#145 – Ken Holtzman

Card fact: One of the most pleasing cards in the set. A top-notch pitcher of the era, who played on a World Series winning team, featured on a card with a border color that complements his uniform and team colors.What I thought about this car…

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Yes, yes, I bet you know where this post is going already. Sometimes I enjoy writing the post titles. Most of the time, however, I just cringe after I read it. This might also be a good time to confess that I don’t really proofread anything I write …

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Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta, commonly referred to as Minnie Miñoso was one hell of a player.He is one of just two players in major league history to play in five separate decades.Minoso debuted in 1949, but he was still officially a rookie when obtained by the White Sox in a three-team deal involving the [...]

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Yep, I’m a twat.  No, not like what Thorzul is.  What I mean to say is  I’m officially on Twitter.  I haven’t quite found out what exactly to do with it yet, but I’m on there.    So far I’ve been following the Topps guy, Ozzie Guillen, and Jose Canseco.  Can anybody really understand what [...]

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The homie over at 30-year old Cardboard and myself have been sending each other packages for as long as I can remember…. The first blog i read when I came back in collecting was his, and from there I started my own blog but there where a lot of bumps along the way…. And I asked him many question about everything from [...]

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Well now, that was an exciting day of college basketball, wasn’t it. The first four days of the NCAA tournament are just hands-down one of the greatest creations of our times. Talk about a great way to pass some time at work and then lounge on the co…

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Oh, Sidney Ponson. Your 17th season in professional baseball promises to be the most pointless and perversely entertaining of them all. With spring training in full swing, you’ve finally latched on to another club. So which franchise was ensnared by yo…

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NN Vernon WellsHere is the last of my checkoutmycards purchase. I was able to acquire this one for $1.25. I felt like that was a very good price for an autograph of a two-time All Star and three-time gold glover. I’m sure Vernon has some autographs in …

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I just signed up for another fantasy baseball league, run by a fellow (ex)Baltimore blogger, Ryan’s Memorabilia. So far we only have 4 teams, and would really like to try to make this league happen on short notice. It’ll be a mixed-league, head-to-head type scoring kind of a league, so if that’s your thing, and [...]

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Thanks to everyone who is voting so far in the poll! It really blows my mind that 44 folks out there care about who I collect. Thanks! I am trying to post cards of the guys who seem to be leading in the vote. Yesterday I posted cards of Roy Face. Tonig…

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Today’s Nitty Gritty Card of the Day (evening edition) is from the 1958 Topps set and features one of my favorite players of all time, it is card number 424 of Cleveland Indians outfielder Larry Doby. This is another one of the great vintage cards th…

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I meant to post this yesterday. One of my favorite players, Michael Finley, was recently released by the Spurs (good, I hate them) and then signed by the Celtics (crap, I hate them too!) Oh, well. I’ve been wanting to get some of my Finley cards signed…

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I don’t know anything about these stickers, but I picked them up cheap on eBay, so why not, right?Each sticker is mounted on cardstock and features a “popular” catch-phrase or reference to skaters.These almost look like they are trying to be of th…

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On Veterans Day 2009, Upper Deck unveiled a bold new program to encourage collectors and hobby shops to donate sealed packs to troops serving overseas through a non-profit charity called Operation Gratitude. For every pack donated, Upper Deck will also donate a pack to help bring troops a little closer to home through sports. Baseball [...]

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I was either so excited to open up some 2010 Topps yesterday or so mad that I didn’t get any Indians that I had to open up some more. This time I went for one of the cereal boxes that run $10. I like these for one reason. The special Chrome card th…

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I am sure that everyone knows by now about this story and this story. To say that this is disappointing is an understatement. Ron Washington is a manager, not some rookie kid in the clubhouse. He is supposed to lead the team in a positive direction. To…

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Hey guys, Drew back here. I need to catch a break here, I know that I’ll be behind after I get back, it’ll only be a few days though and I am far too upset/stressed to post anything. I got cut for the second year in a row for my school team, yet again,…

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A 1985 card has been offered and accepted! Once considered by myself as a potential Hall of Famer before he went to New York and grew that awful mustache, John Franco was a fantastic left-handed relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. And now I own a virtual copy of this card…

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Upper Deck’s long awaited, celebrity infused, Prominent Cuts has started to hit the market.  I’m not one for products that deal mostly with actors and actresses.  Its just not my thing, but I would like to say I think this product looks really well done.  I can confidently say that Prominent Cuts blows all of [...]

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It happened again this morning, and I don’t really understand it. The host on the radio made a reference to nerdy baseball fans with their UZR and VORP like it was somehow an inferior segment of the fan base. People are always talking down about the …

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Something I’ve been waiting for for so long has finally happened… I got Bipped!  And what a Bip it was.  This was no ordinary Bip, my friend.  Somehow the surprise even managed to usurp the awesomeness of trading for the sweeeeeeeeeet Frank Robinson relic in the package, if only for a minute (it’s still makin’ [...]

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Gary Joseph Cieradkowski is a designer and Illustrator living in Long Beach, California. He grew up a Mets fan in New Jersey and later after college was able to combine his love of baseball and art when he was the lead graphic designer for Oriole Park at Camden Yards – designing everything from the logo [...]

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Pulled from a pack of GPKFB today:And I thought I was just kidding around.

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A about a month ago, maybe longer because I am so far behind, I received a nice fat package of Brewers cards from Mr. Scott of Mr. Scott’s Baseball Blog. Scott had contacted me about a Topps Teixeira Commemorative Patch from the first season of the ne…

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GCRL had the correct answers for two of the armbands.The Yankees wore theirs to honor catcher and team captain Thurman Munson, who died in a plane crash on August 2, 1979. They wore the armband for the rest of the 1979 season and all of 1980.The Cubs …

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Ewan McGregor plays The Ghost, a successful ghost writer who is hired to rewrite the memoirs of charismatic (and Tony Blair-like) former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). The Ghost (who’s name is never revealed in the movie) is relucta…

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Charlie Manuel may not have been that popular of a player, but he is one heck of a manager.  When it comes to cards, Manuel doesn’t have that many.  He has a lot of base cards in products like Allen & Ginter and your basic Topps.  Manuel only has one certified autograph from 2001 Topps [...]

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I had the pleasure of being contacted by Dave Jamieson, author of the new book, Mint Condition- How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, asking me if I would be interested in receiving a copy of the book to review. I gladly accepted and today r…

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Ok, so it’s been almost a week, and still no entries into the Obak 2bak Custom Rap Contest. We understand, it’s not easy to write a quick little ditty about the hobby you love, and rhyme it to the beat, so we’ve decided to sweeten the deal a little bit. You now have an extra [...]

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Mets enthusiast Rob M. contacted me asking if i had some Mets i could send him for a few Ichiro cards. Well for some odd reason i kept forgetting to email him, not once but twice, but he was patient with me (much appreciated) and he even added a bunch…

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Who is this? Don Shaw, an original Montreal ExpoWhat is this? An autographed card from the 1969 Topps setWhere’d I get it? I wrote to Shaw and asked him to sign it for me earlier this month. I got it back today.How much did it cost? Around a dollar for…

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Willie Greene put up power and average in high school, enough to get him taken by the Pirates in the first round. But his coaches didn’t know where the 6-foot, 155 pound 17-year-old got it from, according to The Pittsburgh Press.”I guess it’s quick wri…

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Here they is.First and foremost, I want to give thanks to the UPS man, dude snuck behind the house and left the shit at the back door like a bandit, keeping it out of the public view and keeping it away from the riffraff.Break will happen soon, probabl…

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While I’m waiting for the break to fill, thought I’d throw out some trade bait. All things negotiable, everything must go! Same rules (prefer CCs, Gomes, Niemanns, Prices) but open to other offers based on my needs list. The vintage is obviously “used”…

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