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Playing the “What If” game with Allen & Ginter and Stephen Strasburg
By now you’re aware that the primary draws to 2010 Topps Allen & Ginter is indeed one of the two Stephen Strasburg cards. Obviously his autograph is THE pull right now as it is fetching in the...
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Fishing for original Allen & Ginter
It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have finally obtained a trading card that is more than a century old. True, I own baseball cards that are now 100 years old. But in recent days, I have had...
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“Daddy … what’s that?”
So this afternoon I sat down to sort some Allen & Ginter minis before placing them in binder pages and my 19-month-old daughter asks, “Daddy … what’s that?” She hesitated for a second and...
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Are Goodwin Champion minis underrated?
So the other day I completed a small trade for some minis from Topps Allen & Ginter, as well as UD Goodwin Champions. Among them were two black border parallels — a 2009 Allen & Ginter Albert...
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Fear This Beard: Brian Wilson appears in unannounced “Flocculence” Ginter set
Topps Allen & Ginter is here. Breaking News, right? The set certainly packs a punch with one of the highlights being any of the Manny Pacquiao cards. But while everyone is hunting for Pacquiao —...
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Pacquiao’s Topps Allen & Ginter cards packing a hell of a punch
It’s funny what joy an itsy bitsy piece of cardboard can bring to a grown man. For more than a year I’ve been asking that someone, anyone create a Manny Pacquiao baseball card. And finally, my wishes...
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Thrift Treasures 55: 120+ year-old card at antique store
Earlier this week, my wife and I made a trip to a local town to hit the antique and thrift stores. We spent six hours bouncing in and out of stores. She did a lot of spending; I did a lot of looking...
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2013 Topps Allen & Ginter Blaster (x4) and Hobby Box results. RIP CARD video
Happy Allen & Ginter Day. Enjoy the condensed version of the results.
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Blaster Break: 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter
There was a time when the brand name “Allen & Ginter” set off all sorts emotions for me as a card collector. I would get caught up in the craze that seemingly came with the set. What major...
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Project Organize: Big Problem With Small Cards
As mentioned recently, the only real hobby goal I have for 2019 is to be more organized. What that will eventually look like is somewhat unknown. But my initial plan was to move a lot of cards out of...
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Collecting Kershaw: The Ginter Stained Glass Mini is lost in the mail …
Last weekend while traveling to my grandmother’s 80th birthday I was checking eBay looking at the newly released Allen & Ginter cards of my favorite players. During one search I located one of the...
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That moment when your friend gets his own baseball card in Allen & Ginter
There’s been no shortage of complaining about this year’s Topps Allen & Ginter non-baseball checklist, and sadly one of the figures who had drawn the ire of collectors early on was Yahoo Sports’...
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