I saw this quiz about card prices on another blog(Voice of the Collector) today and figured it’d be fun to share. I took the quiz and came in at 90 percent. The ones I missed were the Molitor/Trammel rookie and the John Stockton rookie. Give it a try and let me know how you guys did. And don’t cheat …
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Price Guide Quiz
Posted in Newspaperman with tags baseball cards, basketball cards, Beckett, hobbies, price guide, quiz, sports on October 29, 2008 by Cardboard IconsWater is the Devil for card collectors
Posted in Newspaperman with tags baseball cards, Beckett, Beckett Baseball, Cardboard Icons, disaster, flood, hobbies, horror story, price guide, sports, Stone Cold Steve Austin, water damage, word to the wise on October 20, 2008 by Cardboard Icons
My mother always told me, “If it’s important to you, then get it off the floor.” She said this several times to me when I was younger, mainly because I always had stacks of cards on the floor as I strived to have things in an orderly fashion.
Well, Sunday night, not two hours after learning about my “promotion” in the blogosphere, I learned my lesson the hard way: A hose on my washer broke free and running water spilled onto the floor of the garage, the “room” where I store the vast majority of my cards. Continue reading
