on December 30th, 2009 by rosschrisman2003
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on December 30th, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Countdown To 2010 – 24 Dawsons In 24 Hours – Card #1
Andre Dawson 1996 Leaf Preferred
Dawson looked pretty good in the Teal & White, huh??
This is one of my favorite cards of Andre wearing a Marlins’ uniform. While lacking any major graphic elements, what elevates this card’s status is that the photo is crisp and superb. And [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by packaddict
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on December 30th, 2009 by madding
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on December 30th, 2009 by --David
Announced on Facebook TODAY: “The Baseball Card Blog will be coming back in 2010 with new content…”Yes!! The godfather of card-blogging is coming out of retirement! If you have not been to Ben Henry’s site, go there now and check it out: …
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on December 30th, 2009 by Chris Harris
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on December 30th, 2009 by Scott
It’s the end of the year 2009, not to mention the end of a decade, so it’s time to do the “best of” thing again. Seeing how my fellow collectors view the best baseball card products of the year is actually very interesting. Many of the “best of the year” stuff is boring, but not [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by zman40
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on December 30th, 2009 by chrisolds
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on December 30th, 2009 by Tracy Hackler
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on December 30th, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on December 30th, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
It took just 14 days for this nicely signed card of baseball hero Bobby Thomson to be returned back to me!!
Thomson is best known for his ‘Shot Heard Around The World’ and that is what this 2000 Topps Golden Moments card celebrates.
In 1951, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Giants played a 3-game [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on December 30th, 2009 by tigre
I forgot to post this pull yesterday… It’s an Adrian Gonzalez auto SP. The thing I find funny is that the card is short printed to only 45 copies, but it isn’t serial numbered, yet other releases can have serial numbers in the thousands with no spe…
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on December 30th, 2009 by Laurens
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on December 30th, 2009 by rosschrisman2003
Products such as Topps Sterling and Triple Threads have introduced collectors with autographed and/or game-used booklets. These cards fold open to reveal some great looking cards for collectors to ad to their collection. One of the biggest problems with these cards is that its difficult to find a holder that will protect the card, and [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by Dave and Adam's Card World
It has been a great year for our vintage card division. We have had a couple really big purchases along with countless smaller ones. As word gets out that Dave & Adam’s is focusing more on older sets and singles, a lot more cards are being offered to us, but it seems we are selling [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by White Sox Cards
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on December 30th, 2009 by JT
I recently posted my top 15 albums in three parts on the blog for my radio program, Hard Rock Nights. I’m pretty satisfied with my lists, but still I’m always looking for input from others. I’ve read the lists of several other hard rock bloggers, but wanted to put it out to you guys also…what [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1991 Donruss Greg Maddux
Just another card of the great Greg Maddux doing what he did best!!
The 1991 Donruss design is nice, nothing extra special but not too bland either. The bold, Blue, border(BBB) color works well with the Cubs’ team colors. And while I can do without all of the multi-colored, multi-sized, multi-shaped designs on the [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by T.S.
Here’s one of my elemental beefs with the lunkheads (some of the them
are, anyway) who make up the annual BBWAA vote for the Hall of Fame: Andre Dawson came
up 44 votes shy of election last year. If we are to hope that he gets elected this
year – and I do indeed – 44 guys/gals have to decide that an eight-time All-Star who
wasn’t worthy last year is somehow now looking more, uh, immortal this year.
That’s idiotic on the face of it. I don’t fault the Hall of Fame, which
labors mightily to find a fair and effective procedure for deciding who gets a plaque,
but I do think there needs to be more rigorous oversight from the BBWAA over their
own little (and important) fiefdom.
If there were some procedure for our mysterious scribes to explain some
of their more unusual maneuvers, like the guys who somehow leave names like Henry
Aaron or Willie Mays off the ballot, or more recently guys who turn in blank ballots.
Really? Nobody at all is worthy enough by your ethereal standards?
So I fear for Dawson’s chances, pessimistic as I am about his ability
to pull in those 44 additional votes. I figure there are enough new HOF-worthy names
appearing on the ballot for the first time to confuse these same writers anyway.
Mark McGwire, who belongs in the Hall of Fame, seems unlikely
to make it this year of maybe even any year until the voters figure out an equitable
way to reconcile their epic disgust over alleged steroid use with the reality that
virtually a whole generation of modern stars is going to arrive on the ballot under
that cloud.
McGwire, who is guilty of little more than implementing a regrettable
strategy when he testified in front of several hundred Congressional hypocrites, will
have to ultimately find a spot on the wall in Cooperstown. But at 22 percent last
year – actually a decline from the year before – it’s difficult to imagine that happening
anytime soon.
Bert Blyleven fell a mere 67 votes short last year, but his situation
is more ominous because he only has two BBWAA votes left after this one. The only
thing I can figure is wrong with his candidacy is that he won 20 games only once,
and thus confronts a curious BBWAA preoccupation with magic numbers that seems to
suggest that winning 20 is wonderful but 18 or 19 is just plain yucky.
He also suffers from being lumped in – fairly or not – with a number
of other fine hurlers who fell short of that other magic number: 300. That list would
include Jim Kaat, Tommy John and Luis Tiant. How you look at those four guys and decide
who is the more urgent candidate is way beyond me.
More on this year’s HOF ballot in another blog.
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on December 30th, 2009 by rosschrisman2003
Topps National Chicle Football plans to include autographed cards by the actual artists that painted many of the cards in the set. Autographs will be featured on the cabinets and parallel versions of the base set. The mini parallels are the same size as the 1935 National Chicle cards. There are 10 artist autographs for [...]
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on December 30th, 2009 by Tuff Stuff
Happy Holidays to everyone and as always, good luck in this week’s Beat the Blogger contest.
This week’s matchups are now posted so spread the word and recruit some new players
so we can keep this going.
While the Blogger’s score of 7 correct made many eligible to Beat the Blogger,
it was Ronald Borzyk’s score of 9 (and tiebreaker) that took home the prize
on a week full of upsets. Thanks to all that played and thanks for recruiting some
newcomers as well. Let’s try and do the same this week and get a record turnout and
with this week’s winner being a first-timer, it just shows how easy it is to Beat
the Blogger and win.
With the number of weekly participants slipping a bit the last few weeks I’m making
a call to action to all of our regulars to do some recruiting. While more people
means more work for the Blogger and more people for the Blogger to go up against,
I welcome the challenge and offer this challenge to you: If each player can recruit
10 new players and we can boost the total to 200 or more, I’ll triple the weekly prize.
So spread the word about the contest to all your co-workers, family and friends
and meet that goal and boost the prize.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends so they can be a part of the action, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
This week’s winners are posted below and this week’s matchups will be posted
on Tuesday a.m. so make sure you get your picks posted before the start of the first
game to be eligible to win this week’s prize. As always, good luck.
While I enjoy giving prizes to several people vs. having just one weekly winner, from
this point forward contestants will be asked to provide a tie-breaker on the week’s
last game so we narrow our winner down to one. Contestants will now b
e
asked to predict the total score from the last game on the list and the closest to
the actual score will be deemed the winner). I’ll also require contestants
to post their e-mail address with their picks so I can track down the winners
easier.
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 so look for special prize packages.
This week’s matchups (with winning picks in parenthesis)
Sunday, Jan. 3
NFL Football
Indianapolis at Buffalo
Jacksonville at Cleveland
Chicago at Detroit
Pittsburgh at Miami
Atlanta at Tampa Bay
New England at Houston
Green Bay at Arizona
Baltimore at Oakland
Philadelphia at Dallas
Cincinnati at NY Jets
Tiebreaker: Total points in Cincinnati/NY Jets game ()
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