Old School Heritage and New School Ponies – Part 6

They Might Be Great And Powerful Giants:TMBG + TGaPT = happy Dayf.The last ’63 card I picked up for my 1st series set was this American League Victory Leaders card. Floaty heads for the win! Literally. At first glance this may not seem like a super-sta…

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Ponymon cards.Derpy by ~dmon2 on deviantARTThat is all.Seriously, I don’t even care about some Giant. PONYMON CARDS! I’d punch a kitten in the face for a SweetieBot card.Ok Fine. Tom hit a home run off of White Ford in the ’62 World Series. Want any mo…

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Doctor Whooves is best pony. (After Derpy, that is)It amazes me how JT at The Writer’s Journey always seems to find the really cool pony stuff before I do.Not gonna lie, I’m wiped tonight and I don’t wanna do anything but I have three posts to write an…

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YOU CANNOT RESIST THE PONYYOU PROBABLY CANNOT RESIST THE VINTAGEWho da heck is Bob Allison? I’m glad I asked!He was a star for the Senators/Twins!He was the Rookie of the Year in 1959!He hit 30 or more homers three times!He hit 29 homers a couple of ot…

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Ok, so the inclusion of Pretty Party Ponies in the last 1963 Topps card post was apparently a hit, so I’m going to blatantly pander to you all and include ponies in every post. Aren’t you excited!!!Here’s another ’63 Topps card I bought instead of a pa…

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Qypsy Gueen drops this week so I’m commemorating the event by showing off all the 1963 Topps cards I picked up instead of buying new packs of 2012 Heritage. I don’t know what I’ll do next month since I can’t afford original Gypsy Queen cards from the 1…

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The Collective Troll picked up my idea for an Allen & Ginter mini FrankenSet and ran with it. Ran so much that his is already pretty much finished. He accumulated a fair number of dupes and sent a few my way to help finish mine out. Behold: 36 mini…

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Dear Jefferson, the Marlins’ home run monolith is delightfully tacky.Look at it quick before the fascist bully-boys at the MLB pull it from yootoob.Hat tip – 30 Year Old Cardboard

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For all the Scoffers and Blasphemers.Give me cards OR KILL ME!

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Baseball cards at Turner Field! Gotta show ‘em! Even though they were all in cases and didn’t photograph very well!When you walk into the Braves Hall of Fame Museum there’s a big display of vintage cards. And by Vintage I mean nothing more recent than …

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Enough wandering around the stadium on Open House day. Let’s check out the Museum & Hall of Fame. All pics taken randomly, haphazardly and poorly.For all the excessive bitchery amongst the Braves’ faithful about their lack of playoff success, we st…

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This year I’ve become one of those ‘troublemaker’ collectors who is not buying new product. I’m not specifically boycotting anything, I’m just not buying new wax. It’s getting difficult, especially now that Heritage is out. I can already tell right now…

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It’s late I’ve been catching up on work and Twittering all night so I haven’t done any productive blogging today and I really want to finish at least ONE blog series I’ve started this year so I’m doing a gigantic image dump of my pictures of Turner Fie…

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Season can start now.(’12 Chipper courtesy The Collective Troll)

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Top 20 January Vintage show post… in April. Aww yeah, the blog is a trainwreck. I don’t even remember half the cards I bought anymore so each post will be a surprise for us all! If I recall correctly, Roger planned to have another show in Atlanta thi…

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I’ve spent most of my spare time this weekend trying to get boxes and piles and mess of cards in my office somewhat more organized This was partly due to a mild cardboard disaster I had earlier this week. So here’s the deal. I have a large desk that fi…

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When Stale Gum offers a challenge, I have no choice but to accept.Thank Jeebus that Thorzul didn’t beat me to this. Here’s a template for all your Jeff Burdick Memeifying needs.

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We’ve wandered about on the fan plaza long enough. Time to pick up tickets (yes we had to stand in line for tickets to get into a free open house) and go inside. I had no game plan while I randomly snapped photos so you get what you get.So the first th…

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I posted a contest on my blog that all but two of you missed when it went live (it happened during the “dark week” for my blog).  However, both Brad and apba66and0 managed to somehow see the post and enter – and so let’s determine the winner! &nbs…

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Last weekend I want to Turner Field for open house. Free admission, the Grapefruit league game was on the big screen and there were stadium tours, The Braves Hall of Fame and free games for kids. A good time was had by all, even though the game was rai…

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I am a bad blogger. I have almost two dozen posts in various states of doneness I need to finish, I’ve got two  videos I need to edit and post and a couple more I need to record, I’ve got a pile of packages I need to send and countless w…

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>fresh new season, full of hope>fifth starter battle>Medlen pitches lights out – 0.82 ERA .64 WHIP 9Ks in 11 innings>Delgado and Teheran crap the bed>rotation spot goes to Delgado because Medlen is too valuable in the bullpen>so about…

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These are from 2011, obviously. No completed 2012 sticker pages yet. I held off on posting these until I got my package mailed to Long Fly Ball to Because off since he completed two of them. No ‘before’ scan because a) I don’t know where they are since…

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I shoulda been in bed 15 minutes ago, I have to be up again in less than 6 hours and I’m gonna be busy pretty much all day tomorrow. May as well write a post! On Saturday I went to the Braves’ Open House at Turner Field with my son. I took a ton of cra…

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When you’ve been posting ponies on a baseball card blog for six months, April Fool’s Day kind of loses its impact. The most shocking thing I could possibly do today is to post actual baseball cards so I’ll go ahead and do that. This handsome fello…

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This whole “blog not updating on other people’s blogrolls” is really taking its toll on my motivation to blog.  Right now, I’m only getting visitors from Google plus the select few blogs that have my blog as a hard link (rather than on a blogroll)…

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In my contest (posted a couple of days ago even though my blog still isn’t updating correctly so most of you missed it), I asked how many Larkin cards were in the package Dayf sent me.  I figured it’d be a fun question because the correct answer i…

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“Nothing good.”Ferris Bueller’s Day off is one of my favorite movies. Not because of Ferris, I can’t identify with him other than the fact that I had a computer before I had a car. I identify with Cameron. I worry too much. I’m too grouchy for my own g…

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Ok, time for more sketch cards. I’d like to get into 2012 before Opening day (the real one, not the thing going on in Japan) at least. PROBLEM: I still need to get more packages out and to do so I need to draw more sketch cards and right now I don’t fe…

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If you haven’t seen the CBS piece on card collecting, well, honestly you’re really better off.Don’t even know why I was compelled to waste time making this when I’ve got a million better things to be doing but this got in my head and nagged at me until…

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I posted a contest yesterday – now it’s time to take and start to figure out the answers.  I won’t answer the questions in the order I posed them, but I do promise to answer all the questions before too long.  For today’s post, let’s answer Q…

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I hate to burst your bubble but triple double trouble is coming to your town and he’s gonna make rubble(I wish the Braves’ owner was cool)

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Wayyyy back in January, the great Cardboard Junkie requested that his readers send him their blank “dummy” cards so that he could practice his artistic talents on baseball pack cardboard.  He promised that he’d send junk back to anyone that acquie…

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Two more packages inna mail. I have three or four almost ready to go. Mostly waiting on sketch cards at this point.Sean L.Edgar G.Scott C.James R.Andruw K.Max M.Matt F.Tom O.Paul B.Jeremy S.Jeff C.Rod R.Paul E.Marck B.Captain C.The D.I think if I can g…

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IF I ever get to the point where I’m completely fed up with cards and I throw all of ‘em but 100 into a chipper shredder (pun intended) this autograph card of Bert Sugar will make the cut and avoid becoming compost. He’s best known for his boxing writi…

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