Player/Type Collections

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The Immaculate Grid and Baseball's Best Fifth Round Draft Picks, 1965 - 69

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I'm a consistent Immaculate Grid player and use whatever cards litter my desk as "original sources" to plug in names. On Hall...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

Utah baseball stops in August 2023

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I spent a chunk of August visiting family in and around Salt Lake City, a town with more than a century of minor league history. We made mul...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

"Baseball in the Berkshires" exhibit in Lee, MA (July to August 2023)

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A long chain of events, fortunate and unfortunate, led me to factory outlet shopping in Lee, MA, over the weekend. I parked our car and turn...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

1935 Goudey Big League Gum baseball: over the border line (for the SABR Baseball Cards blog)

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Intro for my latest at the SABR Baseball Cards blog I enjoy picking apart hard-to-explain details of vintage cards to see where that journey...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

1923-24 Tomás Gutiérrez (Cuban cigars) Baseball #5, Dave Brown

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While my type collection might never include this hobby rarity, it deserves a profile on its own merits and for those of its subject, Dave B...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

1927 Honey Boy Ice Cream Baseball #5, William "Snake" Siddle

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This Honey Boy set exists thanks to an ideal confluence of circumstances: baseball's growing popularity at all levels, recent success fo...
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Sunday, October 2, 2022

1974 TCMA "1952 Brooklyn Dodgers" Baseball #5, Sandy Amoros

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Starting in 1972, TCMA found growing success with direct-to-collector sets built from their collection of vintage baseball photo negatives a...
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