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Can someone tell me about this card? Summer of '94
These are unlicensed collectors' issue cards, known collectively as broders. -
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Spring Training is HERE!
I may not know the current generation of players, but I'm always happy when the first ST games show up on television. The images of the green grass, sunny skies, people in shirtsleeves, etc., bring a little warmth to the long winter here in Westcentral PA and bring back fond memories of my own... -
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Flashing back to January 1991 courtesy of SCD Baseball Card Price Guide
Baseball Card Price Guide was meant to directly compete with Beckett monthly. It was hugely successful in the hobby's heyday and was profitable from the very first issue. Obviously there were lots of collectors buying from the ads as the advertisers came back issue-after-issue at ever-increasing... -
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Cards "missing" from a player's career
I've done more than 400 customs, including many mentioned here, but have never done any Musgraves. -
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Thoughts about the NNOF Thomas from 1995 Magazine
Yes, the same Marty Appel. He wrote for us at SCD for many years. -
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Do you smell what the "Knott" is cookin?
His real rookie card! Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 12:06 pm on September 28, 2015 in OAKLEY, CA 94561.Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 12:06 pm on September 28, 2015 in OAKLEY, CA 94561. -
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Hobby terms which irk you
"the Bay" why add a "th"? "poppage" just a pet peeve "Nationals" ditto "ripping" better than the now-outmoded "busting," but what's wrong with "opening"? -
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What's your "baseball card mystery"
Why does Al Corwin have two cards in 1953 Bowman color? -
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Production info for you player collectors re: Baseball Cards mag cards
You also have to remember that the numbers quoted were the original print runs for those particular issues. More than half of the copies that were on sale on newsstands went unsold and were shredded. The mail-offer for the Diamond Star-style McGwire really fell flat; I don't recall exactly... -
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Chasing Babe Ruth's Autograph ...
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that Mickey D's ever sold Dr. Pepper. -
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Baseball card terms no longer used
Pack "ripping" used to be pack "busting" -
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Save money Halloween by giving out cards
Sounds like a good way to get your house egged. -
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Some Vintage ID help please
Sorry to be late to the party . . . Bottom at left are 1969 Topps 4-on-1 mini-stickers; 25 different sticker-cards, 100 subjects. At right are 1962 "Pittsburgh Exhibits"; 81 known -
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Wow... People are really this dumb???
Thanks. Actually I've been here for a couple of years, but recently had to re-register when I buggered up my computer by doing a "Refresh". FWIW . . . don't EVER do a refresh in Windows 8 unless you understand the fine print. -
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Wow... People are really this dumb???
Atlantic magazine recently had an excellent article pertinent to this . . . http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/who-wins-in-the-name-game/374912/
