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In The Zone
UPDATE: Unfortunately, Dave has put out notice that the shop will close 31 Dec 2023. In recapping my card hunting in the various shops, flea markets, shows, and antique malls in Michigan, I'm not...
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Suite Experience At Camden Yards
While I was on vacation, one of my co-workers (who is always after a deal) arranged for a few of us to see an Orioles game with one of our vendor companies. But this wasn't going to be just another...
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Hitting The High Points
I've got a few more batches of shop & show loot to put on display, but I don't really have many more images of where they came from. So I'll just post them by type, rather than source.This may be...
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Vintage NFL (New Football Loot)
Since it's the first weekend of the NFL season, it's the perfect time to show the vintage football I got on vacation.It's not a whole lot, but there are some cool cards.Finished my '71 Topps Game with...
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Ginter Gap Cards #2
The half dozen people that responded favorably to my custom A&G cards of Malika Andrews inspired me to create some more. I'll call them Ginter Gap cards, since they are subjects that Ginter didn't...
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The Heart Of Baltimore...
I don't have a lot to say about the passing of Baltimore Orioles legend Brooks Robinson that isn't going to be said in all the tributes. As I've mentioned before, this autographed photo was obtained at...
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50's Vintage From Vacation
I promised to show the rest of my haul from this summer's trip to Michigan shops and the National in Chicago. Sorry it's taken me a whole additional month to put up, but here ya go.The bulk of my...
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2023 Ginter - Box 1: Diving In, But The Water's Fine
At this point, the only new product I look forward to each year is Allen & Ginter. Heritage is moving through the iconic 70's, but a lot of that has been preempted by the ever-redundant Archives....
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Jumping Into '62
With the completion of 1964 Topps, my next set build is 1962 Topps. Both sets (and some '63's) started with the same bargain lot I got at a shop in western Maryland a few years ago. I got over 300...
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2023 Ginter - Box 2: Judgement And Freedom
Box number two of three in my foray into 2023 Allen & Ginter. Another decent outcome. Let's jump in...The Tawpa is Da Hawpa!I really like these Only In... minis. Hopefully they're not scarce at...
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Ginter Gap Cards #3: Had To Do It
I was hoping to whip this up in a couple hours tonight just so I could break up the last two A&G box posts. But image editing with a program from 1992 just takes a lot of time. Plus I was...
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2023 Ginter - Box 3: Not A Rainstorm, But It Is A Little Muddy
And now the third and final box of 2023 Allen & Ginter. If I said I was disappointed in this one, it would make it sound like it was a bad box - it really wasn't. Though the hits aren't nearly as...
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Yes, 'Em Are Nice Cards
In what should be a much larger effort to purge stuff from Hivemind Headquarters, here's a stack of stuff that might be useful for someone. I get these at the National Convention, but since I'm not...
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Monday Mega Mail Day
The post office tends to save up packages for Monday deliveries around here. Which works out for me because I don't tend to plan much for Monday evenings otherwise, (#old guy, #mondayssuck) so it's...
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Semi-Grey Saturday Blowout Deals
Could have made it really click-bait if I'd have written this yesterday - Black Friday - but this is how it works out.Anyway, I do have some more basically free stuff to offer. It's a mixture of...
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More Mixed Mailings
Ugh, I'm slackin' again. It's just a lot right now...Ideally, I'd be posting almost every Trading Card Database trade I make like a lot of other blogs, but there have been so many lately that by the...
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Additional Atypical Arrivals
Yep, more incoming cards. Because this is all I do now.I'm pretty sure this was one day's mail, and it's TCDB traders, plus my best trader buddy Stuart's latest contributions. Starting on the left,...
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Like Heinz Flavors, The Nice Classic Chevys, And The First Regulation Size...
Hopefully those hints were enough to tell you that I'm 57 today.But you know, it's never really about me. It's about those who are much more attractive and also celebrating today...Kate Middleton is...
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What's The Story With This Guy?
I finally finished entering all my recent baseball extras into the TCDB. (Ok, full disclosure, I still have a couple piles of recently processed dupes that I have to sort yet, but the majority is...
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