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Showing posts with label frankenset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frankenset. Show all posts
Thursday, January 05, 2017

What I've tried to in 2016 - loose card projects

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In addition to what I've started in previous years, I've tried to tend to the loose card projects that have sprouted up in 2016 - m...
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Saturday, July 09, 2016

Angels frankenset - random adds

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I haven't forgotten about the frankenset I started last year, though I've been content to let it sit otherwise - I wanted to pic...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Featured autograph - Jim Abbott

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Picking up this certified autograph card for about $13 gave me a reason to ‘buy into’ a 2015 Topps Archives Signature Series without paying...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

1992 Score Kirk McCaskill #79

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For whatever reason, I picked up a 1992 Score complete set for $6 and found this card to add to my frankenset - ideally, for the particular...
Monday, September 28, 2015

The Angels, In Order mail call

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I want to say thank you to Tom at The Angels, In Order blog for a 16-card 'boost' to my frankenset - maybe the project has actu...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Miscellaneous Angels frankenset finds

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223 1995 Donruss Jim Edmonds - Press Proof parallel; not individually numbered but apparently among the '1st 2000 Printed.' #244 2...
Friday, September 11, 2015

2001 Donruss Elite Bengie Molina #119

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I was looking up cards for my frankenset and this die-cut Aspirations parallel caught my eye - Molina wasn't quite a franchise star, ...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

1990 Leaf Mark Eichhorn #472

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It's all ancient history but 1990 Leaf was a high end set and while early 1990's collectors / speculators who opened a lot of this...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

2015 Topps Archives Kole Calhoun #158

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In addition to a 2012 Topps Update Gold parallel [#US157] I already had, this was the second card of Calhoun I was able to add to my frank...
Saturday, September 05, 2015

2004 Sports Illustrated for Kids Vladimir Guerrero #408

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Several weeks into my Angels frankenset project I didn't know if I was going to find this oddball card - but a listing showed up onl...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

Switching cards around in my frankenset

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If I already had a card for a particular number in my Angels frankenset , I wasn't going to seek out a new card that I'd have to pic...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

A trio of Albert Pujols cards

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I picked up a 2015 Topps Stadium Club [card #170] and a 2014 Donruss Diamond Kings subset [card #205] for my Angels frankenset - the 201...
Monday, August 31, 2015

1967 Topps Minnie Rojas #104

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I picked this card up to add a vintage element to my Angels frankenset - Rojas pitched for the Angels for three seasons before arm prob...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

2008 Upper Deck Timeline Nick Adenhart #321

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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...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

2009 Topps Updates and Highlights Nolan Ryan #UH232

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I picked up this nearly seven-year old base card variation for $3 and change - the image of the Hall of Famer looks like it might have been...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

J.T. Snow finds for the frankenset

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1995 Pinnacle Museum Collection #215 - like the Eduardo Perez card from this post , the image caught my eye and I had to add this particula...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Fritsch One Year Winners Angels

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Card #143 in the 1979 One Year Winners set, Botz appeared in 35 games for the 1962 Angels and pitched 63 innings as a reliever. I wa...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

2013 Topps Albert Pujols #350 variation

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This Out of Bounds Pujols card was in a random bubble mailer after I picked it up several years ago - a card like the Pujols can be added...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

1974 Topps Nolan Ryan #20

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This card represents my first 'big purchase' as far as my Angels frankenset goes - besides hunting down loose cards already in my c...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

1994 UD Collector's Choice Gold Signature Eduardo Perez #228

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I picked up this parallel for my Angels frankenset because of the nice action shot of the one-time Halo snatching what looks to be a hard h...