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Where SABR members and other collectors gather to share their love of all things baseball cards. Head to the blog for new articles each week! 👇🏼
Phoenix, AZ
Joined December 2016
RT @BaseCardsRule: Happy birthday (76) Rick Reuschel. Rick had 214 wins & 2,015 K. He & Frank Tanana are the only pitchers to give up a HR….
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New on the blog! @SABRChicago chapter member and @SABRLandmarks czar @phitter72 highlights some "landmark" baseball cards featuring @Cubs women in baseball Margaret Donahue and @rachelfolden25. cc: @biest22 .
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At the Chicago Cubs’ annual stockholders meeting in December 1926, the board of directors passed a resolution that officially changed the name of their home ballpark from Cubs Park to Wrigley Field…
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New on the blog! Just an incredible baseball card history lesson from Glenn Renick, and this is just Part 1!
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Almost every historical discussion about baseball cards feeds the impression that, since baseball was such a wildly popular game after the American Civil War, some enterprising businessmen, most no…
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RT @phitter72: Never expected to be the subject of my own Literal Series card - nice work @vossbrink, this was a real hit! .
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New on the SABR Baseball Cards blog! Jeff Katz sells some biggies to buy a biggie.
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As I slowly rework the collection, with the goal of only having complete sets, I made a big decision in 2024 – forsake my 1933 Tattoo Orbit build and sell what I had. This was a huge step for me, b…
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SABR Baseball Cards proudly presents McFarland-SABR Research Award winner @phitter72 and RE:LEAF author Brian Kappel on the 1949 Leaf set. Registration link below.
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New on the SABR Baseball Cards blog! Andrew Sharp examines the unusual approaches Topps took for its early cards of the Houston expansion team.
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The Houston Astros began play as the Colt .45s in 1962. The name came from “the gun that won the West,” a bit of a dubious distinction even then. While Topps showed most players with “.45s” on the …
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New on the blog! Jason Schwartz celebrates the 40th anniversary of two of his favorite sets with this "Cardboard Crosswalk."
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The bell rings. High off the thrill of escaping Miss O’Brien’s English class without being called on, I head to the basketball court where my buddy—we’ll call him “Rambis…
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RT @TimJenkins1962: Your Cards of the Day: "Surreal Combinations" Edition: Two Minnesota legends revisited: Jerry Zimmerman and Bobby Zimme….
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New on the blog! @phitter72 on a @Cubs team giveaway set that highlighted the work of @SABR Chadwick Award 🏆 winner Marc Okkonen.
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Over 30,000 fans attended the Cubs-Giants game at Wrigley Field on Friday, August 28, 1992. The first 20,000 fans, aged 21 or older, were handed a shrink-wrapped set of baseball cards as they enter…
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New on the blog! @btkopycinski highlights some two-sport stars of the diamond and the gridiron.
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The 2024 NFL season is nearing its end, while a flurry of exciting moves has happened this MLB offseason. The two-sport athlete is not uncommon in the collegiate ranks, and we have even seen a phen…
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RT @1brightman1: Last year, I made a Christmas tree out of baseball cards. Lot of new folks since then, so I thought I’d reintroduce it…. F….
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New on the blog! Like many in the Hobby, collector-philosopher David Bussell is obsessed with condition. Wait, what? You thought we meant corners and creases? Au contraire, Voltaire! We're talking the HUMAN condition!
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I was talking to my friend just a little while ago about this void, this sense of meaninglessness and emptiness that he feels in his life. People fill it with drugs, sex, television, pills, control…
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New on the blog! Certain rookie cards too expensive, ugly, or just plain weird? Not to worry, boss. Brian Kopycinski has a plan.
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When collecting vintage, it’s not always easy to buy rookie cards of the best to ever play the game. Whether due to condition or price, many of these iconic cards often elude us. There are al…
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New on the blog! @phitter72 provides the most in depth analysis to date on the Bowman-Leaf legal battle.
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Rosa and Josefa Blazek were violin-playing conjoined twins from the Czech Republic who toured the United States in the 1920s. Rosa’s 11-year-old son, Franz Blazek, was featured prominently in adver…
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RT @ellingson_p: Happy Birthday to the Moose, Hall of Famer Mike Mussina! Here's what his 1991 @Topps Rookie Card might have looked like if….
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RT @BeautyOfAGame: That's a bunch of Diamond Kings!. Not sure if anyone has ever counted to see which All-Star year had the most DKs but ba….
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New on the blog! Awaken yourself to a higher plane where Jim Morrison meets Jefferson Burdick, SGC meets DMT, flaccid strips meet acid trips, and Cicotte meets peyote. (And feel free to mispronounce Cicotte so it rhymes.) 😛
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Strip cards are a necessary reduction of the baseball card to the essential figuration of what makes a baseball card a baseball card at the psychological, social, cultural, and metaphysical root. I…
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New on the blog! @RussSpeiller interviews "Infinite Baseball Card Set" creator and artist @garybaseballart.
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Baseball illustrator and storyteller Gary Cieradkowski stays very busy in his studio researching, drawing, and writing about the colorful lives of baseball outsiders. Photo by Russ Speiller Editor…
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