2011 Lineage: our first look.

When we asked you what cards we should look at now that we’ve reemerged, Topps Lineage was one design you described that caught our attention. Although we sought a blaster, all we could find in our puny little non-baseball card town was a rack pack. We…

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Orel Hayhiser’s glasses here accentuate his earnestness. Do you love baseball cards that don’t depict bats, baseballs, bases, or any facet of the game? Then this one is for you. Unfortunately, there is so much to say about this card w…

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And by old, we mean wise. Certainly, none of us is getting older.If you hadn’t bought any baseball cards in, ahem, quite a while, what blaster box, rack pack, hobby box, or, for that matter, eBay deal would you pounce on right now in order to get …

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Do Joe Buck’s eyebrows look alarming to anyone? Not as alarming as Ron Paul’s eyebrow actually falling off during one of the bizarro world Republican debates, but close?Mr. Buck did a nice job of announcing this go-round, but there was something a…

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The Before and After of David Freese’s jersey, shredded by joy. There’s nothing like an epic baseball game to shake people out of their baseball doldrums…and last night’s rapid-fire, bizarro-world, what are they thinking?, OMG World Series Game 6&nbs…

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 The 2011 Topps ’62 Mint cards are selling like gangbusters on eBay. Apparently, you can collect these in two categories, and we don’t just mean coins and cards. First, the easy category, which is the coins that face every which way:O…

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And what a promising start at first base on a team that hasn’t seen a World Series win since 1954. No pressure.You go, Brandon Belt.

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Today we had reason to be in an entirely different town in our state, and because we had to get a new iron we stopped at Target while in this entirely different town. Oh by the way, the reason we had to get a new iron is that the one we owned previousl…

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So I’m looking around to see if there’s a neat new David Wright card I can pick up for the kid, something in the spirit she’d truly like, and come to find there are plenty of brand new cards I’d never laid eyes on. Some wth a strang…

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…this time around?

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Old Judge T-96…apparently the theory was, any autograph is better than no autograph. Thus, you got an autographed card in every pack of these mid-1990s cards. There are many ways these cards are pleasing…the vintage style, the size–between mini an…

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Thanks to the weather…-14 degrees yesterday, f’rinstance…that’s MINUS 14…we’ve had some down time. Down? Why you ask? Little things like subzero temps, an official “State of Emergency” because WHOOPS we’re running out of natural gas in New M…

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So as I’ve been starting to get back into a baseball card and blog cycle, now and then I’ve been picking up binders from the shelf and pondering them. I came upon one today that did not look familiar and realized it was one that our daughter …

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Tomorrow we’ll introduce you to Roger, another ranger at my park, who has a wonderful collection of baseball cards. We’ll begin with the story of his meeting Brooks Robinson. But one of Roger’s other interests is birdwatching, as it used to be cal…

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And by essence of vintage, we mean fake. But we also mean vintage STYLE conveying retro cool and cardboard aesthetic. There are whole sets that manage to do this, of course, from Ginter to Goodwin to Heritage, but what follows are random card…

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What products are you looking forward to most for 2011? Having just gotten back to thinking about baseball cards, we apologize for being behind on all this. Perhaps we should begin with Topps Heritage. Much like Woody Allen used to advise that if you w…

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Greetings, wonderful baseball card people. We’ve been gone since August because of full-time school, full-time work, and then a scary health matter, but we are emerging and we miss you and thus we is back. Good timing, too: it’s pra…

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This guy has done something unusual in professional baseball.  Last night I read an article in the New York Times titled “Pitcher Spurns $12 Million to Keep Self-Respect.” It tells an unusual story about the Meche-ster.With millions lurk…

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There’s so much great about this card that it brings tears to our eyes. Not the least of which is that Mr. Forehead apparently did not think it important to dress in a baseball uniform for his Topps baseball card photo. Before we receive a slew of…

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Last evening I clicked around in blogger a little and, long story short, my DC template is gone. There is something horrible in blogger called “New! Template designer!” that is beyond awful. Here’s what I’d like to know: I finally got to ‘classic templ…

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Dinged Corners has issued a challenge. Since my collection is so utterly disorganized, I couldn’t possibly hope to find any “fierce forehead” cards without digging through boxes, piles, and drawers of cards. Rather than risk an avalanche, I went to a “…

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From Shane D., Mr. Harrist happily models a perfect forehead, as its fierceness is enhanced to a degree that renders its size at least equal to home plate.Also from Shane D., we have a Steve Howe. He often looks 12 years old on his …

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We challenge all readers, lurkers, and bloggers: send us a picture of your fiercest forehead baseball card–preferably one in your collection. We’ll post them all and then have a community vote. We need to play more as a group, and since we c…

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I’ve sent three of the A&G card packages out; will respond to emails this evening; and mail the rest tomorrow.Good news and bad news in the Ginter History Department. Bad: For many years, Allen & Ginter apparently advertised that…

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Packs five through eight have been added at the bottom of the post.Remember, other than Mets, if you need or want any of these cards, just email us with your address, and we’ll mail them out tomorry.First pack:6 Bumgarner52 Floyd64 BeckettTDH…

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So! I picked this up on eBay for a song for our daughter Lucy, 10, because she now loves David Wright more than baseball or even the Mets. However, as she becomes more aware of how our world works, she said today, “I hope he doesn’t quit the …

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We’re almost back–three more projects, two more weeks of school, and we’ll have days off again! Today for the first time in forever we had to run an errand (done expertly fast, between classes, at Target, our PBOS* of baseball cards) and we picked up …

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Quick note: It turns out that starting a new job and taking three classes on your two days off makes it a little difficult to post. That’s why we’ve been so, um, low-profile lately. We fully intend to revive in August so please don’t give up on us!Toda…

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As noted earlier, after recently starting a new job as an NPS Park Ranger, it’s become necessary for me to apply every waking moment to planning tours, studying the park’s interpretive themes and scads of procedures–and this d…

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Yesterday was an exceptionally beautiful evening for baseball at Isotopes Park, but we couldn’t make it to the game. AND it was Baseball Card Night! First one we’ve had to miss in three years! So imagine our surprise coming home today to find…

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We face a deafening card silence when it comes to Angel Pagan. Our approach has been sharply dull. O heavy lightness, o sweet sorrow. Angel: being of exceptional holiness. Pagan: heathen.How can this be? Well, it just is. Mr. Walkoff Homerun and Triple…

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Next week, I’m startng a new job that took me a loooong stretch of Reinventing Self to attain. I’m going to be a Ranger in the National Park Service.Along the way, I’ve discovered that many folks (besides our family) ”collect” Natio…

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We almost forgot how much fun sending baseball cards TTM is until we unexpectedly received this in the mail today:We also received this:We sent these cards out well over a year ago–in fact, it may have been two years ago–so it was a nice surprise to …

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Summer is almost here. Imagine that you need a break from the day to day routine. What is your favorite baseball getaway? For example, we enjoy Triple A day games at Isotopes Park with seats on the third base line so we can see the mountains.

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Summer is almost here. Imagine that you need a break from the day to day routine. What is your favorite baseball getaway? For example, we enjoy Triple A day games at Isotopes Park with seats on the third base line so we can see the mountains.

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