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Sunday, September 21, 2014

More #5s From U.K. Cigarette Packs : Flags, Flora, Fauna, and French-born Kings

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Last time in the blog, I thanked OBC trading friend Glenn for an excellent stack of UK cigarette cards  that covered a variety of subjects a...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

1930s British Cigarette Cards : Models and ships! Limpets and Sharks! Borzois and bad driving!

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If you collect modern Allen & Ginter cards, it can seem baffling how Topps finds so many random subjects to turn into one "normal...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

1962 LIFE Magazine (and Post Cereal) Baseball #5, Mickey Mantle

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After Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris's spell-binding race to break Ruth's single-season HR record in 1961, Post Cereal went all-out p...
Monday, August 18, 2014

1933-34 R339 Goudey Sport Kings Varsity Football Game #5

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As we near the start of 2014's college football season, I've been looking back several decades to the leatherheads era, when "f...
Friday, August 15, 2014

1934 R304 Dietz Gum "Ball Players in Action" (aka Al Demaree Die-Cuts) #5, Sam Byrd

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Who was Al Demaree, the pitcher and artist? And if he proved successful for years at each vocation, why did he die penniless?  The Conlon Co...
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Friday, August 8, 2014

Top 5 Cards from the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention

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I spent last weekend in Cleveland's I-X Center, criss-crossing its vast expanse of concrete and carpet in search of collectibles from ag...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

1980 TCMA Wisconsin Rapids Baseball #5, Manuel Lunar

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Hunting for vintage minor league singles is tricky for modern collectors. No man is an island, and as with Manuel Lunar, it's the guys a...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

"Well, We're Pitching Here in Allentown"

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"And it's hard to keep my fastball down..." "Out in Lehigh Valley, Rob's Kellin' time..." ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

1976 TCMA Shreveport Captains Baseball #5, Luke Wrenn

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I have complicated emotions surrounding Luke Wrenn, former OF farmhand and longtime scout for the Boston Red Sox. On the upside, Wrenn ...