#153 – Rick Reuschel

Card fact: This card is a real disappointment coming after Rick Reuschel’s 1974 card. But I guess Topps had to ration its action shots in the 1970s.What I thought about this card then: Never saw it. It does look like a card I would make …

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When I did my first JoaCP, I said I wasn’t going to show one from this set. Well, I got bored and changed my mind. Here it is.I only have nine cards from the set signed (and yes, the Leonard card is from the traded set), so I figured that I might as we…

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Let me know if you guys want any of these…. Holla at the Don, leave a comment and i’ll send you an email…Enjoy!

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Two weeks ago I was a lowly baseball card collector who had a total of zero Harmon Killebrew relic cards. Now I have two, one featured last week and one I received from Cardsplitter from The Call of Cardboard blog.This one features a Twins jersey and …

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I said this on January 24, 2008: Heyward is going to be a beast in 2013 or so.While that is very likely true, J-Hey will be the Starting Right Fielder For Your Atlanta Braves on Opening Day 2010 against the Cubs.  Trust me, this shall not be the l…

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How great is this card?In 1967, Topps produced a “combo” card like this for 11 of the 20 teams (with the Indians and Orioles getting 2 each). Why were the other teams left out? Who knows! The following year, there would only be 2 such cards, and they…

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I’ve got to toss out a couple of disclaimers before I start this part of my Panini Adrenalyn review.  First off, this game is designed for kids ages 6-11.  It’s been a long time since I fell in that age range.  (Paul Pierce and Da…

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Assigned to single A Asheville, Colorado Rockies’ 13th round pick from 2004 Matt Miller needed to learn to hit the ball to all fields. He used the Tourists’ ballpark to help. He also used the Tourists’ hitting coach, Dave Hajek.”Our hitting coach, Dave…

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The list randomizer has made it’s decision on who the proud new owner of the Steve Garvey bat relic card will be… List Randomizer
There were 17 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
1. 9. Mark’s Ephemera – WINNER
2. 3. Slangon
3. 13. F…

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As of March 26th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Highest Single Card Sale: 2003 LeBron James, $36
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2006 Anaheim National 4-card promo set /250, $9.26
Highest Graded Sale: 2005 Carnell Williams, BGS 9.5, $5.52
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2001 Cal Ripken, $175
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: 2003 Andruw Jones, BGS 9/10, $10.51

Other best sellers:

* 2007 Kevin Durant
* 2009 A & G SB Champs Brett Favre
* 2009 WBC Japan Patch Card
* 2003 Tom Brady

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 2003 LeBron James, 14 bids

Listings with false print-runs included in title: 0
Number of sellers listing false print-runs: 0

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You may have heard. The Syracuse Orange were bounced from the NCAA tournament last night.This means only one thing to me. The winter sports season is officially over. And life begins to return to normal.This week I enjoyed my first back-to-back of…

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The Huggins & Scott two day auction concluded earlier this week.Let’s see what how the items I selected turned out…Lot 137Johnston Cookies Complete Set of cards with Display PosterOpening Bid: $400Final Bid: $600Lot 111887 Old Judge N172 Amos Rus…

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First of all, There is a sweet contest going on with some great prizes over at The Collective Troll, go check it out now, but understand that I shall be the winner!!!Secondly, “Big Ups” to Beardy! I got a package in the mail today from the bearded one …

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..Here’s 60% of the 1967 Minnesota Twins pitching staff:If only they also had Palmer, Hunter, Maloney, and Bunning. They could have run the table.Imagine being the manager/pitching coach/catcher having to come up with enough nicknames to differentiate …

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Fran Healy was a catcher in the major leagues from 1969-1978. Healy was signed by the Cleveland Indians in 1964 (according to Baseball Reference) or in 1965 (according to the back of this card). Fran played in Cleveland’s minor league system from 1965-…

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I’ve been collecting Adam Lind since 2007 and have picked up many of his early cards, and I try to keep up with the cards as they come out. Lind is probably the only player I have followed from the beginning in my collection. Oddly enough his cards a…

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To all you card bloggers out there…have you ever purchased a card thinking “there’s got to be a post in there somewhere.” Buying a Wally Joyner jersey card seemed like a good idea a few weeks ago. I enjoy collecting autographs and relics of semi-st…

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In 1996, Donruss introduced Leaf Signature. It was the first set to feature a large number of autographed card. Each pack had at least one autographed card. There were over 1,000 different autographed cards available in several parallel sets. In 1997,…

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Thanks to an unknown blogger, my 4 tradeable cards have turned into 9 tradeable cards! They wanted the 1971 Segui and had 6 random cards to spare, and now I can trade til my hearts content! If you’d like any of the cards listed below, feel free to o…

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I’m on the cusp on fantasy baseball weekend in my world. I have a draft in a really large and competitive league (16 teams!) on Saturday morning and another draft in my first ever keeper league on Sunday morning (run by the esteemed proprietor of Goose…

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I got this card from Rhubarb_Runner over at “é rayhahn, rayhahn” blog. It is one of the more intriguing cards (non-Brewers) I have received in a while. The card is from 2010 Topps Heritage and features right handed starting pitcher Ned Garver and an …

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Hey guys, Drew back here, and I am off ALL next week! WOOOOOO!!!! I’m really happy, and I also know that I can’t slouch here because I have piles of cards just waiting to be posted. Let’s start things off with some A-Rod and others. Dad picked these up…

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If your visiting this page, rest assured, I know that it was by error and that you have little to no interest in those stupid code cards in 2010 Topps Baseball. They are the same thing as the “Topps Attax” fillers, aren’ they? I’m actually running a recycling program for the “Million Card Giveaways”, all you [...]

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So while we are immersed in the 2nd round of worst gimmick ever, I was curious if anyone got sucked in by any of the gimmicks we are currently celebrating or some of the ones we may have missed. 
Did you purchase 2007 Topps U&H like a squirrel trying to find a nut in hopes of landing [...]

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First of all it makes me sick that I am going to be referring to the movie The Bucket List in this post.I don’t know anyone who liked that movie, and yet its title has become a pretty efficient short hand of describing an essential to do list while fac…

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Dan from Saints of the Cheap Seats took a huge bite out of my 1986 Topps needs list recently. Here are some of my favorites:As far as I can remember I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Bruno card…it was a 24 year wait but it was worth it.1986 Topps #5…

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Newark still hasn’t announced their plans for spring training. With today’s announcement by the Bridgeport Bluefish and what we already knew about the Long Island Ducks’ plans, we can get a pretty good idea of how the schedule will shape up.

Thursday, April 15: Newark plays Bridgeport at Bridgeport
Friday, April 16: Long Island plays Bridgeport at [...]

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I made it to Day 1 of the CSA Show in Chantilly, VA. The drive started a little rough with winter’s last few inches of snow the night before, but the highways were clear.My Journalism Board meeting at BGSU was moved to next week, so I was able to hit t…

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Welcome To ‘The Dale Murphy Portrait Studio’
To date I have added 23 cards to my new Dale Murphy collection.  More than 1/3 of the way done with this tribute to #3, I am very excited about the progress that I have made so far.  And I owe quite a bit of that to the generous [...]

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I’ve been wanting to make the all decade team since 2008 (yes I know, I have no life) So I figured that now would be the perfect time to finally make it. I will be doing the infielders today, the outfielders this weekend, and the pitchers and catcher early in the week. Since this topic [...]

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I know It was a spring training game but either the Braves look real good or Detroit looks real bad. These are the facts as I saw them
1. Melky Cabrera still has a great arm as he gunned a baserunner down at the plate by like ten feet.
2. Johnny Damon could not throw out me [...]

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There are many inserts in 1961 Topps. Today we will take a look at some of these “subsets”.1961 Topps #50 1960 AL Strikeout Leaders1961 Topps #25 Reds Heavy Artillery (Vada Pinson, Gus Bell, Frank Robinson)In 1961 Topps produced it’s first League Lead…

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I had reported a couple of days ago that UD was on a short road to losing their NFL license due to payment issues. My source(s) had all echoed this as likely, mainly because of the shear amount of money that was needed did not seem to be within their m…

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i recently sent ed at roll out the barrel some 1988 topps and probably some brewers, too.  he sent me some 1988 topps and a couple of dodger relics.2002 upper deck sweet spot classics steve garveythis is back when garvey’s cards were issued as a d…

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