2010 Upper Blecch Series 1 blaster.

In Upper Deck’s press release announcing 2010 Series I on Feb. 6, the joy was breathless: “Obviously we’re extremely pumped up right now,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s Baseball brand manager. “We really went to task to fin…

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Dinged Corners recently asked a question. And thank goodness they did. I have no time for an original concept of my own today. This work week is full of transition and “big games” and scheduling/traveling nightmares. All of my brain cells are inve…

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The ladies over at www.DingedCorners.com laid down the gauntlet, challenging other bloggers to find cards where something else is going on in the background.  I chose this 1974 Topps Rusty Torres.  Not only do we see a glove casually tossed a…

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The main point of this card is that Chad Durbin is pitching. However, the secondary action makes this a better-than-average card. Am I right?Isn’t that Curtis Granderson?What’s your favorite card where the main action isn’t the reason why you…

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Because Fred will hit bureacrats in the head with his bat. In a nice way.Defiantly upbeat, Darryl will appear on a shiny, bat bit off-center card that has this back:CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!Hoyt will be serene. There is little to like about this card, whi…

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I’ve been having a horrible, wretched, frustrating week, the kind that makes you feel as if there’s pressure building up in your head to the degree that your ears itch. So I’m going to take a few moments here to compile some pleasing cards. Because. It…

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“Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs. In the end Bunning agreed to a deal al…

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We received some outstanding Mets cards from Pack War Corky. You know, this fellow:Fierce avatar.Among the cards in the packet he sent were some major attention-getters. We may not be the brightest baseball card collectors on the planet, but we thought…

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As we ease back into baseball card blogging and, dare we say, collecting, we also return to wrestle with The Big Questions: how can we be anti-corporatist but pro-Met? Or any pro-any-MLB team, for that matter? How can we support a hobby that kills lots…

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Ok, we’re back from our hiatus. We now get to share some of the cards we received while we were in suspended animation. It’s true we are behind in the realm of baseball card news and blog happenin’s, but we’ll catch up quickly. First we present cards s…

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Hello everyone. Our apologies for disappearing for a while; we have been involved in a few extremely time-consuming endeavors and once we finish a jury duty assignment next week, then we’re hoping to get back to normal around the Co…

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One of my favorite blogs, Dinged Corners, hasn’t posted in a week. It’s my hope that they’re doing something delightful: vacationing, obsessing over the Olympics, or journeying to their favorite spring training site.But, like dayf, I’m going to try to …

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Sure, you may come up with an answer that’s close. But while you’re probably snowbound, can you get all psychic on us and guess EXACTLY what that is? Hah. We think not. More on this momentarily.There Was Ebullience in the Desert after we found&nbs…

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So as we gratefully ponder your insights about how to watch the Mets this season (the post below), we thought we’d show you what a Santa Fe Target 2010 Topps blaster produced. Nothing to write home about, and yet pleasant enough. Despite the …

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Scanning our Mets/John Maine pages and picking six faves in 30 seconds was actually made MORE difficult by the fact that we don’t have all that many JM cards. We had to be very choosy, very fast.Lucy likes this one because she likes high-knee pitching …

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It started innocently enough. It was a gray, slushy day, and we were happy to see a package from the wildly generous and ever upbeat Troll. Sweet! Right? Well, never take anything for granted in this world, people. This is probably what made us complac…

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Everyone probably gets weak-kneed when they receive cards from Cardboard Junkie because it’s a little like getting a package from the Smithsonian Cardstitution. You may not be aware of this, but at dayf’s rambling estate (people in Georgia pr…

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So the Mets seem to have indeed signed Frank Catalanotto to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. Hey. He’s the first player who ever returned one of Lucy’s TTM requests, so he’s a sentimental favorite around here. B…

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The team logos look sharp if you don’t mind very large, slanty logos, which we don’t, because we like the happy retro Mets style. Whether you like this feature thus may be influenced by team preference. The foil is very, well, foily. But it’s…

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As a rule, it’s a good idea not to have three batters in the batter’s box at once, unless they are trained professionals with power ’staches. Otherwise, this could be as dangerous as driving a new Toyota.

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Today when we found items in our mailbox little did we realize that we would not only get bipped, but we would also almost get bipped (we’ll explain that in another post). Truly, when it bips, it pours. And to be clear and thorough we should clari…

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Ok, so we don’t drink much. Variations/additions welcome in comments. If we stick together, we can endure this.Obama says “let me be clear”Flip one Barry Zito card into envelope marked “Dinged Corners”Obama says “yes we will”Put two Chipper Jones (or B…

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Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winterLittle darling, it feels like years since it’s been hereHere comes the sun, here comes the sunAnd I say it’s alrightLittle darling, the smile’s returning to the facesLittle darling, it seems like years…

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“…it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!” Moby Dick, Ch. 34What would truly revive your interest in relic cards? We’ve seen seat bits, buttons, bats, gloves and of course jerseys. What…

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We traded some older Stadium Club cards to a very pleasant gentleman named Don. S., and he sent this (in a perfect ‘we-send-a-small-bunch-we-receive-one-cool-card’ transaction): It’s quite a handsome card of philanthropist Dave Winfield. The Yanke…

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Video Recaps | Full Episodes | Webisodes…courtesy Jimmy Fallon. Too tired from state testing today to look up whether there’s ever been a trading card of Neil Young so I can at least remotely justify this post. Instead, I justify by hoping you enjoy.

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To Anti-Mail-Call readers: we weakly apologize, but when cardstuff is great we need to share it like the mewling kittens we are. We still have a few packets to send out, by the way, including a big old box to Bo–the Bo box, as it were–…

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The generous John H. of Old School Breaks sent us, nearly a year ago (in February 2009) a packet of wonderful cards AND a redemption for an autograph from one of our favorite nice-guy players, Jeff Francis. Specifically, it was a redemption for a …

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Okay, the Mets seemed a little caught off guard by Carlos Beltran’s decision to have arthroscopic surgery and not be available to, you know, play baseball, for at least twelve weeks–he’ll be out most of April. The New York Post, which by the way,…

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