Month: January 2019

Shop Around (the Flea Market, Part 2)

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1966 Topps Baseball #120, 1971 Topps Football #25, 2008 Topps Baseball Highlights Autographs HA-DB cardbacks Stuff I Actually Did Buy Continuing our shopping adventures at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena CA, we finally came across a few cards that fit into the Stadium…

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Shop Around (the Flea Market, Part 1)

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"Shop Around" 7" single label

Stuff I Didn’t Buy (but caught my attention anyway) Just wanted to share my day at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena, CA this past Sunday. I posted on my Twitter account a lot of uncropped pics of cool things that I didn’t buy…

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Caribbean Blue (Donruss 1992)

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1992 Donruss card element

Screenshot from a 1992 Donruss commercial Wow. I can’t believe I actually won a contest prize over at Adam’s ARPSmith’s Sportscard Obsession. It really wasn’t due to due to a correct guess/prediction in one of his minicontests. None of the contestants in a particular mini-contest…

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Yes, I’m Ready

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Segment of 45 rpm "Yes, I'm Ready"

Yes, I’m (sort of) ready to attempt to live up to a few 2019 New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never really had any New Year’s resolutions before (especially hobby resolutions). But for this year, I decided to take baby steps to go out on a limb…

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My Favorite Mistake (of 2018)

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Hobby-wise I was really looking forward to 2018. This would be the first year in ages that I would attempt to build a Topps baseball set that wasn’t flagship. And so when 2018 Topps Heritage was released, I bought two hobby boxes and I’m very…

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Love Is A Rose (Bowl Contest Winner)

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2019 Rose Bowl Souvenir Cup Design

2019 Rose Bowl Game – Opening drive 2019 Rose Bowl Game – Final minutes 2019 Rose Bowl Final Score 2019 Rose Bowl Program The 2019 Rose Bowl Game came and went with the Ohio State Buckeyes crowned the 2019 Rose Bowl Champions. Ohio State dominated…

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