Happy Turkey (Red) Day
November 25th, 2010 by slangon

Stock up on the tryptophan and beer and don’t forget to stake out your spot to pass out on the couch later. In the meantime, here’s some cards. Enjoy the Holiday, everybody.

Panic in the Year 6-4-5
October 11th, 2010 by slangon

It’s been quite a spell since I made my way over to the old card shop to peruse the 6 for $5 bin. I think that was mostly from being busy and distracted by life, but also a little bit was because the last few times I dug through it there were no new cards […]

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 […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 9
June 4th, 2010 by slangon

We’re down to the final 2 Rounds. Pedroia and Mantle are out of the picture and Cobb’s got some work to do to stay in the race with Ruth. Let’s see what happens. Pack 29 (Ruth): 345 Chris Volstad 515 Seattle Mariners FH 650 Dustin Pedroia 433 Julio Borbon 558 Ronnie Paulino HWS6 Mickey Mantle […]

The Quest for the 1960 Topps Set
March 29th, 2010 by slangon

As I mentioned before, as part of my quest to complete the 1960 Topps set, earlier this week I had received a Sportlots shipment and and eBay shipment that helped me in my quest. Today, I will highlight some cards that I got as part of the Sportlots haul. As I talked about in the […]

Home Office Archeology
February 1st, 2010 by slangon

As I was cleaning up my desk over the weekend, I unearthed a small pile of custom cards that I had sent out to get signed at some point or other and consequently had returned, unsigned. My small pile of failures. It occurred to me that I’ve more or less fallen into this habit of […]