Cards of the Day: 2008 Rookie of the Year autographs
The arrival of my Daisuke Matsuzaka through the mail (TTM) autograph yesterday re-energized my faith in the TTM process. I think I might actually send out a few in the next month or so. But that card’s...
View ArticleThrift Treasures XXXIII: Kiss the rings …
Some people spent their weekend digging through bargain bins at The National Sports Card Convention in Chicago; I spent an hour digging through quarter boxes at a local flea market. All the same,...
View ArticleLet’s Go Niners! Let’s Go Niners!
My 1981 Topps Joe Montana rookie card It’s been a long time since Bay Area football has been this good. For about a decade, football fans in the San Francisco Bay Area have been subjected to sub-par...
View ArticleThrift Treasures XXXIX: T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, no he didn’t just drop a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reference on a baseball card blog.” You bet your ass I did. The turtles are back! Well, in my collection anyway....
View ArticleThrift Treasures 74: Oldies but Goodies; shiny ones too.
So late last week I hit a thrift store on the way home and in the “collectible” section behind the show case near the register were three white boxes that all card collectors could spot from across the...
View ArticleThrift Treasures 107: Serial Number Slayer
So the National Sports Collectors Convention is under way Atlantic City and like many others I wish I was there. I’ve been to the annual event twice, both times as peripheral member of the Beckett...
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