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CollectingPosted onJanuary 11, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Every Card’s Bigger In Texas

Back to some trade catchup! This one was from last March – we’ve made it all the way to March already, I’m gonna get this…

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AutographsPosted onAugust 26, 2017February 20, 2021

The Hunker Down Chronicles, Part 3: Legends Weekend!

Aug 26, 2:30 pm: we saw another band come through around 10 am, but it left fairly quickly and moved north of us. It’s been…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 29, 2015July 13, 2019

Johnny’s Trading Bomb

This post will finally put to rest all of the amazing trading packages that came in during the end of 2014. Unfortunately, it’s the end…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 20, 2015July 12, 2019

Trade Talk: A Christmas Present of Cards on Cards

Back in December – in fact, I think it was the day before Christmas or so – I received a fantastic box of cards from…

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AutographsPosted onMarch 13, 2015July 12, 2019

Catching Up With Jared’s Trade

It’s time to catch up on a trade post, and in this case, that means it’s Lima Time! Back in November I received a very…

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CollectingPosted onAugust 31, 2014July 11, 2019

Card Show Post I: Setting the Table

I’m going to forgo the last update from our trip to Nashville for a moment in order to try and knock out some more recent…

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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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