the times they are a changin’

The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past

- Bob Dylan (1963)
I wonder why it is that calendar pages seem to flip significantly faster today than they did when I was a kid. While I am willing to entertain the notion that it is only MY perception, something in my gut [...]

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“A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life”
Partially inspired by the relationship between Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield, but mostly looking for things to do rather than writing thank you notes for gifts I received for Krismas, I thought I would pull together a quick entry about a number of trades that [...]

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Season’s Greetings from your bloggin’ buddies at Aardvark Trading Company!

Hopefully you are reading this because you are completely finished with all of your holiday preparations, as opposed to using Cards in the Attic simply to avoid wrapping those last few presents and getting them under the tree where they belong. I’ve either completed all of [...]

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Actually, I don’t have one, I’m just not that clever. Recently Kris from Cards in the Attic reached out to me when I posted up my 2007 Topps 52 rookies want list - So, in exchange for all of my doubles from 2008 Goudey depicting National League players…

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I really hadn’t intended to collect 2008 Topps Stadium Club cards, let alone build an entire set- that is, until fellow card bloggers and a national department store chain conspired to present me with an offer I was unable to refuse.

Fourteen blaster boxes later, yes fourteen, and I am still trying to completely wrap my [...]

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2008 Albuquerque Isotopes DAV team set
Official Score – seeing eye DOUBLE
Manufacturer: Disabled American Veterans (undetermined printer)
Sponsor: Disabled American Veterans
Retail price: FREE SGA– not available for purchase
I’d like to promise that this will be my final post about the Isotopes this year, but you never know. I definitely wanted to get this review completed this calendar [...]

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2008 Salt Lake Bees DAV team set
Official Score – TWO RUN TRIPLE
Manufacturer: Disabled American Veterans (undetermined printer)
Sponsor: Disabled American Veterans
Retail price: FREE SGA– not available for purchase
The Salt Lake Bees are the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. A long-time member of the Pacific Coast League, the Bees play their home games [...]

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2003 Lancaster Jethawks team set
Official Score – ground rule DOUBLE
Manufacturer: Grandstand Cards
Sponsor: Bubble Yum
Retail price: $6.00(ish)
The 2003 Lancaster Jethawks finished 4th in the California Southern League. The Baseball Cube indicates that Rick Rodriguez managed the team, yet this team set begs to differ. I wasn’t there, so I honestly couldn’t tell you who was in [...]

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Are you going to sit there at your computer and tell me that you’ve never attended a minor league All Star game? If so, I’m going to fire back that you really should make an effort to do so. You never know who(m) you might bump into…

Actually, now that I think about it, you probably [...]

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2008 Louisville Bats DAV team set
Official Score – base hit
Manufacturer: Disabled American Veterans (undetermined printer)
Sponsor: Disabled American Veterans
Retail price: FREE SGA– not available for purchase
The Louisville Bats are the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. After running away from the competition in the Western division of the International League in 2008, the Bats’ magical season [...]

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Another slight departure from my normal reviews of minor league baseball team sets in that this entry isn’t intended as a “review.” Rather, my goal here is to simply let readers know what minor league teams participated in the absolutely wonderful Disabled American Veterans (DAV) baseball program during the summer of 2008. I’m not sure [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, not every blog that feeds my RSS reader is dedicated to baseball card collecting. A few discuss the actual sport of baseball, several explore the Zen of fantasy baseball and some are related to the art of baseball photography. If you must know, I also follow a handful of non-baseball blogs [...]

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If I’m not mistaken, the original goal of this blog was to only write about baseball cards. Regardless of whether or not that is true, it appears that I have finally CRACKED as I am writing an entry about some truly oddball cards.
Published by Lime Rock International, Inc., MAD Magazine trading cards were issued in [...]

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I recently completed a seemingly random trade of a fistful of autographed baseball cards with a Mets fan from New Jersey. As proof that “things” happen much more quickly back east than they do here in the dusty southwest, I offer that the cards Paul shipped were waiting in my mailbox upon my return from [...]

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Baseball players are interesting folks. This post examines the basic approaches players tend to employ regarding autograph requests on “error cards.” Some refuse flat out to sign them… end of story.
Other players (Eric Patterson comes to mind) will autograph an error card while explaining that it isn’t their photo on the front. Obviously they are [...]

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I’ve been interested in baseball my entire life. Even as a youngster I would mail bubblegum cards to my favorite players and ask them for an autograph and a pocket schedule. Sure, I took some time off from collecting cards and autographs along the way- being distracted by life, school, work and girls. Now, in [...]

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“Fred Raymer”
Approximately two years have passed since the first time I read his name as part of my ongoing research into the origins of baseball in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When I “discovered” that Fred had a couple of baseball cards about a week later, I made a mental note to make an attempt to pick [...]

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This post is intended as a response to Mario’s recent question on Wax Heaven- “Who the heck is Chris Seddon?” Having already discussed Seddon a couple of times, I decided to simply post scans of the rest of the cards that Chris autographed for me in person over the course of the 2008 Albuquerque Isotopes [...]

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2008 New Britain Rock Cats DAV team set
Official Score – walk
Manufacturer: Disabled American Veterans (undetermined printer)
Sponsor: Disabled American Veterans
Retail price: FREE SGA– not available for purchase
Behold, here is another limited edition subset of the even more limited 2008 DAV minor league baseball master set. I’ve chosen to review the New Britain Rock Cats cards [...]

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2008 Sioux Falls Canaries DAV team set
Official Score – RAIN OUT – no make up date scheduled
Manufacturer: Disabled American Veterans (undetermined printing source)
Sponsor: Disabled American Veterans
Retail price: FREE SGA– not available for purchase
Who doesn’t love FREE baseball cards? It would be impossible to not like FREE baseball cards, right?
…. er, not so fast ….
The [...]

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2008 Fresno Grizzlies team set
Official Score – HIT BY PITCH
Manufacturer: MultiAd Sports
Retail price: $10.00
Consider yourself warned that you should turn your computer speakers WAY down before you click on this link to the Fresno Grizzlies website.
Okay… perhaps in the future you will take my warnings seriously.
I’ve been sitting on this team set for [...]

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It appears that I finally found enough spare time to sort out the rest of the Topps 52s that I got autographed this season and thought I’d post an entry about them in an attempt to generate new and renewed interest in trading for this particular product.
If you are hoping I will list these cards [...]

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It seems most anyone who follows a sport or collects anything related to sports, a question that will eventually surface is “Do you have any autographs?”  or some related variation.  That leads me to the subject of this blog….Why do we get autographs, and why are we impressed by them?
 
Autographs mean different things to different [...]

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2008 Memphis Redbirds team set
Official Score – TWO RUN HOMER
Manufacturer: MultiAd Sports
Sponsor: Superlo Foods
Retail price: $6.00
This may be the first set of MultiAd cards I’ve reviewed that does not contain a checklist. But don’t sweat it, the cards are numbered # of 35 on the back. Besides, you have already figured out that when [...]

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Did I ever tell you about the baseball franchise that preceded the Albuquerque Isotopes? Actually, there were a number of teams that called Albuquerque home over the past 120 years, but arguably no team was more popular than the Albuquerque Dukes.
The Dukes were the Los Angeles Dodgers Triple-A affiliate from 1972 thru 2000. Prior to [...]

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As summer insists it is time to begin heading south for the winter, I find myself suddenly without (live) baseball. And it stinks!
I made it to an even 70 Albuquerque Isotopes games this season. In spite of the fact that many of the contests weren’t easy to watch, all were highly entertaining- and the vast [...]

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