The Dinged Corners Questionnaire

Questions - 1-If I didn’t collect baseball cards, I’d collect MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Some might say I have a pretty good collection already. I have three electric guitars, an acoustic guitar, and an electric bass. I’d like to add a Strat-type electric gui…

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I know I’ve been gone a while. I haven’t been in the mood to post anything for the past few days. (The flu and a broken heart will do that to ya.) Things are finally starting to look again, though, and just in time for Christmas!I want to thank the fin…

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What a mess! I’m sure a bunch of you have cards in your collection like this. My question is:What do you do with doubles that are too beat up to trade?Do you hold on to them? Do you throw them away? Do you recycle them?

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a huge box of cards came in from gcrl today. a large chunk of them were fairly new pirates, but i also received a nice selection of vintage cards, including a card i needed for my 1970 topps seattle pilots team set. i think the biggest surprises were t…

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I finally got those packages that I meant to send out last week in the mail today, and I hope they’ll get to where they’re going soon.I’ll try to put up another Spotlight post sometime within the next couple days. Until then, I’ll leave you with this a…

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After 20 years of collecting and 30 seconds of thought, I think I’ve decided what kind of collector I am.I’m a packrat. I’ll collect anything. I can buy Tristar boxes and be happy with what I got. Here’s my main collection. There’s almost 28,000 cards …

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Due to the downturn in the economy, the post office in my town was forced to cut its hours. When I got up this morning, though, I wasn’t worried about any of that. All I wanted to do was to lay in bed, go to the bank and post office, and get stuff read…

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For years, I thought Bill Mazeroski was born in Ohio. I remember going to the Rogers flea market and seeing a sign along the left-hand side of Ohio Route 7 (I’m guessing around Rush Run) that said “Home of Bill Mazeroski” in big letters. Imagine how su…

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It’s been a while since I’ve done anything on here. I also have a couple packages that I’ve been meaning to mail out, but I’ve been preoccupied. I feel kinda bad about ignoring this place, but it’s been for a good reason. I’d like to share my latest fi…

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As many of you know, Topps and Upper Deck have released cards of the different presidential candidates. I went after the 2008 Topps Series 1 set really hard, and I got a bunch of doubles, including two McCains. I went after the ‘08 Upper Deck Series On…

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Happy Halloween, everyone!* Mark from Stats on the Back sent me a nice stack of players that became managers. My favorites are this 1971 Topps card of Marcel Lachemann (which goes with the 1966 Topps card of his brother Rene that I got a few months ago…

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This guy’s gotta be one of my all-time favorite baseball players. He was born in Handley, but he was raised in Keyser.He started his career with the Padres, but went to the Phillies with Randy Ready in a lopsided trade for Chris James. (Any trade for C…

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* Patricia and Lucy from Dinged Corners sent me a few more cards, which I received yesterday. The highlight of the stack was this 1969 Topps Rookie Stars card of Richie Hebner and Al Oliver. I absolutely love old cards like this, and getting one sent t…

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There’s a lot of hate going around regarding certain baseball sportscasters, and I don’t get it. I love them all. You heard right. I love Tim McCarver, Ken Harrelson, and all the rest. I even love Joe Morgan! Sure, they ramble a lot, but every once in …

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Behold! A card that defies space, time, and logic:Does anyone have any theories as to how this happened?(Oh, and if you’re waiting to see the cards I got from David, I’ve got a day off tomorrow, so I’ll work on scanning them in.)

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David over at Indians Cards has been sending out Trick or Treat packages for those of us that can’t come and knock on his door. My box came in the mail today, and it was full of Piratey goodness. I had never seen some of the things he sent before, and …

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The fine folks at Dinged Corners sent me a bunch of cards, which I received in the mail yesterday. Most of them were Pirates, but there were also some minor league cards, as well as some oddballs. Here are my top 5 favorite cards I received:5.) 2005 Fl…

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One of the cool things about having a baseball card blog is that people will actually trade cards with you. I’ve traded with Kevin, dayf, David from Indians Cards, and Ben Henry, and I even sent a big ol’ box of cards over to Dinged Corners. Thanks to …

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As I mentioned in another post, one of my favorite things to do is play guitar. It wasn’t the first instrument I learned how to play, though. I started playing drums in the 5th grade. When I got to the 8th grade, I joined the high school marching band….

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I found this puppy at Walmart today. This is the first thing I’ve bought that has a guaranteed game-used card in it. [EDIT: It's actually the second thing. I forgot Topps started putting GU cards in boxes of '08 Series 2.] I know most of them aren’t wo…

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This isn’t about the awesome blog, although it is inspired by them. (If you’ve never been there, check them out.) I was trying to find cards to send to them yesterday, and I found what may be the card in my collection (doubles, actually) that’s in the …

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I went through a phase where I collected pretty much every kind of card. Comic book cards, musician cards, football, basketball, you name it. I cut down to just baseball in the mid ’90s, but I still have some of my old cards. The weird thing is that I …

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Everyone knows that getting free cards is great, so I propose an experiment. This is probably the best idea I’ve come up with in a while. Here’s how it’ll work:I’m gonna gather up a pile of random doubles and send them to someone I normally trade with …

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God, I love this set. I mean, what other set has cards of Manny Ramirez, Friedrich Nietzche, Pluto (the planet), and a card with a piece of a meteorite or a wooly mammoth? I’ve been buying all I can find at the Walmart near here. Rather than bore you w…

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A while ago, I was looking on eBay for cards to complete my goal of getting one card for every year that Topps made cards. I didn’t find any of people I wanted which were in my price range, but I did find this lot of 1969 Topps cards that I couldn’t pa…

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I’m back again, with another cool card in my collection. This little gem is the oldest card I have.It’s a 1951 Topps Red Back card of Dave “Gus” Bell. I bought it on eBay for $8.50. I’ve been trying to find one card from every year that Topps made card…

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I’ve been meaning to do a pack break on here for a while, but I always sorted my cards out before I could write down what I got. Well, I’ve got a pack of ‘08 Heritage (my favorite set of the year) that I surprisingly haven’t opened yet. Let’s see what …

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Holy crap! I was doing pretty good there, posting every couple days, then life just jumped on me. You all probably think that getting a new post out of me is like pulling teeth, which is one of the reasons I haven’t posted in the first place. Everythin…

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