EJ with the Walkoff!

Way to go, man!

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Watching the game tonight getting ready for a temporary cross-country move. I’m battening down the hatches to make major progress on my ttm projects this summer (Topps 1951-present and Topps Rookie AS Team) and was thinking about any projects I’d actua…

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A few months ago, I announced that I was going to feature “The Best Glasses On Baseball Cards. Period” countdown in April.I figured that would give me enough time to search out the cards that I needed for an appropriately classic countdown.Unfortunatel…

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It’s been a while since I posted anything about CC, but it’s been a while since he’s played. According to reports, CC is going to talk with THE Dr. James Andrews about his elbow. Ugh.

So I thought I’d throw this card out there. When they first cam…

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One of the cooler things about the blogging community is the general willingness to help others out. Tom over at Baseball by the Letters posted a great success he’d had from NC-native Gil Coan and that piqued my interest in sending Mr. Coan a letter. N…

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Sometimes incongruous landscapes make the most sense, to the point they become natural, almost preferred, and the impossibilities we can conceive of unmoor us permanently from our surroundings.
Which leads me to ask: where the Hell is Johnny Schmitz on…

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Given the well-publicized substance abuse struggles of a number of ballplayers (from Hamilton to Bush to Jenks) recently, I thought this tom would be appropriate.

Bernie Carbo was a 1st round pick (16th overall) in the 1965 draft. Playing for the Reds…

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It’s been awhile. I’ve been thinking things would get less hectic (and they have!) but things are still crazy. Or crazier than usual.

Anyway, I’ve been cruising the intertoobs trying to complete 2008 Stadium Club Elliot Johnson rainbows (minus the pla…

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Taking the show on the road the next few day and hoping for a spare moment or two to do some looking around. Any suggestions from bloggers in the area?

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I’m slowly (but surely!) getting my ducks in order to start posting regularly (or semi-regularly!) again in the near future. An article I was working on has been revised and resubmitted to a journal, and today I landed my first book contract. I’m feeli…

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A while back I wrote about landing a 1959 Ernie Banks at a show in Fargo. Well, at the pre-Super Bowl show I grabbed another one:
In the meantime I’d sent the other one out after seeing that Mr. Banks was doing some ttm signing. The DAY before the show…

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Maybe someone else already posted about this (I’m not as wired in as I used to be) but check out the stats of, say, Dustin Ackley, Jason Kipnis, Jose Bautista, or Billy Butler on the back of a 2012 Topps. The stat line up top reads” H 3B 3B HR” etc.
If…

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The comp is one happy lady. News here.

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Go here, check out this post. It’s awesome!

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Here’s the deal: A Phillies fan who is also in to prospect autos has a pretty awesome EJ. Sooo…. if you have a constellation of Phillies this guy will take, I’ll trade you this card: 

I’ll update with a better scan later today/tonight. It’ll h…

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Not sure how to embed these in a PM over at the Bench, so here they are!

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I’ll pay attention to other sports if they’re on, but baseball remains the only sport I follow. Like I find myself doing most falls, I can’t wait for next season. So, I went through a bunch of cards other bloggers have sent me and found this:It was a w…

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Pumpsie Green sounds like he might have DJed for these cats, but he was actually the guy who integrated the Red Sox, the last team to integrate, and a Hell of a ballplayer. I first read about Mr. Green in the context of Gene Conley, with whom Mr. Green…

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I’m going after the 2011 Topps Update EJ Rainbow. I was able to land the first two plates fairly easily but hit a snag with plat #3. As outlined here, Jim over at GRCL stepped up and took what I was offering in order to land the EJ. Thanks to Jim, here…

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Matt over at the Number 5 Type Collection had an awesome contest where if you guessed the cards, you won them. From the rubbings Matt posted I got that they were from the 1963 Bazooka All-Time Greats, but I still had to know who they were.

I guessed a…

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I’m now rolling with some guys over FCB with regard to some EJs. Being a Rays collector, I don’t have a ton of quality non-Rays to offer in trade. So… if things work out the second edition of headhunters will be coming up shortly.
First we had this J…

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I picked this card up about a year ago. It’s an awesome twofer of HOFer and CCC favorite Charles Bender and the less known Rube Oldring.

First the whole card with Bender:
Overall it’s a pretty classy shot of Bender at, I’m guessing, an early version …

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So I’m sitting there the other day going through the compa’s Peña collection. Who knows why, but the following two card jumped out at me.

As everyone knows, card companies recycling photos is nothing new. I’m guessing I never noticed these two before…

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So I’m sitting there the other day going through the compa’s Peña collection. Who knows why, but the following two card jumped out at me.

As everyone knows, card companies recycling photos is nothing new. I’m guessing I never noticed these two before…

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I’ve written about Brien Taylor before. He was “the next big thing.” A true “can’t miss prospect” from NC.

For a time, the biggest card after the 1989 UD Griffey was this 1991 Topps Gold auto:
If I remember correctly it was included in “special” compl…

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General strike Wednesday, November 2 in Oakland, CA.

Poster by Eric Drooker.

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I’ve written about Brien Taylor before. He was “the next big thing.” A true “can’t miss prospect” from NC.

For a time, the biggest card after the 1989 UD Griffey was this 1991 Topps Gold auto:
If I remember correctly it was included in “special” compl…

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General strike Wednesday, November 2 in Oakland, CA.

Poster by Eric Drooker.

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Has a Soria back. Weird, huh?

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Has a Soria back. Weird, huh?

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I found this card in a dime box at the local a while back:

For a dime you can’t do any better. Chris Richard was a hard hitting OF prospect with the Cardinals who homered in his first MLB at-bat in 2000. Twelve days after his debut he was quickly…

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I found this card in a dime box at the local a while back:

For a dime you can’t do any better. Chris Richard was a hard hitting OF prospect with the Cardinals who homered in his first MLB at-bat in 2000. Twelve days after his debut he was quickly…

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Just for kicks I went to check out the EJ black printing plate and saw this.

Who bought it? GCRL? Moose? Someone else? Maybe a completely different ebayer that’ll keep me from completing the rainbow? It sold for almost 3X what the other two went for, …

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Just for kicks I went to check out the EJ black printing plate and saw this.

Who bought it? GCRL? Moose? Someone else? Maybe a completely different ebayer that’ll keep me from completing the rainbow? It sold for almost 3X what the other two went for, …

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OK, so here’s the deal. I’m working on EJ rainbows. 2005 Bowman Chrome will take a while, but should be fun.

Over the past few days I’ve acquired the lion’s share of the versions of the 2011 Topps Update Elliot Johnson Cards. I’m still missing the reg…

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