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My Blog List
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New HOF guys / 9-pocket PC binder - Now that top-tier PC guys of mine Fred McGriff and Dick Allen are finally in Cooperstown, I'm much less emotionally invested in Hall of Fame drama. It's ...
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1952 Topps: Johnny Schmitz - Johnny Schmitz threw an entire decade with the Cubs and is portrayed as a Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher in the 1952 Topps baseball card checklist, yet he will a...2 hours ago
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heritage high apple pie in the sky hopes - i was looking forward to busting my 2025 topps heritage high numbers box that i ordered directly from topps because we are heading into the era of baseball...
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Maybe completing junk wax sets is the way to go - It's growing more and more difficult for set collectors in this hobby. Let's review: 1. Flagship. You must contend with inserts and parallels filling s...
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#115 De La Soul (+ Gorillaz bonus) - De La Soul leaps into the 1991 MusiCards set here at #115. Pro Set got a lot of mileage out of this photo, using it on all 4 cards they put out featurin...
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Acquiring an Ancient Roman Coin (my Second Historical Allen & Ginter Relic!) - Back in 2023, I splurged (by my standards) and bought myself an Ancient Rome relic card from the 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter set. At the time, I simply want...
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Time to get going again - Well, it looks like I took another blogging break. This time, it was for better reasons than usual, as I had all three of my kids in town for 4 weeks dur...
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Flea Market Finds #184: Sheets, Sets, and a SLU - After over a month away from the local flea market, I made my out to the Branham Flea Market on Saturday for my first haul of 2026. Not sure if it was the ...
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209 - CHARLIE O'BRIEN, METS, C - *The basics: *Charlie O'Brien was entering his final year with the Mets when his card in 1993 Upper Deck was issued. Upper Deck is really going through ...
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I'm Not an Accumulator. Really. - From the time I rediscovered my childhood trading card collection in my mother's attic and returned to the hobby in 2014, I've thoroughly been a "quality ...
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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.
Popular Posts
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Benito Santiago won that battle convincingly. Eleven to seven. Up next is a battle of two pitchers for spot number one hundred eleven. ... -
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. ... -
It has been a heck of a summer. On June 2, we finally were able to have the Military Honors Service for my Dad, who passed away on March ... -
Sometimes it is jarring to see a player in a uniform they only wore for one year. I never think of Fred Lynn as anything other than a membe... -
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. ... -
My wife went on vacation for a week and took the car, so I took some time off of work and sorted cards yesterday and today. I sorted by t... -
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 ... -
All seventeen votes in the last battle went to Archi Cianfrocco. Book recommendation: I just finished "Big Hair and Plastic Grass... -
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 ... -
Fredric Michael Lynn made nine straight All Star Games between 1975-1983, for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels. In 1975 he was the ...