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#106 U2 (+ Rattle and Hum 12-card set) - It's U2 revisited here at #106, just a few posts after we last saw them at card #101. This shot looks like it could be a candid of them sketching out a s...
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Board Game Friday: May 2025 Board Game Arena Plays - June is nearly over (already?!), but I still need to recap my month of May game playing over on Board Game Arena. May saw me complete 64 different games o...1 day ago
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172 - DAN WALTERS, PADRES, C - *The basics: *Dan Walters makes his first-and-only appearance in the 1993 Upper Deck set. In fact, this is his only Upper Deck card. *Card thoughts: *T...
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Flea Market Finds #174b: Best Haul of the Year? - Tuesday's post was the appetizer. Today's is the main course. It covers the purchase of a pretty cool set, a super cool and hard to find set, and some i...
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here's a heaping helping of heritage - after opening my hobby box of heritage, i went out and bought a fair amount more. i was interested in another box, but i wound up buying two opened boxes f...
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Stacking up and stocking up - The last three weeks I've averaged three posts a week, which is an all-time production low on Night Owl Cards. I'm OK with it, which is not something ...
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Exactly 38 Years Ago, a Crucial Keith Hernandez Error Ruined Their Day - If you’re a *Seinfeld* fan and you’ve been around this blog long enough, the title of this post probably gave you a good idea as to what you’ll find when y...
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It's Inevitable - *Cards from buckstorecards turn the heat up!* We're passed the point of no return and there's no coming back. Summer is inevitable. It's busy. It's impos...
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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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Oversized 2 - no theme - With as many items as I recently purchased from some bins of oversized collectibles, there is bound to be a lot of random. This post is kind of a catch a...
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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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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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