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Most valuable baseball cards of the 1970s

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:00:13 +0000

Although the 1970s may not have been quite the golden era for baseball that, say, the 1950s were, the decade produced a good number of stars. An important thing to consider, too, is that many players Generation X grew up

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1981 Fleer baseball cards

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:00:17 +0000

It’s just my opinion, but I think 1981 Fleer baseball cards get less respect than they deserve. It ended Topps’ 25-year monopoly on baseball cards and, frankly, I think it’s a nicer set than the Topps or Donruss sets from

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So much for flashes in the pan

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:38:10 +0000

I’ve had some questions about the Royals’ wheeling and dealing for their pennant drive, and of course I have an opinion about that. Mostly I’m glad I was wrong about last year’s heartbreak turning into a flash in the pan. But

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Final thoughts on the Houston Astros’ database

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:30:16 +0000

One of my college buddies (Hi Christian!) shared my previous post on Facebook, pointing out that I’m a long-suffering Royals fan in Cardinals country, and adding that what I said was balanced and dispassionate. I’m normally anything but dispassionate. But in this

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Minor-League hacking in the MLB

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:00:50 +0000

So, about a year ago, the Houston Astros announced their internal player database had been breached. This week, more details emerged, pointing right at the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn’t a terribly sophisticated attack. You knew I’d write about this,

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My seventh 1935 Goudey: Four Beleaguered Braves

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:00:03 +0000

The fourth and final ’35 I bought (so far I hope) from Dugout in Webster Groves featured four men who had the misfortune of suffering through the entire Boston Braves 1935 season. All are rather obscure and information about of them was

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My sixth 1935 Goudey: Bill Terry

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:00:12 +0000

My sixth ’35 featured four Giants players. I didn’t realize at first what a good card it was, that it featured four All-Stars and not one but two Hall of Famers. Bill Terry was the obvious one, but it’s easy to

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My fifth 1935 Goudey: Dazzy Vance

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:00:21 +0000

As I mentioned before, four of my cards came in a single visit to a local baseball card shop. The nicest card in terms of condition that I bought in that four-card batch featured Hall of Fame pitcher Dazzy Vance, so

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Baseball cards for the lulz

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:00:39 +0000

After the Royals won the Wild Card game and officially ended their postseason drought, I thought of a novel way to celebrate it: Celebrate their badness. After all, there are people who celebrate the 1962 Mets, and between 1986 and

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This one hurts.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:36:41 +0000

I tried to write the day it happened. I couldn’t write anything that made any sense. Mostly I sat and stared. I told myself when the Royals made the Wild Card, I’d be happy with whatever happened, because it was

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