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Benito Santiago – Padres Hall of Fame Induction today!
Long one of my favorite of the Friars I was able to watch as a child, Benito Santiago along with Gary Templeton are deservedly being inducted into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame today. Naturally,...
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Friarsday, August 21st – Hanging with The Yang
Yangervis Solarte has been breaking out the hot bat for the Padres lately. It’s nice to see him really hitting his stride as I like collecting him and it’s always more fun collecting a player who’s...
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My friend Marc & I continue trading cards – Trade Post!
(I started posting this sometime around late May. The last draft I saved was in late June. Now it’s late August and I’m finally posting this beautiful lot of cards…forgive me, Marc!) For those of us...
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Tuesday, August 25th: James Shields vs. Stephen Strasburg
You kidding me?! This is going to be awesome. 2015 Gypsy Queen #179 Ross takes on Scherzer tomorrow so this is building up to be a great week of Padres baseball! Cheers, and happy collecting.
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Wednesday, August 26th – Tyson Ross vs. Max Scherzer
Last night Shields went up against Strasburg, tonight should prove to be another fun dual to watch. 2015 Gypsy Queen #235 mini Cheers, and happy collecting.
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Friarsday, August 28th – Tony Gwynn 2012 Panini “Legendary Bats” bat relic
I can admit, every time I go to draft a “Friarsday” post, it is Tony Gwynn, #19, I think of first. Every time. Sometimes I hold off and roll out a card of another Padres as there are so many deserving...
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Plaschke’s Argyled Sweater nearly starts a card-collecting forest fire –...
One of the first trades I completed as a newbie to the card bloggOsphere was with Greg, the man who keeps the rest of us just a little more jealous just a little more of the time via his great blog,...
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McFarlane and Starting Lineup figurines
Have you ever or do you currently collect sports figurines as part of your card collecting hobby? For the most part, as a child, the figurines I had were Star Wars (they were infamously everywhere),...
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Shoebox Legends is trying to fill mine up, one PWE at a time! – Trade Post!
I barely had my last PWE from Shane over at Shoebox Legends posted and then I find yet another from the PWE Ninja! Now I’m officially in debt to the man and I need to get my PWE mojo back in order....
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Friarsday, September 11th – Benito Santiago 1991 Score Dream Team
Ah, Friarsday… 1991 Score #893 I’d say Score got this pretty much perfect, eh? Happy Friarsday, y’all… …and, happy collecting.
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Friarsday, September 18th – 1974 Willie McCovey “Nat’l Lea.”
The story never gets old, nor do the cards that benefitted from it: 1974 Topps #250 From Baseball-Reference(dot)com, it goes a little something like this: Washington Nat’l League was a designation...
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Will Ferrell, a San Diego Padres for a minute, climbing the wall
In my house, Will Ferrell is best known for: “Help me, Jesus! Help me, Jewish God! Help me, Allah! Help me, Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me! […] Help me, Oprah...
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On this day – September 29th, 1954 – Willie Mays makes The Catch!
On September 29, 1954, Willie Mays, centerfielder for the New York Giants, makes an amazing over-the-shoulder catch of a fly ball hit by Cleveland Indians first baseman Vic Wertz to rob Wertz of extra...
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2015 Padres, done. My favorite 6 cards from the ’15 Topps team set.
The 2015 Padres…what could’ve been, should’ve been…no matter, their season is over as of yesterday, up in L.A. Just as an excuse to share a few of my favorite cards from Topps Franchise, the first two...
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Two unexpected PWEs from my friends, @jonesbwp & @flywheels – Trade Post!
I was surprised to find not one but two PWEs recently. The first lot of cards comes from my buddy, Jeff, who I’m fast digging a hole of cardboard goodness indebtedness: Forced to pick a favorite,...
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Friarsday, October 9th: Yangervis Solarte – 4 from ’14
The season may be over, but every Friday is a Friarsday! Yangervis Solarte is one of my favorite Padres to collect and today I have the most recent acquisitions from 2014 here at Underdog HQ. First up...
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In Honor of Jackie Robinson, R.I.P. – Justin Upton 2015 Panini Prizm /42
Jackie Robinson passed away on this day in 1972. I don’t own any Jackie Robinson cards, forgive me. But I do have this Justin Upton that honors the man: 2015 Panini Prizm #101 32/42 Thank you for all...
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Friarsday, October 30th – Yangervis Solarte and my 2014 Supreme Styling...
I tend to collect particular players, and especially certain cards, in waves of OCD. One such card is Yangervis Solarte’s Supreme Styling die-cut from last year (2014). Here’s my most recent pick up:...
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Friarsday, November 13th – Tony Gwynn will be rooting for the SDSU Aztecs...
Tony Gwynn, R.I.P., was a ‘baller at SDSU so of course he’s rooting for the Aztecs as the season opens tonight! 2012-2013 Fleer Retro Basketball #Z-23 22/399 However, basketball is one of the few...
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Big “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” going down at Underdog HQ! + @Jack_Eichel11 jumbo...
This post has been a long time coming. The shift first began manifesting this past year, specifically as the creep Dean Spanos & Co. went from jerking his dedicated fanbase around to getting...
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