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Most valuable rookie card

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:00:54 +0000

When it comes to baseball cards, rookie cards are usually more valuable than non-rookie cards. But when we think of the Pantheon of valuable baseball cards, they tend not to be rookies. Instead, they tend to be scarce cards from

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1948 Bowman baseball

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 May 2017 11:00:29 +0000

I recently decided to collect the 1948 Bowman baseball set. It has a number of things going for it. With 48 cards in the set, it’s attainable. Of those 48 cards, 18.75% of them are Hall of Famers. It’s also one

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My Stan Musial stories

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:36:36 +0000

When I was a toddler, I played in Stan Musial’s swimming pool. Yes, I really did. Stan Musial’s son in law and my dad interned together, and at some point–presumably when the two of them graduated–the longtime Cardinals great let

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Albert Pujols, mercenary

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:09:04 +0000

I’m a Royals fan living in St. Louis, so my perspective on Albert Pujols has always been that he’s the one who got away. He went to high school and college in Kansas City, but somehow Royals scouts overlooked him.

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Stan Musial and his frozen appendix

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:43:47 +0000

Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold (who also happens to be a former classmate) dug out an interesting story about Cardinal great Stan Musial. In 1947, he was diagnosed with appendicitis. Team doctor Robert Hyland was reluctant to recommend immediate surgery,

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