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Waiting for three boxes to arrive
Late last week I decided to search the Internets for some deals on sealed boxes. And after scouring all the regular places, BlowOut Cards, Dave & Adams and eBay, I settled on what I decided seemed...
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Baseball Cards On Television
Since I started collecting in the late 1980s, I’ve always been intrigued whenever baseball cards are discussed or shown on television. One of my fondest memories was watching Kevin and Paul on “The...
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This Decade in Baseball Card Collecting
The card that brought me back ... It’s been a crazy decade to say the least. I’ve gone from a struggling lowly college student spending all of his money on cards from three sports, to a husband and...
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New items on COMC
Over the last few weeks I’ve added a slew of new items to my CheckOutMyCards.com account. There’s a bunch of autos and relics, as well as some other stuff in there. Some of the items are more personal...
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Three Collecting Goals for 2012
There's someone missing from this stash ... Right about this time each year I start thinking of things I want to accomplish in the new year. And each year I start to make a list, but I rarely actually...
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1973 Topps Lou Gehrig spotted in “The Goonies”
This is probably old news to many of you — or maybe not — but there is a baseball card shown in the 1985 flick, “The Goonies.” In the movie there is a story about a guy who went missing in 1934 while...
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Who doesn’t like a good story: 1921 American Caramel Wally Pipp
Everyone knows who Lou Gehrig is. Whether it be for the disease that bears his name, the fact that he was a stud baseball player or simply as the man whom Cal Ripken Jr overtook two decades ago in...
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Breaking Barriers: The vintage rookie cards that shaped the last 15 years of...
Have you ever believed that certain things were impossible and then suddenly you accomplished a feat once deemed so insurmountable that it allowed you to rethink everything you believed? These...
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