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Showing posts with label PEDs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PEDs. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Card show pickups - mini-collections

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Mini collections are probably the foundation of my loose card finds - maybe it just gets to be a little silly and I worry about not catchin...
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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...
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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Friday, March 30, 2018

On the topic of my infamous mini-collection

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I picked up a 1975 Topps Mini John Milner #264 off the quarter bin scrap heap - it's kind of pretty looking, but an otherwise nondescri...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Farewell A-Rod - is it the end of the line?

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Because of his immense talent, the scrutiny over his accomplishments and his misdeeds, A-Rod will always be the car crash I'll rubberne...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

R.I.P. Jenrry Mejia's MLB career

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I've seen him a few random times in-person and I felt like he is a guy who would always come over to sign an autograph - so I feel like...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

Rafael Palmeiro

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When I found out Palmeiro was going to be playing baseball with his son Patrick for the Sugar Land Skeeters - I thought it was a pretty ne...
Friday, August 07, 2015

1994 Fleer Update Alex Rodriguez #U86

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A-Rod has always been a player to universally collect and I've found myself morbidly fascinated about how he did even when the luster ha...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Featured autograph - Ryan Braun

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I don't know what to think about Braun at the moment - without sounding irrational, I still don't trust the player, but it does loo...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Featured autograph - Barry Bonds

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Looks like Bonds is back in San Francisco Giants camp as a guest instructor and I dug this autograph card from an 'old' box of assor...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Another post about this guy

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One of my favorite base cards of A-Roid early in his MLB career was his 1997 Upper Deck - part of me still likes the idea that this guy put...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Trying to do something with my commons

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When I can, I'm pulling cards out of my three 3,200 boxes representing my 'A-Z archive' of cards - I hope I'm not making mo...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Collecting A-Fraud

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I sort of miss the mid 2000's when this guy was the best player in the game and trying to flag him down to get something signed meant al...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

When it comes to PEDs and suspicions

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I'm more inclined to listen to the kooks and the guys who speak out about it in an unadulterated way - Jack Clark may have been talki...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

The Braun Advantage

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I pulled a card of Ryan Braun from a break recently and was going to include the following, though it's been about a year since his PED...
Friday, February 01, 2013

A-Rod's road to irrelevance

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With his latest hip surgery , I thought Alex Rodriguez's career was probably over - in a sense where he's not going to have anymor...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Congrats Craig Biggio - my thoughts on the Hall

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With 68 percent of the vote in 2013 - you are probably getting into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014 or 2015 at the latest. Th...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Featured autograph - Ryan Braun, if he did it

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The Man likes Ryan Braun, as do I, but for guys who find themselves in the news in dubious ways - I can't think of two other athletes in...
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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Ryan Braun - 2011 National League MVP busted for failed PED test

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I liked Ryan Braun as much as I did any superstar in the MLB - sucks he apparently tested positive for PEDs, but now I'll have one less...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

Manny Ramirez - don't let the door hit you on the way out

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I think I was disappointed to hear about Manny Ramirez' abrupt retirement due to possibly failing another drug test - he was one of tho...