For the third year in a row, I’m highlighting some of my favorite cardboard acquisitions from the past 366 days (2012 was a Leap Year, after all). If I lived in an other part of the world, I might start this series on Christmas Day and run it straight through January 5th, a period known […]
Tags: 12 Days of Christmas, 1936 National Chicle Fine Pens, Moe Berg
Filed Under: Moe Berg,Some Cards by slangon
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Yes I know that I’ve been terribly slackerish lately. It’s summer time. What can I say? Anyway, today we’re going to look at a pretty sweet trade that I pulled off a week or 2 or 3 ago. Who can remember at this point? Besides, I could just tell you that I made this trade […]
Tags: 1964 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1970 Topps, 1972 Topps, 2012 Dayf Sketch Card, Duffy Dyer, Eddie Bressoud, John Milner, Larry Bearnarth, Moe Berg, Rick Miller, Tom Hutton, Walt "No Neck" WIlliams
Filed Under: Trade by slangon
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Well, technically I’ve been back for 3 days now, but I had a spot of trouble getting out of vacation mode and back into posting mode. I was actually a little surprised about that. I generally try to post once a day, 6 times a week at the least. It’s never really a chore for […]
Tags: 1968 Topps, Cardboard Abuse, Dave Baldwin, Moe Berg
Filed Under: Card of the Moment by slangon
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While looking into the checklist of known Moe Berg cards, I came across the 2005 Helmar set. Honestly, the only reason I ended up really looking into it was because when I did a search for Moe Berg on the Beckett site, his card from this set had an asterix next to it (Which I […]
Tags: 2005 Helmar, boxers, House of David, Japanese Players, Moe Berg, Negro Leagues, retro sets
Filed Under: Cards I Would Like to Own by slangon
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I recently finished up the very excellent book The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff. For those unaware, Moe Berg was a mostly second or third string catcher that played in the Majors from 1923-1939. He played for quite a few teams, including the Brooklyn Robins, the Chicago […]
Tags: Moe Berg, Nicholas Dawidoff, secondary directives
Filed Under: Cards I Would Like to Own by slangon
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