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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

1995 Topps Traded Carlos Beltran RC #18T

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This rookie card was on my ‘holes to fill’ list and I randomly decided to finally pick a copy up for my PC - even though Beltran’s rookie c...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Featured autograph - Steve Pearce

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When Pearce was named the 2018 World Series MVP, I had to dig this card from somewhere and was glad to find it relatively quickly among a b...
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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Awesome action collection subsets

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Probably influenced by other uber specific theme collectors, I want to see if I can classify certain cards within a main collecting topic s...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Bloodlines collection - a visual guide

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The logistics in displaying sampler pages for my bloodlines collection was still up in the air - the main collection consists of miscellane...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

2018 Topps Update hobby jumbo pack x2

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I had to make a late afternoon run to get some Topps Updates at some card shop I stopped at - I’m looking for anything Juan Soto [note, didn...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Inking it up collection - a visual guide

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Collecting autographs in-person or the idea of getting something signed is one of my last links to what I was doing when I was in my late...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Multi-sport athletes collection - a visual guide

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I wanted continue seeing if I could display certain collecting subset cards in nine-pocket pages - as featured in previous posts on this bl...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

1978 Topps Paul Molitor / Alan Trammell RC #707

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Centering on this copy is off a bit and maybe the edges on the back show some imperfections, but this card was a scratch the itch add to ...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

1982 Topps Chili Davis rookie card #171

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I'll always associate Davis with Angels teams of the late 1980s through the mid 1990s and picked this multiplayer card up to group with ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Card shop finds - a random quartet

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I don’t want to get crazy with impulsive non-baseball card quarter box digs if I ever stop at a card shop - so I grabbed a few that caught ...
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Saturday, October 06, 2018

A couple of newish Shohei Ohtani finds

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2018 Topps Heritage High Numbers 1969 Collector Cards Shohei Ohtani #69CC-SO [$4.99 BIN plus $1.00 s/h] - I've tried not to worry abou...
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Saturday, September 29, 2018

TTM autographs received: Bartolo Colon

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The longtime MLB pitcher and fan favorite signed my trading cards I sent back in August c/o the Texas Rangers - even as he has labored thro...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

2018 Topps Now Jose Briceno #780

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With another so-so season for the Angels, my emotional investment tends to meander towards apathy, even though I've still kept up for th...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

TTM autographs received: John Kruk

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The former MLB player signed my trading cards in about a month c/o the Philadelphia Phillies - the particular card isn't the ideal card...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

TTM autographs received: Alfonso Soriano

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As far as through the mail autographs go, after seeing at least several 'good' Soriano successes posted this year, I was eager to pu...
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Saturday, September 08, 2018

2018 Topps Fire blaster recap

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This was probably my best pull out of a random blaster box of 2018 Topps Fire - this is from the 4-card Gold Minted bonus pack included in ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

2018 Topps Now Shohei Ohtani 650 & 650J

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I saw there was Ohtani Topps Now cards offered for his latest feats, but only after I’d paid for a couple of 15% off promo purchases . I...
Friday, August 24, 2018

TTM autographs received: Phil Garner

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The longtime MLB player and manager signed my trading cards in about three weeks - I didn't know where I expected to see Garner in-pers...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Featured autographs - a pair of one-time Halos

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I haven't done any in-person graphing at a MLB ballpark in years, so I miss out on the miscellaneous rank-and-file guys I'd probably...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Featured autograph - Vladimir Guerrero

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At the end of July, I wanted to see if there were any Topps Now cards I was interested in and saw that Guerrero had autographs listed on th...