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1995 Topps Scott Servais

on January 5th, 2009 by capewood

It has occurred to me that although I’m an Astros fan as well as I Phillies fan I hardly ever post any Astros cards. So lets do something about that. I want to look at the back of this card first. Topps, after having basically the same card backs for …

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Baseball Card Books

on January 5th, 2009 by capewood

Last week I stopped by the local Half Price Books to look around. In the sports aisle I found this:The book is 14″ high and 10″ wide and is an inch and a quarter thick. It is printed on heavy stock and is in pretty good shape. The book itself is in exc…

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Eagles beat Vikings 26-14

on January 4th, 2009 by capewood

I’m mainly a baseball fan, but I also like the Eagles. It was a great game as the Eagles advance in the playoffs to face the Giants next week at the Meadowlands.Akers was 4-4 in field goal attempts.Brian Westbrook’s running game was completely shut dow…

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Song of the Week - Smoke by Ben Folds Five

on January 4th, 2009 by capewood

I have 6,385 songs in iTunes. This is one of them.From their 1997 album Forever and Ever Amen.Leaf by Leaf page by pageThrow this book awayAll the sadness all the rageThrow this book awayRip out the binding, tear the glueAll of the grief we never ever …

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My name is, uh, Capewood. And I - I - I…

on January 3rd, 2009 by capewood

In case you don’t get it in your newspaper, Tank McNamara is a sports-oriented daily comic strip. I cut these panels from the newspaper in 1992. You may need to click on them in order to read the text.

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Phorgotten Phillie Phile - Dick Davis

on January 2nd, 2009 by capewood

1981 Topps Dick DavisDavis came to the Phillies in 1981 in a trade with the Brewers. The Phillies traded Randy Lerch to get him. Dick hit .333 with 2 home runs in 45 games for the Phillies in 1981.In 1982, Dick joined the relatively small fraternity o…

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Books read in 2008

on January 1st, 2009 by capewood

My daughter recently published a list of the books she read in 2008 on her blog and challenged me to do the same. I decided to do her one better and this is the result. This is pretty long but it’s New Year’s Day. What else have you to do? More or less…

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Thursday Night at the Movies - The Spirit

on December 30th, 2008 by capewood

A special Tuesday night edition of Thursday Night at the Movies. We saw the trailer for this months ago and it looked pretty interesting. I will freely admit that I knew nothing about the Will Eisner comic that the movie is based on. I’ve read a bit ab…

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2008 Donruss Threads

on December 30th, 2008 by capewood

I was curious about these cards since Donruss hasn’t had a license from Major League Baseball in 2 years. How can they make baseball cards without a license? First of all, the cards have a disclaimer on the back as below. We don’t have a license but…

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1909-1911 T206

on December 29th, 2008 by capewood

Every once in awhile I’ll try a bid on a really old baseball card on eBay. Every other time, I’ve been unsuccessful.This time, I tried a bid on one of the granddaddies of baseball card collecting, a 1909-1911 T206 tobacco card. And to my wonder, I wa…

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10 Questions by Dinged Corners

on December 28th, 2008 by capewood

The nice ladies over at Dinged Corners are asking hard questions of us bloggers. Like Stats-On-The-Back, I decided to answer with a posting of my own.1. If I didn’t collect baseball cards, I’d collect vintage postcards. I already have a collection, mos…

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Song of the Week - One Of Us by Joan Osbourn

on December 28th, 2008 by capewood

I have 6,202 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.This happens to be one of my favorite songs. So much so, in fact, I can remember where I was when I first heard it. I was driving home from work and heard it on the radio on Street Road near Davisville …

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Frosty Friends 2003 - 2008

on December 26th, 2008 by capewood

Let’s finish off the Frosty Friend’s posts. Relax after a hard day returning gifts of hitting the day after Christmas sales.2003 was one of the more complicated and larger of the ornaments.2004 was another large one.In 2006, the little guys were making…

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Frosty Friends 2000 - 2002

on December 25th, 2008 by capewood

The Walk family Christmas tree. Hopefully, reading my blog isn’t the best thing you have to do today.

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Frosty Friends 1995 - 1999

on December 24th, 2008 by capewood
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Trade with Spiff

on December 23rd, 2008 by capewood

Spiff, who runs the Texas Rangers Card blog, proposed a trade of random Phillies/Astros cards for Rangers cards. I said let’s do it and a few weeks later a box of cards arrived in my mail box. In the box were about 210 baseball cards. I already had a b…

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Phillies….or not!

on December 22nd, 2008 by capewood

If you’ve been following my blog (and if you are, thanks!) you may have noticed that I’ve been posting some old Phillies cards recently. That’s because I’ve been scanning a lot of those old cards. I’ll post some more as I get further into this project…

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Song of the Week - Welcome to the Working Week by Elvis Costello

on December 21st, 2008 by capewood

I have 6,203 songs in iTunes, this is one of them.This song is more or less dedicated to my daughter who starts her first full time job tomorrow. She’s been working part time at the local public library shelving books. Now she’ll be working full time, …

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Frosty Friends 1992 - 1994

on December 20th, 2008 by capewood
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Thursday Night at the Movies - The Day The Earth Stood Still

on December 19th, 2008 by capewood

No, not that 1951 chestnut, but the 2008 chestnut. “Klaatu barada nikto” indeed.Like the original, feature a large robot like creature which can shoot beams from its one eye slit. It features a human looking alien. It features a woman who comes to tru…

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2008 Bowman Draft Picks

on December 18th, 2008 by capewood

I bought two blaster boxes of the Bowman Draft Picks at Target. The $20 box has 8 packs of 7 cards each. Each pack has 2 base cards, 2 Prospects cards, 2 Chrome cards (either Chrome base or Chrome Prospects) and 1 gold card. The gold cards are parallel…

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Phorgotten Phillie Phile - Lowell Palmer

on December 17th, 2008 by capewood

Old Timers Division. You have to have been a Phillies fan for a long time to not remember this guy. He was the Phillies number 1 draft pick in 1966. He made the big club in 1969 with a 2 and 8 record. The Phillies were 63-99 in 1969 and every pitcher e…

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1956 Topps

on December 15th, 2008 by capewood

These are the oldest Phillies cards I own, and pretty much the oldest cards I own. I sure wasn’t collecting cards in 1956 (I was only 5 years old). I acquired these as an adult although I can’t remember where or when. These are the only 1956 cards I …

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Good Old Rock ‘n Roll - Cat Mother

on December 14th, 2008 by capewood

I have 6,114 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.The full name of this band is Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys. The song is from their 1968 debut album The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away. I am willing to bet that this is a band you n…

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Frosty Friends 1989 - 1991

on December 13th, 2008 by capewood
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Southeast Texas Snow

on December 10th, 2008 by capewood

Here’s something you don’t see every day, snow in the Houston Texas area. 2 months ago we were suffering through Hurricane Ike, today, it’s snow. It’s been very cold all day here not getting out of the 30s. There was snow reported north of Houston. It…

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More 1987 Topps from Steve

on December 10th, 2008 by capewood

The very generous Steve at The Easy Life sent me some more 1987 Topps cards. He’s all over Capewood’s Collections this week. He also contributed last Sunday’s Song of the Week on a CD of tunes he sent me. Here’s what he sent:# 336 - Allan Anderson. “Al…

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Another package from John in England

on December 9th, 2008 by capewood

Last Thursday, I received more cards from John who writes at The Pursuit of 80’s(nish). We had packages cross in the mail, he got some stuff from me last Thursday as well. . He’s really been busy trading with people. He sent me a bunch of Astros cards…

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Frosty Friends 1986 - 1988

on December 8th, 2008 by capewood

These next three ornaments continue a simpler theme, Eskimo and his Frosty Friends hanging out on a block of ice. Some of these are hard to photograph. In 1986, Eskimo cooperated but Raindeer wouldn’t look at the camera.Pup Seal pokes through the ice.I…

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Song of the Week - Wine Red by The Hush Sound

on December 7th, 2008 by capewood

I have 6,034 songs in iTunes. If you’re paying attention you’ll notice this is a big jump. Over the Thanksgiving Holiday (when I had the whole week off), I copied about 35 albums to mp3 with my new USB turntable.Steve, over at The Easy Life had posted …

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2008 Baseball Cards in Review - Upper Deck

on December 6th, 2008 by capewood

The 2008 Upper Deck base set contains 800 cards issued in two 400-card series. The design this year is pretty clean, a full-bleed photo with the Upper Deck logo in one of the upper corners and the player name, position and team name centered at the bot…

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Thursday Night at the Movies - Australia

on December 5th, 2008 by capewood

We loved this movie.Some of the critics of this movie complain that it jumps around too much, but I think that’s one of the things we liked about it. Is it a Western? A World War II movie? A romantic farce? A story of the outback? Well, sure it is, and…

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Always crashing with the same cards

on December 4th, 2008 by capewood

Since one of my collecting goals is to have at least one of every type of card made, I have to sort of know how many different kinds of cards there are. Since I was going through that much trouble, I started tracking how many different cards were produ…

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Mike Schmidt - 1979

on December 4th, 2008 by capewood

Mike had a pretty good year in 1979, especially considering his subpar 1978 season. in 1979 he hit 45 home runs (good for 2nd in the league, Kingman was first with 48) and 114 rbis, good for 3rd in the league. His .541 slugging percentage was also good…

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Frosty Friends 1983 - 1985

on December 3rd, 2008 by capewood

This is the 1983 Frosty Friends Hallmark ornament. All of these are dated. On this one, the year is on the top surface of the ice block, near the edge. A new friend, Seal, is introduced. As I mentioned before, it is amazing how well balanced these are….

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