A Fistful of 6-for-5 Bin
March 12th, 2010 by slangon

Made it back to the card shop a few weeks ago and picked up some more “packs” from the 6 for $5 bin. Here’s one. 1969 Topps #606 Gene Mauch My collection of manager cards has been growing quite a bit quicker than my collection of team cards. I wonder why that is. Here’s Gene [...]

Night of the Living 6-for-5 Bin
February 25th, 2010 by slangon

Here we go with another “pack” of 6 for $5 vintage. I think I only have one more “pack” to go, so it might be high time to head on down to the old card shop soon. I think I need some binder pages anyway. 1976 Topps #400 Rod Carew Sometimes I wonder about card [...]

Revenge of the 6-for-5 Bin
February 21st, 2010 by slangon

I’m still trying to get through the initial batch of cards that I got from the 6 for $5 vintage bin at my local card shop. Here we go for another “pack”. 1973 Topps #84 Rollie Fingers This may not be Rollie Fingers’ rookie card, but it is Rollie Fingers’ Mustaches rookie card. The rookie [...]

Some More Sportlots Finds
February 19th, 2010 by slangon

When I declared 2010 to be “The Year of Vintage”, apparently, I wasn’t kidding. Here’s a smorgasbord of manager and coaches cards that I picked up. The more my vintage collection grows, it’s fun to notice that a lot of those guys I actually have cards from their playing days. I know I have Galen [...]

The 6-For-5 Bin: This Time It’s Personal
February 12th, 2010 by slangon

We’re finally finished with the first batch of cards that I got from the old 6-for-5 bin. This is the start of the second batch. One thing I noticed during this hunt was that there was a lot of cards that I know for a fact were not there the first couple of times. That’s [...]

Return of the Son of the 6 for $5 Bin
February 9th, 2010 by slangon

Here we go with yet another “pack” from the 6-for-5 bin down at the local card shop. Let’s see what goodies we’ll get today. 1957 Topps #96 Hank Aguirre This is the second ’57 Topps that I pulled out of that box. So far, those have been the oldest cards I’ve seen in there, which [...]

Son of the 6 for $5 Bin
February 7th, 2010 by slangon

Well, Super Bowl is upon us. Today we will not only find out who the best team in the NFL is, but we’ll find out where Cy Seymour is going to spend the next month. But in the meantime, we got some baseball cards to post. Here’s “Pack 3″ from the 6-for-5 bin. 1979 Topps [...]

Return of the 6 for $5 Bin
February 5th, 2010 by slangon

Here we go with “Pack 2″. 1974 Topps #2 Hank Aaron Special 1954-1957 This is the first of the Hank Aaron Specials that Topps put out in ’74, to commemorate his breaking of Babe Ruth’s career home run record. There was a total of 5 of them, each depicting 4 of his Topps cards through [...]

I Told You It Was The Year of Vintage
January 23rd, 2010 by slangon

I did not decide that it was the Year of Vintage. It is apparently just fated that way. Yesterday, after I had gotten done mentioning that I was declaring this The Year of Vintage, I had to run out a do a couple of errands. I was heading over by the local Target, so I [...]

And In This Corner…
September 1st, 2009 by slangon

Lots of things in the works, nothing ready to post. Isn’t that always the way? I got a bunch of trades and eBay scores I need to get scanned and posted, as well as the first couple of Heroes of the Diamond cards. But since I have other things kicking my arse right now, I [...]