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2025 Topps Holiday Advent Calendar: Day 04 - Before I get to today's Advent Calendar goodness, I want to draw your attention to my 5th Annual End-of-Year Blog Awards. Nominations have been secured; n...
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1952 Topps Yakyu Player: Leo Kiely - Get out your boom sticks and prepare to chant your favorite player's name. It's time for the crossover between Japanese baseball and 1952 Topps baseball ca...10 hours ago
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Ups and Downs - Only two more days until the De Anza Flea Market. It's supposed to be sunny and cool... just how I like it. Sadly, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to mak...
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202 - DENNIS COOK, INDIANS, P - *The basics: *Dennis Cook makes a memorable, lone entrance in the 1993 Upper Deck set. He was just four years into a long career yet had changed teams f...
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variations are the theme - i stopped being a team collector in 2012. that's not entirely true, obviously, but the focal point of my team collecting, up until that point, was my topps...
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Fork in the buyback road - Here is the other 1975 Topps-focused post I wanted to get to before the 50th anniversary year is over. I've reached sort of a milestone in the 1975 To...
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Vintage Frankenset Page 6 - Back in 2020, I got the idea for a frankenset to give purpose to many of the random old cards that didn't really have a solid "home" in my collection. Pl...
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Pick me a Player #9 - Gary Carter - I have 137 different players in my keepers with at least 10 cards. The players are listed at the end of this post. In an effort to get myself posting...
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Future Baseball Plans - *The new Cardinals... maybe not the same as the old Cardinals.* I've tried not to dwell on this too much, but my interest in baseball in general has fall...
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#113 Boogie Down Productions (+ Sublime bonus) - Here's a shot of KRS-One, the driving force behind the hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, at card #113 in the '91 MusiCards set. This card has a re...
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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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It is less eleven months until Christmas 2019 and I am not sure that I will finish documenting all the packs from Christmas 2018 by then. ... -
Christian Villanueva won that battle handily. He got nine votes to Tatis' three. Up next is the battle for spot fifty-seven. It is a ... -
So all the battles are complete with Trent Grisham beating out Trevor Hoffman for a spot on page five which looks like this. Bip Roberts and... -
Well I added a card to my Padrographs collection. Reginald Preciado signed by the Padres in 2019, he played in instructional ball for the... -
Wil Myers Bo wman card beat out the other Wil Myers card. Good point by many of you that if it says Jackie Robinson Day on the card there o... -
Yesterdays voting came out 13-2 in favor of Austin Hedges. So Austin now occupies the #3 spot in the Padres Frankenset. So all of you tha... -
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... -
Gary Templeton won eight votes to three. Up next is spot number ninety-two. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for your assistance... -
Are we considering 1983 Vintage yet? I was twenty-six that year, out of high school for eight years, four years out of the Navy and two yea... -
Francisco Mejia and his holiday spirit kicked Jorge Ona's butt fourteen to four . There are a lot of years between the next two cards. ...
3 comments:
I love the Turner!!
I was a Met fan then, but I have no memory at all of Steve Ratzer. You'd think at least I'd remember snickering at his name. (Hey, I was at the age where that sort of thing was funny!)
That Turner is awesome! Did he ever sign a copy for you?
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