Phungo Cards - Pat Burrell

Fielder’s Choice has reported that Pat Burrell has signed with the Rays, and Dave sounds pretty excited about the news. I agree, Burrell will be a nice addition to the Rays lineup.For the past nine years Burrell has put on a Phillies uniform and gave …

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I hope everyone has been enjoying the Spot the Sig! Contest. I have looked at the contest itinerary and figured out we are just shy of the half way point in the schedule. We have completed 7 weeks and 8 Autos (Huston Street, Francouer, J R Towles, Bo…

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2009 Phungo #26 Chase UtleyThis is the first Phungo card I am featuring of an active player. I wanted to get a better picture of Utley as he is one of my favorite players, but while you are watching and photographing a game you fall into the trap of c…

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To start of the New Year we are today debuting for the first time ever Phungo Cards. Yes, you heard correct team Phungo has been working very diligently over the last couple of weeks and has now put together a set of trading cards as a companion to the…

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2003 Donruss Legends of the Summer LS-27 Lenny DykstraThis is a Mets Lenny Dykstra autograph, which is perhaps as it should be. Dykstra won a World Series with the Mets, he only played in a Series with the Phillies. The 93 post season is definitely sig…

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Recently the fine folks at Dinged Corners posed a series of Baseball Card Collecting questions. They are always good at coming up with interesting and thoughtful questions for their readers. Today I post my answers to their Qs.1-If I didn’t collect bas…

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I recently pulled this from a pack of 2008 Topps Stadium Club.2008 Topps Stadium Club #134 Wladimir BalentienMy Question for the Yankees fans out there is, can anyone identify the catcher as Jose “Name that Molina” Molina?I am pretty sure I was at this…

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check out this completed ebay listing.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=130277301018Is this a legit 1/1? I am not familiar with this seller and this is not an endorsement or otherwise. They do have a …

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I hope everyone has recovered from their holiday festivities. Actually I hope everyone is in the middle of a week off. Unfortunately, I am not and will be returning to work after a nice five days off.Here is this weeks Spot the Sig! Auto which is good …

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2008 Topps #655 Aaron RowandAaron Rowand was a big fan favorite during his short stay in Philadelphia. So much so that Topps appears to have used a shot of Rowand batting in Philadelphia on this O8 Topps card and photoshopped on the Giants uniform. B…

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I received my 12 day of Cardmas gift from David of Tribe Cards and opened on Christmas day.As I have mentioned in the blog bat around and elsewhere, I am interested in collecting cards representing games I have been to. I collect primarily baseball. …

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1975 Topps #213 Stanley Cup Playoffs NHL 1973-74 Semi-Finals1948 Leaf #27 Tommy LoughranThis is the Boxing Day edition for the Phungo salute to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame 2008 induction class. Today we honor Tommy Loughran, Fred Sher…

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I am late again but feel good about posting this on Christmas Day. This is my second blog bat around, my first is posted here. This is my Grandfather’s first baseball glove. He gave it to me as a birthday present in my early teens. My grandfat…

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2006 Allen & Ginter # 79 Ryan Howard1978 Topps #360 Mike SchmidtThis is the second installment of the 2008 World Champ tributes. In this series I am chronicling the key players from the 2008 Phils and pairing them with a Phil from the past.When I …

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What the heck is going on with the photoshopping on this Andre Ethier card? 2007 Topps Co-Signers #32 Andre EthierHe has a 61 on the front and a 16 on the back. It’s not a reverse negative. Looks to be a photoshopping oversight. The B&W photo …

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Today’s reader salute goes out to fellow Phils Phan PTBNL who had a big 3 run inning in the Spot the Sig! contest Sunday. PTBNL was at a cosiderable advantage, he had just posted a Frank Robinson auto at Auto-matic for the People - so not only was he f…

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We have a dual Spot the Sig! for this week.The first is on a card. I think this one is pretty easy and it is good for a single.But since I am in a good mood, base runners advance 2 bases on the single for whomever correctly guesses this softball of a …

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Yesterday, I posted regarding a Sox or No Sox style competition between three retail packs of UD Masterpieces. Each of the three packs is from a different sport, Football, Hockey, and Baseball.Both PTBNL and Sooz picked Baseball, I hope they are right…

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Maurice Cheeks Retired Number Banner - Wachovia Center, Philadelphia PAIt’s been a tough week for Mo Cheeks and the 76ers. Cheeks has always been a fan favorite in Philadelphia but, unfortunately, that was not enough to keep him here as the Head Coach…

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Today’s Phungo Readers Salute goes out to a couple of Mets fans that are good enough to stop by here. I don’t know what it is but despite the fact that we are sending out largely Phillies content, we have a couple Mets fans that visit pretty consi…

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2005 Topps Pristine #105 Tony Gwynn (#409/999)Tony Gwynn was inducted as a first ballot Hall of Famer in 1997. The honor was much deserved. 3141 hits, 319 Stolen Bases and a career average of .338. The batting average is the highest among all major l…

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2008 UD Baseball Heroes #183 Steve Carlton and Johan Santana 1986 Topps Mini #55 Mike Schmidt1978 Topps#574 Bob Lemon 2008 UD Masterpieces#70 Jimmy RollinsAs you probably know Steve at White Sox Cards has been very active on the trade market lately. A…

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2007 Topps Chrome Auto Kevin KouzmanoffMark from “Stats on the Back” correctly identified Kevin Kouzmanoff as this weeks Spot the Sig! subject, and Mark also correctly guessed that my girlfriend, Jo, works in Russian. Kevin Kouzmanoff, which as …

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This weeks Spot the Sig! is a sort of personal recognition to someone very special to me – no it is not the player who signed the card above.This is for my girlfriend Jo. In addition to putting up with me and all the nuisances related to my hobbies -…

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2000 Fleer Greats of the Game Autograph Bob FellerBob Feller won 266 career games, every one of them with the Cleveland Indians. He was also a member of the most recent Cleveland Indians team to win the World Series in 1948. The 266 Career wins is an …

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Today’s readers appreciation is for Night Owl Cards. Sometimes when I am not quite ready start working in the mornings I sneak over to check out what is going on in blogworld. Night Owl Cards is great for this because there is likely to be a posting c…

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I would like to close out the year by having a series I will refer to as Phungo Readers Salute. This is my way of thanking Phungo readers for stopping by, checking stuff out, and making this whole blog worthwhile.I will start by recognizing fellow Phi…

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This week’s Spot the Sig! is good for a Double - I don’t think this one is to rough. Here it is: In honor of the Veteran’s committee coming out with their Hall of Fame Selection this week, the Bonus question is HoF related. Name any Hall of …

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#333 Matt RyanThe Stats 1 retail pack 2008 Donruss Score Football Kmart $3.171 Franchise – Larry Johnson2 Hot Rookie – Devin Thomas, Darren McFadden1 Scorecard – Buster Davis #d Parallel (463/649) (injured in 2nd season)1 Decal Marshawn Lynch2 Vi…

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At the time we didn’t really know. An astute observer may have suspected. Yes, when Greg Maddux came into game one of the NLCS on October 9th, he was making one of his final appearances. He would be called upon only one more time, in Game 5 of the se…

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Of course Cole Hamels was the backbone of the Phillies pitching staff this year. Between the regular and postseasons he logged 262 innings. I am not positive but I believe that is more than anybody in baseball this past season. And of course he had …

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Some people’s White Whale may be something incredibly hard to get and possibly prohibitively expensive – the 52 Mantle for example. But for a lot of people something a lot more conventional. It may be a hard to find chrome Jose Cruz Jr or an earl…

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I have been examining the 08 Donruss Threads cards and the players first and last names are certainly squished together. There is less then a half space in there like it’s a person’s work email address where they just combine the names. This card…

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Phungo is returning to the Philly Sports Hall of Fame posts that we started last month. Today we take a look at a couple of athletes from outside the major sports, Leroy Burell and Dorothy Porter.1992 LP Classic Athletes #14 Leroy BurrellLeroy Burrel…

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2007 Allen & Ginter’s #94 Charlie Manuel It has been a while since we have featured a Phil on Phungo and I also have not yet properly honored the man who led the team to its first World Championship in 28 years, Charlie Manuel. This week Sports …

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