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ealize was that depending upon where you draw the line there are about a gazillion cards out there that could go into this collection john has sent about a half a gazillion of them to me over the past few months and in the process he s shown me that due to the law of unintended consequences this one was a bad idea i m glad to have the cards i m always glad to have any card but the turtleneck collection is dead john killed it like a skilled assassin nice shootin john 1994 bowman s best mo vaughn bos 80 but lest ye be tempted to view the man as a destructive force let the record show that john also managed to give birth to a large segment of another of my mini collections that s because he can spot a 42 as easily as he can a turtleneck i m not going to expand the 42 collection to include everyone who s ever worn the number but john did prompt me to add the grandfathers gallery featuring more cards of the thirteen players who were allowed to keep wearing 42 after it had been retired to honor jackie robinson two guys who go by mo get the most exposure here including the great rivera 1992 upper deck minors jared baker high desert mavericks 22 john hasn t ignored the big kahuna of mini collections either which will be even more evident when i post about his latest trade package no this isn t the most recent stuff from the man i told you he s relentless 1994 upper deck albert belle cle 131 john is so good at spotting stuff that this deceptively jovial albert belle is the second hit that he s sent me for a mini collection that i haven t even announced yet 2000 fleer skybox tony armas jr mon 224 2000 fleer focus vinny castilla tbd 211 1999 upper deck sandy alomar jr foreign focus cle 244 1998 upper deck special f x tony clark det 55 the best thing about getting cards from the trading spot though is the fact that john has a free flowing supply of cardboard from my collecting dead period from about 1997 2006 these may have been intended for the turtleneck collection see how subtle and subjective it can get but i love getting em no matter the reason that he sent em 1997 fleer moises alou fla 647 1997 fleer ryne sandberg team checklist chc 725 1997 fleer ryne sandberg encore chc 716 i m particularly excited to receive 97 fleer cards i was a big fan of their first matte finish set from the previous year of which i have a good amount but i think i may like the 97 version even better and i have virtually none of these yet 2000 fleer greats of the game clete boyer nyy 88 2001 topps archives 1963 topps 1962 world series game 1 yanks ford wins series opener 221 1979 topps burger king yankees ed figueroa nyy 11 1995 upper deck sp championship wade boggs nyy 172 1998 fleer tradition homer bush nyy 219 probably the most interesting and unexpected thing that i ve received from john lately before his most recent package that is was an envelope filled with yankees i m a dodgers guy but having lived in nyc for the heart of the jeter led yankee dynasty not to mention being one to appreciate the history of the game i dig yankee cards except in cases where i ve requested them nobody has sent me a gaggle of yankee cards out of the blue no one except john a true force of nature in the blogging community thanks again john and again and again and again the man is relentless posted by petethan at 6 54 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 42 blog share getting a grip mini collecting turtlenecks friday may 9 2014 we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an update on programming from around the world of card blogging first i want to bring something to your attention that should be right up your proverbial alley and i m not talking about things that only your proctologist should know sports fans are no strangers to call in talk radio shows well it turns out that even baseball cards get such shows and in this marvelously modern world radio shows take place on the internet i had the good fortune last night to be the only listener to tune in to the first episode of baseball card nostalgia hosted by chris of view from the skybox last night chris s guest host was marcus of all the way to the backstop they talked about introducing kids to the hobby the best cal ripken cards and whether he was the man when it comes to 90s cardboard and how the padres really should have found a better fitting uniform for tony gwynn in his later years among other things it was a lot of fun i was going to call in but the show ended before i d finished my dinner maybe next time if you missed it and i know you did you can listen to the archive at the show s site where you can also go to tune in live for the next episode which is scheduled to air on tuesday at 11 pm est next for admittedly selfish reasons i m going to pimp a couple of contests from around the interwebs coincidentally the prizes for the two contests consist of 2014 bowman which is great because i can t afford to be spending money on everything despite the fact that i want everything and bowman is going to be one of the sets that i will only be enjoying in hand me down form in 2014 first of all over at dodger penguin you can win the bowman dodgers team set if you twitter or tweet or twit or whatever that thing is you can earn beaucoup entries but other opportunities abound including commenting on his contest post and of course pimping the contest that s why i m wearing my lime green pimpin suit with the matching hat complete with feather and platform boots in my imagination anyway if you d rather venture beyond dodger blue an entire hobby box of 2014 bowman apparently provided free of cost by topps props is on offer over at play at the plate in celebration of post 2000 congrats so range on over there where you can see mike piazza in what looks to be a painfully compromising position and get in on the opportunity thanks for the contests guys and good luck to all lots of us collectors have churned out our own custom cards we always think we can do it better than the big boys which reminds me that in my patented half assed fashion i began but didn t finish making custom dodgers cards last year and i began but didn t finish showing them off on this blog so in utterly random fashion here are a couple more of my 2013 custom dodgers 2013 tball virtual yasiel puig lad 66 2013 tball virtual hyun jin ryu lad 99 i know that is so last year the reason i bring this up is that i d like to point out something that i think is pretty damned cool in my opinion one of us really has managed to come up with something that achieves truly professional quality i know i d be buying a lot more packs of these things than donruss or bowman or gypsy queen if they were on the shelves this year you have probably seen his work already but if not you should really go check out what joe of the shlabotnik report is up to with his 2014 tsr customs really top notch stuff we will return you to your regularly scheduled programming me yapping about me tomorrow thanks for tuning in and have a good weekend peops posted by petethan at 4 38 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shameless plugs tball productions thursday may 8 2014 when it s all mixed up better break it down or a glowing review for gavin the 1990s were a strange time of transition the 80s love em or hate em had a distinct personality that was more than ready to be discarded for something new by the end of the decade but a whole new century was just around the corner and that was going to be the time for reinvention so we had this entire decade to live with a kind of unformed cultural identity in waiting and when it wasn t boring it was a minor disaster those of us who watched the game of baseball and especially the card collectors among us are keenly aware of this the decade saw among other things cardboard overproduction that nearly crippled the hobby the dawn of what s come to be known as the steroid era and a strike that gave us the first season without a world series since john mcgraw refused to allow his giants to participate in 1904 the 1990s also saw the beginning of a run of world series broadcasting duties by this guy that continues to this day 2004 topps all time fan favorites refractors joe buck broadcaster 141 91 299 i got this card from gavin at baseball card breakdown it didn t take much prying gavin hated this card so much that he wrote a post about it where you can see it shine in all of its patented baseball card breakdown refractin action glory i don t hate joe buck or tim mccarver for that matter but even if i did i would absolutely want this card because of the type of collector that i am i see my collection as something that should reflect as much of the history of the game good and bad as possible since i was born in 1970 my life breaks up nicely into decades what was for the the world the 1990s was for me my twenties yup the decade of transition from childhood to adulthood which for many people is the time that they essentially abandon play for the drudgery of work and if you ve been reading lately what i ve loosely termed a series in which i contemplate how this blog fits into my life and my collecting habits you ll know that the work play dichotomy is very much on my mind few blogs elicit the joy of play like gavin s among other things gavin recently combined his love of baseball cards with his enjoyment of legos to make some pretty nifty lego display stands he has a creative way of looking at this baseball card thing he has an eye for the interesting gavin is the type to appreciate something as random as finding more similarities than differences between these two very different cards that i requested from a recent trade bait post of his 2014 topps heritage news flashbacks the autobiography of malcolm x nf mx 2009 upper deck o pee chee roy oswalt hou 170 that oswalt is sweet he s just the kind of player i dig he s not going to the hall of fame but he shouldn t be forgotten as one of the game s best pitchers for several years speaking of the game s best 2008 upper deck yankee stadium legacy joe dimaggio nyy ysl 2230 2012 topps golden greats willie mays nyg gg 12 i couldn t pass up on these either the yankee stadium legacy thing can get a bit tedious but this joe d in action is some sweet glossy cardboard substitute and as i ve mentioned i missed out on 2012 topps inserts by buying the factory set rather than busting packs so say hey this one makes my day when it comes to gavin and his love of play there s nothing to compare with his very own gav glowing altered variation cards gavin took his love of glow in the dark cards into his own hands turning existing cards into custom night lights which he s happily shared with the blogging community i had long been anxious to get my hands on one and gavin surprised me by fulfilling that wish 1988 donruss lloyd moseby tor 367 gav glowing altered variation 1 1 i don t have the technical chops to show the glow but if you cruise by gavin s site you can get an eyeful for yourself baseball card breakdown is definitely one of the must read blogs out there so do yourself a favor and make it regular reading if you don t already in fact if you stop by today you ll note that gavin would appreciate a 52 mantle if you happen to have a spare hope that works out for you man meanwhile thanks for spreadin the fun gavin this selection of cards from gavin perfectly reflects the deep transition that my worldview undertook in my 20s at the dawn of the 90s i tended to see things in terms of black white i was offended by chaos by the turn of the century i had embraced the beauty and inevitability of the random nature of existence in fact i remember the moment though i couldn t tell you exactly when it occurred i was in a plane traveling alone on a nighttime approach into lax looking down at life happening below me in all of it s chaotic glory i was suddenly at peace with not knowing what was around every corner whereas i used to fear getting lost i would begin to do so on purpose in order to discover new and exciting surprises and that change in attitude has radically redefined who i am as a baseball card collector then again there s one aspect of my habits that hasn t changed and may never do so but we re going to have to wait a few days before we get into that to be continued by the way bonus points for those of you who recognized the lyrics in the title borrowed from the 90s version of tears for fears it really was a strange decade posted by petethan at 5 35 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blog share wednesday may 7 2014 finding flowers in the dustbin or survive in peace 1996 upper deck ripken collection cal ripken jr bal 11 would you miss a day of work if you had this man s job no me neither time that s the single biggest impediment to my ability to blog consistently some days twenty four hours is enough most days it is not some of the things that take time away from blogging land in the column marked positives the past several weeks for example i ve had the pleasure of watching my two youngest daughters play high school jv softball usually three times a week i haven t missed a game time to brag a little my youngest jana is the starting shortstop also a pitcher and she s her team s cleanup hitter she recently hit the only over the fence home run i ve seen in two years of watching jv softball her older sister kitkat plays second base yup a family keystone combo just like cal and billy yesterday kitkat was the hero of the game driving in the only run of the game s first five innings jana would later drive in the second run starting a rally that would open up a big lead that they would never relinquish kitkat also made two of the best defensive plays i ve seen all year she did a toe dance to hold the bag covering first on a high throw from third on a bunt on the very next play she ranged far into foul territory along the first base line to snag a popup with a spectacular running catch needless to say i ve got the proud dad thing going watching them takes time though so does watching my dodgers you can count what i ve missed so far this year in pitches or maybe innings but not games then there s chores i ve started doing the meal planning shopping and occasional cooking while my wife works full time and goes to nursing school then of course there s work the vast majority of us spend upwards of forty hours a week in a place we d rather not be doing things we d never choose to spend our time doing forty hours that s a lot of time give me a few weeks were i don t have to surrender forty hours of my life to work and i ll have my cards in order i ll be sending out packages left and right and i ll post every day i can t really complain too much about my job my gripe is really with the two thousand hours a year that i ll never get back before i die but i 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