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Showing posts with label Mike Trout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Trout. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Digging through an MIA card show pile

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This might be a 'I'm still here' post for whoever is reading - where I want to churn out blog posts on the regular and think ab...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

2025 Topps Series 1 blaster box breaks

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Box one Pack one #218 Zack Wheeler #120 Cristian Mena RC #240 Will Brennan #58 Dylan Cease #159 Philadelphia Phillies team card #136 Lourdes...
Friday, January 10, 2025

2024 Topps Black & White highlights

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I haven't kept up with any of Topps' online releases in the past five years, but I pounced on some 2024 Topps Black & White sing...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Feeling down and out with Ohtani and the Angels

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I got these cards from a purchase a day after news broke Shohei Ohtani’s UCL crapped out - I'll probably continue picking up random car...
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Card show pickups - Angels material

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Off a seller, these are [dollar] Angel cards are ones I ended up making keepers - maybe I'm content to squirrel a few Angels here and t...
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Thursday, March 09, 2023

2023 Topps oversized box toppers pickups

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I was watching a YouTuber go through some of newest hauls and he showed off one of these cards - I didn't know what they were, but they...
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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Mike Trout - is this the beginning to the end?

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Maybe it was Albert Pujols 15-20 years ago where you had this big leaguer who stood above the rest and applauded for his metronomic excelle...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

2021 Topps Heritage Mike Trout puzzle

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I've been on a 'run' to create binder pages for players in my decade stars collection - I only had five cards so far for a Mike...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022

COMC mail #2 - Angels material

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The 30-35 cards I picked up through 2021 came in one bubble mailer where they were sleeved and packed into a team bag, sandwiched between tw...
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Saturday, September 04, 2021

My little $5 dig at a card show

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At the monthly card show I've gone to, there was a set up of 'overflow' seller tables because supposedly the main area was sold ...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Scoring a random card show lot for $40

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I was eager to spend time at this particular show, probably held at least once a month - where I was expecting to rummage through a bunch o...
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Sunday, November 22, 2020

More contemporary Angels pick-ups

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At times there is no rhyme or reason for picking up random Angels cards because frankly the idea of being a team collector seems overwhelmin...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Topps Project 2020 Mike Trout #142

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I got this card in-hand the same day Trout broke the Angels franchise record for home runs, hitting his 300th to pass Tim Salmon - oddly, a...
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Friday, August 07, 2020

Topps Project 2020 Mike Trout #187

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I’ve got to keep up with my Trout run of Project 2020 cards [minus two cards so far], though since the hype around the Topps Project 2020 ca...
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Thursday, June 04, 2020

Topps Project 2020 Mike Trout #100

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I didn’t pounce on Ben Baller's first Project 2020 card, which featured Ichiro, but had to get his first Trout and this collaboration c...
Monday, December 23, 2019

2019 Topps Archives Topps Magazine inserts

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As far as I know 2019 Topps Archives might as well not exist, but these inserts were too sweet not to pick up, especially being familiar w...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Featured autograph - Mike Trout

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I thought Houston Astros star Alex Bregman might have done enough to secure the 2019 American League MVP - but Trout was the choice all alo...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

2019 Topps Clear Travel Mike Trout #CP-1

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I didn’t know what this set was but after reading the Baseball Cards Come to Life! blog and doing some quick searches on eBay, I picked up...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

2019 Topps Gallery Preview Mike Trout #GP-MT

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Through this past summer, I was overseas for three weeks, came home for about 5 days and tagged along on an East Coast tour with a group ...