Quest for 1998 – Part 4 Some Bowman Cards

My quest for 200 1998 cards continues.Bowman Previews #3 Ken Griffey, Jr.This insert set is, perhaps technically, not really part of the Bowman set as it was inserted in 1998 Series 1 Stadium Club at 1 in 12 packs. At this time, Bowman was a pretty lat…

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I’ve really been slacking off this year at the gym. It’s just been one thing after another. But at least I reached another city, Wichita Kansas. I was kind of disappointed in the baseball talent from Wichita. Wichita is a fairly good sized city (about …

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I have 9,226 songs on iTunes. This is one of themI’m not exactly sure how I first heard of Natalie Imbruglia. Maybe it’s because of this song which was a big hit in 1997 from her Left of Middle CD, her first record. She’s an Australian model and actres…

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If you’re following along, my quest is to obtain at least 200 unique types of cards from 1998. Here is a trio of die-cut cards featuring foils and fancy finishes. These are cards 5-6-7 of the 41 cards I need.Aurora On Deck Laser Cuts # 5 Nomar Garciapa…

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For reasons I’ve not bothered to figure out, there are 10 movies nominated for Best Picture this year. Of the more than 40 movies that came out last year that we saw, we only managed to see three of the movies nominated. We saw the trailers for this an…

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I’ve been buying stuff on eBay for over 10 years. I’ve bought probably 1,000 items and have rarely had a problem. There are plenty of reasons to be careful on eBay but I don’t often buy big ticket items (I think the most expensive thing I ever bought w…

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My quest is to reach 200 different (base cards, inserts and parallels) cards for 1998. Here are the 3rd and 4th cards I’ve acquired.1998 Bowman’s Best Refractor #19 Gary Sheffield1998 Bowman’s Best was a pretty expensive purchase, a 6-card pack set you…

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I have 9,228 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.Another daily podcast song, this time from radio station KPEX. Words to live by.Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim.Thou shalt not worship Pop Idols or follow Lostprophets.Thou shalt not ta…

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Last year I set out with a collecting goal of getting to 200 unique cards for 1996. I needed about 50 cards to accomplish the goal. Along the way I made a series of posts of all the different 1996 cards that I owned. I never did complete that series be…

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On October 6, 1991, NBC aired the TV biopic Babe Ruth. I have absolutely no recollection of this event. You can read about it on IMBD. I saw these cards on another blogger’s site and then found the set on eBay. Topps produced these cards using the same…

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In 2006, I was lucky enough to go to some spring training games in Florida with a very good friend. We’re hoping to go back but just haven’t been able to get it together. Maybe next year.I took a lot of pictures during that trip. If I had been bloggin…

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This is a nice insert set in 1995 Series 2 Leaf. I recently bought the whole set at my local card shop. I mainly bought it because the top card is a Jeff Bagwell card I didn’t have. As it turns out, 14 of the 16 cards are players I collect and I only h…

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I have 9,235 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.I got this song as a free Song of the Week from iTunes in 2005. I don’t know really anything about the band but it’s a good song. Wikipedia describes The Subways as a British alternative rock band. If y…

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Topps Tribute is a set I never see for sale anywhere so it’s not a set I think about much. I have on occasion purchased cards from this set from eBay. So it was nice when I received an unexpected package from a baseball card friend with these two cards…

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There is a whole series of books about Percy Jackson, ‘half boy and half god’. Unbeknown to us mere mortals, the randy old Greek gods are still coming down to earth to impregnate humans or get impregnated by humans. My daughter has just started reading…

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I think these printing plate 1 of 1 inserts are pretty cool, but since the odds of actually pulling one from a pack are so high, I don’t pay much attention to them. I actually did pull one once, a 2006 Fleer Tradition Threads Printing Plate. This was a…

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I have 9, 201 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.It’s a Beautiful Day was a short-lived band which put out two albums around 1970. The driving force behind the band was David and Linda LaFlamme. Their first album, released in 1969 was named simply It…

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For sure one thing I didn’t expect was to win an award for this blog, but it looks like I did. Isn’t it lovely?This is apparently a viral award that’s been circulating around the internet for over a year. It was awarded to be by Gilligan, over at Retro…

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Mel Gibson hasn’t been in a major movie since 2002’s Signs. He’s directed two controversial movies since then (Apocalypto and The Passion of Christ), and been in the news for other reasons, so it’s good to see him acting again. Most of this movie is a …

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I think I’ve gotten about all the posts from the Tristar card show that I’m going to get after this. I got a plastic box containing 35 Roy Oswalt cards from one of the dealers for $7.00. That works out to 20 cents/card. Since most of these cards are hi…

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Yesterday, I posted some cards from the 2004 Leaf Exhibits insert set. Well, here’s the real thing.I acquired this on eBay for only $4.49 (including $2.50 postage). It’s a bit beat up, it looks like it had been stapled and pinned to the wall many time…

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Here is a card I got at the Tristar Card Show a few weeks ago. I recognized what set it was from as I had a few at home already. But it is different from the ones I have in that it has stats on the back and is not serial numbered. This post was going …

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More cards from the dime box.2001 Greats of the Game #87 George BrettI also picked up Robin Yount and Richie Allen. This was a nice looking set.2001 SP Game Bat Edition Big League Hit ParadeThis is from a 15-card insert set from 2001 Game Bat Edition. …

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One of the dealers at the show had a couple of large boxes with cards for a dime. He had an amazing collection of cards and I ended up buying 50 cards from him. I should have bought more. Here are some of them. I’ll have another post with some more lat…

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More finds from the big Tristar card show in Houston a week or so ago. One dealer had boxes of cards arranged by team. He had a bunch of Phillies cards. I picked up 40 Phillies cards I didn’t have. Some of them were even types of cards I didn’t have. …

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I have 8,256 songs on iTunes. This is one of them.I will confess to be somewhat of a closet musical lover. I particularly like musicals which take the genre in unexpected directions. Moulin Rouge is such a musical. The film has great music, much of it …

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