National League – July 11

Player of the Day: Gary Matthews hit a solo HR and had a sac fly to knock in both SF runs in a 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs.Pitcher of the Day: Jon Matlack allowed one run in a complete-game victory over the Atlanta BravesCardinals 4, Dodgers 3Astros …

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Rickie Weeks2010 Goose Joak Originalby Goose JoakBased on the Saponara league.C: Miguel Olivo1B:2B: Eric Young, Rickie Weeks3B:SS: Jose ReyesOF:All four of these guys come with major baggage, but offer huge upside. Miguel Olivo - Olivo rates prett…

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Many of you know I got my start at this sports trading card content producing thing through Card Corner Club in 2003 and one of the things I most enjoyed was doing radio, be it at live events like the National or podcasts. The advent of Web 2.0 has cre…

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Final round:

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I didn’t think it would end like this.
And you that voted, did you like this sort of thing enough to do more, or should we count this as failure and move on?

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Dave Masters was as accustomed to serving up fastballs as he was serving up cocktails during his playing career.The pitcher, selected by the Cubs in the first round in 1985, worked as a bartender in the off season. It was out of necessity, he told the …

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Who is this player?Paul Moskau, swingman, Cincinnati RedsWith a last name pronounced like the city in Russia, Paul Moskau began the 1980 season in the Cincinnati bullpen. The righthander was coming off of a back injury that caused him to miss much of t…

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Who is this? Lonnie Smith, a former outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals and Atlanta BravesWhat is this? An autographed card from the 1982 Fleer setWhere’d I get it? I wrote to Smith a couple of weeks ago a…

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Man it’s good to be out of Indiana…Ohio rules!Anywho, very busy past few days, meaning little time to think, and even less to post. But today I did manage to sneak in a trip to All Pro Sportscards in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.Downside: The place is a bit p…

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Three-finger Jesus Demands It.I must obey the haloed hurler. 

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Lately, as some of you can probably tell, I’ve been getting hooked into reading the Beckett message boards, which may seem like a sin to some, but I actually quite enjoy reading about other people’s collections and TTM successes. But tonight, I found a thread that was quite interesting to me, it was someone asking [...]

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as mentioned before, I was instructed by the Boss to bring home a football box for us/her to bust. I chose UD Icons because it was the cheapest box in the store besides base Topps and Upper Deck.With football Icons, you get the absolute Greatest Quarte…

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Player of the Day: Willie McCovey went 3 for 4 and knocked in all three runs in San Diego’s 3-2 win over the Philadelphia PhilliesPitcher of the Day: Clay Kirby of the Expos allowed one run on seven hits as he pitched a complete-game 5-1 victory…

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Here’s relief pitcher Arnold Earley (#388), now with the Cubs, but still in his BoSox uniform.Earley was signed by the Red Sox in (late?) 1952, and began playing in their farm system in 1953. After missing 2 seasons while in military service, Arnold r…

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2007 Chachi #4 Chase Utley & #37 Kyle KendrickSpring Training notes from someone who spent a week in Cincinnati with little to no Phillies news . . .The Phillies continue to whittle down their roster to the requisite 25-man opening day size. The re…

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Card Corner Club Radio will be conducting a trial run at 11pm CST TONIGHT! Call in number will be posted at that time. Come join me, Rob Bertrand (the VOTC) and the one and only Doug Cataldo, as we launch the re-debut of The Hobby’s first regularly sch…

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Not a damn red auto to be found. Son of a Bitch. No Bush Patch either

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Does anybody out there remember Bipping? It was all the rage for a while. If ya don’t remember, please hop in my blogger time machine with me and flash back to January of 2010. Bipping was a craze that took off like the Macarena and then disappeared ju…

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Try saying that one 5 times fast. Please keep in mind that all cards featured in this review are up for grabs in our Obak 2back Custom Rap Contest. Details can be found HERE (or look up), and we have decided to push the entry deadline out another week, so you have until Sunday, 3/28 [...]

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Did a little shopping today at the old card shop and picked up all of these cuties!! As many of you know this is all going to the pile of trade bait aka the Mega Fire Sale of All!! And soon enough it will begin. But in the meantime start writting down what you want [...]

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Jim Maler is listed as an infielder on his 1986 ProCards Eighty Niners card. That’s a little misleading. Jim played in the infield, he didn’t play the whole thing. As his glove indicates, he was a first baseman. I can’t find a record of him playing any…

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I realize for the most part that most of the people reading this are zealous (and sometimes overzealous) participants of the art of card collecting. So you can empathize with the art of the never-ending chase to accumulate all the cardboard and the fo…

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Player of the Day: Dave Concepcion hit a 3-run homer and went 3 for 4 to lead the Reds past the Pirates in the first game of a doubleheader. In game 2 Dave was 2 for 4 with 2 runs and 2 RBIPitcher of the Day: Brent Strom pitched a 2-hit shutout against…

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I have a hunch that there will baseball played in Seattle, Florida and Milwaukee after October 3rd this year.I feel the Angels have taken a big step backwards and the Mariners have the best 1-2 punch in the division and possibly the AL with King Felix …

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‘On The Road With psugator02′ – March 18, 2010
Atlanta Braves at St. Louis Cardinals
Roger Dean Stadium
2-4:30 p.m.
Arrived in the top of the 4th and didn’t feel like paying for a ticket. So I wandered over to the Cardinals’ backfields hoping to get Red Schoendienst. Never did see Red but I was able to snag graphs [...]

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Welcome to the Nitty Gritty Card of the Day! This wasn’t what I had planned for tonight’s post, but a forgotten flash drive has limited my options. I had a scan of this card front and back saved on my hard drive as a reminder that I used to own it….

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Topps has done a dangerous, dangerous thing. It has put its vast catalog of cards on its Million Card Giveaway site.I often insist on using only the scans from my collection for this blog, unless a post absolutely requires the image of a&nbsp…

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As of March 19th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Highest Single Card Sale: 2009 WBC Japan Patch Card, $36.51
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2009 T-206 (#140), $235
Highest Graded Sale: 2007 Kevin Durant, BGS 9.5, $86
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2008 A&G SB Champs, Tom Brady, $250
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: None

Other best sellers:

* 2007 Kevin Durant
* 2000 Peyton Manning
* 2009 T-206 Mickey Mantle
* 2003 LeBron James

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 2002 Kobe Bryant, 9 bids

Listings with false print-runs included in title: 1
Number of sellers listing false print-runs: 1 (ebay id: iverson775)

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My first recollection of Lee Thomas (#438) is when I got his 1967 card. His position on that card (like this one) was “1B-OF”. My young brain then summed him up as:a) He’s a backupb) He’s Ernie Banks’ backup, so he’s not gonna play.However, he was a …

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I recieved two packages the other day which were both filled with tons of Cubs relics and some other goodies as well.
First up, I got a package from Austin over at Omega Wax. He sent me some pretty awesome stuff

Derrek Lee jersey numbered /125

Aramis Ramirez jersey
And, the main part of our trade was this beauty…

Dan [...]

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Along with regular cards, Fleer also created team logo stickers.  On the back of each sticker is a bit of All-Star Game trivia (see below)The first sticker out of the pack is serious old-school Expos.  The logo stickers feature the cap logo i…

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I know there are a lot of people out there who hate Upper Deck, but people losing jobs is never something to celebrate. Honestly, this move was expected, as the Entertainment division is slowly becoming obsolete after the Konami lawsuit was settled. Th…

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Following up on the series of preview blogs I wrote about these players a few weeks back, here are all of the autographs I got from the Minor League guys on the O’s 40 man.Rhyne Hughes signed at both games I went to but I missed him on the first day. …

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With the world’s biggest stage for sports entertainment — WrestleMania XXVI — just nine days away, the staff of WWE Magazine opted for something special for its latest issue, a project that shows just how big the “grandest stage of them all” really is.

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Originally I intended to title this ‘Trade with Andy’. But it has been an unusually quiet couple of months in regard to trading. The rare find?…. not the Okajima relic….a trade partner in the UK.There is a small but growing band of baseball cards c…

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