No Hobby Love for Dan Haren

This morning I woke up and read a post that Mario over at Wax Heaven had posted yesterday. In it, he spoke of collectors’ fascination with prospects and the future. That got me thinking of players in today’s game that are often overlooked by collector’s because they aren’t a highly touted new prospect.
That brings me to [...]

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How to NOT run an ebay listing…

I came across this listing today and had to laugh. First off, I love this title…
2008 TOPPS ALL STAR GIANT PATCH JUSTIN MORNEAU CPR-JM
Ok, I’ll admit that the word “GIANT” in the title piqued my interest and I had to check it out. I wasn’t really familiar with any oversized patch card from the All-Star [...]

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The Sun-Times Show: A Recap

As I noted last week, on Saturday I headed up to Chicago with a couple of buddies and attended my first real card show in probably 20 years. If you read the post last week you knew that I was curious how it would be since things have certainly changed since the last show I [...]

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Going to the Sun-Times show this weekend…wish me luck!

I really can’t remember the last time I went to a card show. Once in awhile at the local mall, there will be some guys that come in and set up tables and overcharge for inserts and lame single color jersey cards, but I don’t really consider that to be a “show”. When I think [...]

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If You Ain’t Using It, You’re Losing To It

A friend of mine sent me an email the other day whining about another auction on ebay that he was watching all week and missed out on. Evidently he put in a bid with 8 seconds left to become the high bidder and he assumed he would win the item. Then…..poof! It was gone. Somehow he [...]

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How I Got SCREWED By Upper Deck!!!

Those of you who have read this site for awhile are well aware of the kick in the nuts I received with the 2006 Ultimate Collection Baseball break I did back in January. If you don’t remember the slaughter, check it out HERE.
In summary, I was denied two of the more valuable hits and they [...]

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Time to Sell?? Yup…Unfortunately

I knew this day would come at some point but now that it has, I’m a little sad. I am in need of some funds so I’m having to part ways with one of my high dollar Justin Morneau cards. I looked over my inventory and chose this card here…

2007 Upper Deck Artifacts – Rare [...]

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Being a Colts fan kinda sucks sometimes

First off, congratulations to the Steelers for winning one of the most exciting Super Bowls I can remember. I will admit that I was pulling for Arizona but the final 3:00+ of that game was amazing. And to top off a great game, we had a great episode of The Office after it. I swear [...]

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Wow! I actually did it!

You know, saying you’re going to do something is one thing, but actually doing it is something else entirely.
Yesterday I wrote how I’m trying again to stick to my “quality not quantity” line of thinking and how that was effecting my Morneau collecting. All along I have said that I wasn’t the type of player [...]

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Large Purchase Dilemma – Talk Me Out Of This!

I really need to take my email address off the mailing lists for some of these cards retailers. I get an email the other day from Atlanta Sports Cards (a fantastic place to buy cards from) that my favorite product in the past 3 years is on sale.

This is the 2006 edition of Ultimate Collection. [...]

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