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AutographsPosted onApril 4, 2019July 14, 2019

A TTM Report!

What’s this? A TTM Report? Yes indeed, I caught the bug again and stubbornly refused to quit sending out to Spring Training, despite what seems…

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CollectingPosted onFebruary 14, 2019July 9, 2019

A Love Letter To A Season

It’s Valentine’s Day, and so what better time to share my labor of love from the past year. I’m talking about my entry into the…

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CollectingPosted onFebruary 7, 2019July 8, 2019

IT IS FINISHED!

No, don’t worry – I’m not talking about the blog. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I know I said I would…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 7, 2019July 8, 2019

The Last Trade of 2018!

There’s still about two dozen unposted folders, each representing a trade or pickup of some sort, in my scans file, and another three trades (albeit…

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CollectingPosted onJune 20, 2018July 8, 2019

Custom Shop: Purple Reign!

Well, I’ve turned this blog into trade recap central, which is a little bit of a shame. I mean, it’s great that I’ve spent a…

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AutographsPosted onJune 16, 2018July 9, 2019

Belatedly Breakin’ Down Some Cards

Overdue post time! One of my favorite and earliest trade partners upon starting up this blog has been everyone’s pal, Gavin at Baseball Card Breakdown.…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 14, 2016July 8, 2019

Custom Shop: Collin McHugh

Played around today and whipped up a new Collin McHugh custom that I’m hoping to print and get signed next week at the Astros Fan…

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CollectingPosted onSeptember 8, 2015July 15, 2019

Rescued from the Draft

How about a quick, single image post for lunch today? I whipped up this Collin McHugh custom last summer, when I actually had some free…

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CollectingPosted onApril 23, 2015July 13, 2019

Custom Shop: Mike Easler

I’ve gotten back into making some custom cards. Thanks to Mark over at Battlin’ Bucs, I’ve gotten comfortable with printing them out (and I think I…

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CollectingPosted onMay 8, 2014July 11, 2019

Springer’s First Dinger = Some Custom Fun

I’ve been toying with the idea of whipping up some customs for my Astros autograph project, in order to create some “Astros” cards of players…

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Moonshots

A somewhat crazy list of cards and ephemera I want most.

  • 1939 Play Ball #130 (Wilbur) Bill Brubaker
  • A Jeff Bagwell printing plate
  • A Bill Brubaker on-card autograph (’39 or ’40 Play Ball)
  • A Nellie Fox autograph
  • Any of the original 1962 Phillips “Here Come the Colts” magazines
  • A complete run of the 1999 Astros season tickets, which celebrate the franchise history
  • An uncut sheet of the twelve 1967 team issued cards
  • A Colt .45s bobblehead
  • The “Streaking Orbit” bobblehead

Top Targets

A quick list of cards which are most desired at the moment, as dictated by random collecting whims.

  • 2018 Big League Gold Parallels: 86, 104, 304
  • 2019 Topps Chrome Refractors: 28, 62
  • 2019 Topps Fire Inserts
    En Fuego: Gurriel Gold Minted parallel
    Fired Up: Correa (+ Gold Minted parallel)
    Flamethrowers: Cole Blue Chip
    Max Velocity: Fisher Blue Chip parallel
  • 2018 Stickers: 14, 28, 37/40/57/67, 52, 64/141, 70, 86/196, 97/138/146/149, 114, 137, 159, 193, 236
  • 2019 Stickers: 7, 11, 12, 18/19, 34, 37, 45, 46/59/66/76, 49, 54, 56, 57/197, 61, 78, 82, 86, 99, 101, 102, 106, 107, 111, 115, 118, 128/130, 142, 149, 150, 155, 156, 162, 164, 166, 171, 179, 180, 182, 185, 196, 201, 204, 217, 220, 222, 224, 230, 231

Set Killers

A non-exhaustive list of cards that will finish Astros team sets for me. Assassins are most appreciated.

  • 1988 Donruss Baseball’s Best #150 Billy Hatcher
  • 1988 Fleer Star Stickers #88 Nolan Ryan
  • 1989 Topps Big #291 Scott Servais
  • 2000 Upper Deck Hitter’s Club #4 Craig Biggio
  • 2001 Topps Traded – Chrome #T96 Tim Redding
  • 2012 Allen & Ginter #345 Nolan Ryan
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