As I was collecting the mail the other day, there was a manilla envelope hiding was in the back, behind the phone bill and a Home Depot flyer. Hmm, what’s this? I don’t believe I’m expecting any trades. eBay? I haven’t won anything recently? What could it be? Then I remembered. It’s my prize package […]
Tags: David Wright, mail day, manilla envelope, Mets, Pedro Martinez, prize, relic, Thorzul
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Lastly, we have the Oughts. Is that what we’re supposed to be calling the first 10 years of the 21st Century? The Zeros? I like The Oughts. It sounds old timey. “I remember back in twenty-ought-nine, we still had land-line phones.” Anyway, the last batch of cards from the Stats-on-the-Back box. 2001 Topps #404 Mike […]
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Cliff Floyd, Dave Kingman, David Bacani, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Lastings Milledge, mail day, Mets, Mike Hampton, Paul LoDuca, Pedro Feliciano
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The 90’s portion of the box. Or at least my favoritest. 1991 Baseball Card Price Guide Monthly #25 Howard Johnson – A weird card I’d never seen before. Blatant rip-off of 71 Topps, which is cool with me. On the back, instead of stats, it has “Pocket Price Guide” Card Values. Hojo’s 83 Donruss ran […]
Tags: Arnold Gooch, Bobby Bonilla, Bobby Jones, Brook Fordyce, Carlos Delgado, Dave Kingman, Donnie Leshnock, Eddie Murray, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frank Taveras, Howard Johnson, Jeromy Burnitz, John Olerud, junk wax, Keith Hernandez, mail day, Masato Yoshii, Mets, Mike Piazza, Tug McGraw
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We’re getting down to it folks. This is the start of the box of cards that Mark from Stats on the Back sent me. To break it down, the box contained exactly 206 cards, 1 of which was a double and 5 of which I happen to have. For all you calculator jockeys out there, […]
Tags: Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Don Wilson, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, Gary Carter, George Foster, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Jerry Grote, junk wax, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Mitchell, mail day, Mets, Mookie Wilson, Ozzie Smith, Pat Zachry, Ron Darling, Steve Garvey, Tom Seaver, Wally Backman
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Did you ever think you were really on top of things, but then took a look at your desk and realized that you weren’t? Over the last few days, things I’ve gotten in the mail and at the card store have been piling up like doo-doo at a dog show. Let’s see what we can […]
Tags: 2009 Goudey, Cal Ripken, Conor Gillaspie, Derek Jeter, Jose Reyes, Josh Hamilton, Kevin Slowey, mail day, manilla envelope, Ozzie Smith, Phil Coke, Phil Niekro
Filed Under: Trade by slangon
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This trade comes to us from Captain Canuck in the far North. I sent him some ’09 Ginter needs, and he was supposed to do the same. As you’ll see, he did that and a bit more. What was supposed to be in the trade were these Ginters: #50 Pat Neshek #159 Denard Span #170 […]
Tags: 1991 Donruss, 2009 Allen & Ginter, Barry Bonds, Cecil Fielder, Dale Murphy, Denard Span, Fred McGriff, Greg Vaughn, junk wax, Kirby Puckett, Kirk Gibson, Lance Berkman, mail day, manilla envelope, Ron Darling, Ryne Sandberg, Sandy Alomar, Tim Raines
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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 […]
Tags: 2009 Tristar Obak, Beardy, Gregg Jefferies, mail day, manilla envelope, Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver
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…I got me some new cards. Two manilla envelopes, to be precise. First up, a couple of weeks ago, The Great Sports Name Hall of Fame was having a little give-away. Of course I signed up, and very much to my surprise, won. I ended up picking Prize #3, 50 baseball cards. For brevity’s sake, […]
Tags: Alex Trevino, Barry Larkin, Cecil Fielder, Damion Easley, Eric Davis, Fred McGriff, give-aways, Great Sports Name Hall of Fame, junk wax, Keith Miller, Kirby Puckett, mail day, manilla envelope, Mike Diaz, Paul Molitor, Timo Perez
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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 […]
Tags: 2009 Allen & Ginter, Herb Simpson, mail day, Negro Leagues, TTM
Filed Under: Autographs by slangon
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Another Trade
September 22nd, 2009 by slangon
I make a few trades every now and again on a website called Sports Card Fun, which is basically a forum where people post cards that they’re looking to trade or get, and you work out whatever deals. I never really work out anything ground breaking, mostly just set building. Because of this, a lot […]
Tags: 2008 Allen & Ginter, 2009 Allen & Ginter, Carlos Pena, David Freese, Garrett Atkins, Ichiro, Jeff Francis, Johnny Cueto, Josh Willingham, mail day, National Heroes, Prince Fielder, Tadeusz Kosciuszko
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