2012 Topps Editing Fail

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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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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This is the other card I pulled when going down memory lane the other night:
This is Mark Lemke circa 1990. In case anyone forgot, the Braves at this point are something of an abomination. They haven’t been relevant since 1982 when they lost to the Car…

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This is the other card I pulled when going down memory lane the other night:
This is Mark Lemke circa 1990. In case anyone forgot, the Braves at this point are something of an abomination. They haven’t been relevant since 1982 when they lost to the Car…

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My grandmother passed away about 2 years ago. She’d been living with my folks for several years, and they’re just now getting around to going through her stuff. Understandable, I guess. On Sunday my dad told me he and my mom had found two autos I got i…

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My grandmother passed away about 2 years ago. She’d been living with my folks for several years, and they’re just now getting around to going through her stuff. Understandable, I guess. On Sunday my dad told me he and my mom had found two autos I got i…

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Seriously.

I sold a few things on the ‘bay recently and decided it was time to step out of my normal purchasing range. WAY out.

I’d been following the card for a while and the BIN on it was more than I wanted to pay. I was looking to get one of sever…

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Seriously.

I sold a few things on the ‘bay recently and decided it was time to step out of my normal purchasing range. WAY out.

I’d been following the card for a while and the BIN on it was more than I wanted to pay. I was looking to get one of sever…

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So here we go.

Red Sox owner John Henry goes on a radio show and says that he was “against signing CC.” Now, there’s no denying CC had a down year, but why is the Red Sox owner going on the record and throwing players under the bus? Usually Henry and …

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So here we go.

Red Sox owner John Henry goes on a radio show and says that he was “against signing CC.” Now, there’s no denying CC had a down year, but why is the Red Sox owner going on the record and throwing players under the bus? Usually Henry and …

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When I was a kid anything older than 1984 Topps was positively ancient. An older friend of a friend had a TON of ancient cards (pre-1984) and his 1977 Thurman Munson ruled them all. I guess it’s because I was so young, but I never understood the big de…

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When I was a kid anything older than 1984 Topps was positively ancient. An older friend of a friend had a TON of ancient cards (pre-1984) and his 1977 Thurman Munson ruled them all. I guess it’s because I was so young, but I never understood the big de…

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