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Sunday, July 26, 2026
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September 1-6, 2026, Graphing of the Otters at Bird Dawgs - This Bird Dawgs season ended on September 6, and with that, graphing for me this season has closed. I was going to go to Durham and then Norfolk, but I op...
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snack attack - i am no longer a steve garvey completist, not that i ever had any inkling of collecting every garvey item. there was a point, however, where i went after a...
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Looking forward to a first - Since the beginning of this "Firsts" series six-plus years ago, it's been about looking back on various firsts in my life. I've meant it to be a handy r...
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A Few Bucks in my Pocket and Procrastination on my Mind. - Every now and then, I get the urge to try to reduce my want list by making some purchases. Maybe it's when I have a couple of spare dollars; maybe it's wh...
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A Few Goodbyes and a Pair of Set Completions - I'm an A's and Padres fan. You know that. And there are times when the San Francisco Giants are my least favorite franchise in baseball. This isn't one ...
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More Stunners from the 1930s - A few months ago, I shared some cards from the early 1930s that were more like little pieces of art. They were originally issued by a German margarine comp...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 4: California Bound - *The Ducks open conference play in LA.* After being left for dead just two weeks into the season (ha!), Oregon took out their frustrations on a Portland ...
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A Passing Resemblance - Barney McCoskey looks a lot like Ray Kroc on the front of his 1952 Topps baseball card. Reading the stats on the back, I can't help but think he bears a cl...4 days ago
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Vintage Frankenset Page 7 - Back in the desolate days of 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" i...
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#127 Heavy D. & The Boyz (+ In Living Color subset bonus) - Heavy D. & The Boyz have this one MusiCard in series one, another one in the UK edition (different photo), and then 5 cards in the Yo! MTV Raps set. This...
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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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The Player: Justin Lange The Card: 2020 Bowman Draft Picks, #BD-99 How I obtained it: Bought it on eBay and received it December 23, 2020 Ab... -
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Oscar Mercado signed two minor league deals with the Padres and opted out of both of them after playing for the El Paso Chihuahuas. Sean Man... -
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... -
Just one new Padrograph card this week. Stuart over at SR'75 Cards knows Joe McIlvaine. He was looking for a postcard of Mr. McIlva... -
The Player: Josh Hader The Card: 2023 Topps, Series 2, #392 How I obtained the Auto: I bought in on eBay and received it July 3, 2026 About ... -
The Player: Horace Clarke The Card: A very early custom card. How I obtained the auto: I sent the card through the mail and Mr. Clarke re... -
I went sorting through my stuff today and sorting it. I found a bunch of stuff I thought you all might want. First come, first served. Plea...
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Nice additions. Probably time for me to cash in our coins too!
$191? That's awesome. My parents had a bunch of purple velvet bags (Crown Royal) filled with coins at their house when we cleaned it out a few summers ago. Can't remember how much was in it, but I'm pretty sure it paid for one of our family meals that week.
Congrats on the new gets!
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