On The Eighth Day of Christmas…
December 21st, 2012 by slangon

…my collection gave to me… Eight Team Portraits, Seven Hall of Famers, Six Vintage Oddballs, Five Mini Mets, Four Old Ass Cards, Three Guys Named Johnny, Two Keith Hernandez’s, And a Vintage Moe Berg!

I Actually Bought a Pack of Baseball Cards
August 27th, 2012 by slangon

You know the story. You’re at Target and/or Walmart running errands and happen by the card aisle. Of course you can’t just walk by without just popping your head in to see what’s that haps. Then your pocket starts to heating up and before you know it, there’s a hole burning in that pocket. It’s […]

Proceeds from the Cards for Junk Program
February 7th, 2012 by slangon

Back about a million years ago (or at least it seems that long ago to me) (seriously, it took me about 20 minutes of hitting “Older Posts” and scrolling down to find the post I was looking for), The Cardboard Junkie put out a call for all your blank pack searcher decoy thingies in exchange […]

Some 1960 Style Sportlots
March 22nd, 2010 by slangon

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 […]