2001 Upper Deck Minors Centennial Signatures

Some mail earlier this week brought in another Josh Hamilton autograph for the collection.  I have been picking up some of Hamilton’s older cards lately, especially the hard signed autographs.  Upper Deck released a few prospect oriented sets in the late 90s and early 2000s.  Upper Deck Minors was one of these.  These cards have [...]

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I started thinking last night (dangerous, I know) about who would win in a battle between Kent Tekulve and Tom Hume…

But then I thought, why stop there? Why not throw Tom Henke into the mess! The more blood the better, right!?!

So now it’s on you…

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Sport Kings is producing 7 different cards that will be included in this year’s National VIP package.  Each package will contain one of the seven cards depicting various athletes from Series C.

Sport Kings plans incorporate their Redemption Program at this year’s National too.  Collectors who open a box of the new Series C can redeem [...]

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It’s a little early but I’d like to wish everyone a Happy Independence Day.
My mother and I came to America (Florida) in 1987 after getting robbed and tied up at gun point in my country of Venezuela and never looked back. Despite not looking anything like your typical American and not always being able to [...]

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I thought it would be a good time to review what potential baseball milestones were in line for us to witness during the 2009 season.  I originally posted this blog on April 2nd as I was getting prepared for what looked like could be a very historic season.
I will leave the entire post in tact and [...]

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For those of you that remember all the way back to the first month of the 2009 baseball season, you will recall that the Florida Marlins were the best team in all of baseball.
Jumping out to an 11-1 record in their first 12 games, the Marlins were primed to be the first team to ever [...]

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Well before there were baseball card “hobby boxes”, there were just baseball card boxes.  If you were lucky to have enough money to buy a whole box, or you knew a card shop or candy shop owner who would give you the empty boxes (my local guy did), then you had an added treat.  The [...]

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Upper Deck will be including a 10-card set in this year’s National V.I.P package.  The players include: LeBron James, Sidney Crosby, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Grady Sizemore, Peyton Manning, Gordie Howe, Ken Griffey, Jr, and Michael Jordan.

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 As I start to dig in deeper and deeper into the assortment of Andre Dawson cards that are out there, I am often amazed by what I come across.  While the subsets of the 1980’s and early 1990’s cannot compare to the bonanza of parallel cards from this decade, there was certainly more to tackle [...]

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Prior to the start of the ‘09 season, San Diego Padres 2B prospect Eric Sogard was very high on my sleepers list.  Perhaps it was his excellent first season in the California League (.308 10 HR 87 RBI 92 runs 42 doubles) or the fact that he is a former ASU Sun Devil, but I couldn’t help [...]

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Just messed around a little bit today and came up with a slighlty different variation:

I am probably going to stick with this one unless someone has any other suggestions.
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He tried to tackle the NFL with his XFL a decade ago.  Does Vince McMahon have his eyes focused on Major League Baseball now???  Watch out Selig, Vinny Mc has an elbow drop with your name written all over it!!!

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There is a ridiculously small amount of signings this weekend so if you know of any, please leave it as a comment.  As always, please call ahead to confirm both the appearance and time of the signing listed below.
7/3/09

Randy Jones – baseball – 4pm – 6pm – Tilted Kilt, 310 10th Ave, San Diego, [...]

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The only 2 players to play in four different divisions in the same season are slugger Dave Kingman in 1977 and pitcher Dan Miceli in 2003.

**factoid courtesy of ‘Armchair Reader – Grand Slam Baseball.
My Take – kind of a useless and uninteresting fact.  But it’s surely a fact that will stump the most knowledgeable of [...]

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It’s never a great idea to report rumors but just a couple of months ago speculation was running rampant about the future of the Upper Deck Company. Many believed that Topps was on the verge of being granted exclusive rights to the baseball market, while others believed that Donruss, now Panini America, would win that [...]

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John of The Pursuit of 80’s(ness) recently sent over a package for my boys and I, full of goodies that I’m sure the kids will love to tear into. First, of course, there were several Reds cards, many of which were missing from the collection, including…
A two-sport megastar…

A 2010 Hall of Famer (fingers crossed)…

A shoo-in [...]

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We had another first round signer last night.  He is Reymond Fuentes of the Boston Red Sox.  So this brings the set to fourteen total, and by the end of the month the set will be complete.  Reymond was a difficult person to get information on since he is coming out of Puerto Rico.  The [...]

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I woke up one year ago today, July 3, thinking it was time to start my blog.
For months, I’d contemplated writing something baseball card related. I’d already been blogging about fantasy baseball for more than a year, but if there was one thing I felt I was an “expert” at, it was baseball cards.
Now don’t [...]

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Night Owl and Beardy aren’t the only ones who work a night shift. And since I’m up late, I thought I’d take the time to update some wantlists. First, some 2009 Topps additions, including the series 2 short prints. My jumbo box was lacking in SPs, so all 17 have been added, as well as [...]

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