of a large lot of 100+ that I won a few months back on eBay. I just blindly reached into the box and pul... -
A while back now I did a series of three posts where I selected my top 60 hockey cards. I had a lot of fun putting the list together, and t... -
As you probably know, Topps recently launched a website where collectors are invited to vote for the top 60 Topps baseball cards of all-tim... -
If all went according to plan, I've been driving around the country of Portugal with my wife for a week now by the time this post goes... -
For me, there is a single website that has, more so than any other, defined the way that I collect cards over the last number of years; Z... -
BASEBALL 1950 Bowman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31... -
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