A Long Night's Journey Into G'Day Mates
How beautiful is this?Staying up last night/this morning to watch the 2014 season open up Down Under was like hopping into a time machine. And not just because, thanks in part to a rain delay, I didn't...
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First Dime Box Card Show: Reminiscing in Blue
So here we are, just now at the halfway point in our look at the results of one of the best ideas I've ever had: asking the King of the Dime Boxes, Nick, to be my Card Show proxy shopper. And the early...
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Skybox Charity Group Break: Curtain Call for Chris
Way back in November, Chris, of the Royally excellent View from the Skybox, decided to do something about the suffering of millions in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan. That something was to...
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Skybox Charity Group Break: The Spoils of Charity
Yesterday we looked at a small portion of the cardboard benefits that my wife and I reaped from the Typhoon Haiyan Charity Group Break put on by Chris, of View from the Skybox. It was a labor of love...
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Nachos Grande Group Break: I Took the Yankees and the Dodgers Still Won!
Over the past couple of days we took a look at what I got in a group break held by Chris that featured some sweet turn-of-the-century Stadium Club. Today we're going to look at what I got in a group...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Preacher Roe
One of my prized possessions is my Grandfather's old copy of Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer. It might be a first edition. I have no idea. But it's properly worn out from the readings it's provided for...
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First Dime Box Card Show: Trippin' on Oddballs
Nick's brilliant choices as my Dime Box Card Show proxy shopper had me giddy from the start. I mean, just looking at groovy cards like this has to give you the warm and fuzzies...2001 Upper Deck Decade...
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I May Not Have Been an Oscar Winner... But I Sure Got One Heck of a Booby Prize!
With the Dodgers and Yanks even at a game apiece, Sal Maglie took the mound for Brooklyn in the pivotal game five of the 1956 World Series. The winner of the series opener, "The Barber" was on his...
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Playing With My Dodgers: George Hildebrand
What a great story. If you're interested, I've posted the back of this card for you to read the details. Long story short: George Hildebrand was a minor-league outfielder at the turn of the Twentieth...
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Feeding the Habit: Spring Training Edition
March was the last big pack-busting month of the year for me until November. At least that's what my budget is telling me. We'll see what willpower has to say about all that. You can guess why November...
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Johnny on the Clock; Ethan off His Ritalin
I have a very workmanlike trade relationship with John, of Johnny's Trading Spot. He sends me a handful of envelopes filled with eighteen cards each. And I spend the next few weeks setting aside Braves...
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The Vintage Virtuoso Strikes Again
There were a couple of weeks there when it looked like my budget wasn't going to allow me to enjoy much more than a few packs of this year's Topps Heritage for a while. Fortunately, my awesome Aunt...
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Playing With My Dodgers: John Purdin
It couldn't really be as easy at it probably seemed. And, eventually, it wasn't. But the first taste of big-league action for 21-year-old John Purdin in 1964 had to be pretty heady stuff for the Ohio...
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First Dime Box Card Show: Get a Grip, Bro!
I'm just now coming out of the fog from our last look at Nick's picks as my card show proxy shopper. Nick brought me out of my stupor by not only telling me to get a grip, but by picking up many a grip...
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(Not) Junk Wax: 1990 Pacific Senior League
I was one of the few people on the planet (and even fewer who were still in their teens) who was excited about the Senior Professional Baseball Association when its teams took the field in the winter...
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Diggin' the Oddball View From the Skybox
As if further proof were necessary to classify Chris (View From the Skybox) as "one of the good ones," allow me to submit Exhibit O (for oddballs).When I participated in his recent Typhoon Haiyan...
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Cards From Cards on Cards
I was recently able to knock out a good chunk of the 1985 Fleer set building needs of Kerry from Cards on Cards. It's always satisfying to be able to dig up something that a fellow blogger can use....
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First Dime Box Card Show: Curtain Call
After six Dime Box Card Show posts, as well as three PWMD inductions that came from this show, it's time for one final curtain call for Nick's picks.2002 Fleer Tradition Update Randy Johnson Curtain...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Henry Schmidt & Darren Dreifort (or, "I'm No Sandy...
There have been five pitchers to win 20 or more ballgames in their final big-league season. The most recent was Mike Mussina of the Yankees, who posted his first and only 20-win campaign in 2008. Two...
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Thanks in Part to Zach, I'm Back on Track (or, "Remembering Remember the...
Yesterday I wrote about the recent blogging slump that I'd been suffering through. It won't be the last. It's just who I am. No matter how into something I may be, I just seem to require a break every...
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