High season is here. Goodbye for now.

FYIHigh season is about to kick in here at my job so I won’t have enough time to keep posting. I won’t cancelled the blog just to keep my hope alive of coming back again in a couple of months. Hopefully.I’ll keep visiting hobby blogs and forums.Enjoy t…

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I’m not a Matrix or Keanu fan but I was quite impressed when the first movie of the trilogy came out. Since then I’ve seen it many times but never been patient enough to sit down and watch #2 or 3 in full. Today I have the morning off and took some tim…

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Luis Aparicio is the living proof that you can still purchase great HOF’ers, even graded, for less than $15 on ebay any given sunday.During his 18 seasons MLb career, he achieved many distinctions:1956 Al ROY10 time All Star1966 World Series champ wit…

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You can steal many bases but..How many times were you caught?It’s like baseketball stars (no offense): keep shooting and eventually you’ll average more than 20pts a game. Some guys really suck so there’s no rule of thumb. The caught stealing “CS” data …

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The all time latino stolen base leader, Bert Campaneris is one of those guys who amazingly does not get much attention from the hobby. If you ebay his name you’ll come up with less than 70 results and surprisingly none of them is a triple threads, ster…

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Even though in this crazy weather and high humidity environment we live in, I’ve never had problems with termites or any type of bug messing with my baseball cards.At a flea market a couple of months ago I spotted this Catfish Crawford card:It caught m…

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Now that McGwire is back in a MLB uniform, I’ll take a moment to blog about none other than Mark’s nemesis and who helped him put baseball back on the map with their steriod-Hr race: Slammin Sammy.In the late 90’s Sammy was by far the most recognizable…

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Prospecting has never been easy. It used to be a tough job only for scouts trying to make a living as pythoness and oracles but now they’re not alone; diehard collectors/prospectors spend long hours attending minor league games, reading Baseball Ameri…

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1991 was a great year. I was just starting high school and officially began collecting. The first baseball trading cards I got my hands on were the now cheap and famous 1991 Panini stickers. I don’t know how much money we paid for the album and single …

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I’m not a Yankee fan so that puts me in a good position to bash or praise the pin$tripe$. One of the things I’ve always found ridiculous about them is the “Shave & Behave” policy every team member must obey. Do you remember how Giambi used to look …

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The right way:The wrong way:

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Fleer 1983 is one of the 80’s sets I like and recently realized I own a couple of singles I bought separately. With plenty of stadium background shots, I think you can’t go wrong. Even tough a lot of players are featured posing for the cameras, the “pl…

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June 1989, Draft day:With the 6th pick of the first round… the St. Louis Cardinals select…. Paul Coleman…Doesn’t this guy looks like Bo Jackson stunt double? Don’t you dare lie to me!! He even has the blue Kansas uniform.But look on the back of t…

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“Sweet Lou” AhhhhhhWho would have guessed this lovely Tampa kid would one day be #4 in the managers ejections category for arguing basically anything.

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Recently I’ve been sharing my opinion with other collectors in some blogs and websites about my thoughts on “cuts signatures” and most important of all: “SP Legendary Cuts”.Why is this brand so important for me:SP LC’07 was the first HOF/Greats players…

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I remember rooting for the Cubs (obviously it proved to be worthless) and the Braves back in the Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz/Avery days starting up the early 90’s.There were 4 of us (Gregorio, David, Hector and me) and our morning ritual consisted on visitin…

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I had no idea who Murcer was when I bought this card just because it looked funny. Later I found out he had a decent career overall.This post was brought to you by RayBan, Arnette, Oakley, Vuarnet, Tuscany and any other sunglasses brand you can think o…

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The middle brother of the Alou saga, Matty is one the baseball players of whom I’ll collect any affordable baseball card I run into.About the card picture below, I bought it on Ebay a couple of months ago and really enjoy looking at it and comparing th…

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Nobody ever said he was meant to be the next A-Rod but !damn! I had high hopes on Felix Pie. But I was not alone, in 2007 Baseball America ranked him as the #1 Cubs prospect in their farm system & #49 overall.So high were my expectations that I now…

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It’s been a couple of months since I wrote something on this blog. That doesn’t mean I forgot about the hobby, is just that lately I haven’t been able make it down to my nearest vintage flea market (a 3 hours drive from home) and therefore I had to rel…

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Back in the early 2000 I was busy at the university and completely lost track of baseball and therefore baseball cards. I don’t recall how this sweepstakes piece found its place into my collection.Who won that bat?????? I’ve been doing some research o…

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You gotta love reprints as long as they’re not from Todd Van Poppel. So when you hit a Hall of Fame shot courtesy of Score 1992:Or a 1976 Topps honoring the Bambino:Just open the binder and add that up to your collection.The truth and main reason for t…

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A sign that you’ve made it to the show is having your nickname. If you’re lucky enough it will stick with you through good and bad; in sickness and health; Pujols and Andrew Jones type of season, for ever.I have to admit that Brooks Robinson has one of…

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Back on March 7th, Ben from CardBoard Icons hosted a contest celabrating his 25,000 visits in which the winner, a.k.a yours truly, won a 1980 Topps #482 Rickey Henderson RC. Being new in the blogosphere there’s no need to say I was thrilled when I fou…

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Ever since I picked up this card I’ve been curious about the “centering”. For a while I thought it was my copy who had the problem. Browsing Ebay today I found this one just like it. Looking further into the matter, I found the match #629 for the AL B…

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