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2014: How'd I Do?
Someone find me this sweater!Hi, there! I hope everyone had a happy and productive holiday season. Back to reality...I set eight goals for myself in 2014. Of those eight, I hate to admit that I...
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Design Timeline: Leaf Limited
This Post is Part of an Ongoing Feature The Great Griffey Base Card Project.When you think of Leaf Limited, what comes to mind? For me it’s foil. Shiny, unscannable, easily-damaged foil. The base cards...
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Nerd Week Contest Results
Man, oh, man are you guys nerdy! And am I ever proud of ya.Here's a link to the original contest, and a reminder that up for grabs today is a brand new and sealed Family Guy Star Wars Crossover Blu-ray...
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Wallet Card Dilemma
I went on a trip to New York recently to visit friends, and I brought with me a 1995 Pinnacle Griffey (the gum bubble one) in a screw case specifically to take pictures of it in cool places. And...
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One of Those $5 Card Cubes From CVS. You Know the Ones.
Oftentimes when I buy one of these repack cubes I bust it and forget it, but this one actually gave some pretty decent cardboard. I figured I should write about it.This was the salesman card, that...
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My First Wallet Card Submission
Remember that drinking game I told you guys about wherein you burn cards featuring players with unfunny names? Well, we had a rousing round of it last night around the fire pit. The winner was none...
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Trade Post Roundup: Jaybarkerfan's 2 x 3 Garvey Cey Nachos Chop Grande
I try to keep up with trade packages, but it's tough when you're a bit of a flibbertigibbet which I most certainly am. Some of these cards I received in just the last few days and some (it appears)...
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Top 30 Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2014 Part 1: The Worst of the Best
I added 973 new unique Griffeys to the collection in 2014. That's a little over 2 1/2 a day. As it is the tendency of people to only focus on the best of things, it's now time to look at my best new...
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Top 30 Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2014 Part 2: the Also-Ran
Welcome back. I'm ranking the Top 30 of the 973 Griffeys I added in 2014, and this is the middle ten. These are the ones that, while excellent cards all, just missed out on being in Top 10. It was...
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Top 30 Best Griffey Acquisitions of 2014 Part 3: The 1%
This is it, guys. This is where it gets real - real expensive. Of the 973 new Griffeys added last year, these are quite literally the 1%. The absolute best ones. They're the bee's knees, the cat's...
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Sing the Praises of the Nachos Grande Group Break!
If you haven't yet gotten around to joining a Nachos Grande group break (and if you're a Mariners fan, sorry I always take 'em), you are missing out. I've done well over a dozen now and love every...
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Cavalcade of Keepers 6
It's been a while, but here once again is a closer look at five cards from the mighty Keeper Box.This Ripken from Upper Deck kind of makes it look like he was retiring from baseball altogether when in...
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Fanfare For the Common Card Man: A Trade Post
I recognize that there are other Griffey collectors out there, and I’m all about helping them out. Even after the great purging of 2014 I still have piles of duplicate Griffey cards. I try to keep at...
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2015 Topps and I Have BEEF…
…and it’s bigger than any recycling-of-photos or too-many-parallels gripe you may have heard in the past. Way bigger.Even while poking fun I generally try to stay positive on the blog and give the...
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My Wallet Card's 8000-Mile Canadian Yukon Aurora-Hunting Adventure
I took my Griffey card to see the Aurora Borealis (aka the Northern Lights) from a little town in Canada called Whitehorse, the biggest population center in the Yukon. It was an awe-inspiring trip to...
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Trade Post: Tom is a Set-Building Angel
It can be time consuming, depending on how you organize, to read another blogger’s set-building want lists and then thumb through your own cards in search of the ones they need. It is also incredibly...
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Adam (Infield Fly) Rules: a Trade Post
Sometimes I mail out huge boxes of cardboard. It may seem like generosity, but in reality it’s a ploy to declutter my cardspace. My wife doesn’t fuss quite as much about the occasional PWE or yellow...
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Wallet Card Wars: '89 UD Griffey vs. Jose Abreu 1/1 Auto
Give Grandpa Joe back his tobacco money, Charlie Bucket - the Golden Ticket has been found under the fluorescent lights of a small LCS outside of New Orleans, La. Someone pulled the 2014 Stadium Club...
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Wallet Card: Griffey Goes to Mardi Gras Day 1 - Pontchartrain, Choctaw, and...
For two weeks out of every year New Orleans hosts millions of people from all around the world to the country's biggest party; and being that I live and work right in the middle of it, I saw this as a...
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Wallet Card: Griffey Goes to Mardi Gras Day 2 - Barkus and the French Quarter
Welcome back! This is day 2 of our week of Mardi Gras #WalletCard photos. Today's pictures are all from Sunday, February 8th when we went to the French Quarter to see the Krewe of Barkus.One unchanging...
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