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Showing posts with label Baltimore Orioles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baltimore Orioles. Show all posts
Friday, May 17, 2024

TTM autograph received: Jim Palmer

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It might have been sometime in February when my buddy decided to make a card show run and took me along to make a day of it - the first sto...
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Monday, November 20, 2023

Featured autograph - Brooks Robinson

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I was thumbing through '2 for $1' old school / vintage bins of a seller I stumbled upon at a card show - I thought this might be ju...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

2023 Topps team runs completed

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One of the loose card projects I work on is trying to get a flagship Topps card from all the MLB teams over the past 45 years - that may on...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

TTM autographs received: Gregg Olson

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The former big league reliever signed my cards in about three weeks back in August c/o Auburn University where he is a coach - I may have w...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

TTM autographs received: Jim Palmer

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The Hall of Fame pitcher signed my two cards in about 5 days for his fee of $10 per card - I think he still had broadcasting obligations wi...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Whenever I think about losing a card somewhere...maybe an ongoing feature

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With how I still play with my cards after all these years, maybe it makes or breaks the 'order of things' when I can't find a ra...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

TTM autographs received: Scott McGregor

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The longtime Baltimore Orioles lefthander from the mid 1970s-1980s signed my cards in about a month - McGregor wasn't an overpowering l...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

TTM autographs received: Rafael Palmeiro

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The former big leaguer signed my two 500 home run 8x10 photos in exactly a week - I mailed my request off to Palmeiro on a Monday and by Fr...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Featured autograph - Cal Ripken Jr. and Tim Salmon

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Both of these guys are baseball 'heroes' and coincidentally they share the same birthday, 8 years apart - while it may sound a litt...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020

TTM autographs received: Dave Schmidt

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Schmidt was an effective big league reliever, doing some double duty in the starting rotation for several seasons, starting 49 games for the...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

TTM autographs received: Jim Palmer

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The Hall of Famer pitcher and longtime baseball broadcaster signed my two cards in blue Sharpie in about a week or so - Palmer has usually...
Monday, July 16, 2018

1982 Topps Traded Cal Ripken Jr. 98T

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I picked up a copy of this card because Ripken Jr. was a star who was on the verge of an iconic milestone when I was really getting into bas...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Rafael Palmeiro - 1987 Donruss #43

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If Palmeiro can continue to suit up to play independent baseball for at least the next few years - it can show he's still plugging awa...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

1978 Topps Eddie Murray RC #36

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I want to build up a traditional rookie card collection [consisting of cards at least 20 years old, cards that aren't serial numbered, a...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

TTM autographs received: Tom Niedenfuer

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I was able to round up some junk wax era cards for the former big league reliever and he signed them in about a couple of weeks - Niedenfue...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Featured autograph - Brooks Robinson

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With a donation, I was able to get the Hall of Famer's autograph on a couple of his cards - I saw that he started signing TTM again and...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

2016 Topps Heritage Hyun Soo Kim #721 image variation

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I wanted a rookie card of the Korean import and ended up with a rookie-year variation - it's a random pick-up, but the story behind Kim...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Featured autograph - Albert Belle

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I like these certified autograph cards where presumably a baseball is ripped up and the sweet spot [the area between the seams, the preferr...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Featured autograph - Jake Arrieta

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It's fun to dig up at least a signed card [if nothing else] of an ace pitcher who has just thrown his second no-hitter in as many seaso...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

2012 Hudson Valley Joey Rickard

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I dug up the first professional card of the Rule 5 draft pick who made the Baltimore Orioles Opening Day roster as their starter in left fi...