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Friday, March 28, 2025

Blog bat around - junk wax favorites

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1990 Upper Deck - I don't know if I thought Upper Deck was anymore special than the other sets of the day, but it had nicer production ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

2006 Upper Deck Ovation Andre Ethier (RC) #125

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I had an image of this card saved for at least the past 10-15 years and wanted to see if I could buy it outright - it looks like Ethier doe...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Card shop trip - some odds and ends

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I needed a good number of penny sleeves for various loose card projects, so I finally decided to make a card shop trip - I could literally ...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

A couple of random pick ups

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I was inspired by a post on X to grab this 2024 Choice Portland Sea Dogs Team Set Tyler McDonough #11 for $2 - as far as I'm concerned,...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

2025 Topps Series 1 blaster box breaks

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Box one Pack one #218 Zack Wheeler #120 Cristian Mena RC #240 Will Brennan #58 Dylan Cease #159 Philadelphia Phillies team card #136 Lourdes...
Friday, February 14, 2025

2021 Topps Chrome NPB Nippon Professional Baseball Roki Sasaki #194

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A little bit of FOMO got me pulling the trigger on picking this card up for roughly the price of a blaster box - there will likely be count...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Immaculate Grid

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I was filling out an Immaculate Grid game and it was killing me I couldn't think up a player who played both for the Arizona Diamondbac...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

2024 Topps Black & White highlights

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I haven't kept up with any of Topps' online releases in the past five years, but I pounced on some 2024 Topps Black & White sing...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

2024 Topps Chrome Update Mega box break

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This was gifted from sister back in December and basically ends up being a glorified lottery ticket to pull a Rookie Debut Patch Autograph C...
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Thursday, January 02, 2025

Collecting outlook through 2025

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Collecting baseball cards occupies a weird headspace where it ends up being a ride-or-die hobby - on the other hand I feel like cards I...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

1998 Topps Interleague Match-Ups Mystery Finest Jim Edmonds #ILM14

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I tried to microwave a UV era Topps insert card from the 1990s with a mystery peel for 10 seconds - I wanted to see if I could loosen the a...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Rummaging for some old school material

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Card shows are a mixed bag where you can a have a good number of tables in a seemingly nice [hotel] venue - yet it's not 20 or 30 years...
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Sunday, December 22, 2024

2024 Topps Stadium Club Lawrence Butler RC #265

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I picked this card up because it pictures the Oakland Athletics star rookie attempting to track a fly ball down by the wall - I love the si...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

TTM autographs received: Sid Fernandez

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I have not kept up with TTMs through the past year, but occasionally see a success posted [on social media] that intrigues me - especially ...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Some junk wax era finds at the card show

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When I go to a card show, maybe I have delusions that I'm going to come away with an important card in either value and/or sentiment - ...
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Monday, November 04, 2024

Teasing some low end finds from a show

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At the recent card show date I was at, I stumbled upon a seller who had quarter bins set out from a bigger card show I went to over the summ...
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