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My Blog List
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TCDB Mondays are Back! - This year, I somehow made it all the way until October before I bought my first box of baseball cards for myself. Topps released this year's edition of Al...
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The Japanese Jackie - Back on September 1st, 1964... Masanori Murakami became the first Japanese baseball player to play in a MLB game. His time with the San Francisco Giants o...
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Another TTM Success From Derin McMains - When I found and pulled this card at the National, I had already forgotten that I got Derin McMains TTM back in 2024. I pulled this 2007 Bowman blue paral...
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The 1989-90 OPC Hockey Sticker Album Project: Packs 25–30 - *We're going back to the 1989-90 NHL season, where young Gregory Ninepockets has been bitten by the hockey bug and is attempting to complete the current ye...
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detroit rock city - up until this past june, i had been in detroit just once in my life. it was early fall in 2000, and i never left the airport as i was only connecting throu...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 7: Post-Disaster Recovery - *Oregon tries to pick up the pieces after a brutal loss where nothing went right.* There was a point last week where I told my partner (who definitely do...
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SORRY MR OWL & GRCL BUT HAD TO CUT THE MUSTARD!!!!! - Thanks to my good friend Dave Gollnick in Wisconsin & huge Brewers fan I had the Gorman Thomas fan favorite autograph card but he earlie...
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No 3-peat - What's your own blog for if not to unload your feelings after your team is eliminated from the playoffs? So this will be me mostly just talking to mys...
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259 - BRETT BUTLER, DODGERS, OF - *The basics:* Brett Butler makes a splash in his only card in the 1993 Upper Deck set. He just completed his fifth straight year of receiving MVP votes...
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Early Departures - Ron Northey was present for one of the strangest baseball ejections in the history of the game.4 days ago
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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The Player: Greg Keagle The Card: 1994 Topps #753 How I got the Auto: I mailed it to him and he signed it and returned it. About Greg Keagl... -
I took all 556 entries and laboriously typed them each into Random.org, Nah. I copied them all from the spreadsheet and pasted them into Ra... -
My wife went on a trip to see some of her family in Eugene, one of my cousins in Roseburg and her aunt in Coos Bay before coming home. Wh... -
It was close but Hunter Renfroe won that battle, eking out the victory by two votes. It was eight to six. Up next is a card collector and... -
Last Friday was agood mail day. I got Cha Seung Baek and Dave Kingman back in the mail. The Kingman came back even though I didn't mai...
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Norm Sherry never played for the Padres, he just coached them. He had worked with Dick Williams in the Angels system and even took over th... -
Rollie Fingers, 1979 Topps; Rollie pitched in 265 games for the Padres from 1977 to 1980. Steve Finley, 1998 Mothers Cookies; Steve playe... -
Glenn Dishman; 1996 Upper Deck Collectors Choice; Glenn pitched in 22 games for the Padres in 1995 and '96. Allan Dykstra; 2010 Bowma... -
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...
