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Sunday, May 25, 2014

1900 Base Ball World's Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Superbas

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I recently covered a 1910 " Most Tied Game Ever " between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, itself a statistical oddity that wouldn't h...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

National Poster Stamp Society's 1944 Yankees and 1949 Eureka Sportstamps Baseball #5, Red Barrett

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Eureka, it's a stamp! This 200-count set of MLB players stands out for two reasons. Most prominent are the full-color, Kodachrome photos...
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Sunday, May 4, 2014

1974 Fleer Baseball Wildest Days and Plays #5, Most Tied Game Ever

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This post's a chance to return to one of my favorite baseball card eras, the growth of 1970s oddball publishing. In collecting terms, ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Workmanlike Performances

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I recently accepted a position at the wireless HiFi company Sonos, so am pulling regular hours again. This means a little less time to blog,...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

1949 Bowman Baseball Wantlist (Updated Sept 25, 2016)

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This post tracks progress on my low-grade 1949 Bowman baseball set. Some collectors call it the ugly duckling of post-WWII issues, given its...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

1922 T85 Strollers Tobacco Actors & Actresses #5, Barbara La Marr

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Hollywood writer and actress. Six movie roles per year in the Roaring Twenties. Touted as The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, capital lett...
Monday, April 7, 2014

1975 TCMA Larry French Baseball #5, Brooklyn Dodgers years (1941-42)

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Collector and dealer Mike Aronstein's publishing company (TCMA) spent the early 1970s making retrospective looks at baseball, temporaril...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

1975-76 Calbee All Star Game Baseball #5, Tsutomu Wakamatsu & Katsuya Nomura

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This is my latest "one that got away," a scarce Japanese type card that ended with me as runner-up bidder on eBay. According ...
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