Some Snow Day Cards
February 9th, 2013 by slangon

I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but at the moment I’m sitting under roughly a foot of snow. That’s a slightly annoying amount, but after the way everyone around here and in the media was freaking out over the last few days, it seems like a coating. Anyway, what better way to […]

Careful What You Wish For
October 22nd, 2011 by slangon

Yesterday, I was talking about how I was pretty surprised that given all the big sluggers in both the Cardinals and Rangers lineups the first 2 games of the World Series were relatively low scoring affairs. I further went on to hypothesize that perhaps playing the next few games in Texas would remedy that. Well […]

Blaster Schmaster: The Mid-Late 70’s
March 11th, 2011 by slangon

To recap, I recently grabbed a bunch o’ cardboard from Sportlots and managed to spend about what I would if I had bought a modern blaster box. I already covered some random freebies that the seller threw in as well as cards from the Oughts and the 80’s. Now were starting to get into the […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 10
June 6th, 2010 by slangon

The finale. Pack 33 (Cobb): 391 Manny Parra 397 Colorado Rockies TC 577 Jason Jaramillo 375 Mike Leake RC 429 Seth Smith WSH14 Jim Palmer TR67 Grady Sizemore 596 Brendan Ryan 358 Mark Buehrle Matt Holliday Attax Okay, so out of the 9 Cobb packs that I got in this box I got 8 Turkey […]

The 6-for-5 Bin Attacks!
March 14th, 2010 by slangon

Here’s another pack worth of cards that I picked up at the old 6-4-5 bin. 1965 Topps #77 Doug Camilli Every now and again a baseball card comes along that just looks so appealing that I wish I were in it. This is one of those cards. The blue sky, the green grass, the palm […]

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 […]