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		<title>Card of the Moment #46</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made mention in the past about one of the many sub-genre of cards that I enjoy are what I call &#8220;nerd cards&#8221;. Obviously, these are cards that depict players who fit the stereotype of a nerd. Gawky. Big nerd glasses. Usually pretty skinny and un-athletic looking. I&#8217;m guessing my liking of them has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Card of the Moment #45</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1970 Topps Story Booklets #19 Cleon Jones Todays Card of the Moment came to me a while back thanks to a trade with the always generous Chris from Project &#8217;62. It is a Topps Story Booklet of Cleon Jones from 1970. These booklets were inserted into packs of 1970 Topps. They were actually the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 9, And That&#8217;s It, For Now (I Think)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the last of the pile of cards that I had gotten off of eBay over the last month or two. As promised, it is the oldest of the bunch, as well as being the oldest card in my entire collection. 1888 N2 Allen &#38; Ginter Celebrated American Indian Chiefs Chief Striker When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the second old school boxing card that I got off of eBay from the same seller as that Jack O&#8217;Brien. It&#8217; too is from the T220 Mecca Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter set as well. 1910 Mecca Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter Series Young Erne As cool looking as the Philadelphia Jack O&#8217;Brien [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Au Revoir, Frenchy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t care what everyone says. I&#8217;ll miss you and your awesome right arm. Just when I was learning how to spell your name correctly, too. By the way, I can&#8217;t believe I only have one card of Frenchy as a Met scanned.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3422</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On we go with this very long series of posts dedicated to all of teh cards that I&#8217;ve gotten off of eBay over the last few months but haven&#8217;t had time to write about before. If you recall, in the last post from this series, I mentioned that I was down to just a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3393</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, I always feel oddly worn out whenever I finish running a contest. I don&#8217;t know why. I mean, it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s any more involved than writing any other post. Weird. Anyway, congrats to Travis of Punk Rock Paint fame on winning a complete set of the recently finished 2010 SlangKo Heroes of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3377</link>
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		<title>You Can Pick a Winner and You Can Pick Your Nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But you can&#8217;t pick the winners nose. Here we go. We&#8217;re finally going to put an end to the Offical Condition: Poor First Anniversary Giveaway Contest, now that this blog is one year and one month old. Now, as per the rules that I laid out way back when, if you were a follower of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3363</link>
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		<title>And the Cards Are&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s about time to stop dragging my feet and put an end to the Offical Condition: Poor First Anniversary Giveaway Contest. Here are the cards that I got from the Topps Million Card Giveaway. 1958 #117 Frank Torre Joe&#8217;s older brother. Great looking card. I&#8217;m digging that old-timey Braves logo. 1959 #409 Gus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3357</link>
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		<title>Card of the Moment #44</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1938 Gum, Inc. Horrors of War #29 Tokio Airman Attacks British Envoy I briefly mentioned this card a few weeks as it was part of what I ended up scoring on eBay after I sold that David Price Pie in the Face SP. Although I was really happy with all the cards that I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3330</link>
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		<title>Penny Cards? What is This? 1951?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or Recent eBay Scores, Part 5. When you&#8217;re cruising around eBay, do ever come across those auctions where the starting bid is only $0.01 and you say to yourself, &#8220;Yeah, right. Like that&#8217;s going to sell for only a penny.&#8221;? Well, a few weeks ago I came across a couple of cards that were starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aww Man&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rest in Peace, Bobby Thomson. Both my old man and his old man before him were die-hard New York Giants fans before they moved out west. This dude was like Paul Bunyan in my house growing up.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3336</link>
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		<title>Not A Second Too Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after yet another season of disappointment, frustration and embarrassment from the boys in blue and orange, I&#8217;m actually excited that football is starting up. Tonight the Giants will face off against the Jets in their fancy new stadium in the Meadowlands. I actually have a bit of a quandary this season. You see, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3322</link>
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		<title>Just Because&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I&#8217;ve never shown a basketball card on this blog before.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3310</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re almost done with the recent eBay scores, for now. Also, don&#8217;t forget that there&#8217;s only another day or two to sign up for the Offical Condition: Poor First Anniversary Giveaway Contest. So here&#8217;s the deal with this particular eBay purchase. It&#8217;s actually one of the stranger eBay experiences that I&#8217;ve had so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3301</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One again, please sign up for the Offical Condition: Poor First Anniversary Giveaway Contest. It&#8217;s a hoot. So today recent eBay pickup is just one card and it&#8217;s not even old. Imagine that. A card from the last 10 years on this blog. Ha! This is card #242 from the 2001 Topps Traded set. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3282</link>
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		<title>Some Home Grown Goodness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, I haven&#8217;t spent a whole lot of time recently addressing the trials and tribulations of the New York Mets, other than to occasionally throw out an exasperated comment here and there. I guess that happens when you have a team that was looking pretty good prior to the All-Star break, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3292</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we get on with the main event, if you haven&#8217;t already done so you should think about signing up for the Offical Condition: Poor First Anniversary Giveaway Contest. It involves fun guessing games and you could even win something. Do it. Okay. Now that that&#8217;s out of the way, let&#8217;s move on. This particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3275</link>
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		<title>Recent eBay Scores, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made mention of this recently, but I&#8217;ve gotten a gaggle of cards off of eBay recently. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m realizing that I&#8217;m totally cyclical in my card collecting. Sometimes I go through stretches when all I&#8217;m doing is shopping on Sportlots. Sometimes all my cards seem to come from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Card of the Moment #43</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1962 Topps #206 Washington Senators Team Card As most folks who are familiar with this blog are aware of I have a certain affinity for team cards. I always seem to have a little difficulty expressing why that is however. Sometimes I think it might be the democracy of them. I mean, you have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You Can Get in Exchange for a Card of a Dude with Gunk All Over His Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, I just want to remind everyone to go checkout the giveaway I&#8217;m doing to celebrate that this blog has turned a year old. Check it out. Okay, now onto the business at hand. I usually don&#8217;t seem to have too much luck pulling cool stuff from packs. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3245</link>
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		<title>Card of the Moment #42</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1963 Topps #40 Vic Power Have I mentioned that 1963 Topps is one of my favorite sets ever. Actually I&#8217;m pretty sure I have mentioned that. Actually, just because it&#8217;s a slow day at work and I&#8217;m apparently kind of crazy I went back and looked and saw that I mentioned that 1963 Topps is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=2993</link>
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		<title>The Anniversary That Came and Went</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t really do a whole bunch of blogging, or even thinking for that matter, about baseball cards over the weekend, but today I realized that Saturday marked the 1 year anniversary of me making my very first post here at Condition: Poor. Of course, looking back on it now, it wasn&#8217;t really much of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slangon.com/poor/?p=3235</link>
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		<title>The Quest for the 1960 Topps Set, Part X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been going on a bit of an eBay binge. Actually, I don&#8217;t know if binge is the right word. I feel like that connotes spending too much money. Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve been winning a bunch of auctions lately, but getting pretty damn lucky in those auctions. Anyway, one of the cards that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Card of the Moment #41</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1958 Topps #157 Dee Fondy Before I get into Dee Fondy, I just want to point out that I love the fact that this card lists the team as the &#8220;Cincinnati Redlegs&#8221; rather than just the &#8220;Cincinnati Reds&#8221;. On the local New York sports talk radio station, WFAN 660AM, theres a guy I like to [...]]]></description>
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