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239 - CHILI DAVIS, TWINS, DH - *The basics: *The first of two cards of Chili Davis in the 1993 Upper Deck set. He'll show up much later with a different team. Davis was a free agent ...
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through with blue - in my last post, i mentioned some cards were included in my comc order that would show up in other posts. this is one of those posts. i decided at some poi...
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Those missing managers - This is not a post about Topps' decision a decade ago to drop managers from card sets. But what a fateful decision that was. I know I would be able to i...
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TCDB Monday: I'm Back! - I spent a week on a family vacation (a cruise on Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas). As such, I have quite the backlog of mail packages to go through fro...
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Hero, Role Model, & Friend - Happy Father's Day to all of the card collecting fathers out there! This post has been in the works for several weeks now as I finally get a chance to s...
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Stunners from the 1930s - So far this year, I've focused on adding more vintage cards to my collection. But I'm not talking about baseball, or any other major sport. It's the other...
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#120 Force M.D.'s (+ Stereo MC's bonus) - We've come to another blind spot for me, as I don't recall ever hearing about Force M.D.'s other than from this one MusiCard they got. It's kind of a wei...
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Finding the Relative Scarcities of 1949 Leaf Variations - I'm using data to estimate the relative print runs of the dozens of variations in the 1949 Leaf baseball checklist. It turns out some cards are up to 6 tim...5 days ago
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Vagabond Binder: Kenny Lofton - Man, my previous post-- re: the "We Didn't Start the Fire" binder-- was very well received. Felt great getting congratulatory comments from lots of folks...
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Mid-Week PWE Round-Up - *A long lost Whitey and more from a couple of familiar Dodger-loving faces.* There have been a couple of old-school '80s variations on my want list for q...
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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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My drink of choice during the work day is Coca-Cola Zero. Last week while drinking a bottle I noticed that there was something on the ins... -
I picked up three more 1963 Astronaut cards. I now have twelve of the fifty-five cards, 22% of the set. I am trying now to get the indi... -
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... -
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... -
Well it's been awhile since I posted anything. I have divested of most of my extra cards, I've seen them on some of your blogs. I ... -
Benito Santiago won that battle convincingly. Eleven to seven. Up next is a battle of two pitchers for spot number one hundred eleven. ... -
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... -
Well I added a card to my Padrographs collection. Reginald Preciado signed by the Padres in 2019, he played in instructional ball for the... -
I didn't pick up any new cards this week, but I did get a $100 ebay gift card for my birthday yesterday, so there will be some new car...
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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...
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Horace Clarke I remember well as a Yankee. I remember Barranca, too, mostly because you don't forget a name like "German Barranca".
Clarke, Perlozzo and Patterson went on to appear on junk wax everywhere as a member of the Pirates.
Maybe it's because I'm half asleep... or maybe my baseball knowledge is not as good as I thought... but I struck out completely on these tonight.
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