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Spike Glidden
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Baseball and trading card hobby writer, creator and researcher of Number5TypeCollection.com. Vice Chair of SABR baseball cards events committee. #GOMS. As for my house, we will serve Humpy the Salmon.
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Did you take any throws at their dunk tank??
Blonde woman preparing to throw baseballs at a dunk tank target in Montreal at their Exposfest display
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Oh, no question! He even came up in a group grid _last night_. Time for me to learn some others from that protest game.
Baseball box score for the Detroit Tigers "protest game" of 1912, when their starting team refused to play and the lineup was filled with local scabs who made their only major league appearances. Philadelphia won 24-2.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Found photos from September 12, 2003, my last Montreal Expos game! They beat the Mets 7-4 and #5 Michael Barrett hit a tie-breaking homer off Al Leiter in the 6th. Montreal's retired #8 and #10 were brought back into service when the franchise moved to Washington.
Vlad Guererro Sr. bats for the Expos in 2003 inside the Olympic Stadium of Montreal. The ballfield has bright green turf and its stands are about 1/3 full. The Expos celebrate a win in 2003 inside the Olympic Stadium of Montreal. The ballfield has bright green turf and its stands are about 1/3 full. Four retired uniform numbers hanging on the outfield wall of Montreal's Olympic Stadium. They are #10 Rusty Staub, #10 Andre Dawson, #42 Jackie Robinson, and #8 Gary Carter. Expos player #5 Michael Barrett poses with a group of fans on the Olympic Stadium field.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Bobo's become a relatively high Cubs score, given he played a single game for them! Any other one-game players with something higher? Moonlight Graham for Giants only, maybe? #ImmaculateGrid
Bobo Newsom in the Cubs and Giants square from the online trivia game Immaculate Grid. His score is 0.4%.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Sunny was also thankful for this little turkey
Blonde pale woman smiling and holding a cupcake decorated like a candy corn turkey
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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This Thanksgiving we are thankful for these little turkeys & their random affections
Two cats cuddled up together. One is grooming the other.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Best to you all from Pie's hometown
Folk art version of Pie Traynor painted on a wall as "Greatest 3rd base"
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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this optimistic boy is up on their wall
A young, red-haired Boy Scout rides his bike in a smalltown parade. It's right out of a John Mellencamp song.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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word to your bird today
An inflated Garfield cat balloon from the Thanksgiving parade just emerging from behind a building corner, cropped so that it appears to be giving a thumbs up to the viewer.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Porter's R305 Tattoo Gum card served as artist reference for their R308 "Surprise Photograph" baseball marketing. Porter changed teams mid-1934, which might explain why he doesn't appear in R308 itself!
Advertising panel for a 1934 Tattoo Gum baseball set that used water exposure to show black-and-white images, titled "Surprise Photograph." It shows a five-step proces for developing these pictures. Close up of advertising panel for a 1934 Tattoo Gum baseball set that used water exposure to show black-and-white images. The artist reference image, a picture of Richard Porter, is superimposed over the original drawing.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Two classic Dick Porter cards from Cleveland spring training. Goudey photo dates to March 1934 & Tattoo Gum to 1930, given the tighter trim on its jersey sleeve. (Might be 1931, since some teams used prior year's jersey during spring training.) #CardSky
1934 Goudey baseball card of Cleveland outfielder Dick Porter. He's wearing a pinstriped road uniform and finishing a swing. Cleveland outfielder Dick Porter poses in their pinstriped road uniform. He's finishing a posed swing during warmups at spring training in Florida. Colorful red and yellow tinted baseball card of Cleveland outfielder Richard Porter, likely taken during 1930 spring training. An artist added large stadium stands behind him.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Great pick and Lefty's mid-1933 trade from Dodgers to Giants created one of the key variations for Tattoo Gum's pinback set!
Two colorful 1933 pins of baseball player Lefty O'Doul. One shows him on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the other shows him with the New York Giants, reflecting a midseason trade. The two images use identical poses, but adjusted the color of his cap to fit his teams.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Which is the more valid bobble?!?
Two baseball bobbleheads, one showing outfielder Gorman Thomas as a Seattle Pilots player and the other showing Milwaukee player Ryan Braun as the Star Wars character Han Solo
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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tarte!
Video screenshot from the animated series Weebl and Bob. This episode is in French and Weebl is saying, "Salut bob! As-tu une tarte?" In English, this translates as, "hello Bob, do you have pie?"
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Enjoying Orbit's many 1932-34 Tattoo Gum promotions? Search REA's history in particular, who auctioned a major find of original Tattoo Gum material, including tough finds like this Popeye box dated for 1933 distribution:

collectrea.com/archives/201...
Countertop display and vending box for 1930s Tattoo chewing gum packages that also shows a display panel for "Popeye Folders," a giveaway that told short Popeye comic stories.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Orbit's hand-tinted Tattoo Gum baseball series of 60 players (R305) remains its most-popular 1933 promotion. Each wax sleeve held one card & 1-cent gum piece, with ad panels standing behind them. This overcomplicated display could explain the set's scarcity today! #CardSky
Red and yellow baseball card of player Jackson Riggs Stephenson inside a wax sleeve advertising Tattoo 1-cent gum's baseball series. Tabletop display of a number of Tattoo baseball gum packages, with its original box and advertising panel. Counter display box of Tattoo chewing gum's baseball card set, as displayed in wax sleeves in a shallow cardboard box.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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This "Map of McGoofus Island" appears on 12 Tattoo Gum wrappers with handwritten, goofy childhood references. Pieces show their number in a lower corner.
Part of a 1930s island map printed on wrappers for pieces of Tattoo Gum Part of a 1930s island map printed on wrappers for pieces of Tattoo Gum Part of a 1930s island map printed on wrappers for pieces of Tattoo Gum Part of a 1930s island map printed on wrappers for pieces of Tattoo Gum
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Orbit's 1932 "Flags of All Nations" pinbacks, sold under their Tattoo Gum brand. Its "notice to dealer" card explains how to distribute pins with 1-cent packs & give out display boards when buyers found that coupon inside gum packs. #CardSky
Colorful 1930s "Tattoo chewing gum" display box advertising a pinback giveaway for flags of many different countries. The box contains a number of gum packs and a cluster of those pins. Paper display board for collectible pins. One USA pin is attached at upper left. White paper titled "notice to dealer" that explains how to give away a promotion created by the Orbit Gum Company of Chicago.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Complete 1932 Tattoo Gum wrapper "Your Fortune" #1-20 subset, covering a range of things you might achieve alongside lifestyle commentary. There are some amazing bits in here. #CardSky
Eight short advice summaries printed on the back of gum wrappers, all titled as "Your Fortune." One example is, "You have what is called personality and individuality. You will doubtless make your mark in the Movies or Television." Given its 1932 release date, it's interesting to see television named so early in its existence. Four short advice summaries printed on the back of gum wrappers, all titled as "Your Fortune." They're numbered 9 to 12. Eight short advice summaries printed on the back of gum wrappers, all titled as "Your Fortune." They're numbered 13 to 20. One example, "where you are a girl or a boy, you will take up aeronautics for a career and will become world-famed."
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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$20 worth rescued from second local card shop today
Vintage baseball cards spread around a rug. Most are inside protective sleeves.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Researching this fun & fascinating 1932 Tattoo Gum set of "tell your fortune" wrappers until #19 threw me for a loop. Who told them so much about me?!? #CardSky
Two colorful, pirate-themed gum wrappers from the 1930s, one blue and one yellow. They're opened and flattened out to show both sides and the pirate art. Inside of a collectible gum wrapper titled "Your fortune" that read, "Even though you like company and come from an hospitable home, you are apt to be a little too much centered in yourself. Watch this."
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Adding some Perez himself sigs
Six baseball cards based on paintings by artist Dick Perez, all signed by the artist in blue pen
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Sunny's first Lambeau game today!
Blonde-haired woman with a black cloth cap holding up a button that says "My First Packers Game" Fans applauding the end of a Packers win on Lambeau Field under a cloudy sky. The teams are meeting together in the middle of the field.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Local card shop stop in Appleton (WI) yielded this decent lot. They appear to all be from one consigner with a deep 50-60-70s collection. #CardSky
Vintage baseball cards spread out on a canvas surface. Most of the them are from the 1950s.
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Danny Ainge (baseball before basketball) & Dick Ricketts (vice-versa) come to mind first. Ainge posted a much longer career, of course, while Ricketts had basketball & baseball cards in the 1950s.
1957 Topps basketball card of Cincinnati player Dick Ricketts 1959 Topps baseball card of Cardinals pitcher Dick Ricketts, which shows him in its "roookie stars of 1959" subset.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM