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The Heart Of Baltimore...
I don't have a lot to say about the passing of Baltimore Orioles legend Brooks Robinson that isn't going to be said in all the tributes. As I've mentioned before, this autographed photo was obtained at...
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50's Vintage From Vacation
I promised to show the rest of my haul from this summer's trip to Michigan shops and the National in Chicago. Sorry it's taken me a whole additional month to put up, but here ya go.The bulk of my...
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2023 Ginter - Box 1: Diving In, But The Water's Fine
At this point, the only new product I look forward to each year is Allen & Ginter. Heritage is moving through the iconic 70's, but a lot of that has been preempted by the ever-redundant Archives....
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Jumping Into '62
With the completion of 1964 Topps, my next set build is 1962 Topps. Both sets (and some '63's) started with the same bargain lot I got at a shop in western Maryland a few years ago. I got over 300...
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2023 Ginter - Box 2: Judgement And Freedom
Box number two of three in my foray into 2023 Allen & Ginter. Another decent outcome. Let's jump in...The Tawpa is Da Hawpa!I really like these Only In... minis. Hopefully they're not scarce at...
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Ginter Gap Cards #3: Had To Do It
I was hoping to whip this up in a couple hours tonight just so I could break up the last two A&G box posts. But image editing with a program from 1992 just takes a lot of time. Plus I was...
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2023 Ginter - Box 3: Not A Rainstorm, But It Is A Little Muddy
And now the third and final box of 2023 Allen & Ginter. If I said I was disappointed in this one, it would make it sound like it was a bad box - it really wasn't. Though the hits aren't nearly as...
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Yes, 'Em Are Nice Cards
In what should be a much larger effort to purge stuff from Hivemind Headquarters, here's a stack of stuff that might be useful for someone. I get these at the National Convention, but since I'm not...
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Monday Mega Mail Day
The post office tends to save up packages for Monday deliveries around here. Which works out for me because I don't tend to plan much for Monday evenings otherwise, (#old guy, #mondayssuck) so it's...
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Semi-Grey Saturday Blowout Deals
Could have made it really click-bait if I'd have written this yesterday - Black Friday - but this is how it works out.Anyway, I do have some more basically free stuff to offer. It's a mixture of...
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More Mixed Mailings
Ugh, I'm slackin' again. It's just a lot right now...Ideally, I'd be posting almost every Trading Card Database trade I make like a lot of other blogs, but there have been so many lately that by the...
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Additional Atypical Arrivals
Yep, more incoming cards. Because this is all I do now.I'm pretty sure this was one day's mail, and it's TCDB traders, plus my best trader buddy Stuart's latest contributions. Starting on the left,...
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Like Heinz Flavors, The Nice Classic Chevys, And The First Regulation Size...
Hopefully those hints were enough to tell you that I'm 57 today.But you know, it's never really about me. It's about those who are much more attractive and also celebrating today...Kate Middleton is...
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What's The Story With This Guy?
I finally finished entering all my recent baseball extras into the TCDB. (Ok, full disclosure, I still have a couple piles of recently processed dupes that I have to sort yet, but the majority is...
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Aspirations
A co-worker gave me a factory set of 1991 Classic Best minor league cards a while ago. It's a 450 card set that comes in a custom box with each block of 100 cards wrapped in cellophane. This set had...
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Went To The Club, But Didn't Know Many People There
Made a rather spontaneous purchase this past week. As you know if you've read me more than twice, I gave up most new products a couple years ago. On top of that, my baseball game viewing dropped to...
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View From The Club Level - Part 2
Continuing the previous post on my four "compact" boxes of 2023 Stadium Club.Box #3 begins with an exclusive purple foil parallel. Lee looks like this game is with the knuckleballer and he's not...
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A Relatively Minor Purchase
A couple weeks ago, while I was browsing the forums on the TCDB, I stumbled upon a thread that asked where some collectors get their minor league cards from. As a player collector of about 60...
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My House Is Almost Full
I did it again.I let a month go by without posting a thing. I've had a few ideas, and still haven't written my definitive grading rant, but never sat down to put anything on screen. Granted, I've...
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Night Owl Skillfully Navigates My Lists
As I returned home from the annual Ephrata, PA card show Saturday (more on that in a later post), I was greeted with a package from Night Owl in my mailbox.The banner item was this 4½" x 7" Claude...
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Three Shows In A Month - Part 1: Ephrata, PA
Well, it's been another long pause between posts, and now I have a backlog of show loot and a Bat-Around to catch up on. The first of the three shows was on March 23. It's the once-a-year affair in...
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Three Shows In A Month - Part 2: Chantilly, VA
Two weeks after the Ephrata show, I attended the first of three yearly exhibits at the Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. This is the biggest show in my local-ish area. It's about an hour's drive,...
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Three Shows In A Month - Part 3: Gettysburg, PA
This one will be rather brief. I heard about this show a mere two days before it took place. My buddy Stuart said I needed to go, but I was hesitant since I had been spending a lot at the previous...
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Blog Bat-Around: Best Pack Pulled "Hits"
I'm not a big autos & relics guy, but I have some. I'm also not a big pack ripper, especially after 2020, since I only buy a couple products and only one of them consistently.Having said that,...
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