I want to commend Steve of Collating Cards for surrendering his Braves fandom to follow the Mariners. As a card blogger and trader of relatively limited means, I know there is no end to the demand for Braves cards. Yet finding someone to take your Mariners cards may be an even more difficult task than keeping Braves cards in stock. This is a wise move, and just to show how serious he is, Steve recently sent me a bunch of Braves cards from the 1973 Topps set that I have just started collecting (he also added the rogue '75-themed Dave Justice that I believe came from an early '90s Baseball Cards magazine). When I looked through the cards he sent, I realized that it was practically the entire team set. The only cards that were missing were the two Hank Aarons. Well -- ha! -- I picked up the Aaron base card at a card show last September. And for purposes of this blog post, the other Aaron -- part of the All-Time Leaders subset -- doesn't qualify for inclusion in the...
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