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My Blog List
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1955 bowman complete through 208! - it's time for the next installment of my 1955 bowman set build. sheet 24, cards 185-192 we are off to a good start with teammate pairings featuring cardinal...
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Little this, little that - My first COMC order of the year came in today. I've settled into averaging out to two COMC orders a year. It used to be more than that, but there are mo...
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Best Day Ever! - Three months ago... I won the Banana Ball Ticket Lottery and purchased tickets for my friend and her mom. A few weeks ago, the plans changed and I was g...
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Monday's are for TCDB - Happy June, everyone! It seems impossible to believe that we are already in June; where did the first half of the year go? As usual, with the start of a ...
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Completed Set: 1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual, Series 1 - Well, that was fast. Back in March, I posted a story here on the blog about a box of hockey cards I received as a "throw-in" with a facebook marketplace p...
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169 - OREL HERSHISER, DODGERS, P - *The basics:* Here is Orel Hershiser's only appearance in the 1993 Upper Deck set. It took five years, but the thrill of Hershiser's 1988 season had fi...
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Cheesin' It - *Cardinals box break cards featuring Nolan Arenado (still a Cardinal!) and more.* I've slowed down lately in my participation in group box breaks for a ...
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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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#105 Paul Young - Paul Young rocks jeans and a wife-beater (pardon the term) here on his lone MusiCard. Despite being a British artist, he wasn't included in the UK editi...
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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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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... -
Barry Evans won that spot with nine votes, while Khalil Greene had five votes and Keith Moreland only got three votes. Today's battl... -
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 ... -
Justin Upton and his perspective soundly defeated the Bunt card of Wil Meyers. Justin had nine votes and Wil could only garner five votes... -
Thank you for the tips on how to find the cards I need for blank spots. Willie McCovey destroyed Bip in the voting winning seventeen to t... -
Night Owl said it would be Tony Fernandez in a rout. Bruce Hurst got one vote, Mejia got two, Cami got three and Fernandez got ten. Up n... -
This is Tyler, our mailman. The mask is one he and my wife collaborated on. He supplied the fabric and patch and she made it. I have ... -
Dan Walters played for the Padres in 1992 and 1993. I got to interact with him a few times when the Las Vegas Stars, Padres AAA, would co... -
I am making progress on my Astronauts set with help from Hockey Card World in Canada. I want to thanks Topps for putting the number on th...
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I took a break from the hobby when this stuff was released, so I never opened any back in the day. A few years later, I picked up an unopened box that I look forward to busting one of these days.
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