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Jose Rijo, Rob Dibble, Roberto Kelly, Reggie Sanders, Barry Larkin Year: 1993 Brand: Upper Deck Card number: 473 Subset: Red October (Team Stars Subset) Here's what made the 1993 Upper Deck so awesome: Themed team stars cards (plus the player sketch checklist). While Red October isn't exactly ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Reggie Sanders
A couple of days ago , I highlighted the first part of a massive box of Cincinnati Reds cards sent to me by blog reader Kevin. The box that Kevin sent me contained well over 500 Reds cards, many of which I didn't already own (especially since I didn't buy a single pack of '09 Upper Deck)! While ...
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Cincinnati Reds
St. Louis Cardinals
While I'd like to think that I'm organized and efficient with trade posts, occasionally a package arrives that proves that I'm neither completely organized nor overly efficient. In fact, in the case of awesome package from Kevin v. me I am guilty of both. Luckily, any admissions I make in my ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Barry Larkin Year: 1993 Brand: Upper Deck Card number: 245 The 1993 Upper Deck is a beloved set by many collectors. The set features a lot of great photography, including different photos on the front and back. For Mr. Larkin's card, the front shows a unique shot of Barry on third base (I ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Cincinnati Reds
Yeah, others open cool stuff from earlier in the decade. I open junky repacks full of crap from earlier in the decade. 10 bucks for 10 packs - wow, that's only a dollar a pack! It's gotta be at least a somewhat decent deal, right? Especially since the packaging claims "extreme value ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Sammy Sosa
Mickey Mantle
Oh sure, I might be 6 months late on the review...but it allowed me to grab a hobby box of Goudey off of eBay for a much more reasonable price than I would've had to shell out back in the spring. Plus, I shared a blaster opening experience back in May , so it's not like I completely missed the ...
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This post is posted on November 11, 2009 - i.e. 11/11/09. There's no better day to have to have a post dedicated to the best Cincinnati Reds player ever to wear the number 11 than today (except in two years when it'll be 11/11/11 - right before the Mayan calendar runs out and all our baseball ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #8, the final pack of the blasters. Pack 8 Blaster 1: 17. B.J. Upton 32. Roy Halladay (+5 points, 1 for each camera I could find in the photo) 79. Derrek Lee 106. Eric Hurley 21. Jacoby Ellsbury - First Day ...
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B.J. Upton
Roy Halladay
Derrek Lee
Eric Hurley
Jacoby Ellsbury
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #6. Let's see who wins! Pack 7 Blaster 1: 7. Torii Hunter (+2 points for all the red going on in this photo. Seriously, that's a lot of red...especially considering the bald head is taking up the majority of the ...
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Torii Hunter
Dustin Pedroia
Nick Swisher
Masahide Kobayashi
Michael Young
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #7. Let's see who wins! Pack 6 Blaster 1: 59. Derek Jeter (Ugh. -2 for being a Yankee, but minus another 3 for being the undying love of FOX Sports. And you know what, another -1 for me having to endure your ...
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Derek Jeter
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #5. Let's see who wins! Pack 5 Blaster 1: 10. CC Sabathia (-2. Even though he's pictured as a Brewer we all know he's a Yankee) 97. Nolan Ryan (+5. I love the legends cards, I wish Topps had included more of ...
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Nolan Ryan
Tom Seaver
C.C. Sabathia
Clayton Kershaw
David Purcey
A few days ago, blog reader Ryan contacted me about a possible trade...our second trade in about a month. As it turns out, Ryan seems to be collecting relics from the 2008 Allen & Ginter set...and I've decided to dump all my non-Reds relics from 2008 Allen & Ginter with the hopes of ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Prince Fielder
New York Mets
Ryan Church
Nick Swisher
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #4. Let's see who wins! Pack 4 Blaster 1: 2. Tim Lincecum (+2 points, for whatever reason I kind of like Lincecum. I'm sure it helps that he only pitches against my team once, maybe twice, a season.) 8. Mark ...
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Tim Lincecum
Mark Teixeira
Jason Bay
Jorge Posada
ESPN
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #3. Let's see who wins! Pack 3 Blaster 1: 46. Fausto Carmona 103. Nick Adenhart (+10 points for Adenhart. I thought the Angels' tribute to him throughout the season was a great gesture...and I'm sure his family ...
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Los Angeles Angels
Continuing the 2008 Topps Stadium Club Blaster Wars, it's time to crack open pack #2. Let's see who wins! Pack 2 Blaster 1: 71. Grady Sizemore (+1 point, I've always liked Sizemore) 91. Jackie Robinson (+5, I don't care how many times I see this card, I love it every single time) 95. Honus ...
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Mickey Mantle
Target had 2008 Topps Stadium Club blasters marked 50% off. I'm still missing a bunch of cards from the set - sounds like a good chance for me to whittle down my want list ! In the true spirit of Pack Blaster Wars, each pack will be assigned points based on the cards within it. Add up the pack ...
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Chris Carter
Everyone and their brother seems to hate this set - naturally I wanted to see it for myself...I often collect sets other people hate (UD Spectrum, I'm looking at you). It makes set completion easier because no one wants their cards (or at least that's my thought process...it apparently doens't ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
I purchased two retail blasters of Topps American Heroes a few weeks ago...and then the set seemed to disappear from my local Target's shelves. However, last week I saw a few loose packs sitting in a box on the baseball card shelf so I decided to take a chance with the hopes of landing the few ...
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Jackie Robinson
I've purchased a couple of blasters plus some packs and have accumulated some 2009 Topps Heritage American Heroes cards. You can find the cards I need here . I've decided to only try to collect the Heroes of Sport and Heroes of Spaceflight inserts, so hopefully I can trade some of my inserts of ...
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The baseball card blogosphere is full of traders, but few of them are as generous as Jack from the All Tribe Baseball blog. Awhile back, I sent Jack a few 2009 Allen & Ginter base cards and a couple of mini ad back cards. In return, Jack sent me a bunch of Reds including a 2008 Topps Reds ...
