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Showing posts with label Tim Salmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Salmon. Show all posts
Monday, December 04, 2023

Working on the small things at the card show

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In a more quaint card show setting, I actually spied a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 in one particular showcase and did a little window shop...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

Making myself at home at the card show

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I was digging through a sellers discount box trying to figure out how many cards I'm going to stack in my keeper pile and maybe the sell...
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Purchase fails made correct by a seller

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When I pick up some cheap-o cards from an online card outlet, I usually let the incoming PWE sit loose after I open it up and briefly scan t...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

Featured autograph - Tim Salmon

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I grabbed this card because it has an old-school 1975 Topps design and it's a certified autograph of 'home team' great - I'...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Some discombobulated card show digging

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What I've noticed is that I don't have an idea what is going to catch my eye at one table - where there is a certain lack of focus ...
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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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Sunday, May 02, 2021

1990 Palm Springs Angels set pick up

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I picked up a minor league team set featuring Angels all-time great Tim Salmon - besides any harder to find inserts / parallels from the l...
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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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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Fishing for another species - Salmon

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I finally had the random opportunity to rummage through loose cardboard like other bloggers at a card show - I was looking for some random ...
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Monday, February 04, 2019

1973 Topps Dwight Evans RC #614

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Rookie cards of the hall of very good or guys with borderline cases, who end up getting jumped into the Hall of Fame - maybe the new marke...
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Monday, April 09, 2018

1997 Score Blast Master Tim Salmon #18

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I figure there just hasn't been much to talk about with the Angels the past week or so and I'd feature this random insert I picked u...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

A pair of Angels rookie buyback purchases

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I don’t think stamped buybacks are remotely collectible as ‘stand alone’ cards unless they are part of some autograph insert - but even if...
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Friday, June 09, 2017

Tim Salmon Bowman buyback purchase

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I’m over buybacks in Topps products, but even the concept is literally the same thing [stamping commons with a buyback stamp so there are a...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

The 30-Day Baseball Card Challenge - Day 4

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"A rookie card of one of your favorite players." 1991 Bowman Tim Salmon #203 The story behind my fondness for the card is here.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

1996 Select Team Nucleus #23 and 1996 Pinnacle Zenith Mozaics #7

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These pick ups aren't for the Angels frankenset, but are a shiny reminders of the trio [Tim Salmon, Jim Edmonds and Garret Anderson] -...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Autograph request through the mail received: Tim Salmon

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I probably sent a request to him four or five years ago and got a SASE back with my cards signed Saturday - I'd forgotten about these c...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

COMC mail day Part 3 of 4 - adding to the Angels regional collection

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2003 Topps Pristine Garret Anderson Gold refractor [$4] - a shiny, numbered card of a former Angels star whose name is listed prominently a...
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