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A Shlabotnik 12-pack - I'm so backlogged with trade packages that tonight, when I had a few minutes free for a change, I decided to just randomly grab one from the stack I have w...
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The darkest of my dark periods - I kind of forgot about the eclipse today. I know that's difficult to do with it being mentioned every 20 seconds. But I was offline for the first half of...
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A New York state of cards - So ff you follow me on Twitter (FOOLS!), I posted that I was in New York catching a Mets game on Friday night. My wife and I made a quick run east to help ...
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Picking up some laundry from the card show - Ok, let's crank out the last of my card show pickups. I'll lead off with the most expensive card I bought at the show: My first laundry tag! Pretty neat. ...
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Dime Box Buy: 1981 Donruss #372 Phil Garner - 1981 Donruss #372 Phil GarnerIf 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 fr...
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Topps Return of the Jedi - While hitting up the famous Economy Candy in Manhattan, I was not too surprised to see old packs of junk wax. What did surprise me was a single pack of Top...
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Catching Connor McDavid Fever - I have to get this off my chest - I can't wait for the hockey season to start back up. We got a little spoiled last year when the puck dropped earlier than...
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Going Out in Style - This weekend was spent celebrating the end of my brother in laws life....whoops, I mean single life. Eight of us met up in Pittsburgh to play Scrabble an...
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The Little Engine That Could - I learned a long time ago that *you shouldn't judge a book by its cover*. But I'm human and that's pretty much what I did when I started collecting Jose A...
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History of Press Pass Eclipse - As you may know, the USA is experiencing it's first total solar eclipse in 99 years, right this very moment if I set the timer right for this post's public...
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Soler Eclipse - I hope you remembered to purchase and don your extra special, super protective eclipse glasses.... .... because I hear that we're about to have our firs...
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My World Cup of Trading Loot, Courtesy of The One and Only Wes Moore! - I recently participated in Wes' World Cup of Trading. I saw a pretty cool item and decided that while it didn't exactly fit into my new collecting directio...
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Flea Market Rangers - Time to show off some of the Kitchener Rangers alum picked up at the flea market trip. I can't believe I didn't have this card already. The push pin design ...
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McCovey Monday #93 - 2014 Panini Golden Age 5X7 Box Topper Relic 47/50 - *My favorite player of all time is Hall of Famer Willie McCovey. I have amassed a collection of over 1300 different McCovey cards since I started collect...
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Alex Killorn's Pretty First Goal is Captured on Cardboard - It's summer. The hockey writers are starting to pack up their cabins and return to the grind, but there is still a good couple of weeks until real news sta...
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"Local" Card Shops: How to Run and Not Run Them. - Where I live in rural Nova Scotia, card shops are few and FAR between. In a 45 min drive I have access to exactly three. One is my favourite, the owner and...
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Four More From 1957 Topps (Three O’s And A Special Guest Star) - As I’d mentioned in a previous post, during my July card show I started working on a 1957 Orioles team set. At this point, I’ve already doubled the number...
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Every 1991-92 Hockey Card Set Ranked - While a lot of hockey cards were made during the 1990-91 season, the 1991-92 season was like a movie sequel: bigger and bolder, with more of everything. ...
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no. 693 - jose pena - *Who is the man:* Jose Pena appeared in 29 games in relief in his first season with the Dodgers in 1970. He was picked up from the Reds in the Rule V dra...
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Fernandomania! - My wife was going through some shoe boxes of mementos that she came across one evening last week and found (among some other interesting things) this Fer...
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Sometime You COMC What You Want To See - I have the great fortune of living in a metro area that has multiple card shops and monthly card shows. However, even with that great luck, I miss a lot of...
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Back Packs: 1995 Donruss Series 2 - Pardon the horrible picture here. I realized after I opened the pack that I had forgotten to take a beauty shot of the pack. Quite the beauty, huh Marge....
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2017 Donruss Football Cards - I've enjoyed the Donruss football brand over the years. The 2017 Donruss football were just released so I was excited to grab a pack of 30 cards. I'm re...
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Bubblegum from JBF - I need to learn how to write up posts more effectively. I get behind, a couple of days or even weeks pass, and I find myself feeling terrible for being ter...
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All From The Dimebox - I'm quite backed up when it comes to posts showing off what I purchased at the local card show. Here's a bunch that I picked up a few months ago...each car...
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Satisfying my sweet tooth at the flea market - I had a rare Sunday off work this past weekend, and I did what any sane collector in my area would -- I took a trip to the local flea market. Though the ...
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JBF BFG prize & my COMC find of the month - Just a note: I'm going to keep pimping the *50/50 Trading Post* until the end of August. There are still some great team lots available - Yankees, Dodgers,...
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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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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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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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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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As a Tigers fan, I hate the Yankees....but as a Tigers fan, I am fearful of the O's in the next round....very torn on this one!
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