Tuff Stuff’s Excellent Adventure Pt. 2

Here I have an ad. A quite notorious ad. This is for Stan’s Sports Memorabilia which is more than likely known to most people as one of the people/businesses who was caught up in the autograph forging business and part of a huge ring that was stopped…

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First thing I’m going to show you is an ad from 1997.”OH MY GOSH WHAT COULD THAT MEAN??!?!?!! THIS AD IS BUILDING MY ANTICIPATION LIKE NONE OTHER!”"1997 BOWMAN!!!”My favorite thing about this ad is the stated odds and them basically telling you that y…

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Well I’m back from the ‘Rents house and in Florida again. However I managed to sneak a few things out of the house that I’m going to get a lot of posts out of. I’ll show you the first now.Aww Snap! A July 1997 issue of Tuff Stuff. Thank goodness I’…

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There are 3 autographed bats in my collection.  I’ve already shown you one of them in this post and now I’m going to show you the other 2.  This is an interesting bat as it’s signed by Mark Lemke.  The Lemmer wasn’t known for his hitting prowess as …

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Tonight I’m going to show 2 of my more unusual items that I have.While this looks like a normal beaten up MLB ball, it’s not. It’s a batting practice ball that I caught on September 30, 2003 prior to NLDS Game 1 pitting the Braves against the Cubs. I…

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Continuing on with the stuff that I have around my Parent’s house, we’ll do an All Braves Edition. There’ll be a lot more Braves stuff as that’s what I have the most of.  First up, we have a ball signed by koo-koo head himself Mark Wohlers.This might …

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I’m at my parent’s house, far away from my scanner, so I’m taking this time to show a few things that I couldn’t show you by scanning. All of these I’ve had for years and years.First up:Tony Gwynn autographed ball with a .394/94 inscription. This was…

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Exams are over, I worked out my scanner issues, everything is great.  So here’s something I’ve been wanting to share for awhile.  I go to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving and I occasionally get pieces of mail there still so it’s not unusual to have…

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Yes I used another Coldplay quote.  This is one of those posts that I do every so often just to let you know I’m here and yes I will be blogging.  I got a new computer so I haven’t worked out the driver issues with my scanner and I’m in the middle of…

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Yes, I’m still around.  Last week was a hectic week and my laptop crashed the week before, so I’ve been having some issues.  I do have a post coming sooner or later about a GREAT surprise I got when I went to my parent’s house last weekend.

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Pete Van Wieren announced his retirement from the Braves broadcast booth today.  He’s been with the Braves for 33 years and was a huge part of my years living in Georgia and even in South Carolina when I could see the Braves still on TBS.  I personal…

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I got a HUUUUGE package of cards from JV over at Treasure Never Buried which put a sizable dent in my sets.  I’ve updated my list accordingly and I’ve got at least one more trade coming in and once that one gets here, I’ll update my list again.  Than…

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Congrats guys.  Let’s see if you can win the World Series, unlike the 1991 Braves.  I’d also like to see a nice string of championships come your way.

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I started to write this as a comment to his post, but it got a little long and I thought that it was worthy of it’s own post on my blog.  Concerning Gellman’s comment about the negativity, or perceived negativity on his blog as well as others, incl…

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I’ve had a couple packages come in over the past few weeks. The first was a trade from Bailey over at The Nennth Inning. I sent him some 2008 A&Gs and a couple Tim Lincecum cards for some 08 A&Gs I needed as well as a few Braves card with the…

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This oneAnd this oneWon’t UD ever get ANYTHING right?

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I got this from one of the group breaks over at Sports Cards Uncensored.  My first impression is that the card is really thick, but isn’t as heavy as I thought it would be.  The design is very bland.  I wouldn’t buy a whole box of the product unless…

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Avast! ARRRRRR! Today be the day where all landlubbers get their sea legs, drink some grog and talk like pirates! It also be the day where Me pull out my Corsair keyboard!Me was doin’ some plunderin’ today at the shanty and pillaged away from those …

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I updated my needs list to include my 2008 A&G needs.

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Not only did Chris Harris beat me handily last week in baseball, but thanks to a score adjustment today in my football fantasy league, I now have a tie for last week instead of a win.  

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Back in elementary school in my hometown of Dalton, Ga., we would take field trips to the Crown Garden and Archives which held the historical records and other items of Dalton and for much of Whitfield County. On those trips they would often tell stor…

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In the Baseball Card Blogger fantasy baseball league this week, which pretty much died before John Smoltz’s arm, I’m facing Chris Harris of Stale Gum fame in the Semi-Finals of the playoffs.  Right now, he’s up 5-2 but that could change after tonight….

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Nomar did something significant enough to be included in an above average set produced by Upper Deck in 2008.

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Editor’s Note: I had planned on writing this article, but after seeing the pull that Mario got, it made it that much imperative, at least in my mind, that I write it.Way back when in 1990, I started collecting sports cards.  Now, 18 years later after …

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Is the return of “Roundball Rock” to broadcast airwaves.  ”Roundball Rock” was written by none other than John Tesh and is more commonly known as the NBA on NBC theme.  Once the NBA moved to ABC, they didn’t take the theme with them.  This was a bad…

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Despite being warned about this product, I bought a few packs of Donruss Americana II 2 weeks ago. I’m not going to put you through cards of random 7th Heaven cast members or Danielle Rousseau from Lost, but I will give you what were my good pulls fro…

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After all this hooplah all day long, what can I possibly give you that will top all the packs opened today? What is it? Is it Triple Threads? No, that’d be too Joe Collector of me. Could it be Bowman Originals or Topps Finest? Nope, not that eithe…

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Along with the Goudey blaster, I got one of Allen and Ginter to help my set along. How did I fare? Well let’s find out!Pack #1116 Mariano Rivera203 Jhonny Peralta263 Yadier Molina27 Brad Hawpe A&G Back MiniCrack the Code Ad166 Bram StokerPack #22…

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I’ve been shamelessly plugging my needs list on occasion on here and have received many offers. If I haven’t gotten back to you, I’m sorry. I’ve been here, there and everywhere the past few weeks. I’ll try and get back to everyone I haven’t contacte…

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So after I hit up the hobby shop, I went to Wal-Mart for a few things that I needed as well as a few blasters. The first up is 2008 Goudey.Pack #1191 Frank Thomas35 Rich Hill15 Erik Bedard145 Richie Ashburn176 B.J. Upton72 Magglio Ordoñez20 Jeremy Gu…

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Back in 1993, I bought a box of 1993 Leaf Series 2. I came close to completing the set, but alas never did. Imagine my delight when I looked in the bargain bin and found 1993 Leaf Series 2 packs 6 for $5! I couldn’t turn it down. So here’s 6 packs …

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I ran down to the hobby shop today to pick up some pages for my binders and to maybe grab a few packs of Goudey as I haven’t bought any this year. So I get there and Goudey as well as A&G were both 2 packs for $12. 2 for $12! Luckily, I was goin…

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The voice that many of us in the South and across the nation have heard call Braves games for many decades is now gone.  Skip Caray, 68, died today in his sleep.  I know from my childhood, I grew up listening to Skip, Pete and Joe call games on TBS a…

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What you’re going to get from this break of boxes is stats, pictures and a bit of commentary:Box 1:1 Cabinet Card (Battle of the Alamo)Base: 143/350 (40.85% complete)Doubles: 0Short Prints: 12/50State Flags: 22/50Autos/Relics: 2 relics (R. Furcal Bat, …

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