on February 10th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
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on February 10th, 2010 by Jim from Downingtown
Card # 500 – always used for one of the best players. (Marichal’s head also appeared on the 5th series checklist in 1967.)Juan Marichal was signed by the Giants in 1957, and spent all of 1958-59, and part of 1960 in their farm system. His major-league…
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on February 10th, 2010 by GrandSlam
Bill Dickey was born in 1907 in Bastrop, Louisiana. His father John had played semipro ball, as had his older brother Gus. Bill followed suit with them into the world of baseball, with much more success. His younger brother Skeets would follow Bill to …
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on February 10th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
Upper Deck is honoring the Super Bowl XLIV champion New Orleans Saints with a 51-card commemorative boxed set that includes 40 player cards, five Season Highlight cards, four Postseason Memorable Moments cards, one Super Bowl MVP card and one oversized 3 x 5 celebration card.
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on February 10th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1992 Fleer Greg Maddux
Does this look like a poster to you? Yeah, me too! The design of this 1992 Fleer baseball card screams early 90’s sports poster!!!
I actually like this card quite a bit. While the design is relatively simple, the colors are bold and work very well together. The green border allows for the Cubs’ colors [...]
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on February 10th, 2010 by zman40
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on February 10th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 10th, 2010 by NPB Card Guy
The checklist for the latest offering from Calbee, 2010 Series 1, went up on their website in the last day or so. This set features 96 “regular” player cards (8 per team). As always, there are a number of separate insert sets or subsets. There’s a 1…
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on February 10th, 2010 by handcollated
How about crap like this:
With the releases of its first baseball card set of the New Year, the Upper Deck Company is excited to announce a unique “variation card” promotion that should send collectors clamoring for both hobby and retail packs of 2010 Upper Deck Series One Baseball. A total of 25 of the 600-card [...]
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on February 10th, 2010 by chris OK
Fantasy baseball season is upon us. I loVe what mlb.com does for their fantasy preview. They take a classic Topps design and make their ranks with trading card images. I really wish they would actually sell these as trading cards. I just included two…
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on February 10th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
This afternoon I came across an old article written by PSA that gives some great tips on spotting a fake ‘63 Topps Pete Rose RC #537. This card is one of the most counterfeited cards on the planet. There was an entire investigation into these fakes and you can still find the ones stamped “COUNTERFEIT” [...]
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on February 10th, 2010 by AdamE
I am great at getting cards sorted out for trades. I suck at shipping them though. But I am actually about to start getting caught back up. I shipped out 3 packages yesterday and I have 3 going today. The problem is I have at le…
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on February 10th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
President Truman was the first U.S. President to two first pitches, one left-handed and one right-handed, on April 18, 1950.
**factoid courtesy of ‘Armchair Reader – Grand Slam Baseball’
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on February 10th, 2010 by SpastikMooss
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