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My Blog List
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TCDB Monday! - Happy Monday, everyone! As usual, I'm back with another TCDB weekly trade recap. This past week saw only one new envelope show up in my mailbox, but at l...
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Instant Winnings - My weekend got kicked up a notch by an unexpected box of various good cards. Friday evening I won a cardsphere giveaway, and Saturday morning I had the w...
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A Trio of BIPs (Blogger Inspired Purchases) - A quick post with a back update and some recent blogger inspired purchases. Let's start with the back. I'm still in a lot of pain, but at least it's not ...
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2025 Softball Season Review - Here's a note that I could have hung on my locker during most of the 2025 softball season. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. I did play *some* ...
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chrome was a chore this year - i purchased a fair amount of 2025 topps chrome this year, and i purchased it from a variety of sources - directly from topps, from a couple of card shops, ...
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Your weekly reminder that Topps doesn't care - I realized only a couple of days ago that Topps had released its Archives brand. I don't know how anybody keeps track. Archives' arrival has come a wee...
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Serial #d winner - We had 11 participants for the drawing, and a few more that committed to sending things out, without entering the drawing, which I also appreciate.So here...
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Contest Reminder and a PWE Round-Up - *Cards from little envelopes.* Before I get into today's crop of cards, here is your final reminder to go and sign up for the College Football Postseason...
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203 - DARYL BOSTON, METS, OF - *The basics:* This is the first of Daryl Boston's two cards in the 1993 Upper Deck set. He signed as a free agent with the Rockies in December 1992 and ...
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1949 Leaf: Hippity Hopp - The first in a series of 98 explorations into how seemingly every player depicted in the '49 Leaf Baseball set earned their nicknames. Before the advent of...1 week 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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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. ... -
Well I added a card to my Padrographs collection. Reginald Preciado signed by the Padres in 2019, he played in instructional ball for the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Padres have had several managers since their inception as a Major League team in 1969. Preston Gomez- Preston managed from the ver... -
Someone asked about the Paul Quantrill card on page three. He played in twenty-two games for the Padres in 2005. The card is from a team...
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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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