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Originally posted on my Nachos Grande blog.

Last year, Topps created an insert set chronicling every Alex Rodriguez homerun that spanned the majority of their baseball card products. Despite my annoyance, Upper Deck decided to top Topps in 2008 and create a card for every single game played in Yankee Stadium.


Upper Deck's set has a whopping 6,661 cards in it - making it the largest set ever. According to their official website, if you are one of the first five collectors to co... Read More

Originally posted on http://fanofreds.blogspot.com.  Enjoy!

Review: 2008 MLB Topps Allen & Ginter
The Basics: What I opened: 1 Retail Box from Target
What I paid: $19.99
What I got:
· 36 out of 300 regular base cards (12% of the set)
· 4 short prints out of 50 (8% of the short prints) (#350 Kevin Youkilis, #319 Jason Giambi, #332 Dave Roberts, and #321 Wily Mo Pena)


· 1 unnumbered Fukudome regular sized rookie card (rare – rumor has it one per cas... Read More

I can now confirm what I subsconsciously knew when I wrote my "useless" predictions about the baseball playoffs only a short few days ago: most prognostications are just a random chance guess.  An entry headline where "Cubs Going Down in Flames" doesn't begin to tell someone how painful it has been to watch the NL's best regular-season team failing to deliver by any measure so far in the postseason.

One may want to blame all of this on a "curse", but the manner in which the Chic... Read More

My sports blog/journal contains the collected writings of yours truly (JD Rentz, aka liberty76). Primary topics include: baseball (MLB), auto racing (NASCAR), golf (PGA), and college sports (NCAA hoops and football), while any sport/topic is fair game. I started my sports writing on Sporting News at this spot (as many others probably did as well) and now find my way here.

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Today's rainout gives the Red Sox a Sunday doubleheader to conclude the regular season and prepare for their postseason matchup with the Angels that begins on Wednesday in Anaheim. The Angels were given their choice of which series format they wanted to play (basically they chose whether they wanted to start on Tuesday or Wednesday), and they chose the extra day of rest to allow a 3 man rotation to be used in the series if they wanted to take that approach.

It would be a good idea fo... Read More

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