ALCS MVP

This post has been a long time coming.  And long neglected.   

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Some of my Sportlots purchases are trickling in.  I love it when that happens.  I snagged a couple of jersey cards for myself in the last round of purchases.  This jersey card from National Chicle is actually the Bazooka Back version /99.  I don’t have the base version, so I don’t know if there are [...]

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Tom Verducci is preaching to the choir when he tells me how great Josh Hamilton is, but in case you were wondering – here’s his story on CNNSI.com. Its awesome.

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I picked up these cards as a gift from an excellent member (r2d2) on Freedom Card Board.  He had picked up team sets from some of Tampa’s minor league teams to get the cards of players he collectes, and then was left with a bunch of guys he doesn’t collect – including Josh Hamilton. Its [...]

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Yeah, like really, really hot. And still with all these Topps cards, I am just not feeling it this year. And yet – every so often, they keep coming up with a card or two that just won’t let me throw my hands up and walk away.  Like the 2010 Bowman 1992 Throwback.  My goodness, [...]

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Josh Hamilton is heating up.  It is a little bit more than 1/3 of the way through the season, and he has an average over .300, and should be on pace for 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.  That is a really solid bounceback for him after a 2009 season that was injury-ridden and largely [...]

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I really think there should be more fuss over this particular insert set.  These cards look awesome.  So clean, and to the best of my knowledge they are actually a little tiny bit original.  Sure, Upper Deck broke pretty much every legal and ethical rule available to them by putting out their baseball cards this [...]

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I haven’t been here for a while.  I’ve been a bit busy.  If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I recently defended my Ph.D. thesis (successfully), so that took up a bit of my time.  Now that’s all done, except for some paperwork, I am hoping to have some more time for other [...]

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This seems to be the hot product out right now.  It is getting a lot of favourable reviews. I don’t think I am a fan.  Granted, this is simply from looking at online pics (the Hamilton singles I have picked up haven’t arrived yet), but it isn’t really working for me.  The picture on the [...]

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Check it out – you could win a patch card /6. http://www.hockeycardblog.com/?p=1015

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You know you have made it when they name a sandwich after you.  I heard the Rangers broadcasters talking about this during the game yesterday afternoon, so I hunted down some info on it:
Grilled, crispy French bread, filled with thinly sliced baked ham, topped with sauteed onions, provolone and spicy pepper-jack cheeses, finished [...]

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There is a bit of a long story that goes along with why I have the Extra Innings package this year, and I am going to share it with you, but the important part is – I get to watch Rangers games, even when they aren’t playing the Jays.  Hamilton stroked a double this afternoon [...]

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You have probably seen these cards popping up around the baseball card blog world. With the availability of the Texas Rangers template this morning, I have fired off a Josh Hamilton card for 2010.

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That was a slow, painful start to the season for me and my fellow Josh Hamilton fans.  Josh got his first hit of the season (a double) last night against the Seattle Mariners.
Here’s hoping he is getting back in the groove.

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Anyone else read Deadspin?
Its one of my guilty pleasure sites to check out every few days, today I saw they had a story up about cards.  Check it out.

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I picked this one up in a deal on Freedom Card Board.  I think it pretty much speaks for itself.  Plus, I am drooling just a little bit.

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I picked this card, and a couple of the mini versions up in a quick trade that came my way via the blog world.  I am really not too sure what to think of this photo.  On one hand, I love it and on the other hand I think its stupid.

I think I would like [...]

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You might have guessed, or you might not have noticed, but I am in full Olympic mode, so the Hamilton collection is briefly paused.  Well, not really – its paused in the sense that I am not posting my pickups.  I am still making them, and still trying to organize them. 
Go Canada Go!
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I posted a little while back about my dilemma concerning having money to spend and not being able to decide.  Well, this card came along via BIN and it made up my mind.  Not only is it a low-numbered patch card – its from one of the defining moments of Hamilton’s career to date.  This [...]

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This is another card rom my recent purchase from Checkout My Cards.  I snagged this card quite cheap.  I am a bit of a sucker for Refractors, and Gold is as good as it gets.  This card is serial numbered 12/50.

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This card is from the Band of Brothers subset of the America at War product.  A paratrooper earned his jump wings by matering four main areas:  physical fitness, parachute tower and landing techniques, packing their own chute, and actually jumping out of an airplane 5 times.  If they refused one jump, they were automatically dismissed [...]

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I know, card packaging is usually just something you have to plow through to get to the cards inside.  For this product, it was also something I have never seen before.  These cards are packaged in paper envelopes that are about 3″ x 5″ when closed.  This is definitely an eco-improvement over all the plastic [...]

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I first heard about iCardz Military History products from a post on Trader’s Crack, several months ago.  The post was about the D-Day card set, but when I started searching around the company’s site, I saw a lot of things I really liked.  I ordered a box of their America at War card set featuring [...]

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This isn’t my big pickup (hopefully that is in transit), but it was part of a purchase off CheckoutMyCards.com, which is a site I am growing to love more and more every time I visit.  I am considering getting a box of cards together to sell there.
My first purchase from 2009 Triple Threads is this [...]

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About having money and not knowing what to spend it on?
I solved it.  Showoff post coming as soon as the card gets here.

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Not a huge dilemma, its more along the lines of ‘a nice problem to have’.
Normally, when I am browsing Josh Hamilton cards on eBay there are tons of cards that I want.  Normally, I don’t have a ton of ‘card money’ at any one time.  Right now, I have some free ‘card money’ and I [...]

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I picked this card up at a local show – I might have overpaid a little bit, but I didn’t have to wait and I didn’t have to pay shipping.  I dodged the bullet with 2009 Sweet Spot in that Josh Hamilton didn’t have too many autographs – UD really loaded up on jerseys for [...]

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There hasn’t been nearly as much Josh Hamilton news this off-season as there was last season, probably a result of the disappointing season he had on the field, and the fact that he isn’t the ‘hot new story’ now.  My card pickups have also slowed down a little bit in the leadup to Christmas, as [...]

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As I said yesterday, this product hasn’t really caught my attention, but I wanted to try some new baseball form the card show today, and this was the only product I hadn’t already tried.
In 5 packs, I ended up with 5 minis, and 5 copper coloured cards, that I think they are calling gold now.  [...]

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There is a card show here tomorrow.  I am not sure how many Hamiltons and / or baseball cards I will find there, but I will keep an eye out.
I haven’t had a ton of new Hamilton cards incoming lately, which explains the lack of posting here.  Just in one of those stretches where nothing [...]

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There was a surprise package in the mail today from Marie over at A Cardboard Problem.  We have traded in the past, but I wasn’t really expecting anything at the moment.  Here’s what I found inside:

Another one off my list of 20th Anniversary Cards.  I believe Hamilton has 12 cards in this set, and I [...]

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I made my semi-regular (read:  when I remember about the site) trip to Checkout My Cards.com the other day, and just recently my cards arrived in the mail.  This site is growing, and I really hope it succeeds long enough for me to get my act together and send some cards in.  You may think [...]

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Billy Butler Jersey Card.
Yeah, I’m not scanning it.  Luckily, I also broke this box of hockey, which went much better.
I had picked up a pack, then put it down to grab the one I eventually took.  I have no idea what was in the pack I put down, but it was probably better than the [...]

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Just saw this quote in an article about James’s theory that any NBA player who currently wears #23 on their jersey should give it up in a tribute to Jordan, effectively retiring Jordan’s number league-wide.
Fine.  A noble goal.
OK, maybe James isn’t quite that noble after all.  The article had this quote: “I feel like no [...]

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