Card of the Day: Mark Sanchez ‘09 UD SP Authentic NFL Logo Patch Auto

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Well, here’s my newest batch of BigD custom cards. If you look carefully (or really, not that carefully, it’s pretty obvious) you will see they are in top loaders. That’s right folks, BigD cards are not just virtual anymore. I’ve recently been experime…

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In celebration of TRISTAR sponsoring a box break on the site, look for a bunch of TRISTAR related giveaways starting over the weekend.  Details regarding the prizes and how to enter will be posted this weekend. Also, I will be making a trip …

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Who is this? Ryota Igarashi, a relief pitcher for the New York MetsWhat is this? An autographed card from the 2009 BBM Second Version Japanese baseball card setWhere’d I get it? I’ve been buying up Ryota Igarashi’s cards on eBay since the Mets signed h…

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Be here on Saturday… It should be a cool time. Somebody needs to bring pizza though. It’s a long drive for me and I’m going to get hungry, I just know it.

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This box break is brought to you by the fine folks at TRISTAR.  I apologize for not getting this box break posted earlier, but it was the perfect storm of construction and illness that kept me from pulling this together.  Now that everyt…

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In Upper Deck’s press release announcing 2010 Series I on Feb. 6, the joy was breathless: “Obviously we’re extremely pumped up right now,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s Baseball brand manager. “We really went to task to fin…

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Oakland A’s pitcher, Justin Duchscherer had two cards in the 08 Topps Updates & Highlights set. We posted the regular issue this morning but Justin also signed his All-Star card for us.Little known fact: Justin is a two-time All-Star.# UH 53 – Just…

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Here we have the final baseball card for Tracy Stallard (#7), looking very determined, 5 seasons and 2 teams removed from his date with baseball history!Stallard was signed by the Boston Red Sox in 1956, and spent 5 seasons in their farm system, before…

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Joe, this slap is for you… Jacoby’s Treasure Chest has been pre-empted today because of something of far greater importance. I cannot in good faith show you some lousy, worthless autograph pieces of junk, when I would much rather sing to you the pra…

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we’ll always have 4+1!enjoy your retirement and those talking heads at espn.

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First person to send one to me at chemgod1000@yahoo.com gets a game used card or auto.  Needs to be 600dpi or better.
Thanks a bunch,
Mike
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Mike de la Hoz (#372) was a utility infielder for the Indians and Braves during the early-to-mid 1960s. He was signed by the Indians in 1958 and made his major-league debut in July 1960. He remained with the Indians for the rest of 1960, and all of 19…

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I’ve been in a retro kind of mood lately, so let’s go with another vintage Phillies card tonight. I’ll explain the reason for the retro mood after a brief Barry Foote interlude.In the summer of 1978, Barry Foote was third in the catching depth chart fo…

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You need a Facebook Application.It’s great that Topps, UpperDeck and other card manufacturers have joined the Facebook tribes. Their fan pages are OK – they aren’t at the level of Red Bull or Dunkin’ Donuts. Both of them have been recognized for having…

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Impressive.

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I don’t care how he’s listed in Baseball-Reference.com, I’m not calling him “Buck” Rodgers! “Boog” Powell? yes”Satchel” Paige? yes”Yogi” Berra? yes”Turk” Farrell? yes”Catfish” Hunter? yes, (grudgingly)”Mudcat” Grant? (you’re pushing it!)”Oil Can” Boyd…

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That’s Tony Oliva to you and I, boys and girls. There is so much to love about Tony’s 1973 Topps card…1973 #80 Tony Oliva Let’s begin with Tony’s home city of Bloomington, Minnesota [home of the Mall of America, by the way]. Topps couldn’t quite sq…

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The old one hereand then he relists it?Find the new auction hereIf it isn’t shill bidding, there is certainly some shenanigans afoot.

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After leaving the old (original)

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Jumping onto another blogging assignment in a belated fashion, I went searching through my Orioles cards looking for cards with interesting stuff going on in the background. This isn’t quite it, but I like it a lot. While Brooks Robinson’s base hit str…

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1956 Topps #261 Bobby ShantzAs I mentioned earlier this week the Philadelphia SportsCard and Memorabilia Show is this weekend. In years past I have justified part of my admission by getting a complimentary autograph. Usually a lower tier player like …

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Here’s highlights of two more of those Heritage Rack Packs I found last week. The first one was kind of boring so I’m showing off another one too. Of course now I need to find a fifth to pair up with the last rack pack. Of course I’ve bought four more …

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I procrastinate. I procrastinated about writing this post. I have procrastinated about writing other posts which should have been done days ago. I am still procrastinating now, or well actually I am distracted as the Mentalist is on.I finally wrote…

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Hey guys, Drew back here, with some more mail. Well, Tuesday night I wrote an essay, Wednesday I wrote the final copy of that essay, and tonight I wrote another essay. yay. At least the torture is over, oh wait, a few more projects for the weekend does…

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I would like to transport us back to the halcyon days of the 1993 season. This was when the Yankees were a struggling franchise, Toronto was the defending World Series champions, there were many curses left to be broken, and the Brewers were still in t…

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One of the comments someone left on the Roberto Barbon post the other day mentioned a really cool website devoted to Cuban baseball – including a section not just cards for Cuban baseball, but cards of Cuban players playing elsewhere in the world, incl…

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…and Yakyu Baka has a post with a picture!Update: Deanna has been opening packs as well. I’m curious as to when Calbee started putting two cards in a pack. The last time I had any unopened packs was 2004 and they were still one card to a pack.

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By spring training 1998, David Holdridge and his wife Erica talked about giving up on baseball. A former first-round draft pick, Holdridge had been in the minors for a decade, never seeing the bigs.”My wife has been very supportive,” Holdridge told the…

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Decided to post this 2002 Donruss The Rookies autograph card of Hank Blalock today in recognition of him finally getting a contract this year. The card is numbered 6/100. So far Hank hasn’t seen any action with the Rays, still gotta wait and see I supp…

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(1995 Authentic Signature Rookies Old Judge)Today, ex-Triber Brian Giles announced he was hanging up his cleats for good.  He’s reached that “critical” age of 38 and had signed on with a minor league team in hopes of rejuvenating his career. …

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In 2001, Topps Archive Reserve debuted as an all-refractor reprint set of 100 cards, each featuring a former MLB star as they appeared on their first Topps card. Each box delivered an autographed baseball as a boxtopper, along with an additional autograph and game-used card.
The following year, the same basic concepts applied, but the rookie [...]

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So, I got an e-mail yesterday morning asking me if Nomar was coming back to the Red Sox. Naturally, my response was that I would love it, but can’t imagine it happening. Then I see the announcement that Nomar would be signing with the Sox so that he…

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Player of the Day: Mike Schmidt was 3 for 4 with a double, 2 homers, and 4 RBI as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2.Pitcher of the Day: Don Sutton pitched a 1-hitter against the San Diego Padres.

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I got Aroldis Chapman’s autograph on an odd-sized image photo print [a little smaller than an 8x10] during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Indians – he signed by the camera well near third base and looked to have stopped once the N…

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