Cardboard appreciation: 1981 Donruss Best Hitters

(After eight straight days of work that included an energy-sapping switch to Daylight Savings Time, I FINALLY HAVE A DAY OFF! Now, if you don’t know what I’m appreciating, then there is no hope for you. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the…

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Luis Durango was so upset about his loss to Justin Upton that he went 0-2 at the plate in today’s spring training battle with the Giants. No one seemed to notice the Napoleon Bonaparte photoshop job on him, either. Too obscure? I’ve always associated the Padres with the French, even though the [...]

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There was a time in my life when I was as big a fan of WFAN as you will ever meet. I listened to Joe Beningo, Mike and the Mad Dog, Suzyn Waldman, Sid Rosenberg, Jody McDonald and even, God help me, Russ Salzberg.I would call in from time to time and i…

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1. It’s a good old fashioned blockbuster deal that will put a spark in Spring Training!Seriously, is this a Fantasy Baseball trade? I mean this is a deal I would make in June when the Fantasy League is getting stale and I think “Heck, let’s shake this …

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Card fact: This is the last card in Reynolds’ career. In fact, he has just two Topps cards.What I thought about this card then: I absolutely loved it. One of my all-time favorite cards in the set. I thought the pose was terrific. Never mind that it is …

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For the second time in as many month’s, I received an extremely generous supply of unwanted 2008 Allen & Ginter minis from a fellow blogger. This time, the loot came from The Basketball Card Blog, where all resources seem to be reallocated to an A…

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When you go out, try it with a bang.Upper Deck released its final two baseball products of 2009 in 2010. Basically that meant that the logo hiding (or the half-hearted attempts at it) would be starting early.This is another nice looking set by Upper De…

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This is Lou Clinton’s final card (#426) and final major-league season.Lou was signed by the Red Sox in 1955, and made his big-league debut with them in April 1960. Lou started more games in right field than anyone else, but he only hit .228, so the So…

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Picked these up at a card show down in Boca over the weekend…..I’m loading up on auto’s and relics to have one of the biggest fire sell of all time in the blogging world….. It’s going to be huge but for right now i’ll just keep loading up and wait till that day…By the way tomorrow [...]

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Aaron Crow, Royals2010 Goose Joak Originalby Goose JoakNerd warning!Ok, with that out of the way.I have assembled a “VORP” system for fantasy baseball.  You basically:Set team targets for each statistic (i.e. 800 runs, 800 rbi, etc.)Input projecti…

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Who is this? Frank Catalanotto, a utility player trying to win a bench spot on the New York MetsWhat is this? An autographed card from the 2009 Topps setWhere’d I get it? I wrote to Catalanotto at Mets camp and asked him to sign it. I got it back today…

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Mike Lowell is back on the field after rehabing since December when he had Surgery on his thumb. Lowell had been traded to the Rangers for a minor leaguer and Boston was prepared to eat all but 3 million of the gold glovers 12 million dollar contract.Then the deal [...]

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As far as I know, the Newark Bears haven’t made any official announcement about their spring training plans yet. But the Ducks did, and it looks like the Bears will be staying north this year.
According to Long Island’s press release, the Ducks will host the Bears for a spring training game on Saturday, April 17 [...]

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Headed over to Target today and picked up a blaster of 2010 Topps Heritage and pulled this sweet card out of it…..i really like these and i know there a Hanley,Uggla, and Josh Johnson of these out there,which you know i will be tracking down! There only numbered to fifty which is really cool knowing [...]

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Now is the time to get your side bets rolling folks! Here are the results from the Fantasy League draft that was held on Sunday night. So who would you put your money on? (No, you can’t bet on or reveal your team ownership here.)I have had a bunch of…

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#201 Rey SanchezHere is yet another checkoutmycards purchase. This one set me back one dollar. I bought this card because Rey was the Royals starting shortstop when I started following them in 2000. He wasn’t much of a signer at the ballpark and I am p…

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Look out, action-style Jimmy Haynes! The Big Giant Head of Pointillist Jimmy Haynes has placed your left forearm in his mouth and is getting ready to devour it mercilessly! Aiiiiyyyeeeeeee!If I could go back in time, I would give Pinnacle two pieces of…

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To all those that entered the giveaway, I’ll be sending out e-mails letting you know what you’ll be receiving shortly…I’ll also be announcing a little contest to give away the left overs + a game used card…get your checklist identification skills w…

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So I need Topps series 1 2010 cards. I need a lot of them. As usual, I don’t have much to offer in return. However, the contest going on at http://mojobeardy.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/a-contest-ends-a-contest-begins/ gave me an idea.If you give me ca…

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It takes a special kind of person to get ejected from a spring training game. Anyone who says it was not deliberate is insane, includeing  Cliff Lee who denies its intention.
Ok Mr Lee, Lets look at it from this perspective. Fact: In the first inning you collided with the Diamondbacks  Catcher Chris Snyder. Fact: In [...]

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You think you’ve seen small baseball cards before?

I would like to introduce you to the World’s Smallest Baseball Card:

Don’t believe me?

See? Tiny.

Ok. You guys are too smart. I stuck it next to a 2009 Detroit News special issue. Maybe you need something a little more comparable. Another Trammell Card maybe?

I told you so…yeah you got me again. That’s Topps Big.

Let’s try this. Here’s a card that came in the same package:

Ooh! How about an aside for this really nice 1985 Topps Al Kaline card that is kind of an insert or special issue or something that I need to research more. Of the recent package I just got, that was my favorite card.

Here’s my second favorite. Tram again:

That’s a Topps UK mini card. Starting to get the sense that this guy is really really small, aren’t you. Starting to feel kind of silly for thinking, “oh that Dan, he’s trying to trick me into thinking this card is really small, but it can’t be that small.” Well my friends, it can.

And with that, we can cross another card–the Porcello SP mini off my “Big Ten wantlist” and revel in the fact that, no matter what your perspective, that Trammell is one small card.

Stay tuned, because I just ended up with 20 of these suckers and after all that, it would be my pleasure to tell you exactly what you were looking at.

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Yep, thats right, you did read that correctly. And just a lil disclaimer, I am in no way or form, neo-nazi, in fact my family is very American and patriotic and many of my reliatives fought in WW2, the Spanish-American war, and Vietnam. But anyway. Heres a vintage post, from a quick ebay lot pickup.

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I love COMC. I could literally spend hours looking through their inventory and recently I did and came across 2 Elways that I wanted to add to my collection. The first is one of the cheesiest cards I own. It’s a Fleer Metal which is not only ridiculous…

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Hey guys, Drew back here. It’s gonna be a rough week for me on this here blog. I don’t know how much free time I’ll get, but I’ll try to make the most out of each opportunity. Baseball tryouts are going on and I broke the nerves today and played my hea…

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Now we’re back to the heaping package of 1965 Topps cards that I received from Jamie Whyte. I’d started reviewing the contents a few months ago, but was rudely interrupted by my own absent-mindedness, when I suddenly remembered that I’d forgotten to ac…

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The first trade has been completed and I now own a virtual 1986 Topps Rob Picciolo!

Now we need to turn Mr. Picciolo into a 1985 Topps card…any 1985 Topps card! Make me an offer I can’t refuse at toppsmillion.com!

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Here are the last six cards to my 2009 Topps Series I and so another set has been laid to rest. Good gravy, I love these so much more than this year’s set.2009 Topps #103 Kyle Kendrick2009 Topps #254 Cito Gaston2009 Topps #260 Manny Ramirez 2009 Topps…

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The entry for my 1967 Topps Autographed Baseball card collection today is a pitcher who still holds 3 major league records. It is Elroy “the Baron” Face, relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Card number 49 in the 1967 Topps Baseball card set of 6…

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The two boxes of 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes have been ordered, but a couple participants still need to pay for their slot(s). I’m still waiting on money from packaddict, Dan Lowe, and Collective Troll. Also, Swag is paying via snail mail.Everybo…

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I like oddballs. They add flavor to a collection. Its just that I tend to spend more effort on completing team sets or base sets than adding the occasional single card. So when I get them, I always take a little time to soak them in. Lately, I receiv…

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Upper Deck and I have never been best buds. We don’t see things eye-to-eye.I come from a different place than Upper Deck or many of the collectors who have blogs. By the time UD arrived on the scene, I had been collecting for 15 years. I had establishe…

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3rd Spring Training 2010 Autograph TTM Success: Will Clark!!!
This is the second time I have received Will Clark’s autograph through the mail.  The first time he signed for me was back in April, 2009 – you can read that story here.  I didn’t hold onto the card though; I passed it onto a newbie blogger [...]

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