Last 2011 Topps Update Value Box recap

Bought one at Target for $14.99 and it was devoid of anything – since the Topps site was down, I had to enter my code cards on vacation and I ended up with 1987 Topps cards of Don Sutton and an Ozzie Smith All-Star subset card.

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It’s great that Prince Fielder finally signed with a team – as a baseball fan who likes to read the occasional baseball forum or Web site, I was tired about reading the doubt generated by skeptics about how the free agent market had shrunk for the fat …

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I’m not sure what to make of Ayala’s talents as a baseball player but I guess his routine works – and maybe a guilty pleasure as he spoofs the gestures of Latin American ballplayers in professional baseball.He appeared at a home run derby to benefit fo…

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Mike Lieberthal c/o home – the former Philadelphia Phillies and Dodgers [for one lone season] catcher signed my cards in blue ink and kept one in about two weeks.The 2006 Topps Allen and Ginter’s, 2005 Topps Turkey Red and 2004 Topps Cracker Jack are ‘…

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Johnny Groth c/o home – he signed my card in blue ink for $5, though the autograph was smeared, so it was sort of a waste of a request to send.I guess the $5 is just pocket change and if I was going to send an autograph request to an 85-year old guy to…

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2011 Topps Update Value box – I don’t know if I’ll try and keep on picking these up [if I even find more] since it seems like I’ve come up with bupkis, but can I really complain not pulling ‘OMG, super mojo cards’ with these little mediocre retail brea…

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2011 Topps Update Value box [$10.98 each x2 at a Walmart] – I found two more of these and decided to pick them up.BCE-1 Bryce Harper bonus card – this one looks like another red refractor version.#TDG-17 Ryan Braun Topps Diamond Giveaway code card – I …

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Ron Hansen c/o home – signed my card in blue ink with ’1960 A.L. R.O.Y.’ inscription in about a week.For a card I picked up randomly, I really how this particular card turned out – maybe Hansen had to sign over part of his face and perhaps the facsimil…

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Phil Niekro c/o home – I sent $10 and my card was signed in blue ink with a ‘H.O.F. 97′ inscription and he responded to my letter.I was worried about this request because I mailed it in a regular envelope and when I take to a person at the post office…

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Jim Nash c/o home – personalized and signed my card in black Sharpie in about a week.I looked at his stats before putting together my letter and discovered he was a pretty good starting pitcher – I would guess for every ‘old school’ MLB guy who took pr…

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Pack 17#61 Nick Fleece#184 Albert Cartwright#152 Shawon Dunston Jr.#8 Danny Hultzen / Jed Bradley / Tyler Anderson – Building Blocks insert#4 Albert PujolsPack 18#57 Hudson Boyd#167 Charlie Leesman#179 Mike Walker#10 Cristhian Adames – certified autogr…

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Pack 13#86 Brandon Parent#9 Jeff Ames#162 Joe O’Gara#8 Zach Cone – Yearbook insert#3 Clayton KershawPack 14#67 Cavan Cohoes#174 Red Patterson#158 Tyler Cloyd#159 Pierre LaPage – die-cut Aspirations parallel serial #’d 006/200#15 Danny EspinosaPack 15#4…

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Pack seven#16 Blake Snell#73 Adam Conley#164 Dan Osterbrock#19 Abel Baker – Elite Series insert#10 Brian McCannPack eight#97 Bobby Crocker#55 Mitch Walding#155 Chris Heston#95 James Baldwin – certified autograph serial #’d 445/575#9 Jordan WaldenPack n…

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2011 Donruss Elite Extra Edition hobby box [$110 each at a card shop] – my biggest problem with EEE is it tends to be a little pricey even with six autographs per 20 pack box.It’s an unlicensed baseball product for the sport that probably weeds out mo…

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Barry Larkin – I got the autograph card signed through the mail ‘via venue’ c/o the Atlanta Braves during the 2000 All-Star break.I remember writing to Larkin and then Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star catcher Jason Kendall – Larkin responded with my card si…

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2011 Topps Update Value box [$10.98 each at Walmart] – a break from the ‘featured autographs’ I’ve posted in the last several days.These are popular on the Blowout Cards forums since they were marked down to $10.98 – these maybe of good value if you re…

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Tim Raines – I got this autograph in-person as he signed a couple of cards for me as a Chicago White Sox coach back in 2005. I don’t think he is getting into the Hall of Fame anytime within the next few years but he’s getting more support from the numb…

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Edgar Martinez – I got this autograph in the mail four or five years ago.I have my issues with him being inducted in the Hall of Fame any time soon, but he probably became Seattle’s Tony Gwynn – there were bigger superstars who may have overshadowed Ma…

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Jeff Bagwell – I got the autograph card signed in-person at the Big League Home Run Challenge in Las Vegas back in 2002, where he was a commentator.I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets inducted into the Hall of Fame sooner than later – his stats probab…

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Dale Murphy – I got this autograph card and probably one more signed through the mail about nine years ago. I have to dig it out somewhere, but I think he also responded to my letter that I sent to him.From what I’ve read about him and from the cards I…

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Topps made retail versions of the USA box sets they’ve produced over the last couple of years – unlike the ‘hobby’ version, the retail only features the complete base set of collegiate, 18U and 16U national teams without any autograph or game-used ‘hit…

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1.) Players to get on baseballs – Sandy Koufax, Carlos Gonzalez, Mark McGwire, Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp, Roy Halladay, Omar Vizquel, Adrian Gonzalez, Matt Holliday, Felix Hernandez, Nolan Ryan, Miguel Cabrera, Andrew McCutchen, Prince Fielder [specia…

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My interests is split between collecting cards and chasing after autographs – between the two, I may have 10-15 related interests and maybe sometimes I have to ‘reset’ things to get things back in order… I’m committed to collecting but sometimes I fe…

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Jose Cardenal c/o home – signed my three cards [1975 Topps, 1977 Topps and 1978 Topps] in blue Sharpie in about three weeks; I remember him mainly for being a coach with the New York Yankees through the late 1990s, but played 18 seasons in the Major Le…

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Max Scherzer c/o Detroit Tigers [spring training] – personalized [To: Lauren] and signed my card in blue ink.This was mailed on February 24 and arrived in my mailbox on December 27 – this request took a while to get back to me but it is always nice to …

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Got this card of the Angels catcher signed – when he was a visiting Colorado Rockies player back in 2010.

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Bob Locker c/o home – the former Major League relief pitcher from the 1960s through early 1970s signed my card in blue Sharpie in about two weeks.

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I was browsing the card section at Target when I saw this plastic card ‘container’ of baseball cards with various stuff for $14.99 – this thing was heavy and it ‘clanked around’ because of the coins I saw inside.This isn’t the latest or the greatest of…

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Bill Sampen c/o home – signed my cards in blue Sharpie in little over a week. Looking back at his Major League career, Sampen managed to find success as a relief pitcher for two or three years in the early 1990s – by the time he spent his last MLB sea…

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I’ve ended up with various Japanese cards over the years and found cards of the imports looking to come over to play Major League Baseball in 2012 – after a stellar pitching career in Japan, Yu Darvish is the most coveted player coming over and there i…

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Willie Aikens c/o home – signed my three cards in blue Sharpie in about a week. He also returned my letter with a note saying his book is coming out next year and it will answer the questions I had for him in my letter.Josh Hamilton c/o Texas Ranger [s…

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I am vaguely aware of Travis Harrison as a local county kid [Tustin High School, Orange County California] who has good power potential – though it will probably take another four or five years before he progresses through the minor leagues and if thin…

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Floyd Bannister c/o home – signed my three cards in blue Sharpie in about a week.Bannister’s ‘bread and butter’ years were before the time I started seriously watching baseball and his stint with the California Angels in 1991 seemed forgettable at best…

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I was able to get this 2011 Topps Allen and Ginter signed in-person by Angels first baseman Mark Trumbo recently – it maybe the best looking autograph I’ve gotten from him, though it is still sort of rushed, since he had to sign for a scrum of people.

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Carl Warwick c/o home – the 1964 World Series hero personalized and signed my card in blue ink in about a week.

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