All Trade Bait, All The Time...: White Sox

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Sunday Night Trade Bait

Hey Everybody -

Last post I mentioned that I sprung for a few assorted packs. I bought some 2013 Topps, cuz I dig those die-cuts and I'm still trying to pull one for myself. In addition to those, I bought a few discounted 2010 and 2011 packs. I got a whole mess of cards to add to various team piles, and no earth shattering hits, but I caught some subset cards that might be useful to those of you chasing them.

Starting off with a coupla reprints...

In a week that featured the talk about Topps' scrubbing of Pete Rose, I managed to pull exactly one of the cards that was cited in the discussion. Anybody out there chasing that History of Topps subset?

These cards are awesome. I'd chase this set myself, but I hardly see them around.

Anyone for a miiiiniiii Halladay or a Twins celebratory card?

Hey Arpsmith, you out there? You interested in these cards of your boys?

How about some White Sox up and comers?

While I do like the Chasing History cards, I only like the shiny refractory ones.

Anybody needs/want these miiiiiniiiiiiis?

And now a few of the Chasing History shinys....

These Dodger cards areawesome.

I'll close with a couple of shiny Yankees. If you get tomorrow off, enjoy!

Next Post: ATBATT's 2nd Base All-Star

Friday, October 5, 2012

Binder Page Heroes 9 Big Hurt Edition

hey everybody,

happy friday. baseball continues onward for some of you, and my team managed to ultimately squander and ruin their 'almost incredible' season.

upon reflection, although the season felt like such a let down at its conclusion, it really was pretty good, all things considered. coming off the unspeakable disaster that was the final season of the mccourt ownership, this Dodger season gave us some great moments, and we really did feel genuine hope from time to time.

in spite of the fiascoes that were loney/uribe, injured/re-injured kemp, and superstars that can't string together 3 base hits in a row, we had the emergence of luis cruz, a quality season from the starting pitchers, and the announcement that Vin Scully will be back to be the Dodger's voice for one more season. i take silver linings any time i can get 'em.

back when i started getting into collecting, as far as contemporary players went, the big boys to catch on cardboard were ken griffey jr. and frank thomas. as a result, thomas occupies 3 binder pages. the big hurt was picture-perfect for the sets that were released through these times. i didn't pull many inserts of thomas, but often, his base cards were beautiful on their own.

i'm gonna take a page from Vin Scully's book, and let the pictures speak for themselves...