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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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