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Doing what I want to do (as pathetic as that may seem)

  Today is Father's Day, which as I've mentioned before means doing what I want to do, and only that, all day.   For some that may mean boating, fishing, golfing, going to a ballgame, some of the typical stuff. For me, and most Father's Days now, it means nerding out over baseball cards. As pathetic as that may seem to some people -- probably most people -- I'm perfectly happy doing this. What? You want me to go to Dave & Busters? Come on. So I've got something here that will interest a very limited amount of people. Heck probably most readers and bloggers don't care. But that doesn't matter today on the day of doing what I want. I've long been interested in the phenomenon of players disappearing from card sets. They're in a card set year after year and suddenly they vanish, and then they appear again!   This happens a lot, but you need to pay attention year after year. A very specific example of this is when a player does not come to an agreeme...