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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Baseball Backgrounds : Reggie Jackson's Glasses on 1982 Topps #300

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Last week, I got into a Bluesky chat over the reflection in Reggie's glasses on 1982 Topps card #300. New York often wore these pregame...
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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Top 5 Deep Cut Cards for Immaculate Grid

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The Immaculate Grid encourages you to remember all kinds of team-specific trivia otherwise lost to the sands of time. When you're steepe...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Baseball TTM from Richard Billings (Dec 1972 Sport Grafica cover story)

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How many of these Sport Grafica magazines are still around? At least one I picked up from eBay to feed my research into  Grafica  winter le...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

1972-73 Sport Grafico Venezuelan Winter League Baseball #5, Manny (J. Marcano) Trillo

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The deeper I look into 1970s baseball, the more its collectibles reflect an era of complex regional relationships for sports and its fans. T...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Mailing for autographs : 1990 Sports Illustrated for Kids

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My literal biggest ever through-the-mail (TTM) autograph request came back this week, being a full-page panel plucked from Sports Illustrate...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

"It's a Nice Night for an Evening" -- 2024 Oldtime Baseball in Cambridge, MA

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My high school friend Max, a youthful  Steven Wright of our Seattle classroom, often said things like, "it's a nice night for an e...
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