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Hello and welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week has a bit of a story to go with my acquisition. So while searching the bay for Longoria cards I came across an 08 Topps card I had never seen before, so I go to Longoria authority, Fielder’s C…

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Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding, I found some clearance packs at Target. Three 08 Materpieces packs and an 08 Heritage Hi pack. Nothing spectacular but it is the first Masterpieces I have ever ripped. I really like the cards but only four cards…

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Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. Here is part two of my pre-Father’s Day Father’s Day presents. I guess, me mentioning Strasburg and Bowman quite a few times made it easy for my wife to go with a Bowman blaster, never mind my one blaster a year …

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Do you see any similarities??How about now??green is present, but what’s it mean???if anything

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Just Curious????1-34 & 6 (missing 5) – Pedroria is 5 (sorry best image i found)7-9 10-12

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Celestial LongoriaPretty Cool CardOne seller wants $35 and the other $50not worth it in my book,definitely to many weeks of budget for one cardI imagine this is one codes to win the code breaker stuffa quick ebay seach of celestial and ginterand here a…

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Tim from The Great Sports Name Hall of Fame sent me the final two needed for my 2009 Topps Chrome Set. This is the first set I have collected and completed since 1989. THANK YOU! Very, very much:Mr Mantle and Mr HudsonGreat CardsSet COMPLETE!!!!Happy…

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I have no followers for my Rays cardboard blog and wondered if anyone was checking it out?If not here is the past week:Don’t Call Me Out!The Stripes are BackCongrats Edwin!It’s Gotta be the StripesMe tooLone Jaso

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READ ALL ABOUT ITSome Life news happening at Budget Baseball Cardboarding and I am not just talking about my second blog. My wife and I are expecting our first little bundle of joy! We have been tentatively told its a girl, even though neither time the…

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Yep, Bay, as in ebay, I can’t help myself. First stop, Bleacher Seats, love that cheap shipping for all you want, and they package so well. The first thing I picked up was some more team sets.2010 Topps Series two (11 cards)Upton & Garza photos a…

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What a fun package, here is what I found in my surprise package:BOWMAN RAYS!!Sweet like a whole team setand a Gold Wade Davis, very niceand a BeckhamPedroia and Ellsburyalong with a gold YoukBowman DiceK, Lester and Lackeyand thenRed Sox ProspectsTHANK…

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Since the Rays had a day off I decided to pick a random game that I had missed since I just started my endeavor and do a sketch card from a past game. I am still trying to figure out how I want to handle these. I am trying a border today along wit…

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In an effort to keep my collecting separate from my sketch cards, I have created a spin off blog called ChrOko Cards. I will be posting my sketch cards there from now on. Please feel free to let me know if you think this is a bad, good or silly idea.

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Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding, this week will be my annual Bowman Blaster. That’s right i usually buy one, and only one Bowman Blaster a year, have since 07. Nice little streak i got going I decided to go with photos this week since there a…

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When these were first announced, i posted the news of the you sketch it cards, and was hoping to call dibs on a few, but i have only found one other blogger nice enough to offer some up. So I thought i would try asking again, if you have any of these…

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Thanks to everyone who entered, i really enjoyed your collecting history. I even got five more followers, bringing me to the big five zero, very odd because i don’t believe any of them even participated. Oh well, and only BA Benny made a post on his b…

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Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! I’m soooooo excited. They just came in the mail today and they are beautiful.What better card for me to have?Longoria, checkBJ Upton, checkfun moment captured, checkgreat caption “Celeb”R…

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Even better than a 1/1 is three 1′s in a row. Yep, i completely missed my 1ooth post and since a few other fellow bloggers got to 100 recently, it made me realize the error of my ways. Now it might seem silly to celebrate 111 but really its way cool…

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The 2010 Topps Series Two Platinum 1/1 Longoria has come and gone. Not that i expected to be able to afford it but i was still pretty amazed when i woke up this morning and saw it went for $127.50. Last night, it was at $60 with an hour left, that wa…

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Yep, I found a nice little card shop and bought some hobby packs. Amazing, right? Nothing to special, just some Series Two Topps, but it was fun little experience. It was a small little shop, with lots of vintage all around, and stacks of cards all o…

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No luck finding Topps (s2) or Bowman this week but i finally found some discounted blasters at Kmart. I have seen a few posts over the last few weeks, that other fellow bloggers have been finding them, so I was pretty happy when they final made it to u…

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Continuing with the theme of Chicle artMany auctions have endedWalter Johnson at $272 was the highest so far, and few are going for just over fifty dollarsother art pieces that went for over $200:Honus Wagner $254Dale Murphy $215.50Han-Ram $204Seeing o…

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Topps Vault is selling off the actual art work done for the cards, very cool.Here are some examples:Carlos Pena, very nice from Don Higgins Bumgarner looking all vintageZimmerman from Jeff ZachowskiMike Kupka showing of Hanley

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Do you tease me with such a great card?So, this is a bit of a silly post, but while at Target recently I saw a 2008 Topps Heritage Pack in one of the value packs and it reminded me of my reaction when I realized that the Evan Longoria card they show o…

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Back to the bay for some more Longoria additions (Sorry Troll, I can’t help myself)The first four were from rhetrick59, another ebayer that has a standard $2 shipping for as many cards as you want to buy from him. I was really against the Goudey 4-in …

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Some Rays additions courtesy of JD’s Wild CardzIf you don’t know yet, he is trying to collect a page and only a page of certain types of cards. This lead him to inquiry about 09 Chrome Xfactors since they are a retail exclusive thing and I pretty mu…

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I would like one of these Big D did this for the Collective Trollif you want your own personalizedAwesomely Amazing Custom CardHead over toand add a commentbefore Sunday

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From their Topps 2010 Series Two ChecklistEvan Longoria has Nine cardsBase #354Gold /2010Black /59Platinum /1Printing Plate (4)Silk #S-140Topps 2020 #T104th of July Commemorative Hat Logo #MHR-206Peak Performer Dual Relic #PPDR-WL (with Wright)I will p…

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These will be in Series Two Topps as extra cards in packsThe Beckett Blog explains this way better than I could. I just wanted to post this because I am interested in trying it out. So, if you get one or even a few of these cards and you don’t want t…

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