James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 9:00 am
I have finally finished simulating the All-Star Games using my 1988 End of Year All-Star Teams. Now that I have enough practice with it, using the SBS has been so much fun. And I didn't even get t...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 12:30 am
Congratulations to the New York Yankees. They have just won their 27th World Series title. And because of this, Topps will be making the above product available to the masses (in the New York area any...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 12:00 pm
I'm not one to beg or grovel on this blog, but I saw this auction on the Bay today and, in totally reckless wishful thinking, thought I'd link the auction on here and see if anybody would be w...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 3, 2009, 7:00 am
Whether it is because I left the poll open for so long, or there are a lot of readers feel strongly about the issue, but apparently many agree with me that they would like to see the return of the MLB...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 2, 2009, 5:35 pm
Now that Halloween's over (which marks the first day in more than three years that I didn't sit in front of a computer in a 24 hour span), and the World Series is almost over (unless by some m...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 2, 2009, 5:01 pm
November 2 is traditionally All Souls Day. It is the day where we celebrate the lives of family and friends who have passed away. Many will go to cemeteries and pray, many will even picnic on the gr...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 10:22 am
For the first time since 2005, Topps has the honor of producing the World Series set. Since 2004, the winner of the World Series has been honored with a 55-card box set, which included players, manag...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 27, 2009, 9:00 am
Last year, I gave a brief history as to why I create End of the Year All-Star teams. Basically it was because I was 13 years old, still new to baseball, new to baseball card collecting, and was fascin...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 26, 2009, 10:50 am
The sell sheets for the now highly anticipated 2010 Topps Baseball Series 1 product is now live!!! They are really selling the point of being MLB's exclusive baseball card manufacturer. And thoug...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 26, 2009, 9:00 am
I've been slowly but surely learning how to play the SBS simulation game, using my 1987 End of Year All-Star Teams. I've figured that the best way to determine which team wins would be to simu...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 12:00 pm
Topps is honoring twenty-one legendary players in it's 2009 eponymous Updates and Highlights set with short-printed cards. All of the players selected are Hall of Famers (or in two cases, living l...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 9:00 am
Topps is concluding both the Target and WalMart exclusive Legends of the Game Insert Sets with exclusive inserts found in packs of the new Updates and Highlights product. As many of the subjects did n...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 11:46 pm
With all of the good news today, with previews of what is to come in 2010, I forgot that today is the day I have to let go of some inactive blogs on the Sports Card Blogroll. You know how this works....
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 3:17 pm
That friend of the blog tdlindgren really is something else. If there was a code to crack, he can figure it out. Or so it seems. Based on just wild speculation on his part, it actually makes sense. Yo...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 12:32 pm
The number one source in the hobby has images and initial checklists of the highly anticipated 2010 Topps Baseball Cards. Series I will be a 330 card set filled with the usual players, rookies, leagu...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 9:00 am
... create the teams you will see below, I used the following information: The rosters for the 1987 All-Star GameThe checklist for the 1988 Topps Sticker ... introduce my 1987 End of Year MLB All-...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 9:00 am
When I first started collecting Topps cards in 1988, I noticed something very interesting about the way the cards were numbered. This was during the time of the 792-card sets, and I think you know whe...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 18, 2009, 9:30 pm
When I first announced that I wanted to simulate All-Star games using the rosters that I made up for the past 22 years, I wanted to wait until I able to fully utilize the sites that I was thinking of ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 17, 2009, 1:00 pm
... , some who've toiled in the minors for a very long time, finally got to step onto the field of a major league stadium for the ... them. I've clamored before about wanting to bring back ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 9:00 am
There is a saying that good things come in three's. In the course of major league history, one player definitely took that mantra to heart. In fact, it became an obsession with him. This guy: sets...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 6:00 pm
Friend of the blog, and all around good guy, tdlindgren sent me an e-mail today (I've been out today for a family health day thing...), so I didn't get it until now. But it looks like the numb...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 6:00 pm
(Because I missed doing this on Friday, I'm running the 2011 Topps Archives article tonight. I will have another one for next Friday at 9:00 AM CST.) No MLB team in the seventies, eighties, and ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 8, 2009, 9:00 am
After pouring over stats and arguing with myself as to who deserves to be on the team, I have finally finished completing my 36-man teams. I think I can say with confidence that the players who made m...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 9:00 am
With the pitching staffs set in our last All-Star Team post, the next step is to make sure that every team gets at least one representative. I believe in the All-Star rule that every team, no matter h...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 9:00 am
Yesterday, I named the bullpens for each of my End of the Year All-Star Teams. Now it's time to name the starters. To recap, here is my National League relief corps: Jeremy Affeldt, GiantsHeath B...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 5, 2009, 5:00 pm
Thanks to both the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals, the 2009 MLB regular season is not yet over. While 21 teams are done for the year, and 7 teams are gearing up for the postseason, the ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 5, 2009, 1:00 pm
... 92, 38 saves)Jonathan Broxton, Dodgers (7-2, 2.61, 36 saves)Now I know that Brian Wilson of the Giants and Trevor Hoffman of the Brewers have more saves than Broxton (38 and 37 respectively), and...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 5, 2009, 9:00 am
It's finally the end of the MLB season. And before the playoffs (or maybe a game or two after) start, the Topps Company will be sending to the 30 MLB managers a ballot that will determine who will...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 11:00 pm
(Warning: The thoughts may be disorganized, but the intent and the point should be quite clear...) All week I've been browsing message board after message board, blog after blog, website after w...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 9:00 am
Our next subject for the 2011 Topps Archives Project began his 23 year career as a member of the Houston Colt .45's in 1963. After six years with the .45's/Astros, he went north of the border ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 7:00 am
This past week, I put another poll up on this humble little blog. The question? Which Topps Andy Seminick Card Should Be Used in the 2011 Topps Archives Project? Well, 37 readers cast their votes, an...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 30, 2009, 6:24 pm
Topps has released the design for the 2010 Topps Baseball Cards today! All I have to say is...WOW!!! This looks fantastic!!! Normally there tends to be a letdown between a great looking card design o...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 3:24 pm
We're down to the final week of the baseball season, and while the division races starting to tighten, it's anybody's ballgame as to who will win the individual awards (MVP, Cy Young, Rook...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 9:00 am
So we all have these in our collections. Were this it for the set, or were there more??? Picture it...all over America...2006. The hysteria of Alex Gordon had not yet begun, yet many set collectors, m...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 25, 2009, 9:00 am
So when I first started getting names to use for the 2011 Topps Archives Project, a reader threw out Andy Seminick. And my first thought was, "Andy Seminick? Who's Andy Seminick?" And probably rig...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 10:53 pm
As happy as I am to add more cards to the ever growing Sports Card Blogroll, unfortunately, I also have the unenviable task of removing blogs that have reached six months of activity. You already kno...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 6:17 pm
On the day Beckett's website was relaunched (to what you see now), many members of the site's Message Boards revolted. Why? Because they didn't like how the new site looked, that their bel...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 9:00 am
I received an e-mail from friend of the blog Big Daddy that read in part: I remember reading somewhere that this card may have been corrected in the factory set. Since I know you have the factory set...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 21, 2009, 9:00 am
At the end of the 2005 baseball card season, just before the beginning of the four-year period that saw two card companies produce baseball cards, Topps brought out a product that, well, surprised a l...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 20, 2009, 6:52 pm
In my Jim Abbott post, I wrote: "It was disappointing not to see baseball being played at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing..." Thanks to commenter lwk for confirming that there actually was Olymp...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 18, 2009, 11:25 am
Last week, I asked which of four products did you the readers think won't be coming back in 2009. The results are in, and while I wish more people would have voted (partially my fault for not pos...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 18, 2009, 9:00 am
(It is the hope of this humble little blog that we run this feature on a regular and more consistent basis on Fridays at 9:00 A.M. CST or so help me...jba) It was disappointing not to see baseball be...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 17, 2009, 4:29 pm
Today is Constitution Day everyone, and I was only made aware of this because my daughter told me she was going to play George Washington in a class play about the Constitution. So that led me to sta...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 12, 2009, 10:45 am
Okay, there is still three full weeks left in the season. Things can change really fast in three weeks (like a hopeful collapse of a certain St. Louis team while a certain Chicago team goes on a 20 ga...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 11, 2009, 7:46 am
At 7:46 AM Central time, eight years ago, American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the World Trade Center's North Tower. By 9:28 AM Central time, the North Tower of the World Trade Center collaps...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 10, 2009, 12:41 pm
As there hasn't been anything for me to talk about lately, I started thinking about what's left for Topps to make in 2009. You see, this is the final year in the four-year agreement that Topps...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 9, 2009, 9:00 am
The girls at Dinged Corners did it again. In a successful attempt to get the hobby bloggers to do something together in a show of unity, they have challenged everyone to a game called The Six-Cards-in...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 8, 2009, 11:45 pm
Not included in the official number of how many cards I have in my card collection, is a 150-card set...of basketball cards. (What? Basketball cards? I thought this was a Topps BASEBALL CARD blog??!)...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 8, 2009, 1:36 am
Drat that Bejeweled Blitz game on Facebook. I've found myself addicted to it, and the sad part is that I'm actually bad at the game. The version on FB gives you just one minute...SIXTY SECONDS...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Sep 4, 2009, 9:00 am
I've already talked about it before!!! Let me just say one thing about this whole mess though. I don't really know who started it. I don't really care. The fact is once again, the "big...
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