on December 25th, 2008 by William Noetling
I have to be completely honest, this has not been the best Christmas season for the Budget Collector. My personal hobby purchases have dwindled down to less than a drip from a leaky faucet. That is to say, I’ll purchase a pack here and there of well,…
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on December 19th, 2008 by William Noetling
Today’s entry in Cardboard Junkie’s Twelve Days of Cardmas jogged my memory of Pinnacle Mint Coins/Cards. I actually thought this was a pretty nifty ideal, and I recall buying plenty of the Football product. I don’t recall getting ANYTHING good out o…
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on December 11th, 2008 by William Noetling
Stay with me here, this entry doesn’t have a whole lot to do with sports or cards, though there is a TENUOUS link which I’ll share at the very end. I live in Los Angeles and have now for more than half my life. I think we Angelinos tend to get a bit …
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on December 9th, 2008 by William Noetling
Just got this in my email:Begin Quotes:Upper Deck Authenticated, Upper Deck’s memorabilia and collectibles division, has just put together an informative, up-close video chronicling the making of one of its most popular lines: All-Star Vinyl Figures….
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on December 5th, 2008 by William Noetling
Way back in October I told you that I ordered some custom cards to be made of my daughter from Topps through a promotion with Nestlé Drumsticks Ice Cream. They arrived last week and I couldn’t be happier with them. OK that’s not ENTIRELY true, I wou…
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on December 5th, 2008 by William Noetling
Sorry for the delay, life got into the way.Last time I left off I was going to look at a few more vintage cards that I got in the mail from Eric S who is sending off packages left and right. I saw a couple of other blog entries indicating they also go…
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on December 3rd, 2008 by William Noetling
I don’t normally do mail-days unlike other blogs, mostly because I really don’t have the time or patience to scan the cards that I get in the mail, and I haven’t been very active in trading lately. I know I WANT to trade, it’s just that with a 2-year …
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on November 21st, 2008 by William Noetling
My good buddy Gellman over at Sports Cards Uncensored proposed this unique “Bat Around” and while I wanted to partcipate right away, life suddenly got busy and I found myself with a job interview to prep for. So my entry is a bit late, but better late…
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on November 14th, 2008 by William Noetling
Sports Collector’s Daily is reporting on a new release from Topps, yes, the final Political Trading Card product of the season - President Barack Obama trading cards.$1.99 for 6 cards, and I don’t see any insert sets listed, and there’s no information …
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on November 12th, 2008 by William Noetling
Tonight is the official opener for the UCLA Men’s Basketball program. I should have written this up earlier today but I’ve been fairly busy the last couple of days. Busy for me anyway.At the half it’s 38 to 19 Bruins over Prairie View A&M. To say th…
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on November 5th, 2008 by William Noetling
Oh boy, Upper Deck has chosen to end it’s Presidential Predictor program with a single card of our newly elected President Barack Obama, and they’re GIVING it away. Yes, that’s right, it’s free, but you have to go to one of a handful of card stores in…
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on November 3rd, 2008 by William Noetling
I will digress from my normal pastiche posts about whatever flits into my mind that’s sports related for a moment and beg, plead, and implore you to get yourselves to the polls tomorrow and VOTE! Democracy only works when citizens participate, and thi…
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on October 23rd, 2008 by William Noetling
Readers, have you ever want to make your own custom trading cards? Well, you can on the web in a number of places. Both Topps and Upper Deck have programs on their sites that let you upload your own images and create your own text. Problem is that t…
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on October 20th, 2008 by William Noetling
Right now I’m only going to list regular cards (by number, I didn’t look up the names to be honest). If you can help me complete this set, I’d be much obliged. I have a TON of doubles for this set, and of course, I’ve got the team-trading thing set u…
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on October 20th, 2008 by William Noetling
World Serious?I completely underestimated the tenacity of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, losing game six only to come from behind to win game 7 and a trip to the Big Dance. I honestly don’t really care who wins the World Series, though if I had to pick I’d…
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on October 18th, 2008 by William Noetling
It’s only Saturday night, and thus far, my favorite teams have done pretty well this weekend. Last night the Los Angeles Kings won a tight game against the Hurricanes in OT on a great shot by Micheal Handzus with an assist by Alexander Frolov. The Ki…
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on October 14th, 2008 by William Noetling
I just got paid for my first professionally written article! It’s not much, and it’s on a topic that while I do have a background in (security), it’s not my forte. I’d much rather be professionally writing about toys, comics or trading cards. But it…
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on October 8th, 2008 by William Noetling
This isn’t news, the Angels season is over. It was over Monday night, I just needed a day or so the let that digest and start transitioning into my Fall/Winter sports. The season itself was a great one for the Halos, they hit a franchise record 100 w…
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on October 1st, 2008 by William Noetling
So I’m scrolling down my Google Reader list of card blogs that I read on a regular basis, and I see no less than FOUR pictures of the Sarah Palin Topps card that will be inserted into Topps Updates and Highlights Baseball which is releasing soon. That…
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on October 1st, 2008 by William Noetling
The wait is over, the MLB Playoffs start today with a slate of three games. The Phillies are hosting the Brewers (no score, top of the 3rd as of this writing), the Dodgers are in Chicago taking on the Cubs in a couple hours, and then our Western Divis…
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on September 24th, 2008 by William Noetling
I hate losing things, I really, really do. Unfortunately it happens to me ALL THE TIME. I suppose there’s a number of factors involved, small apartment, lots of toys for the rugrat, daddy’s brain doesn’t function as well as he’d like it to on occasio…
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on September 21st, 2008 by William Noetling
Kevin Jepsen Update: Game #5 & 6Our budding rookie reliever, Olympian Kevin Jepsen got into two more games since last I blogged about him. He got into the game in the bottom of the 5th on Friday against the Rangers, relieving Darren Oliver with runner…
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on September 19th, 2008 by William Noetling
The Angels new logo for 1986, their 25th Anniversary Season, would be used until 1992. Borrowed from SportsLogos.netPrevious Installments:Part 1: 1979Part 2: 1982In 1985 MLB expanded the first round playoff games from best of 5 to best of 7, a move th…
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on September 17th, 2008 by William Noetling
I posted a blog over at Halos Heaven containing the Halos playoff roster if I were in charge. Check it out and either comment there or here wouldya?EDIT:I have since removed said post from Halos Heaven because it got several unintended hostile comment…
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on September 17th, 2008 by William Noetling
I actually watched the game last night and remembered suddenly why I’m so interested in this pitcher; he’s a great story after all. FIVE years at Class A mostly because of injury, and when he gets his first opportunity in the bigs, he shines like no o…
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on September 16th, 2008 by William Noetling
Good Afternoon Gents:Sorry to be a tad late with this report, life as always intervenes, though nothing really that drastic occurred, I just didn’t want to post an update yesterday because several of the games came down to Monday Night Football.Which b…
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on September 14th, 2008 by William Noetling
The Angels sure don’t seem to be playing like a team that just clinched the division on the earliest date in their franchise history (and FOURTH earliest in MLB history, my blog the other day was incorrect because I didn’t know what date it was. Today…
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