Another Manilla One Bites the Dust
October 6th, 2011 by slangon

Once upon a time, long ago, The Night Owl held a fun little contest where he cobbled together a ransom note-style message made up of different letters from various card fronts and your job was to match the letters with the card it was pulled from. Being a graphic designer who deals with fonts all […]

The Most Fun I’ve Had With eBay in a While, Part III
May 28th, 2010 by slangon

I’d posted a few lots that I won a while back from the same seller on eBay over the last week. They were particularly fun for me because they were basically the equivalent of buying a pack of cards in both cost and the number of cards that I ended up with, but with the […]

Holy Crap-oly!! My First TTM Success!
September 25th, 2009 by slangon

About a week and a half ago, I had finally gotten around to sending out my very first through the mail autograph request to the gentleman pictured in the card below. Yesterday, as I was sifting through the bills and junk mail, I stopped at an envelope addressed to me, written in my own hand […]

Major Leaguers, Negro Leaguers, and Barnstorming in the House of David
August 6th, 2009 by slangon

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 […]