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My 'under the radar' blog featuring my baseball card collecting endeavors and hopefully some of my autographs collected in-person / through-the-mail.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Random claims from an online purchase - Part two

1980s stars whose cheap cards I still like to make keepers in various ways - Sandberg was a pillar of the decade, so it was a moment for me...

Sunday, December 22, 2024

2024 Topps Stadium Club Lawrence Butler RC #265

I picked this card up because it pictures the Oakland Athletics star rookie attempting to track a fly ball down by the wall - I love the si...

Thursday, May 02, 2024

TTM autograph received: Whitey Herzog

In early March, I sent out some TTM requests in anticipation they would be returned when I finally came home from some overseas travel - on...

Monday, November 20, 2023

Featured autograph - Brooks Robinson

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...

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Featured autograph - Claudell Washington

I would have thought Washington was a longtime California Angels player when flipping through his 1990 junk wax era cards with the team - b...

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Rest in Peace Kobe Bryant 1978-2020

I'm not going to mention every person that passes on and the idea of death is inevitably awkward, but it does seem to mean a little bit...

Sunday, September 29, 2019

2018 Choice Trenton Thunder Chace Numata #18

I didn't know anything about this minor league catcher, but grabbed a card of his when I saw a Tweet where his organs were donated to sa...

Monday, July 01, 2019

Rest in Peace Tyler Skaggs 1991-2019

I'm not going to mention every person that passes on and the idea of death is inevitably awkward, but it does seem to mean a little bi...

Friday, February 08, 2019

My card shop died and the hunt for the Honus Wagner of junk wax?

I dropped in at my LCS, but someone else was running the shop - I'm looking around absentmindedly trying to figure out if there was some...

Thursday, August 03, 2017

Featured autograph - Hideki Irabu

I got Irabu to sign this card during his stint with an independent league baseball team back in 2009 - as much as I'd like to say he wa...

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Jose Fernandez - when it's it, it's it

I only knew of him as a star pitcher who had a God given right arm, so my big takeaway from Fernandez' death last Sunday is that you ha...

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Dave Henderson - rest in peace

I was able to go to a Seattle Mariners home game back in 2013 and brought cards for Henderson to get signed in case I saw him - I did see h...

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Featured autograph - Yogi Berra

I was fortunate enough to get Berra's autograph in-person just a few times over the last 15 years, including this 8x10 glossy picture -...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

2008 Upper Deck Timeline Nick Adenhart #321

I busted a couple of 2008 Upper Deck Timeline some time ago and it didn't look like I had the Adenhart among the partial set of cards I...

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Featured autograph - Ernie Banks 1931-2015

I got him to sign a reprint of his rookie card years ago - the last time I saw him was at the All-Star break in 2010; he seemed kind of spa...

Monday, January 05, 2015

R.I.P. Stuart Scott 1965-2015

He wasn't an athlete on the field, but he made as big of an impact as some of the ballplayers who have entertained me in pro sports - t...

Friday, December 26, 2014

R.I.P Ryan Bolden 1991-2014

I had six cards of Bolden in a discard pile, not knowing what to do with cards of a failed Angels prospect - last week, I learned that he ...

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Damn

Top prospect Oscar Taveras and his girlfriend killed in a car accident.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Jim Fregosi commemorative card

I don't think I've bought any new cards recently, but this odd sized card is sort of a new addition to be put away - a stadiu...

Monday, June 16, 2014

R.I.P. Tony Gwynn 1960-2014

I took this photo of him back in 2009 while he signed a couple of Hall of Fame postcards for me - he had a long time partnership with a For...

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