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2000 Upper Deck Ionix: the Best for Last
After a year like that, this feels like a good time to look to the future not unlike Upper Deck did at the turn of the millennium when they gave us some of the coolest futuristic-themed card sets ever...
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2010 Topps Month Part 1: Flagship and Friends
We've been doing the month-long theme thing for a while now, but this one's going to be a little different. It will be the first month themed after every offering by a specific brand over the course of...
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2010 Topps Month Part 2: Chrome
Baseballcardpedia says that there are 105,000 boxes of 2010 Chrome which is four times the quantity of the same product in 2009. This should make the building of a PC master set for a given player a...
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2010 Topps Month Part 3: Finest and Allen & Ginter's World Champions
There are seven sets left to cover for 2010 Topps month. They made more sets than that, but only seven of those remaining had Griffeys in them. We’re going to be swiping left on those things. It's not...
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2010 Topps Month Part 4: Heritage and Triple Threads
Heritage is awesome in the same way Archives is awesome: we get to see an officially-released card in an old Topps design we may otherwise have never gotten to see our player on apart from customs and...
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2010 Topps Month Part 5: 206, National Chicle, and Attax
Three 2010 Topps sets remain that featured Griffey pulls, and only one of the remaining sets still exists in some form. Let’s start with that one: 2010 Topps 206.My biggest complaint about the vintage...
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1996 Upper Deck Folz Vending Machine Minis. Also Kinda 1997. Also Collectors...
Any '90’s collector who’s spent enough time in online card circles eventually comes across these things and thinks the same thing: What the H-E-dubs am I looking at? Even years after first encountering...
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1998 Leaf Rookies and Stars: the Cohesiv-est
I used to watch Project Runway religiously with my wife and sister. Feel free to give me shit about it. We got pretty into it, too, drafting designers serpentine, fantasy football style, keeping track...
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1993 Upper Deck and the Pronunciation of Iooss
Doing a write-up of this set today, in 2021, is like doing a write-up of Abbey Road today, in 2021. This is a set that everybody loves and that has gracefully stood the test of time. One wrong move and...
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The Top 30 Griffey Acquisitions of 2021 Part 1: 21-30
So this is the part where I usually give a recap of my collecting year. Well, the biggest news on the collecting and blogging front is that I don’t have much time for collecting and blogging.As my...
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The Top 30 Griffey Acquisitions of 2021 Part 2: 11-20
Well, cards are officially back. Prices are right back to where they were before the “crash” and often much higher, there are new collectors everywhere as well as old collectors made new again, and...
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Top 30 Griffey Acquisitions of 2021 Part 3: The Top Ten
There were years when I added thousands of new Griffeys to the collection. As the years went by, thousands became hundreds. This year I probably added less than 200.I tend to spend a lot more when I’m...
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The Shape of Things to Come: the Griffeys of 1996 SPx
I’m doing this set because I wanted to do an “easy one.” As easy sets go, this one isn’t quite as easy as it used to be, but it’s also not two dozen cards deep which is a step in the direction of easy...
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The Big Shor(e)t: The Griffeys of Project 2020
What a mess this was. Don't get me wrong - it was also awesome. The cards are great, and I have a whole lot of 'em. And I don’t blame Topps – in fact I love the concept and really love the cards. If...
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1997 Upper Deck UD3: the Big Potato
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Upper Deck at the top of their game. Take it in….This was 1997, people – the crest of the wave. Every great brand of the ‘90’s was still active – not just active,...
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1991 Topps: the Desert Fox
I don't think Topps made a more iconic flagship set in the '90's than this one. And it's not just the photography, although that did take a huge leap forward, too. I always assumed the introduction of...
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Mark on History Indeed: 1999 Upper Deck Challengers For 70
It was 1999, a year after the whirlwind season wherein Roger Maris’ long-time single-season home run record of 61 was shattered by not one but TWO different sluggers (asterisk, asterisk). We were in...
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