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Wow, what a crazy year it has been for me and card blogging in general. When I began blogging, there was no more than 10 card blogs, some not even active. In its peak a few months ago there was over 100 of us going strong.
I would like to personally ...
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MLB
Today I woke up in severe pain after spending the entire previous day helping a friend move into a new home. Thankfully, along with the pain I had a nice $50 spot which was given to me for the help. I decided the best way to spend the day was to visit the #2 attraction in all of Florida, the ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
If I had to sit back and go through over 1,200 blog posts that I wrote in a year’s time I’d probably hang myself. Thankfully, the Best of Wax Heaven comes in very handy. If I had to choose one blog that is the very best of Wax Heaven, it’s so simple I don’t even have to ...
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Jose Canseco
Ozzie Guillen
To commemorate the one year anniversary of Wax Heaven, I have been lucky enough to sit down with the extremely talented painter who brought you the Diamond Kings series and is the official artist of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, none other than Dick Perez.
If you were around during ...
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Oliver Perez
St. Louis Cardinals
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…but I can finally say Wax Heaven has
a sponsor! Starting next week, Upper Deck will be
sending out select products to Wax Heaven for product reviews and to bust on YouTube, as well as be streamed from Upper Deck’s official website. ...
Here you have what in my opinion is one of the best sets of the 90’s, 1997 Bowman’s Best. The card is a Paul Molitor certified autograph that was probably about as difficult to pull in the 90’s as a “1 of 1″ is today. In the 10+ years since Bowman’s Best was ...
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MLB
Paul Molitor
St. Louis Cardinals
Jose Cruz Jr.
One day, just a few years ago, I found myself sitting on a bench during one of my baseball games in a semi-pro league in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It was just the second game of the season and already I was designated to sitting on the bench, waiting for my turn to bat. It was then that I began ...
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MLB
In one corner you have a low-numbered autograph/game-used patch from 2008 U.D Masterpieces. While Masterpieces is not even close to being a high-end product, the Ryan patch/auto #’d to just 10 is one of the best cards in the set.
In the other corner you have a “1 of 1″, ...
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Nolan Ryan
St. Louis Cardinals
In 1994, Adrian Gluck, a former employee of Upper Deck, filed two patents with regards to the design of baseball cards with a piece of memorabilia stuck on the card. It took the patents office 4 years to approve Gluck’s idea and by that time, “game-used” jerseys had hit the ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Recently, a collector purchased an Upper Deck Stan Musial “1 of 1″ from eBay. Upon further review, the collector found himself disappointed that the sticker autograph was crooked and cut badly. What this brave collector did next probably took more balls ...
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Stan Musial
St. Louis Cardinals
This is a new feature to Wax Heaven which will be posted every day at Midnight. The concept is simple. I will post two cards from the same year and of the same player. They will go up against each other, you choose which one you’d rather pull from a pack and why.
Today we feature Cy ...
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Tim Lincecum
St. Louis Cardinals
Cy Young
Andrew Miller
I’ll be the first to admit, after Daisuke Matsuzaka’s 2007 season I was somewhat unimpressed with his numbers. Sure, he did manage to win 15 games but with a line-up as stacked as the ‘07 Red Sox had, I am sure even Red Donahue, who lost 35 games in 1897 ( link ) would have ...
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Tampa Bay Rays
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Boston Red Sox
A few months ago I teamed up with a fella named Wayne who owns the definitive fan site to the 80’s phenom, Garbage Pail Kids. With his help, I posted an article of the Top 10 Garbage Pail Kids of all-time ( link ). While the article was a dud during it’s debut, over the past two ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Many months ago I pulled a Dick Perez autograph from a box of 2007 Topps Turkey. After posting the video and product review, I got an e-mail from “Rob” who wanted to trade. After a couple of weeks the trade went off without a single hitch and we both went on our separate ways.
A ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Josh Willingham
It’s official: Upper Deck is in the dog house, along with Topps.
Early last year Andrew Miller’s SPx and Finest rookie cards were selling like hot cakes. This season, after a rough year for the Florida Marlins’ future ace, he’s been seemingly left out of all the big ...
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Andrew Miller
Florida Marlins
St. Louis Cardinals
I remember being 15 years old and full of teen angst in 1996. One day, while sitting in my room organizing my baseball cards, my mother walks in and throws a bag on my bed and walks out. Curiously, I got up off the floor and opened the bag and found a new, unopened wax box of 1996 Emotion ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
I remember the day I pulled my first ever printing plate. Actually, I pulled two from the same box of 2007 Finest. First, I had no idea what they were and quite honestly didn’t like them very much. A few months later I pulled another one from a box of ‘07 Allen & Ginter and I ...
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Don Mattingly
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Yankees
I feel a little silly now after gushing on a blog & video about how much I love Pinnacle’s 1997 Totally Certified. Sure, they had some great products and they possibly even invented the “gimmick” card but sometimes their ideas fell on its ass. Two such products were ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
This is cardboard addiction at its finest!
The moment I opened a pack of 1997 Pinnacle Totally Certified my world changed forever. You see, truth is I have been obsessed with Totally Certified ever since I opened the three packs I could afford during its initial release. Even years after I ...
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MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Tim Wakefield
The final SPx Mystery Autograph Redemptions were revealed today, which brings to an end the long wait collectors have had to make. RR5 & RR7 belong to Max Scherzer, of the Arizona DIamondbacks and Alexei Ramirez, of the Chicago White Sox. Unlike the Topps Finest redemptions, these SPx ...
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It took 364 days