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CollectingPosted onApril 23, 2020

All Them Astros: 2007 Upper Deck Holiday Inn

Hey, look! All Them Astros is back! You know, that post series I started way back when to highlight Astros team sets that I completed…

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CollectingPosted onApril 22, 2020

Cards of a Season in Limbo

I had to make a foray into the retail world, including a super-brief visit to Target. Out of curiosity, I took an extra minute to…

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CollectingPosted onApril 19, 2020

No Need To Shoot For The Stars

How are you doing? Are you feeling cooped up? Have you gotten some good reorganization done? Have you been pulling cards and sending packages? Some…

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CookingPosted onApril 4, 2020

That Was The Week That Was

For those of us extremely online people, this pandemic has been real for quite a while. I feel, though, that this is going to be…

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AutographsPosted onMarch 30, 2020

The Kindness of (Almost) Strangers

It’s a weird time right now. That’s a massive understatement, but it is certainly true. Under these straining and foreign circumstances, I have been trying…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 26, 2020

Gritting It Out

Today found me trucking along rather well – we got out for a short drive to pick up coffee (to-go, of course) and tacos (also to-go)…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 25, 2020March 25, 2020

Cards and More Cards

Ok, maybe reaching into the vault frequently is helping to keep me sane. At least it distracts me from the endless scroll, and that’s probably…

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AutographsPosted onMarch 25, 2020March 25, 2020

It’s Just Old Hits

I need a quick break from the reality of full-time Dad-ing and job hunting, so let’s talk about some cards, shall we? I decided to…

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PersonalPosted onMarch 21, 2020

Corona Vita

You don’t need me to tell you this, but life as we know it has changed, for now. Baseball has joined Tony on hiatus. We’re…

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CollectingPosted onFebruary 21, 2020

Blasé-faire.

I’m in a rut. I don’t really know what to attribute it to, just a general sense of malaise. But, I’m going to see a…

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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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