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AutographsPosted onJanuary 26, 2014July 10, 2019

TTM #6: Denny Walling

Yesterday’s trip to the mailbox brought back another great Astros success, Denny “Good Wood” Walling. A longtime bat off the bench, Denny spent the bulk…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 25, 2014July 10, 2019

Racking It Up

First off, let me say a huge thank you to Robert over at $30 A Week Habit for the bump in his morning blog post the other…

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AutographsPosted onJanuary 25, 2014July 9, 2019

TTM #5: Wade Boggs

Well, I jinxed myself and broke my streak the other day. But a stop at the mailbox yesterday brought back an exciting return from The…

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AutographsPosted onJanuary 21, 2014July 10, 2019

The TTM Streak Continues

Today was full of goodies – a batch of Astros I snagged cheap on eBay showed up in the mail, and I managed to finally…

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AutographsPosted onJanuary 20, 2014July 10, 2019

Fresh Ink In 2014

In addition to picking up the collecting bug again, I’ve revisited another favorite hobby of mine: collecting autographs. Over the years throughout my youth I…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 18, 2014July 9, 2019

13 Years of Jeff

As I mentioned in my initial post, while I was growing up Jeff Bagwell was my hero. I remember mimicking his unorthodox stance in my…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 18, 2014July 9, 2019

The Resurrection of a Collection

Greetings! After retrieving my old collection from my folks’ house and re-cataloging it, I started following several baseball card related blogs. Old habits die hard,…

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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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