Happy Turkey Day
November 24th, 2011 by slangon

Thanksgiving is upon us, and I have to say, this is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It combines all the cool things (stuffing yourself on food and booze, watching foosball all day and hanging with family) but doesn’t have a lot of the stressful things involved in other holidays like Christmas (figuring […]

On The Twelfth Day of Christmas…
December 25th, 2010 by slangon

… my collection gave to me Twelve 1960’s, Eleven vintage Mets, Ten Hall of Famers, Nine signed customs, Eight crusty skippers, Seven Keith Hernandezes, Six Deckle Edges, Five David Wrights, Four New York Giants, Three 58’s, Two vintage pugs, And a Red from Cincinnati! Merry Christmas, everyone.

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.

The Quest for the 1960 Topps Set, Part XI
September 8th, 2010 by slangon

No, I haven’t forgot about the 1960 Topps set, or even baseball cards in general. Here’s some cards that I was able to grab pretty reasonably off of SportLots recently, including some Hall of Famers and other minor stars as well as some semi-high and high numbered cards. #85 Frank Lary I’ve talked in the […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 5
May 31st, 2010 by slangon

Pack 13 (Ruth): 425 Dontrelle Willis 574 Milwaukee Brewers TC 416 Ruben Tejada RC 376 Esmil Rogers RC 331 Ryan Braun LL-49 Lou Brock / Carl Crawford TMC-18 Thurmon Munson 389 Troy Tulowitzki 481 Scott Rolen Derrek Lee Attax Not bad. A Met who had a cup of coffee with the team when Reyes was […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Hobby Box, Part 3
May 30th, 2010 by slangon

Here we go with round 2. The one problem with this round was that I realized that there were 9 Mickey Mantle Packs, 9 Ty Cobb packs, only 8 Babe Ruths and 10 Dustin Pedroias. Therefore, if I want to stick to my plan of 9 rounds of Cobb vs. Ruth vs. Mantle vs. Pedroia, […]

The Quest for the 1960 Topps Set, Part VI
April 30th, 2010 by slangon

Here’s another eBay acquisition that I got a day or two before I flew the coop for Florida. Obviously, it’s not a pristine copy by any means, but hey, it’s a Willie McCovey rookie card, right? Between getting this card and the Yaz rookie crossed off my list I feel a lot better about my […]

I Told You It Was The Year of Vintage
January 23rd, 2010 by slangon

I did not decide that it was the Year of Vintage. It is apparently just fated that way. Yesterday, after I had gotten done mentioning that I was declaring this The Year of Vintage, I had to run out a do a couple of errands. I was heading over by the local Target, so I […]