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My Blog List
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Another White Whale Captured! - It's been about a year since I was last able to knock a card off of my 2010 Topps Allen & Ginter Framed Relic set build, but here we are, a new addition ...
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Ryno refractors - Sorry it's been a while since I posted. Forgot to tell anyone I've been on strike from blogging to protest COMC jacking up their bulk shipping rate. No,...
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a moment for ryne sandberg - i have mentioned previously (here, here, and here are good examples) my fandom and affection for ryne sandberg, but i couldn't let his passing go without d...
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Memories are free (and sometimes cards are, too) - I picked up this card on Friday. Ryne Sandberg passed away Monday. I was not a kid when Sandberg was starring for the Cubs. I was a senior in high scho...
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Flea Market Finds #177: Stuff from the 70's, 80's, and 90's - It's official. I'm finally caught up on writing flea market posts. Perfect timing too, because in a few days I'll be heading out to the De Anza Flea Mark...
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178 - LUIS POLONIA, ANGELS, OF - *The basics:* Luis Polonia appears for the only time in the 1993 Upper Deck set. This is the 10th Angels card in the set so far. Three of them were conn...
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From the Favorites Box: Shigeru Takada, 1976 JCM17 Multicolor #11 - About a year and a half ago, I shared an image of a vintage Japanese baseball card. It featured Shigeru Takada, one of the many stars on the dominant Yomiu...
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#107-108 Al B. Sure! (+ "Weird Al" Yankovic bonus) - With card #107, the 1991 MusiCards set transitions into its "rap and R&B" subset. We leave the "pop" section and its lime green tops and hot pink bottoms...
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Big trip, big cards - I was recently out of town for 9 days in the Denver area. Just another excuse for not posting often! I was coaching my 14u travel softball team in the b...
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A Holiday Weekend PWE Round-Up - *Fun things come in small envelopes.* It's time for another round of small trade envelopes and things of that nature. This bunch is pretty baseball (an...
3 weeks 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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Barry Evans won that spot with nine votes, while Khalil Greene had five votes and Keith Moreland only got three votes. Today's battl... -
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 ... -
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... -
I can't sleep so we get a post in the middle of the night, unless Jon is reading this in Wales. Well Franmil didn't even get a v... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Benito Santiago won that battle convincingly. Eleven to seven. Up next is a battle of two pitchers for spot number one hundred eleven. ... -
I am ready to start on cards 100-199 for the Phrankenset. Remember each time you vote is an entry into a contest that has some pretty cool ... -
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. ...
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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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