James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 8, 2009, 12:00 pm
It's been fun looking back at the All-Star Teams I made up when I was younger. But now the years start flying by. I was only in sixth grade when I made my first pair of teams. By the time I named ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 7, 2009, 9:00 am
I have finally finished simulating the All-Star Games using my 1993 End of Year All-Star Teams. Of the seven years worth of seasons that I have been doing this, if there ever were a pair of teams so e...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 5, 2009, 4:30 pm
Yeah, it's a sad day indeed. Mario announced that he is shutting down his site. And while a handful of bloggers are sending in their condolences, this one won't be one of them. Why? It's...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 5, 2009, 7:00 am
Friend of the blog, facebook friend, and The Writer's Journey's own Jason T. Carter took time out of his busy weekend to take the family to the annual Redsfest in beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio. A...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
And now I'm tempted to go after this set. It would be the first time I'd be interested in a minor league set. I wasn't even this interested when Tristar, that other company, Just, or Class...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 2, 2009, 12:00 pm
At the end of the 1993 baseball season, just like every season since I started following baseball, I named my All-Star teams. It's been six seasons since I started this little, private tradition, ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 1, 2009, 9:00 am
I have finally finished simulating the All-Star Games using my 1992 End of Year All-Star Teams. And this will mark the first time that a team loses the seven-game simulation series and wins the one-ga...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Dec 1, 2009, 7:00 am
Jeremy DeJong, the creative mind over at Jeremy's Custom Cards wrote a comment a couple of weeks ago, asking if I was interested in the Roger Maris SP card that he happened to have in his possessi...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 3:01 pm
The guy at Trader Crack's broke the news, and I went to the website for confirmation, but it appears that although Topps lost the NFL rights, they have gained something potentially better. MiLB....
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 7:00 am
Out of the blue, I get an e-mail from reader and friend of the blog Larry Littman saying that he is getting a package together for me in the mail, including an SP from the Updates and Highlights set. ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 26, 2009, 5:30 pm
Now I originally wrote much of what you'll see below on the blog last year after Thanksgiving. A lot has happened in the year since. But many of these I am still thankful for. Please allow me t...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 26, 2009, 9:00 am
Now that the 2009 Topps All-Star Rookie Team has been announced, I have spent the good part of the evening going over all the e-mails I received, seeing who outguessed me in the All-Star Rookie Team c...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 12:29 pm
The MLB managers have spoken, and today, Topps has announced the players named to the 51st All-Star Rookie Team!!! (If the player's name is in bold, it means I predicted that they would make the t...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 7:00 pm
It's now the end of the 1992 season. By the time I named my 1992 End of the Year All-Star Teams, it's junior year in high school. I was making a lot of decisions about my future around this ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 5:00 pm
I was able to add a number of blogs to the Sports Card Blogroll recently, thanks to dayf and to the bloggers who send me e-mails at bdj610@hotmail.com asking to be added. But now, six months have pas...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 3:30 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Topps reserved six cards for the AL and NL award winners that were going to be announced this week. Now we know who gets card #327. Congratulations to Albert P...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 23, 2009, 1:16 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Topps reserved six cards for the AL and NL award winners that were going to be announced this week. Now we know who gets card #172. Congratulations to Joe Maue...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 23, 2009, 9:00 am
I have finally finished simulating the All-Star Games using my 1991 End of Year All-Star Teams. And if ever there was a time that the American League showed its dominance over the National League, 199...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 20, 2009, 5:50 pm
I am a big league dunderhead. Thanks to commenter Brady James, not for pointing this not so new fact about myself, but because he asked if I had the Paul Molitor SP card from U & H (which by the way,...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 20, 2009, 1:00 pm
And I feel horrible about it. As has been the case for most of the summer, money has been tight, and priorities shifted. Money that would have normally been set aside for cards and the Hobby have go...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 1:22 pm
Last week, I mentioned that Topps reserved six cards for the AL and NL award winners that were going to be announced this week. Now we know who gets card #9. Congratulations to Tim Lincecum of the Sa...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 12:00 pm
It's now 1991, and I've just survived my freshman year in high school. By the time I named my 1991 End of the Year All-Star Teams, I was now the theatre's construction manager, as well as ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 9:00 am
I have finally finished simulating the All-Star Games using my 1990 End of Year All-Star Teams. And the results are pretty surprising. Just like the first three times, I simulated seven games (six se...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 1:16 pm
Last week, I mentioned that Topps reserved six cards for the AL and NL award winners that were going to be announced this week. Now we know who gets card # 155. Congratulations to Zack Greinke of the...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 5:12 pm
According to this article from Symbian Developers Journal, Topps and a company called GetFugu, Inc, are joining forces, using GetFugu's "See It, Say It, Find It, Get It" vision, voice and location...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 4:48 pm
It's a slow news day, but Topps has decided to put out a bit more information about the product that will be unleashed to the masses around January 18, 2010. While most of the information is prett...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 3:16 pm
Last week, I mentioned that Topps reserved six cards for the AL and NL award winners that were going to be announced this week. Now we know who gets both card #'s 235 and #275. Congratulations to...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 2:31 pm
With the World Series now over, and the Hot Stove League starting to warm up, we are now at the throngs of handing out the big awards. Now, earlier this week, MLB announced the winners for both the Go...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 12:00 pm
On behalf of the staff of this humble little blog, I would like to thank all those who have either served, are currently serving, or will be serving their country shortly, for the sacrifices you'v...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 9:00 am
We're finally into the 1990's. By the time I named my 1990 End of the Year All-Star Teams, I was balancing high school homework and working as a lackey in the theater department. I followed ...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 9:00 am
... .Game 4: NL vs, AL, Rick Reuschel vs. Mark Gubicza. The AL wins 5,453 ... . Top 2: Mike Scott pitching. Mark McGwire walks. Wade Boggs grounds ... Ryne Sandberg (4-6-3), McGwire out. Ruben Si...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 5:09 pm
Yes, this is a baseball card blog, but because it is related to the company whose products I collect, it's big news. The number one source in the hobby has reported that the NFL Players Associati...
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James B. Anama posted an article on bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 9:00 am
It's now 1989, and it's a big year for baseball in Chicago. Don Zimmer's Cubs were the talk of the town, and the White Sox were mired in last place in a seven-team American League West (ta...
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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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