On The Sixth Day of Christmas…
December 19th, 2012 by slangon

…my collection gave to me… Six Vintage Oddballs, Five Mini Mets, Four Old Ass Cards, Three Guys Named Johnny, Two Keith Hernandez’s, And a Vintage Moe Berg!

“Payment” from Project ’62: Part 5
July 10th, 2011 by slangon

As much as I would love to continue posting about how awesome the cards that Chris sent me for doing that custom card 7,000,000 years ago, I need to finish this out. So here’s the final push, and it should be no great surprise that I saved the best for last. 1957 Topps #39 Al […]

Opening Day 2011
April 1st, 2011 by slangon

After a long cold winter, Opening Day is finally here. I know, I know. Opening Day was technically yesterday, but for whatever reason the scheduling gods decided that the Mets wouldn’t open until today. I’m actually a little confused as to what happened. I always remember the very first game of the season happening on […]

Some More Birthday Cards
July 1st, 2010 by slangon

So I wound up going out after work yesterday and it was closer to 8:30 by the time I got home. When I did arrive home I was psyched to see a cardboard box about the size of a hobby box of 2010 Allen & Ginter cards in between my outside door and inside door. […]

Some Birthday Cards
June 30th, 2010 by slangon

Last Saturday happened to be the 36th anniversary of the day that Derek Jeter popped out of his momma’s womb. It also happened to be the 36th anniversary of the day that I popped out of my momma’s womb. My wifey was cool enough to give me a blaster, a cereal box and a rack […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 8
June 3rd, 2010 by slangon

So we begin Round 7. Pack 25 (Pedroia): 403 Jimmy Rollins 569 Jacoby Ellsbury 453 Jesse English RC 486 Raul Ibanez CMT102 Babe Ruth VLC10 Babe Ruth 595 Mike Lowell 413 J.J. Hardy 523 Phil Coke Jason Bay Attax Well, well. If you recall, way back in Round 2, in an odd turn of events, […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 3
May 30th, 2010 by slangon

Here we go with round 2. The one problem with this round was that I realized that there were 9 Mickey Mantle Packs, 9 Ty Cobb packs, only 8 Babe Ruths and 10 Dustin Pedroias. Therefore, if I want to stick to my plan of 9 rounds of Cobb vs. Ruth vs. Mantle vs. Pedroia, […]

Christmas Cards (The Kind Without Glitter) Part II
December 31st, 2009 by slangon

Moving along with the card haul I managed to receive for Christmas, here is the highlights from the T206 blaster that I was given by my lovely sister-in-law. First up, is a batch of rookies that I’m pretty excited to get, and not in a prospector way. More in a these-guys-were-pretty-exciting-to watch-last-season-and-I’m-interested-to-see-how-they-develop kind of way. […]

Cards I Would Like to Own: The Home Run King Edition
December 14th, 2009 by slangon

1973 Topps #1 All Time Home Run Leaders: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays I’ve always loved cards that depict more than one player. Classic Combo cards, team cards, league leader cards, you name it, I love it. I find leader cards to be especially nice because if a player is on a leader card, […]

5 Retail Packs: Pack #4
August 21st, 2009 by slangon

Off the Ginter. Go. Pack #4: 2009 Topps Series 2 #512 Steve Pearce – 1 Pirate. #458 Jeremy Bonderman #435 Carlos Lee – This guy again? Oh, brother. #606 Nick Johnson – I really like Johnson even though he plays for a bad team. #LGCB-RH Rogers Hornsby Career Best Legends – Not my favorite of […]