on February 27th, 2010 by JD's Daddy
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on February 27th, 2010 by chemgod
When Homer Bailey was drafted in 2004 by the Cincinnati Reds, it was expected that he would be at the top of their rotation by 2007. Well they tried that experiment and had some mixed results over 2007 and 2008, it had less than desirable results. In 2007 he went 4-2/5.76/1.57 then in 2008 he went 0-6/7.93/2.05. [...]
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on February 27th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1986 & 1987 Darryl Strawberry Donruss Jumbo Cards!!
Were the jumbo cards of the 1980’s the patch cards of today??? Who knows…
What I do know is that these 1986 and 1987 Donruss Jumbo All-star cards of Darryl Strawberry make a very nice addition to my collection that honors him and his playing days with the New [...]
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on February 27th, 2010 by Jason
After receiving my notification that COMC had received my cards, in My Dashboard for managing my account, under My Processing Status, I now see the following (including my previous two batches for reference):
ServiceBatchProgressEst. QtyDue DateEst. DateCompletedFees
Standard4279935 %504/21/20104/21/2010$0.50
Express344443100 %5012/28/200912/28/200912/24/2009$20.00
Standard261915100 %7712/1/
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on February 27th, 2010 by BASEBALL DAD
No, this is not going to be an Abbot and Costello post. More like an Acta and Shapiro post. They say Russell Branyan will be our starting 1st baseman. I don’t really have a major problem with that, but I don’t see how they can be so sure at this point….
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on February 27th, 2010 by Bo
Jeff Kunkel played eight years in the major leagues, as a middle infielder for the Rangers from 1984 to 1990 and the Cubs in 1992. He now runs Jeff Kunkel’s Baseball Fundamentals in Texas. He kindly answered my questions about his baseball card experi…
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on February 27th, 2010 by Ryan Cracknell
Topps’ Star Wars Galaxy 5 released this week. Others might be chasing the sketch cards and actor autographs, I’ll be happy once I pick up a base set, slide them into some pages and admire the varied artistic styles within. Although I don’t have a set y…
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on February 27th, 2010 by Grand Cards
Hey, how about a gallery of 2009 SP Legendary Cuts? Sure this is a bit out of the blue, but it’s on the list, so why not?
Base Set It’s small and it’s sweet. I’m not sure what got into the card companies over the last six months, but there has been a serious stamp theme going on. I’m not sure if this one was first or if it was Topps’ legends inserts, but either way, it has carried all the way into 2010 Heritage. Anyway, I got Curtis’ card way back when and thought it was a winner. I’m holding that line, with my only disappointment being that the base set, such as it is, is only four cards, and the Kaline is short printed at that.
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#30 Magglio Ordonez
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#84 Curtis Granderson
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#85 Miguel Cabrera
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#116 Al Kaline (#/550)
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Relics There are a few relic subsets going on here, and it seems to me like the “Legendary Memorabilia” group are the nicer ones for some reason, big head shots maybe? I’m not sure. I’m showing off a range of parallels the Green (#/125) for Gibson and the Red (#/75) for Morris. There are a total of five parallels in this subset, totally unnecessarily, I might add. The other relic cards are all fine but let’s be honest, Legendary Cuts is all about…Legendary Cuts. We’ll get there, I promise.
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#JV Justin Verlander
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#GS Gary Sheffield
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#MO Magglio Ordonez
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#GMMP Morris/ Peavy
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#GMMV Morris/ Verlander
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#GK Kirk Gibson
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#GK2 Kirk Gibson
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#MO Jack Morris
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#MO2 Jack Morris
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Cut Signatures Ok. These are the big winners here. Sure, your odds of actually pulling something like these are slim slim slim, but they’re out there. The funny thing about cuts is that they’re really not that special. Is there a reason that the cut is in a card? Does the card make it more special? I don’t know. What I will say is that this set does a great job of procuring some incredible signatures and gives them to us in an accessible format. Also, there are dual signatures each a 1/1 that are really something.
On to the nitty gritty, there are a ton of these. I’m going to throw order to the wind and show the images of what’s been out there since I’ve started looking. Then I’m going to use the Grand Cards logo to fill out the checklist just so you can see how extensive it is. Here we go…
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#LC1 Art Houtteman (#/8)
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#LC80 Ty Cobb (#/7)
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#LC133 Hank Greenberg (#/14)
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#LC136 Heinie Manush (#/16)
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#LC153 Schoolboy Rowe (#/7)
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#LC237 Harvey Kuenn (#/32)
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#DC-CC Roberto Clemente/ Norm Cash (1/1)
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#LC19 Dizzy Trout (#/5)
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#LC35 Hank Aguirre (#/5)
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#LC85 Rudy York (#/5)
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#LC90 Harry Heilmann (#/5)
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#LC97 Sam Crawford (#/5)
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#LC126 Fred Hutchinson (#/9)
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#LC137 Hal Newhauser (#/11)
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#LC163 Pete Fox (#/8)
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#LC204 Aurelio Rodriguez (#/50)
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#LC216 Charlie Cehringer (#/36)
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#LC236 Hoot Evers (#/20)
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#DC-CB Ki Ki Cuyler/ Donie Bush (1/1)
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#DC-GH Gaby Hartnett/ Hank Greenberg (1/1)
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#DC-GM Hank Greenberg/ Frank McCormick (1/1)
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#DC-MG Charlie Gehringer/ Joe Medwick (1/1)
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#DC-WH Paul Waner/ Harry Heilmann (1/1)
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Oh, and the Quads
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#GNTC Cramer/Trout/ Greenberg/Newhauser (1/1)
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#GWNV Newhauser/Vance/ Walters/Gomez (1/1)
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on February 27th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
The other day I was told by one of my readers to check out NSA’s (National Sportscard Authenticator) new website. Their old one had been under construction for a very long time. After checking out their Testimonials page I noticed something that seemed very familiar. Almost like I’ve seen these sentences before. Wait a minute! [...]
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on February 27th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on February 27th, 2010 by Matt F.
I’ve been inspired by the 1,000,000 card giveaway to go back and strengthen my vintage collection, not so much with stars, but with important/interesting cards. This brings us to this beauty:1969 Topps #653 Aurelio Rodriguez [Error Card]This is one of…
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on February 27th, 2010 by Wrigley Wax
1981 was a watershed year for baseball cards as Donruss and Fleer issued their first sets, ending Topps’ monopoly. So it seems like a strange time for Coke to enter the baseball card market, but enter it they did.Coke created 12-card team sets for 11 t…
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