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Wallet Card Wednesday: Texas Contest Edition
I spent a little time “off the grid” of sorts while visiting friends in Texas. It was an experience that can be classified accurately as “rootin’ tootin’.”This is their house, tucked in the middle of a...
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Security/Simplicity Overhaul: Big Changes to the Way I Griffey
You know how much I love overhauls. Well this one is huge. So huge, in fact, that it required weeks of nightly busywork instead of active blogging which is why I’ve been more or less absent from the...
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How the Griffeys of 1997 Upper Deck Changed Everything Part 1: The Base Set
I’ve waited a long time to do a write-up of this groundbreaking set, and after months of searching and great expense I finally got everything I need to do it. Turns out it would have made for one...
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How the Griffeys of 1997 Upper Deck Changed Everything Part 2: The Inserts
Welcome to Part 2 of How the Griffeys of 1997 Upper Deck Changed Everything. This one's going to be a doozy, so I hope everybody brought clean socks. Here you go:The InsertsWe’re going to start at the...
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Junior Junkie Journey: M&M Sports Cards in Pensacola, Florida
If you’ve ever been on a vacation with your in-laws, you know at some point it’s good to get away for a while and get some “me” time. And what better excuse to do this than baseball cards?We took a...
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The Prowling Cat’s Picture Perfect Trade Package
I’ve been lucky enough to receive lots of fun and unique Griffey-related items from bloggers all over the country, and I consider myself blessed to have so many card collecting pals in and around...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: This Was a Bad Idea Edition
I took my 1994 Upper Deck Griffey/Mantle Dual Auto out for a night on the town.It's not my wallet card, but I was so excited when it came in that I decided I would not be going anywhere without it...
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Highpletely Subjectitrary: a Trade Post
In an effort to shorten the title of today’s post, I decided to abbreve the name of Brian’s blog, Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary, which, while known to many as a symbol of quality card...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: Animal Farm Edition
Farms are exactly like Farmville only real and covered in dirt. I spent some time on a farm recently, and you better believe I took my Wallet Card along. So grab your pitchfork and dirty straw hat...
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A Box of 1995 Select: 20 Years Later
Got a nice throwback box for you today. I received a box exactly like this as a birthday gift when I was 14 which makes this one of the few boxes I busted as a kid that I'm getting to bust again. Now...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: Four Seasons Edition
I’m no snob, nor am I a wealthy man. But I had to go to Texas for three nights, and my company was footing the bill. It just so happened that the hotel closest to where I would be working was a Four...
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2000 Fleer Impact: Planet Bland
It seems that for a while there in the late 90’s through early aughts, all brands were trying to fill every niche of the market with something - anything - and no one did this more unapologetically...
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Building a New Card Room: a Macro Organization Post
Everything is changing down here at JJHQ. Frankly I don’t even know where to start.The first change? I have to completely vacate my card room.My old card room the way it's been for the last three...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: a Trade Post
I can only dream of having a trademark as goofily recognizable as the myriad Bieber cards and stickers that have been coming out of France for the past few months. There's no mistaking what you're...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: A Day on Bourbon Street Edition
My wife and I are kind of unofficial tour guides when someone we know is visiting New Orleans for the first time. It’s not that we’re full of interesting historical tidbits or anything fancy like that...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: Crawfish Murder Porn Edition
I know, I know: too many food-related posts on Wallet Card Wednesday; but here we sit at the tail end of the crawfish season (pun intended), the greatest of all seasons here in south Louisiana. It must...
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4000! A Milestone, a Giveaway, and a Look Forward
On April 28th, 2014, my Griffey collection reached a milestone: 3000 unique cards. On August 10th of this year, 469 days later, it happened again. The unique Griffey count has skyrocketed to over 4000....
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1994 Topps: My Baby's Got Gloss
1994 is the year the whole cardscape changed. After the previous year’s array of new printing techniques and entire brands built around said techniques, ’94 is when we saw those techniques applied even...
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Wallet Card Wednesday: Lego Edition
There's a girl in the French Quarter who sells nothing but Lego minifigs; and in addition to having an extremely impressive selection of figures, she's also pretty cute. I feel like the very meaningful...
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Design Timeline: SP
This post is part of an ongoing feature The Great Griffey Base Card Project.The regular SP brand (which you could call SP flagship and get away with it) was only around for five years, but in that time...
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