on June 11th, 2009 by Mario A.
Not being the biggest football fan around (or one at all), bustin’ football products can sometimes be a bit of a chore. Sure, a release like SP Rookie Threads could bring a collector back from the dead but the truth is, not all football products are as fun.
I have to admit, I am very impressed [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by chemgod
First off, I had no idea these cards were going to be clear, but it was a very nice surprise. The set itself is 72 cards and 30 SP rookie cards. I absolutely love these boxes because of the 20 packs there are 4 game used and 2 rookies. The rookie list includes Brandon Webb, [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by Tuff Stuff
We fell short of our goal of getting more than 300 entries in the Beat the Blogger
contest, but we are inching closer and the numbers continue to rise which is good
to see. One newcomer to the contest e-mailed me and said he forwarded the link to
the contest to more than 500 of his co-workers and that’s exactly the kind of initiative
we need to reach our goal so follow suit and we’ll get there. The good news is we’ll
give it another shot this week, and if we can eclipse the 300 mark, one lucky
winner
will claim the authentic, signed Chipper Jones jersey that the Blogger is just
dying to give away.
For those unfamiliar with the Beat the Blogger contest, the idea is simple.
The Blogger posts 10 matchups each week and then selects his choices for the winners
of those matchups. Contestants enter the Beat the Blogger contest by clicking on
the “Comment” section below the post with the matchups and then select their
own 10 winners. You can also designate one of your picks as a “Doubler” and
you will receive an extra point if you’re correct so don’t forget to designate your
“
Doubler”
pick and increase your chances of winning. If you Beat The Blogger’s total and post
the high score for the week, you win. The regular weekly prize is an authentic
signed 8-by-10 color photo of stars such as LaDainian Tomlinson, Drew
Brees, Marshall Faulk, Santonio Holmes, Gale Sayers, Catfish Hunter and many more.
From time to time, the Blogger will sweeten the pot for the weekly contest and that’s
where the Chipper Jones jersey comes into play. If we can get more than 300 entries this
week, the weekly winner will receive the Jones jersey so we need everybody to spread
the word about the contest so we can reach our goal.
This week’s matchups are posted below so make sure you get your picks posted
1/2 hour before the start of the first game on Saturday to be eligible.
And don’t forget to spread the word about how easy it is to win playing Beat The
Blogger so we can reach our goal of more than 300 entries this week.
This week’s Matchups (Blogger picks in parenthesis)
Saturday June 13
MLB
Minnesota vs. Chicago Cubs (Cubs)
Boston vs. Philadelphia (Phillies)
Oakland vs. San Francisco (A’s)
New York Mets vs. New York Yankees (Yankees)
Atlanta vs. Baltimore (Orioles)
Sunday June 14
New York Mets vs. New York Yankees (Mets)
Detroit vs. Pittsburgh (Tigers)
Cincinnati vs. Kansas City (Reds)
San Diego vs. L.A. Angels (Padres
Washington vs. Tampa Bay (Rays)
Good Luck and Spread the word.
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on June 11th, 2009 by White Sox Cards
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on June 11th, 2009 by Mario A.
ESPN and the rest of the sports media loves to poke fun whenever WWE or it’s chairman, Vince McMahon lands in hot water. I think Major League Baseball could learn a thing or two from Vince. After the Chris Benoit tragedy, anyone who fails a drug test gets publicly outed by the company, no matter [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by T.S.
This is the second of three parts profiling acclaimed photographer
David Spindel
For the man who came up with an extraordinary interactive body of work called Rebuses
(visual riddles), it shouldn’t have been hard to imagine that David Spindel would
find a way to keep the creative juices flowing. As the images shown here make clear,
he’s taken quickly to the antiques and ephemera of the Old West, which he arranges
with the same subtle brilliance that he applied to his baseball pieces. Plus, just
as he did with baseball, the portraiture opportunities for some of the great television
cowboys of yesteryear have provided ample evidence that he’s lost nothing off his
metaphorical fastball.
“I’m having a great time,” Spindel continued. “It’s totally different,
and the people really appreciate what I do.” As he did in New York, there are almost
endless demands for charities looking to utilize his talents for fund raising, plus
there have still been lots of television and radio appearances (Good Morning, Arizona!),
maybe not as much as you might find in the Big Apple environs, but more than enough
to help fill up the schedule.
And the siren call from his New York celebrity still reaches out from
time to time. Only recently he was back in New York at Yoko Ono’s invitation for the
opening of an annex to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Spindel, who began
his career as a commercial still-life photographer in 1964, was selected by John
Lennon to photograph what was to be his last recording session, and the images
document the last days before Lennon’s death.
The list of collectors of Spindel’s work reads like a Hollywood Walk
of Fame souvenir program: Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, George Burns,
Kate Hepburn, Billy Crystal, Donald Trump, Jerry Lewis, and Yoko Ono. One fan, television
personality Regis Philbin, offered this morsel that the photographer employs on his
website: “David Spindel is a little eccentric; however, you have to put up with him
because he is a genius.”
The baseball stuff (frequently featured in Sports Collectors Digest)
so familiar to collectors often contain hundreds of pieces, all so artfully and perfectly
arranged that it seems to the uninitiated to be a simple affair to simply fling down
the various artifacts and take the picture. Try it sometime with a dozen pieces and
see how simple it is, then multiply the degree of difficulty many times over.
And just having the material to be used in these still-life images is
a major challenge. For Spindel, it represented nearly 30 years worth of collecting,
though his motivations for chasing all that stuff were far different than your typical
collector’s.
“I had more than 10,000 baseball items,” he recounted, noting that much
of it was used for a photography assignment connected with various MLB anniversaries.
When Spindel moved west, he got rid of most of the collection, selling to some of
the dealers that he had bought from through the years and selling much of it on eBay.
But, of course, just like everybody else he kept some of his favorite
things. Like a number of signed baseballs from some of his subjects, a list that includes
Dr. Ruth (Westheimer, not Babe), Donald Trump and Muhammad Ali.
This entry concludes on the morrow with recollections of Spindel’s
unique relationship with Joseph Paul DiMaggio,
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on June 11th, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Now that my Dave Winfield player collection is complete I wanted to take the time to show off my favorite 5 cards from this set.
Card #3 – 1982 Donruss
Now we’re talking!! A full-size image of one of the biggest guys to have suited up in the big leagues. Any card featuring a picture like this [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by Mario A.
As far as I can remember, I have never once in my collecting lifetime ever had what some refer to as “disposable income”. Sure, there were times in my life I had money hand over fist, but the last thing on my mind at the time were baseball cards.
Certainly the most fun I have had [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by Dan
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on June 11th, 2009 by steveisjewish
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on June 11th, 2009 by chemgod
I love what the companies have done with the vintage set. I love Allen and Ginter, Heritage, and Goudey. When they first started going out with these beautiful sets, I was one of the first in line to buy the packs. Here’s my issue with the sets. Other than Heritage, there [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by Mario A.
With all the hype guys like Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper have received lately, one can’t help to think about previous “can’t miss” prospects. One guy who was heavily hyped early in his career and still to this day is “King Felix” of the Seattle Mariners.
For a guy who is constantly compared to a young [...]
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