I Feel Like A Collector Again: Dime Box Buy - 1987 Donruss Opening Day Puzzle Roberto Clemente

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Dime Box Buy - 1987 Donruss Opening Day Puzzle Roberto Clemente

I picked all five copies of this out of the dime box.

1987 Donruss Opening Day Puzzle Roberto Clemente

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Adam KaningherApril 29, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Nice card, and the pieces stay together better than the full-size puzzles.
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Quarter Box Sale TONIGHT Live on my YouTube Channel - Just a quick note to my readers that I’ll be running a quarter box sale tonight on my YouTube channel (click for link to my Continue reading The post Qua...
2 by 3 Heroes

Recent pickups - Look - if I don't get something posted soon, I will never do it. I spent the past two days organizing my desk, and sorting out more mailings I need to g...
All Trade Bait, All The Time...

Joan Jett Custom Cards From Baseball Card Breakdown - Aloha, everybody, Check out these beautiful custom Joan Jett baseball cards from Baseball Card Breakdown. There were also a couple of other surprise cus...
Korean Cardboard

Gravure Idol: Anri Sugihara autographs - I have made many purchases recently in different areas of my hobbies. I have become more serious with my aquariums, selling off some of my Mattingly cards ...
Dodgers Blue Heaven

Blog Kiosk: 9/15/2020 - Dodgers Links & News - Some Odds and Ends - I missed this recent release from Topps yesterday. Featured here is a Topps *2020 Turn Back the Clock* online exclusive card made available yesterday, an...
I Love the Smell of Cardboard in the Morning

The End of the 7 Day Trading Card Challenge Road - Here I am, I've come to the end of the line for my 7 Day Trading Card Challenge. There have been twists and turns...planned and unplanned pauses, but the j...
ARPSmith's Sportscard Obsession

The Joy of a Completed Team Set - 1996 Flair Giants - Every so often I go on a streak of trying to pick up Giants base cards to fill in gaps in my collection. I recently made a list of almost 700 base cards I...
Hoarding Cardboard

Post #152 - Pickup Man - Been a while since I posted - that's one of the negatives of being essential. Not that I'm complaining too much, however. I'm quite blessed to still be emp...
A guy and his Pavel Bure collection (and other stories)

This is the end guys here... New website! - This is the end guys! As you can see, it's been a while since I posted here. For some of you who didn't know, but I build a new website for my collection. ...
Baseball Happenings

How The Braves Gave One Fan The Baseball Experience Of A Lifetime - Steve Jaronik was nine years old in 1963 when the Milwaukee Braves gave a young kid the experience of a lifetime. Jaronik wrote the Braves asking if he cou...
onemillioncubsproj

An Ernie Banks Slab and Roosevelt Brown Autograph in a NAFTA Trade - NAFTA in the hobby world is an ongoing free trade agreement with @TheHobbySpyder. We have traded packages back and forth for well over a year. Let him know...
Cardboard Greats

The Series 1 Highlights - With Topps Heritage set to come out a week from this Wednesday, the 3 blasters I purchased of 2020 Topps Series 1 will likely be my only sampling of the ...
Andrew Henry

2006 Topps Jeff Francoeur #445 - Braves Card of the Day ⚾ - I had this fear that after a year or so in the league, Frenchy would hit a wall. I was afraid that his free swinging ways would lead to him striking out ...
Wayland The Smith And The Feathered Shirt – Pioneers Of Aviation

Ruth Law & Pioneer Aviator - Ruth Bancroft Law aka Ruth Law Oliver aka Ruth Law: born March 21, 1887 at Lynn, Massachusetts, United States of America – died December 1, 1970 in San Fra...
Hockey Kazi

Buchberger vs Sanipass 1-16- 89 - Hello everyone. I'm back with another fight photo from my collection. This one from Jan 16, 1989 when the Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks tied 2-2. ...
Collecting Sandy Alomar Jr.

Again? - Yep. This one was added because I tried to get the same one in years past. I absolutely love this action shot. And seeing Alomar's signature right at ...
Jenny's Card Collecting

Another Focus to my Hobby - Sometimes with my collection, ok majority of the time, I feel like I am all over the board in what I want to collect! I pretty much want to do it Pokémon s...
Tony's Sports Pub

Starting Lineup Figure Of The Day - Barry Bonds
Pack War

Sports Card Super Bowl X - It is Super Bowl Sunday and once again the cards are going to make their prediction. Surprisingly the cards are 6-3 predicting the winner of the last 9 Su...
Mets Baseball Cards Like They Ought To Be!

>>>>>The Curtis Granderson Collection - *Hearing the news that Curtis Granderson retired my first thought was, "Damn, I thought he would play forever." He never seemed to age or lose a step. But...
Royals and Randoms

Jason Giambi - Jason Giambi He's really cleaned himself up since his days with the A's.
DocHoloday.com

2020 - Honestly, I’m not even sure where the fall went. I guess I was a little burnt out on posting the High Heat set and after I finished I just said “I’m going ...
My Cardboard Habit

I'm Still Here - It has been six months since I last posted. Six. Months. When I started this blog, I intended to post three or four times a week. Now it seems that I'm lu...
All About Cards - Sports Card Reviews, Box Breaks, Checklists and News

2020 Topps Million Card Rip Party Details and Complete List of Breakers and Breaks - Imagine taking delivery on 363 cases of 2020 Topps Baseball Series 1 Jumbos and ripping them all open in one day. Well, you don’t have to imagine what...
CMMDTO

2019 Topps Museum Collection Meaningful Materials - I picked up this 2019 Topps Musuem Collection Meaningful Materials Paul Goldschmidt Copper Relic numbered to 35 in December for $1.99 plus $3.26 shipping (...
~~~~~ Scribbled Ink ~~~~~

I am an Idiot; Ebay Quid Pro Quos and Such - Long story short; I won a Corbin Martin Chrome RC /250 for 99 cents on ebay. I recieved the base Corbin RC along with another Astros player card. I chec...
dmntakeover

*Takeover Rules* Updated 1/6/2020! - Rules for the takeover: -If you see a card you want, simply tweet "sold", or some word along those lines at it. If you got it, I'll favorite your tweet-Sta...
The Press Box Sports

Nationals Sign Asdrubal Cabrera to a one year deal - Press Box Sports Net Nationals Sign Asdrubal Cabrera to a one year deal The Washington Nationals decided to bring back infielder Asdrubal Cabrera. The de...
Autographed Cards

1952 Topps, Carl Erskine - #250 Carl Erskine For no apparent reason, I haven't posted a card on here for two weeks. It is Christmas time and my weekends off have been dealing with ...
The Dutch Card Guy

Topps Redemption - Yesterday I received a nice envelop from Topps in the mail, a nice Topps redemption card. Although I was happy with the card I did realize that apparently ...
Adventures in 1952 Topps

#314 Roy Campanella - #314 Roy Campanella Progress: 1st of this card 310 of 407 76.2% complete How acquired: Sent as an *extremely* generous gift from a reader Condition: Poo...
From a 1980s Baseball Card Collector

New to my unopened collection: 1986 Sportflics - I said that I've purchased a bunch of Sportflics, and am continuing to post them. There are two main thrusts of this: the 1986 Sportflics Decade Greats set...
Indians Baseball Cards

Cards are in the Mail! - If you signed up for my Pack A Daily do-over mailouts, the first round has been mailed!! Note that I had (and still have) mailers that were already put t...
Talking Heads: The Topps 1958 Baseball Set

#67 Joe Ginsberg - New York-born Joe Ginsberg was raised in Detroit and signed with the Tigers in 1944 at the age of 17. He soon found himself in the Army and playing serv...
The Fleer Sticker Project

Topps Carelessness Creates Collecting Dilemma - In looking at the cards that just came out in the Topps Update series, I found that there is a new Jim Palmer card to add to my player collection - or so I...
Cardboard Clubhouse

Night Owl Sends Cards - I found an unexpected package in my mailbox the other day that arrived from the one and only Night Owl. Somehow, I find it very appropriate to get cards f...
The Rollie Fingers Collector

2002 Fleer Greats Autograph - Year: 2002 Manufacture: Fleer Set: Greats Card Number: NNO Card Type: Insert, Autograph Insert Set: Autographs Card Attributes: Autographed (on card) Ther...
That T206 life

Upside-Down T206 Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 649 Overprint Discovered - On August 23rd, 2019, a net54 member made a post about this Nap Lajoie (Throwing) with an upside-down Factory 649 Overprint that he recently acquired. He ...
Long Way from Lambeau

2019 Panini XR Ultimate Packers Checklist and Gallery - 2019 Panini XR Football *Base, Red #/249, Blue #/199, Orange #/99, Purple #/25, Gold #/10, Green #/5, Black 1/1, Printing Plates 1/1* 9 Aaron Rodgers 37 Aa...
A Cardboard Problem

Trading Cards: Where do you get your checklists? - We need checklists for our collections. It's the guiding post that let's us sort through the cards we are looking for. But one thing I've learned is there ...
Coast To Posts - A Hockey Card Blog

Kick Up Your Feet - Here's another look inside my recent collecting habits. I've found that there has been a fair share of hockey cards featuring guys warming up on the bench...
The Card Papoy

Classic 4 sports - The nice thing about holidays is that I have time on my hand. The problem about holidays, is that I have time on my hand and end up checking Ebay listings a...
Stories by Card Bored Dad on Medium

Baseball Dog Days of Summer - Back in 1993, Milk-Bone made player and pooch trading cards for some reason. Like lots of pop culture from the early ‘90s, the result was brightly colore...
Preserve The Hobby

Tips For Getting Autographs Through The Mail (TTM) - Obtaining autographs through the mail (TTM) is something I’ve done for over 20 years. Since I realize many collectors may not know exactly where to begin, ...
Off Hiatus Baseball Cards

Meet the Brewers #44: Wayne Twitchell - As is usual in September for teams going nowhere, the 1970 Brewers called up a few guys from the minors to give them an opportunity to be around the big cl...
Infield Grit

#hobbylove - This post is just going to be about the joy or collecting. It’s about the fun of the hobby and why I got into it. It can be easy to get wrapped up in dram...
Supporting The Minnow

So much stuff - So I traded some tools I wasn’t using to a guy who had a “bunch” of cards and stuff to trade. I was mostly after some O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards, but got a lo...
Cards of Future Fenway Stars

Worth a Thousand Words: "The Dawning of a Legend," Ted Williams at Holy Cross, April 14, 1939 - I had seen this photo before of Ted Williams, and was vaguely aware that it had something to do with the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, but...
1985 Topps

#132T - Checklist, Cards 1T-132T - *What a card: *Welcome to the final card in the 1985 Topps Traded set, the final card of this blog. *My observation on the front: *For the Traded sets o...
Too Many Manninghams

2018 COMC purchases: PC potpourri - It's almost time for me to say goodbye to 2018 and the purchases I made last year on this fine evening in...MAY?! Yeah, it's taken me far too long to post...
Collection Connections

20% OFF for Newsletter Readers - This discount is only available because you signed up for our monthly newsletter! Spread the word. We’ve put together some of our favorite products and m...
Steel City Scoop

Inside Scoop: 2019 Panini Donruss Elite Football Hobby - 2019 Panini Donruss Elite Football Hobby Release Date: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 Configuration: 5 cards per pack, 20 packs per box, 12 boxes per case. Ins...
Bob Walk the Plank

Boo - Well hello there old friends. Didn't mean to scare you. It's your old friend Matt providing a proof of life. Thought it was an appropriate time to provide...
My Cardboard Mistress

2006 Topps Allen & Ginter #250 - This might be the worst looking card in the entire set. Just kidding that belongs to Gustavo Chacin.
Not Pulled From Packs

Autographs after 3/7/19 Arizona Coyotes Game - My family and I made our annual trip to Arizona at the beginning of March, and as usual, we had to go to a few games. Of course, March in Arizona means Spr...
Thorzul Will Rule

Pull the Trigger 20.20 ($30) - *1970 Topps Luis Aparicio* This is one of the cards I picked out of a dollar box a couple of weekends ago. Turns out I already had it, so now I'm happy to...
The Daily Dimwit

A Little Trip to the Monthly Card Show - Hey everyone, last weekend we had our monthly card show at the Radisson here in Colorado Springs. It's a pretty small show, with one or two big vendors. On...
Wax Stain Rookie

Anyone interested in a box break? - Hey all! Like I have mentioned previous I have been very active on Twitter in lieu of posting on here which has been both good and bad. I am still working ...
Now and Zen

Waiting on a Second Opinion - Is anyone still checking on Now and Zen? I haven't died, but I'm working on it. << joke Yeah, this is awkward. First things first- Do NOT set up a GoFu...
Cardboard Conundrum

2017-18 Artifacts Box Break - Well, in the interest of getting fully caught up, here's a box of hockey cards that I opened up a year and a half ago, scanned, and never got around to pos...
Jaybarkerfan's Junk

CLOSING TIME - Well, the time has come. The final mega break packages made it to the post office today. Today is the last blog post I will be making. It's also the end ...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

New Year Pack Break: 2018 Topps Fire - I had this pack with me the last couple of days, but never got around to opening it. But it's Monday, a bit late in the afternoon, and I forgot to pack a l...
1988 Topps

552nd Place - Rene Gonzales - *Card #98* I think Topps missed a golden opportunity to let Rene's card number (98) match his jersey (88). So close! 2019 is off to a rough start relate...
My PCs--one card at a time

Joe Sakic card #312 1998-99 Topps Gold Label Class 1 #65 - - If there is one set I'd love to see come back for hockey, it's this one. Love the dual photo on the front, the cards aren't flimsy and look ...
Topps

2019 Topps WWE Road to WrestleMania Checklist -
Mark's Ephemera

Edward Vila Glicée of Orel Hershiser - 11 months ago I hit up ebay and purchased this limited edition (numbered to 50), giclée card of Orel Hershiser. It was less than half the cost of a blaste...
Rekindling the Cardboard Flame

2018 Card of the Year - It's that time of the year! P-Town Tom of Waiting Til Next Year is again holding a contest for bloggers to show off their favorite card of the year. Last ...
#BackyardDiamond

CONTROVERSY! (part 1) - For the last week the entire hobby has been marred with a controversy that many believe is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It all started with a ca...
Collecting Wax

An Unexpected Signing - It’s 11pm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and we still need to buy everything besides the turkey. We made a decision to go to the store at that time t...
90's Niche Football Card Blog

Plain… Blue Envelope? - Shipping cards is one of the most contentious hobby-related issues I have seen on social media. PWE, bubble mailer, pony express, armored car with heavily ...
Tridents and Trading Cards

Steal a Base - Thanks to the amazing Mookie Betts, America didn’t have to wait long for Taco Bell’s Steal a Base, Steal a Taco promotion to be realized. Swiping second ba...
Home Run Hockey

Terry Sawchuk - *Terry Sawchuk* - Played senior baseball and had interest from the Majors before becoming an NHL star. *The card:* 1954/55 Topps *What it says about base...
Autograph Blog - News, Tips, and Tricks of In-Person and TTM Autograph Collecting

TTM Address of The Day - Olivia Newton-John (Actress/Singer - Grease) - Olivia Newton-John PO Box 2710 Malibu, CA 90265 USA
Battlin' Bucs

The National, Part 1 - So things have been a little quiet on the blog. It's been a busy summer and my stacks of cards from the big Pittsburgh show in May are still waiting to b...
Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Baseball Bits

2018 Allen & Ginter Box 1-3 Recap - Here's a nice big long run down of what I found in my first three boxes of this year's Allen & Ginter. This year's base cards. They're fine. I really lik...
Brewers 792

Thoughts on recent Topps Now and Living Set purchases - It's been awhile since I've posted anything here and I know better than to say I'll post more actively, but I am still collecting and I tend to stay more c...
St. Louis Cardinals' Cardboard

Still here! - Hi Everyone, I am still here and will be back in the saddle after I go incognito for a couple of more weeks. I am missing the Serramonte show today-but for...
Summer of '74

The Next Great Flagship Set Will be the One We Make Ourselves - The Topps Series II checklist came out today and - of course - it is the same old garbage we've all come to expect from Topps. My first outrage was seeing ...
Once a Cub

Wroad to Wrigley Wednesday - Mark Zagunis and Justin Hancock - Just after last week's Wroad to Wrigley post went live, I found out that the Cubs were doing another roster shuffle that included outfielder Mark Zagunis ...
Toronto Blue Jays Collection

Apparently they called this guy 'Earache' - Well, I'm pleased to announce that my C46 collection has doubled in size! I haven't been aggressively pursuing this set (there are some pretty high grade C...
the Conlon Baseball Card Collector

The Conlon Books - *For Conlon baseball card collectors, or for those who do not want to invest in a baseball card collection, two books about Charles M. Conlon are worth th...
21st-Century Topps Baseball (1990-Present)

For Sale: Everything on my 21st Century Blog Site - After the pains of trying to move from a big house on a small farm to a much smaller house and yard, I will begin to sell off my 21st-Century Topps co...
Vintage Twins

Bowman State & Home Town - A few years back(2013/2014) Bowman had a parallel wherein the player’s home state or country’s flag was featured in the background – something also they di...
Hangin with Chuck

2014/15 Court Kings Box Break - I picked up this box during Black Friday last year and some how had the patience to not open it until this last week. I was chasing a Jabari auto for my PC...
Topps 1971

no. 752 - dick drago - *Who is the man:* Dick Drago pitched 240 innings for the Royals in 1970 as one of their starting staff mainstays. He won 20 games for K.C. in its first ...
Byron “Whizzer” White’s cardboard options aren’t all that supreme – BlowoutBuzz.com

Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Feb. 8) - The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collec...
S.V. Lloyd's Nostalgic Baseball Cards Revived

1951 Topps red back Bob Kennedy #29 - 1951 Topps Bob Kennedy I finally bought my first card apart of a project I’m working on, it’s where I’m trying to buy one card from each year from Topps Ba...
Collating Cards

USS Mariner Project #2: Participation Trophies - Shortly before the beginning of my first year in 'midget major' baseball (10 years-old, I believe), my dad was faced with a dilemma: the sponsor for the te...
The Roberto Clemente Card Project

45 Years - It has been 45 years to this date that our hero, Roberto Clemente, passed away in a tragic plane accident off his home shores off of Puerto Rico on New Yea...
beauspencer826

Merry Christmas Memories (1991): My First Wax Box - Merry Christmas Eve. The holiday season always brings back great childhood memories of looking at my baseball cards. This Christmas marks the 26th Annivers...
plain gray swatch

trading stains with p-town Tom - I started kicking around here a few months back, and after my previous tenured with plentiful trades, I wasn't exchanging any cardboard with y'all. Tha...
Tomahawk Chop

2017 Predictions - How did I do? - Howdy folks, it's been awhile. I've been really inactive with my blog this year, having not posted since the end of May, though I do still read many of yo...
Waxaholic

Italy Fails To Qualify for 2018 World Cup - with a draw today versus Sweden, Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. That is all.
Voice of the Collector

Have You Heard? December 9th is National Hobby Shop Day!! - Many of you may know *Michael Fruitman*. Mike is the owner of *Mike's Stadium Sportscards* in *Aurora, Colorado*. You can follow him on *Twitter* here. A...
Pulp ephemera

World Series 2017 in Seven Baseball Haiku - VII. Game One’s October heat waves the air as LA pitching fans bright stars. Two games: strikes stunt bats through seven—before the shelling of Chavez Ravi...
Blog - .

September 20 Goodwin Auction - On September 20, 2017, Goodwin sold a whopping seven signed T206 cards. Four of the cards - Doyle, Snodgrass, Leifield & McBride - originated from the 20...
15 Cent Cards One at a Time

1975 #20 Topps Card is of New York Yankees’ Thurman Munson - Thurman Munson started the 1974 season after coming off his best year to date. Considered by most to be the “heart and soul” of the Yankees in 147 gam...
Wish They Still Came With Bubblegum

Flea Market Card Show - Went to my monthly flea market card show last weekend and got stuck in one vendor's boxes. He had a bunch of 2017 Stadium Club for 5/$1. I loaded up as I...
Nothing But Nets

Nets cards traded for in July - Not really happy with my team right now. They traded away my favorite player, and the best player on the team to boot. (Brook Lopez, of course). But I did ...
Inception Baseball: A Very Simple Idea

2015 Colin Moran - Welcome back! I know I apologized last week for doing two Minnesota Twins in a row, but that actually inspired me for what’s to come these next few we...
Dodger Penguin

Card of the Day - 2016 Topps Now : Clayton Kershaw 1st Ever MLB Save Base Autograph (145/199) BGS Graded Gem Mint 9.5 - I couldn't possibly only own the relic version of this card and not pare it up with the non one right? Nope I couldn't and finally one of these popped u...
Capewood's Collections

Mike Schmidt - The Wall - I'll get back to the 30-day Baseball Card Challenge on Monday, but first this... A few days ago I saw the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall" on TV. I wasn't buyin...
A Pack A Day

2016 Topps Allen & Ginter Retail - Repack box pack time. Let's tear in. Top to Bottom: 141 Colin Rea 144 Matt Holliday BL-11 Ted Williams Baseball Legends 142 Jake Arrieta Mini 310 Patrick...
Trading John Elway

ANOTHER NEW TO ME ELWAY - HAVEN'T HAD A NEW ELWAY IN 6 WEEKS. SPEED VARIATION.
Rey Ordonez Super Collector

1996 Pinnacle Aficionado - *1996 Pinnacle Aficionado #191* Aficionado was a one hit wonder for Pinnacle in the mid-1990's. Well, I'm not sure it was exactly a hit. The base set fea...
Cleveland Sweet Spotting

New Arrival: Mike Flanigan, sp, Baltimore Orioles - Mike Flanigan was drafted by Houston in the 15th round of the 1971 draft. He did not sign. Baltimore took him in the 7th round of the 1971 draft out of the...
Paul's Random Baseball Stuff

I have too many hobbies… - I miss blogging. I do not miss blogging about baseball every day. My reasons for going into semi-retirement remain: I don’t get to go to enough Atlantic Le...
Summer of '74

A Warren Spahn Story and a Trade Offer - It was 14 years ago this month that Warren Spahn, one of the greatest lefties the game has ever known, passed away. Mr. Spahn was a pretty good TTM signer ...
Scott Crawford On Cards!

So, yeah, this is happening. - [image: http://emojuanuribe.tumblr.com/] Yeah, I know. But change is good sometimes. As you've probably figured out, I have begun migrating my active post...
Trading Card Preservation Society

Episode #15 Has Arrived! - The Trading Card Preservation Society has returned for a new episode a day before the release of 2017 Topps Heritage and Opening Day. Dave the Cardboard ...
Catching up with collecting

Starting a New PC - Well things have not settled down as much as I thought they would. We moved in early December, and two months later, it is still chaotic around here. I hav...
addiction as therapy

2017 Collecting Goals & an A&G Rip Card - 2016 is long gone and the new year will bring several new sets. I’ve broaden my collection from the Topps Main release and Topps Heritage to now include Gy...
Bob Lemke's Blog

Holmgren didn't make either the Cardinals or Topps cuts - This is the fifth in a string of "football cards that never were" that I've created in December. It's likely to be my last football custom for a while; ...
Collating Cards

47-Card Knockout - No, it’s not some new card game- it’s a feature on one of my more recent purchases… I’ve never spent the day after Thanksgiving shopping in retail stores. ...
Just A Bit Offside

Perhaps the best ever.... 1956 Montreal Canadiens - This is the last in the three part series of my card show team photo buying spree. Today's shows the Publicity shot given out to celebrate the 1956-57 Mont...
Ain't Nobody Got Time For Cardboard!

Tyler Naquin is my spirit animal - And a new PC, if for nothing other than his celebration after his walk-off inside-the-park home run. My collection of him is just starting out, and sin...
MY BASEBALL CARD COMEBACK

- *MOOKIE BETTS COLLECTION* *Anything not on this list I need. * *2013* *PANINI * 2013 Panini Prizm Draft Picks #46 Panini Classics #169 *2014 * *BOWMAN...
Look! An Airplane!

2016 Warbirds on Parade Airshow, Lancaster, TX - Warbirds on Parade Airshow CAF Dallas Wing Cold War Air Museum Lancaster Regional Airport Lancaster, TX September 3, 2016 North American B-25J (PBJ-1J) Mit...
The BEST Season of the Year

The College Football Playoffs Rankings and Unpleasant Truths - Is it possible that it's not a conspiracy theory? Continue reading →
sportscardreference.wordpress.com

Topps Offers Special Edition Ben Zobrist Card - October 22, 2016 Jason Dean Martin Topps released a special edition Ben Zobrist card today available only on the Topps website. The card, although similar...
Diamond Cuts and Wax Stains

The top 100 (soon to be 110) Leafs of all time - It’s centennial time! (Not really.) (Well, sort of – if you’re feeling kind of generous with your definitions.) (The 100th anniversary of the first game in...
Buck and Blackhawks

2015-16 Panini Select Basketball Ultimate Milwaukee Buck Checklist and Gallery - *2015-16 Panini Select Basketball* *Base, Concourse Parallels: Silver Prizms, Tri-Color Prizms, Blue Prizms #/249, Red Prizms #/149, Orange Prizms #/60, Tie...
The Baseball Card Blog

The History of The Baseball Card Blog - Ten years seems like a good time for a recap. Here goes nothing. The Baseball Card Blog was born in January 2006. My friends and I had been kicking around...
Hockey Card Geek

Iowa Wild Crash OYO Giveaway - During a recent Iowa Wild hockey game, they gave these Iowa Wild Crash OYO figures to the first 1,500 fans. Crash is the Iowa Wild mascot and Lazer 103.3, ...
Hockey Card Heaven

2015 Leaf Best of Hockey Case Break - Part One - I've always been a fan of re-packaged products so I thought I'd take a chance on a 4-box case of 2015 Leaf Best of Hockey. The product contains one slabbed...
1975 Topps (it's far out, man)

#640 - Harmon Killebrew - *Card fact: *This is the final Topps card issued of Harmon Killebrew during his playing career. He had appeared in just about every Topps flagship set f...
Small BallFields

Clark Field - WHERE: Woodland, California WHERE EXACTLY: Grand Avenue and West Beamer Street WHEN VISITED: July 3, 2011 while visiting family. From the Davis Enterprise:...
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