Congratulations to the Texas Rangers for defeating the New York Yankees to become the 2010 American League Champs, and move on to the World Series for the first time in the history of their franchise.

Tags: 1966 Topps, Cardboard Abuse, post-season, team card, Texas Rangers, Washington Senators
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1962 Topps #206 Washington Senators Team Card As most folks who are familiar with this blog are aware of I have a certain affinity for team cards. I always seem to have a little difficulty expressing why that is however. Sometimes I think it might be the democracy of them. I mean, you have a […]

Tags: 1962 Topps, Cardboard Abuse, team card, Washington Senators
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A while back, I had posted about a TTM success that I recently got back from former Red Sox pitcher and current wack-o Bill “The Spaceman” Lee. Chris from Project ’62 had contacted me about getting a copy of the Bill Lee card for his Bill Lee player collection that he started last year. Now, […]

Tags: 1958 Topps, 1959 Topps, 1961 Topps, 1962 Topps, 1963 Topps, 1964 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1968 Topps, 1969 Topps, 1970 Topps Booklets, 1970 Topps Scratch-Offs, 1971 Topps, 1976 Topps, 1983 Topps Traded, Alex Grammas, Autographs, Clem Labine, Cleon Jones, Dave Ricketts, Dee Fondy, Del Crandall, Dick Hughes, Dick William, Don Drysdale, Don Larsen, Fred Valentine, Hal Woodeshick, Jim Bouton, Jim King, Jim Perry, Joe Jay, John Schaive, Johnny Podres, Ken Johnson, Larry Doby, Pepe Mangual, Project '62, Sam Esposito, team card, Tom Seaver, Tony Oliva, Vada Pinson, Vic Power, Washington Senators
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Having recently decided to officially chase the 1960 Topps set, I made my first major step toward that goal. Up until now I had been randomly acquiring cards from this set in a kind of unsystematic manner, so I had a pile of maybe 25-30 of them. In one fell swoop I’ve managed to double […]

Tags: 1960 Topps, Bob Elliott, Boston Red Sox, Charley Grimm, Chicago White Sox, coach card, Harry Chiti, Harvey Kuenn, Joe Gordon, Luis Aparicio, manager card, Nellie Fox, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, team card, Walt Alston, Washington Senators
Filed Under: Set Chase by slangon
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I ended up scoring a gaggle of ’71 Topps Mets off of eBay. I’m going to break these into 2 posts, though, since I didn’t have the time or inclination to scan them all at once. I’m not sure what the consensus is on the 1971 Topps set, but for me, it’s one of those […]

Tags: 1971 Topps, Art Shamsky, Bob Aspromonte, Dave Marshall, Dean Chance, Denny Riddleberger, Ed Kranepool, Ken Boswell, Ken Singleton, Mets, Norm McRae, Tommie Agee, Washington Senators, Wayne Garrett
Filed Under: It Came from the 'Bay by slangon
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