A Truly Iconic Card from Cardboard Icons
April 13th, 2010 by slangon

As some you might or might not have known, a few weeks back, Ben over at Cardboard Icons was having a little contest in anticipation of his 100,000 hit. As some of you may or may not know, I was extremely lucky enough to be picked as the winner of said contest. What was the [...]

This Was A Surprise
March 30th, 2010 by slangon

Seems to me that Beckett is not too popular amongst the collecting community, or at least not the part of the collecting community that I’ve been exposed to in the last few years of my re-involvement in the hobby. I’m not saying thats a bad thing and I’m not saying thats a good thing. I’m [...]

Tribe Card Generosity
March 24th, 2010 by slangon

Like a bunch of other folks in this little card collecting community of ours, I recently was the recipient of some major league generosity bestowed upon me by Dave from Tribe Cards as part of his Last Great Tribecards Giveaway. Of course when I say recently I mean about a month ago. What can I [...]

Thanks Cards on Cards, Thanks A Lot
January 27th, 2010 by slangon

A while ago, Cards on Cards held a little College Bowl Pick ‘Em contest. I had the dubious distinction of being the worst out of everyone when it came to picking the winners of College Bowl games. Madding was good enough to send some prizes my way as a way of enabling my poor football [...]

Sometimes Trades Come from the Weirdest Places
November 20th, 2009 by slangon

Well, I guess this really isn’t a trade since I didn’t give anything up for them, but they’re a bunch of cards that found their way into my hands. And they came from my Dad of all people. My parents came to visit the other day and my Dad just hands me this stack of [...]

Thanks to the Generosity of Others… (The Conclusion)
September 28th, 2009 by slangon

So the second envelope came to me courtesy of everyone’s favorite Orioles fan, Beardy. A while back, Beardy had slapped a post up on his blog saying that since he wasn’t collecting the set, he waould be giving away base cards from the box of 2009 Tristar Obak that he busted. So I left a [...]

Thanks to the Generosity of Others…
September 27th, 2009 by slangon

…I got me some new cards. Two manilla envelopes, to be precise. First up, a couple of weeks ago, The Great Sports Name Hall of Fame was having a little give-away. Of course I signed up, and very much to my surprise, won. I ended up picking Prize #3, 50 baseball cards. For brevity’s sake, [...]