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Monday, May 09, 2011

Topps Diamond Giveaway thoughts and trades

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The 2011 Topps Diamond Giveaway is the 21st century way of collecting trading cards - the cards in your portfolio are mostly the same from t...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Topps Diamond Giveaway trade

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I didn't exactly wait to jump on an 'interesting offer,' but I did dump my 1989 Topps George Brett for a 1995 Topps Jose Canseco...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

Featured autograph - Julio Teheran

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Atlanta Braves top prospect Julio Teheran signed this card for me at the Futures Game hotel in 2010 - for a young prospect, he has got a ve...
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Featured autograph - Eric Hosmer

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I got this Eric Hosmer autograph card scribbled on in-person at the 2010 All-Star Futures Game - the autograph placement was not great but ...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Last of the two Topps Diamond code cards - 1983 Topps Bill Madlock and 1989 Topps George Brett

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1983 Topps Bill Madlock - don't know much about him, but doing some digging around on his stats , it looks like he was a pretty good pl...

More Topps Diamond - 1979 Topps Dennis Martinez and 1978 Topps Rollie Fingers

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I relented to enter the rest of the Topps Diamond Giveaway code cards I got from my 2011 Topps Value Box breaks - a 1979 Topps Dennis Marti...

Vladimir Guerrero Diamond Die Cut

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I unlocked a Topps Diamond code and ended up with this Vladimir Guerrero Diamond Die-Cut - this suddenly became the most unique card out of ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Unlocked another Topps Diamond Giveaway code

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I got a 2007 Topps Rich Aurilia, which was a dud - but I got a bonus code, which led to a vintage 1960 Topps card of Frank Malzone.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Unlocked some Topps Diamond Giveaway codes

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I was thinking about it lately and I hadn't gotten in on any Diamond Giveway action for the longest time - I ended up with about eight ...

2011 Topps Value Box three box recap - six packs of 2011 Topps Heritage Hobby

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These six packs of 2011 Topps Heritage were from a 2011 Topps Value Box - I ended up picking up three boxes for $14.99 each at Target. I th...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Featured autograph - Jean Segura

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Segura is coming on strong as the second best position player in the Angels' minor league system - after being a second baseman for muc...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Not the finds of a lifetime

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When my parents and I were at my sister's newish house for dinner, her husband brought out his younger brother's cards for me to lo...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Featured autograph - Troy Percival

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Former Angels closer Troy Percival threw out the first pitch before Thursday's game and signed autographs for the first 100 people - w...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Thoughts on Ryan Braun and the investment the Milwaukee Brewers made on his legacy

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With the news of Ryan Braun's extension , it is fascinating to see Major League teams make value judgements as to which player they hav...

Skunked by A.J. Pierzynski's apparent ghostsigner

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A.J. Pierzynski c/o Chicago White Sox [spring training] - I think I sent this request out on 2/18 and got it back on 4/20/11; the card was s...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Brandon Wood - an Angel never has been

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It was bittersweet to read about the Angels designating Brandon Wood for assignment - particularly after a trio of young Angels [Mark Trumb...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Pocket schedules and Grady Sizemore

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Reading up on this blog post about collecting pocket schedules, I can't say I'm a big pocket sked guy - I've got enough clutter...

Featured autograph - Sam Fuld

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I was rummaging through the stands after a Chicago Cubs spring training game at HoHoKam Park back in 2009 - lingering around just before bei...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

32 card rookie lot purchase recap - some highlights

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2011 Topps Mark Trumbo #57 2011 Topps Platinum Diamond parallel Mark Trumbo #57 2011 Topps Hank Conger #285 2011 Topps Kyle Drabek #70 2011 ...

Featured autograph - Derrel Thomas

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From one of the stacks on my desk, I was able to dig out two cards signed by Derrel Thomas - who basically was a California Angel for all o...