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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Featured autograph - Patrick Sandoval

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For my one or two dedicated readers, October was a hiatus month since I spent it out of the country and while I could catch up with blog rea...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Featured autograph - Jaime Barría

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After a solid rookie season in 2018, maybe Angels manager Brad Ausmus and/or pitching coach Doug White didn't like what they saw from th...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

2018 Choice Trenton Thunder Chace Numata #18

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I didn't know anything about this minor league catcher, but grabbed a card of his when I saw a Tweet where his organs were donated to sa...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

2019 Topps Clear Travel Mike Trout #CP-1

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I didn’t know what this set was but after reading the Baseball Cards Come to Life! blog and doing some quick searches on eBay, I picked up...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

2009 Topps Updates Ichiro sketch card

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I was digging around some monster boxes at a dealer's card show booth when I found this card - I had to pick it up based on the idea th...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

2019 Topps Series 2 hanger box recap

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Flagship Topps is fairly common, but with a chance to pull rookies and rookie-year parallels - there might be a chance to buy something un...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

2019 Topps Heritage High recap

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Did I need some retail therapy [?] - I don't want to go add more redundant cards to whatever claptrap I have that I consider a collecti...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Featured autograph - Ichiro Suzuki

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As an in-person autograph collector at one time, Ichiro was the scribble to get back in 2001, along with some other rookie who was doing som...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

A monster box rummage - yields a pair of 1990s inserts

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1995 Select Gold Team Will Clark #9 of 12 - to juice up my notable player binders by decade, it should be a no brainer to pick up loose in...
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Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Featured autograph - Bo Jackson

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This card caught my eye because it actually pictures Jackson as an Angel and I’ve wanted a Jackson autograph for my all-time Angels collecti...
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Saturday, August 31, 2019

A six pack Alex Rodriguez card lot buy

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I don't know if anyone is actively looking for any A-Rod cards these days, but maybe for a moment, I can look back with fondness at his...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Something familiar - a card show trip?

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I feel like I've been mostly out of collecting, but the idea of going through the most random of cards still hits the spot - I like car...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

2019 Topps Gallery Preview Mike Trout #GP-MT

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Through this past summer, I was overseas for three weeks, came home for about 5 days and tagged along on an East Coast tour with a group ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

1983 Fleer Joel Youngblood #641

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Credit goes out to this blog for remembering Youngblood's odd feat - the fantasy card posted is nicer, but I settled for picking up a ...
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Saturday, August 10, 2019

2019 Topps Allen and Ginter blaster box recap

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I feel I've been more apt to do retail blaster breaks after I’d tried to wean myself off them in recent years - a casual retail break h...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

2019 Topps Series 2 Gold parallel David Fletcher #520

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I was out of the country for three weeks and maybe I wanted to set things up where I'd buy miscellaneous cards online so I'd have so...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

2019 Bowman Platinum blaster recap

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During a random stop at a Walmart I'd never been into, I wondered if they would have any of this year's Platinum and while this mayb...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

2019 Topps Now Taylor Cole / Felix Pena #503

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To keep up bit-by-bit with this collecting thing, I had to go grab a couple of copies of this card because it was nice for Angels to come to...
Monday, July 08, 2019

2019 Topps Series 2 Rod Carew Photo Variation #631

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I don't really seek these out because they become too hard to find or seem outright common to care about, but I grabbed this card for a ...
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Monday, July 01, 2019

Rest in Peace Tyler Skaggs 1991-2019

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I'm not going to mention every person that passes on and the idea of death is inevitably awkward, but it does seem to mean a little bi...
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