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CollectingPosted onDecember 24, 2019January 8, 2020

Peace on Earth, and Goodwill for Cards

It’s the end of the year, and I have a tremendous backlog of trades that need some posts of recognition. Those aren’t always necessary, but…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 10, 2019July 8, 2019

I’d Like To Buy A Card, Brian

One of the hobby phenomena that emerged last year was that of the “virtual dime box sale” via Twitter. Brian of Play at the Plate…

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CollectingPosted onMarch 8, 2019July 8, 2019

Another Quickie Trade

Most of my hobby time this week has been updating the want list, making a few customs, and finally writing some TTM requests, but I…

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CollectingPosted onDecember 10, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: A Little of This, A Bit of That

Alright, I’m officially the king of cranking out three to five posts in a couple days, then letting this thing go dormant for at least…

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CollectingPosted onOctober 25, 2018July 9, 2019

Dime Boxing by Mail, Part 2

As we I mentioned at the beginning of yesterday’s post, Nick is an absolute Dime Box legend. We all know this, surely, but were you…

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CollectingPosted onSeptember 17, 2018July 10, 2019

See A Dime, Pick It Up

Yesterday I showed off a bunch of Astros that I found whilst digging at ye olde card shoppe. In that post I also mentioned that…

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CollectingPosted onSeptember 10, 2018July 9, 2019

A Very Cardboard Weekend

It was a busy weekend ’round these parts when it came to cardboard. I received a couple trade packages, a great virtual dime box sale…

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CollectingPosted onAugust 14, 2018July 9, 2019

Yet Another Overdue Trade Post

I’m still trying to knock out this trade backlog. I’ve been making decent progress – just this and another trade and I’ll finally be done…

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CollectingPosted onJuly 9, 2018July 9, 2019

My Latest Exchange With The Commish

One of my recent posts provided some long-overdue acknowledgement of a trade with Joshua, who goes by Sportzcommish on TCDB. I’ve mentioned this before, but…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 12, 2018July 9, 2019

Trader’s Backlog: Jason Hoards Cardboard, And So Do I

More trades from ages ago, y’all! We’re gonna be in March 2017 for the next week, judging from the scan folders I have. These delightful…

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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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