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Board Game Friday: July 2025 Board Game Arena Plays - Somehow, it is now August. August signals the end of my summer vacation, and with that, the end of lots of free time to play board games online. Don't ge...
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Lou, are you ... - The most recent Beckett Vintage Collector arrived in my mailbox Monday and with it my latest article for the magazine. It's the 20th article I've writt...
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a little effort goes a long way - file this one under small victories. this is a 50th anniversary buyback from 2024 topps heritage that i added to my steve garvey collection shortly after t...
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180 - MIKE MAGNANTE, ROYALS, P - *The basics: *Mike Magnante shows up for his only appearance in the '93 Upper Deck set. This set is on a run of role players after stocking the first pa...
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Flea Market Finds #178: Three Decades of Baseball - Summer break is coming to a close. I've already spent four days in my classroom getting it ready for the 2025-26 school year and it's pretty much ready to...
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Classic Baseball on the Radio: 1980s Style - A few years ago, I shared a YouTube channel here on the blog called Classic Baseball on the Radio. As you can gather by the name, the channel shared full r...
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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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#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...
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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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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. ... -
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 ... -
I was searching on eBay and found some Padrographs I didn't have. Randy Curtis was drafted by the Mets in 1991 and came to the Padre... -
Benito Santiago won that battle convincingly. Eleven to seven. Up next is a battle of two pitchers for spot number one hundred eleven. ... -
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... -
Barry Evans won that spot with nine votes, while Khalil Greene had five votes and Keith Moreland only got three votes. Today's battl... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
This weeks first battle is between two Hall Of Famers and a manager who I think may end up enshrined in Cooperstown also for the number tw...
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Love the action shot on the Willie Hernandez card!
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