Out of Storage: My Hall of Fame Bat With 29 Autographs
In the 80’s, as a kid, my family and I went to hundreds of baseball card shows. Our biggest project as a family was this bat. It’s a Rawlings 50th Anniversary of the Hall of Fame special edition. We took…
Zen and the Art of Organizing Cards
I am perpetually disorganized when it comes to my card collection. I have the best of intentions with collecting, organizing and maintaining a neat and orderly baseball card collection. But it seems to be impossible for me. Today, for instance,…
Full Pull Set: 1992 Sky Box Double-A Minor League Box
The same trip that netted a 94% complete ’86 Donruss book found a 1992 Sky Box “Pre-Rookie” Double-A minor league box that was still in it’s shrink wrap. This box was $10 and features an awesome, clean and bright white…
Mail Day: Darren Daulton PC Jump Start & Jai Alai Cards? (Jai Alai Cards.)
I’ve been fascinated by jai alai since I saw the scene in the opening montage of Miami Vice. Compared to the other sports that I had grown up watching, it was kind of exotic. And in the 80’s and 90’s…
1986 Donruss Binder – Flea Market Find
Last week my fiancé and I were out and we ended up dropping into an, I don’t know, not quite an antique shop, not quite a second hand toy store. But there’s a shop down in Fall River that has…
Mail Day: Special Delivery from BaseballCard.Art
Great addition to my personal collection thanks to Matthew Lee Rosen of baseballcard.art.
What I’ve Been Up To
It’s been quiet in the blog, but I’ve been doing a lot of baseball card stuff lately. A week or two ago I jumped on a Skype call with Armand Rosamillia of the IBWAA Podcast to talk about the website,…
I Got an Email from Larry Andersen
I’m going to start this by saying: Please don’t abuse the generosity shown in this post. Two years ago I sent out a batch of requests to some of my favorite play-by-play announcers. I got exactly one response from Sean…
Mail Day: Reading Phillies & Lehigh Valley IronPigs Team Sets
Two additions to the minor league team sets came in today. I’m on a slow burn to get a complete Phillies minor league team set…set (and I’m picking up Pawtucket Red Sox team sets as I see them, because they…
Mail Day: Mike Schmidt PC Additions
I haven’t added any cards to my Mike Schmidt collection, which I’ve been growing and holding on to since the early 80’s. Most of the cards I got were newer. The only two career-era cards I picked up were the…
Baseball cards and nonsense.
