Joe Average Card Collector

Just a short post, wanted to share the pure magic of this card!Surprising to see this card selling for over $750 on Ebay!

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One of the best things I like to do from time to time is take a certain amount and try to find the greatest amount of cards.  This months limit was $50 and below are the cards I was able to ...

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After last years 2012 Topps Golden Giveaway yielded just two cards, I had a unexpected email from Topps yesterday.  I was one of 20 who won the 2012 Topps Ken Griffey Jr. Golden Giveaway Aut...

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As many already may know, my favorite shortstop is Troy Tulowitzki, but in a near second is another star player, Ian Desmond.  Desmond has been the starting shortstop for four years and he h...

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Remember Y2K?  Remember all the hype created about Y2K?  Why not create some baseball card Y2K hype too about how worthless your cardboard is without grading?  I never could get th...

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Todd Helton is a rare breed, not many players play their whole career playing for the very team that drafted him.  Todd Helton was drafted out of the University of Tennessee and he also was ...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/mr-rockie-todd-helton-announces.html

Last year the NL Rookie of the Year race could have swung to a rather large group of players.  Though some of us in the blogging world had our votes for players from Wade Miley to Wilin Rosa...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/jac-2012-nl-rookie-of-year-canidates.html

This past year I pulled two cards of two of the top prospects from the past two years, Bryce Harper and Jurickson Profar.  These autographs weren't just your average autograph, the Bryce Har...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/hitsups-and-downs-profarharper.html

I wasn't planning on any baseball card purchases today, just intended to go down to the Post Office to get some stamps to send out some PWE in the coming weeks. When I got there I seen a familiar...

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I went several months without buying any cards, so I was able to pull some strings with the wife to purchase just a few cards...she didn't know I was going to get something like 50! Here is my ha...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-largest-comc-haul-so-far.html

As most of you collectors have seen the trend of growing number of redemptions in hobby boxes mostly, after a few years all these unsold hobby boxes full of redemptions are almost useless.  ...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-29-hobby-box-of-goodness.html

WILLOWHOPE.COM GOAL HAS BEEN MET!!!!  ANY OTHER DONATIONS WILL GO TO FUTURE ENDEAVORS!  PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME TO CHECK OUT HER CAUSE! There is a cause that hits home with me and to our ...

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Before ducking out of collecting for about five months I had read around the collecting world about Topps coming out with MLB Chipz.  Before I go on about the new Topps Chipz I want to take ...

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Last spring seems like so long ago.  I was fighting with personal, family, and health issues and around April things were about at its worst.  To many who I have traded with know my sto...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-heck-happened-where-are-you-floods_8487.html

I have done little buying on E-Bay this past year, most everything that I have wanted or needed in my collection I have found easily on COMC.  I knocked off some sweet Colorado Rockies cards...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/04/just-another-comc-purchase.html

The New York Mets traveled from one snowy city to yet another, Denver.  There is a decent chance that there maybe another snow out this week.  More proof that Denver needs a big glass b...

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Almost a century ago one of the greatest baseball players and an important figure in history is born, his name was Jack Roosevelt Robinson.  Today it is hard to imagine what our great sport ...

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Early this month I started conducting both an online hobby survey and face to face survey's.  I conducted face to face survey's at retail outlets (card isle), hobby shops, and various other ...

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This week I spent much of my time in the hospital with my daughter.  At least I had my Google tablet and the hospitals wi-fi to help make the time go a little quicker.  I did get a few ...

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Thank you for everyone who sent get well wishes to my daughter and surgery last week.  She came through fine, but in the next week or two I will be making lots of trips to St. Louis to the C...

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This week my 4 year old snapped her arm/elbow causing major breaks around the elbow.  She has been in intense pain and have been traveling twice as day long distances for doctors who deal wi...

http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com/2013/04/good-luck-to-my-littler-girl-and-surgery.html

Last week I got together a bunch of cards that I had on my wantlist from COMC.  Here are the cards!  (reminder to check out the group break page here for spots) I really liked picking t...

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Remember the year 1990?  Card companies made cards for anything from Baseball cards to Yo! Raps.  A few years ago I found an unmarked boxes of cards at a Goodwill that was taped up so y...

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I have two things that has caused me to have to push the break back one week.  1. Checked the status of my order, and it has not shipped yet.  So that right there is enough to push back...

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On Easter I started feeling a little under the weather and today I finally went to the doctor.  Final verdict, I have strep throat.  Tonight I was laying in bed waiting for my wife to b...

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