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Rookie Card Showcase: 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente
This is the part 15 of an ongoing series. To see other parts in this series, click here. I’ve written about this Clemente card before (link), but the purpose of this particular post is to discuss...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1951 Bowman Nellie Fox
This is part 16 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. It takes a lot to make a vintage baseball card unappealing to me. Not even this Nellie Fox, displaying its 58 years of...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1933 Goudey Sam Rice
This is part 18 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here Thirteen. That’s how many hits shy of 3,000 Sam Rice was when he retired from the game of baseball in 1934 as a member...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1960 Topps Jim Gentile
This is part 19 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. About two weeks ago I obtained a 1961 Topps Jim Gentile card from one of my local card shop’s “Price Friendly” vintage...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1953 Topps Bob Cerv
This is part 20 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. Bob Cerv was a Yankee at three times in his career, briefly replaced Mickey Mantle during the Hall of Famer’s rookie...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1949 Bowman Satchel Paige
This is part 21 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. There are good pitchers. There are great pitchers. And then there are legendary pitchers Satchel Paige fits into the...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1949 Bowman Johnny Pesky
This is part 21 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. Don’t ask why it took so long for me to own this card. I’ve been a Red Sox fan since 1988, the year in which I...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 2005 Bowman Chrome Refractor Auto Matt Kemp /500
This is part 23 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. It’s all about timing. In April and May, finding this card on eBay at a relatively decent price was damn near...
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Rookie Card Showcase: 1999 Bowman Chrome Adam Dunn
This is part 24 of an ongoing series. To see the rest of this series, click here. There are some cards you’ve always wanted to own, and for one reason or another, it takes several years to obtain them....
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I recently paid $8 for a Barry Zito rookie card and it wasn’t autographed …
I must be crazy, right? Who pays $8 for a Barry Zito rookie card, especially one that doesn’t bear his signature? Well, when the serial number on the card matches his jersey number, sometimes...
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