Tag Archives: baseball cards

For-Real Interview: Josh Wilker

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

For several years, there was a drug store in my neighborhood with a curious trading card vending machine. Half of its contents were of the Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh variety. The other half were old baseball cards. The newest ones were from the … Read on! —->

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Warm Thoughts for a Cold Winter: Topps’ Photo Retouching Skills

Posted on February 4, 2010 by

A recent post at Mets Guy in Michigan concentrated on what may be the worst Mets-related baseball card of all time (and perhaps the worst baseball card of all time, period): a Hostess-produced card for Rusty Staub in which the … Read on! —->

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Party Like It’s 1999

Posted on March 3, 2009 by

There’s a drug store a few blocks away from my house that has a mysterious Card Vending Machine. The bottom half of the machine–which would be eye level with most preteens–contains Pokemon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc. The top half has packs … Read on! —->

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To Dream the Difficult-But-Not-Completely-Implausible Dream…

Posted on January 28, 2009 by

I love people who go on insane quests. I’m not talking quite at the Don Quixote level. More like completely pointless obsessions whose realization won’t accomplish anything for the dreamer. They just wanna see if they can do it. After … Read on! —->

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