Red Sox 1027

Moving into year three of the Friday's Favorite series, like the previous year not an   overwhelming choice of attention-getting cards. For the Topps set I will have to go with this one of catch...

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The answer to yesterday's trivia question, Which Red Sox legend made a surprise appearance at Monday's Red Sox Foundation autograph session with many of the team's top prospects, was: Jim Lonborg...

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Certainly 1967 is one of my most highly targeted years, in pursuit of the Impossible Dream team. I've managed to fill up a 9-sleeve sheet, slowly adding to the collection over the last few months...

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Yesterday, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, several Red Sox prospects were at Best Buy, just down the road from Fenway, to sign autographs, including the likes of Ryan Khalish, Jose Iglesia...

https://mlblogsredsox1027bballcards.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/tuesdays-trivia/

This week's Tuesday Trivia question was:Who did the Red Sox trade 26-year-old Henri Stanley to the Dodgers for at the July 31, 2004 trade deadline?At the July 31, 2004, trading deadline, the So...

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Things began to turn around for the Red Sox starting in the 1966 season. Although they only won 72 games that season, it was a big improvement over their 100-loss season the year before. It als...

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Who did the Red Sox trade 26-year-old Henri Stanley to the Dodgers for at the July 31, 2004 trade deadline? The Red Sox had acquired Stanley from San Diego earlier that year, in May. At the time...

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With so much discussion over the past few weeks over what the Red Sox offense will be like,and in particular a lot of skepticism over what the newcomers in particular will offer, this blog has b...

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The year's second Friday's Favorite edition moves to 1958, Topps' second year of producing the standard-size cards still in use today. It was slim pickings from the Topps output in 1958, particul...

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Having begun collecting baseball cards when I was just turning 5, in 1970, I recently have begun not only filling in the gaps for that year and the nearly 40 years that have followed, but also ...

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