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Card of the Day: 1990 Upper Deck Kevin Maas rookie
**Note: With the All-Star game taking place this week at Yankee Stadium, I will spend the next several days showcasing cards from my Yankee collection. The Yankees have always produced legends. Ruth....
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Card of the Day: 1998 Score Rookie / Traded Barry Bonds
Man, times were much simpler in 1997, weren’t they? Roger Maris still held the single-season home run record, and Hank Aaron was the all-time Major League Baseball home run champion. Collecting...
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Pack Break: 1994 Flair Series 2: The Hunt for A-Rod
Forty four days ago I made a purchase that rubbed me the wrong way. You see, I went out of my way to find a retail tin of 2008 Sweet Spot. And when I busted the three packs that were contained within...
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Introducing the “Random Rookie Recap”
When I started this blog eight months ago, I did so with a “Card of the Day” posts that featured a 1951 Bowman Phil Rizzuto card. I started with a “Card of the Day” (COTD) posts because my goal was to...
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For McGwire, the past has become the present and future
Mark McGwire and Roger Maris rookie cards will forever be linked. 1999 Topps HR Record, No. 61 My jaw dropped, my heart skipped a beat; for a few seconds I wondered if someone had sent the Associated...
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Did Upper Deck forecast the future with Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa?
So while continuing my Purge this morning, I came across my Barry Bonds collection. It’s a binder consisting of about 150 cards with some cool inserts like serial numbered Diamond Kinds and the such....
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Thrift Treasures Part XXVIII: If this were 1998 …
… I would have struck it rich. Welcome to the 28th edition of Thrift Treasures, the Cardboard Icons original series documenting dirt-cheap cardboard finds. In today’s edition we flash back some 12...
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A lot of cards that speaks volumes about baseball, our hobby
Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds. If there was a Mount Rushmore of the Steroid Era, these guys would take up three of the spots on the side of the mountain. All three at one point were...
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A completed set 10 years in the making: 2001 UD Gold Glove “Slugger’s Choice”
For 10 years I’ve had a thing for batting glove cards. We’ve all seen thousands of Game Used Jersey cards, and probably just as many bat cards. The popularity of these items really has come and gone....
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Thrift Treasures 105: Do UC3 what I see?
Collecting baseball cards is a funny hobby. If you’ve been in the game long enough you’ve seen how collectors latch onto certain things and then at some point they complete abandon them — the...
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Thrift Treasures 120: The Best of the American League
Real quick hitter today. I had about an hour to spare on Wednesday between drop off time at school and an award assembly in which my son and nephew were receiving accolades in math so I make a quick...
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