Trade Bait – David West Jersey

Player: David West Company / Set: 2010-11 Panini Prestige Serial Number: 216/249 Card Number: 9 Why is it in my personal collection?: I got this card through a trade when I was trading away a 1987 Fleer Tin (baseball) set.  Obviously this wasn&#8…

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Player: Rollie Fingers Company / Set: 2004 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts Serial Number: N/A Card Number: SS-RF Why is it in my personal collection?: I love a swatch of vintage jersey.  There is nothing like being able to see the individual threads…

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Player: Magglio Ordonez Company / Set: 200 Upper Deck SPx Baseball Serial Number: N/A Card Number: FF-MG Why is it in my personal collection?: I only like jersey cards with pinstripes or patches.  This one is rather plain, but it has two pieces a…

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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 4 years now.  I’ve never asked for a dime and have given away more than $500 worth of cards over the years.  Now I’m asking for a favor. I’m running out of things to talk about.  The ind…

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Player: Darrly Strawberry Company / Set: 2005 Topps Gallery Serial Number: N/A Card Number: GHR-DS Why is it in my personal collection?: This one is easy, I love the design.  It’s so simple and yet so fantastic.  Topps really hit a home ru…

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If you want them, leave a comment.  Winner will be selected using random.org.  I’ll pay the postage and everything.  Entries due by 5pm today. Filed under: Bad Wax Review

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I know this is a sports card blog and I very rarely stray from that.  Today as I was driving to a friend’s office my wife read me the news that Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys died today.  I reacted really strongly to this.  W…

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The kind folks at In The Game gave me another box to review this one is of 2011-12 Between the Pipes.  Although it’s not thier most popular product, it is my wife and I’s favorite one.  We have in the past gotten some very cool cards.  I…

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There were two crazy sports stories yesterday, first was Sarah J. Phillips and second the unbelievable story of Junior Seau’s suicide.  There is no other post I could possibly write today.  I have to blog about Seau’s career and life.  H…

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Tim Beckham, the 2008 first overall pick of the Tampa Bay Rays, was suspended for 50 games yesterday for violating the leagues substance abuse rules.  Beckham had been struggling with AAA pitching hitting a combined 0.238 between this year and last….

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Bryce Harper finally made it to the bigs over the weekend.  I’m not going to lie, it’s a pretty big deal. Being that we saw him go from this: To when he won this: To when he was drafted first overall: And now we are going to hear about eve…

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You know how I like strange but true sports stories.  This story is strange and true and pretty much the only thing this player is remembered for. The question is a simple one and goes as follows: Which pitcher has the Major League record for most str…

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I made these custom single cuts today in hopes of finding someone willing to trade: I haven’t gotten a new card in forever, so make me an offer.  Best offer takes it. Filed under: Bad Wax Review

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Quick, name the only professional baseball player to never spend a day in the minor leagues and never get a professional at bat, but played in over 100 major league games.  The answer is Herb Washington.  Before baseball Washington was one of the mos…

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Lately there have been quite a few disappointments in highly drafted players.  It’s why I haven’t been pushing minor leaguers lately in my posts.  In my opinion though, have any that have broken in to the major leagues been as disappointi…

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I hope you liked the last post I put up, I am trying to make the posts longer since it’s taking longer to research and write them.  Some players come out of nowhere and for one year they are the focal point of the sports world.  For example, di…

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Yes it has been a while since I have written a post.  I decided that instead of forcing bad posts on my readers I will write only a few times a week and the stories I write will take on the forgotten and overlooked players in sports history.  For bet…

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Aargh, not again!A collector friend who buys so much retail he should own stock in the store recommended the $20 Championship repack boxes to me.  So the last time I was in my local Wal-Mart, there wasn’t much of anything else interesting, so I ca…

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I love writing about Luke Hockevar.  First of all his last name is ridiculous and for the most part unpronounceable. Second of all he was a former number one overall pick and has never even come close to living up to his billing.  In fact I think I&…

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Carlos Pena at one point early in his career was supposed to be the next great Ranger first baseman.  The Rangers really let him develop too, he started his career in 1998 where he moved all the way up to high A ball.  He then mashed balls in A+, AA …

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He was a coveted prize of the Yankees farm system for years.  Then the want of Curtis Granderson was too much. So off he was shipped to the Tigers.  He became the coveted prospect in the Tigers farm system.  He was inserted into the Tigers lineup qu…

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You have to love the Mets way of doing business.  They love to give out really bad contracts.  Now this is not even close to the Cain contract but it’s ridiculous.  The Mets need pitching, it’s not a secret that there rotation was terrib…

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In 2005 Justin Smoak was the toast of the college baseball world.  As a freshman he hit 0.303 with 17 home runs and 63 runs batted in.  He followed it up with another amazing season as a sophomore when he hit 0.315 with 22 homers and 72 runs batted i…

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I was going over the news looking for a story to write about and came across the Matt Cain contract extention.  A total six years for 127 million dollars.  So how does Tim Lincecum feel about his two years for 40.5 million dollars contract?  He is p…

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I have heard of tune up appearances but holy smokes, 10 friggin’ runs, 7 walks in 3 2/3 innings?  What the hell is Pittsburgh thinking?  I know that really they are just biding their time until Cole and Taillon make their appearances in the St…

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I know it’s been forever and a day since I posted.  It’s a combination of work and lack of decent storylines.  Today however is psuedo Opening Day, where America’s pastime opens it’s season in Japan.  Don’t get me start…

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There are a lot of great players in hockey right now. Just off the top of my head I think of Steve Stamkos, Evgeni Malkin, the Sedin brothers, and John Tavares. One name that I don’t think of is Scott Hartnell of the Philadelphia Flyers.  I shou…

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I decided to put together two more cards together for my second round of through the mail send outs.  For my athlete I went with former Missouri standout Brad Smith.  For my non-athlete I’m going with Steve Wiebe, the former Donkey Kong scoring…

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Jump back into your time machine to 2006 / 2007 when OJ Mayo was in high school.  He was such a hyped up prospect, you didn’t think he could miss.  He was attracting record crowds that were even bigger than LeBron James all over the country.  …

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So I have taken a LONG break from doing through the mail autographs.  Mainly because I just didn’t have the time to make the custom cards to do it.  Also I had a hard time trying to decide who I wanted to get autographs of. So I decided that in…

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As a Seahawk fan I am used to constant disappointment.  I heard that Flynn was considering the Seahawks and I had no idea what to think.  I mean Tavarius Jackson wasn’t horrible, my concern is that is Flynn another Charlie Whitehurst?  At leas…

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At first glance at the above news, I was pretty excited.  I’m a Yankee fan and would love to see Pettite back in pinstripes.  Of course the more I thought about it, I don’t think it’s the best idea for the Yanks.  Now I know that y…

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So I finally bought my first rack pack of 2012 Topps.  I usually buy a pack, just to look at the designs and the subsets.  I have to say when I saw this card: I was so psyched.  What a great idea, I like the 1987 set as a whole, and I like mini card…

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Former Texas standout and current Spur has decided to call it a career.  Normally I don’t write about basketball but I’ll make exception for this since I was a fan of Ford when he was in college.  True he was not on the same level as say …

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