All work and no play makes night owl as dull as 2010 Topps Heritage

This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won’t be any picnic either.That means I don’t have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post.I know. Th…

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the great sports name hall of fame, that is!this guy doesn’t have a hall of fame name, but his nickname is pretty good – it’s a 1994 topps gold cory ‘corndog’ snyderfollowed by a 1993 pacific ramon martinezel es un lanzador.  bueno.a nice dou…

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It’s been a while.I’m still here, not reading as much as I used to, but I’m still active in the hobby… but I haven’t opened a pack of cards in about six months. I look at the barely opened box of ‘88 Donruss and want to keep going, but I just can’t …

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My life, for the last nine months has been a pretty strange ride. I won’t go into great detail, but after not having a job for a long time, I finally found one. Walmart. Not the best in the world, but I enjoyed it. But then I was offered a job with…

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I think I’m finally finished buying series 2. I currently have 235 of the 330 cards and a good stack of doubles. The doubles list will be updated later tonight. For now, here’s what I need.332, 335, 337, 339, 345, 349, 350, 359, 362, 363, 364, 369, …

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Well, looks like Dayf wants to see me hack up my 1988 Fleer box with a machete. Well, here you go.In three parts.I had to switch to a smaller knife to cut out the cards because I like my fingers. The knives used are: Ontario RTAK and a Spyderco Cent…

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I didn’t get around to posting the stack of 88 Fleer that Jeff from Card Junkie sent yesterday, and maybe it’s a good thing. Becuase in the mail box today were two more packages. One from Fat Rat with more 1988 Fleer.Before going to the mail box on S…

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Series Two O’s.Are all the series 2 boxes Lou Gherig? This’ll be the third one I’ve bought and all three have been Lou.So with two cereal boxes, five packs and a blaster, I’m 51% through the set. So let’s see how I do with this one. I’ve only pulled…

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In the mail box this afternoon were two small bubble mailers. One from Jeff at Card Junkie, and one from reader Mike, out in Bozeman, Montana.I’ve never been to Montana, but a great deal of one of my favorite books, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint…

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I was in Wal Mart, and I said I wasn’t going to buy any more retail packs, and I didn’t. But I did pick two boxes of Lou Gherig O’s. $10 and unsearchable, it’s a good deal.Looks tasty. Let’s hope so.I won’t list every card because that would be bori…

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We’re going from one of the most visually appealing Strawberry cards in my collection to something definitely not so visually appealing: 1988 Score.I’m sorry, but the green just doesn’t work for me. Why couldn’t Score have color coded this set with c…

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Mail Day from Fat RatI’m a beer snob. I love beer, good beer. Keep Budweiser away from me, and bring me something dark, heavy or microbrewed. In fact, I just cracked open a bottle of Magic Hat No. 9, and fittingly, the cap says “Where have you gone …

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I sent out a few trades yesterday, and this one was in the mail box when I got home.I’ve never heard of this guy, but he’s got a pretty nice looking card. He does look a bit unsavory, but he’s a catcher. They’re supposed to look rough around the edge…

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As promised, here’s a large surprise mail day from Greg at Night Owl Cards.Here’s a small sampling of the 41 cards he sent. I’m now 19 cards away and nine more of them should be on their way to me pretty soon, so I’m nearing the end of a set that I th…

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These two may seems pretty off the wall, but they’ll make sense in the end.Reed and Tolleson are two of seven players who attended my alma mater, Western Carolina University. According to the back of the ‘87 Topps card, Jerry Reed pitched the first no…

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So I posted a few days ago about how I got my hands on a blaster of Series 2. Well, tonight I finally found some retail packs and bought five.When you take out all the inserts and Topps Town cards from the blaster, I got 63 total base cards. No doubl…

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It took fifteen innings, but Bobby Cox won his 2,000th Atlanta Braves game tonight, 7-6 against the Pirates.Congratulations Bobby. I hope he can make it back to the World Series one more time.Also, I know this was his 2,000 Braves win, so why did I po…

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YAY, finally found series 2. Now I know blasters aren’t as economical as retail packs, but there were five packs left and every one of them had been opened and searched. So this time, I’ll settle for less cards just to know they haven’t been searched…

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Went to the mailbox this morning: satellite bill, insurance bill, junk mail, envelope with my handwriting, Barnes & Noble coupon… wait a minute. Envelope with my handwriting?I looked at the post mark… Las Vegas. Wait, wait, don’t get too excite…

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Here’s a sampling of the second part of the package I got today from Dayf.Let’s start with the greatest uniform in the history of baseball:In 1978, White was involved in an interested deal. The Expos sent a player to be named later to the Cubs for a p…

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A package came in today from Dayf at the venerable Cardboard Junkie. Once again, the generosity of this community astounds me. I’m sending Dayf three 2000 Topps series 1 that he needs, and in return he sent 21 1981 Topps and 3 1989 Bowmans that I nee…

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, and I thought about slapping these up on APTBNL, but this place needs some love too. So let’s take a trip down memory lane…I bought this a few years ago purely out of nostalgia and never watched any…

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No, not dollars, cards or hits to the site. But miles.Tomorrow morning around 4:30am I’m hitting the road to Atlanta to take a friend to the airport for a 7:45am flight. No big deal, but I looked down this morning and saw this:My beloved 2006 Subaru …

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Part two comes by way of Rob from who now reads I Heart Halos (d’oh… lack of sleep is really screwing with me). I sent him some 1991 Topps and he sent 42 of the remaining 1989 Bowman cards I needed.First, since I’m only missing a few Orioles, I thin…

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Seems like it’s been a while since I’ve posted a mail day. I haven’t been trading much lately. Not sure why. Oh well. Two packages came in today from trades that went out last week.The first is from reader Dave who I helped complete one set of ‘87 …

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I’m no autograph hound and I’ve never asked for an autograph in person. So I really didn’t know what to expect when I sent out these TTM attempts. When an envelope from me showed up in the mailbox today, I got pretty excited.Honestly, I expected the …

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If you haven’t seen A Pack to be Named Later go check it out. There’s not much there yet, but soon there will be. It’s an ambitious project started by Matt at Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius and I’ve signed on to post a few packs here and th…

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I took the cat out for a walk and snapped a few pictures and thought I’d share (while I try to stay away from the pile of papers that need to be shredded in the living room floor).Ok, back to cleaning.

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