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REVIEW: 2025 Topps Series 2 (hobby box) - Last week, I opened a pair of 2025 Topps Series 2 hobby boxes as part of my group break Patreon. One of the side benefits of running group breaks is that ...
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all of the stars - it's all-star game time! this used to be such a highlight for me when i was younger and didn't have the opportunity to see as many games featuring all of t...
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It hasn't been the 'midsummer classic' for a long time - Fifty years ago today, Major League Baseball played the All-Star Game in Milwaukee. The National League won, 6-3 (yay!). Bill Madlock and Jon Matlack sh...
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#107-108 Al B. Sure! (+ "Weird Al" Yankovic bonus) - With card #107, the 1991 MusiCards set transitions into its "rap and R&B" subset. We leave the "pop" section and its lime green tops and hot pink bottoms...
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Six Pack Sunday - Summer if officially in full swing. We're past the halfway mark in the 2025 MLB season. The Midsummer Classic is in two days. And Mother Nature has cran...
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A Smorgasbord! 1987 M&Ms Star Lineup - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
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Big trip, big cards - I was recently out of town for 9 days in the Denver area. Just another excuse for not posting often! I was coaching my 14u travel softball team in the b...
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175 - RYNE SANDBERG, CUBS, 2B - *The basics:* Ryne Sandberg shows up for the second time in the '93 Upper Deck set. He first appeared in the Community Heroes subset. He'll show up aga...
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A Holiday Weekend PWE Round-Up - *Fun things come in small envelopes.* It's time for another round of small trade envelopes and things of that nature. This bunch is pretty baseball (an...
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2001 Topps Chrome "Before There was Topps" refractors - Y'all know I like refractors. Well, one niche that especially interests me are guys' *1st Refractor*, specifically talking about old-timers who played be...
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About Me
- Rod (Padrographs)
- Portland, OR, United States
- I am a Navy brat who went to 10 schools in 12 years in 4 different states. I have lived in 7 different states. I read two or 3 books a week. I manage a used bookstore for the county library system.
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Barry Evans won that spot with nine votes, while Khalil Greene had five votes and Keith Moreland only got three votes. Today's battl... -
This is a battle for spot number sixty-seven. A Hall of Famer in an Archives product, a member of the 1986 team set and Xavier Nady on the ... -
Goose Gossage took it to the competition. He had ten votes, while poor Carmelo only got one vote and the etopps card of Xavier Nady got s... -
In my mail yesterday I received a custom card back from a signing. It was Antonio Osuna, who pitched in thirty-one games for the Padres in ... -
Luis Salazar won seven to five for Brad Ausmus and one vote for Josh Naylor. Many of you commented on how much you liked 1985 Fleer. Up... -
This weeks first battle is between two Hall Of Famers and a manager who I think may end up enshrined in Cooperstown also for the number tw... -
Dan Walters played for the Padres in 1992 and 1993. I got to interact with him a few times when the Las Vegas Stars, Padres AAA, would co... -
Justin Upton and his perspective soundly defeated the Bunt card of Wil Meyers. Justin had nine votes and Wil could only garner five votes... -
Thank you for the tips on how to find the cards I need for blank spots. Willie McCovey destroyed Bip in the voting winning seventeen to t... -
Benito Santiago won that battle convincingly. Eleven to seven. Up next is a battle of two pitchers for spot number one hundred eleven. ...
5 comments:
My name recognition was not good. Not good at all!
Tommy Toms should have had a long MLB career just on his name alone!
I didn't recognize any names although I did check and found that ike is tom brookens' cousin.
0 for 9 again. I'm kinda surprised that I don't recognize at least one of these guys, since six played in the Bay Area during an era I was attending games.
Tommy Toms? Sounds like a fake name to me!
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