If This is His Topps Card, Then What Card is This?: Jason Kendall

For 2009’s first “What Card is This?” segment, we’ll take a look back at the career of an All-Star catcher who, if he were to have played for a different team, he’d be a mega star and possibly a hall-of-famer. Alas, he spent many of his glory years in …

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We interrupt the merriment that is the New Year to thank friend of the blog Don Sherman, who was very kind enough to send me scans of the five bonus cards that are included inside 2008 Topps Detroit Tigers Factory Sets.So the world will know what they …

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Since I started this humble little blog, and created the Sports Card Blogroll, I noticed that there were a few team specific card bloggers out there. Sure you have your Orioles blogger, a couple of Reds bloggers, three Dodgers bloggers, four Cleveland …

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Goodbye 2008!!!Hello 2009!!!May all your collections grow to new heights, Let’s hope they make it a bit easier on us insane set collectors. Thank you for letting me into your computers this past year. I hope to be able to share more of my collection…

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I was about to throw out what I thought were used ToppsTown cards out when on a whim, I decided to see if they were live or not. Sure enough, the codes were never entered. So after splitting the cards between and the two kids, we entered the 31 cards (…

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In what seems to be an inadvertent attempt to get the Blog Bat Around going (sorry Dave), the girls at Dinged Corners sent a ten question survey out to the blogosphere. Many good answers from the gallery. Late but finished, here are my responses:Round …

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In my attempt to find anything Topps Baseball related for today, I stumbled upon something that is scheduled to come out next year called “2009 Topps Attax Baseball.” Please see picture below for packaging and card design: Below is the description foun…

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PayPal and Facebook…two sites I never wanted to join…but…Because of the new eBay rules of paperless transactions, I realized that if I were to continue buying and selling on the Bay, I had no choice but to sign up for their online payment servic…

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As 2008 comes to an end, and another binder full of Topps cards has been put to bed, I am looking forward to what should turn out to be a great 2009 for Topps card collecting. With an awesome looking base set, and the promise of being able to collect c…

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Even before my package of Red Sox and unopened packs were set to be mailed over to John at the Pursuit of 80’sness (he sent me a whole load of Topps cards if you recall, and he even mentioned it on his blog), I received a second package full of Cubs ca…

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To all maybe 10-20 regular readers of this humble little blog (and for everyone else who stumbles in because of a well placed internet search),Merry Christmas!!!Instead of the usual Topps talk (and whatever has been going on in the Hobby blogosphere in…

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Okay, so the hot button topic of the last week…AGAIN…is Beckett and all the good and bad things they have contributed to our Hobby. And there have been many arguments supporting them (to a point) to being outright against them (to a point).I have m…

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Set the WayBack Machine to 1983 boys and girls because we’re going to be looking at a couple of cards from that year’s Topps set. This week’s What Card is This? subject was one of the key players of the “Winning Ugly” Chicago White Sox. With a record o…

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After reading blog after blog after blog about the latest BASEBALL BOX BREAK from the number one source in the Hobby, somehow I’m not surprised about the backlash. After all, the people who hate them now have more ammunition to fire away about how irre…

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So here I am, working on this humble little blog, realizing that I am still way low on the totem pole of popularity/readership/viewership/whatever you want to call it, when out of the blue I get an e-mail from Dave at Fielder’s Choice. The title of the…

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Back in 1996, Topps sold their factory sets in a package akin to those single serve multi-packs of cereal. I’m only reminded of this fact because that’s what my wife bought for the kids to eat for breakfast this week. We’re down to five boxes of cereal…

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Amongst the blaster boxes of UD Masterpieces (both 2007 and 2008), 2008 Topps Basketball, 2008 UDX, and 2008 Topps Cubs and Retail Factory sets, repack boxes and assorted football products,THERE WERE NO 2008 TOPPS UPDATES AND HIGHLIGHTS BLASTERS TO BE …

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The first one went so well, even though nobody left a comment (Ego…ahem). I guess I should have complained about being the last one listed on the first Blog Bat Around huh Gellman (ha ha ha…just kidding). It was really a nice thing to read everyone…

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And you thought I gave up posting for good. Did you miss me??? (Ego! That’s it! Step away from the computer and don’t come back until you settle down!)I know it’s been a few days since the last post, and it’s been a busy time for me lately. Anyway, it’…

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I love Jeopardy. Haven’t watched it in a long time (that’s what I get for being away from home when it’s on). But with the news that Greg Maddux has announced his retirement, I thought that this would be a fitting way to introduce this next subject.Con…

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Can’t believe I’m wide awake for this right now. It’s something I’ve thought about writing on this humble little blog, and is always something I’ve wanted to do since I bought my 1986 Topps set about 12 years ago or so.Starting in 1986, Topps included …

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In my blatant stupidity, I forgot to respond to some of the comments that were left on my humble little blog. This is my chance to make up for it.Ninety comments were left since the last time I ran this segment. I can’t comment on all of them (and in s…

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When I created the Sports Card Blogroll, I mentioned that if a blog had not been updated in at least six months, it would be removed from the site. I wound up becoming extremely lenient with some of the blogs I added from the very beginning, in the eve…

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I can’t believe I forgot about this last weekend. Where is my head? Anyway, to make up for it, I hope that this week’s What Card is This? is a bit more challenging.This week’s subject was the 2002 American League Rookie of the Year. In his four years w…

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Last time on “Never See the Light of Day…EVER!!!” (has it been more than a month??? What??!), I talked about the ten-card sequel to the Topps Future Archives series found in 2002 Topps Hobby and Sears/JC Penney Factory sets. In 2001, there were 20 ca…

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Who would you vote for induction into Baseball’s Hall of Fame??? This year’s ballot, mailed out to 10 year veterans of the BBWAA (Baseball Writer’s Association of America), has only 23 names on it, the lowest number of players in quite some time. Ten a…

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(To those of you who’ve been reading blog after blog about World AIDS Day, blogcatalog.com’s effort to unite bloggers from all walks of life to “share your thoughts and be part of the global solution to a global problem,” and happened to stumble upon m…

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After the usual turkey coma, and watching Bolt! with the family (kids loved it), I realized that I never got onto the computer to wish all 20 regular readers a Happy Thanksgiving. Now, I was going to try and put a Topps spin on the post, and when i get…

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I came home on Monday after hearing how well my children are doing in school to bills, catalogs, junk mail, and three brown envelopes. Guess which of these I decided to open first???Thanks to dayf, and David Missimer and Dan Rostagno from the Topps Me…

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I was thinking about mailing this one in…how much in postage is it going to cost me??? It’s been one hundred years since a guy who had never even been to a ball game, looked up at an advertisement and began penning what would become one of the most c…

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If I ever decided to become a player collector, the subject of this week’s What Card is This? would be the man I’d be following. He was THE star attraction for the Chicago Cubs in the mid 80’s and early 90’s, although he was humble enough not to show i…

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I don’t know if Gellman at the SCU was inspired by the big Blogger’s Unite event that happened last week (and there is another one happening on the first of December…I’m debating about joining this time, but am thinking I will anyway…stay tuned), b…

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This one took a bit longer, and based on reports from the Topps Message Board, these cards might only be found in packs (no one has yet to confirm these in blasters…if they even have them at all). But in any event, we now have confirmed the final che…

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New feature to the humble little blog has been added on the right hand side bar. It should be self explanatory. It is a list of the cards I am currently looking for and will be willing to trade for or buy (within reason). It is not a complete list, …

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Two weeks after finally getting around to sorting the stuff from the Jumbo box of 2008 Topps Updates and Highlights am I finally able to report on what came out of the regular hobby box (36 packs) of same product.I didn’t get a full set of 330, but was…

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