Card of the Day: 1991 Topps Roger Clemens

When I picked up my copy of the new Beckett over the weekend, I spent some time browsing through the pages. I subscribe to Beckett online, so I have access to the price guide, but it’s still not the same as flipping through the magazine. I always seem to find something either I didn’t know, [...]

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Had to stop by Wal-Mart today to buy some shipping boxes, so I made the usual trip to the card area. There was nothing new, but I decided to flip through the “new” 3-Pack Wal-Mart specials. This one caught my eye because it included a pack of 2006 Bowman Draft in addition to the always-fun [...]

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In the second blind trade, only half-completed so far, I received a box of Reds from Mark at Stats on the Back. He’s cleaning out his non-Mets, much like I’m cleaning out my non-Reds…keeping a few other favorites and collections, but for the most part cleaning house. He had posted a little teaser about what [...]

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This is a long overdue thank you to Steve of the White Sox Cards blog. We worked out a “blind” trade recently: I would send him x number of White Sox cards, and he would send me x number of Reds cards, but neither of us knew what we were getting. The White Sox cards [...]

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Here’s a new entry that I will be adding to on a weekly basis.  Prospecting poses a vast assortment of challenges and skills that transcend the consistent struggle of determining who and what are the speculative best buys with your hard earned dollars.
Buying and selling on eBay also poses significant challenges as shipping costs, eBay and Paypal [...]

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Black press plates for nearly all of Razor’s first 100 base cards from Signature Series are being sold on eBay right now through Thursday. Here’s a look at 50 of the plates up for grabs.

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I mentioned Goose Joak in passing recently, but with his most recent post I must give him some more prominent attention. The blog features “Fantasy Baseball Cards,” current players on old card styles, and old players on current card styles! If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you know that I love “fantasy” cards. [...]

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Life truly does work in mysterious ways. Here I was, ten long years removed from the hobby of trading cards when by nothing but chance I walked by an issue of Beckett at the local bookstore. It didn’t take more than a clever advertisement on the back to pull me back in and that ad [...]

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I’ve never been to Redsfest before, but it looks like a jolly good time to me. Since we bought a family package for the Reds Hall of Fame earlier this year (a purchase we will probably repeat when it expires), we got a couple of free tickets to the event on December 12.
Looking at [...]

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Thinking back to all the baseball card releases of 1990, some might forget about an “oddball” product that blew away every release of that year. ‘Collect-A-Books’ was exactly the standard size of a normal baseball card, used M.L.B logos but offered so much more than your typical ‘90 Upper Deck or Topps base card ever [...]

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