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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Featured autograph - Jonathan Lucroy

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The Angels just signed Lucroy to be the catcher who presumably gets most of the playing time next season - he had some nice years in hi...
Monday, December 10, 2018

When more borderline HOF guys get their call

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As a baseball fan, I'd probably be more of a big hall kind of guy - but I thought it was a joke when I found out through scrolling t...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Favorite card of 2018 - Topps Heritage Shohei Ohtani Action Image variation #17

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This is in response to Tom's contest over at Waiting 'til Next Year . Go figure that it would be another Ohtani as my favorite card ...
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Monday, December 03, 2018

A farewell to Garrett Richards

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As he has moved on and signed a two-year deal with the San Diego Padres, I don't know if I had any particular attachment to Richards as ...
Sunday, December 02, 2018

1990 Upper Deck Randy McCament #657

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Through another blogger's post, I stumbled upon a "Ugly Sweater" Ugly Baseball Card Contest at Baseball Every Night - wi...
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Saturday, November 24, 2018

2018 Topps Now Shohei Ohtani Topps MLB Rookie All-Star team #RC-7 and #RC-7J

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I went ahead to see if I could pick up the Topps Now Shohei Ohtani cards I'd missed out on [these two cards and his Topps Now Rookie All...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

1997 Bowman’s Best Adrian Beltre RC #117

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I wanted a Beltre rookie card and grabbed this as an impulsive purchase to squirrel away - the 1997 Bowman Chrome RC #182 is the one to hav...
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Monday, November 05, 2018

Featured autograph - Odrisamer Despaigne

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Despaigne wasn't ever going to be a star, but the Cuban righthander had a promising rookie season in 2014 with the San Diego Padres - ...
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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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