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Farmer Ted May 30 2006 01:41 PM

Jose and Javier Valentin, brothers. I would have known that 30 years ago when I was collecting baseball cards. Now, even with the internet at my fingertips, I'm a dinosaur.

Johnny Dickshot May 30 2006 01:44 PM

I just learned that last nite too. In related news, I impulsively bought 2 packs of baseball cards yesterday at the Target check out (1 for me, 1 for the kid). I got David Wright.

Centerfield May 30 2006 01:57 PM

Funny. I had a baseball card experience this weekend as well. We went to visit my parents, who are doing some extensive renovation. They had moved some stuff out to the garage and I shrieked in horror when I realized that one of the things they had moved were a box of my old baseball cards. After rescuing the box, I looked through my binder full of cards I thought were good enough to be stored in plastic. There were a couple of future hall of famers there (Puckett, Gwynn, Rickey, etc). But there were also quite a few who didn't quite pan out. (Ben McDonald, Matt Nokes, Kevin Maas, Eric Anthony). I was thinking I probably wouldn't have made a very good scout. To top things off, I looked through some of the piles I had dumped into shoeboxes...cards that I deemed not worthy of preservation. And promptly found the rookie cards of a few nobodies named Glavine and Smoltz. And some lanky Expos pitcher named Johnson. I have 18 Gregg Jefferies rookie cards.

Willets Point May 30 2006 02:52 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I just learned that last nite too. In related news, I impulsively bought 2 packs of baseball cards yesterday at the Target check out (1 for me, 1 for the kid). I got David Wright. Bastard. I'd probably just get Jose Oquendo.

Edgy DC May 30 2006 03:34 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 30 2006 03:41 PM

I also learned of this yesterday evening. Today I learned Dickshot is a filcher, siphoning all the best cards off of his unassuming infant.

Centerfield May 30 2006 03:36 PM

Speaking of Rookie Cards: http://www.homeruncards.com/rookiecards/mets-rookies.shtml Click on the link, if for nothing else, to see Cliff Floyd's picture on his rookie card.

OlerudOwned May 30 2006 03:43 PM

I haven't bought a pack of cards in a while, the closest place packed up and moved away. Although I guess it's quitting while I'm ahead, one of the last cards I remember getting was a voucher for a Pujols autographed-bat chip card (as in, the bat chip itself in the card is autographed). I likes it good.

Edgy DC May 30 2006 03:43 PM

Nice romantic filter.

DocTee May 30 2006 03:44 PM

Beltran worth three times as much as Pedro.

Edgy DC May 30 2006 03:45 PM

It's a strangely speculative marketplace.

MFS62 May 30 2006 03:47 PM

Edgy DC wrote: It's a strangely speculative marketplace. Just like how sometimes you never can predict who will get the most daily hits on the UMDB. Later

Yancy Street Gang May 30 2006 04:06 PM

Unless someone robs a jewelry store.