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Michael's Dodger Buffet
Yesterday we began to look at some of the highlights from a trade package that I recently received from Michael of Nomo's Sushi Platter. Today we move from mini-collection gems to Dodgers, Dodgers, and...
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A Fine Dining Experience
I'm a fast-food kinda guy. My digestive system can no longer handle a steady diet of hot dogs and double cheeseburgers, like in the old days. But I'm still not much of a fancy eater. Chicken...
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Fun and Philanthropy: A Win-Win Situation
I'm not proud to say that I am generally one of those people who is full of well-wishes and good intentions, but who rarely puts forth the time and effort to do much good beyond my own family....
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Playing With My Dodgers: Ramon Martinez
It would be an understatement to say that I was spoiled by my first decade as a baseball fan and a Dodger fan. In the 1980s (ages 10-19 for yours truly) the Dodgers never went more than two years...
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Early Bird's Night Owl Haul: Pack #15
What's this? Find out here.More soft-cornered '77 Topps delicacies from the seemingly endless reservoir of the Night Owl's kiddie cards. Let's play...1977 Topps Willie Crawford SFG #652Here we see a...
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Radical Rewards for a Raw Rookie
My rookie year as a baseball card blogger has been... inconsistent, to say the least. I'll blather about myself and my "season" as the year nears completion. (Or maybe I won't. Inconsistent, remember?)...
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Random All the Way (Oh What Fun!)
Yesterday we looked at the Dodger-intensive portion of a recent trade package that I received from Marcus of All the Way to the Backstop. But he didn't stop at citizens of Chavez Ravine. Marcus also...
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Late-Inning Rally
I don't know how you people do it. By "you people," I mean the card bloggers out there who manage to post regularly, day after day, week after week, month after month, etc. The Dodgers make the...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Larry Bowa
Larry Bowa is my kind of guy. A baseball lifer, passionate and knowledgeable, and just plain fun to watch work, whether as a player, manager, coach or commentator. I was pretty young when he retired as...
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Just Commons: Just Canadians
Here we're gonna take a look at the O-Pee-Chee portion of my second Just Commons purchase (I've since made a third). My first buy from that site was split between O-Pee-Chees and Kershaws. For my...
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Fan Appreciation Day
There are times when Fan Appreciation Day is more meaningful than at other times. When a team is a perennial contender, like the Dodgers were for all of my childhood, it's hardly necessary to thank...
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Happy Birthday Steve Garvey!
What brings me out of my latest, greatest, no-blogging funk? The chance to win a contest, of course!There's no sugarcoating it. I want every card in existence, and the only way that's gonna happen is...
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Catherine Ann Peterson (1926-2014)
As I explained when I launched this blog, its name came from my Grandmother’s insistence on calling my serious collecting passion, “playing with my cards.” I chafed at the characterization as a kid. I...
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Celebrate Good Times (With Cards!)
Although I'm on a self-imposed blogging hiatus, of sorts, I don't plan to slack when it comes to giving generous bloggers their due for contributing to my portion of our shared habit. Fittingly,...
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John's First Trade Packages Hit the Spot
A few weeks ago I got an email from John of Johnny's Trading Spot (formerly known as "My First Blog"), asking if I'd like to do a little trading. Seemed innocent enough, so I said sure, why not?A...
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Tandem Random Fandom: Prologue
I recently received my second trade package from Nick. It had a little bit of everything, and all of it to love. As he said in his note: "We Randomites have to stick together."You want Random, Nick?...
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Tandem Random Fandom: Part I
Last time I teased a trade package from Nick, the master of the Dime Boxes. We share an infatuation with the Random. I usually pack in about 873% more words in each post than anyone in their right mind...
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Tandem Random Fandom: Part II
In this final look at the contents of an eagerly anticipated trade package from Nick of Dime Boxes fame, we see the many ways in which the best blogger in the biz managed to exceed all expectations.I...
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Gripdate
I may not be much of a blogger, but I haven't been slacking as a collector. I made some solid progress on the sorting front before X-Mas (I'm into the prolific Ms now), I've kept feeding the habit, and...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Wilson Alvarez
Has any pitcher's arrival in the big leagues been quite as odd as that of Wilson Alvarez? The Venezuelan native debuted for the Texas Rangers as a nineteen year old in 1989, the first player born in...
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