New Beckett Sports Card Monthly is a MUST read

I want you to forget everything you think you know about Beckett. Done? Now remember everything you know and remember about Beckett. The times you rushed to the hobby shop or newsstand to find the latest copy just to see who was on the cover. The times you quickly scanned through the magazine in search [...]

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So, this is what a 1993 Donruss Elite Series insert and a 1998 Bowman’s Best Atomic Refractor parallel looks like when they get together and make cardboard babies. Aren’t they stunning? The 2012 Bowman set has been out for almost two weeks and these Ice parallel cards have not been lost on me.  Hell, they [...]

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All things being equal, which early Barry Bonds card do you prefer: 1987 Fleer Rookie Card or 1987 Fleer Update Extended Rookie Card? An argument can be made for both, which is why I pose this question to you. You can reply here in the moments section below or on twitter @cardboardicons. Your response to [...]

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Ever since I was a youngster, I’ve been fascinated with the flashiest insert set known to mankind:  The Elite Series. When I was 13, I was fortunate enough to pull one of these seemingly impossible hits from a pack of Donruss at my local Target. I remember picking three packs and handing them to my [...]

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Greetings.  I am back with an all new Thrift Treasures post, only this time there are no scans … just this video.

Let me know what you guys think of seeing these on video.  Certainly makes it easier on my mind not having to scan everything.
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Was running short on time earlier this week so I decided to records the mail day.  Enjoy.
Lots of autos.

*And pardon me as I misspoke a few times, still new to video stuff.

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Dodgers. Whether you’re talking about the Los Angeles or Brooklyn squad, the legacy of the Dodgers runs deep.  And on cardboard there is no shortage of options when searching for the greatest Dodgers picture card of all time. But in my mind, they don’t get much better than this: We see a lot of great [...]

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Take a good look. Rounded corners and moderate edge wear, enough blemishes to make a collector of all things modern baseball cards cringe. But THIS is what cards that are 79 years old should look like. For a mere $15 and change, this 1933 Goudey Frank Frisch became the newest Hall of Fame rookie card [...]

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I saw a slew of 2012 Bowman baseball opened this week and it instantly came to my attention that Bowman is not only “Home of the Rookie Card,” but more specifically home of the Oakland A’s rookie cards. The Bowman set features a whopping seven legitimate rookie cards of Oakland Athletics players, and this does [...]

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2012 Bowman Baseball just hit shelves this week and in the product are “International” parallels of the player cards.  They resemble the basic cards only they have the flag of the player’s country of origin emblazoned in the background.  We’ve seen this before, but these are gorgeous.  They remind me of the 1997 release, my [...]

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I’ve been up and down on ManuPatches over the years. Some of them are kind of neat for player collectors, while others are just a nuisance.  I mean did we really need ManuPatches of the Rookie Card Logo? Ugh. But I think I found one that I actually really, really like: I pulled this from [...]

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I took advantage of the April grading special offered by Beckett Grading Services, which allowed for 20-day service at $7 per vintage card.  I sent seven cards that needed to be slabbed in BGS cases for my collection. A few of these were previously slabbed by other companies, but I just wanted them in BGS [...]

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For more than a decade and a half, Mariano Rivera has made a living throwing one type of pitch in one inning per game. And in the end (maybe) all it took was one batting practice session to end his career. Rivera reportedly suffered a torn ACL Thursday night before the Yankees game against the [...]

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I have another 1,000 cards being sent to Checkout My Cards for processing. In the meantime I’ve got another sale for you. From now until Friday at 5 p.m. PST, Take 50 % off all items.
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Back in 2006, the Major League Baseball Player’s Association pushed for the Rookie Card Logo to be placed on player’s first-year cards.  The move was met with much criticism, and to this day can be a source of confusion. Late last year I wrote about Pedro Alvarez and how his 2011 cards were not issued [...]

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Infamous for the ball through the legs in the 1986 World Series, Bill Buckner need not have another reminder of the play.  Alas, just four years after that cringing moment, Upper Deck created this card which subtly reminds everyone that this everyday solid player made a giant goof on the game’s biggest stage. There had [...]

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You know you’ve seen these at your Targets this week.  A 36-pack box for for $11.99?  And you get two relics per box? Totally worth a shot, right?
Just watch …

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I can’t believe it took 17 years for this iconic image of Ken Griffey Jr. to me chronicled on cardboard. Am I wrong?  Has this already been capture on a card? I recently pulled this from a pack of 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen and was in awe when I saw it.  I remember being 15 [...]

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Well, I made it.  I managed to scan the remaining 200 cards that I bought at the Tri-Star show.  And if you thought Part One and Part Two of this special Thrift Treasures series were awesome, I’m telling you … YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET! This is Part Three of Three I’ve been going to [...]

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In case you missed it, late last night I posted the first part of this mini series unveiling the loot I obtained at this year’s Tri-Star show in San Francisco. You can see it here. Now that’s you’re all caught up, are you ready for some more?! Let’s do this. This is Part Two of [...]

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It’s a beautiful thing when you wake up on a Friday, have the day off work and the only real plan is to hit the first day of an annual three-day major card show. It may have been Friday the 13th, but there was no bad luck for me when it came to cards.  I [...]

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Who doesn’t love a deal, especially when they come in the form of marked-down collectible baseball cards. True clearance prices for sealed packs of baseball cards in a retail setting are rarely seen. Most stores blow through product before there is a chance for it to sit around. And in the cases where stock has [...]

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I managed to hit one of my local Target’s on Monday and picked up a couple of packs of 2012 Topps Heritage retail.  I pulled a few SPs and inserts along with a slew of base cards. But in one pack there was something suspicious, and now my mind is running wild about what it [...]

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There was a time when I’d go grocery shopping with my mother and would ask her to buy certain products simply because the item contained a free promotional baseball card. Kellogg’s brand cereals? yep. Mother’s Cookies? Damn right … HAD to have those iced Animal Cookies. Pepsi or Coke?  Depends on which one was offering [...]

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: He’s a stud, a work horse with an over powering arm, a wicked curveball, and great mound presence — a can’t miss pitching prospect. Every few years or so, some kid with a cannon for an arm whizzes through his high school’s opponents in dazzling fashion and scouts [...]

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A few weeks ago I purchased a box of 200 Ultra Pro Semi-Rigid holders for some low end rookies in my collection.  I have a fascination with these type of holders because they take be back 20 years when they were more prevalent. Anyway, take a look at the box.  I love that Ultra Pro [...]

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There are some things I know to be true.  One of them is that a certain San Francisco Bay Area thrift store ALWAYS has a trough full of cards priced at 10 cents each.  Whether or not they are worth that much is always up for debate, but they are there for the picking. It’s [...]

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“The most furious trading in the U.S. nowadays goes on not on Wall Street or the Chicago grain market but among youngsters out to collect a connoisseur’s fistful of baseball trading cards.  The cards come as dividends with the purchase of a one-cent or five-cent package of bubble gum.  But the dividend seems to have [...]

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It’s very subtle, and unless you spent some time in the Pacific Northwest watching Seattle Mariners baseball, you may not get it. But this 2011 Elite Extra Edition Ichiro card really is an homage to some of the funniest commercials in baseball. The card, pictured to the right, features Ichiro in an interesting pose.  We [...]

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Filmed this two days ago, March 15, 2012, in Colma, Calif.
Enjoy:

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