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CollectingPosted onMay 8, 2020May 8, 2020

Hey, It’s May!

Well would ya look at that! Time often has a way of simultaneously feeling like an endless crawl yet also rushing past. As someone unmoored…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Stooooooooob!

I absolutely love it when I stumble across a new trading partners and then that turns into an actual trading relationship. I put together several…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 10, 2020

More Little Trades!

Alright, the third little batch of small TCDB trades has rolled in, which means I’m already starting to get behind on 2020. I guess I…

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CollectingPosted onJanuary 6, 2020

The First Cards of the New Year

I’m going to try and do the thing this year* where I actually blog about cards as they arrive. I mean, I have almost a…

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CollectingPosted onNovember 13, 2019November 13, 2019

Steady Rolling, I Keep Going

As I mentioned, there have been a lot of swaps this year, and I’ve been pretty quiet around these parts. That means there are a…

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AutographsPosted onNovember 8, 2019

Deeply Distracted

Woof. I have severely neglected this spot. That’s not to say that there was a lack of reasons for doing so, but I let this…

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CollectingPosted onSeptember 17, 2019September 17, 2019

A Mini Mailday

Does three trades really constitute a mini mailday? Well, they were all small swaps, and two featured minis, so I’m going to say yes. These…

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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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