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Tag: Houston Astros

CollectingPosted onDecember 22, 2014July 12, 2019

Sky-boxin! 1995 E-Motion packs 19-24

I’m determined to finish these posts up before I head off to Nashville for Christmas. Writing box breaks are exhausting! I’m not sure how you…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 21, 2014July 12, 2019

An Itch Successfully Scratched

This will be a super short post, but I feel like I need to update and say thanks to John of Johnny’s Trading Spot for…

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AutographsPosted onDecember 20, 2014July 12, 2019

Springer Redeemed!

Remember back when I posted about a trade with Brad and his Phillies blog? What, that was only two posts (and a month) ago? Well,…

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AutographsPosted onNovember 21, 2014July 12, 2019

Relic Swap With Brad

Some time back around a month ago I got a wonderful package in the mail from Brad and his eponymous Phillies Blog. I’d spotted some…

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AutographsPosted onNovember 15, 2014July 12, 2019

TTM Catchup: Two More In The Book

I’ve been dropping more envelopes into the mail recently, so I figured that I ought to update my TTM progress. I’ve only had a couple…

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CollectingPosted onNovember 13, 2014July 12, 2019

Je Suis Très Heureux, Parce-Que Kevin m’a Envoyé Des Cartes De Baseball!

Whoo! I hope I didn’t butcher my French too much up there. This post is extremely overdue, as are the couple dozen others that are…

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CollectingPosted onOctober 12, 2014July 11, 2019

Cards from a Masked Man!

So I’m trying to catch up on all the trades that I’ve made recently. That means that I spent a lot of time digging through…

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CollectingPosted onOctober 4, 2014July 11, 2019

Surprise Cards From One Man Jeff

While catching up on my blog feed around a month ago, I noticed that Jeff at One Man’s Junk (Wax) was trying to unload some…

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CollectingPosted onOctober 3, 2014July 11, 2019

Vintage Swap: Denis at TCDB

I know I’m not the only one among us who utilizes the great Trading Card Database website to catalog our collections. It’s pretty phenomenal in…

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CollectingPosted onOctober 2, 2014July 11, 2019

Catch o’ the Bay: My First Plate!

One of the things that I’ve actually kind of dreaded about being a Bagwell supercollector and someone striving for most of the Astros cards ever…

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Moonshots

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

  • 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
  • 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

Flagship Needs

One of my goals is to finish off all the Colt .45s / Astros team sets – let’s say by the end of 2023, since there are some dang ol’ high numbers in there.

Topps Needs

  • 1962 Topps #126 Al Cicotte (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #156 Merrit Ranew (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #177 Bobby Shantz (green tint)
  • 1962 Topps #526 Hal Woodeshick
  • 1962 Topps #536 Dick Gertner
  • 1962 Topps #556 Al Spangler
  • 1962 Topps #568 Jim Golden
  • 1962 Topps #598 Rookie Outfielders (Ed Olivares)
  • 1963 Topps #312 Colt .45s
  • 1963 Topps #338 Russ Kemmerer
  • 1963 Topps #442 J.C. Hartman
  • 1963 Topps #491 Harry Craft
  • 1963 Topps #538 George Brunet
  • 1963 Topps #544 Rookies (Rusty Staub)
  • 1963 Topps #553 Rookies (Brock Davis)
  • 1963 Topps #576 Johnny Temple
  • 1964 Topps #544 Steve Hertz / Joe Hoerner
  • 1966 Topps #530 Robin Roberts
  • 1966 Topps #539 Bill Heath / Carroll Sembera
  • 1966 Topps #548 Gary Kroll
  • 1966 Topps #557 Felix Mantilla
  • 1966 Topps #566 Mike Cuellar
  • 1966 Topps #576 Dave Nicholson
  • 1966 Topps #586 Claude Raymond
  • 1966 Topps #596 Nate Colbert / Greg Sims
  • 1967 Topps #337 Joe Morgan
  • 1967 Topps #447 Bo Belinsky (incomplete stat line)
  • 1967 Topps #543 Dan Schneider
  • 1967 Topps #564 Alonzo Harris / Aaron Pointer
  • 1970 Topps #672 Leon McFadden
  • 1971 Topps #583 Ron Cook
  • 1972 Topps #679 Bob Fenwick / Bob Stinson
  • 1972 Topps #716 Jesus Alou
  • 1972 Topps #732 George Culver
  • 1972 Topps #747 Jimmy Stewart
  • 1972 Topps #770 Jim Wynn
  • 1973 Topps #613 Bob Boone / Skip Jutze / Mike Ivie
  • 1973 Topps NNO Astros Checklist

Donruss Needs

Fleer Needs

  • 1963 Fleer #36 Joe Amalfitano

Score Needs

Upper Deck Needs

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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