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My Blog List
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Board Game Friday: My Top 100 Board Games of 2025 (#84 - 78) - My countdown of my Top 100 Board Games for 2025 is now into the 70s over on my Instagram account. While I would encourage those of you who use Instagram t...
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Surprise appearance - I pulled the latest magazine issue of Beckett Vintage Collector out of the mailbox on Monday and paged through it without any urgency. I didn't have an ...
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Wallet Card in Depth: 1990 Leaf Sammy Sosa - In the summer of 1990, a seemingly ordinary baseball card emerged that would forever alter the collecting landscape, yet few understood its true significan...1 day ago
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a bird in the air (and more) from a birds on the bat collector that blends with other recent pickups - so i have run out of different ways to title a post featuring (mostly) cards that were sent by madding of cards on cards. "cards from cards on cards" is st...
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198 - KEVIN GROSS, DODGERS, P - *The basics:* Kevin Gross makes his only showing in the 1993 Upper Deck set. Donruss gave Gross an extra card in '93 on the occasion of his 1992 no-hitt...
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Pick me a Player #6 - Ted Williams - I have 137 different players in my keepers with at least 10 cards. The players are listed at the end of this post. In an effort to get myself posti...
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Bubbling Up - *The latest in a long line of excellent trade packages from Too Many Verlanders.* The year already feels like it's slipping away from me, so I know that ...
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You May Take This Custom Card, But You'll Never Take Its Freedom! - There are plenty of trading card sets out there that feature big action movie stars of the '80s and '90s like Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator) and Sylves...
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Don't Hate the Player - This year... Halloween was extra special, because it's the first time in as long as I can remember that I had the chance to sit down and watch a World Seri...
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#112 Biz Markie (+ Markie Post bonus) - Just in time for Halloween, we've made it to what's likely the most *fun* card of the 1991 MusiCards set: #112 Biz Markie. All dressed up like a scientis...
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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.
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. ... -
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 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... -
Austin Hedges beat Hunter Refroe nine votes to seven. It was neck and neck for a few moments. Up next is a battle between a current Padr... -
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... -
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... -
This is the last of the daily free stuff posts. I still have a few more things to give away, but it won't be on a daily basis. Last we... -
Darren Jackson won handily with seven votes. Inman had two and Scrabble only got one vote. I received my Heritage High Number set of Pa... -
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 ...
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Merry Christmas, Rod!
Merry Christmas Rod! I thought of you a few days ago. My friend and her mom got stuck in Portland when her flight got cancelled twice. She was telling me how icy the roads were. Anyways, I hope you and your family stay warm and safe.
Hope you had a great Christmas Rod!
Belated Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
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