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What a rush!

on May 15th, 2012 by Play at the Plate

I don’t know about you, but I don’t buy enough hobby packs to send in for those redemption packs.  You know the ones, where you send in a box worth of wrappers and Topps sends you a pack with some special parallels.  As a matter of fact, the …

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First Look: 2012 Panini Cooperstown baseball

on May 14th, 2012 by chrisolds

Panini America is aiming to make “Cooperstown” synonymous with one more thing — baseball cards.

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Baseball Card Show Purchase #9 – 1968 Topps Game Carl Yastrzemski

on May 7th, 2012 by 30-Year Old Cardboard

Baseball Card Show Purchase #9  – 1968 Topps Game Carl Yastrzemski I was shocked to scoop up this card at the show – easily the biggest surprise of all of my purchases. And how I found it was pretty odd … Continue reading

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Hard habit to break

on May 1st, 2012 by night owl

I love cello packs.The first packs I ever received — those cards my mom bought for me at the grocery store in 1974 — were cello packs. The majority of the packs I bought that first year of collecting in 1975 — including the ’75 minis — were cello p…

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Vintage Trade Bait

on March 24th, 2012 by dkwilson

I’m going to post a few vintage cards as trade bait for the 2004 Topps Derby Digs cards that I posted about yesterday. I need the Pujols and the Edmonds cards from that set to complete it. The condition on these vintage cards is far from perfect, but t…

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Topps ups the ante in 2012 Topps Tribute with bonus Hank Aaron autos & more

on February 16th, 2012 by chrisolds

Hank Aaron will be signing 100 buyback cards for inclusion in 2012 Topps Tribute — all as bonus cards in boxes where they are found beginning on March 7.

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Drinking with Legends

on February 7th, 2012 by Play at the Plate

I was trolling the late night Blowout forums and came across a cheap lot of drunk legends. The buyer took mercy on me and included one non-liquorfractor. I guess it was supposed to sober me up.It’s funny that the one non-liquorfractor was Ty Cobb. A…

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1989 Kahn’s Cooperstown Collection

on January 11th, 2012 by Hackenbush

I saw these on Ebay and they looked interesting and they were cheap. The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards says:”This 11-player card set was available through a mail-in offer,  One dollar and three proofs of purchase form Hillshire Farms were nee…

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Retired Numbers: #8

on December 11th, 2011 by JT

All seven men who have been honored with the retirement of uniform #8 are in the Hall of Fame, and two served as catchers for the New York Yankees. Bill Dickey, New York Yankees Dickey played 19 seasons in the Bronx, going to the World Series nine times (and winning eight). Elected to the Hall [...]

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The Carl Yasztremski 1979 Kellogg’s Baseball Card Winner Is….

on December 6th, 2011 by 30-Year Old Cardboard

The Carl Yasztremski 1979 Kellogg’s Baseball Card Winner Is…. Congratulations Wade!!! Thanks to everyone that participated in this giveaway.  And stay tuned, the next giveaway is just a few weeks away – and you are NOT going to want to … Continue reading

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GIVEAWAY TIME ‘ Carl Yastrzemski 1979 Kellogg’s 3-D Super Stars Baseball Card!!!!

on December 4th, 2011 by 30-Year Old Cardboard

GIVEAWAY TIME ‘ Carl Yastrzemski 1979 Kellogg’s 3-D Super Stars Baseball Card!!!! Come one, Come all!!! Up for grabs is a Carl Yastrzemski 1979 Kellogg’s 3-D Super Stars Baseball Card!!!! This card could be the perfect addition to your baseball … Continue reading

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1976 Kellogg’s #24 – Carl Yastrzemski

on May 18th, 2011 by MattR

What did he do to deserve a 1976 Kellogg’s card?Carl didn’t have his best year in 1975, but he had a Hall of Fame career going.In 1975 Yaz batted .269 with 14 HR and 60 RBICarl was in his 11th straight All Star Game in 1975. Yastrzemski would eventuall…

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Flea Market Finds #12: Ninth Binder page + Mojo

on May 11th, 2011 by lonestarr

Ugh, mojo is such a dumb word (unless we’re talking super intelligent monkey supervillains or card blogging hands), but I digress.  While the weather is hitting record highs, so to are my blog hits.  And I’m closing in on posting every day for a week straight for maybe the first time ever in the history [...]

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Flea Market Finds #9: Sixth Binder Page

on May 7th, 2011 by lonestarr

Back with another binder page ready to go! Why Purchased: An entire page of almost vintage stars of the day and Hall of Famers, duh. Keepers: Definitely Andre Dawson and maybe Kingman/Gorman Thomas (though I will part with it for the right offer). Notes: The negativity and/or wangst of Mets twitterers make it seem like [...]

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Flea Market Finds #8: Fifth Binder Page

on May 5th, 2011 by lonestarr

Better get back to these, the next flea market might be this weekend.  Why Purchased: For the almost-vintage Hall of Famers.  I didn’t even notice the Youk rookie till I had already decided to purchase it. Keepers: None I guess.  The Griffey doesn’t interest me very much, and the others I can probably find good [...]

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2011 Topps Heritage NOT Hot Box

on May 2nd, 2011 by deal

As usual, I am a little behind – everybody is checking out Gypsy Queen and I am busting Topps Heritage, but at least I am busting a box from the current year.BackstoryI was initially on the fence about building 2011 Topps Heritage – A recent P…

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Breaking through the ’71 Topps wall

on April 13th, 2011 by night owl

Of all the vintage Topps sets, 1971 holds the greatest mystique. It has been that way from childhood to adulthood for me. The ’71 cards were the first “old” cards I ever knew, possessed by older boys in the neighborhood. They were mysterious.The look o…

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1976 Topps Card of the Year (Round 4, Group 2) – down to six!

on March 24th, 2011 by MattR

Pete Rose and the Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Blowing card advance to the semi-finals.This bracket is going to be a tough one. Please vote for your favorite out of these four cards. The top two cards will advance to the semi-finals.Carl Yastrzemski #230Steve …

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Everybody’s Got A Record: Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski Edition

on March 23rd, 2011 by Matt F.

**In this series we strive to prove the universal truth that every baseball player holds some kind of record.**This next record is a great one because it is held by two of baseball’s best players. The record itself is also one that we hope all players…

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1976 Topps Card of the Year – round 3, group 2

on March 20th, 2011 by MattR

Pete Rose, Dave Parker, World Series Champs, and the Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Blowing Card will move on to the final eight. I had to make a decision between the Worlds Series Champs and the Luis Tiant cards since both had the same number of votes.Here are …

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1976 Topps Card of the Year – round 3, group 2

on March 20th, 2011 by MattR

Pete Rose, Dave Parker, World Series Champs, and the Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Blowing Card will move on to the final eight. I had to make a decision between the Worlds Series Champs and the Luis Tiant cards since both had the same number of votes.Here are …

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1976 Topps Card of the Year (Round 2, Group 2)

on March 11th, 2011 by MattR

The cards that will move on from group 1 are Johnny Bench, Ray Fosse, Fred Lynn, and Lou BrockHere are the cards for round 2, group 2. Please vote for your favorite(s). The top four from this group will make it to the next roundSteve Ontiveros #284Osca…

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Card of the Week: 1983 Topps #551

on March 2nd, 2011 by Section 36

I wonder if the photographers told Yaz what he had in mind when he posed him for the picture. It was a nice idea for a subset. Let’s celebrate the grizzled veterans in the league. And, what a great way to do it. Show a simple picture of them as a roo…

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Lazy, Lazy, Lazy

on December 30th, 2010 by Play at the Plate

Night Owl mentioned Topps’ laziness in his “Worst Card of 2010″ post yesterday. It had to do with a reused play at the plate picture on two Joba Chamberlain cards. It’s definitely lazy on Topps part, but those are modern day cards that I don’t care tha…

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Lazy, Lazy, Lazy

on December 30th, 2010 by Play at the Plate

Night Owl mentioned Topps’ laziness in his “Worst Card of 2010″ post yesterday. It had to do with a reused play at the plate picture on two Joba Chamberlain cards. It’s definitely lazy on Topps part, but those are modern day cards that I don’t care tha…

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COMC Order #1

on December 24th, 2010 by lonestarr

Check out my cards had a shipping special over Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend.  10¢ a card.  So I picked up the 77 cards I’d been storing up since about March, for $7.70 instead of over $22.  Well, I had mid-50s, but the $15 I saved on shipping allowed me to pick up about 21 more cards [...]

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Hall of Fame Teammates 13

on October 10th, 2010 by Hackenbush

Three Hall of Fame teammates from a great Topps set and another of my favorite teams growing up.1972 Topps #37HOF Class of 19891972 Topps #313HOF Class of 19841972 Topps #79HOF Class of 2000If you haven’t noticed I’m giving away some great cards to cel…

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List of 36: Red Sox Players Selected to Start an All-Star Game

on September 24th, 2010 by Section 36

1. Carl Everett2. Jason Bay3. Shea Hillenbrand4. Derek Lowe5. Rick Ferrell6. Johnny Damon7. Carlton Fisk8. Rick Burlson9. Frank Malzone10. Roger Cramer11. Bob Johnson12. Lefty Grove13. Pedro Martinez14. Luis Aparicio15. Fred Lynn16. Roger Clemens17. Ji…

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Carl Yastrzemski’s kielbasa

on September 17th, 2010 by Josh Wilker

Back in June, I told the story of how my childhood wish for an autograph from my hero, Carl Yastrzemski, was finally fulfilled by way of a circuitous combination of some long ago promotional endorsement of encased meats and the kindness of a Boston Globe reader, Ann Beaudoin, who’d seen a story in that paper [...]

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1967 Topps Carl Yastrzemski Boston Red Sox

on September 9th, 2010 by dugoutdug

Today’s entry for my collection of 1967 Topps Autographed Baseball Cards is about a player who stayed with the same team his entire career of 23 seasons and ranks very high on many major league baseball statistics. It is Carl Yastrzemski, outfielder o…

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Collecting Yaz – 1976 Topps

on September 6th, 2010 by shanediaz82

A few months back I decided that I was going to collect Carl Yastrzemski, and showed off my first acquisition, a 1967 Topps. It’s hard to believe that was all the way back in May, and although I’ve picked up a few since then I haven’t posted a single …

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