Great news today as the Boston Bruins locked up my personal favorite active hockey player David Krejci to a multi-year deal. While the terms have not been disclosed yet, it's great to know that this talented young player will be a Bruin for the forseeable future. Hats off to the B's management for signing him before he became a free agent later this summer.
Cardboard convincing
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I was looking through cards recently when something drew my attention and I
thought, "that's a post." Maybe it wasn't a great post, but it was
something...
More Breaks from Colbey!
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*Cardinals and Eagles from this summer's Affordable Group Breaks. *
My box break participation has slowed down quite a bit this year along with
my shri...
It's TRADE DAY! Toronto Blue Jays
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*The world must have ended yesterday. All right now that has been said
here are some relics and autos from north of the border.*
*I may pull that Yama...
Quick show scans - Scan 16
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Scan 16 - $34 .50 cent cards, and 5 .20 cent cards. Kershaw, Raines and
Chicken are my faves. The mini's almost look like they are uncut here, but
there...
Welcome Cadel Evans!
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Courtesy of SI for Kids, I know have a second cycling card in the 2/14
collection!
He joins a card of Gianni Bugno in the miscellaneous category.
Winning ...
Random Wax: 2021-2022 Chronicles Basketball
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21-22 Chronicles: Who is Ja Morant this season? We know he'll sit out the
first 25 games of the season. Memphis won 51 games last season but lost in
the ...
SLU Showcase #8 - O Canada, Where Art Thou?
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As a Starting Lineup fan and collector since childhood, I've always been
intrigued by what figures Kenner *didn't* produce. Dave Krieg has a beard
on his...
Dead Parrot Frankenset: September 2023
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This is the latest in a sporadic series on an ongoing project, a “Dead
Parrot” Frankenset which features cards of NHL and WHA teams which are no
more, whic...
Baseball in French, Lesson 9: Le Ballon
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Welcome to Baseball in French, Lesson 9. Previous lessons can be found here.
Today's term is
*le ballon*
In English, that translates to "the balloon". W...
THIS was the best photo they had?
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I find that hard to believe!
Let's check the back and see if that's any better...
Hrm, slightly better.
This may well be my favorite football card no...
In praise of the mail
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I get worried that people my age are missing out on the joys of mail.
I've loved getting mail for as long as I can remember - I wanted to be a
mailman fo...
Final Leaderboard and Prize Instructions
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Jafronius - 185
The Angels, in Order - 181
Bo - 170
Bo had an early lead, but he skipped a two-page team for some reason.
TAiO was within one point of Jaf...
2002 Fleer Tradition
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2002 was a time of intense patriotism in this country, and people were
still pretty excited about the New York Yankees. The year's Fleer Tradition
pack ...
Adam Jones PC highlights
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Adam Jones is officially retiring today so I wanted to give him a quick
blog spotlight. Exciting player, good person, plus he's a fellow San Diego
kid, s...
$20 Scumbucket Grab Bag 3.17
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*Favre/Jeter/Chipper Lot*
The teams each player is representing on these cards:
Brett Favre - AFC (1991 Senior Bowl)
Derek Jeter - Greensboro Hornets (South ...
One Down, Three To Go
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I was able to add one more artist to my collection of Cryptozoic Archer
Sketch Cards. In so doing, it might also be the last artist I ever cross
off of my ...
Still Kicking
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Figured it was time to throw something up here to stop the blog from being
sent to the abyss. I will say that I use the blog a lot more for research
pur...
2022 Topps Heritage Minor League Hobby Box
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Looking for something cheap and new to open (this obviously is one of those
older unfinished posts), I chose 2022 Topps Heritage minor league. It was
$59.0...
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...
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...
1 comment:
Good news. Now its Kessel's turn. They may have to deal Sturm to get this under the cap.
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