Card of the Day: Ruben Amaro 1963 Topps #455

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If you are going to do any cooking for your Super Bowl party, then you might need to pick up some butter or margarine. Chiffon margarine would be a great choice as Chiffon included these NFL team decals in their products at some point during the early…

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Here’s the nattily bespectacled Frank Kreutzer, who the Senators scouted while he was working at the local public library. Full disclosure: This cheap joke is not to be interpreted as a dig at librarians. Why, my own girlfriend is a librarian. Fun fact…

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Who is this player?Don Aase, starting pitcher, California AngelsBeset by injuries, the California Angels were unable to defend their AL West crown in 1980, slipping instead to sixth place. Righthanded pitcher Don Aase was one of the only healthy pitche…

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Dave Wickersham was signed in 1955 by the Pirates. For 5 seasons, he pitched in the Pirates minor-league system before being selected by the Athletics in the November 1959 minor-league draft.After spending most of 1960 with the Athletics’ double-A tea…

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Since my last David Krejci post the Bruins have been playing much better as a team, and Krejci has been pretty solid as well. Unfortunately the results have been the same and the B’s lost to the Sabres on Friday night, the Kings on Saturday, and the W…

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Joe Christopher (#343) was signed by the Pirates in 1955, and played in the minors from 1955 to 1959. During part of 1957, he also played in the Mexican League.Joe made his major-league debut in late May 1959, and played 15 games for the Pirates, most…

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Everyone probably gets weak-kneed when they receive cards from Cardboard Junkie because it’s a little like getting a package from the Smithsonian Cardstitution. You may not be aware of this, but at dayf’s rambling estate (people in Georgia pr…

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Well, once again those crazy people in Pennsylvania got up entirely too early in the morning to drag a groundhog out of its makeshift home. And the weird part is…they do it even though the groundhog is almost always wrong.This year, the prediction i…

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In the Game recently announced that Between the Pipes is back for another season. Interestingly enough, just the other day I had a conversation with former New York Rangers great Gilles Villemure who told me that he was excited about being included in this release.

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51 days was certainly worth the wait for these great autographs!!
Steve Avery was a fan favorite during the early-to-mid 1990’s when he pitched for the Atlanta Braves.  Teaming up to be part of one of the greatest starting pitching rotations in the game’s history, Avery was often the #4 guy, but his role was significant and [...]

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You know you have been on this planet long enough when things come full circle. Back when the (NASL) North American Soccer League was at its heyday – there was only one trading card company that produced sports cards. That was Topps Chewing Gum.At some…

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I was lucky enough to participate in Old School Breaks’ most recent group break that included eight hobby boxes from 2001-2004. For a very reasonable price I was able to nab all the Mariners and Reds from the boxes (in hopes of Griffeys of course) and …

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Major League Baseball has filed a lawsuit against The Upper Deck Company, accusing them of trademark infringement for using MLB logos in their new line of 2010 baseball card products. Upper Deck produced MLB licensed baseball cards from the time of their inception in 1989 up until the January 1st of this year, when MLB [...]

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More finds from the big Tristar card show in Houston a week or so ago. One dealer had boxes of cards arranged by team. He had a bunch of Phillies cards. I picked up 40 Phillies cards I didn’t have. Some of them were even types of cards I didn’t have. …

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Gregorio Petit: Designated for assignment.Gabe Gross:OF signed for one-year $750,000.Adam Rosales and OF Willy Taveras from the Reds for 2B Aaron Miles and a PTBNL. Then after picking up Taveras he was DFA’d. Because they don’t want to pay his salary. …

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There’s nothing better than coming back from a long weekend and finding a bevy of baseball card packages waiting for you. Here’s a couple of trades I recently completed.First up is a card from the Benevolent Beardy of Beardy’s Baseball Blog. We worked …

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Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler, Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they rip into a box of 2010 Topps baseball cards in this edition of Box Busters.

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