Card Show Post-Mortem

Card show’s over. It didn’t go exactly as planned, but I was able to pick up a few doozies. I went with Quality over Quantity this time picking up 16 cards in total. Not enough for a Top 20 list, but once I post the Top 5 from the last show n…

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CARD SHOW TODAY!Click here for an image of the postcard and some ponies.Click here for a map. It’s at the Courtyard Marriott off Delk Road in Marietta. Right off I-75, can’t miss it.I’ll be there today, sometime between noon and 3. I might maybe possib…

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Ok, if I ignore the cards I skipped and do three posts a day today and tomorrow, I can knock out the Top Six cards from my January Vintage Card Binge before I go buy more cards on Saturday.TRIGGER WARNING: A lot of you are going to be very angry that t…

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All righty then. A while back I showed off the cheapest ’53 high number I could find. This one was slightly more expensive but I needed to pick it up. Behold Morris Martin of the Philly A’s.I love ’53 Topps but the solid background cards seem a little …

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Yyyyyyyeeeeaaaaaahhh… There ain’t no way I’m going to post all these things before the card show this weekend. I’ll just accelerate my pace of one card every 4 weeks. Here’s one of the things I love the most: a 1954 Topps card of a Hall of …

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Scanned just for Night Owl, who says he doesn’t want it.WELL YOU GOT IT ANYWAY TAKE THAT DODJAH BOYAnd since this blog has devolved into a knee-jerk reaction to a certain Dodger blog, here’s this:1984 Donruss is the most overrated set since ’52 Topps. …

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Seeing how the next Vintage show is in four days, the countdown aspect of this series is out the window for the time being as I want to post this stuff quickly. And by quickly, I mean slap down some random ramblings, post it and regret the whole thing …

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VINTAGE SHOW IMMINENTSO HAPPYEgophiliac did thisEgads! The 18th is this weekend!I dunno who did thisBetter catch up on posting the cards from the last Vintage show…

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EPIC PIE!Also the Braves signed former prospect Felix Pie to a minor league deal for organizational depth.(this guy was a big deal in 2003. right, prospectors?)

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I am so far behind in everything I could possibly be behind in that I just don’t give a crap anymore so instead of working or writing or cleaning or sorting or organizing or washing or trimming or drawing I’m reading. And it’s a good one too.Sometimes …

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for:NathanPauland RichardI hope to have another one of these posts up tomorrow.

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Here’s the second-to-last card I need for my 1959 Topps Braves team set, a Sporting News All Star card of Del Crandall. The last card I need for the set is the Warren Spahn which I could have sworn I had already. I can almost see the thing in my hands….

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Editor’s note: Night Owl is now an unofficial co-author of this blog since about half of the posts I make nowadays are directly or indirectly inspired by something he wrote. Tonight’s cardboard anecdote is a verbatim comment from this Night Owl post. I…

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Nachos Grande recently wrote a post about card collector organizational types. I am definitely a Type 3. Other than my Braves, vintage, A&G and Heritage binders, I have no clue where anything else is located in my house. Or even if it is located in…

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I screwed around too much tonight and ran out of time to do a proper post for the blog. It wasn’t a complete waste though, I got a package together and scanned some stuff for a future post and drew some ponies. While doing my nightly sketching I recrea…

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JuniorMoMCAI need to go lie down for a while.

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Yeah, I know it’s May. I have no idea when the next card show will be in Atlanta so I need to stretch this out as long as possible. As much as I want to hop in the car and drive to the next White Plains show, gas is expensive. So here’s a card.For the …

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4) Which Braves hitter is going to get to the Phillies Pitching in this series?Jason Heyward is a beast and Freddie Freeman is on fire right now. The guy you should be absolutely terrified of though is Chipper Jones. It’s his last season, he knows it a…

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Today less is more and we have a special Phungo 4 edition of P5 with Braves authority Cardboard Junkie.  This may be hard for some readers to believe but DayF went into an extended rant on Q5 and I felt it warranted a separate posting.&n…

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I make a Monty Python reference and IT’S A PONY. I need helpAll righty then. Time to show off more stuff. I got Jason Heyward’s autograph a few months ago and I can honestly say he is a big man. And not big as in wide like me, I man the dude is BIG. So…

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Back in January when I was preparing for the vintage show I did a reality check on my Braves team set needs. My ever-increasingly out of date online wantlists showed I had completed the 1970 Topps Braves team set. But…… when I checked the…

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I have no idea which Phillie Phan I was going to send this to… if you’re on my list of people I should have sent stuff to 2 months ago and want this, speak up!

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Topps was nice enough to announce on their Twitter feed that Bryce Harper will be in Series Two Topps. As a regular or short print, who knows. All I know is I don’t need that jazz because I already have a 1/1 Harper sketch card.DIY cardboard FTW

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Swag means something different nowadays from what it meant when I was a kid but oh well.Every 8 months or so I get drunk and spend a Jackson over on Check Out My Cards. This happened once again a couple of weeks ago. Someone on Twitter mentioned there …

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It has nothing to do with caffeine. They just suck at it. Full disclosure: I may have cut a few of these myself. Guess which ones and I’ll send you the Beckham!

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We were born in the same year. You’ll be 29 years old and like it.

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The My Little Pony Royal Princess Wedding is happening RIGHT NOW, and I’m embarrassing myself trying to coach little league baseball whole I have a splitting headache from waking up a 4 in the morning with heartburn and not getting any sleep …

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This post was supposed to lament the fact that Ponies debuted a few months after Dr. Demento’s last show aired on June 6th 2010 meaning that all the ridiculous pony mashups that have been created never got a chance to be on the show. Then to my surpris…

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The week is over and all I want to to is post this thing and go to bed and have sweet dreams.I pity the fool who don’t like Pinkie Pie. Three reasons why this card is awesome.1) Manny Mota rookie card. It even came in a toploader with ROOKIE CARD in go…

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Today has not gone quite as expected and I do not particularly appreciate Google’s little joke of COMPLETELY revamping Blogger’s post creation page on 4/20 but I’mma post something today if it kills me. Here’s Pinkie Pie enjoying the holiday a little t…

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RARITY CATCH MEShoulda had Elston catch you, Pinkie…Earl Battey and Elston Howard are featured in this ’63 Combo card. With no inset circle the combos are the plainest cards in the set, but there’s plenty of room for the photo. This pic might have be…

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Hooray! I’ve got all the 1963 Topps cards scanned and uploaded! Brohoofs for everyone!Get it? Duffalo? Buffalo? HAH!I R Punny. I’m guessing I left descreening off or scanned at 150 dpi or something because this scan has a lovely moiré pattern. I was p…

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Ho ho! Free binders with a purchase of a box of retail Topps series 1! Looks like all you impatient people who bought Series 1 the second it hit the streets are a bunch of SUCKERS right now!(I wonder if supplies will last until January 1, 2013)

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I found my favorite hat ever while cleaning up last month. It’s now in a very bad YouTube Video.I know it’s a Cub hat, I don’t care. I love that goddamn fucking hat.And I am using the “I got my Mojo back” definition of Mojo, not the Joe Collector defin…

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