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Chasing Canseco – Best Day Ever

Last thursday morning marked the start of our 4,000 mile / 10 day family road trip. The plan was to go to hoover dam, the beach in California, LEGOLAND, carlsbad caverns, visit a friend in the mountains, roswell (yes, I am an alien nerd!), the grand canyon and several other things. The most important one for me, however, was to go to Las Vegas and have my customs signed by my childhood hero, Jose Canseco. As you may know, the flip quests I do are inspired by the red paper clip story - where one person goes from trading a red

The Great-Grand Gold Border

In the early 90's, I believe it was, a new, cutting edge type of comic book came out by the name of the Walking Dead. It was a very limited run. I was not into comics, nor am I now (though I do enjoy the thought of having them, plus, I've sold about 40,000 of them over the past 4 years or so.) When the tv show hit, the prices sky-rocketed. Whenever I would sell a lot of comics, the first question was "Got any Walking Dead?" The answer would always be no. Why? Because they were very scarce ...

Pacific Embossed Cards and the Incognito Effect

I've had a LOT of awesome pickups recently, but here is a more unique one. I was cruising online to see if anyone had a nice lot of Canseco I did not have, and lo & behold, someone had something that I hadn't ever seen before. Pacific Show/Expo embossed cards. They are cool enough w/out a back story, but the history of them make them definitely worthwhile. You cannot really tell they are embossed until you tilt them in the light, and then they pop. Back in the 90's, Pacific setup at card shows with a promotion where you could

Aliens, Junk Wax Variations and White Whales

In January, we had a pre-teen Bible study at our house, and I was talking to the kids about how vast the universe is. As I'm sure you can imagine since it was a Bible study, we then went from how incredible the universe is to how awesome God is who created it all. If you disagree and are rolling your eyes, don't worry - I'll get to the baseball card bit here soon, and it will all tie in together shortly, I promise :) Here are some interesting points: - The earth is huge, right? The sun is

Story Time!

If you have been reading my posts for a while, you know that I'm not your typical blogger. I don't really have a rhyme or reason to much of what I write. There is very little cohesiveness in my articles, and my segues are a bit of a stretch, to say the least. I don't check for spelling, because writing is fun, and proof reading is not. I'm considered the family dictionary (and calculator), yet I almost left segue above as segway. They are meant to read more like a journal, I suppose. Not that I'm that particularly interesting of

Seller Demands Double Payment for Wrinkled Cards

From time to time, I seem to get in some streaks of awesome luck... (a TTM custom autograph from a member of Vampire Diaries - she put To Tanner on the back ... cool!) or horrible luck... (yes, that IS paper in my breakfast sammich that I took a bite out of this morning!) I know, in the grand scheme of things, not horrible - actually, it is funny, hence the picture! I generally do not classify paper in my breakfast to be horrible luck, nor would I consider it bad luck when a wasp decides to land on my

Fantastic New Additions to the PC, Some Customs and More!

Another busy week here at the offices of Mouschi, inc. Firstly, I know I don't show off much non Canseco stuff, but take a look at this beauty: A Bobby Doerr Topps Tribute patch! It is always nice getting in game used patch cards of players that played several decades ago. Could it be a fake? Could someone have actually torn this card apart ... a REAL Bobby Doerr Topps card and swap out a plain old relic for a patch? And if so, how? Well, let me show you. Simply take this card: Saw it in half: and put

This week in Customs … (Yeah, I’m a little bit excited)

(If you don't want to read the below drivel, and are not a big fan of pictures, I have a video below showing off some customs ... but please do stick around and read this first, if you have the time!) So, I think I have an addictive personality. When I first got on my own, I BALLOONED to quite a rotund size, thanks to an IV drip of dr. pepper, and a steady diet of McDonalds. I couldn't stop drinking that sweet, sweet nectar of the gods. Thanks to running and a much better diet (read: a wife who

10 OUTRAGEOUS things you can do with baseball cards … #7 will SHOCK you. (plus – video inside)

How is that title for click-bait? I'm sorry, friends - I don't have a list of 10 outrageous or shocking things that you can do, but I wanted to pay homage to all of those websites that post on facebook and encourage me ... no ... spiritually move me to click, just so I can see what the heck is so shocking about #7. While I'm there, might as well read the other 9 as well! My wife is complete opposite ... she won't click on something like that if her life depended on it. I guess I'm the only

Join me LIVE in going to Super Collector Status … plus … customs!

Today has all the makings to be a big mail day for me, and my PC. Something that could potentially make me go from being a Canseco collector to a Canseco SUPER collector. Why do I say that is could, and not that it is? Well, that is because as I type this, I am waiting for the mail man to deliver my 30 pound package to me. It is coming from up north, and as of yesterday morning, the USPS website showed this: I was very skeptical about this, because - how can a package come so far, so

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