Tribe Card Generosity
March 24th, 2010 by slangon

Like a bunch of other folks in this little card collecting community of ours, I recently was the recipient of some major league generosity bestowed upon me by Dave from Tribe Cards as part of his Last Great Tribecards Giveaway. Of course when I say recently I mean about a month ago. What can I [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to the Generosity of Others… (The Conclusion)
September 28th, 2009 by slangon

So the second envelope came to me courtesy of everyone’s favorite Orioles fan, Beardy. A while back, Beardy had slapped a post up on his blog saying that since he wasn’t collecting the set, he waould be giving away base cards from the box of 2009 Tristar Obak that he busted. So I left a [...]

The Last of the Trades… For Now
September 11th, 2009 by slangon

And probably my favorite. This one comes from everybody’s favorite Orioles fan, Beardy. I disremember exactly what I sent him, but I seem to recall a Prospect set from the National that I won from The Anti-Becket, an 09 Ginter Adam Jones mini, an 09 Ginter Sphinx card, and a hand full of random these [...]